Policies, Politics and Positions

Politics or policies vs politics and policies: a comment on Lundberg.

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Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America

Explorer Policies , politics and organizational problems

Kingdon's multiple streams approach has recently been applied to study implementation across sectors or levels of government. Building on these contributions, we suggest that two streams are especially important in shaping implementation: organizational problem constructions, and political pressure from the centre. These variables produce a four-way typology of implementation modes. We test the...

Politics without Positions: Party Loyalty and Voting Behavior in Malawi

In most countries there are meaningful issues over which politicians and voters take varying positions. Countless scholarly approaches to understanding political or voting behavior engage such policy preferences as a salient political cleavage, the most common of which places political actors on a left-right spectrum defined by opposing views on the role of government or the notions of liberal ...

Do Private Policies Create a New Politics ?

Through an analysis of corporate testimony before Congressional committees, this paper finds that members of Congress supply greater access to firms that engage in private policymaking at higher rates and that members also gain new politicaland policy-relevant information through such testimony. Importantly, the former relationship only holds for firms that make identifiable commitments to alte...