Political Elites, Mass Publics, and Support for Democratic Principles
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 753-773
ISSN: 1468-2508
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 753-773
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Comparative politics, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 511
ISSN: 2151-6227
In: Comparative politics, Band 4, S. 511-536
ISSN: 0010-4159
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 984-989
ISSN: 1468-2508
The potato famines of the nineteenth century were long attributed to Irish indolence. The Stalinist system was blamed on a Russian proclivity for autocracy. Muslim men have been accused of an inclination to terrorism. Is political behavior really the result of cultural upbringing, or does the vast range of human political action stem more from institutional and structural constraints? This important new book carefully examines the role of institutions and civic culture in the establishment of political norms. Jackman and Miller methodically refute the Weberian cultural theory of politics and build in its place a persuasive case for the ways in which institutions shape the political behavior of ordinary citizens. Their rigorous examination of grassroots electoral participation reveals no evidence for even a residual effect of cultural values on political behavior, but instead provides consistent support for the institutional view. Before Norms speaks to urgent debates among political scientists and sociologists over the origins of individual political behavior. Robert W. Jackman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Ross A. Miller is Associate Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University
In: Annual review of political science, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 47-73
ISSN: 1545-1577
▪ Abstract This review evaluates the most recent studies of social capital in political science and argues that they have strayed considerably from the original treatment of social capital, which casts it as endogenous. Recent treatments have recast social capital as a feature of political culture and thereby treat values as exogenous. These two approaches emanate from incompatible premises and have fundamentally different implications. Thus, efforts to combine the two approaches are rendered unproductive by inevitable inconsistencies of internal logic. Moreover, empirical tests of the exogenous social capital approach are deficient: They are selective in their use of data and employ ad hoc procedures at crucial junctures. We therefore urge a return to the treatment of social capital as endogenous.
In: Annual review of political science, Band 1, S. 47-74
ISSN: 1094-2939
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 29, Heft 6, S. 724-733
ISSN: 1552-3829
In: British journal of political science, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 501-521
ISSN: 1469-2112
We examine the systemic conditions that have influenced the electoral success of parties of the extreme right in West European politics from 1970 through 1990. Empirical estimates based on 103 elections in sixteen countries suggest that electoral and party-system factors interact with each other to generate conditions conducive to these parties. Specifically, increasing electoral thresholds dampen support for the extreme right as the number of parliamentary parties expands. At the same time, multi-partism increasingly fosters parties of the extreme right with rising electoral proportionality. Our analyses also indicate that higher rates of unemployment provide a favourable environment for these political movements. These results suggest that levels of electoral support for the extreme right are sensitive to factors that can be modified through policy instruments.
In: American journal of political science, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 632
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: American journal of political science, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 697
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: British journal of political science, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 501-521
ISSN: 0007-1234
We examine the systemic conditions that have influenced the electoral success of parties of the extreme right in West European politics from 1970 through 1990. Empirical estimates based on 103 elections in sixteen countries suggest that electoral and party-system factors interact with each other to generate conditions conducive to these parties. Specifically, increasing electoral thresholds dampen support for the extreme right as the number of parliamentary parties expands. At the same time, multi-partism increasingly fosters parties of the extreme right with rising electoral proportionality. Our analyses also indicate that higher rates of unemployment provide a favourable environment for these political movements. These results suggest that levels of electoral support for the extreme right are sensitive to factors that can be modified through policy instruments. (British Journal of Political Science / FUB)
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In: British journal of political science, Band 26, S. 501-521
ISSN: 0007-1234
Conditions include number of political parties and unemployment rate; based on data for 16 countries, 1980-90; Western Europe.
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 697-716
ISSN: 0092-5853
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 29, Heft 6, S. 724-733
ISSN: 0010-4140