Shadow of the Past? Self-Licensing and Political Behavior

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth H. Werfel
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
The Past

Pride and shame in collective memory of Russian and American youths

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-843
Author(s):  
Valeria Kasamara ◽  
Anna Sorokina ◽  
Marina Maximenkova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Content Structure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Temporal Localization ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Russian Universities

This article examines collective attitudes of American and Russian students toward national historical events that elicit pride or shame. The authors use the results of a quantitative questionnaire and analysis of in-depth interviews among students of leading American and Russian universities to identify the temporal localization, the content structure, and the prevalence of either hard or soft power in students' attitudes of pride or shame. The authors argue that perceptions of the past have been a core component of national identity and may have an impact on citizens' political behavior in the present. The authors also stress that major differences in young people's understanding of the past may influence future US-Russia relations.

The Politics of the Spirit: The Political Implications of Pentecostalized Religion in Costa Rica and Guatemala. By Timothy J. Steigenga. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001. 220p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-674
Author(s):  
Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The Politics of the Spirit is Timothy Steigenga's long-awaited quantitative study of religious affiliation and political behavior in Central America. What he has done in this spare and conscientious study is to take to task the “conventional wisdom” about Protestantism in Central America. This is a formidable endeavor, given the flood of scholarly literature that has been produced by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists about Protestantism, and especially Pentecostalism, in Latin America over the past two decades. Because Pentecostalism seemed to emerge in Central America during the region's political crisis of the late twentieth century, much of this literature carried with it a highly deterministic subtext, defined by Max Weber and by models of political behavior borrowed from the United States and European experiences.

Polarization and American Political Development

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nolan McCarty
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Political System ◽  
Dynamic Change ◽  
American Political Development ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
American System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vital Debate ◽  
And Behavior

One of the most fertile areas of research has been the question of why the American political system has polarized so sharply over the past four decades. The academic debates about polarization have largely been carried out by mainstream scholars of political behavior and institutions. Scholars of American Political Development (APD) have a major opportunity to participate in a vital debate about the emergence of a central feature of the contemporary American system while mainstream scholars should come to appreciate that one cannot easily develop explanations for dynamic change with static models of institutions and behavior. This chapter reviews the literature on polarization to introduce scholars of APD to debates about the measurement of polarization and its causes Also areas in which our knowledge about polarization can be improved by historical–institutional analysis are identified.

Associated with the Past?

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grigore Pop-Eleches ◽  
Joshua A. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Optimistic Picture ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Do So ◽  
Early Formative ◽  
Analyze Data

In this article, we test the effect of communist-era legacies on the large and temporally resilient deficit in civic participation in post-communist countries. To do so, we analyze data from 157 surveys conducted between 1990 and 2009 in twenty-four post-communist countries and forty-two non-post-communist countries. The specific hypotheses we test are drawn from a comprehensive theoretical framework of the effects of communist legacies on political behavior in post-communist countries that we have previously developed. Our analysis suggests that three mechanisms were particularly salient in explaining this deficit: first, the demographic profile (including lower religiosity levels) of post-communist countries is less conducive to civic participation than elsewhere. Second, the magnitude of the deficit increases with the number of years an individual spent under communism but the effects were particularly strong for people socialized in the post-totalitarian years and for those who experienced communism in their early formative years (between ages six and seventeen). Finally, we also find that civic participation suffered in countries that experienced weaker economic performance in the post-communist period, though differences in post-communist democratic trajectories had a negligible impact on participation. Taken together, we leave behind a potentially optimistic picture about civic society in post-communist countries, as the evidence we present suggests eventual convergence toward norms in other non post-communist countries.

The Uncertainty of Soviet Foreign Policy

1963 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-464
Author(s):  
S. I. Ploss
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy

Politics cannot tolerate indulgence, it must be logical and consistent.” This was a lesson in Soviet foreign policy which N. S. Khrushchev administered in July 1957, or just after the organizational finale to his bitter struggle with V. M. Molotov, whom the victorious leader accused of favoring “the policy of ‘tightening all the screws’” in relations with the West. However, in the past two and a half years, erraticism has often marked the Kremlin's foreign political behavior. Does this vacillation originate entirely in “objective” pressures on the party First Secretary and premier, or in his own allegedly impulsive nature, or may it sometimes be due in part to a recurrence of factional clashes in the Soviet hierarchy?

scholarly journals Political Psychology in International Relations: Beyond the Paradigms

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Kertzer ◽  
Dustin Tingley
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State

Political psychology in international relations (IR) has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades, mirroring the broader changes occurring in IR itself. This review examines the current state of the field. We begin by offering a data-driven snapshot analyzing four years of manuscript classifications at a major IR journal to characterize the questions that IR scholars engaged in psychological research are and are not investigating. We then emphasize six developments in particular, both present-day growth areas (an increased interest in emotions and hot cognition, the rise of more psychologically informed work on public opinion, a nascent research tradition we call the first image reversed, and the rise of neurobiological and evolutionary approaches) and calls for additional scholarship (better integration of the study of mass and elite political behavior and more psychological work in international political economy). Together, these developments constitute some of the directions in which we see the next generation of scholarship heading.

scholarly journals Kesalehan dan Politik: Islam Indonesia

2018 ◽  
pp. 639-650
Author(s):  
Azyumardi Azra
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Religious Piety ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Local Leaders

Thomas B. Pepinsky, R. William Liddle, and Saiful Mujani. 2018. Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press Saiful Mujani, R. William Liddl, and Kuskridho Ambardi. 2018. Voting Behavior in Indonesia since Democratization: Critical Democrats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This article aims to review two books written by four foremost scholars in the field of political science. In the context of understanding Islam and the culture of democracy, these two books can answer questions that are often discussed, that is the relationship between religious piety and political behavior in Indonesia. Quantitatively, 99.7% of total Muslims in Indonesia state that religion is an important element in their lives. However, in terms of political preferences, this fact does not have implications for the votes obtained by Islamic-based political parties, especially in the post-Soeharto elections. They, instead of carrying out their own candidates, tend to be supporters in the presidential election and local leaders elections. To figure out this puzzle, these books are very pivotal works to understand the relationship between Islamic piety and politics. Both of these books show that there has been an increase in the level of piety of the Indonesian Muslims in the past two or three decades. However, creating piety does not affect their political behavior - specifically their voting behavior in elections.

Perceptions of Organizational Politics Research: Past, Present, and Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 879-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne A. Hochwarter ◽  
Christopher C. Rosen ◽  
Samantha L. Jordan ◽  
Gerald R. Ferris ◽  
Aqsa Ejaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Organizational Politics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Perceptions Of Organizational Politics ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Insight Into

Research examining the influence of perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) is currently at a nexus—capable of recognizing its previous contributions but also with an eye toward the future. Scholars credit much of the maturation over the past 30 years to Ferris, Russ, and Fandt’s seminal model. Despite the ever-increasing number of publications attributed to this topic, and model, opportunities to bridge and expand the current research base remain plentiful. We begin this review by differentiating POPs from political behavior and constructs considered overlapping conceptually. We then describe the evolution of two models responsible for guiding POPs research and conclude our review by summarizing meta-analytic studies investigating antecedents and outcomes of POPs. Doing so allows us to identify gaps currently impeding development and to recommend relevant approaches to extend research. Following this review, we introduce event systems theory as a guiding framework for integrating and expanding the knowledge base. This structure allows scholars to recast POPs as a discrete phenomenon capable of being evaluated in terms of its novelty, disruption, and criticality. Theoretically, this approach allows for greater precision in identifying causes and consequences of POPs, and it provides insight into how such perceptions emerge and evolve. Last, we discuss future research opportunities intended to improve understanding of this pervasive phenomenon, and we encourage much-needed future research examining the dynamics of POPs in contemporary work settings.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA AND POLITICS: CONTESTATION, MEDIATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY

2015 ◽  
Vol 144 (144) ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX AFOUXENIDIS
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Democratic Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Digital Politics

<p>In this special issue we consider various perspectives and ideas underlying the current ever-changing political and digital environments. There have been a substantial number of theories, coupled by empirical research over the past few years, on the nature of political behavior with respect to the increased use of the Internet. The main aim of this edition is to explore a few aspects of ‘digital politics’ and what they may mean for contemporary democratic culture. This paper synthesizes and reflects upon concepts presented in the following articles and discusses some recent developments and debates related to the dynamics of the online world.</p>

The Sources of Political Tolerance: A Multivariate Analysis

1981 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Sullivan ◽  
George E. Marcus ◽  
Stanley Feldman ◽  
James E. Piereson
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Multivariate Model ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Political Tolerance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Variables ◽  
The U.S

Over the past 25 years a number of conclusions concerning the development of political tolerance have come to be well accepted in the literature on political behavior. There are, however, two persisting problems with the studies that have generated these findings: they have relied on a content-biased measure of tolerance, and have failed to examine well specified models of the factors leading to tolerance. In this article we report the results of an analysis of the determinants of political tolerance using a content-controlled measure of tolerance and a more fully specified multivariate model. The parameters of the model are estimated from a national sample of the U.S. The results indicate the explanatory power of two political variables, the level of perceived threat and the commitment to general norms, and psychological sources of political tolerance. Social and demographic factors are found to have no direct effect and little indirect influence on the development of political tolerance.

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