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Unsuccessful Success? Failed No-Confidence Motions, Competence Signals, and E…
If no-confidence motions are primarily motivated by bringing down governments, why do only approximately 5% of no-confidence motions in advanced parliamentary democracies from 1960 result in the termination of government? In this project the author addresses this puzzle by developing a formal model of the electoral benefits of no-confidence motions and tests these hypotheses with the use of an …
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- Vol. 44 no. 11, November 2011,pp. 1474-1499
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Support for Polyarchy in the Americas
This study measures support for the basic rights, liberties, and practices associated with polyarchy in 12 Latin American democracies. Specifically, it identifies five profiles of support for polyarchys core values and normspublic contestation, inclusive participation, limits on executive authority, and institutional checks and balances. Although citizens who fit the polyarch profile accept a…
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- Vol. 44 no. 11, November 2011,pp. 1500-1526
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Do International Election Monitors Increase or Decrease Opposition Boycotts?
Election boycotts are over twice as common when international observers are present. Do international observers increase election boycotts as this correlation and past research suggest? This article argues not. Observers tend to go to elections with many problems, and it is primarily these, rather than monitors, that drive boycotts. Furthermore, opposition parties have reasons to hope that obse…
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- Vol. 44 no. 11, November 2011.pp. 1527-1556
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Measuring Dissent in Electoral Authoritarian Societies : Lessons From Azerbai…
Although authoritarian regimes assert control over electoral processes, election returns can yield valuable information about dissent. Using election data from two votes in Azerbaijan, this article assesses hypotheses about the sources of antiregime results. The analysis indicates that dissenting votes may be produced by a combination of elite interference at the national and local levels, and …
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- Vol. 44 no. 11, November 2011.pp. 1557-1583
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Classing early intervention : Social class, occupational moralities and crimi…
This article interrogates the nature of judgements used by social control professionals to identify signs of anti-social behaviour amongst young people and families referred to early intervention programmes. The emphasis of professionals working within such networks is mostly benevolent in seeking to support and direct specific services at particular individuals. This article traces the effects…
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- Vol. 31 no. 4, November 2011.pp. 495-516
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- 02610183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Human trafficking as a lever for feminist voices? Transformations of the Dani…
In Denmark, human trafficking has emerged as a central issue within the policy field of prostitution during the last decade. Taking a Foucauldian approach from a historical perspective, understanding the policy field of prostitution as a discursive terrain, the article analyses the thinking that lies behind policies on prostitution by identifying ruptures and discursive struggles which lead to …
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- Vol. 31 no. 4, November 2011.pp. 517-539
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- Critical Social Policy
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Here today, gone tomorrow? The ambivalent ethics of contingency social work
In the UK the number of state social workers supplied by independent employment agencies has increased significantly since the mid-1990s. Although state sectors of welfare such as education and health have always relied upon a steady supply of locum staff, there is no such tradition within social work. This paper explores some of the ethical tensions that have become apparent with the expansion…
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- Vol. 31 no. 4, November 2011.pp. 540-561
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- 02610183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Making ‘care’ accessible : Personal assistance for disabled people and th…
Disability scholars and activists argue that care is a complex form of oppression and reject it as a term and concept. I explore the possibility of salvaging care from its oppressive medical and charitable legacies through a discussion of personal assistance. While not arguing for a return to terming personal assistance care, I argue care can be made accessible in policies and discussions o…
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- Vol. 31 no. 4, November 2011,pp. 562-582
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- Critical Social Policy
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Neoliberal restructuring, limited autonomy, and relational distance in Manito…
This article draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to describe the nonprofit field. We highlight the ways in which the neoliberal restructuring of the nonprofit field has introduced new market conditions and valuational standards that have compelled social service providers within this field to adapt to or resist its structural transformation. Our study is focused on social service providing non…
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- Vol. 31 no. 4, November 2011.pp. 583-606
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- Critical Social Policy
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Doing it ‘right’ by your parents in Singapore : A political economy exami…
Singapore is expected to experience a demographic revolution in its ageing population in the coming decades. In an effort to deal with this projected burgeoning need, the Singapore Parliament enacted the Maintenance of Parents Act in 1995. The Act legislates the financial responsibility of adult children towards their indigent aged parents. Using archival data, including parliamentary debates, …
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- Vol. 31 no. 4, November 2011.pp. 607-627
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- Critical Social Policy
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Dual Identity as a Two-Edged Sword : Identity Threat and Minority School Perf…
Some members of ethnic minority groups respond to identity threat in ways that are detrimental to their school career, while others persist despite an unwelcoming school environment. It was hypothesized that ethnic and national identities, as combined in separated, assimilated, or dual identity strategies, moderate consequences of identity threat for minority school performance and that t…
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- Vol. 74 no. 2, June 2011.pp. 121-143
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- 01902725
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Stigma, Reflected Appraisals, and Recovery Outcomes in Mental Illness
Drawing on modified labeling theory and the reflected appraisals process and using longitudinal data from 129 mothers and their adult children with schizophrenia, we estimate models of the effects of mothers stigmatized identity appraisals of their mentally ill children on reflected and self-appraisals, and how appraisals affect outcomes (symptoms, self-efficacy, life satisfaction). Results in…
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- Vol. 74 no. 2, June 2011.pp. 144-165
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Intergroup Conflict in Russia : Testing the Group Position Model
The group position model (Blumer 1958; Bobo and Tuan 2006) assumes that attempting to secure a privileged position for the ingroup is a main determinant of perceived intergroup conflict. This assumption is tested with survey data collected in 1999 and 2000 among eight titular groups in autonomous republics of the Russian Federation. The survey included an experiment that was aimed at disentangl…
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- Vol. 74 no. 2, June 2011.pp. 166-191
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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The Moral Self : Applying Identity Theory
This research applies identity theory to understand the moral self. In identity theory, individuals act on the basis of their identity meanings, and they regulate the meanings of their behavior so that those meanings are consistent with their identity meanings. An inconsistency produces negative emotions and motivates individuals to behave differently to produce outcomes that will better match …
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- Vol. 74 no. 2, June 2011.pp. 192-215
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Designing the Recipient : Managing Advice Resistance in Institutional Settings
In this paper we consider a collection of conversational practices that arise when a professional is faced with extended resistance to their offered advice. Our data is comprised of telephone calls to a UK child protection helpline. The practices we identify occur repeatedly across our corpus of advice resistance sequences and involve (1) the repackaging of resisted advice in more idiomatic for…
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- Vol. 74 no. 2, June 2011.pp. 216-241
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Playing the (Sexual) Field : The Interactional Basis of Systems of Sexual Str…
Recently, scholars have used a Bourdieusian theory of practice to analyze systems of sexual stratification, including an examination of sexual fields and sexual (or erotic) capital. While the broad structural features of the sexual field have been a point of focus in this latter research, a systematic analysis of the interactional processes that operate within the sexual status order has not be…
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- Vol. 74 no. 3, September 2011.pp. 244-266
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Do Others’ Views of Us Transfer to New Groups and Tasks? : An Expectation S…
The dual nature of the self has been a core concern of social psychology since its inception. We contribute to this longstanding tradition of inquiry by focusing on two lines of research within the expectation states theoretical research program: (1) the study of second-order expectations and (2) research on the durability of expectations. We argue that individuals give priority to others expe…
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- Vol. 74 no. 3, September 2011.pp. 267-290
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Spoiled Group Identities and Backstage Work : A Theory of Stigma Management R…
How do persons with a stigmatized identity learn potential responses to discrimination and harassment? Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic data, this paper demonstrates how members of a group of Muslim American youth are socialized in locally dominant stigma management strategies through stigma management rehearsals. Stigma management rehearsals are small group interactions throug…
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- Vol. 74 no. 3, September 2011.pp. 291-309
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Being in “Bad” Company : Power Dependence and Status in Adolescent Suscep…
Theories of susceptibility to peer influence have centered on the idea that lower status adolescents are likely to adopt the behaviors of high status adolescents. While status is important, social exchange theorists have shown the value of analyzing exchange relations between actors to understand differences in power. To build on status-based theories of peer influence, this study analyzes powe…
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- Vol. 74 no. 3, September 2011.pp. 310-332
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“We Want Them to Be as Heterosexual as Possible” : Fathers Talk about The…
This article examines heterosexual fathers descriptions of conversations with their teen children about sexuality and their perceptions of their teen childrens sexual identities. We show that fathers construct their own identities as masculine and heterosexual in the context of these conversations and prefer that their children, especially sons, are heterosexual. Specifically, fathers feel ac…
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- Vol. 25 no. 3, June 2011.pp. 293-315
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- 08912432
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- Gender & Society
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