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Marc Bühlmann Wolfgang Merkel Lisa Müller Bernhard Weßels 《Politische Vierteljahresschrift》2008,49(1):114-122
Ohne Zusammenfassung
* Die vier Autor(inn)en arbeiten in einem gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt des NCCR Democracy (vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds
finanziertes National Centre of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century) und des WZB an einem „Demokratiebarometer“ für die 30 OECD-Staaten, das die Ignoranz der 0-Varianz bei Polity und Freedom House aufkl?ren will.
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Marc Bühlmann (Corresponding author)Email: |
Wolfgang MerkelEmail: |
Lisa MüllerEmail: |
Bernhard We?elsEmail: |
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Wilfred M. McClay 《Society》2008,45(5):403-405
Whatever else the 2008 presidential election may result in, we can be sure that it will only contribute further to the steadily
declining role of political parties in American politics, and the myriad negative consequences arising from that decline.
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Wilfred M. McClayEmail: |
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Howard J. Silver 《Society》2008,45(5):422-424
The policy issues confronting the new administration in 2009 can benefit greatly from the results of social, behavioral, and
economic sciences research. Climate change, energy, human capital, social, capital, migration, public health, fairness, new
technologies, and foreign and defense policy are all issues that the research has addressed. The participation of social scientists
in the policy process will enhance the contributions of the research.
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Howard J. SilverEmail: |
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The authors comment on an earlier aritice in Society by Eugene Goodheart and offer a novel hypothesis about the origins of
religion.
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Lionel Tiger (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Steven D. Ealy 《Society》2008,45(5):415-418
The 2008 presidential election will be significant both for domestic and for foreign policy. Issues of security in domestic
policy will continue to trump issues of freedom. The difficulties of resolving our military presence in Iraq will be the first
among many important issues the new administration must confront. In both domestic and foreign affairs the new administration
will have to deal with the unanticipated consequences of inherited policies even as it creates its own agenda and its own
set of unintended consequences.
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Steven D. EalyEmail: |
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Luis E. Lugo 《Society》2007,44(6):109-112
Americans are not as religiously divided on foreign policy questions as they are over such hot-button, culture war domestic
issues as abortion and gay marriage. Nevertheless, surveys suggest that Americans’ attitudes on several foreign policy fronts
are consistent with a religious worldview. This analysis draws primarily on the findings of various PRC polls to examine the
relationship between religion and three areas of foreign policy: the role of the USA in the world; the nature of international
obligations; and the morality of war.
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Luis E. LugoEmail: |
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Andrew G. Keeler 《Policy Sciences》2007,40(4):353-365
The lack of significant efforts at the national level to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in the United States has provided
the impetus for a number of state programs. This article assesses the efficiency of these programs in making real progress
in GHG reductions. It also explores the effect of state programs on the eventual adoption of a strong national GHG mitigation
policy. While state programs are likely to demonstrate the viability of new mitigation approaches, they are also likely to
create a set of expectations and precedents that will make a strong and coherent national policy more difficult.
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Andrew G. KeelerEmail: |
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Export processing zones (EPZs) are increasingly being established to promote economic growth in developing countries. However,
they remain controversial and are often criticized for being associated with a “race to the bottom” characterized by the easing
of labor and environmental standards. This paper investigates whether the decision to locate facilities inside these zones
is associated with higher corporate environmental performance. Findings indicate that facilities operating in Trinidad and
Tobago’s EPZs are more likely to show higher corporate environmental performance than those outside. Additionally, firms in
state-managed zones appear to show higher corporate environmental performance than those located in privately managed zones.
Enhanced institutional pressures from regulators, local communities, and fellow tenant firms may explain these differences.
These results suggest that environmental policy makers and environmentalists can take advantage of already established EPZs
to promote enclave enhanced institutional pressures associated with superior corporate environmental performance.
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Jorge E. Rivera (Corresponding author)Email: |
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This study examines how federally sponsored research questions about welfare policy have evolved from 1981 to 2001, through a content analysis of Requests for Proposals (RFPs). We treat
the RFP as a document that identifies what information is sought as well as what is treated as established knowledge. Results
show that research questions represent a mixture of constancy and change. The greatest similarity in research questions is
in the areas of employment and earnings/income, with greater variability in the areas of family formation and child outcomes.
The research questions, notwithstanding their sophisticated terminology, often boil down to who the poor are, how welfare
recipients can be coaxed or forced into the labor market, whether fundamental work supports such as health insurance and reliable
childcare are helpful in sustaining employment, and whether welfare is implicated in pregnancy, marital behavior and multi-generational
poverty. We interpret these findings in relation to concepts on research utilization.
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Staci T. Lowe (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Federal first responder funding is estimated to be $98 billion below the minimum required level over the 5 years ending in
2010. A significant portion of that shortfall can be covered by savings attained by eliminating non-public-good services,
initiating public–private partnerships for meeting peak time demand in emergency situations, and contracting-out other public
services. We concentrate on such savings in the context of response to false calls to police, fire, and ambulance services.
Solving the false alarm problem for police, fire, and ambulance services and eliminating some non-public-good police services
could release significant service-hours and 23.7–31.4% of the required additional Homeland Security (HLS) annual spending.
Reducing false alarms means 88,000 police, fire, and ambulance first responders could be shifted to HLS activities.
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Andrew J. BuckEmail: |
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This paper exploits uniquely detailed data and cross-institution variation in aid for three large public universities to identify
the effects of aid on the probability of college graduation. The results indicate that need-based and merit-based aid both
increase graduation rates at large public institutions, but primarily through the types of students that ‘select’ these institutions.
Merit-based aid facilitates an institution attracting students who have higher observed academic ability that raises the probability
of graduation. Need-based aid enables an institution to attract students with non-academic attributes such as social and cultural
networks that, while often unobserved, improve graduation success. Broadly, our results suggest that recent aid policy that
has moved away from need-based aid for low-income students (reducing their ability to find the best institutional match) and
toward merit-based aid (that alters the distribution of high ability students across colleges) could foster stagnant graduation
rates even with rising enrollment rates that have been observed over the last three decades.
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Mark Stater (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Aimee Bolletino 《Human Rights Review》2008,9(4):491-511
The Colombian military and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) have committed systematic attacks against the
Colombian people that violate international law. One such heinous incident took place in May 2003 at the Betoyes Guahibo indigenous
reserve in Colombia. Unlike other acts of terror, the attack at the Reserve is well documented. Because of this, the attack
on the Reserve is an excellent case for International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution. This article exposes acts of cruelty
and makes a persuasive moral case for ICC prosecution. The ICC has jurisdiction over the attack on the Betoyes people by the
AUC and Colombian military. The article further discusses the potential legal exposure of the Colombian government, individual
Colombians and US individuals through its military support and training of the Colombian military.
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Aimee BolletinoEmail: |
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This article examines how international institutions serve to diffuse human rights norms and create judicial capacity building
in post-conflict societies. Specifically, we examine how the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
and the Office of the High Representative have influenced the reform of domestic courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). We
place these reforms within the broader debate over restructuring the complex system of government in BiH. Since 2005, domestic
courts in BiH have had jurisdiction over the following: (1) Cases which were initially under the jurisdiction of the domestic
courts but remanded to the ICTY and recently returned to BiH. (2) Cases which originated at the ICTY and have been transferred
to the State Court, and (3) new cases which originated and remained in the domestic court system. We find that while human
rights norms have been incorporated into the new legal code, the diffusion of these human rights norms has been inadequate
because of the lack of judicial capacity building. While some courts in the capital enjoy significant resources, the vast
majority of cases will be tried at provincial courts which are under-funded and unable to prosecute the significant number
of cases. Moreover, the government structure of BiH has had a decidedly negative impact on the prosecution of these cases.
Ultimately, the rule of law requires consistency of approach and funding to protect human rights throughout the state.
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Lilian A. Barria (Corresponding author)Email: |
Steven D. RoperEmail: |
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Ryan L. Claassen 《Political Behavior》2007,29(3):369-390
To date, most models of policy motivated campaign participation claim participation derives from the intensity or extremism
of one’s policy views. I approach the policy motivation differently, generalizing the logic of proximity voting to model policy
motivated campaign participation. Modeling participation as a function of extremism captures the activist’s policy preferences
and suggests those with strong preferences participate more, while modeling participation as a function of proximity captures
both the activist’s policy preferences and the relevant comparisons to the positions of the candidates. Noting the two alternatives
lead to different predictions about variation in individual participation beyond turnout (e.g. campaign activities), I find
consistent support for a proximity model of activism and I find no independent effect of extremism once I control for proximity.
Moreover, the proximity model’s predictions about ideological responsiveness to changes in the candidates’ locations over
time prove robust, while predictions based solely on ideological extremism do not.
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Ryan L. ClaassenEmail: |
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James F. Guyot 《Society》2008,45(6):529-533
Women advance more rapidly in the appointive executive and judicial branches than in the elected legislative branch at both
national and state levels. Demand side and supply side factors explain much of this. In particular, greater male variability
restricts the opportunity for gender equity.
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James F. GuyotEmail: |
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Jon A. Shields 《Society》2009,46(3):224-226
Conservative, and particularly religious opponents of enhancement technologies and of prolonging life indefinitely face formidable
challenges from policymakers who are largely liberated from any forms of Christian moral consensus. This is the predicament
of Daniel Callahan and others who are unable to translate their inescapably religious objections in secular terms.
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Jon A. ShieldsEmail: |
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Stephen J. Caldas 《Society》2008,45(1):30-34
This article scrutinizes the inconsistencies in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger Supreme Court decision which upheld the University
of Michigan’s law school affirmative action policy. The decision, which now governs university admissions policies in all
50 states, ruled that “diversity” remains a compelling state interest that legally justifies discriminating between individuals
on the basis of their race in determining college admissions. This article examines two incongruous justifications offered
by the Grutter court in justification for their ruling: the “critical mass” justification and the no “undo harm” argument.
Neither rationale is able to withstand careful, logical examination.
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Stephen J. CaldasEmail: |
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Daniel Chirot 《Society》2008,45(5):425-428
The next president of the USA will surely correct some of the Bush administration’s most egregious policy errors, particularly
its gross insensitivity to the rest of the world’s opinions and its extreme bellicosity. To restore trust in American, and
to strengthen national security, better diplomacy will be necessary. Strengthening a demoralized and nearly dysfunctional
State Department by acknowledging the vital role foreign area experts must play will have to be a major part of the new administration’s
policy.
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Daniel ChirotEmail: |
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Will H. Corral 《Society》2009,46(2):119-123
Any settling of scores about the state and role of intellectuals in the west has to factor in the function of Latin American
writers and the subset of pseudo-intellectuals called “Latin Americanists” of the second half of the twentieth century. The
score is not even, since the university-bound misrepresent the actual development of intellectual thought in the southern
hemisphere. The ideas and ubiquity of Mario Vargas Llosa are a necessary point of departure to calibrate properly the real
importance of those views.
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Will H. CorralEmail: |