VI National and Area Studies / Études Nationales et Régionales
| DOI | 10.1177/0020834519895698 |
| Date | 01 December 2019 |
| Published date | 01 December 2019 |
| Subject Matter | Abstracts |
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NATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES
ÉTUDES NATIONALES ET RÉGIONALES
69.7741 ABRAMOVA, Irina O. ; FITUNI, Leonard L. — The African
segment of multipolar world: dynamics and geostrategic
significance. Mirovaja Ekonomika i meždunarodnye
Otnošenija 62(12), 2018 : 5-14.
The article examines Africa’s role in formation of a polycentric world
order. The extreme danger and obvious undesirability of direct confronta-
tion between “old” and “new” players have augmented geostrategic and
military-political significance of the “peripheral” zones of rivalry, including
Africa. Here, nationalism, separatism and religious extremism act as both
catalysts of conflicts and convenient tools for external intervention. In
order to preserve the old configuration of the world order and the para-
digms of global governance, some “old players” are ready to use such
means as bribing corrupt elites, manipulating ethno-confessional contra-
dictions, instigating the forces of international terrorism. At the heart of
the contemporary expansion into Africa, there is vying to secure lasting
positions and zones of influence as part of the competitive struggle in the
world economy by the 2020-2050s. [R, abr.]
69.7742 AHLBURG, Dennis A. — Skunks in an English woodland:
should England embrace for-profit higher education? Po-
litical Quarterly 90(2), Apr.-June 2019 : 278-285.
The British government is encouraging the growth of for-profit alternative
providers of higher education (HE). While it is true that for-profits have
opened HE access to previously under-served groups and have been
more agile in reacting to market demand, they have done so at a consid-
erable cost to students and the taxpayer because they do not share in
the cost of the failure of HE to ensure a payoff for many of their students.
The US experience with for-profits should be a cautionary tale for those
supporting their expansion in Britain. Policy is needed to craft a regulato-
ry framework that produces the benefits that for -profits can provide, but
minimizes the costs that often accompany them. At present, it is far from
clear that expanding alternative providers — that is, for-profits — would
“work better” for students. [R]
69.7743 ALIYEV, Huseyn — The logic of ethnic responsibility and
progovernment mobilization in East Ukraine conflict.
Comparative Political Studies 52(8), July 2019 : 1200-1231.
The extant theory of ethnic defection rests on the importance of ethnic
identity-shift and loyalism toward the regime, which were thus far pre-
sented as key explanations of side-switching in ethnic conflicts. This
article challenges the validity of these claims and proposes an alternative
theoretical argument. It argues that individuals mobilize against their co-
ethnics on the side of government that explicitly challenges and opposes
ethnonationalist aspirations of their own ethnic group due to perceived
obligation of ethnic responsibility to protect their ethnic values. Ethnic
defection is likely to occur when and if the rebels are suspected by their
co-ethnics of violating or disregarding sociocultural, ideological, or
religious values of their ethnic group. This argument is examined empiri-
cally in the case of pro-government mobilization during East Ukraine
conflict in 2014 to 2015. [R, abr.]
69.7744 ALPERMANN, Björn ; ZHAN, Shaohua, eds. — The end of
China’s one-child policy. Journal of Contemporary China
117, May 2019 : 327-399.
Articles by Thomas SCHARPING, “Abolishing the one-child policy:
stages, issues and the political process”, pp. 327-347; Björn
ALPERMANN, ZHAN Shaohua, “Population planning after the one-child
policy: shifting modes of political steering in Ch ina”, pp. 348-366; ZHOU
Yun, “The dual demands: gender equity and fertility intentions after the
one-child policy”, pp. 367-384.
69.7745 ANINAT, Isabel ; HERNANDO, Andrés — Mapeando el
laberinto de la política pública indígena en Chile (Map-
ping the maze of indigenous public policy in Chile). Estu-
dios públicos 153, Winter 2019 : 7-56.
Since the return of democracy in Chile, each government has made
efforts to generate public policies aimed at solving the numerous prob-
lems affecting indigenous peoples. However, it seems that these policies
have had limited results and have not achieved the objectives for which
they were formulated. Why? This paper draws on two sources of infor-
mation to attempt a response. First, it conducts a comprehensive survey
of State programs targeted at the indigenous population. Second, it
analyzes the program evaluations carried out by the Budgetary Affairs
Bureau (Dipres). It concludes that the programs actually delivered are
very poorly coordinated between the implementing institutions, which
rarely consult with one another on the actions they carry out. [R, abr.]
69.7746 ANTIL, Alain — Les évolutions paradoxales de la dé-
mocratie mauritanienne (The paradoxical progression of
democracy in Mauritania?). Politique étrangère 84(2),
2019 : 49-59.
Mauritania’s political system displays certain democratic qualities that go
some way to meeting international standards. However, this veneer is
too thin to conceal its recurrent electoral irregularities and, most im-
portantly, the presence of a hegemonic faction that controls the country.
The governing party and the economic interests it represents ensure that
resources are reallocated so as to perpetuate the scarcity economy. [R]
[See Abstr. 69.7828]
69.7747 ATIENZA, Maria Ela L. — The Philippines in 2018: broken
promises, growing impatience. Asian Survey 59(1), Jan.-
Feb. 2019 : 185-192.
Two and a half years into the Duterte administration, the country is facing
high inflation rates, weak political institutions, and political uncertainty.
While there are efforts toward political reform as well as peaceful settle-
ment of conflicts, the country remains divided, with no clear strategy for
reforms or nation-building being offered. [R] [See Abstr. 69 7722]
69.7748 ATKINSON, Rob ; TALLON, Andrew ; WILLIAMS, David —
Governing urban regeneration in the UK: a case of "var-
iegated neoliberalism" in action? European Planning Stud-
ies 27(6), June 2019 : 1083-1106.
The article focuses on the redevelopment of previously developed land
by public-private sector partnerships in three cities/towns in South-West
England, two of which can be described as medium-sized places with
little previous experience of such developments. In each case we situat-
ed the redevelopment process in its wider multi-level and horizontal
relationships using Social Network Analysis to produce network and
centrality maps to reveal the complex network of relationships the pro-
cess was embedded within and shaped by. These developments took
place in what is termed the ‘roll-out’ phase of neoliberalism and we
illustrate how the overarching planning and regulatory regimes (including
contracts), along with wider economic conditions, shaped the develop-
ment process, with the proviso that in each case these factors were
mediated and themselves shaped by the assortment and interaction of
local organizational, political, economic and civic forces. [R, abr.] [First
article of a thematic issue on "Complex planning landscapes: regimes,
actors, instruments and discourses of contractual urban development",
introduced, pp. 1059-1063, by Tuna TASAN-KOK, Rob ATKINSON and
Maria Lucia REFINETTI MARTINS. See also Abstr. 69.7328, 7874,
7877]
69.7749 BABAR, Zahra ; EWERS, Michael ; KHATTAB, Nabil —
Im/mobile highly skilled migrants in Qatar. Journal of Eth-
nic and Migration Studies 45(9), July 2019 : 1553-1570.
Most studies on the mobility of highly skilled migrants have been exam-
ined with a framework of global talent mobility and under conditions of
neoliberal governance and economic globalization. In this study we
challenge the notion of the hypermobile knowledge worker. Utilizing
mixed methods, we examine the factors that attracted highly skilled
migrants to Qatar and the conditions under which they might leave in the
future. Rather than finding a group of footloose migrants attracted pri-
marily to high-wage jobs, a lack of taxation or amenities, and with multi-
ple alternative locations of residence, we find that highly skilled migrants
exist on a spectrum of immobility. More significantly, this immobility
depends on the migrant’s region of origin. [R, abr.]
69.7750 BAN, Cornel — Dependent development at a crossroads?
Romanian capitalism and its contradictions. West Euro-
pean Politics 42(5), 2019 : 1041-1068.
How has the Great Recession changed what we know about dependent
market economies (DME) in Eastern Europe? To answer that question
this paper looks at the case of Romania’s version of the DME and cap-
tures both understudied forms of dependence and emerging interde-
pendence dynamics that the existing literature on dependence has
hitherto neglected. Specifically, the literature does not analyze the role of
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transnational banks in forging a politicized public-private form of sover-
eign debt crisis governance. Second, the inattention of the literature to
the supply side of the labor market leads to the neglect of migration as a
critical factor shaping state, multinational corporation and corporate
strategies. Third, the analysis highlights the centrality of industrial policy
in a Janus-faced process in which neoliberal competition state has to
cohabit with an incipient, wobbly but nevertheless real neo -
developmentalist entrepreneurial state. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 69.7863]
69.7751 BARBIANO DI BELGIOJOSO, Elisa — The occupational
(im)mobility of migrants in Italy. Journal of Ethnic and Mi-
gration Studies 45(9), July 2019 : 1571-1594.
Migrants usually experience a downward mobility in their host country’s
economy and are over-represented among lower status jobs. The pre-
sent study contributes to the knowledge on migrant occupation m obility
in Italy, assuming a longitudinal perspective and focusing on two as-
pects: first, the entry of migrants into the Italian labour market and,
second, the working trajectories of migrants in Italy, reflecting the role of
the first step in determining the following trajectory and migrants’ strate-
gies. [R]
69.7752 BARRAULT-STELLA, Lorenzo ; MAILLET, Antoine ; VOM-
MARO, Gabriel — Étudier les transformations de l’action
publique en Amérique latine. De terrains "exotiques" à la
fécondité conceptuelle d’enquêtes situées (Studying the
transformation of public action in Latin America. From
“exotic” fieldwork to the heuristic value of situated re-
search). Gouvernement et Action publique, 2019(1) : 9-34.
This special issue addresses some contemporary transformations of
public action in Latin American contexts. Contrary to those who prom ote
the exoticization of that zone, we argue that the challenge for analysis is
to integrate its study into international debates in the sociology of public
policies, and this in order to participate in global debates over the cate-
gories and concepts commonly used in this field of analysis. The intro-
ductory article synthesizes the state of multidisciplinary research (eco-
nomics, public administration, sociology, political science, ethnography)
on these issues in Latin America and underlines the growing interest
amongst French-speaking political scientists to deal with these cases in
a disciplinary logic, i.e. by going beyond that of area studies. [R, abr.]
[Introduction to a special issue on “L’action publique aux frontières de
l’État: regards d’Amérique latine (Public action at borders of the S tate:
Perspectives from Latin America)”. See also Abstr. 69.7253, 7484, 7754,
7825, 7890]
69.7753 BENSTEAD, Lindsay J. — Survey research in the Arab
world: challenges and opportunities. PS 51(3), July 2018 :
535-542.
Survey research has expanded in the Arab world since the 1980s. The
Arab Spring marked a watershed when surveying became possible in
Tunisia and Libya, and researchers added additional questions needed
to answer theoretical and policy questions. Almost every Arab country
now is included in the Arab Barometer or World Values Survey. Yet,
some scholars express the view that the Arab survey context is more
challenging than that of other regions or that respondents w ill not answer
honestly, due to authoritarianism. I argue that this position reflects biases
that assume “Arab exceptionalism” more than fair and objective assess-
ments of data quality. Based on cross-national data analysis, I found
evidence of systematically missing data in all regions and political re-
gimes globally. [R, abr.]
69.7754 BERJAUD, Clémentine — Les missions bolivariennes au
Venezuela. Les policy feedbacks au prisme des gou-
vernés (The Bolivarian missions in Venezuela. Policy
feedbacks through the point of view of the governed).
Gouvernement et Action publique, 2019(1) : 61-85.
During the Hugo Chavez’s successive mandates between 1998 and
2013, a specific form of public action was developed in an exponential
way which transformed the structure of public policies, especially social
ones, in Venezuela: the Bolivarian Missions. This article investigates the
policy feedbacks question related to such Missions from the point of view
of the governed. Through analysis of the citizens’ perceptions about
these public policies, which are differentiated and socially anchored, it
becomes possible to understand how they appropriated them, or not, in a
context marked by a redeployment of public action. The implementation
process of these socialized and politicized public policies and the trail of
practical, social and political uses provides a means for understanding
the citizen-State relationship in a concrete way. [R, abr.] [See Abstr.
69.7752]
69.7755 BIRYUKOV, Sergey V. — Uzbekistan as a mirror of
change in Central Asia: a sultanistic regime and its trans-
formation. Asian Survey 59(2), March-Apr. 2019 : 337-359.
Central Asia is anticipating a transformation related to the need for
further multifaceted modernization. However, different conditions dictate
different strategies. The development model of Uzbekistan was mostly
defined by Islam Karimov, whose death marked the beginning of pro-
found changes associated with the transformation of the sultanistic
regime. [R]
69.7756 BODA, Martin ; POVAZANOVA, Mariana — Okun's law in
the Visegrád group countries. Europe-Asia Studies 71(4),
May 2019 : 608-647.
The article assesses the empirical validity of Okun's law on the relation-
ship between a country's unemployment and its output with a focus upon
the Visegrád Group economies and upon the post-transition period from
the first quarter of 2000 until the first quarter of 2016. The study also
accounts for cyclical fluctuations in male and female unemployment and
applies different approaches to the estimation of Okun coefficients. Fixed
long-run Okun coefficients are compared to the trajectories identified
under the state space approach based on the Kalman filter in an attempt
to capture their possible time non-constancy. The findings cast doubt
about the universal validity of Okun's law in the Visegrád countries in the
investigated period. [R]
69.7757 BOEGE, Volker — Reconciliations (Melanesian style) and
transitional justice. Global Change, Peace and Security
31(2), June 2019 : 139-157.
This article examines kastom reconciliations as practiced in a Melanesi-
an cultural context in the resolution of everyday disputes and as a means
of peacebuilding after large-scale violent conflict. It explores Melanesian-
style reconciliation in relation to the conventional international discourse
on transitional justice, asking whether kastom reconciliations are — or
can be — an alternative to, or a specific “vernacularized” form of, transi-
tional justice. Using examples primarily from post-conflict Bougainville
and Solomon Islands, the article addresses some of the strengths and
limitations of kastom reconciliation in comparison to those of transitional
justice. Protagonists of transitional justice could gain insights from the
study of Melanesian reconciliations that would help them to reflect on
their own assumptions and consider avenues for developing the concept
of transitional justice. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 69.7892]
69.7758 BOHLE, Dorothee ; GRESKOVITS, Béla — Politicising
embedded neoliberalism: continuity and change in Hun-
gary’s development model. West European Politics 42(5),
2019 : 1069-1093.
Focusing on the critical Hungarian case, this article analyzes the fate of
embedded neoliberal capitalism in the wake of the global financial crisis.
The changes include policies to combat foreign dominance in the finan-
cial, energy, and retail sectors, and efforts to reform and retrench the
hitherto relatively generous welfare state. Nevertheless, the article finds
no less evidence of continuity than of change: the politicization of fighting
dependency is combined with the quiet politics of subsidizing foreign
direct investment in manufacturing, and the noisy politics of protecting
pensioners and middle-class families parallels the erosion of future-
oriented social investment. Notwithstanding the radical turn in develop-
ment rhetoric, the actual path correction has merely shifted the pattern of
dependency without breaking out of it. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 69.7863]
69.7759 BÖRZEL, Tanja A. ; LANGBEIN, Julia — Core-periphery in
Europe: is there a link between political and economic
divergence? West European Politics 42(5), 2019 : 941-964.
This contribution examines whether and how economic divergence
between the EU core and its southern and eastern peripheries relates to
the emerging political divergence within the EU. Data show that persis-
tent and growing economic disparities are linked to EU member states
moving apart with regard to their democratic quality, but not as straight-
forwardly as the literature claims. This gives rise to two puzzles: first,
economic divergence does not always go together with political diver-
gence. While all countries in the eastern and southern periphery marked
by low or declining levels of democratic quality are poor, not all poor
countries are weak democratic performers. The contribution argues that
weakness of state institutions as exemplified by high levels of corruption
constitutes a crucial condition under which economic divergence is likely
to promote political divergence. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 69.7863]
69.7760 BOSCHI, Renato Raul ; SANTOS PINHO, Carlos Eduardo —
Crisis and austerity: the recent trajectory of capitalist
development in Brazil. Contemporary Politics 25(3), 2019 :
292-312.
The article analyzes theoretically and empirically, in the scope of eco-
nomic globalization, the recent trajectory of Brazilian capitalist develop-
ment. The objective is to emphasize the crisis of the variety of coordinat-
ed and state-regulated capitalism (2003-2016) and its subsequent
metamorphosis into a variety of ultraliberal and undemocratic capitalism
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