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Political Studies Review
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ISSN (Print) 1478-9299 - ISSN (Online) 1478-9302
Published by Sage Publications

[1176 journals]

Fair-Weather Voters: Personality and Vote Switching Intentions
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  Authors: Scott Pruysers, Julie Blais
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  While numerous explanations for vote-switching have been proposed (e.g. declining rates of partisanship, ideological shifts, partisan ambivalence, change in policy preferences), far less work has examined the personality profile of people more likely to engage in this behaviour. In Study 1, we examined the relationship between both general (i.e. openness, conscientiousness) and antagonistic (i.e. psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism) personality traits and the intent to switch one’s vote in a large sample of Canadian citizens, while controlling for several established correlates such as age, income and political interest. Of all personality traits, only individuals higher in openness reported a greater intent to engage in vote switching. Despite our expectations, Machiavellianism, a trait characterized by its strategic nature, was unrelated to vote switching intentions. In Study 2, we addressed several methodological reasons for why antagonistic traits may have been unrelated to vote switching intentions in Study 1 by examining the traits at the facet level and utilizing a new measure of Machiavellianism among a separate sample of Canadian citizens. Here again, we found little evidence for a relationship between antagonistic traits, including Machiavellianism, and vote switching intentions.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-18T12:39:05Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231174756
Electoral Competition and Strategic Intra-Coalition Oversight in
Parliament: The Case of the Bipolar Belgian Polity
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  Authors: Benjamin de Vet
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Although research has highlighted how parties use parliamentary tools to monitor coalition partners and ensure that they loyally execute compromises, the role of electoral competition in intra-coalition oversight is less well documented. Do coalition parties actually ‘police the bargain’ or do they rather use their tools to publicly target and potentially discredit parties with whom they will eventually compete for votes' Although generally difficult to disentangle, this study focuses on the unique Belgian polity, where Flemish and francophone parties govern together in a federal cabinet but compete electorally in two separate party systems. Multivariate analyses of MPs’ use of parliamentary questions between 1995 and 2018 (N = 30,661) confirm that coalition partners are particularly scrutinized when they are ideologically distant or control salient portfolios. Contrary to expectations, however, electoral competitors are not targeted more intensively, nor does direct electoral competition decrease the relative importance of ideological divisiveness or issue salience. These findings provide new insights into how and to what extent parliaments serve as arenas for intra-coalition governance.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-16T06:09:07Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231168276
Commissioned Book Review: Constantine Michalopoulos, Aid, Trade and
Development: The Future of Globalization
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  Authors: Nafeesat Adejoke Rabiu-Adebayo
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-16T04:53:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231172442
Commissioned Book Review: Scott Radnitz, Revealing Schemes: The Politics
of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region
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  Authors: Serghei Golunov
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-10T05:17:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231172441
Commissioned Book Review: Marija Aleksovska, Under Watchful Eyes:
Experimental Studies on Accountability and Decision-Making Behaviour in
the Public Sector
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  Authors: Timo Damm
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-09T07:08:37Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231172718
Commissioned Book Review: Paulo Alfonso B Durante, Francesco Jose BS
Leandro and Enrique Martinez Galan, The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization
with Chinese Characteristics: The Case of the Belt and Road Initiative
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  Authors: Punsara Amarasinghe
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-09T07:05:58Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231172443
Commissioned Book Review: Martin Steven, The European Conservatives and
Reformists (ECR): Politics, Parties and Policies
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  Authors: Matthew E K Schlachter
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-06T10:13:31Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231173593
Editorial to Special Issue: Do Actions Speak Louder Than Thoughts'
Normative Behaviourism Reconsidered
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  Authors: Edmund Handby
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This Editorial introduces the symposium ‘Do Actions Speak Louder Than Thoughts' Normative Behaviourism Reconsidered’, which revisits a contribution to political philosophy methodology, Floyd’s Is Political Philosophy Impossible: Thoughts and Behaviour in Normative Political Theory. I briefly outline each of the contributions, as well as paving the way for Floyd’s response.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-04T10:31:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231171314
Diplomacy Versus Politics: Two Mutually (In)Dependent Systems
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  Authors: Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Diplomacy is often presented as subordinated to politics as if it merely received politically willed ‘inputs’ to produce politically structured ‘outputs’. However, diplomacy often deviates from political instructions. It can even operate almost without any political considerations whatsoever. This observation gives rise to a sense that politics and diplomacy operate as two separate systems that are mutually dependent and yet simultaneously independent from each other. To illuminate this relationship, the present paper draws from Modern Systems Theory (especially Parsons and Luhmann) to argue that politics and diplomacy engage in double interchanges: (1) they stimulate each other through premises for actions like ‘foreign policy goals’, and (2) they implement each other such that diplomatic happenings can be booked as political successes and vice versa. The discussion section outlines how the autonomy of the two systems varies empirically – such as in the case of politically appointed diplomats – and how extreme cases of autonomous operations (apolitical diplomacy or adiplomatic politics) face negative sanctions.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-05-04T10:15:43Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231169860
Patterns of Party Positioning in Referendums in Switzerland
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  Authors: Eike-Christian Hornig
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Parties play an important role in the study of direct democracy, but mainly as independent variables. To start investigating the way in which parties position themselves in referendums, a new framework is presented and tested for plausibility. As case study the complex but well observed case of Swiss Direct Democracy was chosen. First, a differentiated understanding of what a party position in a referendum process is leads to the identification of four different stages of positioning for Swiss parties. The main message of the theoretical framework is that positioning logics of different parties in one vote can be similar when there are underlying mechanisms applying to all parties. Four ideal type models of party positioning show how. To explore their plausibility, an original data set of 162 single positions of five Swiss political parties in 37 national referendums between 2015 and 2019 is compiled. Using qualitative methods, first results show that Swiss parties’ positioning in referendums is not as strongly dominated by policy as one could expect,given the strong polarization of the party system. In consequence, this demands for an update of our understanding of the interplay of direct democracy and political parties as a two-way channel.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-04-29T05:45:24Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231165455
Commissioned Book Review: René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange,
Joost Raessens and Imar de Vries, The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in
a Mediatized Culture
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  Authors: Emma Lauren Brewis
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-04-29T01:20:37Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231172719
The Substantive Representation of Future Generations in Bicameral
Parliaments: A Comparison of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and
the Senate (2010–2014)
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  Authors: Daan Vermassen, Didier Caluwaerts
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  It is generally argued that representative democracies are unresponsive to the needs of future generations. Representatives, standing for re-election, are incentivized by the needs of current generations, and fail to take the interests of the unborn into account. However, this argument bypasses the institutional diversity among parliaments. In this article, we focus in particular on bicameralism, and we ask whether the representation of future generations is more prevalent in upper than in lower houses. We expect that posterity’s interests will be taken into account more strongly in upper houses which are (1) mandated to reflect on the long-term impact of policies, (2) less politically and publicly visible and (3) at least partially composed of non-elected members. Based on an exploratory analysis of representative claims made on behalf of future generations in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and the Senate, we conclude that the institutional status of the parliamentary assembly is not related to the propensity of making claims on behalf of posterity. We provide several explanations why this might be so.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-04-29T01:19:37Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231169491
Commissioned Book Review: David Fortunato, The Cycle of Coalition: How
Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance
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  Authors: Fariha Tabassum
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-04-29T01:18:37Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231172438
Behaviour and Thoughts: For a Pluralistic Model of Empirically Informed
Political Philosophy
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  Authors: Alice Baderin
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Is Political Philosophy Impossible' develops a distinctive and powerful vision of empirically informed political philosophy: one that gives a central role to data about what people do, rather than what they think or say. Here, I offer some critical reflections on this ‘normative behaviourist’ account of how, and why, we should integrate normative theorizing with empirical research. I suggest that normative behaviourism is at once too ambitious and too restrictive concerning the role of social scientific data in political philosophy. On the one hand, it implicates philosophy in complex and contested issues in criminology, and developing the approach to address more fine-grained normative problems would place unrealistic demands on the empirical data. On the other hand, the emphasis on crime and insurrection excludes alternative valuable forms of empirical evidence from normative theorizing. I conclude by defending a more modest and pluralistic picture of data-sensitive political philosophy.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-04-20T10:08:35Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231163469
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Interest-Group Influence
in Policy Implementation
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  Authors: Douwe Truijens, Marcel Hanegraaff
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Current research on interest-group influence in the European Union tends to focus on just one stage of the policy cycle, being agenda setting, the legislative process or (some aspects) of the implementation stage. We argue that this bifurcation of the research agenda is a serious shortcoming, as lobby dynamics may vary throughout different consecutive policymaking stages. As a consequence, lobby gains or losses in the legislative stage can be overturned in the implementation. This research note therefore explores how the influence of interest organisations travels across different stages of the policy cycle, most importantly between the legislative stage and the implementation stage. First, we observe that as policymaking is a continuous rather than a static process, also lobbying tends to stretch beyond the legislative stage. Second, we argue that the specific characteristics of the implementation vis-à-vis the legislative stage may structurally favour business and resourceful organisations over smaller groups and nongovernmental organisationss. Third, we illustrate the plausibility of our argument by means of an in-depth case study: the European Union Industrial Emissions Directive. We conclude with a call for a more integral approach to researching lobby powers throughout the policy cycle and provide a preliminary agenda for future research.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-04-19T09:07:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231162015
Outgroup Bias and the Unacceptability of Tax Fraud
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  Authors: Marco Mendoza Aviña, André Blais, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Rita de la Feria, Allison Harell
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In countries with well-developed welfare state systems, it is often claimed that racial or ethnic minorities impose a heavy burden on social assistance programs without contributing to public goods. In this study, we consider the attitudinal effects of anecdotal reports of tax cheating by minorities. We conduct survey experiments in France and the United States to assess if people react more harshly to tax fraud perpetrated by members of a minority group rather than the majority group. We find no evidence that minority status affects judgments and perceptions about tax fraud, including among those on the right end of the political spectrum. Tax fraud is considered unacceptable regardless of the culprit’s origin.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-04-18T06:19:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231162017
Fact-Centric Political Theory, Three Ways: Normative Behaviourism,
Grounded Normative Theory, and Radical Realism
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  Authors: Enzo Rossi
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In the last two decades, Anglophone political theory witnessed a renewed interest in social-scientific empirical findings – partly as a reaction against normative theorising centred on the formulation of abstract, intuition-driven moral principles. This brief article begins by showing how this turn has taken two distinct forms: (1) a nonideal theoretical orientation, which seeks to balance the emphasis on moral principles with feasibility and urgency considerations, and (2) a fact-centric orientation, which seeks to ground normative conclusions in empirical results. The core of the article then compares and contrasts three variants of fact-centric political theory: normative behaviourism, grounded normative theory and radical realism. The upshot: normative behaviourism achieves focus on observable behaviour at the cost of status quo bias, grounded normative theory achieves radicalism at the cost of endorsing an activist orientation to theorising and radical realism combines a non-activist orientation with the potential for far-reaching critique of the status quo.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-24T06:23:42Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231157625
Democracy and the Corruption of Speech
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  Authors: Mark E Warren
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In the developed democracies, the public discourse of political corruption and conspiracy remains stubbornly pervasive, in spite of the fact that these countries are, comparatively, the cleanest in the world. Everyday talk about corruption expresses a politics of distrust and disaffection, corrodes deliberative responses to political conflict and – most alarmingly – can be mobilized by populist authoritarians who would replace democratic institutions with decisionism. The phenomenon that Rosenblum and Muirhead call ‘the new conspiracism’ – assertions of conspiracies without evidence or even claims that could be refuted – is deepening the discourse of corruption, particularly in the United States. These discourses are expressive rather than discursive: they cannot be refuted because they signal fears and discontents rather than positions within public arguments. Because democracies only work when they channel political conflict into credible speech, these developments corrode the life-blood of democracies. A key problem for democrats today is to diagnose this pathology, identify powers of speech and devise responses that might protect the common pool resource of promise and commitment in speech-based politics.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-20T12:31:13Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231159784
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle
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  Authors: Akira Inoue
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This article shows that the democratic borders argument is defensible, albeit not in the way Arash Abizadeh proposes. The democratic borders argument depends on the All-Subjected Principle, according to which the exercise of political power is justified only insofar as everyone who is subjected to that power is guaranteed a right to vote. According to the so-called “scope objection,” the scope of the All-Subjected Principle is too broad, however, and therefore, the argument can be refuted by reductio ad absurdum. Here I argue that Abizadeh’s appeal to the narrow-scope interpretation of jurisdictionally circumscribed legal requirements is not a plausible way of defusing this reductio. Instead, I show that the democratic borders argument is successful if the All-Subjected Principle consists of two individually sufficient conditions corresponding to narrow-scope and qualified wide-scope interpretations.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-20T12:27:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231160513
Distinctions With a Difference: Illiberalism and Authoritarianism in
Scholarly Study
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  Authors: Julian G Waller
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Comparative social science concepts such as “illiberalism” and “authoritarianism” are increasingly common terms of art used in academic and policy debates, yet usage patterns and their substantive meaning vary widely across publications and authors. This article presents parsimonious “best-use” conceptualizations of both constructs, underlining the limitations of current, often widely disparate practices. In doing so, it outlines the reasons why this state of affairs is analytically unnecessary, leading to both conceptual stretching and terminological confusion. Illiberalism can most fruitfully be conceptualized positively and ideationally, capturing a distinct form of ideological reaction against hegemonic liberalism, experienced largely over the last several decades, with a variety of case-specific elements. This definition sits in partial contradistinction with other, sometimes-associated concepts such as anti-liberalism, populism, or conservatism and is not associated with regime-type definitionally. Authoritarianism, meanwhile, is most parsimoniously treated as a residual categorization of political regime vis-a-vis the concept of electoral democracy, which accords with the goals for which most scholars deploy it.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-20T12:25:47Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231159253
Political Parties and Interest Incorporation: A New Typology of
Intra-Party Groups
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  Authors: Matthias Dilling
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Linking society and politics has been one of political parties’ key functions in democracies around the world. Groups within political parties, like factions, auxiliary organisations and territorial party branches, have been important for parties to build such linkages because they help incorporate voters’, members’ and elites’ interests. However, although intra-party groups have figured prominently in many studies, scholars often encountered difficulties when seeking to distinguish between them. Missing conceptual clarity is consequential because it has made communicating results across studies difficult and thus posed an obstacle to accumulating knowledge. This review brings together the literature on factionalism and party organisation to enhance conceptual clarity. Groups’ organisational pervasiveness and flexibility allow distinguishing between factions, camps, auxiliary organisations and party branches. The article ends with suggestions for how to put the typology to work.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-20T12:24:14Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231156556
Three’s (Not Necessarily) A Crowd: State-of-the-Art Review of the
Strategic Triangle
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  Authors: Mor Sobol, Yen-Jung Chang
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In the last four decades, the Strategic Triangle concept has established itself as an eclectic theoretical framework in the research domain of triangular analysis. As international politics has evolved, the literature on Strategic Triangle has followed suit. Specifically, it appears that scholars have succeeded in transcending beyond the ‘traditional’ regional setting and conceptualisation by testing existing theoretical assumptions, developing new models and offering new insights into the dynamics of triangular relationships. Against this background, this contribution primarily aims to provide a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the scholarly literature on Strategic Triangles. This article also seeks to illustrate the existing room for further engagement and analysis of triangular relationships by offering concrete recommendations on how researchers could further develop the Strategic Triangle concept.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-16T10:45:26Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231158216
Commissioned Book Review: Anupama Roy, Citizenship Regimes, Law and
Belonging: The CAA and the NRC
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  Authors: Jigyasa Sogarwal
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-02T06:11:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231159255
Commissioned Book Review: Christer Pursiainen and Tuomas Forsberg, The
Psychology of Foreign Policy
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  Authors: Bülent Evre
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-01T09:02:04Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231159252
Commissioned Book Review: Mariana Budjeryn, Inheriting the Bomb: The
Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine
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  Authors: Emad A Ayasreh
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-01T09:00:55Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231159248
Behavioural Evidence, Yes; Normative Behaviourism, No
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  Authors: Keith Dowding
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Floyd defends normative behaviourism against ‘mentalism’. His characterization of political philosophy as mentalism is uncharitable, and it is not clear that normative behaviourism provides greater evidence of convergence that we find in liberal political philosophy. To interpret behaviour, one must theorize the effects of institutions on that behaviour, it is therefore problematic to defend institutions on behavioural grounds alone without ‘mentalistic’ theory. Normative behaviourism uses a ‘contingent imperative’; however, this leaves the behaviour normatively undefended. A potential response by Floyd to these criticisms depends upon misinterpreting Cohen’s argument that fact-free principles underlie all policy recommendations. Floyd’s own recommendations require at least one fact-free principle in Cohen’s sense. Floyd is correct that behavioural evidence is important to political philosophy.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-03-01T08:57:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231157999
What Constitutes Substantive Representation, and Where Should We Evaluate
It'
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  Authors: Orly Siow
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This short article introduces a novel framework for conceiving of the substantive representation of marginalized groups – in this case, racially minoritized women in the UK House of Commons. I outline a rubric of eight facets of substantive representation. These evaluate the degree to which claims that constitute a group are also substantively representative of that group. In doing so, I contribute a much-needed framework for distinguishing between representative claims which speak on behalf of a group versus those which merely speak about, or even against, that group. I argue that substantive representation must be considered intersectionally, reflecting the multiple structures positioning those represented. Furthermore, all facets of substantive representation can rarely be contributed by a single parliamentary speech, individual, or narrow group of legislators such as descriptive representatives. Therefore, I suggest that empirical studies of substantive representation should include a greater evaluation of the collective work of institutions as a whole.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-27T11:12:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231154864
“Don’t Take It Personally”: Tracing Six Decades of Scholarship on
Personal, Personalist, and Personalized Political Parties (1960–2021)
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  Authors: Alberto Lioy
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This article systematically examines the academic literature on personalism and personalization in political parties. Its comprehensive review uses existing studies to (1) demonstrate that personalism has a rich and complex history; (2) outline conceptual differences within the literature related to size, clientelism, internal organization, centralization, and mediatic image; (3) trace patterns of institutionalization and de-personalization of personal parties; and (4) evaluate existing empirical and methodological approaches to the topic. Finally, the conclusion advocates for the adoption of a clear research agenda and proposes conceptual, quantitative, and discursive alternatives to what has already been done.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-20T05:35:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221133932
Europeans’ Attitudes Toward the Goals of Agricultural Policy: A Case of
Rural–Urban Divide'
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  Authors: Jale Tosun, Simon Schaub, Charlene Marek
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Is there a rural–urban divide in citizens’ views on European Union agricultural policy' We argue that the place of residence influences a person’s attitude toward agricultural policy issues. More precisely, we postulate that rural populations are less likely to view environmental and climate action, and sustainable food production as key objectives of agricultural policy; instead, we hypothesize they are more likely to indicate job growth in rural areas and ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers as key objectives. We analyze data from a Special Eurobarometer survey fielded in 2020 for 24,328 individuals living in 27 European Union member states. Multilevel mixed-effect logit models reveal the place of residence (urban–peri-urban–rural) as a significant predictor of the respondents’ attitudes for almost all dimensions of agricultural policy. The differences are most striking for environmental and climate-related aspects of agricultural policy, as well as for its goal of generating economic growth and jobs in rural areas. From this, we conclude there is a rural–urban divide concerning agricultural policy, which policymakers should be aware of and attempt to address.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-16T09:20:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221149505
Participatory Institutions and Political Ideologies: How and Why They
Matter'
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  Authors: Joan Font, Carlos Rico Motos
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Most of the research about participatory institutions has neglected the analysis of the role played by ideological preferences in their development. Do different political ideologies of governing parties develop different participatory processes' Our starting point is that diverse views on the core values of democracy should lead to different positions concerning the role and expected benefits of citizen participation. This article discusses two main questions. First, in case ideology matters, which is the crucial difference' Is this a matter of “right versus left” or is there a particular party family with special attentiveness to developing participatory institutions' Second, in case any difference exists, how exactly does it translate into the development of participatory institutions' Analyzing data from Spanish municipalities in the period 2003–2010, we show that the party families that had a relevant presence in local administrations in this time frame show more similarities than differences in the participatory activities implemented. However, some relevant differences are found related to the constituencies addressed and mobilized and the type of participatory processes developed.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-09T10:20:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221148355
Poverty Porn and Perceptions of Agency: An Experimental Assessment
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  Authors: Emily Clough, Jill Hardacre, Elizabeth Muggleton
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  For decades, scholars, non-governmental organisations and observers have expressed concern about the use of sensationalised images of people in the developing world in non-governmental organisation fundraising advertisements. They fear that these negative messages, often known as ‘poverty porn’, lead to a perception of people in developing countries as helpless and lacking in agency. Despite this ongoing concern, there has been no empirical assessment of the effect of exposure to these negative messages on the perceptions of people living in poverty in developing countries. Our research employs an online experiment of 450 UK respondents to address this gap. It examines how watching charity advertisements affects people’s perceptions of the agency of those in poverty in developing countries. We find that those who viewed negative portrayals of those in poverty were more likely to rate people in poverty lower on measures of agency. This empirically validates the criticisms of these types of negative advertisements.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-09T06:49:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231152437
Empirical and Normative Without a Universal Human Nature
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  Authors: Tariq Modood
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  I rally behind Floyd’s call to arms for an approach to political philosophy based on the broad hope ‘that we can successfully treat certain forms of human action as expressions [of] normative preferences ripe for conversion into political principles’. I have doubts, however, about his use of social science: it is too selective and is selected on the basis of the avoidance of two social evils and thus does not answer the fundamental questions of political philosophy about the good life and a polity that is based on positive ideals and aspirations. Nor do I see that the avoidance of the normative aloofness of ‘continental’ critical theory requires the postulation of a universal human nature, a postulate that in any case is unavailable.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-08T04:52:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231154175
Why Do Political Candidates Use Social Media in Election Campaigning' An
Explanation Offered by a Cost-Benefit Calculation Using Survey Data
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  Authors: Michael Haman
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines the use of social media during the 2021 Mexican legislative election. Political candidates were contacted through the email addresses they had listed and sent a questionnaire to fill out. Thus, the research is based on original data directly collected from political candidates. Political candidates commented on their use of social media during the election campaign. The research used closed questions. The assumption was that political candidates would use social media if they felt that the benefits outweighed the costs associated with managing social media accounts. The utility of social media can also lie in the opportunity to gain new votes. The results show that political candidates used social media more if they perceived that it was being used in their constituency. If few voters in a constituency use social media, then the potential utility of using social media declines. Furthermore, they used them more if they perceived that from an economic point of view, managing an account and sending a message were not that costly.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-08T04:51:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231152106
Does Social Mobility Matter' The Kafala System and Anti-Immigrant
Sentiment
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  Authors: Amir Abdul Reda, Nicholas AR Fraser, Ahmed Khattab
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Existing studies argue that anti-immigrant sentiment stems from threat perception. Yet, conventional theoretical approaches cannot fully explain hostility toward immigrants in the Middle East and North Africa, where low-skilled foreign workers occupy an inferior social and legal status vis-a-vis natives under the kafala system. Building on existing studies of immigration politics, we theorize how immigration policies can either facilitate or prevent the social mobility of foreign workers. Exploring immigration attitudes in 14 Middle East and North Africa countries using an original dataset that matches survey responses with host country-specific factors, we find that extreme rights-restricting immigration policies (such as the kafala system) encourage wealthier natives to be more hostile than their lower-class counterparts. Our study suggests that anti-immigrant sentiment is context-specific and influenced by local institutions.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-08T04:46:16Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221130901
International Politics and the Subnational Allocation of World Bank
Development Projects
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  Authors: Matthew DiLorenzo
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Temporary United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members receive more World Bank projects. I consider the potential for UNSC status to influence aid allocation within recipient countries. While strategically important recipients might gain greater discretion over the internal distribution of aid, no clear evidence establishes whether World Bank aid tends to succumb to political pressures within countries. I examine whether political favoritism within countries varies with UNSC status and find little evidence for a connection. While cross-national lending may follow politics, subnational allocation seems to be unrelated to international politics, which has important implications for the efficacy of Bank assistance.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-07T10:09:40Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231153821
Measuring the Substantive Representation of Women Cross-Nationally:
Towards a Composite Index
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  Authors: Ekaterina R Rashkova, Silvia Erzeel
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Recent scholarship on women’s substantive representation has expanded from its initial focus on gender inequalities in parliaments and now studies (1) various group interests, (2) in different venues, (3) across different contexts and (4) using different methods and approaches. Building on these advances, we present a new comparative measure of women’s substantive representation. This ‘Substantive Representation Index’ combines eight indicators, linked to two key dimensions of women’s substantive representation, in one composite quantitative index. As such, we offer a consistent modality that allows scholars to measure women’s substantive representation systematically and comparatively across and within democratic countries and over time.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-04T11:09:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221148430
Cooperate But Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey
During Autocratization
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  Authors: Au Nok Hin, Chan Ka Ming, Ng Ka Lun
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  When opposition elites cooperate to counteract authoritarian incumbents, they often deemphasize their fissures. But behind the scenes of cooperation, will their attitudinal divisions remain' If so, on what dimensions' Though these questions have important implications for the tenacity of cooperation and future political developments, the current literature does not shed much light on them. Our research answers these questions by examining the case of Hong Kong, which has undergone widespread repression. We surveyed district councilors in an autocratization episode in which opposition elites were highly cohesive. Using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov metric, we find that opposition factions share similar economic attitudes. Yet, despite their cooperative behavior, they still hold divided attitudes on the center-periphery and democratization strategies dimensions. These findings contribute to the burgeoning literature on autocratization by highlighting the (in)congruence of opposition elites’ attitudes and behavior.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-04T11:06:17Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221147460
Explaining Online Personalized Politics: A Cross-National Comparative
Analysis of Social Media Consumption of Parties and Leaders
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  Authors: Shahaf Zamir
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  The personalization of politics (the process of politicians’ strengthening at the expense of political parties) has long been studied. This study focuses on online personalism in the consumption of political parties and their leaders on Twitter and Facebook and aims to find its explaining factors. Following the normalization/equalization debate, it sets hypotheses regarding the relationship between variables from offline to online personalized politics. Using multilevel analysis of Facebook and Twitter data of more than 140 parties from 25 democracies, it finds that the leaders’ position significantly affects online personalism in most of the consumption aspects of social media. It also shows that country’s offline personalization, leader’s tenure, party populism, party age, party’s governmental status, vote share, and the leadership selection method have effects on some of the indicators for online personalism on the consumption side. It concludes that offline political power is reflected online.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-04T11:04:57Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221147458
Does Normative Behaviourism Offer an Alternative Methodology in Political
Theory'
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  Authors: Eva Erman, Niklas Möller
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  A central distinction for Jonathan Floyd is that between the traditional method of pursuing political theory conducted by mainstream theorists, which he calls ‘mentalism’, and his suggested method, so-called ‘normative behaviourism’. While the former relies on patterns of thought (e.g. intuitions, value commitments, principles or considered judgements) to justify normative theories, the latter instead relies on patterns of behaviour. Floyd argues that normative behaviourism offers an alternative methodology to mainstream mentalism, a new – and better – way of doing political philosophy. Our aim in this article is to reject this claim: normative behaviourism does not offer an alternative methodology in political theory. First, we show that normative behaviourism, contrary to Floyd’s claim, is as dependent on value premises as mainstream, ‘mentalist’ political theory. Second, we illustrate the structural similarities between normative behaviourism and mainstream political theory from a methodological standpoint by comparing the former with an influential normative theory, namely, utilitarianism.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-02-02T11:18:32Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299231151803
The Hindutva Brand of Populist Politics and the Women Question
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  Authors: Palak Singh, Gopal Krishan Parihar
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This study maps the interactions of the Hindutva brand of political populism, which is in rise in India, with the feminist politics and concerns. To study this interaction, the article qualitatively studies the phenomenon of Hindutva-populism and feminist politics and uses the Bhartiya Janata Party, the Hindu-rightist political party, as the site to explore the gendered political culture and the complex relationship that populism and feminism share on the women question in their quest for political and social transformation in India. For this purpose, the article focuses on the broad themes, highlighting the differential visions of both projects, of: the lens through which the problems are diagnosed, the solutions proposed to these problems and the role of the related variables such as power, state and leadership, which puts them in a fundamental clash with each other.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-23T06:27:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221146695
Polarization, Media Professionalism, and Support for Press Freedoms in
Sub-Saharan Africa: A Report on Early Results
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  Authors: Peter VonDoepp, Daniel J Young
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This article reports on early results of a research project examining popular support for media freedoms in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the Afrobarometer surveys, as well as other sources, we specifically examine cross-national variation in support for media freedoms, seeking to account for the national-level factors that affect that variation. Our findings suggest the importance of two factors in particular. The first is the level of polarization in society. Using a novel measure of this factor, we find that higher levels of polarization are associated with lower levels of support for media freedoms. The second factor is the level of professionalism characterizing the media sector. We find that lower levels of media professionalism drive down support for media freedoms. Further research will explore these through the use of multilevel analysis that incorporates investigation of individual-level factors shaping support for media freedoms.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-23T06:25:50Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221143681
The Public Funding of Election Administration: Evidence from a British
General Election
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  Authors: Alistair Clark
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Administering elections is costly, requiring considerable resourcing. The extent to which election administration is funded can reveal government priorities towards democratic rights and affects every potential voter. Yet, little is known of this crucial aspect of public administration, in any type of democracy. This research innovates by seeking to establish overall levels of variation in public funding of election administration in a national general election, and by applying this to the local level to investigate whether socio-economic, administrative or political factors are more important as drivers of costs. The article deploys a unique dataset which integrates rare government election administration budgeting data, with Census and political data to provide an exploratory analysis from a British general election. It finds that key production costs of voting infrastructure appear to drive funding. While socio-economic and political aspects have less of an impact, levels of ethnic minority voters and regional effects also appear important determinants.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-14T04:54:24Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221148429
Getting Realistic About Action-Guidance: Moralism, Radical Realism and
Divisions of Labour
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  Authors: Ben Cross
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Moralists and radical realists both seem to employ a division of intellectual labour to enable their theories to be action-guiding. Moralists typically distinguish between formulating normative principles and devising suitable means for implementing or approximating them. Radical realists, meanwhile, seem to distinguish between the findings of ideology critique and further political theorising informed by these findings. However, radical realist criticisms of the moralist division of labour may suggest a tu quoque objection to radical realism: if the moralist division of labour is defective, why does the same not also hold for the radical realist division of labour' My aim in this article is to answer this question. I identify two distinct radical realist objections to the moralist division of labour, which I refer to as the seminar room objection and the motivation objection respectively. I then argue that radical realists can deal effectively with these objections if they were to be turned against their version of the division of labour. Hence, radical realists can consistently criticise moralist versions of the division of labour while simultaneously employing their own version.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-12T09:04:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221147459
Commissioned Book Review: Simon Weschle, Money in Politics:
Self-Enrichment, Campaign Spending, and Golden Parachutes
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  Authors: Kevin Fahey, Iain McMenamin
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-12T08:36:20Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221146690
Commissioned Book Review: Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, Spin
Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
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  Authors: Egor Bronnikov
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-12T08:33:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221146689
Commissioned Book Review: Daniel Stockemer and Aksel Sundström, Youth
Without Representation: The Absence of Young Adults in Parliaments,
Cabinets, and Candidacies
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  Authors: Brit Anlar
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-12T08:30:05Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221146688
The Concept of Political Sophistication: Labeling the Unlabeled
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  Authors: Marta Gallina
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  The concept of political sophistication, first introduced almost 60 years ago, is still widely discussed in political studies. However, due to the discrepancies in definitions, indicators, and findings, it is often difficult to discern how various approaches have contributed to the broader literature. Thus, to propose an intellectual order, this article uses a simple classification to understand these studies: the distinction between sophistication as the complexity of political reasoning (cognitive sophistication) and sophistication as the amount of political information (pragmatic sophistication). In addition, this article discusses the most recent developments in research and examines why previous literature have generally overlooked them. Finally, it provides a schematic summary that can serve as a guide to understanding the variety of research on political sophistication.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-12T08:28:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221146058
How Much Data for the Political Theorist' On the Argumentative
Normative Behaviourism
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  Authors: Nahshon Perez
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Jonathan Floyd’s work explores the ways in which political theory can use empirical data to answer a fundamental question: what is the best kind of a contemporary regime' The goals of the current article are to understand Floyd’s important argument, to clarify the argument’s main attributes, and to suggest that the argument cannot rely solely on empirical data: even if all the conditions that are necessary for Floyd’s framework present themselves, his approach still requires substantial theoretical, normative, or philosophical foundations. I argue that it is not possible to rely on empirical data to circumvent political philosophising; the justification for such reliance itself requires substantial philosophical arguments. Regardless, Floyd’s project is a leading example of the benefits of bringing political theory and political science closer to each other.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-12T08:27:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221143684
When Nations Adapt: National Resilience between State(s) and Identity(ies)
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  Authors: Alon Helled, Carlo Pala
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Nations are resilient and often taken for granted as an analytical category in most social sciences. Academic literature has highlighted the industrial and capitalistic origins of nationalism, espousing the formation of modern statehood as well as the revitalized re-elaboration of ethno-genetic elements into that same modernity, even when ‘imagined’ and ‘invented’. Certainly, the organizational and ideological capacities of nation-states are sociologically ‘grounded’, yet less attention has been given to nations’ capacity to adapt their sociogenetic identity. This article seeks to interpret and contextualize the issue through the theorization of national resilience as a mid-range concept by offering analytical instruments.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-04T10:53:47Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221144620
Technocratic Ministers in Office in European Countries (2000–2020):
What’s New'
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  Authors: Davide Vittori, Jean-Beniot Pilet, Sebastien Rojon, Emilien Paulis
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Although Europeans are favourable towards the idea of being governed by ‘independent experts’, and despite the burgeoning literature on technocratic ministers, we still miss important information about the profiles of technocrats in government. This article provides new insights into the characteristics of non-partisan, non-elected ministers and the roles they perform once in government based on a Technocratic Ministers’ Dataset covering all governments in 31 European countries from 2000 to 2020. First, we show that average share of technocratic (as opposed to partisan) ministers in European cabinets rose from 9.5% to 14.2% over the last two decades. This increase is characteristic of all macro-regions, except Scandinavian countries. Second, technocratic ministers are assigned to a diversity of portfolios and not just finance and economy, which, respectively, account for only 15% of technocratic ministers. Finally, technocratic ministers do not hold office for shorter periods of time than partisan ones, except when they are part of caretaker cabinets.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-04T10:50:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221140036
Compromise in Political Theory
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  Authors: Friderike Spang
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This review article provides a topic-centered overview of the state of compromise in political theory, where compromise is increasingly discussed as a promising approach to dealing with disagreement in politics and society. Given the growing literature on compromise, a systematic approach to the topic is due. The first sections are focused on clarifying the concept of compromise, while the remainder of the article offers different perspectives on those aspects of compromise that are subject to debate.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-04T01:01:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221131268
Why Normative Behaviourism Fails
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  Authors: David Miller
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Starting from Jonathan Floyd’s contrast between ‘mentalism’ and ‘behaviourism’, I argue that, in general, we cannot make sense of a person’s behaviour without also understanding the thinking behind it. Floyd claims that ‘mentalist’ political philosophy is undercut by inconsistency and disagreement in people’s political judgements, but the evidence suggests otherwise. The public does not divide up into rival camps as philosophers do, but instead are mostly value pluralists. Conversely, it is unclear what justificatory role is played by the kinds of observed behaviour – insurrection and crime – singled out by Floyd. Failure to resist a political system cannot tell us whether people endorse the principles it embodies. So the system Floyd wishes to defend – ‘social-liberal-democracy’ – cannot be vindicated as ‘the people’s choice’ simply by producing evidence that it provokes less resistance than alternative systems, past and present.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2023-01-02T10:26:34Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221146056
Super Politicians' Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on
Representation
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  Authors: Judith Charlotte de Jong, Liza Mügge
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  How do minoritized citizens think about the politicians that represent them' How should they act and be' Drawing on 19 focus group interviews with 98 participants with a migration background in Germany and the Netherlands, we find that citizens’ evaluation of politicians depends on several factors. Politicians should be responsive, accessible, inclusive, and empathetic. Some participants consider empathy an essential quality for non-descriptive politicians in particular, since they do not have a descriptive or experiential connection with ethnically minoritized communities. Whether participants evaluate descriptive political actors positively or negatively depends on their sociopolitical identification, ideological preference, and the representative’s perceived assimilation within the party. Finally, political systems and histories of diversity in representation influence what ethnically minoritized citizens consider to be a good representative. But, the super politicians of their dreams are scarce.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T10:22:18Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221138730
Conspiracism and Civility
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  Authors: Matteo Bonotti, Steven T Zech
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Conspiracism has become a topical issue in democracies around the world, eliciting debate in political theory and philosophy regarding its normative and practical implications, especially its potential negative effects on democratic systems. In this article, we analyse conspiracism through the lens of civility. The public virtue of civility plays a key role in democratic politics and in public life more generally, by helping to sustain democratic institutions and facilitating social interaction despite disagreement. If conspiracism undermines civility and contributes to incivility, as we argue in this article, that might have distinctively deleterious effects on democratic life. We begin by unpacking the concept of civility into three key dimensions: (a) civility as politeness, (b) moral civility and (c) justificatory civility. We then illustrate how conspiracism can contribute to incivility and harm democracy in each of the three dimensions but also how it can sometimes be harmless or even helpful for democracy.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T10:08:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221140987
Attitudes Toward Migration and Associational Activity: Evidence From
Germany
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  Authors: Zorzeta Bakaki, Tobias Böhmelt, Vincenzo Bove
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  We explore how associational activity—a key aspect of social capital—affects migration attitudes. It is argued that people’s membership in sports clubs and associations likely leads to more negative views on migration. Exploiting the panel structure of the German Longitudinal Election Data, the empirical analysis provides support for our expectations. We also show that individuals’ political orientation moderates the postulated effect. The findings further our understanding of how public opinion on migration is formed and we add to the literature on social capital by highlighting the potentially negative consequences one of its components can have.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-12-14T01:10:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221139805
The Changing Structure of Political Conflicts in the South of Europe: An
Analysis of Issue Voting in Four Countries
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  Authors: Luca Carrieri, Marco Morini
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This research analyses the demand-side of politics in Southern European countries, investigating how three relevant voting determinants have changed throughout time. The focus is on Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, and the examined variables are the European Union, immigration and state intervention in the economy. The period of analysis is 2009–2019 and we identify the structure of political conflicts from the point of view of voters. We find that the electoral support of parties has been increasingly influenced by party positions on immigration (with the partial exception of Portugal), but not on the European Union. Moreover, the issue of ‘state control and regulation of the economy’ is boosting its explanatory power in all the countries investigated in this study. Thus, new issue determinants have gradually reshaped the system of voting preferences across Southern Europe, with voter demands becoming more likely to match party supply on immigration and economic interventionism.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-12-14T01:03:14Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221138030
Does Politicians’ Negative Social Media Communication Backfire' A Case
Study of Former US President Trump
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  Authors: Hsuan-Yu (Shane) Lin
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Does posting negative social media messages incur costs to politicians in a polarized society' While extant literature finds that politicians’ negative rhetoric on social media increases audience engagement, this seemingly positive feedback from social media users will, in fact, amplify the real cost. Leveraging a YouGov dataset and applying Natural Language Processing techniques, I find novel evidence that negative social media messages by the political elite do generate tangible costs to the political elite. Negative rhetoric, while increasing the spread of information, negatively impacts the audience’s evaluation of the content. This research also finds that the effect is mediated by policy topics. This research advances our understanding of the limitations of politicians’ negative messaging on social media and contributes to the debate about the effect of politicians’ negative social media communication, a growing political phenomenon in the United States and in democracies worldwide.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-12-01T05:59:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221134935
Commissioned Book Review: E Fullmer, Tuesday’s Gone: America’s
Early Voting Revolution
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  Authors: Valeria Babayan
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-11-19T11:12:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221136416
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity
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  Authors: Adrian Kreutz, Enzo Rossi
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Do salient normative claims about politics require moral premises' Political moralists think they do, political realists think they do not. We defend the viability of realism in a two-pronged way. First, we show that a number of recent attacks on realism as well as realist responses to those attacks unduly conflate distinctly political normativity and non-moral political normativity. Second, we argue that Alex Worsnip and Jonathan Leader-Maynard’s recent attack on realist arguments for a distinctly political normativity depends on assuming moralism as the default view, which places an excessive burden on the viability of realism, and so begs the question. Our discussion, though, does not address the relative merits of realism and moralism, so its upshot is relatively ecumenical: moralism need not be the view that all apt normative political judgements are moral judgements, and realism need not be the view that no apt normative political judgements are moral judgements.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-11-19T11:09:32Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221136410
Members of the European Parliament’s Political Careers across Different
Levels: Presenting a New Dataset of Members of the European Parliament
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  Authors: Eugenio Salvati
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In recent decades, an important field of research has emerged concerning the careers of Members of the European Parliament. Due to the specific nature of the European Parliament, the European Union, the multilevel politics and the peculiarity of the supranational political class, it is of particular interest to map and control the regularity of, and changes in, the composition of the European Parliament and the impact over systemic features or policy-making aspects. For this reason, the article presents a new dataset comprising a collection of detailed information about all of the Members of the European Parliament who held office from the first election in 1979 until the latest in 2019. This dataset represents a useful novelty because it is a dynamic tool that allows reconnecting the Members of the European Parliament’s position and responsibilities within the European Parliament to their political background before entering the supranational assembly. Finally, the article suggests possible fields of research in which this type of data could be useful in deepening and consolidating our knowledge about the European Parliament and its members.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-11-19T11:02:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221135239
Institutional Consequences of the Black Lives Matter Movement: Towards
Diversity in Elite Education
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  Authors: Mathis Ebbinghaus, Sihao Huang
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, racial disparities in elite educational attainment have received widespread attention. Universities expressed their commitment to racial diversity, but university policies aimed at rectifying historic disadvantages were also met with criticism. Critics expressed concerns that efforts to achieve racial equity would disadvantage academically successful Asian students. With this article, we examine how Black and Asian student representation has changed over time. Time series enrolment data show a continuing increase in the representation of Black students at elite universities following Black Lives Matter protests. Medical school enrolment saw a similar trend of increased representation of Black students. Contrary to concerns that Asian student representation has declined as a result of growing enrolment rates of Black students, we observe a steady increase in the representation of Asian students alongside increases in the representation of Hispanic students over the past decade. Black Lives Matter coincided with increased Black enrolment in highly selective universities, without affecting broader trends towards greater representation of minority students.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T01:42:39Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221132428
Do Denizens Represent Denizens' A Case of Foreigners’ Council in
Frankfurt
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  Authors: Petra Guasti, Brigitte Geißel
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This article fills a gap in existing research by focusing on the political representation of denizens—legal residents not holding citizenship of the country and thus generally excluded from legislative politics. The empirical research on the effects of the presence of under-represented groups in representative bodies indicates that “who represents” (descriptive) is as important as “what is being represented” (substantive). In this article, we analyze the extent to which an elected body of denizens (KAV) in the German city of Frankfurt provides a descriptive and substantive representation. We find that in Frankfurt, the body elected by denizens to represent denizens does not represent denizens. In providing inference about the descriptive and substantive representation of denizens in KAV, our research contributes to broadening the study of representation by focusing on an understudied group, non-traditional venues, and claim-making as a form of representative politics.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-10-29T01:13:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221130905
Runoff Comebacks in Comparative Perspective: Two-Round Presidential
Election Systems
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  Authors: Gianluca Passarelli, Matthew Bergman
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In many countries, the president of the republic is directly elected through popular vote. Most such nations have an electoral system that provides for a double-round of voting. Often termed a two-round system, such elections have a second turn if no candidate obtains an absolute majority in the first round. This article presents an original dataset covering all the presidential and the semi-presidential regimes (73 countries) that have adopted two-round system along with the results of 423 elections for both the first and second round and whether the result was determined in the first round, whether the plurality winner of the first round was victorious in the second round, or whether there was a second round ‘comeback’ – when the runner-up of the first round was victorious in the second. A variety of exploratory hypotheses are presented that try to predict the likelihood of a second round or a comeback. Few are validated. The presence of an incumbent and a qualified method of presidential selection increases the probability of a second round occurring while a greater number of candidates and greater electoral volatility make it less likely. We find that no variables related to political institutions, presidential resources, or the structure of the first round predictive of a second round comeback. We make the dataset public so that future scholars can continue this form of investigation.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-10-28T11:35:48Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221132441
Does the Election Winner–Loser Gap Extend to Subjective Health and
Well-Being'
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  Authors: Dimiter Toshkov, Honorata Mazepus
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Political scientists have studied extensively the gap between winners and losers of democratic elections with regard to satisfaction with democracy. We ask whether the winner–loser gap extends beyond the political domain to subjective health and well-being as well. Building on insights from biology and coalitional psychology, we hypothesize that winning and losing elections could affect one’s outlook on life, happiness, and subjective health. We comprehensively test these theoretical propositions with cross-sectional data from the 2012 and 2018 waves of the European Social Survey. We document significant gaps between winners and losers with respect to measures of subjective personal well-being. To further probe the causal nature of these winner–loser effects, we trace changes in well-being following election wins and losses using a panel dataset from the Netherlands, where we find weaker supportive evidence. Overall, our results suggest that winning and losing democratic elections can have much wider-reaching consequences than previously recognized.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-10-03T11:29:24Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221124735
Commissioned Book Review: Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, To Kill a
Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism
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  Authors: Shrishtie Parganiha
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-09-14T07:03:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221119096
The Evaluation of the District Legislators’ Performance Affects
Citizens’ Satisfaction with Democracy: The Hungarian Example
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  Authors: Zsófia Papp
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Prior research reveals a relationship between various political system outputs and the citizens’ satisfaction with democracy (SWD). The current study contributes to this line of inquiry and demonstrates that the perception of the district legislators’ overall performance positively correlates with the citizens’ democratic satisfaction. The multivariate analysis of Hungarian panel data from 2018 reveals that the effect is most salient in the case of the winners of the election, and less so for the losers. Results are robust to a variety of changes in the model. The findings indicate that the focus on individual politicians and their work has the potential to increase democratic satisfaction even if representative political institutions such as parties, governments and parliaments are not able to win the citizens’ trust.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-09-07T09:19:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221118175
Commissioned Book Review: Seema Mustafa, Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of
India: Writings on a Movement for Justice, Liberty and Equality
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  Authors: Ahana Chakrabarti
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-09-05T06:47:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221117446
Does Cross-Regime Contact Change the Evaluation of Democracy' Evidence
From Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China
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  Authors: Chia-chou Wang
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Does visiting Mainland China alter Taiwanese students’ evaluation of Taiwan’s democracy' This question greatly concerns democratic supporters globally. Therefore, 477 Taiwanese young adults participating in Mainland China exchange programmes were recruited for this study. Social contact, social identity, political socialisation and rational choice theories were introduced to formulate four hypotheses. The results indicated that, among the three dimensions constituting the democracy evaluation following their exchange to Mainland China, the Taiwanese students showed increased positive evaluations in democratic support and degree of democratisation. Furthermore, positive evaluations for satisfaction with democracy decreased. The evaluation of Taiwan’s democracy, formed by aggregating these three dimensions, indicates that this index decreased in 27.54% of students, increased in 29.24% and remained unchanged in 43.22%. After visiting Mainland China, students exhibit a tendency towards ethnically identifying as Taiwanese, or have a worse impression of China, or have greater political trust towards Taiwanese officials, or show a lower preference for the strongman rule, leading to a more favourable evaluation of Taiwan’s democracy.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-09-03T05:33:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221119909
Commissioned Book Review: Zeynep Pamuk, Politics and Expertise: How to Use
Science in a Democratic Society
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  Authors: Oliver Dowlen
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-08-24T10:30:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221118827
A Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe' An Answer from the
Citizens’ Perspective
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  Authors: Irene Palacios
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This article analyses the public support for the social model of democracy by focusing on the gap between what citizens expect democracy to deliver in the social realm and how they do evaluate its achievement in the practice. Using data from the European Social Survey Round 6 (2012), the results reveal that individuals with a lower socio-economic background, those positioned on the left and those who are more distrustful of political institutions tend to be more supportive of social democracy, while they evaluate its performance more negatively. The data also demonstrate that individuals’ social expectations and evaluations are moderated by their country’s institutional configuration of the welfare state, and more particularly, its degree of universalism. Overall, the results support the intuition that the alleged crisis of social democracy does not exist generally across Europe, but only in those countries where the welfare state has been unable to close the gap between expectations and evaluations.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-08-22T11:40:35Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221117458
What Lies Beneath: Mediators of Public Support for International Economic
Cooperation
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  Authors: Quynh Nguyen, Gabriele Spilker
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  The current public backlash against several trade agreements has triggered a vivid discourse about the impact of top-down communication of such initiatives on public opinion. Findings from previous work on the impact of issue frames provide distinct expectations about the influence of different types of messages on people’s opinion. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the impact of message cues on opinion formation. In this article, we shed light on one potential mechanism that mediates issue framing effects: individuals’ emotional reaction. By means of a survey-embedded experiment conducted in the United States and Germany, we expose respondents to different frames about the benefits and risks of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement. The results show that frames have a significant effect on public opinion, but frames that emphasize losses seem more persuasive than frames promoting the gains from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Complementing our empirical investigation, with a causal mediation analysis we find that framing effects are indeed mediated by people’s emotional responses to the frames.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-08-20T06:56:31Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221113188
Covid-19 Policy Convergence in Response to Knightian Uncertainty
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  Authors: Anthony M. Sayers, Christa Scholtz, Dave Armstrong, Christopher Kam, Christopher Alcantara
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Domestic policy responses to COVID-19 were remarkably consistent during the early days of the pandemic. What explains this policy convergence' Our formal model suggests that the novel character of COVID-19 produced a period of maximum policy uncertainty, incentivizing political actors to converge on a common set of policies to minimize their exposure to electoral punishment. This convergence is likely to break down as policy feedback produces opinion divergence among experts and the public and as politicians recalculate the costs and benefits of various policy responses and under some conditions facing incentives to adopt extreme policies.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-07-21T10:44:55Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221109081
Presidential Approval, Tolerant Attitudes, and Economic Performance: The
Case of Latin America
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  Authors: Mariana Sendra, Asbel Bohigues
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Due to the historical centrality of presidents in Latin America, we argue that presidential approval can be a source of group membership among citizens, creating a division between “ingroups” and “outgroups.” We test the effects of such division on tolerant attitudes toward the rights of system critics to participate in political life in four ways (from the least to the most threatening for the ingroup): voting, giving speeches on television, running for office, and demonstrating peacefully. We further argue that this effect is conditioned by the economic context, and that the ingroup/outgroup divide is activated when an economy performs poorly. Analysis of the AmericasBarometer 2018/2019 survey is consistent with our expectations. Specifically, our results suggest that the main predictor for tolerant attitudes is presidential approval, and that the individual-level effect dissipates in a context of good performance of the economy, which causes the presidential ingroup to not feel threatened by any outgroup.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-07-20T12:26:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221109473
An Economic Understanding of Populism: A Conceptual Framework of the
Demand and the Supply Side of Populism
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  Authors: István Benczes, Krisztina Szabó
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This article assesses progress in the economics-centred literature on populism along three key themes and develops a conceptual framework to better understand the phenomenon. On the demand side (t − 1), economics research identifies the effect of an exogenous economic shock on a marginalised segment of society and works with the economic voting hypothesis. On the supply side of populists in power (t), in the literature, populist rule is typically associated with unsustainable expansionary fiscal and monetary policies and with trade protectionism. At t + 1, by using rational and biased belief assumptions, economists provide implicit inputs for a seemingly paradoxical question: why is a populist re-elected even if most populist policies assumably end up in Pareto inferior outcomes' This article summarises and criticises the relevant economic literature and shows that not only political science, but economics scholarship is instrumental for studying populism at all three stages.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-07-18T12:04:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221109449
Psychological Distress and Political Distrust during a Global Health
Crisis: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey
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  Authors: Harris Hyun-soo Kim
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In addition to causing unprecedented mortality and wreaking havoc on national economies, the coronavirus disease pandemic has significantly undermined public mental health. How has the pandemic-induced psychological and mental distress contributed to declining political trust cross-nationally' Using a large-scale global survey comprising respondents from Africa, Americas, Asia, Middle East, and Europe, the present study addresses this question. Results from multilevel analysis show that across dozens of low- as well as high-income countries, pandemic distress experienced by individuals is negatively linked with political trust (public confidence in the government’s capacity and transparency). Moreover, this relationship is conditional on alternative “performance measures” or contextual moderators: Human Development Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, and Fragile States Index. Specifically, the magnitude of the association between pandemic distress and political distrust increases in countries that are less economically developed, perceived to be more corrupt, and politically more fragile or vulnerable.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-07-08T01:19:19Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221106006
The Reel Politics of International Crisis: Benedict Cumberbatch’s
Appeal for Syrian Refugees
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  Authors: Michael Robert Artime, Megan Hershey
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  How much can a celebrity’s involvement with a charity campaign change minds and shape political opinion' We explore this issue in the context of an appeal by Benedict Cumberbatch regarding the Syrian refugee crisis. We find that while the emotional, vivid images of the video did elicit a statistically significant increase in students’ positive feelings toward Syrian refugees and efforts to help them, surprisingly, Cumberbatch’s plea had no effect at all on these political views. Post-experiment focus groups allowed us to further probe these findings, and we suggest that viewer skepticism reduces celebrity influence, but that celebrity may be more effective as a “hook” in grabbing viewers’ attention, than in actually swaying their views. We also find that participation in a charity plea has the potential to benefit celebrities themselves by dramatically improving viewers’ perceptions of them.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-07-07T12:34:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221107270
Commissioned Book Review: Meltem Ozel Turkey’s State Crisis:
Institutions, Reform and Conflict
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  Authors: Meltem Ozel
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-07-06T11:21:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221108580
Political Transnationalism: Factors Associated With Immigrants’ Voting
in Their Home Country Elections
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  Authors: Sou Hyun Jang
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Political transnationalism, compared with other forms of immigrant transnationalism, and its relationship with assimilation into American society, remains largely unexplored. Using immigrants’ voting in their home countries as an example, New Immigrant Survey data, including that of immigrants who became permanent residents in 2003–2004, were analyzed. The dependent variable was immigrants’ voting in their home country elections, and the independent variables included assimilation, human capital, past political behavior, and their region of origin. Based on the bivariate analysis, transnational voting rates differ by immigrants’ age, race/ethnicity, region of origin, educational level, English proficiency, assimilation, and previous voting behavior. The findings of logistic regression confirmed that assimilation is negatively associated with immigrants’ voting in the home country elections, whereas human capital is positively related to transnational voting among immigrants. Voting momentum was the most influential factor in immigrants’ voting in home country elections. Immigrants’ region of origin was another significant predictor of transnational voting. Future studies must examine immigrant political transnationalism by including national-level factors transcending individual attributes, and host countries other than the US.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-06-10T11:44:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221097043
Nightly News or Nightly Jokes' News Parody as a Form of Political
Communication: A Review of the Literature
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  Authors: Caroline V Leicht
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  News parody as a genre of political satire has become an increasingly popular form of entertainment in the past two decades. Mirroring traditional news media in format and style has made this genre one that receives both praise and criticism. While some see it as a chance for a wider audience to become politically interested, others point to potentially negative effects such as increased political cynicism. While news parody as a form of political communication has been at the center of various studies, related research has been spread across a plethora of disciplines and sub-fields and some limitations and gaps in the literature remain substantially unexplored. This review article seeks to contribute to this research field by presenting a comprehensive overview of the existing literature and proposing new directions for the study of news parody as political communication.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-06-08T01:22:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221100339
Commissioned Book Review: Srdjan Vucetic, Greatness and Decline: National
Identity and British Foreign Policy
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  Authors: Ben Wellings
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-05-11T09:56:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221095058
Culture and Policy Transfer: From Insight to Impact
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  Authors: Hang Duong
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Culture has long been recognized and conceptualized as an important and indispensable influencing factor in policy transfer. However, inadequate attention has been devoted to the study of culture in this area of scholarship. Using qualitative data, mainly from interviews with policy-makers and policy-takers in Vietnam, this paper examines the relevance of culture in Vietnam’s merit-based policy transfer. It indicates how the conceptualization of culture is significant to policy transfer analysis. It also shows that culture at all levels—macro, meso, and micro—can influence both the policy transfer process and the outcomes. At the same time, it contends that despite this important role, culture acts more as a joint-influencing factor than a sole determinant in policy transfer. This paper argues that a multi-level and culture-sensitive approach to cultural analysis in policy transfer is a key to understand the dynamics of culture in the process.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-05-09T11:21:21Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221095057
Commissioned Book Review: Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson, The Narrow
Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
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  Authors: Aron Hajnal
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-05-09T11:17:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221090833
Consenting Participation' How Demands for Citizen Participation and
Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy
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  Authors: Felix Butzlaff
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  The rising participatory demands of citizens have been addressed with a variety of democratic innovations. However, increasing demands for democratization have been accompanied by a parallel rise in scepticism and doubt about the capabilities of representative democracies to ensure policy efficacy. I seek to address this democratic ambivalence by focusing on the demands for citizen participation in the context of local democracy. In a series of qualitative interviews, and using Vienna’s Seestadt Aspern, Europe’s biggest city development project, as an illustration, I examine (a) bottom-up and top-down understandings of democracy and participation among administration, city-planners and citizens and (b) strategies to reconcile inconsistent expectations of participation. I show that conflicting understandings of participation are dealt with in different settings and that, despite a public commitment to democratic participation, citizens, city-planners and administration alike expect a democratically concealed yet controlled management process allegedly ensuring more efficacious policy decisions.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-04-28T12:51:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221091884
Stranger than Fiction: Voters and Party Leaders in a New Democracy
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  Authors: Sergiu Gherghina, Paul Tap
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Research in politics uses fictitious politicians to explain different processes. In experimental designs, the participants know that these politicians do not exist. However, we know little about what happens when people are not aware about this, and it remains unclear if they distinguish between fictitious and real politicians. Our article aims to explain what makes citizens identify a fictitious party leader. We use individual-level data from a survey conducted in Romania on a probability representative sample. Our analysis tests the extent to which characteristics associated to two opposing groups in society influence the identification of a fictitious party leader. The empirical evidence bears important implications for the literature on political sophistication and for the research emphasizing social desirability bias.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-04-19T06:37:51Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221087139
It Is All About Money! What Drives Interest Groups’ Relations with
Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe'
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  Authors: Pawel Kaminski
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  This article studies contacts between interest groups and political parties. Existing research suggests that times of close and formal cooperation between parties and groups in Western Europe are over as the contacts have become more pragmatic and sometimes spontaneous. Studies usually point to ideological proximity and resource exchange as the main factors behind contacts, however, focusing mainly on parties’ power and ideological position. Here, by drawing on data from Poland, Slovenia, and Lithuania, we focus on young democracies from Eastern Europe by taking into account interest groups’ resources, their typology, and the system of interest groups’ representation. The article shows that financial resources are the main factor behind seeking contacts with the large number of political parties.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-04-15T05:40:34Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221084167
Members of the European Parliament on Social Media: Why Do They Use
Facebook and Twitter'
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  Authors: Michael Haman, Milan Školník, Jan Čopík
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  In this article, we analyze the use of social media by the members of the European Parliament. More specially, we examined whether members of the European Parliament use Facebook and Twitter for different purposes. To reach our goal, we contacted all 705 members of the European Parliament by email. The vast majority of members of the European Parliament who decided to participate in our survey replied that they use Facebook and Twitter for different purposes. One of the main differences most often mentioned was that Twitter is used for an international audience, and Facebook, for a national audience. Therefore, we decided to examine Facebook and Twitter posts on the accounts of all members of the European Parliament to see what languages predominate in their communication. We analyzed 253,660 Facebook posts and 485,862 tweets. We found that members of the European Parliament use their national languages almost exclusively on Facebook. On Twitter, the use of English significantly varies from country to country, and in some countries, members of the European Parliament only rarely use their national languages, as they aim for an international audience.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-04-04T10:46:37Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221082444
Commissioned Book Review: Gordon Sammut and Martin Bauer, The Psychology
of Social Influence: Modes and Modalities of Shifting Common Sense
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  Authors: Lisa Basil
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-04-03T07:13:43Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221077613
Perceptions of Inequality and Political Participation: The Moderating Role
of Ideology
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  Authors: Nanuli Silagadze, Henrik Serup Christensen, Rasmus Sirén, Kimmo Grönlund
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  While much research has been devoted to the effects of inequality on political participation, little attention has been paid to how different kinds of subjective perceptions of social inequality affect citizens’ political behaviour. This is important since these perceptions shape the message that reaches political decision-makers when addressing concerns over social inequalities. This article differentiates between sociotropic and egocentric perceptions of social inequality and explores to what extent individuals’ perceptions of such inequality affect engagement in institutionalized and non-institutionalized political participation between elections. Engagement was evaluated with a survey among a segment of the Finnish population (n = 1673). Our results indicate that citizens with sociotropic concerns are more likely to get involved in both institutionalized and non-institutionalized forms of political participation, whereas egocentric perceptions have less of an impact. Furthermore, the associations are moderated by left–right ideology: sociotropic concerns are more strongly expressed among left-wing voters, whereas right-wingers are more likely to be propelled to action by egocentric concerns.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-03-28T11:34:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221082037
Commissioned Book Review: Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova, Digital
Inequalities in the Global South
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  Authors: Arjun Tremblay
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-03-02T08:41:21Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221077811
Urban Youth and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis (Are Youth Bulges
Relevant Anymore')
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  Authors: Andrey Korotayev, Daniil Romanov, Julia Zinkina, Maxim Slav
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Both urbanization and a high share of youth (“youth bulge”) have been shown to correlate with higher levels of political violence, in general, and terrorism, in particular. In this article, we test the hypothesis that urbanization and general youth bulge (share of aged 15–29 in the adult population) should produce a particularly significant impact on the level of terrorist activity when acting together due to the interaction effect. Performed negative binomial regressions (both with and without interaction term) support this hypothesis. We also test the impact of “urban youth bulge” (share of urban youth in the total adult population), and it turns out to be a much more significant predictor of terrorism than either general youth bulge or urbanization taken separately. This finding is shown to have substantial practical implications, indicating that urban youth bulges are likely to retain their relevance in the forthcoming decades, in contrast to general youth bulges.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-02-22T11:27:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221075908
Commissioned Book Review: Kandida Purnell, Rethinking the Body in Global
Politics Bodies, Body Politics, and the Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic
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  Authors: Nupur Pattanaik
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-02-08T06:08:44Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221075918
Commissioned Book Review: S Skowronek, JA Dearborn and D King, Phantoms of
a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and The Unitary Executive
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  Authors: Jonathan Hudson Drew
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-02-07T10:15:53Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221075927
Commissioned Book Review: Maria Dimova-Cookson, Rethinking Positive and
Negative Liberty
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  Authors: Ruzha Smilova
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-02-07T10:13:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299221075920
Twenty-five Years of Securitization Theory: A Corpus-based Review
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  Authors: Stephane J Baele, Diana Jalea
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Twenty-five years after its initial formulation, securitization theory is at a crossroads: attempts to critically scrutinize its achievements and shortcomings proliferate, concerns about the theory’s eurocentrism are articulated, and a heated row shakes the field following accusations of racism. In this unstable context, the present article systematically reviews a corpus of 171 securitization papers published in 15 major International Relations journals since 1995, identifying two major imbalances characterizing securitization theory research. First, rich theoretical development has not been matched by sustained efforts to strengthen empirical work; second, the theory has not been globally embraced, displaying instead a narrow, distinctly local anchoring. By shedding light on these two issues and their relationships, this review article aims to provide clear and actionable observations around which scholars could productively re-organize the ongoing debates and controversies.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-01-21T04:53:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299211069499
The Effects of Political Attitudes on Affective Polarization: Survey
Evidence from 165 Elections
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  Authors: João V Guedes-Neto
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  How do individual-level political attitudes influence affective polarization on a global scale' This article contributes to the debate on the social distance of party affect by testing a set of hypotheses in 165 elections across the world. With a sample of over 170,000 voters, the results of multilevel mixed-effects regressions demonstrate that ideological radicalism, political knowledge, and external efficacy substantively affect how voters see the main political parties in electoral disputes taking place in 52 countries from 1996 to 2019. Satisfaction with democracy, however, is context-dependent; it positively influences affective polarization only when generalized democratic satisfaction is low. Furthermore, I show that these correlations remain stable regardless of the operationalization of affective polarization—that is, based on two dominant parties and weighted for multiparty competition. These findings provide robust inputs to the study of party preferences and social distance in a cross-national longitudinal perspective.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-01-13T09:36:39Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299211067376
Defense Budget Growth and Inflation: A Wavelet-Based Study of the U.S. and
Britain
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  Authors: Yu Wang
  Abstract: Political Studies Review, Ahead of Print.
  Despite the extensive theoretical connections between defense budget growth and inflation, empirical findings based on traditional time-domain methods have been inconclusive. This study reexamines the issue from a time–frequency perspective. Applying continuous wavelet analysis to the U.S. and Britain, it shows empirical evidence in support of positive bilateral effects in both cases. In the bivariate context, U.S. defense budget growth promoted inflation at 2- to 4-year cycles in the 1840s and at 8- to 24-year cycles between 1825 and 1940. Conversely, inflation accelerated defense spending growth at 5- to 7-year cycles in the 1830s and at 25- to 64-year cycles between 1825 and 1940. Similarly, British defense budget growth spurred inflation at 8- to 48-year cycles between 1890 and 1940 and at 50- to 65-year cycles between 1790 and 1860. Inflation fueled the growth of defense spending at 7- to 20-year cycles between 1840 and 1870, in the 1940s, and in the 1980s. Preliminary results from multivariate analyses are also supportive, though there is a need for further research that is contingent on advancements in the wavelet method in the direction of simulation-based significance tests.
  Citation: Political Studies Review
  PubDate: 2022-01-10T06:02:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/14789299211068407