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| Date | 01 October 2011 |
| Published date | 01 October 2011 |
| DOI | 10.1177/00208345110610050501 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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POLITICAL PROCESS : PUBLIC OPINION,
ATTITUDES, PARTIES, FORCES, GROUPS AND ELECTIONS
VIE POLITIQUE : OPINION PUBLIQUE,
ATTITUDES, PARTIS, FORCES, GROUPES ET ÉLECTIONS
61.6354
ABDUL-LATIF, Emad — Interdiscursivity between political
cies: A new test of the rational political business cycle
and religious discourses in a speech by [Egyptian Presi-
model. Public Choice 148(1-2), July 2011 : 21-44.
dent] Sadat: combining CDA [Critical Discourse Analy-
sis] and addressee rhetoric. Journal of Language and Poli-
The literature on the rational PBC suggests that politicians systematical y
tics 10(1), 2011 : 50-67.
manipulate economic and fiscal conditions before elections to increase
their chances of reelection. Most tests of this theory look for evidence of
Religion and politics have a complicated relationship in the Arab world.
pre-election distortions in fiscal policy. We propose a new test that
Interdiscursivity within political speeches between religious and political
explores the two-way interaction between the magnitude of the opportun-
discourses is a manifestation of this complexity. This article argues that
istic distortion and the margin of victory. The test is implemented using a
this sort of interdiscursivity imposes hard restrictions on the responses of
large panel of Portuguese municipalities. The results show that opportun-
Muslim addressees. Muslims' responses to Islamic sacred texts are
ism leads to a larger win-margin for the incumbent and that incumbents
inherently restricted because disagreement with divine texts amounts to
behave more opportunistical y when their win-margin is small. These
heresy. Accordingly, their responses to political speeches that present
results are consistent with the theoretical model. [R]
themselves as semi-religious texts are highly restricted as wel . I analyze
a speech by the late Egyptian President A. Sadat to show how potential
and actual responses could be controlled by creating intertextual links
61.6360
AKARCA, Ali T. ; BAŞLEVENT, Cem — Persistence in
with the Qur'an and adopting the genre of Islamic religious sermons. I
regional voting patterns in Turkey during a period of ma-
combine analytical tools from critical discourse analysis and "addressee
jor political realignment. European Urban and Regional
rhetoric" to investigate the relationship between interdiscursivity and
Studies 18(2), Apr. 2011 : 184-202.
addressee response. [R]
Using province-level data from five nationwide elections held during the
past decade, we examine the main voting patterns in Turkey. By means
61.6355
ABELL, Jackie ; STEVENSON, Clifford — Defending the
of cluster-analysis, we classify the 81 provinces according to vote-shares
faith(s)? Democracy and hereditary right in England
of the major parties and independent candidates, and repeat this exer-
[UK]. Political Psychology 32(3), June 2011 : 485-504.
cise for each election held between 1999 and 2009. We find that three-
The persistence of traditional monarchies in modern societies, which are
way and five-way partitions of the country adequately capture the main
political cleavages in Turkey. Although the conservative right-wing
otherwise characterized by democratic and egalitarian values, remains a
parties receive a plurality of votes in all regions of the three-way partition,
paradox in the social sciences. In part this is attributable to the lack of
they receive significant challenge from left-wing and Turkish nationalist
psychological investigation into the relationship between subject and
parties in the west and from the Kurdish nationalist parties in the east. In
sovereign, and in particular the ways in which the political and social
addition to these patterns, the five-way partition brings out shifts in the
values of the citizenry shape understandings of a hereditary monarch's
relative strength of the parties within each main division. [R, abr.]
right to represent a national community. Adopting the qualitative analysis
methods of discursive psychology and grounded theory, the current
study examines vernacular accounts of nationhood and monarchy in
61.6361
ALBERTAZZI, Daniele ; McDONNELL, Duncan ; NEWELL,
England in both formalized conversational interviews and impromptu
James L. — Di lotta e di governo : the Lega Nord and Ri-
street interviews. [R, abr.]
fondazione Comunista in office [in Italy]. Party Politics
17(4), July 2011 : 471-487.
61.6356
ABRAJANO, Marisa A. ; ALVAREZ, R. Michael — Hispanic
Since 1994, Italian politics has seen a number of coalitions including
public opinion and partisanship in America. Political Sci-
parties whose identity has been strongly based on their "outsider" status
ence Quarterly 126(2), Summer 2011 : 255-285.
as uncompromising opposition movements which would not previously
The authors examine Hispanic public opinion and partisanship in the US.
consider government participation. This article examines the contrasting
They find variations in Hispanics' policy views based on their ethnic
experiences in office of two such parties: the regionalist populist Lega
identity, time in the US, and previous experiences. [R]
Nord (LN) and the radical left Rifondazione Comunista (RC). While the
Lega confounded expectations not only simply by remaining in the
61.6357
ADKISSON, Richard V. ; SAUCEDO, Eduardo — Voting for
center-right coalition from 2001 to 2006, but by influencing policy, in-
president in the US-Mexico border region. Social Science
creasing its vote-share and maintaining its "outsider" identity, RC was
Journal 48(2), June 2011 : 273-282.
unable to match its fel ow outsider's success when it served in the
center-left government from 2006 to 2008. The article analyzes and
Reasoning that life in the US-Mexico border region is sufficiently different
explains the differing experiences and effects of government on both
from life in non-border regions, this paper asks whether proximity to the
parties. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 61.6541]
border has a significant impact on presidential voting. County-level data
from four border states, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas,
over five presidential elections, 1992-2008, are examined using a both
61.6362
ALEMÁN, Eduardo ; TSEBELIS, George — Political parties
cross-sectional and panel data-analysis. The authors conclude that there
and government coalitions in the Americas. Journal of
is a border effect that favors Democratic candidates and that fades as
Politics in Latin America 3(1), 2011 : 3-28.
distance from the border increases. [R]
This paper focuses on the process of coalition-formation in presidential
systems. It shows that party positions and institutions influence the
61.6358
AGAPIOU-JOSEPHIDES, Kal iope — Changing patterns of
formation of government coalitions. We argue that presidents wil tend to
Euroscepticism in Cyprus: European discourse in a di-
include parties positioned close to their policy positions in their cabinets,
vided polity and society. South European Society and Poli-
and wil be more inclined to do it when relative institutional authority is
tics 16(1), March 2011 : 159-184.
more advantageous to congress. We corroborate our arguments with
data from 13 presidential countries in the Americas. [R]
This article maps the extent and the causality of party and popular
Cypriot Euroskepticism. It traces the latter's changing patterns at both
the elite and popular levels and analyzes contextual factors and idiosyn-
61.6363
ALEXANDER, Amy C. — Mayoral selection and the de-
cratic features in a divided polity and society. It concludes that key
mand and supply of [US] women mayors. Journal of
turning points are definitely linked to the country's political problem.
Women, Politics and Policy 32(2), 2011 : 114-135.
Party-based Euroskepticism displays both strategic and ideological
characteristics. Paral el to soft Euroskepticism, an economic and policy-
Few studies consider the effect of selection procedures on women's
based Euroskepticism has emerged, displaying a shift from nested to
attainment of mayoral office. This article analyzes more than 100 cities in
mainstream Euroskepticism. [R] [See Abstr. 61.6637]
California [US]. The results show that selection method of mayor by
popular vote exerts a substantial negative effect on whether a woman
holds the office of mayor. The study then explores the negative effect of
61.6359
AIDT, Toke S. ; VEIGA, Francisco José ; GONÇALVES
popular vote on women's attainment of mayoral office. There are two
VEIGA, Linda — Election results and opportunistic poli-
possibilities: (1) popular vote creates more opportunity for the negative
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Vie politique : opinion publique, attitudes, partis, forces, groupes et élections
influence of stereotyping and role socialization on women's recruitment
within the institutional structures that define the American political proc-
and election to mayoral office or (2) alternatively, popular vote increases
ess, give rise to other movements and protests. [R, abr.]
the negative influence of sex differences in political motivation on
women's attainment of mayoral office. The analyses support the second
61.6369
ASPINALL, Edward ; DETTMAN, Sebastian ; WARBURTON,
interpretation. [R, abr.]
Eve — When religion trumps ethnicity: a regional elec-
tion case study from Indonesia. South East Asia Research
61.6364
ALFORD, John R., et al. — The...
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