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Kingmakers and leaders in coalition formation
Assume that players strictly rank each other as coalition partners. We propose a procedure whereby they “fall back” on their preferences, yielding internally compatible, or coherent, majority coalition(s), which we call fallback coalitions.
Brams, Steven J., Kilgour, D. Marc
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Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
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Claiming the Isle? Islandness and Territorial Demands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between insularity and territorial demands, focusing on whether island territories are more likely to support regionalist and secessionist parties. To address this question, we compare electoral support for such parties across island and mainland territories using a large‐N dataset.
Pau Torres, Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
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Does Non‐Idealism Entail Particularism?
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
John Lawless
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Disagreement About Fiscal Policy
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Politicians disagree about fiscal policy. This disagreement should have economic effects beyond the effects of government spending and taxation. We use the full set of speeches in the German Bundestag since 1960 and apply state‐of‐the art natural language processing techniques to construct two series of fiscal disagreement starting in 1970 ...
Albina Latifi +3 more
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Emancipation or silencing? The Slovak constitutional court will Decide
A Constitutional Court as powerful as the Slovak one faces few formal constraints on its adjudicative practice. It is the supreme guardian of constitutionality in Slovakia (Art. 124 of the Constitution).
Steuer, Max
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Checks and balances: an assessment of the institutional separation of political powers in Colombia [PDF]
In this paper, we evaluate the institutional and legal structure of the Colombian government. In particular, we want to assess how a system of institutional checks and balances can be structured to promote the rule of law, preserve property rights, and ...
Kugler, Maurice, Rosenthal, Howard
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