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Indirect accountability of political appointees 政治任命人员的间接问责
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09516298211027229
Christopher Li
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引用次数: 2
Biased politicians and independent agencies 有偏见的政客和独立机构
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-04-13 DOI: 10.1177/09516298211003129
Amy Pond
{"title":"Biased politicians and independent agencies","authors":"Amy Pond","doi":"10.1177/09516298211003129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09516298211003129","url":null,"abstract":"Some agencies derive legitimacy from their political independence: for example, political meddling in monetary policy is problematic, as politicians favor short-term electoral goals over long-term economic stability. Nevertheless, the process of agency reform, even for agencies that are thought to be independent, is seldom onerous and often follows standard legislative procedures. Furthermore, citizens frequently lack expertise to hold policymakers accountable for new bureaucratic policies. Why then do politicians abstain from exercising influence through agency reform? This article delineates an informational cost to agency reform. In issue areas where politicians are frequently biased and citizens cannot perfectly observe the quality of agency reforms, citizens assume that reforms serve the politicians’ self-interest and punish politicians for any reform at all. Agency independence then comes more from informational challenges than from institutional design. This article develops a formal model to explain when agencies are reformed and when they retain their independence.","PeriodicalId":51606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09516298211003129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44635655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Poor people’s beliefs and the dynamics of clientelism 穷人的信仰和庇护主义的动态
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-04-13 DOI: 10.1177/09516298211003661
Miquel Pellicer, E. Wegner, Lindsay J. Benstead, Ellen Lust
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引用次数: 15
Skill, power and marginal contribution in committees 技能、权力和委员会的边际贡献
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/0951629820984849
Ruth Ben-Yashar, S. Nitzan, Tomoya Tajika
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引用次数: 2
Electoral competition in the presence of identity politics 身份政治下的选举竞争
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/0951629820984847
Leyla D. Karakas, Devashish Mitra
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引用次数: 5
Erratum to ‘Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats’ “不要孵化信使”的勘误?论限制官僚政治活动的可取性
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/09516298211003127
Jean Guillaume Forand, Gergely Ujhelyi
{"title":"Erratum to ‘Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats’","authors":"Jean Guillaume Forand, Gergely Ujhelyi","doi":"10.1177/09516298211003127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09516298211003127","url":null,"abstract":"Erratum to ‘Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats’ by Jean Guillaume Forand (Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada) and Gergely Ujhelyi (Department of Economics, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA). Published in Journal of Theoretical Politics 2021, Vol. 33(1) 95139, https://doi.org/ 10.1177/0951629820984848. The article was first published online January 19, 2021. SAGE Publishing regrets that the following errors were introduced by the publisher during the copy-editing process.","PeriodicalId":51606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09516298211003127","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42720841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Sanctions and incentives to repudiate external debt 拒绝外债的制裁和激励措施
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/0951629820984851
Carlo de Bassa, E. Grillo, Francesco Passarelli
{"title":"Sanctions and incentives to repudiate external debt","authors":"Carlo de Bassa, E. Grillo, Francesco Passarelli","doi":"10.1177/0951629820984851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0951629820984851","url":null,"abstract":"Often foreign countries levy sanctions in the attempt to foment discontent with a hostile government. But sanctions may provoke costly reactions by the leaders of the target country. This paper presents a model in which sanctions exhaust the target country economically and impair its government’s fiscal capacity. Then, an office-motivated leader may find it convenient to default on foreign debt in order to free resources that she can invest to regain internal political support. The default thus becomes a defensive tool to partially dampen the internal political turmoil sanctions generate.","PeriodicalId":51606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0951629820984851","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47068108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Violence, coercion, and settler colonialism 暴力、胁迫和定居者殖民主义
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/0951629820984850
Chelsea A. Pardini, Ana Espínola‐Arredondo
{"title":"Violence, coercion, and settler colonialism","authors":"Chelsea A. Pardini, Ana Espínola‐Arredondo","doi":"10.1177/0951629820984850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0951629820984850","url":null,"abstract":"Previous game-theoretic analyses of the settlement of the United States assume that Indigenous peoples and settler colonizers either engaged in free exchange or total war for land. We reframe the model to consider that violence, including coercion, was present in most of their interactions; that is, we allow for the settler colonizer to engage in coercion to strategically lower their appropriation costs for Indigenous peoples’ lands. We find that the settler strategically uses violence to pay less in exchanges for Indigenous peoples’ lands. In addition, we examine how uncertainty, about whether an agreement can ensure the avoidance of all-out conflict, affects initial violence and resistance. We find that the likelihood of all-out conflict affects settler violence and it critically depends on whether the Indigenous people can seek compensation.","PeriodicalId":51606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0951629820984850","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49510745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats 不要孵化信使？论限制官僚政治活动的可取性
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/0951629820984848
Jean Guillaume Forand, Gergely Ujhelyi
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引用次数: 2
Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: Coordination and information aggregation 道德人去投票站:协调和信息聚合
IF 1 4区 社会学
Journal of Theoretical Politics Pub Date : 2020-11-30 DOI: 10.1177/09516298221081811
Ingela Alger, J. Laslier
{"title":"Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: Coordination and information aggregation","authors":"Ingela Alger, J. Laslier","doi":"10.1177/09516298221081811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09516298221081811","url":null,"abstract":"This paper revisits two classical problems in the theory of voting—viz. the divided majority problem and the strategic revelation of information—in the light of evolutionarily founded partial Kantian morality. It is shown that, compared to electorates consisting of purely self-interested voters, such Kantian morality helps voters solve coordination problems and improves the information aggregation properties of equilibria, even for modest levels of morality.","PeriodicalId":51606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theoretical Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47207135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
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