Braking and Exiting: Referendum Games, European Integration and the Road to the UK's Brexit Vote [0.03%]
刹车与退场：公投博弈，欧洲一体化以及英国脱欧之路
Joseph Ganderson,Anna Kyriazi
Joseph Ganderson
The UK's in-out referendum on European Union membership is often attributed to an incompatibility inherent in the UK-EU relationship, or else a rising tide of Euroscepticism forcing a reckoning. We argue that the referendum should be unders...
Scott Pruysers,Julie Blais
Scott Pruysers
While numerous explanations for vote-switching have been proposed (e.g. declining rates of partisanship, ideological shifts, partisan ambivalence, change in policy preferences), far less work has examined the personality profile of people m...
Friderike Spang
Friderike Spang
This review article provides a topic-centered overview of the state of compromise in political theory, where compromise is increasingly discussed as a promising approach to dealing with disagreement in politics and society. Given the growin...
Anthony M Sayers,Christa Scholtz,Dave Armstrong et al.
Anthony M Sayers et al.
Domestic policy responses to COVID-19 were remarkably consistent during the early days of the pandemic. What explains this policy convergence? Our formal model suggests that the novel character of COVID-19 produced a period of maximum polic...
Hayley Munir,Syed Rashid Munir
Hayley Munir
Why have some countries been more successful in their COVID-19 vaccine rollouts than others? Despite efforts by governments to vaccinate their adult populations against COVID-19, vaccination rates remain irregularly low in some countries. W...
European Political Science versus the Pandemic: Patterns of Professional Adaptation [0.03%]
欧洲政治科学与疫情共存：职业适应模式分析
Giliberto Capano,Luca Verzichelli,Giulia Vicentini
Giliberto Capano
The emergence of the COVID-19 outbreak can be considered a potential driver of changes not only in academic disciplines but also, as most observers underline, in the teaching mission of higher education. This raises the main question of thi...
Determinants of Political Trust during the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Putting Policy Performance into Evidence [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间政治信任的影响因素：用证据检验政策绩效
Ana Maria Belchior,Conceição Pequito Teixeira
Ana Maria Belchior
Basing on the previous and early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, this article analysis the main determinants of citizens' trust in the prime minister over that period. Prior research on the political effects of the pandemic has mostly focu...
Resul Umit
Resul Umit
In the fight against climate change, renewable energy has been subsidised in many countries. With the costs passed onto consumers, governments are paying those, for example, who instal domestic solar panels on top of their homes and feed el...
Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies [0.03%]
负面情绪与政治行为：当代民主背景下负面投票分析理论框架之构建
Diego Garzia,Frederico Ferreira da Silva
Diego Garzia
Recent developments in Western societies have motivated a growing consideration of the role of negativity in public opinion and political behavior research. In this article, we review the scant (and largely disconnected) scientific literatu...
Does Federalism Prevent Democratic Accountability? Assigning Responsibility for Rates of COVID-19 Testing [0.03%]
联邦制是否妨碍了民主问责制？论新冠肺炎检测率的责任划分
John Kennedy,Anthony Sayers,Christopher Alcantara
John Kennedy
Does federalism prevent citizens from holding governments accountable for their actions? The pandemic represents the ideal scenario for testing the effects of federalism on democratic accountability because citizens are highly motivated to ...