IV Governmental and Administrative Institutions / Institutions Politiques et Administratives
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00208345231169349 |
| Published date | 01 April 2023 |
| Date | 01 April 2023 |
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IV
GOVERNMENTAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTIONS
INSTITUTIONS POLITIQUES ET ADMINISTRATIVES
(a) Central institutions /Institutions centrales
73.1888 ALLEN, Susan H. ; GALLAGHER, Maryann E. — Is he speak-
ing our language? Donald Trump's leadership traits in
comparison with previous presidents. Political Science
Quarterly 137(3), Fall 2022 : 539-568.
The authors compare Donald Trump’s leadership traits to those of other
recent US presidents. They argue that even though Trump’s foreign policy
rhetoric and actions may seem to indicate a leader deliberating challeng-
ing existing institutions, they were instead outcomes of a deeply distrustful
individual focused primarily on maintaining the support of loyalists, not pol-
icymaking. [R]
73.1889 ARMALY, Miles T. ; LANE, Elizabeth A. — Politicized battles:
how vacancies and partisanship influence support for the
Supreme Court. American Politics Research 51(1), Jan.
2023 : 23-36.
Supreme Court vacancies are now characterized by great partisan efforts
to confirm — or impede — the nomination. Amid a politicized vacancy be-
fore the 2020 election, there was cause to question the conclusion that
these vacancies do not harm the judiciary in the public’s eyes. We utilize
panel data collected before and after Justice Ginsburg’s death to investi-
gate the effects of the vacancy and partisan posturing to fill it. We find that
the battle over the vacancy yielded decreases in diffuse support among
Democrats, particularly among those who read a story about Senate Re-
publicans’ willingness to fill an election-year vacancy after refusing to in
2016. Support for federal judicial elections decreased across survey
waves, but only among certain subsets of respondents. [R, abr.]
73.1890 ARMINGEON, Klaus ; SAGER, Fritz — Muting science: in-
put overload versus scientific advice in Swiss policy mak-
ing during the Covid-19 pandemic. Political Quarterly 93(3),
July-Sept. 2022 : 424-432.
This article explores why the Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss Federal
Parliament were reluctant to follow the majority views of the scientific epi-
demiological community at the beginning of the second wave of the Covid-
19 pandemic. We propose an institutionalist take on this question and ar-
gue that one major explanation could be the input overload that is charac-
teristic of the Swiss federal political system. We define input overload as
the simultaneous inputs of corporatist, pluralist, federalist and direct dem-
ocratic subsystems. Adding another major input — this time from the sci-
entific subsystem — may have threatened to further erode the govern-
ment's and parliament's discretionary power to cope with the pandemic.
We assume that the federal government reduced its input overload by
fending off scientific advice. [R]
73.1891 ARTER, David ; SÖDERLUND, Peter — When even the
prime minister sits on the municipal council. Analysing
the value of "localness" and Finnish MPs’ incentives to
"cumulate" in an open-list voting system. Acta Politica
58(1), Jan. 2023 : 79-100.
This article addresses a curiously neglected question, namely why do the
vast majority of Finnish MPs — one of the highest levels in the world —
hold a seat on the municipal council? The basic presumption is that Finn-
ish parliamentarians are not first and foremost ‘office-seekers’; they do not
seek municipal council office as a primary goal. Rather, they view munici-
pal elections as a means of attaining localness, either as a personal vote-
earning attribute (PVEA) or then as a representational attribute, bolstering
their credentials as ‘local MP’ for the municipality. To test this reasoning,
the analysis focuses on MPs’ decisions on whether to contest the four mu-
nicipal elections between 2008 and 2021 (n = 796). [R, abr.]
73.1892 BAER, Emily C. — Who sets the agenda? Participation
asymmetries in the select Committee on the moderniza-
tion of Congress in the 116th Congress. PS 55(4), Dec.
2022 : 668-676.
In January 2019, the House of Representatives voted 418-12 to respond
to widespread bipartisan criticism of the inner workings of the legislative
branch by creating a Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
This article examines the leadership, participation, and salience of the Se-
lect Committee by key reform stakeholders, including individual members,
party factions, leaders, interest groups, and the national media that cover
Congress. I identify bifurcated participation patterns that overrepresent the
interests of junior members, party leaders, and Democratic Party factions.
I also find limited salience of Select Committee activities among key stake-
holders. The findings raise normative and theoretical questions about pro-
cedural reform and reveal a significant challenge to coalition-building ef-
forts in future sessions of Congress. [R]
73.1893 BARBER, Michael ; DYNES, Adam M. — City-state ideologi-
cal incongruence and municipal preemption. American
Journal of Political Science 67(1), Jan. 2023 : 119-136.
A growing concern among municipal officials across the US is that their
policymaking capacity is under attack by state legislatures who are in-
creasingly likely to pre-empt those municipalities. However, determining
the extent to which municipalities are pre-empted is challenging. We over-
come this by surveying a large sample of municipal officials from across
the US. We find that officials from municipalities that are more ideologically
distant from their state overall are more likely to report being pre-empted
by their state government. Moreover, this pattern is driven by more liberal
municipalities in both Republican and Democratic states reporting higher
rates of pre-emption. Additionally, municipalities under unified state gov-
ernments are more likely to report pre-emption, especially those under uni-
fied Republican control. [R, abr.]
73.1894 BASS, Leeann ; CAMERON, Charles M. ; KASTELLEC, Jona-
than P. — The politics of accountability in Supreme Court
nominations: voter recall and assessment of senator
votes on nominees. Political Science Research and Methods
10(4), Oct. 2022 : 677-702.
While longstanding theories of political behavior argue that voters do not
possess sufficient political knowledge to hold their elected representatives
accountable, recent revisionist studies challenge this view, arguing that
voters can both follow how their representatives vote and use that infor-
mation intelligently. We apply the revisionist account to the study of Su-
preme Court nominations in the modern era. Using survey data on the
nominations of Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, we
ask whether voters can and do hold senators accountable for their votes
on Supreme Court nominees. While our results for Thomas are ambigu-
ous, we find strong evidence for accountability in the cases of Sotomayor
and Kagan. In particular, we show that voters on average can correctly
recall the votes of their senators on these nominees, and that correct recall
is correlated with higher levels of education and political knowledge. [R,
abr.]
73.1895 BIRD, Christine C. ; McGEE, Zachary A. — Going nuclear:
Federalist Society affiliated judicial nominees’ prospects
and a new era of confirmation politics. American Politics Re-
search 51(1), Jan. 2023 : 37-56.
Significant changes to the federal judicial confirmation process have man-
ifested over the past decade, including multiple procedural reforms in the
US Senate. We argue the “nuclear option,” the reduction of the vote-
threshold required to proceed to a final confirmation vote on judicial nomi-
nees from three-fifths to a simple majority, contributed to a renewed esca-
lation of partisan confirmation battles on which the Federalist Society cap-
italized. Pundits and politicians alike show growing concern about the role
of interest groups, especially those associated with the conservative legal
movement, in judicial nominations. The intersection of these two sets of
changes raises questions about the contemporary judicial nominations
process. Utilizing a novel dataset of Federalist Society (FedSoc) affiliates
drawn from event listings (1993-2020), we analyze the interactive role of
FedSoc affiliation with Senate procedural changes to the judicial confirma-
tion process. [R, abr.]
73.1896 BOCHEL, Catherine — Procedural justice: new approaches
to Parliament’s engagement with the public? Parliamentary
Affairs 75(4), Oct. 2022 : 919-938.
This article utilises the idea of procedural justice (‘fair processes’) as a tool
for analysing the ways in which Parliament engages with the public. It con-
cludes that the engagement work of individual services in Parliament often
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