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This paper examines whether goverment partisanship matters in East Asian new democracies. Specifically, we explore in what way economic inequality and welfare spending have been affected by government partisanship in South Korea and Taiwan. While many studies in comparative political economy of...
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Democracy was once thought to be unconceivable save in terms of party democracy. Yet, It has been extensively argued - both by political comparativists and social theoreticians - that in an age of political dealignment, civil society is a key actor in the context of the crisis of legitimation...
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To date, fifteen states have implemented term limits for state legislators. Despite initial expectations that term limits would increase opportunities for female candidates by reducing the benefits associated with male incumbency advantage, the evidence indicates that term limits have not had...
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Germany has a multiparty system in which coalition governments are the norm. In this paper we focus on the role that ‘pivotal' parties have played in German government formation, both nationally and across the Länder. Traditionally the main pivotal party in the German party system was the...
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Studies of voting behavior in advanced industrial societies have demonstrated that voters rely on a plethora of information sources, including retrospective evaluations of parties, party identification and strong social networks, in making complex voting decisions. However, there is less...
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We argue that the decline of Social Democratic parties is partly caused by the emergence of a 'second generation of new right-wing parties'. While the existing literature on new right parties has primarily seen these parties as anti-immigrant and anti-establishment, we suggest that this only...
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While spatial modelers assume that citizens evaluate parties based on their policy positions, empirical research on American politics suggests that citizens' party support often drives their policy preferences, rather than vice-versa. Building on previous findings that partisanship is less...
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Do ballot access laws have a significant affect on aggregate levels of voter turnout in American states? This research tests the impact of ballot access laws on state-level voter turnout. It is theorized that the more difficult it is for third parties to gain access to the ballot, the more...
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During the summer of 2009, Californiaメs state government narrowly avoided a catastrophic collapse by reaching a budget deal to erase a $26 billion deficit out of a $92 billion budget. During the protracted stalemate, the state was forced to issue nearly 450,000 IOUs totaling over $2.5 billion...
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The main purpose of this research is to figure out what issues divide Taiwanese. By taking advantage of public poll survey data, this paper seeks to examine whether Taiwanese have been getting more polarized on certain important social and political issues alone with party line. I hypothesize...
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