{"title":"When Mayors Deliver: Political Alignment and Well-being","authors":"Candelaria Garay, E. Simison","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09357-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09357-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"57 1","pages":"303 - 336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47797273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconsidering the Rubber Stamp Thesis: A Consolidation Theory of Oil Expropriations and Legislatures in Party-based Autocracies","authors":"Paul Schuler, Chad Westerland","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09354-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09354-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Growing conventional wisdom suggests that authoritarian legislatures prevent oil nationalizations in party-based regimes. However, country scholars and media outlets remain skeptical. We develop a theory aligning with the skeptics. We argue that oil expropriations and legislative closures are endogenous to the process of the consolidation of party-based autocracies. New authoritarian parties close legislatures when they seize power and do not reopen them until they can ensure their dominance of the new legislature, a process abetted by oil expropriations. We test the argument using recently developed cross-case comparative Bayesian qualitative techniques. Evidence shows support for our theory. Our findings suggest that authoritarian legislatures are less constraining in terms of oil nationalizations than new conventional wisdom suggests. Additionally, our evidence points to a different interpretation of the role legislatures play in the evolution of authoritarian regimes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"6 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vote Buying as Rent Seeking: Land Sales in China’s Village Elections","authors":"Xiao Ma, S. Whiting, Tonglong Zhang, Tan Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09355-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09355-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"57 1","pages":"337 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42805213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extending a Hand: Corruption and Solidarity with the Less Privileged Domestically and Beyond","authors":"Fredrik G. Malmberg","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09352-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09352-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social cohesion, often operationalized using measures of generalized social trust, has received enormous amounts of attention in previous scholarly work. However, another dimension of this broad phenomenon, norms of social solidarity, has meanwhile largely been overlooked in previous research. This study analyzes the association between micro-perceptions of corruption and solidarity with the less privileged both domestically and beyond, and how this association might vary across different societies with different types and forms of corruption. The data come from ISSP Citizenship II and include 33 countries, analyzed with multilevel regression models. The results show that the link between individual corruption perceptions and global solidarity varies so that it is comparatively weak and positive in contexts judged as more corrupt according to the Corruption Perception Index, while it is strong and negative in contexts judged by experts as relatively corruption free. For domestic solidarity, in turn, there is some evidence of a comparatively weak positive association but no significant contextual variations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Static Electricity: Institutional and Ideational Barriers to China’s Market Reforms","authors":"M. Davidson, M. Pearson","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09358-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09358-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"57 1","pages":"385 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41666181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Out of “Site”, Out of Mind?: Politics of Land Compensation for Chinese Rural Migrants","authors":"Yujeong Yang","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09353-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09353-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"57 1","pages":"271 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52733833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: The Perils of Parliamentarism: Executive Selection Systems and Democratic Transitions from Electoral Authoritarianism","authors":"Masaaki Higashijima, Yuko Kasuya","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09351-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09351-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"57 1","pages":"221 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45946227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compensating for Instability? Economic Openness, Threat of Social Unrest, and Welfare Provision in China","authors":"I. Hwang","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09349-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09349-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"57 1","pages":"171 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42299460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perils of Parliamentarism: Executive Selection Systems and Democratic Transitions from Electoral Authoritarianism","authors":"Masaaki Higashijima, Yuko Kasuya","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09350-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09350-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Why are some electoral authoritarian regimes immune to democratization for decades while others not? This article explores the impact of executive selection systems on democratic transitions from electoral authoritarianism. We argue that under electoral authoritarian regimes, Parliament-based systems permit dictators to more effectively deter democratization compared to Presidential systems. This is because Parliament-based systems indirectly allow electoral manipulation to achieve a victory at the ballot box, such as through gerrymandering and malapportionment. Parliament-based systems also make it difficult for opposition parties to coordinate and incentivize autocrats and ruling elites to engage in power-sharing and thus institutionalize ruling parties. We test our hypothesis as well as the underlying mechanisms employing a dataset of 93 electoral authoritarian countries between 1946 and 2012. Cross-national statistical analyses with instrumental variables estimation provide supporting evidence for our theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"7 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empowering Inclusion? The Two Sides of Party-Society Linkages in Latin America.","authors":"Santiago Anria, Juan Bogliaccini","doi":"10.1007/s12116-022-09365-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09365-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates why, in two different political and institutional contexts, leftist governing parties became agents of empowered inclusion, boosting the capacity of subordinate social actors to shape the agenda of politics and allowing them to push social policy in an inclusionary direction. To explain how and why this happened, it highlights the ambiguous nature of party-society linkages. While societal ties are necessary for sustained significant progress in social and political inclusion, they can also block the later consolidation of achievements. This happens as some groups, once included, block further inclusion. We build our theoretical argument about the two-sided nature of party-society linkages using comparative evidence from Bolivia and Uruguay-two countries where progress toward empowered inclusion has been especially notable in the past two decades. The article contributes to existing scholarship on social and political inclusion by calling for greater attention to the critical but, at times, ambiguous role that the social bases of parties play.</p>","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"57 3","pages":"410-432"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9194340/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40164037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}