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The People's Captain: Understanding Police Officers as an Electoral Brand
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations
ISSN: 1938-274X
In Brazil, police officers have increasingly competed in elections, mirroring expanded roles in government for coercive agents in cases such as the United States, the Philippines, and Mexico. In this paper, I develop a theory of how voters perceive these candidates. The symbol of the police officer represents the abstract idea of order and stability, more than just a crime fighter. Corruption scandals and insecurity in Brazil and Latin America have given rise to "order" in response to the chaos of politics as usual as a compelling electoral brand. I therefore expect that voters associate police officer candidates with strong, decisive leadership, social conservatism, a strong commitment to the rule of law, honesty in government, and a weak commitment to democracy. An image-based conjoint experiment fielded to a representative sample of Brazilian voters ( N = 3,098) finds support for the theoretical framework, but respondents did not perceive the police officer candidate as less democratic than other professional profiles. The results help to inform our understanding of electoral politics in post-transition democratic regimes, demonstrating how armed agents of the state might remain popular and influential within the context of a consolidated democracy.
Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 30, Heft S1, S. 115-134
ISSN: 1467-9655
AbstractWhile change and flexibility in ritual practices and traditions have been in some sense constitutive elements of Hmong religion, the religious landscape of the contemporary Hmong diaspora is marked by dramatic changes of an altogether new scale. These include the proliferation of a wide range of competing millenarian movements. Leaders of these movements vie for recognition by casting traditional Hmong ritual practice in a way that allows them to convey their ritual innovations as more authentic than traditional religious forms, underwritten by a genuine mandate of heaven. This requires religious activists to decouple the indexical relationship between traditional ritual and its objects (ancestors and a prosperous future) in order to forge new semiotic relationships between new ritual canons, orthographies, and the future of Hmong society. Hmong millenarian activism challenges conventional notions of 'conversion' and 'proselytizing', both because the intended audience is limited to fellow Hmong, and because the suasive practices in which these activists engage are actively trying to rework semiotic connections within a broadly shared Hmong matrix of meaning.
Brands that bind: How party brands constrain blurred electoral appeals
In: Electoral studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy, Band 88, S. 102760
ISSN: 1873-6890
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 63, Heft 1, S. 236-258
ISSN: 1475-6765
AbstractThis paper argues that issue salience divergence – the extent to which parties in a party system diverge in their allocation of salience across issues – is a key characteristic of party system decidability. Elections do not only matter in that politicians and parties with different policy positions may come to power. They can also matter if competing elites emphasize different issues. Using data from the MARPOR project and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, I demonstrate that voters perceive greater differences between parties when parties propose agendas that diverge with respect to issue salience. Furthermore, I demonstrate that perceptions of differences between parties mediate the effect of issue salience divergence on respondents' satisfaction with democracy and self‐reported voter turnout. These findings indicate that salience‐based differentiation influences the quality of party systems alongside the traditional party system characteristics with important implications for public opinion and political behavior.
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation
In: Political science research and methods: PSRM, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 249-266
ISSN: 2049-8489
AbstractDid the 2008 United States presidential election produce stronger future mobilization for Blacks than non-Blacks? First-time voting influences long-term political behavior, but do minority voters see the most powerful effects when the formative election is tied to their group's political empowerment? I test this hypothesis in the context of the election of the first Black president in United States history, using voting eligibility discontinuities to identify the effect of voting in 2008 on future voting for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites. Voting in 2008 caused a greater increase in the likelihood of voting in 2010 for Blacks than for other new voters, but there is no evidence of a sustained mobilizing advantage in subsequent elections. Furthermore, 2008 was not a unique formative voting experience for new Black voters, but rather produced similar effects on future voting as other presidential elections. These results signal that group political empowerment does not drive habitual voting.
Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 435-449
ISSN: 1460-3683
Issue salience is a fundamental component of party competition, yet we know little about when, where, or why parties' issue emphases converge or diverge. I propose an original operationalization of issue salience divergence, the extent to which parties' issue emphases differ from each other in an election, that generates values at the party-election and country-election levels. I leverage data from party manifestos to calculate scores for 2,308 party-election combinations of 381 unique parties in 426 elections across thirty European countries, the most comprehensive dataset to date. I find that issue salience divergence is generally low and has starkly decreased over time, but countries and parties differ substantially. As an initial step in understanding these differences, I propose and test initial expectations of how party and democracy age, electoral systems, and party type alter the incentives for divergent issue salience.
Calendar of Events in Church and State
In: A journal of church and state: JCS, Band 64, Heft 4, S. 769-772
ISSN: 2040-4867
The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Nationalist Populism and American Democracy
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 137, Heft 3, S. 636-637
ISSN: 1538-165X
Using social media to understand constituent and follower opinions: impact of "low quality" on US Senator information gathering
In: Transforming government: people, process and policy, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 218-232
ISSN: 1750-6174
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand why some US Senators have more low-quality followers than others and the potential impact of low-quality followers on understanding constituent preferences.Design/methodology/approachFor each US Senator, data on Twitter followers was matched with demographic characteristics proven to influence behavior. An OLS regression model evaluated why some Senators attract more low-quality followers than others. Then, observations on the impact of low-quality followers were discussed along with potential effects on information gathering and constituent representation.FindingsThis study finds that total followers, ideology and length of time on Twitter are all significant predictors of whether a Senator might attract low-quality followers. Low-quality followers can have wide-ranging implications on Senator's use of social media data to represent constituents and develop public policy.Research limitations/implicationsThe data set only includes Senators from the 115th Congress (2017–2018). As such, future research could expand the data to include additional Senators or members of the House of Representatives.Practical implicationsInformation is essential in any decision-making environment, including legislatures. Understanding why some users, particularly public opinion leaders, attract more low-quality social media followers could help decision-makers better understand where information is coming from and how they might choose to evaluates its content.Social implicationsThis study finds two practical implications for public opinion leaders, including Senators. First, accounts must be actively monitored to identify and weed-out low-quality followers. Second, users need to be wary of disinformation and misinformation and they need to develop strategies to identify and eliminate it from the collection of follower preferences.Originality/valueThis study uses a unique data set to understand why some Senators have more low-quality followers than others and the impact on information gathering. Other previous studies have not addressed this issue in the context of governmental decision-making or constituent representation.
Guerrillas and authoritarians: partners in post-war polarization
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 163–173
ISSN: 1460-3683
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Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump. By Stephanie A. Martin. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021. 280p. $49.95 cloth. - Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics. By David E. Campbell, Geoffrey C. Layman, and John C. Green. ...
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 1327-1328
ISSN: 1541-0986
Calendar of Events in Church and State
In: A journal of church and state: JCS, Band 63, Heft 4, S. 776-780
ISSN: 2040-4867