In This Issue
| Author | James Meadowcroft |
| Published date | 01 March 2007 |
| Date | 01 March 2007 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0192512107076388 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
In This Issue 131
International Political Science Review (2007), Vol 28, No. 2, 131
In This Issue
This issue of the International Political Science Review features four articles that
span politics in both the developed and developing worlds. The themes that are
explored go to the heart of contemporary politics including the reasons for state
collapse, the sources of legitimacy, and the dynamics of voter decision-making.
Neil Englehart’s “Governments Against States: The Logic of Self-Destructive
Despotism” focuses on the conditions that lead to state breakdown in the modern
world. Taking up case studies of Afghanistan and Somalia he suggests that the
actions that despotic governments take to crush opposition (such as civil service
purges and the formation of private militias) can so weaken the state that further
miscalculations can result in its virtual collapse.
In “The Three Sources of Legitimacy for European Fiscal Policy,” Stefan Collignon
examines the way in which fi scal policy is legitimized within the European Union,
focusing on three models: “the problem-solving EU,” “the communitarian model,”
and “the European Republic.”
In “Moderators of Priming Effects: A Theory and Preliminary Evidence from
an Experiment on Swiss European Policy” Lionel Marquis examines the way in
which media coverage of issues may groom voters, infl uencing the standards
by which they subsequently judge candidates for political offi ce.
Finally “Dilemmas of Electoral Clientelism: Taiwan, 1993,” by Chin-Shou Wang
and Charles Kurzman, presents a case study of an election where clients failed to
behave as their patrons intended, and it explores the conditions that may give
rise to non-compliance.
We hope that our readers will fi nd these four contributions interesting and
provocative.
James Meadowcroft
Co-editor, IPSR
DOI: 10.1177/0192512107076388 © 2007 International Political Science Association
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