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Growing up taking survival for granted makes people more open to new ideas and more tolerant of outgroups. Insecurity has the opposite effect, stimulating an Authoritarian Reflex in which people close ranks behind strong leaders, with strong in-group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and rigid conformity to group norms. The 35 years of exceptiona...
Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance , edited by Alexander Cooley and Jack Snyder, assembles an impressive group of political scientists to critically discuss “the important analytical, normative, and policy issues associated with the contemporary practice of ‘grading states.’” The volume addresses a topic of importance...
What has driven the worldwide adoption and subsequent revision of gender quota policies? This study argues that this phenomenon can be best understood as exemplifying 'glocalization'--with policies adopted due to a combination of changing international discourses and regional diffusion combined with domestic political activists. Moreover a process...
The Arab Uprising has been marked by the revolutionary downfall and removal of autocratic leaders in Tunisia (President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali), Egypt (President Hosni Mubarrak), and Libya (President Moamar Gaddafi). Major protests, strikes, and demonstrations have occurred throughout the region, destabilizing governments in Syria and Yemen. These...
Proposals for power-sharing constitutions remain controversial, as highlighted by current debates in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Sudan. This book updates and refines the theory of consociationalism, taking account of the flood of contemporary innovations in power-sharing institutions that have occurred worldwide. The book classifies and compares...
This study focuses on the capacity of the Internet for strengthening political activism. The first part summarizes debates about these issues in the previous literature. This study starts from the premise that political activism is a multidimensional phenomenon and that we need to understand how different channels of participation relate to the soc...
The core issue for this study concerns less the social than the political consequences of the rise of knowledge societies; in particular, the capacity of the Internet for strengthening democratic participation and civic engagement linking citizens and government. To consider these issues, Part I summarizes debates about the impact of the Internet o...
A method of surgical compartmentalisation of the neck is reported. This technique can be used in order to maintain suction drainage without compromising the flow of the anastomoses when an end-to-side technique in the internal jugular vein is used.
This study focuses on the capacity of the Internet for strengthening political activism. The first part summarizes debates about these issues in the previous literature. This study starts from the premise that political activism is a multidimensional phenomenon and that we need to understand how different channels of participation relate to the soc...
The core issue for this study concerns less the social than the political consequences of the rise of knowledge societies; in particular, the capacity of the Internet for strengthening democratic participation and civic engagement linking citizens and government. To consider these issues, Part I summarizes debates about the impact of the Internet o...
This article explores the extent to which advocacy and attack Party Election Broadcasts (PEBs) affected voters’ party preferences during the British general election campaign of 2001. The analysis uses an experimental design that involved conducting “media exposure” tests on a representative sample of Greater London voters (N = 919) during the fina...
As access to the new communication and information technologies have diffused throughout post-industrial societies, the idea of using electronic tools to modernize electoral administration has been widely debated, with potential benefits of greater efficiency, speed and accuracy (for further details see Norris 2001a, 2002a, 2004). Perhaps the most...
Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory, and Conservative defeat, in the 2001 British general election. Here we pursue an explanation based on the idea that rational vote-seeking politicians may fail to learn from electoral defeat due to selective perception. In Part I we outline the theoretical premises and in Part II conside...
The strategic shifts in Labour’s attempt to dominate the center ground of British politics started under the leadership of Neil Kinnock, strengthened with John Smith, but only received an apotheosis under Tony Blair. Like Thatcherism in the early 1980s, the project has continued to evolve and take concrete shape in the early years of the Labour gov...
Recent years have seen growing tensions between the ideals and the perceivedperformance of democratic institutions. While there is no ‘crisis of democracy’,many believe that all is not well with the body politic. Concern in theUnited States has focused on widespread cynicism about political institutionsand leaders, fuelling fears about civic diseng...
Previous chapters have demonstrated how professional spin doctors, hired political consultants, advertising experts and sophisticated party web pages appear to have gradually displaced traditional forms of party campaigning, like local party volunteers, constituency rallies and door-to-door canvassing. The professionalization of political communica...
In this compelling book Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski provide the first full account of legislative recruitment in Britain for twenty-five years. Their central concern is how and why some politicians succeed in moving into the highest offices of state, while others fail. The book examines the relative dearth of women, black and working-class Mem...
On November 2nd, 1992, Bill Clinton, who had seemed irredeemably damaged in the spring primaries, won the first Democratic presidential victory since 1976. In a coast-to-coast triumph, Clinton captured 43 percent of the popular vote, with 370 electoral college votes in 32 states. The result could not be claimed as a Democratic landslide; Clinton’s...
Book synopsis: This reader integrates different approaches to the study of women and politics. The first approach focuses on women's role in traditional political activities - as voters, party activists and candidates for legislative office. This includes current issues, such as the development of the "gender gap" in attitudes and the constraints o...
