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Why primaries? The party’s tradeoff between policy and valence
Our theory studies why and when political parties choose to hold competitive primary elections. Party leaders can decide the nomination by granting resources and endorsements to a chosen candidate. Alternatively, they can delegate the candidate selection to the party’s rank and file by holding a primary election among multiple candidates. The benefit of a primary is to increase the expected val…
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- Vol. 23 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 21-51
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- 09516298
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- Journal of Theoretical Politics
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Seizing the mantle of change: Modeling candidate quality as effectiveness ins…
In spatial models of electoral competition, candidate quality is typically modeled as valence, a measure of general appeal assumed to be constant across voters. This paper introduces and formally models an alternative conception of candidate quality according to which candidates differ in their effectiveness, or likelihood of changing policy from the status quo. Although more effective candidat…
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- Vol. 23 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 52-68
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Optimal counterterrorism and the recruitment effect of large terrorist attack…
We analyze a simple dynamic model of the interaction between terrorists and authorities. Our primary aim is to study optimal counterterrorism and its consequences when large terrorist attacks lead to a temporary increase in terrorist recruitment. First, we show that an increase in counterterrorism makes it more likely that terrorist cells plan small rather than large attacks and therefore may i…
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- Vol. 23 no. 1, January 2011,pp. 69-86
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Are group sources always credible? An experimental study of sources, stakes a…
When is mobilization of group identity successful? Work on social movements suggests that frames that target group identity can mobilize groups. However, this work does not address when group mobilization using frames is likely to be successful. Recent work on source credibility finds that same-group sources are an important moderator of framing effects, and previous work on stakes of the decis…
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- Vol. 23 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 87-110
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Free-riding in international environmental agreements: A signaling approach t…
This paper examines countries’ free-riding incentives in international environmental agreements (IEAs) when, first, the treaty is non-enforceable, and, second, countries do not have complete information about other countries’ non-compliance cost. We analyze a signaling model whereby the country leading the negotiations of the international agreement can reveal its own non-compliance costs throu…
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- Vol. 23 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 111-134
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- Journal of Theoretical Politics
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The finagle point and the epsilon-core: A comment on Bräuninger’s proof
The finagle point, the epsilon-core, and the yolk are all predictors of majority-rule decision-making in spatial voting models. These predictors each minimize a radius needed in some sense to alter preferences so as to achieve stability. Brauninger showed that the finagle radius is never smaller than the epsilon-core radius, and claimed that the finagle point is within the epsilon core. This ar…
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- Vol. 23 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 135-139
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State Fragility and Governance : Conflict Mitigation and Subnational Perspect…
An earlier version of this article was presented at the international workshop on ‘Global Effects and Local Dynamics of Intrastate Conflicts’, organised by the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Center for Advanced Study of International Development, Michigan State University, held in Jerusalem in May 2009. The author thanks the participa…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2011, pages 131–153
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- 09506764
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- Development Policy Review
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Impacts of the Triple Global Crisis on Growth and Poverty : The Case of Yemen
This article is an output of the project ‘Poverty and food security strategy for Yemen’ funded by the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) of Yemen with support from the European Commission (EC) and the World Bank. The authors gratefully acknowledge comments from Khaled Saeed, Merna Hassan, Samed Albori and Abdulmajeed Al-Bataly (MOPIC), Damien Buchon, T. G. Srinivasan, Na…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2011. pages 155–184
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Grants to Needy Countries? A Study of Aid Composition between 1975 and 2005
This article discusses whether the poorest and most indebted countries receive aid in the form of grants rather than loans, by studying bilateral aid flows to low- and middle-income countries between 1975 and 2005. The empirical analysis finds no evidence that more indebted countries receive a higher grant component, but it does show that poorer countries receive a significantly higher grant co…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2011, pages 185–209
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The Food Crisis and its Impacts on Poverty in Senegal and Mali: Crossed Desti…
This article uses two CGE macro-micro models to analyse the distributional impact of the food crisis and policy responses in two neighbouring African countries, both of which are strongly dependent on agriculture. The approach captures structural differences at both the macro and micro level for household income and expenditure structures, and the results reveal differences for poverty impact a…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2011, pages 211–247
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Navigating Institutional Change: The Accord, Rogernomics, and the Politics of…
This article uses a transactions approach to examine the ability of governments to develop and sustain negotiated solutions to major economic challenges. Where actors are embedded in long-term, repeated interaction, have long time horizons, and invest in monitoring and enforcement technologies, effective political exchange is more likely. In good transactions environments, policy bargains will …
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- Vol. 44 no. 2, February 2011.pp. 127-155
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Unlootable Resources and State Security Institutions in Tajikistan and Uzbeki…
Why, when faced with similar conditions of weakening central control, do some institutions of state security fragment into autonomous agents of organized violence whereas others cohere around coercive rent seeking without challenging the central government? Focusing on Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, this article explains these divergent state security outcomes as a consequence of resource concentra…
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- Vol. 44 no. 2, February 2011.pp. 156-183
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Revisiting the Party Paradox of Finance Capitalism: Social Democratic Prefere…
The “party paradox” thesis claims that in the context of the legal corporate governance reforms of the 1990s, which aimed at adjusting national corporate governance systems to the “finance capitalism” of the Anglo-American type, center-left parties promoted proshareholder corporate governance reforms, whereas center-right parties opposed such reforms. Based on case studies of Switzerland, Swede…
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- Vol. 44 no. 2, February 2011.pp. 184-210
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Political Institutions and Property Rights: Veto Players and Foreign Exchange…
What political institutions improve property rights? Building on the work of North and Weingast, this article argues that institutional checks on policy-making discretion (“veto players”) improve the property rights of investors regarding the value of the domestic currency. Veto players constrain the ability of policy makers to opportunistically pursue policy that may lead to a depreciated dome…
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- Vol. 44 no. 2, February 2011.pp. 211-240
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Slavery and cultural creativity in the Banda Islands
In his influential edited volume Slavery, bondage and dependency in Southeast Asia, Anthony Reid suggests that long-term slave-based systems of production were absent from agriculture in Southeast Asia, and had an ambiguous presence at best in other areas of economic activity. The argument he presents suggests that indigenous slavery in the region merged into a ‘kind of serfdom or household mem…
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- Volume 41, Number, 3, October 2010. pp. 365-389
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- 00224634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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The ‘informal Portuguese empire’ and the Topasses in the Solor archipelag…
This study of Timor and the surrounding islands between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries provides evidence that, after the demise of the Portuguese Estado da India, an ‘informal’ or ‘shadow’ empire persisted but in uniquely localised ways. It describes the emergence of the ‘black Portuguese’ community known in Timor and the Solor archipelago as the Topasses. Their singular identity was ba…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.391-420
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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The worst of both worlds: Commercial rice production in West Indramayu, 1885â…
This paper deals with the consequences of the increasing commercialisation of the rice industry in west Indramayu from the mid-1880s to the late 1930s. Instead of prosperity as a result of growing rice for sale in a free market, local peasants found their survival being threatened by traders who had them bound to a vicious cycle of debts and who acquired much of the rice they produced. The rice…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.421-448
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Living with difference in rural Indonesia: What can be learned for national a…
Much research has sought to understand why mixed communities in Indonesia have been torn apart by violent conflict. By contrast, little is known about how people live together successfully in the mixed, low-conflict communities that exist in abundance throughout the Indonesian archipelago. This paper explores the inter-communal relations in the multiethnic, Christian-Muslim coastal village of O…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.449-481
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Unofficial contentions: The postcoloniality of Straits Chinese political disc…
This paper reads the debates of the Straits Settlements Legislative Council to trace the political contentions over policies affecting the Chinese community in Malaya. These contentions brought the Straits Chinese unofficials to engage the racial ambivalence of British rule in Malaya, in which the Straits Chinese was located as both a liberal subject and an object of colonial difference. Contra…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.483-507
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Testimony, trauma and performance: Some examples from Southeast Asian theatre
This paper is a reflection on a number of theatre performances held in Singapore, each of which probed problematic or traumatic historical events occurring either in Singapore itself or in other parts of Southeast Asia. These avant-garde performances were inspired by or built around actual testimonies of individuals in ways which, for this author, suggest a striking fluidity in the boundaries b…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.509-528
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