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Replication Data for: Non-unitary parties, government formation and Gamson's Law
No full textReplication data for "Non-unitary parties, goverment formation and Gamson's Law
Replication Data for: Comparing ‘responsible party government’ in the US and the UK
No full textResponsible parties are conventionally defined as those capable of announcing their legislative goals and then passing them on the strength of their own members’ votes. In this paper, I consider why UK majority parties have closely approximated these conditions for responsibility since the 1880s, while US majority parties have never approximated them closely. I provide the first systematic evidence on when the British opposition began to offer across-the-board opposition to the government’s agenda and when the government became able to pass bills using only its own members’ votes. I also explore the role that leaders’ control of the legislative agenda and their followers’ nominations played in these developments. I attribute US parties’ inability to mimic their British counterparts to different costs of defending bill passage coalitions against “weakest-link” attacks
Replication Data for: "The formateur's bonus in European constitutional monarchies, 1901-1999"
No full textThe readme file and replication data for "The formateur's bonus in European constitutional monarchies, 1901-1999".In this paper, we examine bonuses garnered by government formateurs in all European democracies that began the 20th century as constitutional monarchies. Using a new dataset on how portfolios were allocated in each democratic coalition cabinet formed 1901-1999, we show that formateurs’ bonuses were positive and significant when the monarch still exercised discretion in choosing them but declined after the monarch’s role was constrained. Relatedly, Gamson’s Law was more strongly violated when monarchs played a larger role. After identifying the dates at which monarchs were constrained, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis, comparing formateurs’ bonuses in each reformed country with those in otherwise similar countries that did not reform at the same time. The results support the hypothesis that greater royal discretion engendered larger formateurs’ bonuses
Replication Data for: "The formateur's bonus in European constitutional monarchies, 1901-1999"
No full textThe readme file and replication data for "The formateur's bonus in European constitutional monarchies, 1901-1999".In this paper, we examine bonuses garnered by government formateurs in all European democracies that began the 20th century as constitutional monarchies. Using a new dataset on how portfolios were allocated in each democratic coalition cabinet formed 1901-1999, we show that formateurs’ bonuses were positive and significant when the monarch still exercised discretion in choosing them but declined after the monarch’s role was constrained. Relatedly, Gamson’s Law was more strongly violated when monarchs played a larger role. After identifying the dates at which monarchs were constrained, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis, comparing formateurs’ bonuses in each reformed country with those in otherwise similar countries that did not reform at the same time. The results support the hypothesis that greater royal discretion engendered larger formateurs’ bonuses
Replication Data for: Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation
No full textReplication data and code for Cox, Gary W., Jon H. Fiva, and Daniel M. Smith. "Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation." Forthcoming from Comparative Political Studies
Replication Data for: Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation
No full textReplication data and code for Cox, Gary W., Jon H. Fiva, and Daniel M. Smith. "Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation." Forthcoming from Comparative Political Studies
Warfare, Fiscal Gridlock, and State Formation during Europe’s Military Revolution
No full textWe introduce a political scope condition for the classic argument that war motivates expansions in the state’s
fiscal capacity. All major medieval European monarchies separated the power to tax from the power to spend. We
argue that this fiscal separation of powers engendered gridlock, which became increasingly intolerable after 1500 due to the military revolution and the greater role of money in battlefield victory. European states thus reformed
toward one of two stable equilibria – fiscal absolutism or parliamentarism. Elsewhere in Eurasia, states were already fiscally absolutist, and thus war pressures did not provoke similar reform efforts. Exploiting new panel data on
101 European territorial units, we document how external war pressures promoted reforms in a majority of units
toward fiscal absolutism (which took a distinctive decentralized form), with a minority of units adopting fiscal
parliamentarism (either centralized or decentralized), and peripheral units retaining fiscal separations of power (and hence gridlock)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
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