I: Political Science: Method and Theory/Science Politique: Méthodes et Théories
| Published date | 01 December 2012 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002083451206200601 |
| Date | 01 December 2012 |
| Subject Matter | Abstracts |
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62.6831 ADAMS, Ja mes — Causes and electoral consequences of
party policy shifts in multiparty elections: theoretical re-
sults and empirical evidence. Annual Rev iew of Political
Science 15, 2012 : 401-419.
The spatial model of elections identifies factors that motivate party elites
to shift their pol icy positions, including changes in v oters' policy prefer-
ences, rival parties' policy shifts, past election results, and changes in
party elites' valence images with respect to dimensions of evaluation
such as competence and integrity. I review empirical studies on multi-
party elections, i.e., elections involving three or more major parties, that
evaluate party elites' policy responses to these factors, along w ith em-
pirical studies on the elector al consequences of parties' policy s hifts. This
review reveals a paradox: empirical studies conclude that parties sys-
tematically shift their policy positions in response to the factors that
spatial modelers have ide ntified. On the other hand, there is only weak
and inconsistent empirical evidence that voters actually perceive parties'
policy shifts, and/or that these shifts have significant electoral conse-
quences. [R, abr.]
62.6832 ADHIKARI, Prakash — The plight of the forgotten ones:
civil war and forced migration. International Stud ies Quar-
terly 56(3), Sept. 2012 : 590-606.
Adding value to exis ting aggregate cross-national analys es on forc ed
migration, I use subnational-level data to inves tigate circums tances that
affect people’s decisions of whether or not to flee t heir homes during
civilian conflicts. Building on existing literature, I argue that conflict by
itself is not the s ole f actor affecting people’s decisi ons t o fle e or stay.
Apart from a direct physical impact, civil war can destroy economic
infrastruct ure and ex pose peopl e to econo mic hardshi ps, which can
contribute t o displacement. In addition, flight may be impeded or facili-
tated by such factors as geographic al features, physical infrastructure,
and social conditions under which people live. Using count-data from the
Maoists “people ’s war” in Nepal, a subnational analys is of displac ement
is conduc ted to prov ide a more refined t est of exis ting large-n studies on
the causes of forced migration. [R, abr.]
62.6833 AISTRUP, Joseph — Struc tured partisan competit ion: a
vote shares model of party alignments and realignments.
Social Science Q uarterly 93(3), Sept. 2012 : 750-778.
This study develops and tests an aggregate "vote shares" model of party
alignments and realignments, building a theoretical framework around
"structured political composition". The vote shares model conceptualizes
party alignments as latent class constructs, or factors, and changes in
these latent c lass constructs as party realignments. Confirmatory factor-
analysis (CFA) model with bias-corrected bootstrap estimates and
standard errors is used where the cases are counties and the variables
are aggregate election outcomes. The dat a come from Kansas [USA]
from 1900 to 2010. The vote-shares model of party alignments and
realignments provides a viable alternative for analyzing historic and
current election returns where the votes are aggregated by a geographi-
cally defined government jurisdiction (parish, county, city, or district). [R,
abr.]
62.6834 AKIN, Afife Idil et al.— Old wine in a new cask? Protest
cycles in the age of the new social media. Whiteh ead
Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 13(1), Win-
ter-Spring 2012 : 89-103.
We argue that the successfu l use of new technologies by Tunisian
protestors marked the birth of a new repertoire of social pr otest. Social
movement rep ertoires, as originally conceptu alized by theorist Ch. Tilly,
consist of "a limited set of routines that are learned, shared, and acted
out through a relatively deliberate process of choice". T his particular
repertoire involves a novel mixture of elements, some relatively new and
others more familiar. [R] [See Abstr. 62.8196]
62.6835 AKSOY, Deniz ; CARTER, David B. ; WRIG HT, J oseph —
Terrorism in dictatorships. Journal of Politics 74(3), July
2012 : 810-826.
We hav e few explanatio ns for why some dictatorships experience sub-
stantial threats from terrorism while others do not. A growing body of
work on authoritarian politics focuses on political institutions in t hese
regimes to explain a broad range of political outcomes. Building on this
literature, we argue that opposition politic al par ty ac tivity increases the
collective action capacity of regime opponents and that elected legisla-
tures can channel this mobilized capacity into support for t he govern-
ment. However, when active opposition parties operate in the absence of
legislatures , po litical opponents inc reasingly turn to terro rism. We find
evidence that terrorist gr oups are most likely to emerge in dictatorships
with opposition political parties but no elected legislature. These regimes
also experience the highest vol ume of subsequent attacks. [R, abr.]
62.6836 ALBERTUS, Michael ; MENALDO, Victor — If you’re
against them you ’re with us: t he effect of expropriation
on autocratic survival. Comparative Political St udies 45(8),
Aug. 2012 : 973-1003.
This article advances a theory of why some dictators weaken the elite
through expropriation whereas others do not. When the or ganization that
launches a new dictator i nto power is uncertain about wheth er he will
remain loyal to them, a dictator’s decision to expropriate the pre-existing
elite may contribute to political stability by signaling his exclusive reliance
on this group . The authors corroborate this claim emp irically. U sing new
data compiled o n land, resource, and bank expropriations in Latin Amer-
ica from 195 0 to 2002, the authors show that large-scale expropriation
helps dictators survive in power. The history of autocracy in Mexico
between 1 911 and 2000 further illustrates the importanc e of expropria-
tion in promoting autocratic survival as well as how the codification of
new property rights can transform a dictator’s launching organizati on into
a new economic elite. [R, abr.]
62.6837 ALEXIADOU, Despina — Finding political capital for
monetary tightening: unemployment insurance and par-
tisan monetary cycles. European Journal of Political Re-
search 51(6), Oct. 2012 : 809-836.
How do governments find the political capital to raise interest rates in
pursuit of inflation stabilization? Aga inst common wisdom, this article
shows that the ability of governments to exercise tight monetary policy
largely depe nds on the le vel of unempl oyment insuranc e. Unemployme nt
insurance is partic ularly useful to social democratic parties since their
core constituency — labor — is the hardest hit by economic downturns.
Empirical evidence from 17 OECD countr ies over thirty years demon-
strates that high levels of unemployment insurance present a strong
incentive for soc ial democratic governments to respond more aggres-
sively to positive changes in inflation. These findings resolve the puzzle
of why partisan monetary cycles are not often observed in the literature
and have important policy implications, giv en continued c alls for scaling
down social insurance. [R]
62.6838 ALLARD-TREMBLAY, Yann — The epistemic edge of
majority voting over lottery voting. Res Publica (Journal of
Legal and Social Philosophy) 18(3), Fall 2012 : 207-223.
I explain why majority voting can be assumed to hav e an epistemic edge
over lottery voting. This w ould provide suppor t for majority voting as th e
appropriate decision mechanism for deliberat ive epistemic accounts of
democracy. I firs t recall the usual argument s for majority voting: maximal
decisiveness, fairness as anonymity, and minim al d ecisiveness. I then
show how these arguments are over inclusive as they also support
lottery voting. I then pr esent a framework to measure accuracy so as to
compare the two decision mechanisms. I go over four arguments for
lottery voting and t hree arg uments for major ity vot ing that support their
respective accuracy. I then provide two case scenarios for each voting
mechanism that illustrate my point. [R, abr.]
62.6839 ALLSOBROO K, Christopher — Blackout: freedom, without
power. Theoria 132, Sept. 2012 : 60-78.
This article attributes the conception of "freedom-without-power" which
dominates contemporary Wester n political philosophy to a reification of
social agency that mystifies contexts of human capacities and achieve-
ments. It suggests that Plato's analogy between the structure of the soul
and the polis shows how freedom is a consequence, rather than a
condition, of political relations, mediated by inter-subjective contestation.
It dr aws on the work of R. Geuss to argue against pre-political ethical
frameworks in political philosophy, in favor of a more contextually sensi-
tive, self-critical approach to ethics. Such reciprocal ethical-political
integration addresses problems of ideological complicity that may aris e if
freedom is discretely abstrac ted from history and power in politica l
philosophy. Finally, the article r oughly reconstructs a critical account of
African identity from writings of Steven Biko t o illum inate s ymptoms of
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"meritocratic apartheid" in South Afric a today. [R, abr.] [See Abstr.
62.7082]
62.6840 ÁLVAREZ, Silvia T. — La soberanía estatal en perspecti-
vas cont emporáneas : del centro a la periferia y del po-
der a la resistencia (State sovereignty — contemporary
approaches: from center to p eriphery and from power to
resistance). Cuadernos americanos 141, July-Sept. 2012 :
147-174.
This essay presents interpretations of s tate sovereignty prevalent in the
20th c. and the beg inning of the 21st c., from paradigmatic points of view
that are rational and reflective, centric and peripheral, concerning foreign
policy and the historical reality within which they are formulated. The
author s ketches a possible guide to r eflection on historical c hange and
seeks to address the concept of sovereignty as an explanatory tool and a
means for pol itical action, and u pholding, or seeking to transform, estab-
lished mecha nisms of power. [R]
62.6841 ANDERSEN, Jørgen Juel — Costs of taxation and the size
of government. Public Choice 153(1-2), Oct. 2012 : 83-115.
Existing the ory on the form of government suggests that a par liamentary
system promotes a larger size of government than does a presidential
system. This paper extends the existing theory by allowing for distortion-
ary t axation. A main result is that if taxat ion is sufficiently distort ionary,
the parliamentary sys tem may promote a small er size of government
than the presidenti al system. The pr oposed mechanism appears consis-
tent with sev eral empirical patter ns in the data that cannot be explained
by other theories. [R]
62.6842 ANDERSON, Gavin W. — Beyond "constitutionalism
beyond the state". Journal of Law and Society 39(3), Sept.
2012 : 359-383.
For contemporary constitutional theory, the key challenge posed by
globalization undermines the traditional link between constitutionalism
and the state: in r esponse to multi-level gov ernance, theo ries of cons titu-
tionalism beyond the state have been adv anced. This focus on levels
obscures more fundamental ep istemological questions raised by global-
ization abou t the nature of cons titutionalism itself. Critical analysis of
three leading schools of constitutionalism bey ond the s tate — suprana-
tional, societal, and new constitut ionalism — highlights their shared
assumptions with state-based thought regarding the separ ation between
economics and polit ics, and the necessarily hegemonic character of
constitutionalism. However, globalization intensifies critique of these
assumptions, and qu estions their translation to the transnational context.
[R, abr.]
62.6843 ANDRÉ, Audrey ; DEPAUW, Sam — Electorale co mpetitie
en het contact met de bevolking (Electoral competition
and the contact with the population). Res Publica (Brus-
sels) 54(3), 2012 : 269-288.
Electoral ins titutions shape the incentiv e that elected representatives
have to cultivate a personal vote, a geograph ically-concentrated per-
sonal vote in particular. But are electoral institutions able to make repre-
sentatives do what they would not do otherwise and to make them not do
what they otherwise would have done? Using data from the c ross-
national PARTIRE P MP Surv ey, it is demonstr ated that electoral institu-
tions s hape elected representatives' local orientation. Local orientation
decreases as dis trict magnitude grows — regardless of what representa-
tives think about political representation. But representatives' concep-
tions of representation do shape th eir uptake in the legislative arena from
their contacts with individual constituents. Th e effect of the electoral
incentive grows stronger as elected representa tives think of representa-
tion as a bottom-up rather than a top-down process. [R]
62.6844 ANKER, Elisabeth — Feminist theory and the failures of
post-9/11 [2001] f reedom. Politics and Gender 8(2), June
2012 : 205-245.
First of a series of articles on "Critical perspectives on gender and
politics. Feminist perspectives on freedom", introduced by Sharon R.
KRAUSE, pp. 205-207. Articles by Nancy J. HIRSCHMANN, "Femin ist
thoughts on freedom and r ights", pp. 216-222; Cr istina BELTRÁN,
"Freedom's ambivalent ple asures: Richard Rodriguez a nd the c onserva-
tive logic of identity", pp. 223-231; Jennifer N EDELSKY, "Relations of
freedom and law's relations", pp. 231-238; Sharon R. KRAUSE, "Plural
freedom", pp. 238-245.
62.6845 APAZA, Carmen R. — Ensuring accountab ility and
transparency through in tegrated public manag ement
systems. PS 45(3), July 2012 : 435-441.
Government efforts to prevent corruption vary from reformulating laws
and regul ations to establishing contr ol and oversight mec hanisms such
as integrate d public management systems within central and loca l
governments. However, several technical issues as well as social-
political events may critically affect its effectiveness. This ar ticle ad-
dresses this issue by analyzing the Integrated Management System and
Administrative Modernization (SIGMA f or its ac ronym in Spanish) estab-
lished in Bol ivia through a World Bank US$1 5 million loan . Possible
solutions and next steps to improve its effectiveness that can be applied
to other countries are suggested. [R]
62.6846 APPEL, Markus — Anti-immigrant propaganda by radical
right parties and the intellectual performance of adoles-
cents. Political Ps ychology 33(4), Aug. 2012 : 483-493.
In recent years, radical-right political parties have become a substantial
electoral force in many countries around the world. Based on the vision
of a mono-ethnic state, anti-immigration is these parties' core message.
Connecting research on discrimin ation, s ocial ex clusion, and social
identity threat, it was as sumed that this anti-immigra nt propa ganda
undermines the intellectual performance of immigrant adolescents. In an
experiment conduct ed at Austrian schools, the intelligence test perform-
ance of adolescents with an immigration background decreased after
they were ex posed to radical right election posters whereas ethnic
majority adolescents remained unaffected. The results further suggest
that individuals with a strong ethnic minority identity are less v ulnerable
to the detrimental impact of the radical-right propaganda. [R]
62.6847 ARIELY, Gal — Globalisation and the decline of national
identity? An explorat ion across sixty-three countries. Na-
tions and Nationalism 18(3), July 2012 : 461-482 .
The relationship between globalization and national identity is puzzling.
While some observer s h ave found that globalization redu ces people's
identificat ion with their nation, others have reached the opposite conclu-
sion. This article explores this conundrum by examining the relationship
between globalization and people' s feelings towards national identity.
Using data fro m the International Social Survey Program National Id en-
tity II (2003) and the World Values Survey (2005), it analyses these
relations across sixty-three countries. Employing a multilevel approach, it
investigates how a country 's level of gl obalization is relate d to its public
perceptions towards different dimensions of national identity. [R, abr.]
62.6848 ARIELY, Gal ; DAVIDOV, Eldad — Assessment of meas-
urement equivalence with cross-national and longitudi-
nal surveys in political science. European Politic al Science
11(3), Sept. 2012 : 363-377.
This paper emphasizes the importance of assessing measurement
equivalence when using cross-national and longit udinal surveys. We
illustrate how to test for me asurement equivalence using multiple gr oup
confirmatory factor-analysis and clarify under what conditions both
meaningful comparisons of construct means and relationships between
constructs are possible. Using data from the International Social Survey
Program, empirica l ap plications dealing with att itudes towards welfare
policies are provided to illus trate the procedure. [R]
62.6849 ARMELLINI, Mauric io — The democratic factor in the
education-growth relationship. Kyklos 65(3), Aug. 2012 :
285-312.
This paper proposes that the "ring" set of institutions can increase the
impact of educatio n on eco nomic growth, and argues that democracy
encapsulates that set of i nstitutions appropr iately. Therefore, wh ile
education is generally conducive to increases in individual income, its
effect on economic growth is mediated by the level of democracy of the
political system, so that different democratic performances yield different
effects of education o n economic growth. This can hel p explain the
apparent micro-macro paradox. The reviews some of the literature on
education and economic growth; looks at th e possible interactions
between education, democracy and growth, seeking to explain why
democracy could be a key institutional factor; [and] presents empirical
evidence to support to the ma in hypothesis. [R, abr.]
62.6850 ARREGUIN-TOFT, Ivan — Contemporary asymmetric
conflict theory in historical perspective. Terrorism and Po-
litical Violenc e 24(4), Sept.-Oct. 2012 : 635-657.
This article offers an intellectual history of theoretical work devoted to
explaining as ymmetric conflict outcomes since World War II. Thr ee
factors are c ritical to un derstanding how the lite rature has evolved: First,
the concept o f "asymmetric conflict" encompasses a number of overlap-
ping literatures , including insurgency, terrorism, c ounterinsurgency, and
most recently, civil wars . Second, and interrelated, the field of inquiry has
been unproductively divided between military and academ ic thinkers,
with insuff icient engagement between the two communities. Third, th e
popularity of the field of inquiry following the events of 11 September
2001, and the subsequent American-led military operations in Afghani-
stan (2001) and Iraq (2003) have resulted in analyses that are empiri-
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cally rich, but have provided little in the way of theoretical advances. The
conclusion assesses the field of inquiry into asymmetric conflict out-
comes. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 62.6883]
62.6851 ASHWORTH, Sco tt — Elec toral accountabilit y: recen t
theoretical and empirical work. Annual Review of Political
Science 15, 2012 : 183-201.
Competitive elections create a relationship of forma l accountability
between policy-makers and citizens. Recent theoretical work sugges ts
that there are limits on how well this formal accountability links policy
decisions to citizen preferences. In par ticular, incumbents' incent ives are
driven not by the voters' evaluation of the normat ive desir ability of out-
comes but by the outcome's information about the incumbent's type
(e.g., competence or ideology). This review surveys both this body of
theory and the robust empirical literature it has spawned. It concludes
with a short discussion of ongoing work that attempts to integrate this
theoretical perspective with a richer view of p olicy-making institutions. [R]
62.6852 ATZILI, Boaz ; PEARLM AN, Wend y — Triadic deterrence:
coercing st rength, beaten by weakness. Security Studies
21(2), Apr.-June 2012 : 301-335.
Triadic deterrence is the situation when one state uses threats and/or
punishments against a nother state to coer ce it to prevent n on-state
actors from c onducting attacks from its territory. We ar gue that the
complex asymmetrical struc ture of this confl ict requires attention to the
targeted r egime's relationsh ip to its own society. The stronger t he tar-
geted regime, the more l ikely deterrent action will prove effective. Moving
against non-state actors requires institutional capacity, domestic legiti-
macy, and ter ritorial control, which only strong regimes are able to
furnish. Wher eas strong regimes can act to uphold raison d’état, weak
regimes lack the political tools and incentives to undertake controvers ial
decisions and enforce them. We illustrate this argument through analysis
of between- and within-case variation in Israel's attempts to deter Pales-
tinian gr oups operating from Egypt between 1949 and 1979, and from
Syria since 196 3. [R, abr.]
62.6853 AYDIN, Aysegul ; REGAN, Patrick M. — Networks of third-
party interveners and civil war duration. European Journal
of International Relations 18(3), Sept. 2012 : 573-597.
With growing attention to peace-building in civil wars , scholars have
increasingly focused o n the rol e that interna tional and regional organiza-
tions play in conflict-resolution. Less attention has been paid to unilateral
intervention s undertaken by third-party s tates without the explicit consent
of organizations and to the impact of unilateralism on how long civil wars
last. We claim that u nilateral interventions exert a cumulat ive impac t on
civil wars depending on interveners’ interrelations. States with a coopera-
tive rapport have an easier time in bringing civil wars to an end though
they act unilaterally and foll ow their inter ests in the civil war env ironment,
whereas states that compete for influence over war combatants prolong
the fighting. Analysis results from post-1945 civil wars support our expec-
tations and show that interveners support ing opposing sides of the war
increase war duration. [R, abr.]
62.6854 AYERS, Alison J. — An illusion of the epoch: critiquing
the ideology of "failed states". International Politics 49(5),
Sept. 2012 : 568-590.
Although initially devel oped by policy network s, the prolifer ation of
academic literature on "failed states" accepts largely uncritically the
accounts of foreign-policy-maker s, taking the notion of s tate failure
entirely as given, as an unproblematic descriptive and analyt ical term.
This article argues that the concept of the “failed state” remains essen-
tially contested and under-theor ized. In particular, the term immediately
embodies a set of assumpt ions that obfuscate any serious under standing
of the caus es of social conflict and crisis. The artic le interrogat es the
concept of the “failed s tate”, the assumptions from which the thesis of
“state failure” is derived, its ideological character and integral relation to
the history and current order of imperialism. The notion of the "failed
state" is descriptively weak and analy tically inadequate in furth ering an
understanding of the causes and c onditions of such crises. [R, abr.]
62.6855 BABIK, Mila n — Beyond totalitarianism: (re)introducing
secularization theory to liberal narratives of progress.
Politics, Religion and Ideology 13(3), Sept. 2012 : 289-309.
This article concerns secularization theory and the concept of political
religion, specif ically their analytic scope. I t notes that their recent revival
after the Cold War displays a strong fixation on totalitarian ideologies:
whereas Nazism and Bolshevism have received extensive attention,
liberalism has been ignored. T he art icle argu es that this secularizat ion-
totalitarianism nexus is arbitrary; am ple space exists within secularization
theory to accommodat e other modern narratives of progress and perfec-
tion, including liberal ones. The artic le unlocks and recovers this space
by revisiting the early stages of sec ularization theory to reveal that many
of its initia l proponents, such as classical realist scholars of international
relations, included liberalism on their agenda. [R, abr.]
62.6856 BACACHE-BEAUVALLET, Maya — L'État : contraintes et
liberté, approche économique (The state: an economic
approach to constraints and liberty). Pouvoirs 142, 2012 :
21-32.
The article analyzes how economic constraint s limit the action of the
state. The budgetary constraint dictates that the sum of public spending
should be inferior or equal to government revenue, in a timeless manner.
The article then looks at the debates that emerged, around the work of
Keynes and his follo wers, regarding the im portance of the budgetary
constraint and the possibility of avoiding it. One of these debates regards
the taking into account of the behavior of agents who anticipate pub lic
action and, thereby, limit it and create the grounds for a new c onstraint,
i.e., s elf-constraint. Another debate deals with the issue of tax competi-
tion and globalization, wh ich represent a new constr aint on public action.
Finally, New Public Management leads to a renewed analysis of the
constraint on the state's margins for maneuver. [R] [See Abstr. 62.6971]
62.6857 BACCINI, Leonardo — Democratization and trade policy:
an emp irical analysis of dev eloping countries. Eur opean
Journal of International Relations 18(3), Sept. 2012 : 455-
479.
I show that the process of democratization in developing countries
constitutes an important factor in the formation of preferential trade
agreements. Specifically, democratizing developing countries are more
likely to form a preferential trade agreement with r icher countr ies. Put
simply, the median voter gains from trading with the richer states and
loses from trading wit h t he other poor states. Since pref erential trade
agreements allow countries to waive the most-favored nation pr inciple,
the need for both trade openness and protectionism against competitors
might explain why preferential trade agre ements c onstitute one of the
main features of the current wave of glob alization. I quantitatively test
this hypothesis using a newly compiled dataset th at covers 135 develop-
ing countrie s from 1990 to 2007. [R, abr.]
62.6858 BACON, Edwin — Comp aring political futures: the rise
and use of scenarios in future-oriented area studies.
Contemporary Politics 18(3), Sept. 2012 : 270-285.
In theoretical deba te, prediction r epresents a central issue reg arding the
extent to w hich the study of politic s is scientific. In methodologica l
development, much effort and resource have been devoted to a diverse
range of predictive approaches, with varying degrees of success.
Expectations that schol ars forecast accurately come as much from the
policy and media wor lds as from the academy . Since the end of the Cold
War, sc enario developm ent has become pre valent in f uture-oriented
research by area studies scholars. This approach is long due critical re-
assessment. For all its strengths as a policy tool, scenario developme nt
tends towards a bounded meth odology, driving the process of anticipat-
ing futur es along predetermine d paths into a standardize d range of
options, and paying insufficient attention to theoretical and contextual
understandings available within the relevant scholarly disciplines. [R,
abr.]
62.6859 BAGOZZI, Ben jamin E. ; MUKH ERJEE, Bumba — A mixture
model for middle category inflation in ordered survey re-
sponses. Political Analys is 20(3), Summer 2012 : 369-386.
Recent research finds that, for social desirability reasons, uninformed
individuals disproportionately give “neither agree nor disagree”-type
responses to survey attitude questions, even when a “do not know”
option is available. Such “face-saving” responses inflate the indifference
(i.e., middle) categories of ordered attitude variables with non-ordered
responses. When such inflation occurs within the middle category of
one's ordered dependent variable, estimates from or dered pr obit (and
ordered logit) models are l ikely to be unreliable and inefficient. This
article d evelops a set of mixture models that estimate and account for
the presence of “face-saving” responses in middle categories of ordered
survey response variables, and applies these models to (1) simulated
data an d (2) a commonly studied surv ey question measuring attitudes
toward EU membership among ind ividuals in EU-candidate countries. [R,
abr.]
62.6860 BAILEY, David J. ; BATES, Stephen R. — Struggle (or its
absence) during the crisis: w hat power is left? Journal of
Political Powe r 5(2), Aug. 2012 : 195-216.
We ado pt a critical realist notion of power to address the ongoing eco-
nomic and financia l crisis and responses by left actors and institutions to
it. While correct in its as sessment of the reduced prospects of social
democratic parties and representat ive trade unions, much of the current
literature o n “the left-under-crisis” equates the left too narrowly with these
two forms of s trategy and fails to recognize adequately the potential of
other more radical strategic forms. Conseq uently, the current literat ure is
too gloomy whe n consideri ng the prospects of the left as a whole. A
realist framework on power allows us not only to order the structural and
agential factors affecting the left, but also to demonstrate why certain
strategic forms are better able both to identify and disrupt existing power
relations and offer the potential for emancipation. [R, abr.]
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