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Kenya’s New Constitution
Wracked by postelection violence in 2007 and 2008, Kenya embarked upon a course of constitutional change that culminated in an August 2010 referendum. How was the new basic law framed and passed, and what will it mean for democracy in this key East African country?
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011,pp. 89-103
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- 10497315
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- Journal of Democracy
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Latin America’s Gay-Rights Revolution
Even before Argentinas landmark gay-marriage law was passed in July 2010, a gay-rights revolution was well underway across Latin America. But do gay rights by law equal acceptance of gays in practice?
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 104-118
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- 10497315
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- Journal of Democracy
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Jordan Votes : Election or Selection?
In late 2010, not long before seismic political change was to erupt across the Middle East, Jordan held parliamentary elections. Officials were eager to present these as a fresh start, but a closer look tells a different tale.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, 119-129
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- 10497315
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- Journal of Democracy
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Sri Lanka : From Turmoil to Dynasty
Having only recently emerged from a prolonged and remarkably bitter civil war, Sri Lanka is now slipping steadily under the hardening authoritarian control of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, 130-144
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- 10497315
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- Journal of Democracy
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Marital Name Change as a Window into Gender Attitudes
The need to revise scholars approach to the measurement of gender attitudeslong dominated by the separate-spheres paradigmis growing increasingly timely as womens share of the labor force approaches parity with mens. Recent years have seen revived interest in marital name change as a gendered practice with the potential to aid in this task; however, scholars have yet to test its effectiven…
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- Vol. 25 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 145-175
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- 08912432
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- Gender & Society
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Mothers, Fathers, and “Mathers” : Negotiating a Lesbian Co-parental Identity
This article argues that to gain a more complete understanding of how lesbian families experience parenthood outside of the heterosexual context, scholars must consider how co-parents negotiate a parental identity, rather than presuming that women parents want to mother. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 17 women in a state that denies them parental legal rights, this article asks how a nonb…
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- Vol. 25 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 176-196
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- 08912432
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- Gender & Society
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Gender in Twentieth-Century Children’s Books : Patterns of Disparity in Tit…
Gender representations reproduce and legitimate gender systems. To examine this aspect of the gendered social order, we analyze the representation of males and females in the titles and central characters of 5,618 childrens books published throughout the twentieth century in the United States. Compared to females, males are represented nearly twice as often in titles and 1.6 times as often as …
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- Vol. 25 no. 2, April 2011 .pp. 197-226
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- 08912432
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- Gender & Society
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Equity or Essentialism? : U.S. Courts and the Legitimation of Girls’ Teams …
Feminist scholars have critically analyzed the effects of sex segregation in numerous social institutions, yet sex-segregated sport often remains unchallenged. Even critics of sex-segregated sport have tended to accept the merits of women-only teams at face value. In this article, we revisit this issue by examining the underlying assumptions supporting womens and girls teams and explore how t…
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- Vol. 25 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 227-249
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- 08912432
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- Gender & Society
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Updating the Outcome : Gay Athletes, Straight Teams, and Coming Out in Educat…
In this article I report findings from interviews with 26 openly gay male athletes who came out between 2008 and 2010. I compare their experiences to those of 26 gay male athletes who came out between 2000 and 2002. The athletes in the 2010 cohort have had better experiences after coming out than those in the earlier cohort, experiencing less heterosexism and maintaining better support among th…
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- Vol. 25 no. 2, April 2011.p. 250-268
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- 08912432
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- Gender & Society
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Eliciting Substance from ‘Hot Air’ : Financial Market Responses to EU Sum…
The results of deliberations in multilateral fora are often considered ineffective. Decision making in the European Union (EU) and in particular its key intergovernmental body, the European Council, poses no exception. Especially in the domain of EU foreign and security affairs, the unanimity requirement governing this institution allegedly allows nationalist governments to torpedo any attempt …
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- Vol 64, No. 2, April 2010,pp.199-223
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- 00208183
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- International Organization
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Credible Commitments and the International Criminal Court
The creation of an International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war crimes poses a real puzzle. Why was it created, and more importantly, why do states agree to join this institution? The ICC represents a serious intrusion into a traditional arena of state sovereignty: the right to administer justice to one's one nationals. Yet more than one hundred states have joined. Social scientists are …
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- Vol. 64, No. 2, April 2010.pp.225-256
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- 00208183
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The Politics of Judicial Economy at the World Trade Organization
International institutions often moderate the legal decisions they render. World Trade Organization (WTO) panels do this by exercising judicial economy. This practice, which is evident in 41 percent of all rulings, involves the decision not to rule on some of the litigants' arguments. The constraint is that it can be appealed. We argue that panels exercise judicial economy when the wider member…
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- Vol. 64, No. 2, April 2010.pp.257-279
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- 00208183
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The Enforcement Problem in Coercive Bargaining : Interstate Conflict over Reb…
This article explores the strategic problems that arise when a state seeks to use military force to compel changes in another state's policies. Although the costs associated with military action mean that there generally exist compromises that both sides prefer to conflict, bargaining may fail if such deals are not enforceable in the face of temptations to renege on policy concessions. This stu…
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- Vol. 64, No. 2< April 2010.pp.281-312
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- 00208183
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Exchange Rate Proclamations and Inflation-Fighting Credibility
If governments choose economic policies that often run counter to their public commitments, are those commitments meaningless? We argue that government proclamations can be critical in signaling economic policy intentions. We focus on the realm of exchange rate policy, in which countries frequently implement an exchange rate regime that differs from the officially declared regime. We argue that…
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- Vol. 64, No. 2, April 2010.pp.313-337
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- 00208183
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Economic Liberalization via IMF Structural Adjustment : Sowing the Seeds of C…
Previous studies that have explored the effects of economic liberalization on civil war have employed aggregate measures of openness and have failed to account for potential endogeneity bias. In this research note, we suggest two improvements to the study of the relationship between liberalization and civil war. First, emphasizing that it is processes that systematically create new economic win…
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- Vol. 64, No. 2, April 2010.pp.339-356
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Feigning Weakness
In typical crisis bargaining models, strong actors must convince the opponent that they are not bluffing and the only way to do so is through costly signaling. However, in a war, strong actors can benefit from tactical surprise when their opponent mistakenly believes that they are weak. This creates contradictory incentives during the pre-war crisis: actors want to persuade the opponent of thei…
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- Vol. 64, No. 3, July 2010.pp. 357-388
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- 00208183
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Labor Markets and the Demand for Foreign Direct Investment
Existing research on foreign direct investment (FDI) focuses on how politics influences the supply of FDI inflows. In this article I shift focus to the demand for FDI inflows within recipient countries by examining individual preferences for FDI. I argue that FDI preferences are largely a function of FDI's effects on income. FDI raises wages, especially those of skilled labor because foreign fi…
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- Vol.64, No.3,July 2010.pp.389-409
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- 00208183
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Exchange Rate Regimes and Independent Central Banks : A Correlated Choice of …
Theory and empirical evidence show that low inflation is a precondition for economic growth. Independent central banks and fixed exchange rates are institutional mechanisms that help keep inflation low by lending monetary policy credibility to governments. However, the two institutions are commonly analyzed as substitutes that tie the hands of inflation prone governments. Thus, the literature h…
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- Vol. 64,No. 3, July 2010.pp.411-442
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- 00208183
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Reality Asserts Itself : Public Opinion on Iraq and the Elasticity of Reality
Prevailing theories hold that U.S. public support for a war depends primarily on its degree of success, U.S. casualties, or conflict goals. Yet, research into the framing of foreign policy shows that public perceptions concerning each of these factors are often endogenous and malleable by elites. In this article, we argue that both elite rhetoric and the situation on the ground in the conflict …
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- Vol. 64, No. 3, July 2010.pp. 443-479
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- 00208183
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Trade Competition and Domestic Pollution : A Panel Study, 1980–2003
This research note examines whether trade competition abets regulatory races in the environmental area. To analyze trade competition, we develop a new measure, structural equivalence, which assesses competitive threats that a country faces from other countries whose firms export the same products to the same destination countries. Employing this new measure, we analyze air pollution intensity (…
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- Vol. 64, No. 3, July 2010.pp. 481-503
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- 00208183
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