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‘Boom and Bust’ in Women's Representation : Lessons to be Learnt from a D…
A commitment to equality was firmly established as a key principle when the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales were founded a decade ago. In the intervening years both have become international beacons of progress in establishing higher levels of representation for women in politics. But at the 2007 elections there was a decline in the number of women elected to both legisl…
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- Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2011. Pp. 193-203
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Fictions of Sovereignty : Shakespeare, Theatre and the Representation of Rule
Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II includes a number of scenes representing the Kent rebellion of 1450, led by Jack Cade. In these, we argue, Shakespeare explores the ways in which claims to legitimate rule are often secured through performances of word, deed and gesture. We examine some of the concerns about drama expressed by political theorists alongside some of the techniques of political dram…
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- Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011. Pp. 233-247
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Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction
The Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson is remembered for numerous achievements, chief of which is her leadership of the Jarrow Crusade in October 1936. Wilkinson was the only woman to march in the 280-mile protest against unemployment, and her compatriots were said to have looked upon her as one of them. But Wilkinson remained in many ways an outsider, both in politics and in industrial relations. Wilki…
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- Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011. Pp. 248-262
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Imagining the Polity : Cinema and Television Fictions as Vernacular Theories …
This article suggests that political fictions can play a significant role for citizens in permitting them to imagine how key processes work within polities. Using the concept of vernacular theory', it explores how politicians behaviour, the operation of British political institutions and the country's external relations are theorised across a range of films and television programmes in the th…
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- Volume64, Issue 2, April 2011. Pp. 263-280
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The Uses and Abuses of British Political Fiction or How I Learned to Stop Wor…
Since Plato the arts have worried those concerned with the maintenance and stability of the polis. More recently politicians and commentators have expressed fears that the manner in which formal politics is depicted in fiction has been a contributory factor in the breakdown of trust in British political culture. By comparison the USA is pointed to as offering a far more positive tradition of cu…
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- Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011. Pp. 281-295
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The Unexpected Prime Minister : Politics, Class and Gender in Television Fiction
This article addresses the significance of television fiction in the public communication process on the basis of a comparative analysis of the television dramas A Very British Coup and The Amazing Mrs Pritchard. The narratives converge in their depiction of unconventional characters becoming Prime Ministers after achieving major electoral victories. Furthermore, both texts locate their charact…
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- Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011. Pp. 296-310
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The Amazing Mrs Politician : Television Entertainment and Women in Politics
The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard was the first British television series production that featured a woman Prime Minister, backed by an all-women party and elected by the large majority of voters. This article investigates whether the series was an attempt to provide a feminist portrayal of women politicians. It addresses three main issues: whether and how the series inscribes gender frames to place e…
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- Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011.Pp. 311-325
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A Golden Interlude : Journalists in Early Twentieth Century British Literature
This article examines fictional representations of journalists and journalism from Guy Thorne's Edwardian bestseller When it Was Dark (1903) through to novels of the interwar years. It examines how literature about journalism and journalists addresses contemporary issues such as the march of technology; the relationship between politics and the press at a time when the franchise was extending; …
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- Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011. Pp. 326-340
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Reviewing Select Committee Tasks and Modes of Operation
Departmental select committees are now the principal mechanism through which the House of Commons holds the executive to account. Ten years ago the Hansard Society's Commission on Parliamentary Scrutiny (the Newton Commission) recommended a series of reforms to select committees including the introduction of core tasks. A decade on, however, many new demands have since been placed on committees…
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- Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011. Pp. 354-369
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Does It Take Democrats to Democratize? Lessons From Islamic and Secular Elite…
Do political-Islamic elites need to be democrats for participation in democracy, how do their values compare to secular elites, and how do their values change through participation and affect democratization itself? A comparative-systematic content analysis of three Islamic-conservative and two pro-secular Turkish newspapers over nine years shows that, overall, political-Islamic elites adopt d…
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- Vol. 44 no. 5, May 2011.pp. 511-545
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Understanding the Multinational Game : Toward a Theory of Asymmetrical Federa…
This article presents a baseline theory of asymmetrical federalism in multinational states. Two arguments building on a game-theoretic foundation link central and regional elites strategic choices to questions of federal stability. The first argument concerns the creation of asymmetrical institutions. In a confrontation game between the center and national minorities credibly threatening to ex…
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- Vol. 44 no. 5, May 2011.pp. 546-571
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Shadows From the Past : Party System Institutionalization in Asia
This article explains variation in levels of party system institutionalization in Asia by testing available data against several major hypotheses in the literature. The authors make three contributions to the literature on party system institutionalization. First, this study finds that historical legacies are a crucial variable affecting current levels of party system institutionalization. In p…
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- Vol. 44 no. 5, May 2011.pp. 572-597
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Policy Regimes and Normative Conceptions of Nationalism in Mass Public Opinion
The effect of policy regimes on immigrant incorporation has been the subject of extensive debate. Despite much theoretical literature on the subject, the relationships between specific national policies in various domains and outcomes broadly related to social solidarity have not been well explored empirically. The present work develops measures tapping the priority of ascriptive traits defin…
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- Vol. 44 no. 5, May 2011.pp. 598-624
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Globalization and the Politics of Natural Resources
Much political science scholarship, including important work in this journal, has explored the implications of natural resource endowments particularly oil and other highly valuable export commoditieson political and economic outcomes. Although the first wave of literature emphasized the negative effects of these resources, more recent work emphasizes how domestic institutions can condition t…
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- Vol. 44 no. 6, June 2011.pp. 639-661
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Political Risk, Reputation, and the Resource Curse
There is a growing literature on how natural resources affect both economic performance and political regimes. In this article the authors add to this literature by focusing on how natural resource wealth affects the incentives of governments to uphold contracts with foreign investors across all sectors. They argue that although all states suffer reputation costs from reneging on contracts, gov…
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- Vol. 44 no. 6, June 2011.pp. 662-688
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Toward an Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse : Natural Resources,…
Why do many resource-rich countries maintain autocratic political regimes? The authors proposed answer focuses on the causal effect of labor imports, or immigration. Using the logic offered by Acemoglu and Robinsons democratization model, the authors posit that immigration makes democratization less likely because it facilitates redistributive concessions to appease the population within an a…
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- Vol. 44 no. 6, June 2011.pp. 689-718
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Nontax Revenue, Social Cleavages, and Authoritarian Stability in Mexico and K…
What determines how authoritarian regimes use internationally attained revenues such as natural resource rents to stay in power? The answer, this article argues, lies partly in the nature of the socioeconomic cleavages in the country. The article presents a comparison of Kenya and Mexico, two countries that experienced similar rises and falls in internationally derived nontax revenue in the con…
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- Vol. 44 no. 6, June 2011.pp. 719-746
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Conditioning the “Resource Curse” : Globalization, Human Capital, and Gro…
Since the 1990s it has become conventional wisdom that an abundance of natural resources, most notably oil, is very likely to become a developmental curse. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to call into question this apparent consensus, drawing attention to the situations in which quite the opposite result appears to hold, namely, where resources become a developmental blessing. Resear…
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- Vol. 44 no. 6, June 2011.pp. 747-770
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Openness and the Politics of Potable Water
Improving access to potable water has become an increasingly urgent concern for developing nations in the current era of globalization. According to standard wisdom, if developing countries undertake certain domestic reforms, such as investing in infrastructure and engineering, then safe and clean drinking water will improve. This analysis uncovers, however, that in addition to such domestic ef…
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- Vol. 44 no. 6, June 2011 .pp. 771-803
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Mean voter representation and partisan constituency representation : Do parti…
Do political parties respond to shifts in the preferences of their supporters, which we label the partisan constituency model, or to shifts in the mean voter position (the general electorate model)? Cross-national analyses based on observations from Eurobarometer surveys and parties policy programmes in 15 countries from 1973 to 2002 suggest that the general electorate model characterizes …
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- Vol. 17 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 275-301
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