Review this journal Show reviews. Does exposure to cyber terrorism prompt calls for retaliatory military strikes? Suspicion and the Limits of Elite Explanations, Cyber Terrorism and Public Support for Retaliation – A Multi-Country Survey Experiment, Living Together, Voting Together: Voters Moving in Together Before an Election Have Higher Turnout. That is, empirical evidence suggests that most parties do not converge to the median voter's position, despite the centripetal force of the voters’ preference distribution. Are they successful in the long run? This is true even of many ruling parties that have been coded as leading single-party regimes. However, because military aid strengthens the security forces of the recipient state, it generates a moral hazard that encourages exclusionary power consolidation, with the expectation that continued military aid will help manage violent blowback. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. the Bureau-Shaping Model', British Journal of Political Science, 30 (2000), 461-82 (hereafter MSR). Whether citizens are better represented by politicians ‘like them’ has been the subject of much debate and analysis. When autocratic ruling parties accede to democratization, they do not always fade away into history. Holding elected officials accountable for their behavior in office is a foundational task facing citizens. Would giving party leaders more influence in primary elections in the United States decrease elite polarization? Extending the analysis to a comparison of geographic in- and out-groups between local communities and London lends additional support to the argument. Surprisingly, social out-groups are not perceived as more violent, but respondents favor repressing them anyway. British Journal of Political Science. The study demonstrates the diminishing value of representing the disadvantaged across different types of MPs. Such policies can be justified, and challenged, on many different grounds; public debate is not conducted in terms adequate to the task. To test hypotheses derived from a proposed theory against rival explanations, the study develops a measure of macrointerest using a quarterly time series of aggregated survey items (1973–2014) of political interest. Elected officials attempt to influence this accountability process by explaining their behavior with an eye toward mitigating the blame they might receive for taking controversial actions. Governments arguably become more responsible for current economic conditions as their tenure progresses. To better understand the conditions under which diffusion occurs, this article argues that three heuristics – availability, representativeness and anchoring – shape parties' efforts to gather information (from elsewhere), leading to differing diffusion effects. Using a global sample of dictatorships from 1946–2008, the author shows that most ruling parties are unable to survive the death or departure of the founding leader. It analyses the effects of disability on both preferences and preference congruence. Moreover, the exact diffusion mechanism remains largely elusive. In experiments, they find that local party leaders most prefer nominating candidates who are similar to typical co-partisans, not centrists. British Journal of Political Science Volume 42 Editors: Shaun Bowler, Robert E. Goodin, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Hugh Ward Editorial Board James Alt Anthony King Anthony Bertelli Charles King Sarah Birch Desmond King Archie Brown Stein Kuhnle American Journal of Political Science, 53 (2009), 950-70; HeeMin Kim and Richard C. Fording, ‘Voter Ideology, the Economy, and the International Environment in Western Democracies, 1952-1989’, Political Behavior, 23 (2001), 53-73. Our results suggest a marked ‘convert effect’ across not only contemporary religious but also secular political divides, with the same difference in terms of content viewed as less tolerable when resulting from conversion than when given or ascribed. Scholars agree that understanding the morality of voters’ political attitudes has implications for their political behaviour, such as their willingness to compromise and openness to deliberation. This article explores these divergent predictions about the relationship between tenure and the economic vote using three datasets. This article explores the importance of historical Muslim trade in explaining urban growth and decline in the run-up to the Industrial Revolution. This article argues that local ethnic demography determines whether governments provide non-excludable public goods or more narrowly targeted handouts. Yet, in line with saliency-based theories, electoral competition mutes the diffusion of electoral strategies domestically. CrossRef Google Scholar Kunioka , T and Woller , GM ( 1999 ) In (a) democracy we trust: social and economic determinants of support for democratic procedures in central and Eastern Europe . on various measures of political sophistication and civic engagement, such as voter turnout,8 3 Altman 2010; Qvortrup 2014; Schiller 2011. Threat of harm has the largest positive effect on perceptions of violence and support for repression. Moral justifications are more likely when an issue is personally relevant, as well as when a proposition is accepted, while pragmatic justifications prevail when a proposition is rejected. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. This case therefore demonstrates that hate speech prosecution can damage the democratic system it is intended to defend. Description: The British Journal of Political Science is a broadly based journal aiming to cover developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms. They test this argument using data from an original survey of 1,118 county-level party leaders. The author argues that one specific aspect of state capacity – control over territory through the state apparatus – helps autocrats ensure large majority electoral victories. Three research designs were combined to investigate the case of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who was convicted for hate speech against minorities in 2016. 461-2. In addition, democratic institutions that disadvantage new parties and actors benefit autocratic parties. Based on the issue saliency literature, this study develops novel theoretical propositions and argues that conscious learning enables parties to infer the relative utility of emphasizing consensual issues during an electoral campaign. These findings have important implications for theories of distributive politics and conflict in multi-ethnic societies. Likewise, in open-ended questions, Democratic Party leaders are twice as likely to say they look for extreme candidates relative to centrists; Republican Party leaders are five times as likely. The findings have important implications for local integration policies as well as refugee placement policies, as many countries consider local context when resettling refugees. Using fine-grained data on local education outcomes in Sweden in the nineteenth century, the paper tests the idea that the development of the railroad network enabled national school inspectors to monitor remote schools more effectively. Open access journal - British Journal of Political Science - Cristina Bodea, Paul Bou-Habib, Shaun Bowler, Tobias Böhmelt, Robert Johns, Lucas Leemann, René Lindstädt, Petra Schleiter The results are robust to several robustness checks, including benchmarking with singles who move to mitigate the cost of moving in the analysis. The article presents evidence that immigrants who live in areas with a high ethnic density are less likely to be nominated for political office. In recent years centrist-liberal parties, such as the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) in 2013 and the British Liberal Democrats in 2015 and 2017, suffered enormous electoral defeats. Description: The British Journal of Political Science is a broadly based journal aiming to cover developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms. 3 James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Yet, recent studies have argued that Western citizens are turning their backs on the system of self-governance, thereby eroding the societal foundations of consolidated democracies. Autocrats use repression to deter opposition. In addition, diffusion appears within EP factions and transnational party organizations independently of the success/loss of the sender. They identify conscious learning, rather than mere imitation or independent decision making, as the diffusion mechanism at work. Where government co-ethnics are in the majority, public goods benefit all locals regardless of their ethnic identity. The findings link contentious action and public opinion, and demonstrate the susceptibility of this link to framing. Depending on the model specification, turnout increases by 3.5 to 10.6 percentage points in the months after taking up cohabitation. Lastly, an instrumental variables design shows that autocratic party success negatively impacts democratic survival and quality. It distinguishes between pragmatic (or consequentialist) arguments and principled (or value-based) arguments. You are leaving Cambridge Core and will be taken to this journal's article submission site. Although past studies have provided evidence of transnational emulation of parties' position-taking strategies, these findings do not directly apply to saliency strategies. The research demonstrates the benefits of greater dialogue across political theory and political science, while shedding light on a central question of tolerance today. The authors find support for the theory that the electorate responds as reasonable agents when determining how closely to monitor elected officials: interest is positively related to decreases in trust in government. This article bridges the gap by using recent developments in political theory to enrich empirical research and extend the study of tolerance to contexts beyond liberal democracies, such as authoritarian regimes. By distinguishing between vertical and horizontal dimensions of political accountability, the study finds that China's resource-related projects are particularly detrimental to the accountability of recipient countries' horizontal (legislative and judicial) institutions. High-capacity rulers can rely on local agents and institutions to subtly manipulate elections, for instance by controlling the media or inhibiting the work of domestic election monitors throughout the territory while staying clear of costly manipulation such as election violence. The paper argues for a causal interpretation of these findings, which are robust for the share of children in permanent schools and suggestive for the content of the curriculum. The British Journal of Political Science (BJPolS) is a broadly based journal aiming to cover developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms. The effect of positive framing is considerably weaker and does not strengthen welfare support in any of the three countries. Political leaders across Africa frequently accuse the media of promoting homosexuality, while activists often use the media to promote pro-LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) narratives. There has been a lively debate about the economic and cultural-based drivers of support for populism. Do Disabled Candidates Represent Disabled Citizens? Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Power consolidation by an insecure leader often provokes violent opposition. 2 MSR, pp. This study contributes to discussions about citizen support of democracy by (1) analyzing new cross-national survey data in 18 European countries that facilitate assessments of the temporal and geographical generalizability of previous findings, (2) disentangling age, cohort and period effects, thereby aligning the analytical methods with the theoretical arguments and (3) transparently reporting all evidence derived from pre-registered analyses to avoid cherry-picked findings. virtually no journals, articles, books or courses devoted to the subject. Using survey data from Canada, Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom, this article shows that deterioration of centrist parties’ valence image is followed by a collapse of their vote shares. Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. These results imply that elected officials enjoy less leeway for their actions than existing work allows, and highlight important tensions concerning the relationship between elite behavior and accountability processes. In localities to which school inspectors could travel by rail, a larger share of children attended permanent public schools and took classes in nation-building subjects such as geography and history. Despite a growing interest in British Political Development and the institutional changes of nineteenth-century UK politics, the academic literature has remained largely silent on this topic. However, few studies have analysed whether citizens reason in principled or pragmatic ways on different issues. First, using country-level data from a diverse set of elections, the study finds that support for more experienced governments is less dependent on economic growth. Find out more about sending content to . ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. These results have important implications for political representation and voters–elite linkages. Local officials may be tempted to weaken horizontal institutions so that the projects can be implemented quickly. The paper therefore concludes that the railroad, the defining innovation of the First Industrial Revolution, mattered directly for the state's ability to implement public policies. Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. The analysis shows that principled justifications are not tied to particular issues. These findings highlight the dilemma that authoritarian rulers face when they seek to consolidate their rule through repression. In contrast, military assistance has no effect on violence in established, non-personalist regimes. The study operationalizes the outcome as textual similarity of party manifestos in nineteen Western democracies from 1960 to 2016, applying a text-as-data approach and machine translation. Note: the response variables are indicators of political interest, interest in the election outcome and political knowledge. Three competing explanations have emerged in studies of the US Congress, focusing on efficiency, partisan forces and non-partisan (or: ideology-based) accounts. Yet, this scholarship has largely ignored the 1 in 5 people who are disabled and experience economic, social and political marginalization. Why do some former autocratic parties prosper under democracy while others quickly dissolve? By contrast, the parochial interests of local and religious authorities continued to dominate in remote areas school inspectors could not reach by train. The design of government portfolios – that is, the distribution of competencies among government ministries and office holders – has been largely ignored in the study of executive and coalition politics. Does the importance of the economy change during a government's time in office? The historical development of rules of debate in the UK House of Commons raises an important puzzle: why do members of parliament (MPs) impose limits on their own rights? ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. Differently from other parties, centrist parties cannot alter their policy platforms to compensate for their deteriorated valence image. This article argues that portfolio design is a substantively and theoretically relevant phenomenon that has major implications for the study of institutional design and coalition politics. The findings reveal that disabled citizens and candidates are more supportive of healthcare and general public spending, even within parties. The design of the social environment inevitably makes some choices easier than others. Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. The research represents, to the author's knowledge, the first systematic and directional test of a range of competing theories of UK parliamentary reform, shedding light on the process of parliamentary reform over a prolonged period of Commons history, and advancing several new measures of polarization in the UK House of Commons.