III Governmental and Administrative Institutions / Institutions Politiques et Administratives
| Published date | 01 February 2019 |
| Date | 01 February 2019 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002083451906900103 |
| Subject Matter | Abstracts |
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GOVERNMENTAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTIONS
INSTITUTIONS POLITIQUES ET ADMINISTRATIVES
(a) Central institutions /Institutions centrales
69.341 ACS, Alex — Policing the administrative state. Journal of
Politics 80(4), Oct. 2018 : 1225-1238.
Politicians react to administrative policy making by developing systems
of oversight. Existing studies largely emphasize the advantages of
reactive oversight, where politicians wait for interest groups to pull a “fire
alarm” on noncompliant activity. Less attention has been paid to proac-
tive oversight, where politicians police administrators directly. To evalu-
ate the effectiveness of “police patrol” oversight, I look to the White
House, which has been policing regulatory proposals since the Nixon
administration. I show how policing, or regulatory review, has made
agencies more responsive to the president, both by singling out non-
compliant proposals and, critically, by shaping agency behavior in antici-
pation of review. My findings suggest that police patrol oversight is more
efficient than previously acknowledged, notably because the associated
deterrence effects yield low-cost compliance. [R, abr.]
69.342 ADENEY, Katharine ; BHATTACHARYYA, Harihar — Cur-
rent challenges to multinational federalism in India. Re-
gional and Federal Studies 28(4), Sept. 2018 : 409-425.
India’s multinational federation has experienced multiple challenges in
the last 25 years, relating to the rise of coalition politics and the process
of economic liberalization, both of which have increased the power of
some of the states of the federation at the expense of others. The inter-
nal borders of India continue to be restructured, with the latest state,
Telangana, created in 2014. India is often seen as a successful multina-
tional federation, but it is important to recognize the limitations of this
success, as well as the areas where the rise of an aggressive Hindu
nationalism poses a powerful threat to India’s multinational federal
democracy. [R] [First article of a special section on "Multinational federal-
ism in contemporary India". See also Abstr. 69.350, 369, 1314]
69.343 AHMED, Imran — Writing Islamic constitutions: lessons
from Pakistan. Round Table 107(3), June 2018 : 317-328.
Muslim-majority countries often face the question of how to reconcile the
place and role of religion within the framework of the nation state and a
modern westernized system of constitutional ordering. This paper argues
that insights drawn from Pakistan are pertinent. It argues that when
contemplating the constitutionalization of Islam and Islamic provisions:
the design and jurisdiction of the courts matter; it may be better to
achieve a workable political compromise between competing parties on
religious matters than to stall or strive for the realization of some ideal;
the constitution should be free of any sectarian bias; and constitution-
makers must take more structural matters such as the separation of
powers seriously when considering discussions on religion and politics.
[R, abr.]
69.344 ASMUSSEN MATHEW, Nicole — Evangelizing Congress:
the emergence of evangelical republicans and party po-
larization in Congress. Legislative Studies Quarterly 43(3),
Aug. 2018 : 409-455.
The realignment of evangelical voters is well documented, but religion's
impact within Congress is less clear. New data on home churches of
members of Congress shows that the realignment of congressional
evangelicals, combined with their growth and distinctly conservative
legislative behavior, has significantly contributed to party polarization in
Congress. Controlling for other factors, evangelicals are significantly
more conservative than members of other religious traditions. This
conservatism also has second order effects on the polarization of the
House, where their more partisan proposals comprise a larger share of
the roll call agenda when Republicans are in the majority. Moreover,
evangelical Republicans in Congress differ significantly from e vangelical
Democrats in terms their geography, denominations, and experiences
prior to Congress. [R]
69.345 BAILER, Stefanie ; OHMURA, Tamaki — Exploring, main-
taining, and disengaging — The three phases of a legis-
lator's life. Legislative Studies Quarterly 43(3), Aug. 2018 :
493-520.
Building on the understanding that a career is a dynamic concept, this
article applies the idea that parliamentarians' legislative activities vary
according to their career stage and age. This is partly a function of
experience and partly a function of future career prospects. Using a new
data-set of the German Bundestag (2002-2013) that pinpoints the age
and career stage of MPs at the time of individual activities, namely,
attending votes, posing parliamentary questions, and holding rapporteur-
ships, we identify practical and normative challenges to MPs' legislative
work: It takes time to learn the trade and as the desire for re election
dissipates, a last period problem arises. MPs significantly reduce their
activity levels toward the end of their legislative careers, indicating a clear
loss of accountability toward their parties and their constituents. [R]
69.346 BALLINGRUD, Gordon ; DOUGHERTY, Keith L. — Coali-
tional instability and the Three Fifths compromise. Ameri-
can Journal of Political Science 62(4), Oct. 2018 : 861-872.
Were the initial apportionments of the US House of Representatives and
the US Senate inevitable? This article determines the coalitional stability
of apportionment rules considered at the Constitutional Convention
assuming the Convention limited itself to the rules proposed. Using each
state's vote-share as a measure of state preference, we find that the
stability of legislative apportionment depended upon the states making
decisions. Equal apportionment was in equilibrium with 13 states present,
as in the Continental Congress, but when Rhode Island and New Hamp-
shire were absent during the first third of the Convention, all rules were in
a top cycle. With New York departing near the middle of the Convention,
equal apportionment and the Three-Fifths Clause both became stable,
and the Great Compromise was reached. [R, abr.]
69.347 BASSETT, Ellen M. — The challenge of reforming land
governance in Kenya under the 2010 Constitution. Journal
of Modern African Studies 55(4), Dec. 2017 : 537-566.
In August 2010, Kenya's citizens adopted a new Constitution. Intended to
rein in an imperial presidency, the Constitution initiated one of the most
ambitious governance reforms seen in Sub-Saharan Africa. "Devolution"
establishes 47 counties with extensive powers led by a directly elected
governor and legislative assembly. The transition has exposed fault lines
as actors struggle over the delineation of power. This paper presents the
fight between the National Land Commission and the Ministry of Lands
over the right to manage public land in the period 2013-2016. The paper
argues that the difficulties associated with land reform arise because of
the centrality of land allocation to the maintenance of power in the coun-
try. NLC's potential to transform land relations is limited. [R, abr.]
69.348 BECCI, Irene — Zones grises. Diversité religieuse et
pouvoir en institution (Grey areas: Religious plurality and
institutional power). Social Compass 65(2), June 2018 :
199-214.
This article proposes an interpretational strategy allowing us to study
religious plurality in a variety of institutions based on the case of penal
institutions. The matrix is a synthesis of various recommendations shared
by many researchers working on religion in public institutions. To get
beyond an approach limiting itself to an institutional, or even organiza-
tional, definition of the religious and its representatives and to take the
importance of the power issues permeating it in this context into account,
the author looks at three aspects: focusing on the religion of various
people present in the institution; paying attention to the material and
spatial arrangements; taking the "symbolic" dimension of the institution
studied into account; from a methodo logical point of view, making room
for an ethnographic approach. [R, abr.]
69.349 BEDOCK, Camille — Quand la compétition électorale
détermine la disproportionnalité: bonus majoritaire et
élections régionales en France et en Italie (When electo-
ral competition determines disproportionality: majority
bonus and regional elections in France and Italy). Revue
internationale de Politique comparée 24(3), 2017 : 233-255.
This article investigates the effect of the changing format of electoral
competition on the level of disproportionality in a peculiar type of mixed
electoral system: the majority bonus system. It examines the last three
regional elections in France and Italy. Both countries share defining
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