The Local Political Context of Latino Partisanship

Ideology, Partisanship, and the New Political Continuum

J ournalists, pollsters, and pundits use categories of political analysis that they do not always clearly define and whose meanings are ambiguous. To make sense of the political rhetoric even the informed public must struggle hard. A single news analysis in the New York Times used the following ambiguous expressions: "social conservatism," "economic conservatism," "pragmatic conservatives," "do...

Religion and Latino Partisanship in the United States

Partisanship and Local Climate Policy

This article examines the relationship between partisanship and cities’ approaches to climate policy. Do partisan patterns at the local level match patterns at the national level? Whose partisanship matters: that of elected officials, citizens, or other actors? Previous research indicates that constraints created by the federal system dampen the effects of partisanship on many local policies. G...

Political Holes in the Economy: Business Camps and Partisanship

When firms reach out to allies in the political field, partisanship can constrain the choice of business partners in the economy. To study the evolution of politicized business camps, we conduct an historical network analysis of the relationship between firm-to-party ties and firm-to-firm ties in the Hungarian economy. We construct a dataset of all senior managers and boards of directors of the...

the effect of learning strategies on the speaking ability of iranian students in the context of language institutes

the effect of learning strategies on the speaking ability of iranian students in the context of language institutes abstract language learning strategies are of the most important factors that help language learners to learn a foreign language and how they can deal with the four language skills specifically speaking skill effectively. acknowledging the great impact of learning strategies...