• Twenty Years of de facto State Studies: Progress, Problems, and Prospects 

  Pegg, Scott (Oxford, 2017-07)

  It has been almost 20 years since the publication of International Society and the De Facto State by Scott Pegg in 1998, the first book-length substantive theoretical attempt to investigate the phenomenon of de facto ...
• Does Ignorance Matter? The Relative Importance of Civic Knowledge and the Human Tendency to Engage in Motivated Reasoning 

  Dusso, Aaron; Kennedy, Sheila Suess (2015-03-02)

  It has long been understood that political knowledge in the U.S. is very low. For those who care about the quality of American democracy, this is a big problem. In attempting to find a solution, many people often blame ...
• Diverse stakeholders create collaborative, multilevel basin governance for groundwater sustainability 

  Conrad, Esther; Moran, Tara; DuPraw, Marcelle E.; Ceppos, David; Martinez, Janet; Blomquist, William (University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2018-03-13)

  The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is introducing significant changes in the way groundwater is governed for agricultural use. It requires the formation of groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) to manage ...
• Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations: Recruitment, Ideology, and Splits 

  White, Robert W.; Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Amsterdam University Press, 2017)
• Military Counterterrorism Measures, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy: The Cases Of Turkey and The U.S. 

  Satana, Nil; Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  This study examines how military counter-terrorism (CT) measures affect the quality of democracy by altering civil-military relations (CMR) and focuses on civil-military relations as the main causal mechanism. We argue ...
• The Demobilization of Protest Campaigns 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Oxford University Press, 2017-06)

  All protest campaigns move through cycles of escalation and de-escalation and ultimately demobilize. Some campaigns demobilize quickly as protesters reach their goals. The 2011 Egyptian uprising, when protesters left the ...
• The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-escalation of Political Contention 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  This study argues that escalation and de-escalation processes lie at the heart of protest campaigns. These processes are largely determined by the interactions between protesters and governments, as well as the timing and ...
• Moralizing to the Choir: The Moral Foundations of American Clergy 

  Djupe, Paul A.; Friesen, Amanda (Wiley, 2017)

  Objective In order to understand the role of clergy in shaping Americans’ moral worldviews, we examine whether the structure of clergy values varies in systematic ways according to contextual factors, such as disagreement ...
• Race and Right-Wing Authoritarianism: How Scoring High in Authoritarianism Does Not Necessarily Lead to Support for Right-Wing Candidates 

  Dusso, Aaron (Wiley, 2017-03)

  Objectives Authoritarianism has a long history suggesting that it is primarily a phenomenon of the right. However, I argue that this has led to scholars overlooking the potential that, in some contexts, authoritarianism ...
• From the Streets to the Mountains: Dynamics of Transition from a Protest Wave to Insurgency in Kashmir 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (2014-09)

  This study investigates the dynamics of transition from a peaceful protest wave to a violent insurgency. It examines the causal path leading to a major shift in the intensity of a protest wave and argues that the transition ...
• The Dynamics of the Demobilization of the Protest Campaign in Assam 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (2016-01-20)

  This study highlights the role that critical events play in the demobilization of protest campaigns. Social movement scholars suggest that protest campaigns demobilize as a consequence of polarization within the campaign ...
• Razed, repressed and bought off: The demobilization of the Ogoni protest campaign in the Niger Delta 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen; Pegg, Scott (2015-12)

  This study examines the demobilization of the Ogoni protest campaign in the oil producing Niger Delta region of Nigeria in the mid-1990s. The contentious politics literature suggest that protest campaigns demobilize as a ...
• Physiological Arousal and Self-Reported Valence for Erotica Images Correlate with Sexual Policy Preferences 

  Friesen, Amanda; Smith, Kevin B.; Hibbing, John R. (Oxford Journals, 2016-04-29)

  Individuals do not always accurately report the forces driving their policy preferences. Such inaccuracy may result from the fact that true justifications are socially undesirable or less persuasive than competing ...
• Beyond Survey Self-Reports: Using Physiology to Tap Political Orientations 

  Wagner, Michael W.; Deppe, Kristen D.; Jacobs, Carly M.; Friesen, Amanda; Smith, Kevin B.; Hibbing, John R. (Oxford, 2015)

  Some aspects of our attitudes are composed of things outside of our consciousness. However, traditional survey research does not use measurements that are able to tap into these aspects of public opinion. We describe, ...
• The Effect of Personal Economic Values on Economic Policy Preferences 

  Friesen, Amanda; Hibbing, Matthew V. (Wiley, 2016)

  Objectives Citizens often express that the government should be run like a business or household in the way that money is saved and spent, though individuals vary in their personal financial preferences and attitudes ...
• Conscientious Women: The Dispositional Conditions of Institutional Treatment on Civic Involvement 

  Friesen, Amanda; Djupe, Paul A. (Cambridge UP, 2016)

  Current thinking about the effect of religion on civic engagement centers on “institutional treatment”—the development of resources, social pathways to recruitment, and motivation that occurs in small groups and activities ...
• Pine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: An Umpire’s Perspective on the Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate 

  Blake, William D (2014)

  What is law? Though on its face this question seems simple, it remains an incredibly controversial one to legal theorists. One prominent jurisprudential debate of late occurred between H.L.A. Hart, a positivist, and Ronald ...
• “The Brooding Spirit of the Law”: Supreme Court Justices Reading Dissents from the Bench 

  Blake, William D; Hacker, Hans J (2010-01)

  In rare instances, a Supreme Court justice may elect to call attention to his or her displeasure with a majority decision by reading a dissenting opinion from the bench. We document this phenomenon by constructing a data ...
• Pyrrhic Victories: How the Secularization Doctrine Undermines the Sanctity of Religion 

  Blake, William D (2013-03)

  Over the past 25 years, federal courts have sanctioned displays of religious symbols on public property – including the crèche, the Ten Commandments, and the Latin cross – by privileging their secular value or because ...
• Jurisprudence Transcending Time and Space: Affirmative Action and the Revolution of 1937 

  Blake, William D (2005-04)

  The purpose of this paper is to compare the jurisprudential debate on affirmative action to economic rights questions facing the Court during the Lochner Era. Proponents of the antidiscrimination principle believe that all ...

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