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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Developing Political Strategies Across A New Democratic And State Architecture, Brian Wampler
Developing Political Strategies Across A New Democratic And State Architecture, Brian Wampler
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Under new democratic regimes, civil society organizations (CSOs) alter their political strategies to better engage public officials and citizens as well as to influence broader political debates. In Brazil, between 1990 and 2010, CSOs gained access to a broad participatory architecture as well as a reconfigured state, inducing CSOs to employ a wider range of strategies. This article uses a political network approach to illuminate variation in CSOs’ political strategies across four policy arenas and show how the role of the state, the broader configuration of civil society, the interests of elected officials, and the rules of participatory institutions interact …
Chapter 1: Introduction, Richard T. Longoria
Chapter 1: Introduction, Richard T. Longoria
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Foucault, Simon Springer, And Postneoliberalism, Jaycob Izsó
Foucault, Simon Springer, And Postneoliberalism, Jaycob Izsó
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Scholarship in Foucauldian governmentality has reemerged as a critical area of contemporary political discourse and has had a pronounced effect on neoliberal and postneoliberal research in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Perhaps the most versatile postneoliberal critic is Simon Springer, who has offered dynamic accounts of neoliberalism and its decline via a Foucauldian method. While Springer’s research is novel, I believe it is not a rigorous Foucauldian account of neoliberalism and its future.
India Has A Sexual Assault Problem That Only Women Can Fix, Nisha Bellinger
India Has A Sexual Assault Problem That Only Women Can Fix, Nisha Bellinger
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
India is the most dangerous country for sexual violence against women, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation 2018 survey.
Industrial Structure And Political Outcomes: The Case Of The 2016 Us Presidential Election, Thomas Ferguson, Paul D. Jorgensen, Jie Chen
Industrial Structure And Political Outcomes: The Case Of The 2016 Us Presidential Election, Thomas Ferguson, Paul D. Jorgensen, Jie Chen
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
This paper analyzes the US presidential election of 2016, examining the patterns of industrial structure and party competition in both the major party primaries and the general election. It attempts to identify the new, historically specific factors that led to the upheavals, especially the steady growth of a “dual economy” that locks more and more Americans out of the middle class. It draws extensively on a newly assembled, more comprehensive database to identify the specific political forces that coalesced around each candidate, including the various stages of the Trump campaign.
At Home And Abroad, Trump Tramples Human Rights, Mel Gurtov
At Home And Abroad, Trump Tramples Human Rights, Mel Gurtov
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
In January 1941, with the prospect looming of US involvement in another European war, President Franklin Roosevelt spoke of America’s purpose in the world: to protect and promote “four freedoms.” FDR drew a clear link between US security and the fulfillment of human rights at home. “Just as our national policy in internal affairs has been based upon a decent respect for the rights and the dignity of all of our fellow men within our gates, so our national policy in foreign affairs has been based on a decent respect for the rights and the dignity of all nations, large …
Genre Et Professionnalisation De La Politique Municipale : Un Portrait Des Élues Et Élus Du Québec, D’Anne Mévellec Et Manon Tremblay, Québec, Presses De L’Université Du Québec, 2016, 300 P. (Review), Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Genre Et Professionnalisation De La Politique Municipale : Un Portrait Des Élues Et Élus Du Québec, D’Anne Mévellec Et Manon Tremblay, Québec, Presses De L’Université Du Québec, 2016, 300 P. (Review), Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
How Dehumanization Influences Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Stephen M. Utych
How Dehumanization Influences Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Stephen M. Utych
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Immigrants, as a group, are frequently described in ways, such as vermin or disease, that portray them as less than human. This type of dehumanizing language leads to negative emotional responses and negative attitudes towards the dehumanized group. This paper examines how the dehumanization of immigrants influences immigration policy attitudes I use original experimental data to show that dehumanization leads to more negative immigration attitudes. I further find that these negative attitudes are mediated by the role of emotion. Dehumanization increases anger and disgust towards immigrants, which causes anti-immigrant sentiment.
Why The Gender Of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality And Women’S Rights Advocacy In Malawi, Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang, Lindsay J. Benstead, Boniface Dulani
Why The Gender Of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality And Women’S Rights Advocacy In Malawi, Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang, Lindsay J. Benstead, Boniface Dulani
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Traditional leadership often coexists with modern political institutions, yet we know little about how traditional and state authority cues—or those from male or female sources—affect public opinion. Using an original survey experiment of 1,381 Malawians embedded in the 2016 Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI), we randomly assign respondents into one of four treatment groups or a control group to hear messages about a child marriage reform from a female or male traditional authority (TA) or parliamentarian. In the sample as a whole, the female TA is as effective as the control (i.e., no endorsement), while other messengers elicit lower support …
Rethinking Reporting On Polls In Time For Midterm Elections, Stephen Utych
Rethinking Reporting On Polls In Time For Midterm Elections, Stephen Utych
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
The Associated Press, a nonprofit news wire published by 1,300 papers and broadcasters, has updated its stylebook to clarify that “poll results that seek to preview the outcome of an election must never be the lead, headline or single subject of any story.”
The Influence Of Regional Power Distributions On Interdependence, Michael A. Allen
The Influence Of Regional Power Distributions On Interdependence, Michael A. Allen
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Political economy debates about the influence of power configurations in expanding and maintaining global liberalization ebb and flow with the wax and wane of the concentration of power in the international system. This article engages the debate in a novel way from previous scholarship. Employing a series of econometric models that account for regional power, I argue that the global power concentration is ill fit to be the primary predictor of trade liberalization, but instead, regional power fluctuations can dampen and enhance global trends. By incorporating sub-systemic power configurations, we gain a better understanding of the regional variation in states …
What Is It Like To Become A Bat? Heterogeneities In An Age Of Extinction, Stephanie Erev
What Is It Like To Become A Bat? Heterogeneities In An Age Of Extinction, Stephanie Erev
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
In his celebrated 1974 essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” Thomas Nagel stages a human-bat encounter to illustrate and support his claim that “subjective experience” is irreducible to “objective fact”: because Nagel cannot experience the world as a bat does, he will never know what it is like to be one. In Nagel’s account, heterogeneity is figured negatively— as a failure or lack of resemblance—and functions to constrain his knowledge of bats. Today, as white-nose syndrome threatens bat populations across North America, might figuring heterogeneity positively, as a condition of creativity, open up new modes of receptivity …
Electoral Cycle Fluctuations In Partisanship: Global Evidence From Eighty-Six Countries, Kristin Michelitch, Stephen Utych
Electoral Cycle Fluctuations In Partisanship: Global Evidence From Eighty-Six Countries, Kristin Michelitch, Stephen Utych
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Elections are defining elements of democracy but occur infrequently. Given that elections evoke mass mobilization, we expect citizen attachments to political parties to wax during election season and wane in between. By leveraging data from 86 countries across the globe to investigate the effect of the electoral cycle on partisanship, we find that the predicted probability of being close to a political party rises 6 percentage points from cycle midpoint to an election—an effect rivaling traditional key determinants of partisanship. Further, fluctuations are larger where the persistence of party presence throughout the cycle is weaker and socioeconomic development is lower. …
The Politics Of Human Well-Being, Nisha Bellinger
The Politics Of Human Well-Being, Nisha Bellinger
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Why are there large disparities in the quality of life people lead? What are the factors that account for the general well-being of mankind? How do we improve human lives? These questions are substantively important as they are policy relevant.
Where There’S A Wall There’S A Way: The End (?) Of Democratic Discourse Regarding Immigration And Border Security Policy, Terence Garrett
Where There’S A Wall There’S A Way: The End (?) Of Democratic Discourse Regarding Immigration And Border Security Policy, Terence Garrett
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Border walls have become part and parcel to corporate strategies to garner profits in the new era of post-911 insecurity. Combined with pre-911 agribusiness, service industry and other corporateindustrial expansion including encouraging the “ongoing” recruiting of undocumented cheap labor, the twin corporate policy directives are achieving profits at the expense of the people migrating from Latin America. Building on previous work, the authors analyze the problems created by corporations, complicit government agencies and elected officials in terms of maintaining a status quo that effectively exploits communities from both sides of the US/Mexico border. Policy alternatives are developed, offered and examined …
Le Rôle Du Programme Des Travailleurs Agricoles Saisonniers (Ptas) Dans La Vulnérabilisation Des Travailleurs Migrants Au Canada, Cindy Gagnon, Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Le Rôle Du Programme Des Travailleurs Agricoles Saisonniers (Ptas) Dans La Vulnérabilisation Des Travailleurs Migrants Au Canada, Cindy Gagnon, Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Every year, over 25,000 people from Mexico and the Caribbean migrate to Canada through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) to work on a Canadian farm. To what extent does the SAWP, as an institution, impact the vulnerability of migrant agricultural workers? The insights and explanations provided by neo-institutional theory's three streams help to better account for the complexity of the economic and socio-historical SAWP-generated factors that affect the situation of migrant workers. It is shown that this program has created and continues to perpetuate a context in which it is difficult for migrant workers to have control over their …
We Care About Children, Alexandre Couture Gagnon
We Care About Children, Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Biodiversity Gains? The Debate On Changes In Local- Vs Global-Scale Species Richness, Richard B. Primack, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Richard T. Corlett, Vincent Devictor, David Johns, Rafael Loyola, Bea Hass, Robin J. Pakeman, Liba Pejchar
Biodiversity Gains? The Debate On Changes In Local- Vs Global-Scale Species Richness, Richard B. Primack, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Richard T. Corlett, Vincent Devictor, David Johns, Rafael Loyola, Bea Hass, Robin J. Pakeman, Liba Pejchar
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Editorial: Do changes in biodiversity at local scales reflect the declines seen at global scales? This debate dates back at least 15 years...
Survey Research In The Arab World: Challenges And Opportunities, Lindsay J. Benstead
Survey Research In The Arab World: Challenges And Opportunities, Lindsay J. Benstead
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Survey research has steadily expanded in the Arab world since the 1980s. The Arab spring marked a watershed when surveying became possible in Tunisia and Libya, and questionnaires included previously censured questions. Almost every Arab country is now included in the Arab Barometer or World Values Survey and researchers have numerous datasets to answer theoretical and policy questions. Yet some scholars express the view that the Arab survey context is more challenging than other regions or that respondents will not answer honestly. I argue that this reflects biases of “Arab exceptionalism,” more than fair assessments of data quality. Based on …
Negative Affective Language In Politics, Stephen M. Utych
Negative Affective Language In Politics, Stephen M. Utych
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
How do the words we use to talk about politics influence political attitudes and evaluations? I focus specifically on negative affective language; words which individuals have pre-existing negative reactions towards. Considering the Affect Infusion Model (AIM), processing style influences how individuals use affect when making decisions. The impact of affective language depends upon the complexity of the decision. In simpler processing tasks, individuals will use affect as a heuristic. This causes a misattribution of generalized negative affect onto a political target, leading to harsher evaluations. When a decision is complex, affective language influences how new information is stored in memory, …