Selection and Tenure of State Legislative Party Leaders: A Comparative Analysis

1972 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 1278-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Camp Chaffey ◽  
Malcolm E. Jewell
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
State Legislative

scholarly journals More May Not Always Be Better: Republican Recruiting Strategies in Southern Legislative Elections

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
William E. Cassie
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Legislative Elections ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
State Legislative ◽  
Legislative Election

This study considers the recruiting strategies of six southern Republican parties. The study relies on state legislative election data, as well as interviews with party leaders, to identify and examine apparent strategies. There are two unique strategies observed. One strategy focuses on increasing the number of races that are contested by the party. The other strategy focuses heavily on recruiting for districts which are "targeted" as winnable. Both strategies have apparently been successful: however. Republican parties using a fairly sophisticated technique for targeting have enjoyed the greatest success in recent elections.

scholarly journals Exclusionary Populism and Islamophobia: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Spain

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Cervi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Ideal

Exclusionary populism is well known for twisting real grievances of the citizens, by problematizing the gap between “us” and “them”, capitalizing on identity lines, calling out as “others” those who do not share “pure people’s” identity and culture. Especially after 9/11, Muslims have become the ideal-type of “other”, making Islamophobia the primary populist anti-paradigm. This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on Islamophobic populism analyzing the presence of Islamophobia in the electoral discourse of Vox party in Spain and Lega in Italy. In addition, it makes a novel contribution by discussing and testing the existence of different models of Islamophobia, distinguishing between “banal Islamophobia” and “ontological Islamophobia”. Applying clause-based semantic text analysis—including qualitative and quantitative variables—to thirty speeches by the two party leaders, Santiago Abascal and Matteo Salvini, during the last three elections (General, Regional and European), the paper concludes that, despite the similarities, the two politician display two different models of Islamophobia. Whereas Abascal displays a clear “ontological Islamophobia”, depicting Muslims ontologically incompatible with Spanish civilization (defined precisely by its anti-Muslim history), the latter presents a mix of arguments that oscillate between “ontological” and “banal” Islamophobia.

U.S. State Legislative Committee Assignments and Encouragement of Party Loyalty: An Exploratory Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Kanthak
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Party Loyalty ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Committee Assignments ◽  
State Legislative

Although political parties in U.S. legislatures cannot compel discipline with the threat of expulsion from the legislature, they can encourage greater party loyalty by strategically bestowing benefits upon favored members. This article explores the use of plum committee assignments to encourage legislators' loyalty to their parties. I outline a theory of how party leaders can use committee assignments strategically to encourage more loyal legislative behavior. This occurs when legislative rules meet two criteria: (1) parties and their leaders can determine who serves on committees and (2) committees have real authority over policy outcomes. I test the theory using data from five state legislatures that differ on the relevant set of legislative rules, finding more party loyalty shown by legislators who receive plum committee assignments when rules meet both criteria and no effect when they do not.

scholarly journals The rise and fall of party leaders: exploring leadership selection, re-selection, and de-selection using qualitative comparative analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Giulia Vicentini ◽  
Andrea Pritoni
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Leadership Tenure ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Early Departure ◽  
The Moment

Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to detect the reasons for party leaders' persistence or departure from the office, starting from the moment they are selected or re-selected. More specifically, we try to assess which (if any) characteristics of the leadership race (LR) called to appoint (or re-appoint) the party leader, in combination with other conditions, could favour leadership re-selection in office at the end of the term, rather than a more or less forced early departure. To this end, we have investigated all the LRs promoted by both bigger and smaller parties in four Western European countries over the last three decades. Bridging the literature on leadership selection and leadership survival, we built a theoretical framework that allowed us to turn to an original methodological approach in the field – qualitative comparative analysis – to unravel asymmetrical, equi-final, and conjunctural causation by looking at the combinations of conditions leading to the outcome, namely re-selection or departure from the office. Specifically, we identified five main conditions which are likely to affect the outcome, both alone and in combination with each other: whether there is an outgoing leader running for re-election (incumbency); a broad inclusiveness of the LR called to appoint the party leader; large victory (namely low competitiveness for contested LR or high approval rates for coronation of a single candidate); participation in government during the leadership tenure; and party electoral support (‘big’ mainstream vs. ‘small’ niche/challenger parties).

1207: Failed Pyeloplasty in Children: Comparative Analysis of Retrograde Endopyelotomy VS. Re-do Pyeloplasty

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 398-398
Author(s):  
Luis H. Braga ◽  
Joao L. Pippi Salle ◽  
Sumit Dave ◽  
Sean Skeldon ◽  
Armando J. Lorenzo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis
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