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Can Immigration Save Small-Town America? Hispanic Boomtowns and the Uneasy Pa…
In the often polarized discussions over immigration, the point is sometimes missed that immigration often brings immediate and tangible benefits. Nowhere is this truer than in the hollowing-out parts of America. Many nonmetropolitan counties in America have seen net out-migration for decades. While young people have always left small towns, the loss of this group comes at a time when opportunit…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 38-57
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- 0002-7162
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- p. 38-57
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Immigration Enforcement Policies, the Economic Recession, and the Size of Loc…
This article relies on local area variation in immigration policies, specifically the local implementation of the 287(g) program, and economic conditions to estimate their impact on changes in the size of local Mexican immigrant populations between 2007 and 2009. The author also investigates the impact of the 287(g) program on the employment prospects of low-skilled native black and white worke…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 16-37
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- 0002-7162
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- p. 16-37
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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The World in a City: Immigration and America’s Changing Social Fabric
The United States in 2012 faces unprecedented challenges brought on by economic crisis and the unrelenting pace of globalization and technological change. We are perhaps unique as a nation, however, in the changes wrought by continuing population diversification and foreign immigration from countries across the globe. Indeed, the United States is currently one of the most diverse nations on ear…
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- Volume 641, Number 1, May 2012, p. 6-15
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- 0002-7162
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- p.6-15
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Examining the electoral connection across time
Mayhew's (1974) thesis regarding the “electoral connection” and its impact on legislative behavior has become the theoretical foundation for much of the research on the contemporary U.S. Congress. Recently, scholar To assess these claims more systematically, we consider four conditions that serve as the bus have begun to suggest that the Mayhewian electoral incentive may apply to politics in ea…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 25-46
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- 10942939
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- p. 25-46
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Presidential Appointments and Personnel
This article reviews some recent advances in research on presidential appointments and personnel. I focus specifically on research analyzing changes in the institutional environment of presidential personnel, how presidents make decisions about whom to appoint, and the effects of presidential appointees on outputs. I explore what we know about how presidents have worked to change institutions s…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 47-66
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- p. 47-66
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Understanding the 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for Scholars o…
Economists have explained the 2007–2008 global financial crisis with reference to various market and regulatory failures as well as a macro-economic environment of cheap credit during the precrisis period. These developments had important political causes that scholars of international political economy (IPE) should have been well positioned to study before the crisis. How well did they anticip…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 67–87
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- p. 67–87
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Presidential Power in War
This review critically evaluates the largely consensual view that wars naturally and reflexively augment presidential power. After summarizing the key arguments advanced by presidency scholars in the aftermath of World War II, this article canvasses the existing empirical basis for their claims and the theoretical microfoundations upon which they are offered. Both appear wanting. Few systematic…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 89–105
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- p. 89–105
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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The Politics of Regulation: From New Institutionalism to New Governance
The study of the politics of regulation has followed two distinct paths in recent years. “New institutionalism” research has focused primarily on the policy-making process, particularly the interplay between regulators (who implement policy) and their political principals (who attempt to control regulators' activity). In contrast, “new governance” scholarship has focused on strategies other tha…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 107–129
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- p. 107–129
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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The New Judicial Politics of Legal Doctrine
A new judicial politics of legal doctrine has the potential to resolve foundational dilemmas and reconcile long-standing and counterproductive scholarly divisions by bringing together legal concerns and political science priorities. This doctrinal-politics approach highlights a relatively new formal apparatus known as the case-space model, and it invokes close ties between theoretical and empir…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 131–157
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- p. 131–157
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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The Rhetoric Revival in Political Theory
The recent wave of interest in the rhetorical tradition among political theorists can be attributed partly to the rise of theories of deliberative democracy, which focused attention on communication and discourse. Some scholars see in rhetoric a way to challenge the assumptions of Habermasian deliberative theory, while others aim to integrate rhetoric into a broader theory of deliberation. Insi…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 159–180
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- p. 159–180
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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The Rhetoric of the Economy and the Polity
The Great Recession is not the end of capitalism. An innovative economy makes mistakes, but that is not a good reason to regulate it out of its innovations. The innovations—not unions or regulation—have increased real income per head by a factor of 100 in the places that have adopted bourgeois liberty and dignity. An innovative economy is “rhetorical” because, if our economic lives are not froz…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 181–199
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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The Contribution of Behavioral Economics to Political Science
Behavioral economics has become an important part of the economics profession. As a subfield, it tries to make sense of persistent violations of the standard model for economics. The major classes of violations involve social preferences (taking the well-being of others into account), time discounting (inconsistencies in valuing present and future commodities), and context (the effects of frami…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 201–223
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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The Causes of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
This critical review of the new political science literature on the causes of nuclear weapons proliferation consists of seven parts. The first section briefly presents what we know about which states developed nuclear weapons and which states started but abandoned weapons development programs. I highlight the problems that result from uncertainty about the accuracy and completeness of the data.…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 225–244
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- p. 225–244
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Network Analysis and Political Science
Political science is fascinated with networks. This fascination builds on networks' descriptive appeal, and descriptions of networks play a prominent role in recent forays into network analysis. For some time, quantitative research has included node-level measures of network characteristics in standard regression models, thereby incorporating network concepts into familiar models. This approach…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. p. 245–264
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena
Recent political science research on the effects of core personality traits—the Big Five—contributes to our understanding of how people interact with their political environments. This research examines how individual-level variations in broad, stable psychological characteristics affect individual-level political outcomes. In this article, we review recent work that uses the Big Five to predic…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 265-287
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Clientelism
Clientelism is characterized by the combination of particularistic targeting and contingency-based exchange. This method of contingent exchange thrives in both autocracies and democracies. It exists in a large variety of cultural contexts. Confronted with economic development, clientelism fades away in some political contexts but adapts and survives in others. This article explores our understa…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 289–310
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- p. 289–310
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Political Economy Models of Elections
We review a large formal literature on economic models of voting and electoral politics. We discuss two broad classes of model: those focusing on preference aggregation and those that look at elections as mechanisms of information aggregation. We also explore the role of elections in situations of asymmetric information, where politicians take hidden actions or are otherwise better informed abo…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 311–330
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- p. 311–330
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Modeling Dynamics in Time-Series–Cross-Section Political Economy Data
This article deals with a variety of dynamic issues in the analysis of time-series–cross-section (TSCS) data. Although the issues raised are general, we focus on applications to comparative political economy, which frequently uses TSCS data. We begin with a discussion of specification and lay out the theoretical differences implied by the various types of dynamic models that can be estimated. I…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 331-352
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- p. 331-352
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Voting Technologies
A renewed, energetic interest in voting technologies erupted in political science following the 2000 presidential election. Spawned initially by the recount controversy in Florida, the literature has grown to consider the effects of voting technologies on the vote choice more generally. This literature has explained why localities have the voting technologies (lever machines, punch cards, etc.)…
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- Volume 14, 2011 p. 353-378
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- p. 353-378
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- Annual Review of Political Science
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Policy-seeking parties in multiparty systems: Influence or purity?
According to the standard policy-seeking model of party behaviour, a party should always want to join a coalition if its inclusion would decrease the policy distance between the party and the winning coalition. However, in multiparty systems where no party has a majority, policy influence always comes at a cost to the party’s preferred policy. A party has to moderate its own policy principles i…
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- Volume 18, Number 3, May 2012 p. 297-314
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 297-314
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- Party Politics
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