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Does Cheating Pay? The Effect of Electoral Misconduct on Party Systems
This article examines the effect of electoral misconduct on party systems in new electoral regimes. The authors distinguish between different forms of electoral misconduct and argue that preelection tools—which aim to deter opposition parties and their supporters and create a biased information environment—exert a “psychological” effect on parties and voters, whereas ballot fraud exerts a direc…
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 575-605
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- 0010-4140
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- p. 575-605
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Who Fears What? Explaining Far-Right-Wing Preference in Europe by Distinguish…
This contribution aims, first, to determine whether support for the far right is based on perceptions of cultural or economic threats posed by immigrants in 11 European countries. Second, it seeks to reanalyze the question of whether class is an important explanation for support for the far right using new measures of class and, related to this, to determine the extent to which class interacts …
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 547-574
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- 0010-4140
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- p. 547-574
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Partisan Embedding of Liberalism: How Trade, Investment, and Immigration Affe…
Political scientists have long debated how economic globalization influences national social policies, but they have so far not explored the political demands of political parties implicitly underlying such influence. This article explores such demands to see how globalization affects partisan-political demands for the welfare state in industrialized countries. It argues that political parties …
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 606-635
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- 0010-4140
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 606-635
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- Comparative Political Studies
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The Spillover Effects of Participatory Governance: Evidence From Community-Ma…
In contrast to more pessimistic studies, the authors find evidence that civic participation in one domain of public life can lead to more participation elsewhere, what they call spillover effects. The authors’ findings are based on a large survey—among the broadest in its class—of participants in community-managed schools throughout rural Honduras and Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Despite various ob…
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- Volume 45, Number 5 May 2012 p. 636-666
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- 0010-4140
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- p. 636-666
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Building the wrong peace: Reviewing the United Nations Transitional Administr…
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) was established by the UN Security Council on 25 October 1999 to administer the territory of East Timor towards independence in the wake of its violent separation from Indonesia. UNTAET largely fulfilled the elements of the security and governance mandate conferred on it by the Security Council, but this was not sufficient to…
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- Volume 64, Number 1 June 2012 p. 3-20
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- 0032-3187
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- p. 3-20
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- Political Science
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Water dragon? China, power shifts and soft balancing in the South Pacific
As China expands its foreign policy interests and strategic power further into the Pacific Ocean, a division is developing between Beijing’s policies in the western Pacific (around East and Southeast Asia), which have begun to assume a more assertive strategic role, and the South Pacific where China is instead seeking to engage in ‘soft balancing’ power behaviour towards American and by extensi…
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- Volume 64, Number 1 June 2012 p. 21-38
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- 0032-3187
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- p. 21-38
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- Political Science
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Human rights in the South Pacific: A comparative analysis
To date, no research has attempted to evaluate human rights in the Pacific region in comparative perspective. Employing commonly used cross-national measures of basic human rights, the author examines how well regimes in the region respect political and civil rights as well as the right to physical integrity. The results reveal that, as regards political and civil rights, the region appears to …
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- Volume 64, Number 1 June 2012 p. 39-61
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- 0032-3187
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- p. 39-61
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- Political Sciences
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New Zealand’s international initiation: Sir James Allen at the League of Na…
New Zealand was a founding member of the League of Nations in 1919 but there was no enthusiasm for the new organisation in Wellington. The Massey government only saw unwelcome obligations resulting from its membership, and the League’s great quest for a comprehensive agreement on security and arbitration was regarded as a threat to the British Empire by its most loyal dominion. Obliged to send …
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- Volume 64, Number 1 June 2012 p. 62-80
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- 0032-3187
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- p. 62-80
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- Political Science
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Newness as a winning formula for new political parties
Previous studies on new political parties have assumed that they either represent new or ignored cleavages or issues, or emerge in order to cleanse an ideology deficiently represented by an existing party. Four highly successful parties analyzed in this article manifestly fail to comply with these assumptions. The article proposes a parsimonious two-dimensional typology of new parties refining …
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 465-486
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 465-486
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- Party Politics
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Political market orientation: A framework for understanding relationship stru…
This article is motivated by the growing need to integrate the current political science and marketing literature in order to provide a deeper understanding of the behaviour of political actors and their relationships with relevant stakeholder groups. In our article, we demonstrate how Ormrod’s conceptual model of political market orientation complements political science models of party organi…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 487-502
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 487-502
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- Party Politics
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Legislative organization in MMP: The case of New Zealand
How do electoral systems affect legislative organization? The change in electoral systems from Single Member District plurality (SMD) to Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) in New Zealand can illuminate how electoral incentives affect the distribution of cabinet positions. Because in SMD the outcome of individual local districts determines the number of seats a party wins collectively, New Zealand …
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 503-521
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 503-521
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- Party Politics
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How many political parties are there, really? A new measure of the ideologica…
We offer a new measure of the ideologically cognizable number of political parties/party groupings that is intended to be complementary to the standard approach to counting the effective number of political parties – the Laakso–Taagepera index (1979). This approach allows the possibility of precise measurement of concepts such as polarized pluralism or fragmented bipolarism and is applicable to…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 523-544
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 523-544
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- Party Politics
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The paradoxical effects of decline Assessing party system change and the rol…
This article examines the impact of party system change in Germany on the role, status and power of the two catch-all parties (CDU/CSU and SPD) in the light of the 2009 federal election. It argues that party system change has had a paradoxical impact. On the one hand, the decline in the overall catch-all vote undermines the two parties’ integrative function. On the other, the presence of three …
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 545-562
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 545-562
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- Party Politics
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Electoral regimes and party-switching: Floor-crossing in South Africa's local…
This article presents an inquiry into the causes of party-switching under two different electoral regimes. It exploits a natural experiment in South Africa, where a large number of local legislatures are elected using the same mixed system, to examine how the party-switching behaviours of legislators elected under proportional representation (PR) rules may differ systematically from those of le…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 563-579
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 563-579
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- Party Politics
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Gendered nationalism: The gender gap in support for the Scottish National Party
Recent major surveys of the Scottish electorate and of Scottish National Party (SNP) members have revealed a distinct gender gap in support for the party. Men are markedly more likely than women to vote for the SNP and they comprise more than two-thirds of its membership. In this article, we use data from those surveys to test various possible explanations for the disproportionately male suppor…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 581-601
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 581-601
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- Party Politics
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Party organization and concurrent multi-level local campaigning: The 2007 Sco…
Parties often have to campaign for two or more levels of office at the same time. However, declining levels of organization means that the demands of concurrent elections can potentially increase the demands on volunteer party organizations considerably. These demands are multiplied by the concurrent use of different electoral systems which provide party organizations with different incentives.…
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- Volume 18, Number 4, July 2012 p. 603-622
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- 1354-0688
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- p. 603-622
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- Party Politics
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Public deliberation in action: Emotion, inclusion and exclusion in participat…
Participatory forums, in which lay citizens or users of public services contribute to the governance of public services, have proliferated in recent years. In debates about the quality and influence of such processes, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of emotional as well as rational deliberation, and criticism of the way in which the structures imposed on such forums can …
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- Volume 32, Number 2, May 2012 p. 163-183
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- 0261-0183
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- p. 163-183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Across a thick white line: The relationship of a Welsh medium school and a lo…
Two of the most important social policy agendas of the Welsh state in the contemporary period are the attempt to revitalize the Welsh language – through the promotion of Welsh medium education, in particular – and the effort to eliminate regional inequality and poverty – most recently, through the government’s Communities First programme. This article recounts the history of a cool and sometime…
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- Volume 32, Number 2, May 2012 p. 184-202
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- 0261-0183
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- p. 184-202
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- Critical Social Policy
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What is an ‘adult protection’ issue? Victims, perpetrators and the profes…
Drawing on data from a Scottish research study, this paper explores the relationship of professionals’ perceptions about specific perpetrators and victims to their constructions of ‘adult protection’ issues in practice. It finds that professionals’ perceptions of victim distress did not consistently coincide with the construction of adult protection issues, whilst the connection to any assessme…
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- Volume 32, Number 2, May 2012 p. 203-222
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- 0261-0183
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- p. 203-222
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- Critical Social Policy
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‘Troops to Teachers’: Solving the problem of working-class masculinity in…
The UK government’s White Paper on Education, The Importance of Teaching (2010), includes a proposal (Troops to Teachers) to encourage ex-service personnel to train as teachers: this paper presents a critical analysis of the discussions promoting the initiative. Firstly, it is argued that the initiative attempts a rapprochement between ‘reputation’ and ‘respectability’ (McDowell, 2003) by prese…
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- Volume 32, Number 2, May 2012 p. 223-241
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- 0261-0183
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- p. 223-241
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- Critical Social Policy
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