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Does being ‘left behind’ corrode government legitimacy? Tax morale and economic stress
No full textBy now we are familiar with studies which tie being ‘left behind’ to voter support for populist or other extreme views. In the UK case, this is seen in support for Brexit but can also apply to support of parties such as UKIP (e.g. Bolet, 2021; Ford and Goodwin, 2014). Comparative studies show that electoral support for populist parties in part reflects lowered trust in mainstream politics (e.g. Geurkink et al., 2020; Keefer et al., 2021; Mauk, 2020), which is seen as a behavioural indicator of slipping legitimacy. Political support for populist movements is interpreted as declining legitimacy of existing governments, and that decline is seen as being tied to economic stress and the ‘left behind’ areas. In this article, we ask whether economics stresses also have impact upon another and possibly more direct measure of government legitimacy – tax morale.</p
The Limit of Electoral Reform
No full textBowler, Shaun and Donovan, Todd (2013). The Limit of Electoral Reform. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 164 pages
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Increasing State Capacity Through Clans
Full text linkState governance based on a clan system lacks definition in the early days of the twenty-first century. This paper seeks to explore the structures and functions of the clan system in the Republic of Azerbaijan. This requires examination of the formal and informal institutions using a cross-disciplinary mixed methods approach to capture the complexities present. Particular emphasis focuses on the local level clan ties to the Milli Məjlis (National Assembly) as expression of citizens' voice in the political decision-making process. Field interviews reveal a bottom-up system with horizontal rather than vertical structures resulting in a dynamic parochial political culture
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A Legacy of Exclusion: How Felon Disenfranchisement Affects Patterns of Civic Engagement in Ex-Felony Offenders
Full text linkLaws banning criminal offenders from voting have existed in the United States for more than two centuries. While a legacy of felon exclusion remains in the United States, the proportion of criminal offenders formally excluded from voting has decreased over time. Though many ex-offenders are eligible to vote, voter turnout amongst ex-felony offenders is exceptionally low. Existing scholarship has recognized criminal convictions and subsequent incarceration, as factors that explain the dismal levels of voter turnout demonstrated by ex-criminal offenders. I this dissertation, I alternatively argue that misinformation surrounding offender voting rights, and stigma associated with the "convicted felon" label negatively influence levels of political involvement amongst former felons. I conclude by arguing in favor of civic reeducation programs that inform ex-offenders of their rights and that may assist them reintegrate back into society. Mixed research methods were used to gather and analyze data in this dissertation. Research methods used include in-depth interviews, quasi-experimental methods, a survey and an experiment. This methodological approach was used to evaluate the extent of misinformation amongst ex-felons regarding their voting rights, and to estimate the causal effect of educating ex-offenders of their voting rights on levels of interest in government and civic engagement. I find that nearly half of eligible to vote, ex-felony offenders wrongly believe that they are disenfranchised. Further, I find that informing ex-felons of their voting rights increases personal knowledge of voting rights, desire to participate in upcoming elections and overall interest in politics and public affairs. This dissertation makes a theoretical contribution to existing literature on the topic of felon disenfranchisement and is essential reading for policy makers, criminal justice professionals and organizations interested in issues related to prisoner reentry
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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Rule of Law Establishment with Corruption; The New Democracy Model
Full text linkWhat are the obstacles in the establishment of rule of law in democratizing countries? I argue that political corruption has a causal negative effect on the establishment of rule of law. I find that political and judicial corruption makes the implementation and the enforcement of the laws practically impossible. This mixed methods dissertation consists of a two-case comparative study of two new democracies, Czech Republic and Romania, with different levels of corruption and rule of law, based on field work and interviews with over 50 elites; and several cross national tests in all new democracies around the world. This dissertation makes both a theoretical contribution to the study of establishment of rule of law, by hypothesizing the negative impact of corruption on this process, and an empirical contribution by thoroughly testing the hypothesis within cases and cross-nationally
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