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| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00208345221117398 |
| Published date | 01 August 2022 |
| Date | 01 August 2022 |
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72.4404 ABDELAATY, Lamis ; STEELE, Liza G. — Explaining at-
titudes toward refugees and immigrants in Europe. Political
Studies 70(1), Feb. 2022 : 110-130.
While there is a large literature on attitudes toward immigrants,
scholars have not systematically examined the determinants of atti-
tudes toward refugees. Often, refugees are simply treated as a sub-
set of immigrants, under the assumption that attitudes toward both
sets of foreigners are similar. In this article, we examine whether
there are distinctions between attitudes toward refugees and immi-
grants, as well as variation in their determinants. We address these
questions using individual-level data from 16 countries in the 2002
and 2014 waves of the European Social Survey. We demonstrate
that these two groups of foreigners are, indeed, viewed as distinct
and that differences emerge because attitudes toward refugees are
more often related to macro-level factors while immigrants are more
frequently associated with micro-level economic concerns. [R]
72.4405 ABOUELDAHAB, Noha, ed. — Time, transition and jus-
tice. International Criminal Law Review 21(5), 2021 : 809-1023.
Introduction by the editor. Articles by Pádraig McAULIFFE, "Transi-
tional justice, institutions and temporality: towards a dynamic under-
standing", pp. 817-847; Zinaida MILLER, "Temporal governance: the
times of transitional justice", pp. 848-877; Thomas Obel HANSEN,
"The multiple aspects of ‘time’ r endering justice for war crimes in
Iraq", pp. 878-904; Randle C. DeFALCO, "Time and the visibility of
slow atrocity violence", pp. 905-934; Maja DAVIDOVIĆ, "Reconcilia-
tion complexities of time in criminal justice and transitional justice",
pp. 935-961; Jayson S. LAMCHEL and George B. RADICS, "Dealing
with the past of moving forward? Transitional justice, the Bang-
samoro Pea ce Agreement and federalism in the Philippines", pp.
962-989; Eric WIEBELHAUS-BRAHM and Dylan WRIGHT, "Tem-
poral patterns in Latin American Truth Commission recommendation
formulation and implementation", pp. 990-1023.
72.4406 ALBRECHT, Holger ; KOEHLER, Kevin ; SCHUTZ, Aus-
tin — Coup agency and prospects for democracy. International
Studies Quarterly 65(4), Dec. 2021 : 1052-1063.
This research note introduces new global data on military coups.
Conventional aggregate data so far have conflated two distinct types
of coups. Military interventions by leading officers are coups “from
above,” characterized by political power struggles within authoritar-
ian elite coalitions where officers move against civilian elites, execu-
tive incumbents, and their loyal security personnel. By contrast,
power grabs by officers from the lower and middle ranks are coups
“from below,” where military personne l outside of the political elite
challenge sitting incumbents, their loyalists, and the regime itself.
Disaggregating coup types offers leverage to revise important ques-
tions about the causes and consequences of military intervention in
politics. This research note illustrates that coup attempts from the
top of the military hierarchy are much more likely to be s uccessful
than coups from the lower and middle ranks of the military hierarchy.
[R, abr.]
72.4407 ALGER, Ingela ; LASLIER, Jean-François — Homo
moralis goes to the voting booth: coordination and information
aggregation. Journal of Theoretical Politics 34(2), Apr. 2022 : 280-
312.
This paper revisits two classical problems in the theory of voting —
viz. the divided majority problem and the strategic revelation of infor-
mation — in the light of evolutionarily founded partial Kantian moral-
ity. It is shown that, compared to electorates consisting of purely self-
interested voters, such Kantian morality helps voters solve coordina-
tion problems and improves the information aggregation properties
of equilibria, even for modest levels of morality. [R]
72.4408 ALLEY, Joshua — Alliance participation, treaty depth,
and military spending. International Studies Qua rterly 65(4), Dec.
2021 : 929-943.
How does alliance participation affect military spending? Some ar-
gue that alliance membership increases military expenditures, while
others contend that it produces spending cuts. I argue that deep for-
mal defense cooperation modifies the impact of alliance participation
on military expenditures and can explain increases and decreases
in spending by small alliance members. Secu rity-seeking junior
members of deep alliances usually decrease military spending be-
cause these treaties are more credible. Joining shallow alliances of-
ten increases junior alliance member military spending, however. I
test the argument by creating a latent measure of alliance treaty
depth and using it to predict differences in how alliance participation
affects military spending. [R, abr.]
72.4409 AYRES, Sarah — A decentred assessment of the im-
pact of “informal governance” on democratic legitimacy. Public
Policy and Administration 37(1), Jan. 2022 : 22-45.
The aim of this article is to examine the impact of informal govern-
ance on democratic legitimacy. It draws on the literatures on informal
governance and decentred theory to examine how governance
mechanisms that are un-written, un-codified and non-institutional im-
pact on democratic legitimacy in governance networks. Drawing on
a case study of English devolution in the United Kingdom, this article
explores how informal governance impacts on different dimensions
of legitimacy — input, throughout and output. It does so by drawing
on the narratives and stories of central government officials directly
involved in English devolution between 2015 and 2018. Findings re-
veal that even when formal structures are weak, democratic legiti-
macy can be secured, especially in promoting effective decision
making and problem solving — throughput legitimacy. Nonetheless,
a decentred analysis has shown a high level of selectivity and differ-
entiation in central-local relationships that undermine legitimation
based on input (inclusiveness) and outcome (results) legitimacy. [R,
abr.] [See Abstr. 72.4423]
72.4410 BACCINI, Leonardo, et al. — Trade liberalization and
labor market institutions. International Organization 76(1), Winter
2021 : 70-104.
Previous studies have paid only limited attention to how variations in
domestic institutions across countries affect the winners and losers
from opening up to trade. We argue that the presence of coordinated
wage-bargaining institutions, which impose a ceiling on wage in-
creases, and state-subsidized vocational training, which creates a
large su pply of highly skilled workers, generate labor market fric-
tions. Upward wage rigidity, in particular, helps smaller firms weather
the rising competition and increasing labor costs triggered by trade
liberalization. We test this hypothesis using a firm-level data-set of
EU countries, which includes more than 800,000 manufacturing
firms between 2003 and 2014. [R, abr.]
72.4411 BAELE, Stephane J. ; BALZACQ, Thierry — Interna-
tional rituals: an analytical framework and its theoretical reper-
toires. Review of International Studies 48(1), Jan. 2022 : 1-23.
The performance of ritual and the ritualisation of performance are
the two main theor etical repertoires of ritual study in international
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politics and beyond. However, they also escalate tensions between
those who insist on ritual’s ability to operate by virtue of participants’
presence and those who believe that global networks of media call
for a representational turn, which must tie participants and audi-
ences across borders. Should we fail to understand how these dis-
tinct theoretical repertoires interact, it would be difficult to study in-
ternational ritual, identify its functions, and trace its effects. Anchored
in the sociology of ‘social occasions’, this article weaves ritual’s pat-
terns, properties, and resources into a coherent analytical frame-
work. [R, abr.]
72.4412 BAGG, Samuel — Do we need an anti-oligarchic con-
stitution? European Journal of Political Theory 21(2), Apr. 2022 :
399-411.
Camila Vergara’s Systemic Corruption is an extraordinarily rich, pro-
vocative and o riginal work of political theory, which makes several
compelling interventions in the normative literature. It develops a
forceful critique of overly narrow definitions of corruption, ins isting
that a more ‘systemic’ conception is required in order to grasp the
scale of oligarchic domination in contemporary democracies. It also
points out the limitations of the ‘proceduralist’ model of contestation
adopted by neo-republicans, and outlines a persuasive conception
of the people as a partisan actor with specific interests to defend.
Yet Vergara’s alternative vision of how popular power might be insti-
tutionalized is less convincing. Though she rightly insists on the im-
portance of organized countervailing power and plebeian solidarity,
the system of nested local assemblies that she proposes is not well-
suited to foster the development of either. [R]
72.4413 BAHAMONDE, Hector ; TRASBERG, Mart — Inclusive
institutions, unequal outcomes: democracy, state capacity, and
income inequality. European Journal of Political Economy 70, Dec.
2021 : 102048.
Although the relationship between democratic rule and income ine-
quality has received important attention in recent literature, the evi-
dence has been far from conclusive. In this paper, we explore
whether the redistributive effect of democratic rule is conditional on
state capacity. Previous literature has outlined that pre-existing state
capacity may be necessary for inequality-reducing policies under
democratic rule. In contrast to that intuitive view, this study argues
that democratic rule and high state capacity combined produce
higher levels of income inequality over time. This relationship oper-
ates through the positive effect of high-capacity democratic context
on foreign direct investment and financial development. [R, abr.]
72.4414 BALCELLS, Laia ; PALANZA, Valeria ; VOYTAS, Elsa —
Do transitional justice museums persuade visitors? Evidence
from a field experiment. Journal of Politics 84(1), Jan. 2022 : 496-
510.
We implement a novel field experiment at the Museum of Memory
and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, to understand the effects of
governments’ attempts to shape citizens’ attitudes through symbolic
transitional justice policies such as museums and memorials. Our
findings suggest that though perceptions of the museum vary along
ideological lines, Chilean university students display greater support
for democratic institutions, are more likely to reject institutions asso-
ciated with the repressive period, and are more supportive of restor-
ative transitional justice policies after visiting regardless of their ide-
ological priors. We test for the persistence of these results and find
that some of the effects endure for six months following the museum
visit. We find support for the notion that emotional appeals deployed
in the museum can shift citizen attitudes, w hich might have implica-
tions for processes of reconciliation. [R, abr.]
72.4415 BALLARD-ROSA, Cameron ; MOSLEY, Layna ; WELL-
HAUSEN, Rachel L. — Coming to terms: the politics of sovereign
bond denomination. International Organization 76(1), Winter
2021 : 32-69.
Governments interact strategically with sovereign bond market cred-
itors: they make choices not only about how often and how much to
borrow, but also under what terms. The denomination of debt, in
domestic or foreign currency, is a critical part of these terms. The
“original sin” logic has long predicted that creditors have little appe-
tite for developing-country government debt issued in domestic cur-
rency. Our novel data, including bond issues by 131 countries in
240,000 primary market transactions between 1990 and 2016, sug-
gest otherwise. Domestic-denominated bonds have come to domi-
nate the m arket, although domestic-currency issuance often is ac-
companied by shorter bond maturities. We argu e that ideologically
rooted policy preferences play an important role in this unexpected
trend in denomination. [R, abr.]
72.4416 BANDOLA-GILL, Justyna — The legitimacy of experts
in policy: navigating technocratic and political accountability in
the case of global poverty governance. Evidence and Policy
17(4), Nov. 2021 : 615-633.
This article addresses the puzzle of double — technocratic and po-
litical — legitimacy of experts by proposing a framework for under-
standing expert legitimacy as an interplay of three analytical levels:
epistemic, individual actor and institutional. The paper explores this
problem in the case study of global poverty measurement as a field
located at the interface of science and policy. This is a comparative
case study of poverty measurement in the World Bank and UNICEF.
[R, abr.]
72.4417 BEECH, Matt — Brexit and the decentred state. Public
Policy and Administration 37(1), Jan. 2022 : 67-83.
The aim of this article is to examine Brexit through the lens of decen-
tred theory. Decentred theory regards the British state as neither a
monolith (as per modernist social science) nor a myth (as per post-
modern theory) but rather as a repository of norms, customs, prac-
tices and thought acquired by elite actors, professionals and policy
networks. The central thesis of the article is that the idea of the de-
centred state, as an explanation of state governance, can be seen
in the phenomenon of Brexit. The article uses literatures on govern-
ance and contemporary history to examine the relevance of the con-
cept of the decentred state. Then it considers the case study of Brit-
ish politics in the 1970s as a precursor to the decentring effects of
Brexit on state governance. The article then moves to consider three
dimensions of the phenomenon of Brexit which can be understood
as decentring practices in and of themselves. [R, abr.] [See Abstr.
72.4423]
72.4418 BEIER, J. Marshall — “This changes things”: children,
targeting, and the making of precision. Cooperation and Conflict
57(2), June 2022 : 210-225.
Avoidance of civilian casualties increasingly affects the political cal-
culus of legitimacy in armed conflict. “Collateral damage” is a prob-
lem that can be managed through the material production of preci-
sion, but it is also the case that precision is a problem managed
through the cultural production of collateral damage. Bearing deci-
sively on popular perceptions of ethical conduct in recourse to polit-
ical violence, childhood is an important site of meaning-making in
this process. In pop culture, news dispatches, and social media, chil-
dren, as quintessential innocents, figure prominently where the dire
human consequences of imprecision are depicted. Children thus af-
fect the practical “precision” of even the most advanced weapons,
perhaps precluding a strike for their presence, potentially coloring it
with their corpses. But who count as children, how, when, where,
and why are not at all settled questions. [R, abr.]
72.4419 BENGTSON, Andreas — Where democracy should be:
on the site(s) of the all-subjected principle. Res Publica (Journal
of Legal and Social Philosophy) 28(1), 2022 : 69-84.
I set out to defend the claim that a central principle in democratic
theory, the all-subjected principle, applies not only when one is sub-
ject to a rule by a state but also when one is subject to a rule by a
‘non-state’ unit. I argue that self-government is the value underlying
the all-subjected principle that explains why a subjected individual
should be included because she is subjected. Given this, it is un-
founded to limit the principle to the state, as subjection which threat-
ens self-government occurs in non-state units such as corporations
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