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American Political Development and the Recovery of a Human Science 美国政治发展与人文科学的复兴
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x22000074
Bartholomew H. Sparrow
Abstract Recent political developments point to the presence of grave problems with democratic governance in the United States. They suggest that scholarship in American political development (APD) could be better at studying the experiences and thinking of everyday Americans. APD scholars often study institutional changes, policy initiatives, and other shifts in governance without studying how these developments affect the lives of U.S. citizens and residents. And many developments of critical political importance are ignored or do not receive the scholarly attention they deserve. For our scholarship to do justice to the recent crises and better relate to the political world around us, as several recent past American Political Science Association (APSA) presidents have recommended, the article calls for APD scholarship to be better at focusing on people themselves: on their health and safety, their material standing, and their personal and social educations. By adding a fuller study of people to their research, APD scholars would be better equipped to identify important political developments that do not always capture the attention of Congress, the White House, and the media, but that are too important to ignore.
摘要最近的政治发展表明,美国的民主治理存在严重问题。他们认为,美国政治发展学术(APD)可以更好地研究普通美国人的经历和想法。APD学者经常研究制度变革、政策举措和其他治理转变,而没有研究这些发展如何影响美国公民和居民的生活。许多具有关键政治重要性的事态发展被忽视或没有得到应有的学术关注。正如美国政治科学协会(APSA)最近几任主席所建议的那样,为了我们的奖学金能够公正地应对最近的危机,更好地与我们周围的政治世界建立联系,文章呼吁APD奖学金能够更好地关注人们自己:关注他们的健康和安全、物质地位以及个人和社会教育。通过在研究中增加对人的更全面的研究,APD学者将能够更好地识别重要的政治发展,这些发展并不总是引起国会、白宫和媒体的注意,但它们太重要了,不容忽视。
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American Political Development in Dark Times 黑暗时期的美国政治发展
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x22000141
J. Peck
Abstract This short article assesses the current “state of the field” in light of recent political events. I argue that the focus of American political development (APD) on both time and institutional conflict makes it a valuable approach for theorizing about the trajectory of American politics.
摘要这篇短文根据最近的政治事件评估了当前的“领域状况”。我认为,美国政治发展(APD)对时间和制度冲突的关注使其成为研究美国政治轨迹的一种有价值的方法。
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“To Render Prompt Justice”: The Origins and Construction of the U.S. Court of Claims “迅速伸张正义”:美国索赔法院的起源与构建
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000177
M. Dichio, Logan Strother, Ryan J. Williams
Abstract This article examines the institutional development of the U.S. Court of Claims (USCC), in order to shed new light on the nature of constitutional and institutional change in the early Republic. From the founding period through the mid-nineteenth century, members of Congress believed that empowering other institutions to award claimants monies from the Treasury would violate two core doctrines: separation of powers and sovereign immunity. However, as claims against the government ballooned over the first half of the nineteenth century, Congress fundamentally changed its interpretation of the Constitution's requirements in order to create the USCC and thus to alleviate its workload. This story of institutional development is an example of constitutional construction and creative syncretism in that the institutional development of the USCC came from continuous interactions among political actors, working iteratively to refashion institutions capable of solving practical problems of governance. This close study of the court's creation shows something important about American constitutional development: Certain fundamental ideas of the early Republic, including sovereign immunity and separation of powers, were altered or jettisoned not out of some grand rethinking of the nature of the American state, but out of the need to solve a mundane problem.
摘要本文考察了美国索赔法院(USCC)的制度发展,以期对共和国早期宪法和制度变革的性质有新的认识。从建国时期到19世纪中期,国会议员认为,授权其他机构从财政部向索赔人发放资金将违反两个核心原则:分权和主权豁免。然而,随着对政府的指控在19世纪上半叶激增,国会从根本上改变了对宪法要求的解释,以成立USCC,从而减轻其工作量。这个制度发展的故事是宪法建设和创造性融合的一个例子,因为南加州大学的制度发展来自政治行为者之间的持续互动,反复努力重塑能够解决治理实际问题的制度。这项对法院创建的仔细研究表明了美国宪法发展的一些重要内容:早期共和国的某些基本思想,包括主权豁免和分权,被改变或抛弃,不是出于对美国国家性质的重大反思,而是出于解决一个平凡问题的需要。
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Backlash Politics in America's Disunited and Polarized State 美国分裂和两极分化州的反弹政治
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000116
E. Patashnik
Abstract The policy feedback literature developed in an era in which the level of polarization and the intensity of party competition were far lower than today. These background conditions narrowed the scope of many policy debates and facilitated the consolidation of programmatic expansions after their enactment. As a result, the feedback literature emphasized the ways that new policies build supportive constituencies and become entrenched. While the core insight that policies can generate major political repercussions remains solid, American political development (APD) scholars should pay greater attention to the role of negative feedback processes and backlash politics in an era of disunity. Based on a review of New York Times articles mentioning policy backlash between 1960 and 2019, I show that the 2010s was a period of heightened countermobilization. Backlash forces have diffused from civil rights into many other arenas—including health, trade, and immigration—due to partisan polarization, conflicts over cultural shifts, and the negative feedback from activist government itself.
摘要政策反馈文献是在两极分化程度和政党竞争强度远低于今天的时代发展起来的。这些背景条件缩小了许多政策辩论的范围,并有助于在颁布后巩固方案扩展。因此,反馈文献强调了新政策建立支持性选民并根深蒂固的方式。尽管政策可以产生重大政治影响的核心见解仍然牢固,但美国政治发展(APD)学者应该更加关注负反馈过程和反弹政治在不团结时代的作用。根据对《纽约时报》1960年至2019年间提及政策反弹的文章的评论,我发现2010年代是一个反动员加剧的时期。由于党派两极分化、文化转变引发的冲突以及激进政府自身的负面反馈,反对力量已从民权运动扩散到许多其他领域,包括卫生、贸易和移民。
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Assessing Exceptionalism: More but Different Cross-National Comparisons 评估例外主义:更多但不同的跨国比较
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-07-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x22000104
G. Dodds
Abstract After the dramatic disruptions of Trump years, American political development might do well to consider whether American exceptionalism still holds or has changed, and that would require scholars to be more attentive to cross-national comparisons and perhaps also to change the countries with which the United States is compared.
在特朗普执政时期的戏剧性混乱之后,美国的政治发展可能需要考虑美国例外论是否仍然存在或已经发生了变化,这将要求学者们更加关注跨国比较,也许还需要改变与美国进行比较的国家。
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The Opening Dilemma: Why Democracies Cannot Found Themselves 开放的困境:为什么民主国家找不到自己
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-07-18 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000128
R. Bensel
Abstract Democratic states often claim that their authority rests upon the “will of the people” as expressed through representative institutions. However, there is an irresolvable conundrum that undermines that claim: the “opening dilemma” that invariably attends the founding of democratic states during which those representative institutions are created. While familiar to democratic theorists, the “opening dilemma” has many hitherto unexplored dimensions, among them its actual occurrence in democratic politics. Using the 1869 Illinois Constitutional Convention as a case study, the article demonstrates why individual preferences cannot effect a founding without the intervention of arbitrary and thus undemocratic authority. The conclusion suggests why the opening dilemma might become a serious threat to American democracy if the nation were to attempt to convene a new constitutional convention.
抽象的民主国家经常声称,他们的权力取决于通过代议制机构表达的“人民意愿”。然而,有一个无法解决的难题破坏了这一说法:“开放困境”总是伴随着民主国家的建立,在这个过程中,这些代议制机构应运而生。虽然民主理论家很熟悉“开放困境”,但它有许多迄今尚未探索的维度,其中包括它在民主政治中的实际发生。文章以1869年的伊利诺伊州制宪会议为例,论证了为什么如果没有武断的、因此不民主的权威的干预,个人偏好就无法影响建国。这一结论表明,如果美国试图召开一次新的制宪会议,为什么开放的困境可能会对美国民主构成严重威胁。
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American Political Development as a Problem-Driven Enterprise 作为问题驱动型企业的美国政治发展
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-07-14 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000098
Daniel J. Galvin, Chloe N. Thurston
Abstract We argue that American political development's (APD's) relentless preoccupation with the substantive problems that shape and animate American politics and how they emerge and develop over time has been a key source of the subfield's durability. We elaborate on three main payoffs to conceptualizing APD as a problem-driven enterprise: (1) it highlights APD's main comparative advantage within the American politics subfield, noting the tremendous agility APD's substantive breadth lends the enterprise; (2) it resolves the methodological debate, granting simply that the question chooses the method rather than the other way around; and (3) it reorients the critique: simply because a subfield considers itself to be problem-oriented does not mean that it is identifying the right problems to study.
我们认为,美国政治发展(APD)对塑造和推动美国政治的实质性问题的不懈关注,以及它们如何随着时间的推移而出现和发展,是该子领域持久性的关键来源。我们详细阐述了将APD概念化为问题驱动型企业的三个主要回报:(1)它突出了APD在美国政治子领域的主要比较优势,注意到APD的实质性广度为企业提供了巨大的灵活性;(2)它解决了方法论上的争论,简单地承认问题选择了方法,而不是相反;(3)它重新定位了批判:仅仅因为一个子领域认为自己是面向问题的,并不意味着它正在确定要研究的正确问题。
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Social Justice Campaigns and Democratic Party Gains: How Georgia's Partisan Reformers Overtook North Carolina's Moral Advocates 社会正义运动与民主党的胜利:佐治亚州的党派改革者如何推翻北卡罗来纳州的道德倡导者
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000050
T. Skocpol, Caroline Tervo, Kirsten Walters
Abstract How did Democrats running for federal office win in Georgia in 2020–21, but not in North Carolina, a state long regarded as more “flippable”? This article uses newly assembled organizational data to situate recent Democratic fortunes in the context of two long-running statewide campaigns for racial and economic justice—led by North Carolina's Reverend William Barber II and Georgia's Stacey Abrams. We track shifting political opportunity structures and the organizational and strategic evolution of both movements during the 2010s, with a special focus on outreach beyond major metropolitan areas. Our findings suggest that social justice campaigns aiming to increase government responsiveness to poor minority citizens do better if they engage in persistent, locally embedded voter outreach along partisan lines rather than heavily relying on morally framed, media-friendly protests. This research also demonstrates how data on organizational networks can be assembled and used to explore historical-institutional hypotheses about the development and impact of social movements.
民主党人在2020-21年的乔治亚州联邦选举中获胜,但在长期以来被认为更“易变”的北卡罗来纳州却没有获胜?本文利用新近收集的组织数据,将民主党最近的命运置于两场长期的全州范围的种族和经济正义运动的背景下,这两场运动由北卡罗来纳州的威廉·巴伯二世牧师和佐治亚州的斯泰西·艾布拉姆斯领导。我们追踪了2010年代政治机会结构的变化,以及这两个运动的组织和战略演变,并特别关注大城市地区以外的活动。我们的研究结果表明,旨在提高政府对贫困少数民族公民回应能力的社会正义运动,如果他们按照党派路线参与持续的、在当地扎根的选民外联活动,而不是严重依赖道德框架、媒体友好的抗议活动,效果会更好。本研究还展示了组织网络的数据如何被整合并用于探索关于社会运动发展和影响的历史制度假设。
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Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V 司法权与第五条宗旨的变迁
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000037
Stephan Stohler, David Bateman, Robinson Woodward-Burns
Abstract Article V of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the formal amendment procedure, sets perhaps the highest bar to reform of any national constitution, discouraging amendment. But despite these challenges, members of Congress have proposed nearly twelve thousand constitutional amendments, with most introduced after the New Deal, raising questions about why members engage in such seemingly futile efforts. We argue that the rise of judicial power following the New Deal substantially decreased the importance of Article V as a tool for constitutional reform. But, by largely abandoning this purpose, members of Congress have repurposed Article V as a mechanism for constitutional position-taking, even though—indeed, perhaps precisely because—their efforts at formal constitutional revision have little chance for success. Through a mixed-methods approach, we first document the shifting purpose of Article V at an aggregate level by coding all 11,969 proposed constitutional amendments throughout American history. We then substantiate the shifting purpose of Article V through a series of in-depth case studies focused on polygamy, women's suffrage, Equal Rights Amendments, and Federal Marriage Amendments. Taken together, this evidence helps us understand Article V as a repurposed institution and suggests that textually static constitutional provisions nonetheless may be open to reinvention at the behavioral level in subtle but important ways.
美国宪法第五条规定了正式的宪法修正案程序,它可能是所有国家宪法改革的最高门槛,不鼓励宪法修正案。但是,尽管面临这些挑战,国会议员已经提出了近1.2万项宪法修正案,其中大多数是在新政之后提出的,这引发了人们对议员们为什么要进行这种看似徒劳的努力的质疑。我们认为,新政之后司法权的崛起大大降低了第五条作为宪法改革工具的重要性。但是,由于国会议员在很大程度上放弃了这一目的,他们将宪法第五条重新定位为宪法立场确立的机制,尽管——事实上,也许正是因为如此——他们正式修改宪法的努力几乎没有成功的机会。通过一种混合方法,我们首先通过对美国历史上所有11,969项宪法修正案进行编码,在总体水平上记录了第五条的变化目的。然后,我们通过一系列深入的案例研究,集中在一夫多妻制、妇女选举权、平等权利修正案和联邦婚姻修正案上,证实了第五条的转变目的。综上所述,这些证据有助于我们理解第5条是一个重新定位的制度,并表明,尽管如此,在文本上一成不变的宪法条款可能会在行为层面上以微妙但重要的方式进行重新发明。
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The Populist Challenge to U.S. Democracy: Renewing American Political Development's Comparative Perspective 民粹主义对美国民主的挑战:更新美国政治发展的比较视角
IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2022-05-31 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000049
Kurt Weyland
Abstract Regarding the implications of the political developments of the last five years for the study of American political development (APD), this article argues that the unprecedented Trump phenomenon and its problematic repercussions for U.S. democracy have greatly enhanced the value of a comparative perspective, which can draw instructive lessons from the fate of attacks on liberal democracy by populist leaders in other countries. Comparativists examining the contemporary United States initially highlighted the risks of populist leadership (i.e., political agency), stressed the possibilities of democratic backsliding, and examined how popularly elected chief executives can undermine democracy from the inside—all of which fueled grave concerns. Yet for a more realistic assessment of populism's actual danger for U.S. democracy, one must analyze the probability of such a deleterious outcome. Therefore, researchers need to embed agency in contextual conditions and investigate what institutional, structural, cultural, and conjunctural factors empowered populist leaders to destroy democracy in some countries, whereas other constellations of these factors have impeded democratic backsliding in many other nations. With this move beyond a primary focus on agency, comparative analyses align with APD's longstanding attention to complex context factors. Interestingly, such a comparative perspective corroborates the distinctive institutional strengths and relative resilience of U.S. democracy.
摘要关于过去五年的政治发展对美国政治发展研究(APD)的影响,本文认为,前所未有的特朗普现象及其对美国民主的问题影响大大提高了比较视角的价值,这可以从其他国家民粹主义领导人攻击自由民主的命运中吸取有益的教训。研究当代美国的比较主义者最初强调了民粹主义领导(即政治机构)的风险,强调了民主倒退的可能性,并研究了民选首席执行官如何从内部破坏民主——所有这些都引发了严重的担忧。然而,要想更现实地评估民粹主义对美国民主的实际危险,就必须分析这种有害结果的可能性。因此,研究人员需要将代理嵌入背景条件中,并调查是什么制度、结构、文化和联合因素使民粹主义领导人能够在一些国家破坏民主,而这些因素的其他组合阻碍了许多其他国家的民主倒退。随着这一举措超越了对机构的主要关注,比较分析与APD长期以来对复杂背景因素的关注相一致。有趣的是,这种比较视角证实了美国民主的独特制度优势和相对韧性。
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