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The Roles of Experts and Expert-Based Information in the Advocacy Coalition Framework: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations Based on the Acid Mine Drainage Case Study in Gauteng, South Africa
The Roles of Experts and Expert-Based Information in the Advocacy Coalition Framework: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations Based on the Acid Mine Drainage Case Study in Gauteng, South Africa

Abstract: The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) remains one of the leading conceptual models in the policy sciences because it continues to be revised and updated as required. A focus area of the ACF that requires further theorization is the [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12409
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When Does Government Listen to the Public? Voluntary Associations and Dynamic Agenda Representation in the United States
When Does Government Listen to the Public? Voluntary Associations and Dynamic Agenda Representation in the United States

Abstract: Abstract The aim of the article is to examine how the population size of voluntary associations affects the process through which the public's issue priorities are translated into policy priorities. We conduct a time series analysis [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12231
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Cosmopolitan Europe? Cosmopolitan justice against EU-centredness
Cosmopolitan Europe? Cosmopolitan justice against EU-centredness

Abstract: Since the early 2000s, the concept of ‘cosmopolitan Europe’ (CE) has become popular among philosophers and sociologists as a ‘post-nationalist’ way to rethink and reform the European Union (EU) in an age of globalization. Thus, seeki [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2017.1291566
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Buying Amendments? Lobbyists’ Campaign Contributions and Microlegislation in the Creation of the Affordable Care Act
Buying Amendments? Lobbyists’ Campaign Contributions and Microlegislation in the Creation of the Affordable Care Act

Abstract: When do campaign contributions matter? This article advances the claim that a group that gives campaign contributions to US Members of Congress is more likely to achieve legislative success when (1) a single legislator can deliver to [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12266
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Costly Signals: Voter Responses to Parliamentary Dissent in Austria, Britain, and Germany
Costly Signals: Voter Responses to Parliamentary Dissent in Austria, Britain, and Germany

Abstract: When Members of Parliament (MPs) disagree publicly with their party, this provides a signal to voters regarding both their political views and their character valence. We argue that the strength of this signal to voters depends on th [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12274
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Does Entrepreneurship Work? Understanding What Policy Entrepreneurs Do and Whether It Matters
Does Entrepreneurship Work? Understanding What Policy Entrepreneurs Do and Whether It Matters

Abstract: When a major policy change occurs, policy entrepreneurs—advocates who devote substantial time, energy, and resources to campaigning for a specific policy outcome—are often credited as critical influences. However, there has been [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12388
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Does Policy Learning Meet the Standards of an Analytical Framework of the Policy Process?
Does Policy Learning Meet the Standards of an Analytical Framework of the Policy Process?

Abstract: Reference to policy learning is commonplace in the public policy literature but the question of whether it qualifies as an analytical framework applicable to the policy process has yet to be systematically addressed. We therefore app [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12250
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Explaining Advocacy Coalition Change with Policy Feedback
Explaining Advocacy Coalition Change with Policy Feedback

Abstract: Despite the prominence of exogenous factors in theories of policy change, the precise mechanisms that link such factors to policy change remain elusive: The effects of exogenous factors on the politics underlying policy change are no [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12365
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Layering Action Situations to Integrate Spatial Scales, Resource Linkages, and Change over Time: The Case of Groundwater Management in Agricultural Hubs in Germany
Layering Action Situations to Integrate Spatial Scales, Resource Linkages, and Change over Time: The Case of Groundwater Management in Agricultural Hubs in Germany

Abstract: This paper contributes to the integration of the study of multiple (i) spatial scales, (ii) resource systems, and (iii) points in time in natural resource governance by introducing a strategy of layering action situations. In the Ins [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12377
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Moral Panics and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy: An Analysis of the Criminal Justice Policy Agenda in Britain
Moral Panics and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy: An Analysis of the Criminal Justice Policy Agenda in Britain

Abstract: How and when issues are elevated onto the political agenda is a perennial question in the study of public policy. This article considers how moral panics contribute to punctuated equilibrium in public policy by drawing together broad [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12239
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Double Whammy: Why the Underrepresentation of Women among Workplace and Political Decision Makers Matters in Pandemic Times
Double Whammy: Why the Underrepresentation of Women among Workplace and Political Decision Makers Matters in Pandemic Times

Abstract: In this article, we explore whether women's underrepresentation among political and workplace decision makers may subject female citizens and employees to COVID-19-related decisions that are at odds with their preferences. We find th [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000628
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Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two‐Sided Incomplete Information
Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two‐Sided Incomplete Information

Abstract: Conventional models of bargaining and reassurance under incomplete information assume that actors' behavioral signals are objectively cooperative or noncooperative. Even if actors are uncertain of each other's preferences, they know [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12464
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Wealth, Slaveownership, and Fighting for the Confederacy: An Empirical Study of the American Civil War
Wealth, Slaveownership, and Fighting for the Confederacy: An Empirical Study of the American Civil War

Abstract: How did personal wealth and slaveownership affect the likelihood Southerners fought for the Confederate Army in the American Civil War? On the one hand, wealthy Southerners had incentives to free-ride on poorer Southerners and avoid [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000170
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Elite Communication and the Popular Legitimacy of International Organizations
Elite Communication and the Popular Legitimacy of International Organizations

Abstract: This article offers the first systematic and comparative analysis of the effects of elite communication on citizen perceptions of the legitimacy of international organizations (IOs). Departing from cueing theory, it develops novel hy [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123419000620
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Persuasive Lobbying with Allied Legislators
Persuasive Lobbying with Allied Legislators

Abstract: Why do interest groups lobby allied legislators if they already agree? One possibility is that allies are intermediaries who help persuade unconvinced legislators. To study the role and value of intermediaries, I develop a formal mod [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12523
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When Does Diffusing Protest Lead to Local Organization Building? Evidence from a Comparative Subnational Study of Russia’s “For Fair Elections” Movement
When Does Diffusing Protest Lead to Local Organization Building? Evidence from a Comparative Subnational Study of Russia’s “For Fair Elections” Movement

Abstract: Under what conditions do nation-wide mass protests in authoritarian regimes produce new local activist organizations? Based on sixty-five interviews and over 1,000 media reports, internal documents, and social media posts, I compare [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720002443
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A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation
A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation

Abstract: Inspired by impossibility theorems of social choice theory, many democratic theorists have argued that aggregative forms of democracy cannot lend full democratic justification for the collective decisions reached. Hence, democratic t [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000674
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Enhancing Electoral Equality: Can Education Compensate for Family Background Differences in Voting Participation?
Enhancing Electoral Equality: Can Education Compensate for Family Background Differences in Voting Participation?

Abstract: It is well documented that voter turnout is lower among persons who grow up in families from a low socioeconomic status compared with persons from high-status families. This paper examines whether reforms in education can help reduce [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000746
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Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key
Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key

Abstract: Should political theorists engage in ethnography? In this letter, we assess a recent wave of interest in ethnography among political theorists and explain why it is a good thing. We focus, in particular, on how ethnographic research [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000431
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When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multidimensional Constructs
When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multidimensional Constructs

Abstract: Multidimensional concepts are non-compensatory when higher values on one component cannot offset lower values on another. Thinking of the components of a multidimensional phenomenon as non-compensatory rather than substitutable can h [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000807
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American Government 2e
American Government 2e

American Government 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including Insider Perspective featu [...]

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DOI: https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-2e
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Ethnic Parties, Ethnic Tensions? Results of an Original Election Panel Study
Ethnic Parties, Ethnic Tensions? Results of an Original Election Panel Study

Abstract: Ethnic diversity is considered detrimental to national unity, especially if ethnicity is politically mobilized: Ethnic parties in electoral competition in particular are thought to increase the salience of ethnic differences and, wit [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12385
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Race and Representation in Campaign Finance
Race and Representation in Campaign Finance

Abstract: Racial inequality in voter turnout is well-documented, but we know less about racial inequality in campaign contributions. Using new data on the racial identities of over 27 million donors, we find an unrepresentative contributor cla [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000637
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When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments
When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments

Abstract: Eliciting honest answers to sensitive questions is frustrated if subjects withhold the truth for fear that others will judge or punish them. The resulting bias is commonly referred to as social desirability bias, a subset of what we [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000374
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