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Presidents, Parties, and Referenda in Latin America
Over the past two decades the use of referenda has spread throughout Latin America, and 39 referenda have taken place since 1990. For some observers, referenda can improve accountability, promote participation, and reduce corruption. For others, given the strong tradition of Latin American presidentialism, referenda can be manipulated by populist presidents attempting to bypass unpopular repres…
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- Volume 45 Number 9, September 2012 p. 1159-1187
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- 1046-4964
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- p. 1159-1187
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- Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation and Application
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Electoral Majorities, Political Parties, and Collective Representation
In practice, democracies privilege plurality parties. Theories of the democratic process challenge the democratic credentials of this practice. Abstract social choice theory wonders whether an electoral majority even exists. A more optimistic line of argument, prominent in research on collective representation, assumes that the policy position of the median voter embodies the majority electoral…
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- Volume 45 Number 9, September 2012 p. 1104-1131
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0010-4140
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- p. 1104-1131
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- Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation and Application
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Citizens’ Conceptualizations of Democracy: Structural Complexity, Substanti…
Empirical evidence of how citizens around the world understand democracy highlights the predominance of the liberal model of democracy. Yet the existence of a dominant view does not mean that all citizens in every nation exclusively endorse a liberal conceptualization. Hence, this article asks whether public beliefs about the meaning of democracy affect peoples political attitudes and behavior…
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- Volume 45 Number 9, September 2012 p. 1132-1158
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- 0010-4140
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- p. 1132-1158
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- Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation and Application
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Domestic and International Influences on Green Taxation
Economists have made a strong case for the relative efficiency of market-based mechanisms for environmental regulation such as cap and trade and green taxes, yet the spread of these forms has been limited, and traditional command and control regulation still predominates. The authors explain geographical and temporal variation in green tax burdens by considering their domestic and internati…
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- Volume 45 Number 9, September 2012 p. 1075-1103
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- 0010-4140
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- p. 1075-1103
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Normative Resistance and Inventive Pragmatism: Negotiating Structure and Agen…
Transgender individuals and families throw existing taxonomic classification systems of identity into perplexing disarray, illuminating sociolegal dilemmas long overdue for critical sociological inquiry. Using interview data collected from 50 cisgender women from across (primarily) the United States and Canada, who detail 61 unique partnerships with transgender and transsexual men, this work co…
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- Volume 26 Number 4, August 2012 p. 574-602
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- 0891-2432
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- p. 574-602
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- Gender & Society
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Gendered Organizations in the New Economy
Gender scholars draw on the theory of gendered organizations to explain persistent gender inequality in the workplace. This theory argues that gender inequality is built into work organizations in which jobs are characterized by long-term security, standardized career ladders and job descriptions, and management controlled evaluations. Over the past few decades, this basic organizational logi…
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- Volume 26 Number 4, August 2012 p. 549-573
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- 0891-2432
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- p. 549-573
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- Gender & Society
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Adolescents of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Male Role…
This article focuses on the influence of male role models on the lives of adolescents (N = 78) in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study. Half of the adolescents had male role models; those with and those without male role models had similar scores on the feminine and masculine scales of the Bem Sex Role Inventory, as well as on the trait subscales of the State-Trait Personality In…
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- Volume 26 Number 4, August 2012 p. 603-638
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- 0891-2432
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- p. 603-638
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- Gender & Society
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Fatherhood and Youth Sports: A Balancing Act between Care and Expectations
Youth sports have been recognized as an arena for men to meet increased cultural expectations of being involved in their childrens lives. Indeed, in contrast to other child care practices, many men are eager to take part in their childrens organized sports. Drawing on an ethnographic study of middle-class families in the United States, this study examines how men juggle two contrasting cultur…
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- Volume 26 Number 4, August 2012 p. 639-664
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- 0891-2432
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- p. 639-664
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- Gender & Society
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The alchemy of austerity
The return of austerity has provoked social conflict, political controversy and academic disputes. In this article we explore some of these through the metaphor of an alchemy of austerity that forms the foundation for strategies of state retrenchment through which the consent of populations is sought. We begin, in Magical thinking, by tracing some of the discursive repertoires that circulat…
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- Volume 32 Number 3, August 2012, p. 299-319
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- 0261-0183
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- p. 299-319
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- Critical Social Policy
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The Just’s Umbrella: Austerity and the Big Society in Coalition policy and …
The formation of the Coalition government in 2010 has resulted in unprecedented spending cuts presented as necessary austerity, together with the promotion of the Big Society as the panacea for social ills. This article argues that the cuts continue a thirty-year process of redistribution to the rich. Rather than being a necessary response to the economic crisis, they constitute a neo-liberal…
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- Volume 32 Number 3, August 2012, p. 320-342
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- 0261-0183
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- p. 320-342
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- Critical Social Policy
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Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community
This paper considers the continuing resilience of the notion of community in social policy making and wider political commentary in the contemporary UK. Focusing in particular on the ways in which community is negatively and positively invoked and mobilized in narratives of the big and broken societies, it considers why the notion of community, so popular with the previous New Labour govern…
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- Volume 32 Number 3, August 2012, p. 343-364
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- 0261-0183
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- p. 343-364
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- Critical Social Policy
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Men’s Perceptions of Women’s Rights and Changing Gender Relations in Sout…
Emerging out of increased attention to gender equality within violence and HIV prevention efforts in South African society has been an intensified focus on masculinities. Garnering a deeper understanding of how men respond to shifting gender relations and rights on the ground is of urgent importance, particularly since social constructions of gender are implicated in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As s…
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- Volume 26, Number 1, February 2012 p. 97-120
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- 0891-2432
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- p. 97-120
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- Gender & Society
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Extensive Mothering: Employed Mothers’ Constructions of the Good Mother
Social scientists have provided rich descriptions of the ascendant cultural ideologies surrounding motherhood and paid work. In this article, I use in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of 40 employed mothers to explore how they navigate the intensive mother and ideal worker ideologies and construct their own accounts of good mothering. Married mothers in this sample construct scripts o…
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- Volume 26, Number 1, February 2012 p. 73-96
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- 0891-2432
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- p. 73-96
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- Gender & Society
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‘Community cohesion’: Reflections on a flawed paradigm
This paper interrogates a concept at the core of a social policy agenda that has dominated thinking in the UK over the past decade. It argues that the notion of community cohesion is based on a fundamentally flawed interpretation of the sources of tension and conflict in Britains towns and cities. It overly ethnicizes societal divisions and essentializes ethnicity. Examining the development …
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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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Maximizing conservation evaluation utilization
Evaluation utilization in conservation management emphasizes the use of appropriate information from the perspective of an expert provider. An alternative is to emphasize the information needs of recipients. Doing so ensures evaluation information is relevant to expected users and uses. The authors worked with an Australian conservation management agency to address barriers associated with en…
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- Vol. 17 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 53-71
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- 13563890
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- -
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- Evaluation
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Between Individual and Collective Memory: Coordination, Interaction, Distribu…
Human memory in the wild often involves multiple forms of remembering at once, as habitual, affective, personal, factual, shared, and institutional memories operate at once within and across individuals and small groups. The interdisciplinary study of the ways in which history animates dynamical systems at many different timescales requires a multidimensional framework in which to analyse…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 23-48
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- 0037-783X
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- -
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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Transformations between History and Memory
“Collective memory” is an umbrella term for different formats of memory. Interactive and social memory are both formats that are embodied, grounded in lived experience that vanish with their carriers. The manifestations of political and cultural memory, on the other hand, are grounded on the more durable carriers of external symbols and representations and can be re-embodied and trans…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 49-74
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- 0037-783X
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- -
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Photography and Cultural Memory
The appearance of digital photography in the late twentieth century raised a significant challenge to the most powerful idea attached to photography in the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, that it was a kind of memory and hence the source of reliable historical data. Traditional or analogue photographs were assumed to be reliable records of the past simply by virtue of bein…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 111-132
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- 0037-783X
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- -
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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Collective Memory and Narrative Templates
An episode of social conflict between Russian and Estonian “mnemonic communities” is used as a framework for exploring issues of collective memory. In order to understand the strong Russian reaction to the Estonian decision to move a memorial statue, it is argued that the notion of “deep memory” is needed, a notion that is, in turn, grounded in the construct of a “narrative temp…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 133-156
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- 0037-783X
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- -
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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A Tale of Easter Ovens: Food and Collective Memory
This article considers the power of food as a vehicle for memory by exploring the ways that food crosses the personal and the collective, the individual and the social. It examines these questions through the lens of certain Easter practices on the island of Kalymnos, Greece, concerning the preparation of lamb. The ovens and pots used to prepare lamb are a marker of Kalymnian identity, bu…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 157-182
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- 0037-783X
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- -
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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