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2. Food justice: turning private choices into public issues.
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Boling, Patricia and Cervini, Chiara
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FOOD transportation ,FOOD supply ,GOVERNMENT policy ,STREET food ,FRAMES (Social sciences) - Abstract
This paper uses distinctions between differing senses of "private," "public" and "political" in the United States to argue for the value of framing food issues as a collective problem that calls for broadscale demands for justice. We argue that food choices do not simply belong to the realm of private preferences and market transactions. Rather, they are a set of decisions that have systemic causes and public consequences. They are shaped and constrained by public policies that underwrite the transportation of food over long distances as well as particular crops and foodstuffs, and by the vendors and advertisers who try to convince us to eat more of the foods they produce. Because the consequences of eating an abundance of empty calories are not easily remedied at the personal level, citizens need to demand public, systemic solutions, including better food information, youth food education, and a healthier food supply. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America.
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Thompson, Douglas I.
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DEMOCRACY ,PUBLIC administration ,GOVERNMENT agencies ,BUREAUCRACY - Abstract
One of Tocqueville's best-known empirical claims in Democracy in America is that there is no national-level public administration in the United States. He asserts definitively and repeatedly that "administrative centralization does not exist" there. However, in scattered passages throughout the text, Tocqueville points to multiple federal agencies that contemporary historians and APD scholars characterize as instances of a growing national administrative system, such as the Post Office Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. I reevaluate Tocqueville's treatment of bureaucracy in America in light of this evidence. I contend that Tocqueville, perhaps in spite of himself, reveals even the most paradigmatic examples of active, democratic self-government in Democracy in America —townships and other voluntary associations—to be embedded in and causally supported by a network of interrelated, centralized public administrative institutions. Crucially, Tocqueville never resolves the tension between his acknowledgment of the causal power of these institutions and his claims that they do not exist. This new picture of the empirical and normative complexity of Tocqueville's treatment of bureaucratic institutions offers a rich set of conceptual resources for contesting, among other claims, the political construction of nostalgia for a lost age of do-it-yourself White settler democracy in a time before bureaucracy in America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US.
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Justwan, Florian, Baumgaertner, Bert, and Curtright, Madeleine
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DEMOCRACY ,UNITED States presidential election, 2016 ,POWER (Social sciences) ,ELECTIONS ,MORAL foundations theory - Abstract
In this article, we investigate how external election interventions influence satisfaction with democracy. We expect that mere knowledge about a foreign intervention will not affect system support. Instead, only those who believe that the external influence campaign had a decisive impact on the election outcome should see a reduction in democratic satisfaction. Furthermore, since electoral winners are likely to think that their preferred party provides superior policy outputs, supporters of winning parties should be less affected by their beliefs in the decisiveness of an influence campaign. Finally, we expect that those who place a high value on in-group loyalty will be more likely to engage in motivated reasoning. Thus, in-group loyalty should cause electoral winners to discount the substantive impact of a given electoral intervention, whereas it should have the opposite effect for losers. Our analysis relies on US survey data, and it uncovers broad support for our theoretical expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy.
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MAZUMDER, SOUMYAJIT and YAN, ALAN N.
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DICTATORSHIP ,DEMOCRACY ,CORPORATE governance ,POLITICAL science - Abstract
A majority of Americans spend a substantial amount of time at work where they have little to no say over many issues—a phenomenon that philosophers have likened to a "private government" that resembles a dictatorship. Is this because Americans are indifferent to or even prefer to work for firms that resemble dictatorships? To answer this question, we field a conjoint experiment on a nationally-representative sample of Americans to isolate public preferences over "corporate regime type." We find that Americans prefer workplace democracy. In a second experiment, we find that most Americans support workplace democracy even after being exposed to framing emphasizing democratization's costs. The results suggest that social scientists must look beyond public opinion to understand the lack of workplace democracy in the United States. This article forges new ground by applying a political science lens to corporate governance—a field ripe with politics but bereft of political science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Patterns of Affective Polarization toward Parties and Leaders across the Democratic World.
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REILJAN, ANDRES, GARZIA, DIEGO, FERREIRA DA SILVA, FREDERICO, and TRECHSEL, ALEXANDER H.
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POLARIZATION (Social sciences) ,POLITICAL party leadership ,DEMOCRACY ,POLITICAL parties - Abstract
Research indicates that affective polarization pervades contemporary democracies worldwide. Although some studies identify party leaders as polarizing agents, affective polarization has been predominantly conceptualized as a product of in-/out-party feelings. This study compares levels of party affective polarization (PAP) and leader affective polarization (LAP) cross-nationally, using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Applying like–dislike scales and an identical index to both concepts, we reveal that while the two strongly correlate, LAP is systematically lower than PAP. The United States emerges as an exceptional case, being the only country where LAP significantly exceeds PAP. Drawing on regime input/output and institutions as theoretical building blocks, we explore cross-national variations and show that the relative strength of LAP vis-à-vis PAP is increased by presidential regime type, poor government performance, and low party system fragmentation. The findings of this study contribute to the thriving research on affective polarization and personalization of politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Lawfare and International Humanitarian Law: A shift in the war experience for Western democracies.
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Lafontaine, Louis-Benoît
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HUMANITARIAN law ,WAR (International law) ,NON-state actors (International relations) ,TREASON ,DEMOCRACY - Abstract
Apart from offering a review on lawfare, this article considers situations where one less-law-abiding actor – namely, a non-state actor – uses the International Humanitarian Law (IHL)'s compliance of its opponent to obtain leverage on the battlefield. Using the United States (US) as an example, it appears that IHL's compliance is yet not to be subjugated by the pursuit of military interests. Broadening the analysis to NATO nations due to the similarity of their IHL's conceptualization and political proximity, it defends that IHL shall remain respected by these states as disregarding it would be a treason of their political regime and the moral grounding binding governments with their populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. TAKING EDUCATION "OUT OF POLITICS": THE RISE OF NONPARTISAN STATE EDUCATION GOVERNANCE.
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Yeargain, Quinn
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NONPARTISAN elections ,STATE education officials ,EDUCATION policy ,DEMOCRACY ,STATE departments of education ,COMMISSIONERS of education ,STATE boards of education - Abstract
The article explores political issues concerning nonpartisan elections for state education officials in the U.S. Topics discussed include the connection between state education governance and democracy, the history of state education departments from the initial creation of the state superintendent role in Iowa in 1846 to the creation of state boards of education, and the distinction of the nonpartisan election procedures in California and Washington compared to other U.S. states.
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- 2024
9. The 'Dred Scott' of Our Time.
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Wilentz, Sean
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ACTIONS & defenses (Law) ,PRESIDENTIAL immunity ,DEMOCRACY - Abstract
The article focuses on the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States, which significantly alters the legal landscape regarding presidential immunity and accountability. It argues that this ruling, along with previous decisions, reflects a shift towards protecting political figures like former U.S. president Donald Trump from legal consequences and undermines democratic principles by potentially placing the presidency above the law.
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- 2024
10. Democracy and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy: Tools and Considerations for Congress.
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Weber, Michael A.
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HUMAN rights ,DEMOCRACY ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
The article focuses on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy regarding democracy and human rights, tracing congressional involvement since the 1970s. Topics discussed include the historical context, contemporary challenges, and various policy tools Congress employs to promote democracy and human rights globally.
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- 2024
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