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- Robinson, Darrel
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Education, Family Background, and Political Knowledge : A Test of the Compensation Hypothesis with Identical Twins
- 2020
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Ingår i: Political science. - : SAGE Publications. - 0032-3187 .- 2041-0611. ; 68:2, s. 350-369
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Prior research has consistently identified education as an important correlate of political knowledge, which, many argue, reflects an underlying causal relationship. However, recent work has questioned this interpretation rather arguing that family background causes one to both obtain an education and to develop political knowledge. I argue that this causal-versus-proxy debate is too simplistic. Specifically, using a sample of identical twins, I test the interaction between education, political discussion in the home, and political knowledge. I find that education is positively associated with political knowledge independent of family background and genetics for those who discussed politics with family relatively little during upbringing. However, for those who discussed politics with family members more frequently, education has no association with political knowledge independent of pre-adult factors. Therefore, education compensates for a lack of exposure to political content in the home.
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- Gustavsson, Gina, 1984-
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Romantic Liberalism: An Alternative Perspective on Liberal Disrespect in the Muhammad Cartoons Controversy
- 2014
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Ingår i: Political Studies. - Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0032-3217 .- 1467-9248. ; 62:1, s. 53-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is increasing scholarly concern that liberalism comes into conflict with religious diversity. William Galston blames this tendency on ‘enlightenment liberalism’, which places autonomous self-reflection at the heart of the liberal project. This paper, however, proposes a culprit that is more prone to both disrespect and fundamentalism: romantic liberalism, which idealises authentic self-expression. I develop this concept by re-visiting the Danish cartoon controversy, allegedly a case of enlightenment liberalism. This reveals that Flemming Rose, the editor who commissioned the cartoons, invokes romantic rather than enlightened values in defense of the publication. In contrast to previous research, I show that Rose does not portray the disrespectfulness of the cartoons as a side effect of trying to promote autonomy among Muslims. Rather, he argues in favor of artistic provocation as such, and invokes a distinctly romantic understanding of freedom of speech, which in many ways runs counter to the ideal of autonomy.
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- Moffitt, Benjamin, et al.
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Rethinking Populism: Politics, Mediatisation and Political Style
- 2014
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Ingår i: Political Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0032-3217 .- 1467-9248. ; 62:2, s. 381-397
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As a key feature of the contemporary political landscape, populism stands as one of the most contentious concepts in political science. This article presents a critique of dominant conceptions of populism – as ideology, logic, discourse and strategy/organisation – and introduces the category of ‘political style’ as a new compelling way of thinking about the phenomenon. We argue that this new category captures an important dimension of contemporary populism that is missed by rival approaches. In doing so, we put forward an inductive model of populism as a political style and contextualise it within the increasingly stylised and mediatised milieu of contemporary politics by focusing on its performative features. We conclude by considering how this concept allows us to understand how populism appears across the political spectrum, how it translates into the political mainstream and its implications for democratic politics.
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- Bergh, Andreas
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The universal welfare state: Theory and the case of Sweden
- 2004
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Ingår i: Political Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0032-3217 .- 1467-9248. ; 52:4, s. 745-766
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the existing literature on welfare state typologies, the concept of the universal welfare state is not defined precisely enough to allow for comparisons of universality over time and between countries. In this paper, I discuss some problems with the way the term 'the universal welfare state' has been used and I suggest possible solutions. Among other things, I propose that the term 'universality' be used to describe the provision of a specific welfare benefit independently of individual income and/or other individual characteristics. It should also be used to describe the coverage of welfare benefits rather than their size. Based on the theoretical discussion, a number of possible indicators of universality are applied to the case of Sweden in the 1990s. The conclusion is that, despite its economic crisis, universality in Sweden did not decrease.
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- Dahlström, Carl, 1972, et al.
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Corruption, Bureaucratic Failure and Social Policy Priorities
- 2013
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Ingår i: Political Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0032-3217 .- 1467-9248. ; 61:3, s. 523-542
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article argues that bureaucratic capacity - the competence and reliability of the national bureaucracy - matters to the allocation of public spending among welfare state programmes since it is difficult for governments to justify high levels of spending on programmes that require bureaucrats to make case-by-case decisions, on a discretionary basis, if the bureaucracy is incompetent, corrupt or both. We expect bureaucratic capacity to have a positive effect on programmes that involve bureaucratic discretion, but weak or no effects on programmes that are more straightforward to implement. In order to test these hypotheses, we analyse public spending on active labour market programmes (which involve a lot of discretion) and parental leave benefits (which involve less discretion). Relying on data for twenty advanced democracies from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, we find that high bureaucratic capacity does have a positive effect on active labour market policy spending, but not on parental leave benefits.
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- Davidsson, Johan Bo, et al.
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Losing the Issue, Losing the Vote: Issue Competition and the Reform of Unemployment Insurance in Germany and Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: Political Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0032-3217 .- 1467-9248. ; 61:3, s. 505-522
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Welfare state research tends to assume strong and enduring public support for welfare state institutions. We challenge this assumption and show that in times of economic crisis, positive welfare state attitudes are confronted with conflicting preferences for improvement of labour market performance. We argue that such movements in public opinion have led to issue competition among major political parties and subsequent radical reform of unemployment insurance in two least-likely cases. In both Germany and Sweden, incumbent governments were losing voters' confidence as a result of high and persistent unemployment. In Germany, the social democratic government saw falling competence ratings at the same time as the issue of unemployment was highly salient among voters. In order to win back confidence, the party shifted its policy stance and introduced reforms which reshaped the unemployment insurance system. In Sweden, the situation was similar with falling ratings for the social democratic government and high levels of salience for the issue of unemployment among voters. When the government did not introduce reforms, the opposition moved in and won issue ownership, and subsequently the election, on an agenda of radical reform.
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- Lane, Jan-Erik, et al.
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International organisation as coordination in N-person games
- 2006
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Ingår i: Political Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0032-3217 .- 1467-9248. ; 54:1, s. 185-215
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One major problem in global governance is the specification of decision-making rules for international and regional organisations to coordinate the states of the world. Various organisations use different decision-making rules, and the properties of these rules may be compared systematically in terms of the power index approach. The power index solution concept of N-person games may be employed to display a basic problem in global governance, namely, the fundamental trade-off between state veto on the one hand and the capacity of the organisation or groups of states to act, meaning its decisiveness, on the other hand. Thus, when states coordinate through the setting up and running of international organisations, they then face a trade-off between their own control over the organisation and the capacity of the organisation to act. States make this trade-off in different ways depending upon the nature of the international or regional organisation as they reflect upon what is most important, to wit, own control or the capacity of the group to act.
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- Dahlberg, Stefan, 1975, et al.
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Democratic Discontent in Old and New Democracies: Assessing the Importance of Democratic Input and Governmental Output
- 2015
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Ingår i: Political Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0032-3217 .- 1467-9248. ; 63:Suppl. 1, s. 18-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the phenomenon of dissatisfied democrats has been frequently discussed in the literature, it has not often been empirically investigated. This article sets out to analyse the discrepancy between the strong support for democratic principles and the widespread discontent with the way democracy works. Drawing on earlier research on the sources of political support, using data from a wide range of democracies, the relevance of two contrasting explanatory perspectives are investigated. The first perspective argues that the sources of democratic discontent are found on the input-side of the political system in terms of representation. The contrasting view argues that the output-side of the political system is most important, where the quality of government play the pivotal role. The results of the empirical analysis suggest that, in general, both types of factors are important, but also that these processes to a large extent are conditioned by the level of institutional consolidation.
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