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Out of the Cabinet : What Drives Defections From the Government in Presidenti…
This article challenges a key part of the conventional view of coalitions in presidential systems that sees them as short-lived and ad hoc. The author shows instead that there is wide variation in the durability of governing coalitions across these regimes. She develops a theory of the incentives of parties to participate in the government and the circumstances under which scholars might expect…
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- Vol. 45 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 62-90
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Constructing Accountability : Party Position Taking and Economic Voting
A positive relationship between economic performance and support for incumbents is routinely taken as evidence that elections work for accountability. Recent investigations into this relationship have examined just how signals from the economy translate into popular support. However, neither selection models nor sanctioning models explicitly incorporate the actions of political elites. This art…
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- Vol. 45 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 91-118
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Interactive Diffusion : The Coevolution of Police and Protest Behavior With a…
In this article, the authors focus attention on a poorly understood aspect of contentious politics: the interaction between the transnational diffusion of new forms of protest behavior and police practices in response to them. Studies of diffusion are usually limited to the diffusion of one kind of innovation by one set of actors to another, as in the diffusion of technical innovations from inn…
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- Vol. 45 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 119-152
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Layers of Ethnicity : The Effects of Ethnic Federalism, Majority-Minority Dis…
What impact, if any, do ethnic federalism and the geographic concentration of ethnic minorities have on the political incorporation of minorities in democracies with single-member district elections? Many studies on ethnic voting in the United States have examined the impact of majority-minority districts on the turnout of minority voters and the election of minority candidates. However, few st…
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- Vol. 45 no. 2, February 2012,pp. 167-193
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Welfare State Politics in Privatization of Delivery : Linking Program Constit…
This article asks whether alleged partisan policy convergence has eradicated differences in relation to privatization of delivery of welfare state services. The study utilizes a novel methodological approach—numerous intrastate comparisons set in a consilience research framework—to assess the extent of convergence and its underlying reasons. It explores the partisan politics of school privatiza…
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- Vol. 45 no. 2, February 2012,pp. 194-219
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Shadowing Ministers : Monitoring Partners in Coalition Governments
In this article the authors study delegation problems within multiparty coalition governments. They argue that coalition parties can use the committee system to “shadow” the ministers of their partners; that is, they can appoint committee chairs from other governing parties, who will then be well placed to monitor and/or check the actions of the corresponding ministers. The authors analyze whic…
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- Vol. 45 no. 2, February 2012,pp. 220-236
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The Measurer’s Dilemma : Coordination Failures in Cross-National Political …
Over the past decades, (mostly) private actors have been providing the public good of cross-national political data in a decentralized, uncoordinated, and unregulated fashion. They have been successful in generating an incessant supply of data. However, the success of current practices of data production has been masking severe structural limitations: the systematic undersupply of data and the …
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- Vol. 45 no. 2, February 2012,pp. 237-266
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Rational incompetence
When something goes awry in a governmental agency, a frequent claim is that appointed political heads are incompetent. If true, what explains this in a separation of powers system where the executive nominates and the legislature approves? Our analysis provides a rationale and conditions for rational incompetence. Specifically, we present a model in which a President nominates and the Senate co…
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- Vol. 24 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 3-18
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- 09516298
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- Journal of Theoretical Politics
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The lesser evil : Executive accountability with partisan supporters
We develop a model of electoral accountability with primaries. Prior to the general election, the supporters of each of two parties decide which candidates to nominate. We show that supporters suffer from a fundamental tension: while they want politicians who will faithfully implement the party’s agenda in office, they need politicians who can win elections. Accountability to supporters fails w…
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- Vol. 24 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 19-45
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A model of political information-processing and learning cooperation in the r…
A model of political information processing drawn from the studies of political behavior and psychology is applied to the emergence of cooperation observed in classic repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD) game experiments. The results show that the model can robustly account for the learning of cooperation observed in the experiments when players are aware of the strategic nature of the game and mak…
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- Vol. 24 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 46-65
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Modeling the commons as a game with vector payoffs
Since Hardin first formulated the tragedy of the commons, researchers have described various ways that commons problems are solved, all based on the model of individual rationality. Invariably, these institutional solutions involve creating some system of property rights. We formulate an alternative model, one not founded on property rights but on decision-making around so-called vector payoffs…
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- Vol. 24 no. 1, January 2012 ,pp. 66-89
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Greater than the sum of their parts? When combinations of institutions improv…
Many scholars show that institutions help citizens with their political decisions. However, real-world contexts contain multiple institutions that are imposed together. Thus, I develop a theory and experimental test of the conditions under which combinations of two institutions induce citizens to trust a speaker’s statements and make better decisions than when only one institution is present. T…
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- Vol. 24 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 90-109
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One man, one vote, one time? A model of democratization in the Middle East
The protests associated with the 2011 Arab Spring represent a serious and sustained challenge to autocratic rule in the Middle East. Under what conditions will Arab protest movements translate into a full-fledged ‘fourth wave’ of democratization? We argue that questions about the commitment of Islamic political opposition to democracy beyond a country’s first free election may hinder Middle Eas…
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- Vol. 24 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 110-146
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The mixing of methods : A three-step process for improving rigour in impact e…
This article describes a systematic process that is helpful in improving impact evaluation assignments, within restricted budgets and timelines. It involves three steps: a rethink of the key questions of the evaluation to develop more relevant, specific questions; a way of designing a mix of research methods to generate evidence that supports more valid conclusions; and a step that aims to make…
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- Vol. 18 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 5-25
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- 13563890
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- Evaluation
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Purposes and criteria in network governance evaluation : How far does standar…
Evaluation and network governance are both among the top-10 trendy concepts in public policy. But how are they related? In the present article, we ask how public sector interventions guided by a network governance doctrine are to be evaluated. If evaluation means systematic judgment of organization, content, administration, outputs and effects in public policy, then evaluators need concepts and…
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- Vol. 18 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 27-46
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The political economy of joint-donor evaluations
Part of the justification for joint-donor evaluations is that they allow the conduct of relevant evaluations with a broader scope than single-donor evaluations and at the same time reduce transaction costs. Many joint-donor evaluations, however, run into management and coordination problems, have unforeseen high transaction costs for the donors and result in general conclusions and recommendati…
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- Vol. 18 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 47-59
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Evaluation models and evaluation use
The use of evaluation results is at the core of evaluation theory and practice. Major debates in the field have emphasized the importance of both the evaluator’s role and the evaluation process itself in fostering evaluation use. A recent systematic review of interventions aimed at influencing policy-making or organizational behavior through knowledge exchange offers a new perspective on evalua…
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- Vol. 18 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 61-77
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Evaluating complex and unfolding interventions in real time
This article discusses an approach to managing the evaluation of complex interventions. Complex interventions pose significant challenges to the role and conduct of evaluations. In particular, they combine with reflexive learning and change to produce significant uncertainties making it hard to describe in advance what the intervention will do or what the outcomes might be. These uncertainties …
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- Vol. 18 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 79-91
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The challenges to effective outcome evaluation of a national, multi-agency in…
This article uses the example of Sure Start, a national initiative introduced by the UK Government in the late 1990s, as a case study to explore the reasons why large-scale, complex, national initiatives often fail to adequately evidence the impact of their work. The authors explore a range of structural, cultural, methodological and practical factors that have acted to inhibit effective evalua…
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- Vol. 18 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 93-109
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Cyber society and digital policies : Challenges to evaluation?1
In this article, the authors explore the relationship between (impact) evaluations and cyber society, in particular digital policies. There appears to be a gap between the pace at which internet and digital policies are penetrating society and the attention professional evaluators are paying to these policies. First, we present an analytical framework for studying these policies, while examples…
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- Vol. 18 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 111-127
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