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From Methodology to Practice Inductive Iteration in Comparative Research
Most methods in comparative politics prescribe a deductive template of research practices that begins with proposing hypotheses, proceeds into analyzing data, and finally concludes with confirmatory tests. In reality, many scholars move back and forth between theory and data in creating causal explanations, beginning not with hypotheses but hunches and constantly revising their propositions in …
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- Volume 48, Issue 5 April 2015, pager 616-644
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Coalitions and Compensation The Case of Unemployment Benefit Duration
This paper examines unemployment benefit reforms in twenty-five advanced democracies between the middle of the 1980s and the onset of the Great Recession in 2008. The paper’s main argument is that the type of government – coalition or single-party – has an effect on whether cutbacks in social benefits are combined with compensating measures that mitigate the negative effects of the cuts. We sho…
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- Volume 48, Issue 5 April 2015, pager 586-615
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Conceptualizing Cooperation Coordination and Concertation as Two Logics of C…
Despite recognizing that institutionalized cooperation is central to both business and politics in many advanced, industrialized economies, scholars remain divided over the origins, character, and future of “non-liberal” capitalism. This article seeks to clarify these debates by arguing that different processes of cooperation are governed by distinct logics of collective action and associated w…
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- Volume 48, Issue 5 April 2015, pager 555-585
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Why Small States Offer Important Answers to Large Questions
Small states are conspicuously absent from mainstream comparative political science. There are a variety of reasons that underpin their marginal position in the established cannon, including their tiny populations, the fact that they are not considered “real” states, their supposedly insignificant role in international politics, and the absence of data. In this article, we argue that the discip…
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- Volume 48, Issue 4 March 2015, pages 527-549
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The New Politics of Interdependence Cross-National Layering in Trans-Atlanti…
How are regulatory disputes between the major powers resolved? Existing literature generally characterizes such regulatory disagreements as system clash, in which national systems of regulation come into conflict, so that one sets the global standard, and the other adjusts or is marginalized. In this article, we offer an alternative account, which bridges early literature on interdependence wit…
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- Volume 48, Issue 3 March 2015, pages 497-526
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Electoral Systems and Legislators’ Constituency Effort The Mediating Effec…
In so far as legislators value re-election, electoral institutions are said to shape their strategic behavior. Yet, the empirical evidence linking legislators’ behavior to electoral institutions is weak at best. Previous studies, we argue, have either ignored or misspecified how legislators’ vulnerability to electoral defeat mediates the expected effect of electoral institutions. To test this a…
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- Volume 48, Issue 3 March 2015, pages 464-496
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Security, Clarity of Responsibility, and Presidential Approval
The importance of institutions in shaping citizens’ ability to punish or reward politicians for economic outcomes is well established. Where institutions divide authority, politicians can blame each other and citizens find it harder to assign responsibility for policy failures; where institutions clarify lines of authority, citizens can better hold politicians accountable. However, this argumen…
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- Volume 48, Issue 4 March 2015, pages 438-463
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Diffusion of Diaspora Enfranchisement Norms A Multinational Study
States have increasingly granted voting rights to their citizens overseas. Traditional accounts of franchise extension suggest that governments’ motivations are either political (new voters are expected to support the incumbent government) or, in the case of citizens abroad, materialist (a fortified link to migrants encourages remittance flows). Although these factors doubtless matter, they ove…
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- Volume 48, Issue 4 March 20155, pages 407-437
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Instruments of Political Control National Oil Companies, Oil Prices, and Pet…
Global petroleum subsidies peaked at US$520 billion in the summer of 2008 and reached US$212 billion in 2011, carrying high fiscal and environmental costs. Why do some countries spend so much money to subsidize petroleum consumption? Previous studies suggest that oil-rich autocracies lacking institutional capacity are the main culprits. However, they cannot explain why oil importers with capabl…
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- Volume 48, Issue 3 March 2015, pages 370-402
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Women’s Political Engagement Under Quota-Mandated Female Representation Ev…
Do affirmative action measures for women in politics change the way constituents view and interact with their female representatives? A subnational randomized policy experiment in Lesotho with single-member districts reserved for female community councilors provides causal evidence to this question. Using survey data, I find that having a quota-mandated female representative either has no effec…
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- Volume 48, Issue 3 March 2015, pages 333-369
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Indigenous Identity, Natural Resources, and Contentious Politics in Bolivia …
How do natural resources and ethnic identity interact to incite or to mitigate social conflict? This article argues that high-value natural resources can act as an important catalyst for the politicization of ethnic, specifically indigenous identity, and contribute to social conflict as they limit the malleability of identity frames and raise the stakes of confrontations. We test this argument …
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- Volume 48, Issue 3 March 2015, pages 301-332
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The Ties That Bind National Identity Salience and Pro-Social Behavior Toward…
At the psychological level, ethnic conflict can be seen as an extreme result of normal group identification processes. Bridging perceived intergroup boundaries is therefore key to improving intergroup relations. In contrast to the dominant association of nationalism with racism, chauvinism, xenophobia, and intolerance, we highlight the constructive potential of national identification. In a sur…
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- Volume 48, Issue 3 March 2015, pages 267-300
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Choosing Whom to Trust Agency Risks and Cabinet Partisanship in Presidential…
Presidential cabinets include on average more nonparty ministers than governments in any other form of democracy, and critics of presidentialism have argued that this compromises representativeness, accountability, and governability. Yet cabinet partisanship in presidential democracies remains poorly understood. Existing studies argue that the partisan composition of cabinets reflects the degre…
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- Volume 48, Issue 2 February 2015, 231-264
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The Successor Factor Electoral Accountability in Presidential Democracies
Do voters sanction incumbent parties collectively for the performance of the government, or do they hold politicians accountable individually? Most economic voting studies assume that voters hold the incumbent party collectively accountable and that candidate-specific factors do not have an independent effect on how voters punish and reward incumbents. This article argues that voters weigh the …
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- Volume 48, Issue 2 February 2015, 193-230
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The Conditional Ideological Inducement to Campaign on Character Valence Issue…
Acknowledging the role played by character valence issues in affecting parties’ fortunes, several recent papers have investigated the possible intentional use of such issues in electoral contests. A corollary of this line of research has focused on identifying conditions under which parties are expected to invest more in valence campaigning. In this article, we focus on the role played by parti…
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- Volume 48, Issue 2 February 2015, 168-192
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Proportionality and Turnout Evidence From French Municipalities
Many studies find that voter turnout is higher in proportional representation (PR) elections than in plurality elections, but because the two systems differ in multiple ways and are used in different contexts it is difficult to know precisely why. I focus on municipal elections in France, where cities above a certain population threshold are required to use a PR system while those below use a t…
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- Volume 48, Issue 2 February 2015, 135-167
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Acquiring the Habit of Changing Governments Through Elections
Changing governments through elections is a rare and a recent practice. Yielding office the first time is foreboding because it entails the risk that the gesture would not be reciprocated, but the habit develops rapidly once the first step is taken. This article provides evidence for these assertions by examining about 3,000 elections in the world since 1788.
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- Volume 48, Issue 1 January 2015, 101-129
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Set Diagrams and Qualitative Research
Political scientists have developed important new ideas for using spatial diagrams to enhance quantitative research. Yet the potential uses of diagrams for qualitative research have not been explored systematically. We begin to correct this omission by showing how set diagrams can facilitate the application of qualitative methods and improve the presentation of qualitative findings. Set diagram…
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- Volume 48, Issue 1 January 2015, 65-100
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Can Foreign Stock Investors Influence Policymaking?
Foreign portfolio stock investors (FPSIs) often attach political criteria to their investment choices, sometimes in the hope of pressuring policymakers in boycotted markets to adjust their policies. This article asks when the decision to not invest in foreign stock markets for political reasons catalyzes policy change in those countries. Unlike investors in government bonds that target state in…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1 Januari 2015, pages 35-64
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Lost Autonomy, Nationalism and Separatism
Case studies suggest that ethnic groups with autonomous institutional arrangements are more prone to secede, but other evidence indicates that autonomy reduces the likelihood of secession. To address this debate, we disaggregate their autonomy status into three categories—currently autonomous, never autonomous, and lost autonomy—and then unpack how each shapes the logic of collective action. We…
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