Local emergency management special issue: guest editors' introduction
In: Local government studies, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 293-301
ISSN: 1743-9388
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In: Local government studies, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 293-301
ISSN: 1743-9388
In: Local government studies, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 394-412
ISSN: 1743-9388
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 36, Heft 12, S. 2566-2585
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 36, Heft 12, S. 2566-2585
ISSN: 0305-750X
World Affairs Online
In: Social science quarterly, Band 100, Heft 7, S. 2523-2529
ISSN: 1540-6237
ObjectivesThis article provides an overview of how the interdisciplinary field of disaster studies contributes to the social sciences.MethodsThe following themes are explored in relation to the articles contained in the special issue: disasters are social and political phenomena that generate policy change, disasters reflect and affect democratic governance, and disasters reveal shared experience and collective identity.ResultsDisaster studies bridge the social sciences theoretically and methodologically. Given the scope of disaster impacts—across social, political, economic, ecological, and infrastructure spheres—and the policy response they garner involving public, private, and civic actors, they offer a lens by which to see society and politics in a way that no other critical events can.ConclusionDisaster studies offer important applications of social science theories and concepts that expand the field, broaden our reach as social scientists, and deepen our understanding of fundamental social processes and behaviors in meaningful ways.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 265-277
ISSN: 1460-3683
What explains which groups are included in a party coalition in any given election cycle? Recent advances in political party theory suggest that policy demanders comprise parties, and that the composition of a party coalition varies from election to election. We theorize three conditions under which parties articulate an interest group's preferred positions in its quadrennial platform: when groups are ideologically proximate to the party median, when groups display party loyalty, and when groups are flush with resources. Using computer-assisted content analysis on a unique and rich data source, we examine three cycles of testimony that 80 organized groups provided to the Democratic Party. The analysis compares group requests with the content of Democratic and Republican National Committee platforms in 1996, 2000, and 2004. Results show that parties reward loyal groups and those that are ideologically proximate to the party but offer no confirmation of a resource effect.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations
ISSN: 1354-0688
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In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 23-47
ISSN: 1939-9162
How do subnational factors affect the proclivity of legislators from the same party or coalition to vote together? We estimate the effects of two institutional forces operating at the state level—intralist electoral competition and alliance with governors—on voting unity among coalition cohorts to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Larger cohorts, in which the imperative for legislators to distinguish themselves from the group is stronger, are less unified than smaller cohorts. We find no net effect of alliance with governors on cohort voting unity. Governors are not dominant brokers of legislative coalitions, a result suggesting that the net gubernatorial effect is contingent on factors that shape governors' influence relative to that of national‐level legislative actors.
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 23-48
ISSN: 0362-9805
In: Dados: revista de ciências sociais, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 773-804
ISSN: 0011-5258
In: Dados, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 773-804
ISSN: 0011-5258
In: Dados: revista de ciências sociais ; publication of the IUPRJ, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 773-804
ISSN: 1678-4588
World Affairs Online
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 107-113