Erik Amnå and Joakim Ekman European Political Science Review / FirstView Article / June 2013, pp 1 ­ 21 DOI: 10.1017/S175577391300009X, Published online: 17 June 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S175577391300009X How to cite this article: Erik Amnå and Joakim Ekman Standby citizens: diverse faces of political passivity. European Political Science Review, Availab...

http://www.jstor.org The Dynamics of Political Support for American Presidents Among Occupational and Partisan Groups Author(s): Douglas A. Hibbs, , R. Douglas Rivers and Nicholas Vasilatos Jr. Source: American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 26, No. 2 (May, 1982), pp. 312-332 Published by: Midwest Political Science Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2111042 Accessed: 14-08...

Adam Ashforth has written one of the recent political ethnographies I most admire. His Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa draws on a total of about three years’ residence during the 1990s in Soweto (South West Township), an Apartheid-built black suburb of Johannesburg, plus subsequent visits to his adopted family and friends there. Earlier, Ashforth wrote an impressive historic...

The ‘new institutionalism’ is a term that now appears with growing frequency in political science. However, there is considerable confusion about just what the ‘new institutionalism’ is, how it differs from other approaches, and what sort of promise or problems it displays. The object of this essay is to provide some preliminary answers to these questions by reviewing recent work in a burgeonin...

filled with a number of environmental, economic, and political crises that may indicate an irreversible change in the course of history. A major increase in consumption of natural resources, driven largely by the accelerating globalization and the rapid spread of industrialization, particularly in China and India, has tightened world markets, caused dramatic mineral price fluctuations, and even...

Mrs. Umbridge walks through the hall of Hogwarts with a certain air about her; each of the students knows that what she says will be the !nal decision (Barron, 2007). The O.W.L.S. will be the deciding factor on how well the students do in the future and any student who does not meet the standards will not be able to partake in any form of witchcraft in the future. Students are taught a basic kn...

In recent years some of the best theoretical work on the political economy of political institutions and processes has begun surfacing outside the political science mainstream in high quality economics journals. This two-part paper surveys these contributions from a recent five-year period. In Part I, the focus is on elections, voting and information aggregation, followed by treatments of parti...