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The Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Systems : A Quasi-Exper…
Having two votes for the same election or two simultaneous elections with different electoral systems provides a golden opportunity to ascertain the impact of the electoral system and to sort out the relative magnitude of mechanical and psychological effects on parties and voters. The authors propose a new methodology for estimating such effects and apply that methodology to 13 elections, 9 in …
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- Vol. 44 no. 12, December 2011,pp. 1599-1621
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The Dual Transformation of Social Protection and Human Capital :Comparing Bri…
Britain and Germany have been experiencing significant changes in the nature of work and welfare since the 1990s. Although important differences have remained, there have been compelling indications of a dual transformation of welfare constituted not only by a far-reaching retrenchment in unemployment insurance but also by a remarkable expansion in family policy. These developments have their f…
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- Vol. 44 no. 12, December 2011,pp. 1622-1650
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The International Diffusion of Democracy
The idea that democracy is contagious, that democracy diffuses across the world map, is now well established among policy makers and political scientists alike. The few theoretical explanations of this phenomenon focus exclusively on political elites. This article presents a theoretical model and accompanying computer simulation that explains the diffusion of democracy based on the dynamics of …
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- Vol. 44 no. 12, December 2011,pp. 1651-1674
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Voters, Parties, and Declared Government Policy
A perennial question for students of democracy is the extent to which government policies align with voter preferences. This is often studied by comparing median voter opinion on a left–right scale with the cabinet weighted mean, that is, the mean left–right position of cabinet parties, weighted by their legislative sizes. Government positions may also be estimated from their declarations, howe…
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- Vol. 44 no. 12, December 2011 ,pp. 1675-1699
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A Duration Analysis of Democratic Transitions and Authoritarian Backslides
Recent theories of political development have emphasized redistributive demands as the main drivers of democratic transitions and consolidation. The authors employ Cox duration models to evaluate a number of economic, institutionalist, and sociological theories of regime transition, using global data from 1970 to 1999. This study suggests that demands for redistribution are insufficient explana…
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- Vol. 44 no. 9, September 2011,pp. 1123-1151
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Citizen Satisfaction With Democracy and Parties’ Policy Offerings
The authors examine the relationship between the variation of policy choices on offer in a party system and citizen satisfaction. Cross-national analyses, based on 12 countries from 1976 to 2003, are presented that suggest that when party choices in a political system are more ideologically proximate to the mean voter position in left–right terms, overall citizen satisfaction increases. The cen…
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- Vol. 44 no. 9, September 2011,pp. 1152-1178
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Foreign Media and Protest Diffusion in Authoritarian Regimes : The Case of th…
Do foreign media facilitate the diffusion of protest in authoritarian regimes? Apparently for the first time, the author tests this hypothesis using aggregate and survey data from communist East Germany. The aggregate-level analysis takes advantage of the fact that West German television broadcasts could be received in most but not all parts of East Germany. The author exploits this “natural ex…
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- Vol. 44 no. 9, September 2011,pp. 1179-1205
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Views of Economic Inequality in Latin America
The authors assess the factors that affect judgments about the fairness of the distribution of wealth with pooled public opinion data from Latinobarometro surveys conducted in 1997, 2001, and 2002. They test hypotheses with a multilevel logit model that allows them not only to examine the effects of the class background and perceptions of individual respondents but also to assess the impact of …
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- Vol. 44 no. 9, September 2011,pp. 1206-1237
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State Retrenchment and the Exercise of Citizenship in Africa
What explains the varied ways that Africans practice citizenship on an everyday basis? And how does the extent of state building (or neoliberal unbuilding) in a particular context affect the way individual Africans think about the rights, duties, and appropriate channels for exercising their citizenship? Over the past 20 years across most of sub-Saharan Africa, neoliberal economic reform has me…
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- Vol. 44 no. 9, September 2011,pp. 1238-1266
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Time Will Tell? Temporality and the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms and Processes
Causal inference and the logic of historical explanation are grounded in temporality. Yet the relationship between causal analysis and aspects of temporality, such as duration, tempo, acceleration, and timing, is often less clear. Using examples from analyses of institutional change and postcommunist regime transitions, the author argues that aspects of temporality allow us to predict which cau…
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- Vol. 44 no. 9, September 2011,pp. 1267-1297
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Urbanized Villagers in the 2010 Thai Redshirt Protests
Abstract This article argues that a more nuanced understanding is needed of the social composition of the redshirt protests in Bangkok from March-May 2010. Based on extensive interviews and survey research, the paper argues that many redshirts were “urbanized villagers” with lower middle class income levels and aspirations.
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- Vol. 51, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2011, pp. 993-1018
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The Necessity of Enemies in Thailand's Troubled Politics
Abstract Thailand's traditional elite continues to depict former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his “redshirt” supporters as the enemies of the state. This study examines how the making of “otherness” is employed to conceal the dark reality of Thai politics in which the existence of enemies legitimizes the elite's power position and interests.
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- Vol. 51, No. 6, November/December, pp. 1019-1041
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Chinese Religious Reform : The Christian Patriotic Education Campaign
Abstract The Chinese Christian Patriotic Education campaign demonstrates that the party-state has adapted itself to the religious politics among various public and private institutional actors, pivotally coordinated by the relatively liberal State Administration for Religious Affairs. Consequentially, religious freedom in China has made slow but significant progress in the past decade.
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- Vol. 51, No. 6, November/December, pp. 1042-1064
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Grand Mediation in China
Abstract Grand mediation (GM) is a new concept raised currently in China that relies on mediation but links various social and governmental resources together aiming at resolving conflict more effectively. This paper examines the mechanism and application of GM. The quadripartite interaction reflects a low degree of judicial power in contrast to a high degree of the rule of politics.
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- Vol. 51, No. 6, November/December, pp. 1065-1089
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Re-nationalization of India's Political Party System or Continued Prevalence …
Abstract The Congress Party's victory in India's 2009 general elections led to claims of a re-nationalization of the political party system and to increasing issue-based voting. This article demonstrates that, to the contrary, the fragmentation of India's political party system and the electorate is still increasing and that “ethnic voting” continues to prevail over issue-based voting.
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- Vol. 51, No. 6, November/December, pp. 1090-1112
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Anti-American and Anti-Alliance Sentiments in South Korea
The strain between the U.S. and the ROK is often seen as a result of South Korea's anti-Americanism. However, alliance strain and anti-Americanism have not necessarily changed together. This conceptual disparity calls for the need to specify, rather than assume, causality. We utilize newly collected data from two major Korean dailies to show this need.
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- Vol. 51, No. 6, November/December, pp. 1113-1133
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Understanding China's Response to North Korea's Provocations
China criticized North Korea's nuclear test in 2006, but Beijing refused to condemn Pyongyang's provocations in 2010. When will China punish North Korea's belligerence? The “Dual Threats Model” suggests that China responds only when Pyongyang's activities heighten the possibility of U.S. military response, and as long as Pyongyang remains stable.
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- Vol. 51, No. 6, November/December, pp. 1134-1155
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The Singapore Minority Dilemma
This article addresses two areas that have received little attention in discussions about Singapore's Malay dilemma: (1) the numerous and persistent Malay public seminars and conventions calling attention to their plight, and (2) the government's similarly persistent resistance to such calls, seen as inimical to the national interest.
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- Vol. 51, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2011, pp. 1156-1171
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Inter-Korean and Cross-Strait Relations through the Window of Regional Integr…
This article examines why although the two Koreas have had many talks and reached many agreements, economic cooperation and exchanges have met setbacks, stalemate, spillback, and not spillover. It also explores why the two Chinas have made a relatively successful case of functionalist cooperation and exchanges but have failed to make economic cooperation spill over into political cooperation in…
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- Vol. 51, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2011, pp. 785-811
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Family Rule as the Highest Stage of Communism
This article contends that North Korean familism forms part of a broader trend toward family rule in post-socialist countries. Rather than being an outcast, North Korea has become the norm. The notion of “Red Family” as an ideal type is introduced by demonstrating that the selectorate of socialist societies is gradually transforming into a ruling caste. The adoption of the “Red Family” as a mod…
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- Vol. 51, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2011, pp. 812-843
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