British Journal of Political Science articles from January 1999

British Journal of Political Science archives from January 1999

Institutions and environmental performance in seventeen western democracies.
January 1, 1999... Numerous studies in the last two decades have shown that neo-corporatist forms of interest intermediation facilitate economic performance by promoting social stability and policy consensus.(1) However, critics, particularly proponents of new...

Electoral reform and the fate of factions: the case of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party.
January 1, 1999... Electoral rules are reckoned to affect party systems in many ways - for example, by producing strategic incentives to coalesce,(1) by influencing individual candidates' incentives to pursue personal votes,(2) and by affecting how parties and...

The importance of love in Rawl's Theory of Justice.(philosopher John Rawls)
January 1, 1999... It is a familiar and much discussed question whether the disposition to act justly is one which can be commended to each and every individual as being in his or her self-interest. One of the most famous discussions of the question occurs in...

Experts at work: state autonomy, social learning and eugenic sterilization in 1930s Britain.
January 1, 1999... Eugenics, the belief that the national gene pool can be altered for the benefit of society, enjoyed significant support among influential British politicians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and a number of Mental...

On political representation.
January 1, 1999... I. PREAMBLE: REPRESENTATION AND POLITICAL AGENCY Ideas of representation in political theory are notoriously diffuse and recalcitrant.(1) We shall not here be concerned with the full array of these ideas. Our attention will be focused on...

Political culture versus rational choice: explaining responses to transition in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
January 1, 1999... The debate between 'political cultural' and 'rationalist' explanations, as Harry Eckstein among others has argued, is central to contemporary political science and to an understanding of political phenomena.(1) However, test cases of these...

British national sentiment.
January 1, 1999... Nationalism has been one of the major driving forces behind twentieth-century European politics but has received rather little attention in England, where debates have more often focused on the role of class or other economic interests. The...

Altered states: explaining domestic institutional change.
January 1, 1999... 'New institutionalists' within the fields of comparative politics, political economy, and comparative public and foreign policy seek to identify relatively enduring structural constraints on human behaviour.(1) Recently, however, some...

Electoral engineering and cross-national turnout differences: what role for compulsory voting?
January 1, 1999... Low electoral turnout is often considered to be bad for democracy, whether inherently or because it calls legitimacy into question or because low turnout implies lack of representation of certain groups and inegalitarian policies.(1) Yet...

Free riding off capitalism: entrepreneurship and the Mondragon experiment.
January 1, 1999... As the deficiencies of central planning have become more obvious, shares in market socialism have risen. Whilst accepting the case for competitive markets, market socialists question the desirability of and the need for capitalist forms of...