To what extent, and in what way, do labor unions shape workers’ political preferences? Despite a decline in membership rates, few other organizations have the reach and ongoing access to such a sizable share of the electorate. A key question that arises is the degree to which this access translates into political influence. Empirical analyses often find that union members exhibit political view...

Across the industrial democracies, public agencies operating in similar policy areas and performing similar functions often vary in their levels of independence. While this variation has long interested political scientists, little attention has been devoted to the fact that in complex policy areas, the sheer quantity, diversity and complexity of evidence has facilitated the emergence of a “gol...

The present study was aimed at exploring the use of pronominal reference for identity representation in terms of power and solidarity in English political discourse. The investigation was based on a corpus of four political interviews and debates amounting 26,500 words. The analysis was both qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative analysis, a discourse-analytic approach was used to fin...

stories and fictions are important cultural resources which in many cultures are narrated by women.these storiescan bea reflection of ideals and desires of women in different levels of a society. therefore, reviewing these stories and fictions would bebeneficial to better understand the various aspects of women’s life in a society.this research aims to study women’s positionin bakhtiary’s cultu...

Science,” co-hosted by Political Studies and The Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences, Oxford University, June 2008. I thank Susan Orr for her skeptical comments on this version. I presented earlier versions as a discussion paper at a conference on “Epistemologies of Rational Choice,” Department of Politics, NYU, December 2004 and as part of the Blalock Lectures on Advanced Topics...

Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-forprofit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regar...

This is a review of the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion. Drawing upon research on Germans converting to Islam and Turks converting to Christianity, converting is understood as complex fusion of individual choice and cultural/political conflict.

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The choice of exchange rate regime has become one of the most important issues once more in many economies after the financial crises in recent years. In the wake of the financial crises, many countries, especially emerging market economies, opted for floating exchange rate regimes by forsaking the pegged regimes. Consequently, an old debate on the choice and determinants of exchange rate regim...