Tag: Politics
Mass opinion shows little ideological structure
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Analysis of six million responses to Belgium’s Voting Advice Application reveals voters lack ideological coherence while elites maintain consistent ideological structures.
Voters use ideological labels to infer candidate policy positions
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Study reveals voters in multiparty systems use left-right ideology labels to infer candidate positions, even when their own ideology misaligns with their policy preferences.
Health justice is shaped by power, institutions, and governance
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Commentary examining health justice as a political project embedded in power relations, institutional constraints, and epistemic authority rather than purely moral or technical achievement.
Myanmar case links democratization to religious nationalist mobilization
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Examination of how autocratic cooptation of majority religious clergy incentivizes religious nationalist mobilization against minorities during democratization transitions
Political theory is presented as essential to analyzing political systems
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Political theory remains essential for rigorous political system analysis, offering conceptual clarity and normative frameworks that empirical methods alone cannot provide.
Nicaragua’s popular economy is shaped by state and cooperative contradictions
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in EconomyExamination of Nicaragua’s popular economy, its role in welfare developmentalism, and contradictions between cooperative movements and state institutions supporting alternative economic organization.
States securitize diasporas across borders
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Analysis of how states securitize diaspora populations across borders through threat-based framings that reinforce national boundaries and state control.
Shaolin in Zambia emerges as a collaborative cultural assemblage
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Study challenges state-centric views of Chinese cultural engagement by analyzing the Zambia Shaolin Cultural Center as a collaborative assemblage where diverse actors negotiate and adapt practices.
Yogyakarta’s waste crisis is framed as structural and long-lasting
Analysis of Yogyakarta’s waste crisis explores how urban centers externalize garbage to peripheral zones, revealing systemic inequality and slow violence affecting informal workers.
Autobiographical account of Bierwisch’s linguistic work and life
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in LinguisticsAutobiographical account of Manfred Bierwisch’s linguistic contributions and the political circumstances shaping his research in Germany.
