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Delegation and Discretion in Anticipation of Coalitional Drift
If legislators are sensitive to coalitional drift, they must perforce be forward looking. In this article, we propose that legislators anticipate change in government—and any associated coalitional drift. That is, legislators recognize that the government could move from unified to divided or divided to unified. As such, how legislators structure an agency’s discretion may be affected by the cu…
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- Vol. 37, No. 6, November 2009.pp. 983-1002
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- 1532-673x
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- American Politics Research
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Punctuated Budgets and Governors’ Institutional Powers
State budgets are flexible: In the same year, some budget categories dramatically rise or fall, whereas others closely follow the previous year’s appropriation. Public policy scholars label a budget that contains mainly small scale changes interspersed with dramatic fluctuations as punctuated. This research seeks to identify the determinants of these punctuated budgets in the American states. W…
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- Vol. 37, No. 6, November 2009.pp. 1116-1138
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- 1532-673x
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- American Politics Research
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Value Preferences and Ideological Structuring of Attitudes in American Public…
In this study, we investigate four attitudinal structures (including liberal, conservative, and libertarian configurations) associated with two ideological dimensions among American voters and demonstrate that these attitudinal structures are related in expected ways to differential preferences for the values of freedom, order, and equality/caring. Liberals are inclined to trade freedom for equ…
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- Vol. 37, No. 6, November 2009.pp. 1048-1087
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- 1532-673x
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- American Politics Research
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Economic Reforms and Democracy: Evidence of a J-Curve in Latin America
This article explores the relationship between economic reforms and democracy in Latin America between 1970 and 1995. Existing theories suggest divergent effects across time horizons. The implementation of reforms— economic liberalization—may initially destabilize democracy due to popular backlash or overzealous reformers' usurpation of democratic institutions. However, the potential outcome of…
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- Vol. 41, No. 10, October 2008. Page 1398-1426
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Explaining the Dominance of Legacy Unions in New Democracies: Comparative Ins…
The continued dominance of legacy unions—state-backed unions inherited from the previous nondemocratic regime—has received little scholarly scrutiny. Through an analysis of Indonesia, this article presents a focused theoretical framework for analyzing the staying power of legacy unions and the strategies they pursue to maintain their dominance. The author argues that the capacity of legacy unio…
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- Vol. 41, No. 10, October 2008. Page 1371-1397
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Electoral and Mechanical Causes of Divided Government in the European Union
Voters who participate in elections to the European Parliament (EP) apparently use these elections to punish their domestic governing parties. Many students of the EU therefore claim that the party—political composition of the Parliament should systematically differ from that of the EU Council. This study shows that opposed majorities between council and parliament may have other than simply el…
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- Vol. 41, No. 10, October 2008. Page 1349-1370
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Policy Concertation in Europe: Understanding Government Choice
This article focuses on the European governments' decision to involve unions and employers in the design and implementation of public policy. Based on new measures of the phenomenon, the authors argue that between 1974 and 2003, no convergence on a pluralist model of policy formation is visible. They then use these measures to identify and analyze the clearest cases of adoption or demise of con…
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- Vol. 41, No. 10, October 2008. Page 1323-1348
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Context-Sensitive Inquiry in Comparative Judicial Research: Lessons From the …
Research on the behavior of the Namibian judiciary highlights the importance of context-sensitivity in comparative courts research. Drawing from strategic understandings of judicial behavior, the analysis examines the extent to which political influences are affecting the behavior of judges in Namibia. The findings indicate that, for the most part, Namibia's judges have exercised high levels of…
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- Vol. 41, No. 11, November 2008. Page 1515-1540
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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What You See and What You Get: Pitfalls and Principles of Nested Analysis in …
In a recent contribution to this journal, Munck and Snyder found that many studies suffer from a deficient application of qualitative and quantitative methods. They argue that the combination of small-n and large-n analysis represents a viable method for promoting the production of knowledge. Recently, Evan Lieberman proposed nested analysis as a rigorous approach for comparative research that …
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- Vol. 41, No. 11, November 2008. Page 1492-1514
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Social Cleavages and the Number of Parties: How the Measures You Choose Affec…
This article explores the issues surrounding the operationalization and measurement of social cleavages in a large-N context from the perspective of the party systems literature. It first highlights the difficulty of measuring the concept, which it argues has impeded hypothesis testing, and suggests strategies for improving upon existing measures. It then demonstrates that the conclusions we dr…
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- Vol. 41, No. 11, November 2008. Page 1439-1465
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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When Do Votes Count?: Regime Type, Electoral Conduct, and Political Competiti…
The effects of electoral systems have been tested recently in Africa, raising several questions: Are the systematic effects of electoral rules the same across regime types? Does the conduct of elections affect the process of strategic coordination between voters and parties? The literature to date has not considered these issues and also analyzes elections in settings where a crucial set of its…
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- Vol. 41, No. 11, November 2008. Page 1466-1491
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Diverging Developments in Wage Inequality: Which Institutions Matter?
This article investigates how a particular wage-bargaining institution mitigates pressures from growing international competition and new production techniques and affects the degree of wage inequality growth. The extent to which industry-wide wage minima (wage scales) cover both higher and lower skilled workers affects developments in inequality. A series of cross-sectional time-series analyse…
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- Vol. 41, No. 12, December 2008. Page 1551-1582
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Representation, Corruption, and Subjective Well-Being
This study examines the effect of corruption and representation on people's subjective well-being. Using cross-national data from 68 countries and survey data from 16 European democracies, the analysis demonstrates that people report higher levels of subjective well-being when (a) their governments perform well (i.e., are clean rather than corrupt) and (b) the party of their choice is in power.…
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- Vol. 41, No. 12, December 2008. Page 1607-1630
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- 0010-4140
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- Sage Publishing
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Politics as Usual or Bringing Religion Back In?: The Influence of Parties, In…
This article explains the variation of embryo research laws in the Western world. A quantitative analysis shows that theories of partisan influence, institutions, and economic interests are ill suited to explain this variation. Only when cultural factors are considered can the variation be explained. Catholic societies legislate more strictly, and the Catholic Church is an influential actor. Th…
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- Vol. 41, No. 12, December 2008. Page 1631-1656
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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The Dynamics of Lawmaking in a Bicameral Legislature: The Case of Brazil
This article analyzes legislative performance in a nascent presidential bicameral democracy, taking Brazil as a case. The author argues that the timing and outcomes of legislative production are functions of bicameral incongruence, types of bicameralism, sequence of examination, and legislative bargaining. These hypotheses are tested using a new legislative data set from Brazil that covers over…
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- Vol. 41, No. 12, December 2008. Page 1583-1606
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Electoral Governance Matters: Explaining the Quality of Elections in Contempo…
This article provides a systematic cross-national analysis of the role of electoral administration in explaining acceptable democratic presidential elections in 19 countries in Latin America since the year 1980 or the first pivotal, transitional election. The authors provide two alternative measures of election administration, one focused on the degree of partisanship or professional independ…
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- Vol. 41. No. 1, January 2008. Page 73-98
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Policy Positions, Issue Importance, and Party Competition in New Democracies
This article examines the dynamics of vote redistribution after new party entry in the context of East European democracies. Contrary to the dominant institutional and sociological approaches, the author focuses on the (strategic) policy choices of the new contestants. The author argues that a new party's choice about where to place itself in relation to existing parties and which issues to emp…
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- Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2008. Page 48-72
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Who Gives, Who Receives, and Who Wins?: Transforming Capital Into Political C…
How does international support for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) lead to political change in the developing world? Massive amounts of domestic government spending and international aid are now distributed through NGOs instead of state bureaucracies. Recent scholarship suggests that this decentralization of developmental aid to NGOs has unintended political effects on recipient communiti…
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- Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2008. Page 24-47
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Parliamentary Cycles and Party Switching in Legislatures
This article examines politicians' changes of party labels during the life of a legislature. The authors view a legislator's choice of party as a strategic decision recurring throughout the parliamentary cycle. In their approach, individuals are open to switching parties as they pursue goals specific to the stage in the parliamentary cycle. Analyzing Italy and Russia, they identify among legisl…
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- Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2008. Page 99-127
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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What Unites Right-Wing Populists in Western Europe?: Re-Examining Grievance M…
Unlike for the green party family, no empirically backed scholarly consensus exists about the grievances mobilized by populist right parties in Western Europe. To the contrary, three competing grievance mobilization models can be distinguished in the existing literature. These models focus on grievances arising from economic changes, political elitism and corruption, and immigration. This study…
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- Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2008. Page 3-23
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- 0010-4140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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