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Economic vote and globalization

Economic vote and globalization before and during the Great Recession

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties – DOI: 10.1080/17457289.2019.1697881
 

The Great Recession undoubtedly reduced the electoral prospects of incumbent parties, coherently with the expectations of the economic vote theory. Yet, the exceptionality of the period may have displaced other elements of that theory, such as, for instance, the moderating impact that globalization is supposed to have on the retrospective mechanism. By using an original dataset comparing 168 elections in 38 democratic countries in the period 2000–2015, we detail how the crisis modified and even reversed that conditional effect. Furthermore, we differentiate our results by separating the impact of economic openness from that of political globalization. In so doing, we improve our understanding of the mechanisms that trigger the conditional effect on the economic vote in normal and exceptional times.

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KEYWORDS: Economic vote, Great Recession, globalization
 
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The Utility of Replication

The utility of replication: Exploring the impact of corporatism and consensualism with multiple models, methods, and operationalizations

SAGE Research Methods Cases. 2019 doi:10.4135/9781526475541

Replicating the work of others is much more useful and challenging than is generally acknowledged. In this case study, I review the multiple replications that I had to perform to investigate the relationship between consensualism and corporatism that represented a constitutive element of Arend Lijphart’s analysis of the performance of opposite patterns of democracy. The replication exercise was part of my own contribution to that topic, but it was further prompted and expanded by the comments and suggestions received from the journal’s referees. I here produce a first classification of types of replication, underlining the aim and helpfulness of each of them.

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Compliance with EU Norms

Compliance with EU Norms. Not a «One-Size-Fits-All» Problem

Rivista Italiana diPolitiche Pubbliche,  n. 3/2018, pp. 403-434, DOI: 10.1483/91560

Most compliance studies share the epistemological assumption of the existence of a one-best-way assuring good transposition and implementation of EU norms, and, symmetrically, a set of variables that homogeneously produce problems and failures.
Alternatively, in the article we will elaborate on the idea of different paths to (non-)compliance, adopting a qualitative comparative perspective. We will test this intuition using data on compliance levels in the fifteen EU member states. Our methodological exercise shows the existence of two sets of remote conditions – resembling  the distinction between Westminster and Consensus democracies – that enhance non-compliance. Within those institutional set-ups, different combinations of proximate conditions trigger that  outcome. Some factors even play the opposite role in the two contexts, thus suggesting to reconsider the mentioned one-size-fits-all assumption.

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