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Explaining Central Intervention in Local Extra-Budgetary Practices in China
Abstract Chinese local governments widely resort to extra-budgetary exaction to finance themselves, which generates side effects that necessitate central intervention. Through statistical analysis, this paper finds that the central government intervenes only selectively, following a logic driven by economic development and political stability.
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- Vol. 51, No. 3, May/June 2011, pp. 497-519
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- 00044687
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- Asian Survey
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The Reform Paradox and Regulatory Dilemma in China's Electricity Industry
Abstract The Chinese government has implemented electricity reform during the reform era, but the process has been accompanied by widespread power shortages and political struggles among state agencies. This paper addresses this contradiction by explaining two interrelated outcomes: the transformation of the state regulatory structure and the development of corporatized state-owned enterprises.
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- Vol. 51, No. 3, May/June 2011, pp. 520-539
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- 00044687
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- Asian Survey
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Explaining Overheating in China through Institutional Analysis (1992–2010)
Abstract Economic overheating is a significant and recurring problem in modern China. This paper analyzes the many factors causing overheating and argues that there are systemic and largely structural explanations for overheating that arise from a number of theorized catalysts, including a bureaucratic catalyst and a historical catalyst.
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- Vol. 51, No. 3, May/June 2011, pp. 540-558
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- 00044687
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- Asian Survey
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An Outlook for Cambodia's Garment Industry in the Post-Safeguard Policy Era
This article examines the capabilities of Cambodia's garment industry in the post-safeguard policy era, and its future prospects. It first analyzes the industry's experience pre-2005, then discusses the role of foreign investors and the government's open-economy policy. The paper then looks at post-2005 industry problems and offers some recommendations for future growth.
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‘While there’s a breath in my body’ : The systemic effects of political…
Many observers of the US Supreme Court suspect that justices time their departures from the Court based on ideological and political factors. This paper assesses the theoretical effects of such behavior. Does political timing of retirement devalue the appointment process and thereby make the Court less responsive to the public? Do politically motivated retirements lead to more justices serving …
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- Vol. 23 no. 3, July 2011.pp. 293-316
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- 09516298
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- Journal of Theoretical Politics
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Competition, contest, and cooperation : The analytic framework of the issue m…
Although party competition is widely regarded as an important part of a working democracy, it is rarely analysed in political science literature. This article discusses the basic properties of party competition, especially the patterns of interaction in contemporary party systems. Competition as a phenomenon at the macro level has to be carefully distinguished from contest and cooperation as th…
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- Vol. 23 no. 3, July 2011.pp. 317-343
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- 09516298
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Constituency size and stability of two-party systems
This paper investigates how constituency size affects spatial competition in a two-party system with a new entrant. When the electorate is small, two-party systems are stable only if the following conditions hold: the candidates are neither too certain nor too uncertain about voters’ preferences; competition is sufficiently costly; and the candidates have binding policy commitments. Moreover, w…
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- Vol. 23 no. 3,July 2011.pp. 344-358
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A welfarist critique of social choice theory
This paper reconsiders the discussion on ordinal utilities versus preference intensities in voting theory. It is shown by way of an example that arguments concerning observability and risk-attitudes that have been presented in favour of Arrow’s Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA), and against utilitarian evaluation, fail due to strategic voting. The failure of these two arguments is t…
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- Vol. 23 no. 3, July 2011.pp. 359-381
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Is there really a turnout paradox?
Journal of Theoretical Politics
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- Vol. 23 no. 3, July 2011.pp. 382-399
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Domestic reform as a rationale for gradualism in international cooperation
Gradualism is common in international cooperation, as states begin with limited cooperation and choose more ambitious targets slowly over time. However, most models of international cooperation are static and thus cannot explain gradualism. I show that when states can implement domestic reforms to reduce the cost of international cooperation, enforcement concerns prompt gradualism. First, to ac…
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- Vol. 23 no. 3, July 2011.pp. 400-427
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Impacts of Economic Crises on Child Well-being
This theme issue addresses three research questions: i) how are the impacts of macro-level crises transmitted to children's micro-level experiences of poverty and well-being? ii) in what ways can these impacts be mediated by the policy responses of international and national actors? and iii) what lessons can be derived from responses to past crises and to what extent is this learning being appl…
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- Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, pages 511–526
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- 09506764
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- Development Policy Review Special Issue: Impacts of Economic Crises on Child Well-being
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Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Children's School and Employment Ou…
Central America has been one of the regions hardest hit by the global financial crisis. This article analyses the short-run effects of the crisis on children's schooling and employment outcomes in El Salvador, exploiting repeated cross-sectional samples of the annual household survey for the period 2000–8. It reveals that this early phase of the financial crisis has decreased school attendance …
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- Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, pages 527–546
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The Effects of Economic Crises on Families Caring for Children : Understandin…
This article examines case examples of some of the consequences for children and families of average and severe economic and social disruptions, including the economic losses and failure of social supports during the transition after perestroika in Russia, the experience of poor families during economic retrenchment in Mexico, the massive asset loss in the capital of Honduras after a natural di…
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- Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, pages 547–564
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- Development Policy Review Special Issue: Impacts of Economic Crises on Child Well-being
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A ‘Lost Generation’? Impacts of Complex Compound Crises on Children and Y…
How has the well-being of children and young people been affected by the global food, fuel and financial crises that have struck since 2007? This article reports empirical findings from qualitative research in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Yemen and Zambia in 2009 and 2010. Intended to complement the wider body of mainly quantitative evidence, it explores how the subjective and relatio…
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- Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, pages 565–584
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- Development Policy Review Special Issue: Impacts of Economic Crises on Child Well-being
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Cash Transfers, Children and the Crisis : Protecting Current and Future Inves…
In a mix of responses to the food, fuel and financial crises of 2008–9, some developing countries have introduced new safety-net programmes, while others have modified and/or expanded existing ones. Many have introduced conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in recent years, and these have been used as an important starting point for a response. This article aims to describe these various experience…
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- Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, pages 585–601
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Financing Social Protection for Children in Crisis Contexts
The global financial crisis has emphasised the fundamental role of social protection institutions in developing countries. There is also growing evidence that countries with programmes focused on children have a greater chance of minimising the longer-term effects of the crisis. However, financing remains a major challenge: the effects of a slowdown in growth are likely to reduce the fiscal spa…
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- Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, pages 603–620
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- 09506764
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- Development Policy Review Special Issue: Impacts of Economic Crises on Child Well-being
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Ben Ali’s Fall
The wave of unrest that swept through the Arab world at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 originated in Tunisia. What happened— and what are the prospects that Tunisia will make a successful transition to democracy?
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- Vol. 22, No. 3, July 2011, pp. 5-19
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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The Road to (and from) Liberation Square
Egyptians threw off the thirty-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, but now find themselves under essentially the same military tutelage that they had hoped to escape by launching their struggle.
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- Volume 22, Number 3, July 2011,pp. 20-34
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- Journal of Democracy
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The Role of Digital Media
Widely reported as “Facebook revolutions,” the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt show that social media not only can ignite protests but also can help to determine their political consequences.
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- Volume 22, Number 3, July 2011,pp. 35-48
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Belarus : A Tale of Two Elections
Strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s suspiciously lopsided 2010 electoral victory—and subsequent crackdown on dissent—may seem like a repeat of the events of 2006, but much has changed in the interval, and his regime is much more precarious today.
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- Volume 22, Number 3, July 2011,pp. 49-63
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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