British Journal of Political Science articles from January 2001

British Journal of Political Science archives from January 2001

The Weakening White House.
January 1, 2001... The US presidency has been progressively weakened over the past three decades -- to the point where it is probably weaker today than at almost any time in the preceding century. The formal powers of the office have been trimmed. Congress, in...

Work and Welfare: Towards a Post-productivist Welfare Regime.
January 1, 2001... ROBERT E. GOODIN [*] Among the many ways in which welfare regimes differ, one is how they articulate the demands of work and welfare. Such a framework not only renders more coherent the familiar 'three worlds of welfare capitalism' but...

Class Dealignment and the Neighbourhood Effect: Miller Revisited.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... D. J. ROSSITER [*] The concept of a neighbourhood effect within British voting patterns has largely been discarded, because no data have been available for testing it at the appropriate spatial scales. To undertake such tests, bespoke...

Learning from Defeat? Political Analysis and the Failure of Health Care Reform in the United States.
January 1, 2001... JACOB S. HACKER [*] The demise of President Clinton's 1993 health care reform plan provides a revealing window into the difficulties and hazards of drawing lessons from complex political events. In an effort to identify the causes and...

What Works? Competitive Strategies of Major Parties Out of Power.
January 1, 2001... ELAINE K. SWIFT [*] What should major parties out of power do to win elections? To answer that question, we need to understand what these parties do to recapture political ascendancy and whether their actual behaviour differs from their...

A Theory of Spatial Competition with Biased Voters: Party Policies Viewed Temporally and Comparatively.
January 1, 2001... JAMES ADAMS [*] The spatial maps of parties' policy programmes published by the Manifesto Research Group (MRG) for the European Consortium for Political Research reveal the following empirical patterns: that parties differentiate their...

Core Principles and Policy Reasoning in Mass Publics: A Test of Two Theories.
January 1, 2001... PAUL GOREN [*] Political scientists have debated whether citizens can use core principles in lieu of ideological orientations to deduce their policy preferences. The 'General Use' model of public opinion holds that everyone draws equally...

The Political Implications of Higher Turnout.
January 1, 2001... RAYMOND E. WOLFINGER [*] Rich Americans, far more likely to vote than their poorer fellow citizens, also differ in how they vote and what policies they favour. These undisputed facts lead to the widespread belief 'that if everybody in...

Expectations and Aspirations in Dilemma Interactions.
January 1, 2001... MATTHEW MULFORD [*] Incentive compatibility solutions to social dilemmas change individual consequences of non-co-operative and co-operative acts such that self-maximizers will rationally choose to act in ways that promote the public...

Validating Party Policy Placements.
January 1, 2001... IAN BUDGE [*] Textual analyses of party and government programmes open up exciting possibilities for the investigation of policy and operationalization of theory. This Note focuses on the validity of the resulting estimates, particularly...