Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537592723001044
Swati Srivastava
{"title":"Contesting Sovereignty: Power and Practice in Africa and Southeast Asia. By Joel Ng. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 300p. $99.99 cloth.","authors":"Swati Srivastava","doi":"10.1017/S1537592723001044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723001044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1040 - 1041"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47681000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537592723001263
Hesham Sallam
{"title":"The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings. Edited by Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 320p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.","authors":"Hesham Sallam","doi":"10.1017/S1537592723001263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723001263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1131 - 1132"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49189395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537592723001317
Qingming Huang
{"title":"Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China’s New Silk Road. By Philip B. K. Potter and Chen Wang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 244p. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.","authors":"Qingming Huang","doi":"10.1017/s1537592723001317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592723001317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46866792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537592723001937
Mark C. Milewicz
{"title":"News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era. By Johanna Dunaway and Kathleen Searles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 176p. $24.95 paper.","authors":"Mark C. Milewicz","doi":"10.1017/S1537592723001937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723001937","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1092 - 1094"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42426035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537592723001238
Yafa Shanneik
{"title":"Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State. By Shirin Saeidi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 288p. $99.99 cloth.","authors":"Yafa Shanneik","doi":"10.1017/S1537592723001238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723001238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1132 - 1134"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43846583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537592723001949
Jason C. Bivins
{"title":"The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics. By Eric L. McDaniel, Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson F. Shortle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 272p. $34.99 paper.","authors":"Jason C. Bivins","doi":"10.1017/S1537592723001949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723001949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1064 - 1066"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42789152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537592723001330
Nicholas T. Davis, Keith J. Gaddie, Kirby Goidel
norms, their evaluation of democracy in any setting is necessarily more precarious than the evaluation of a proceduralist holding more minimal criteria. A second front of concern is that the opinion survey asks respondents to rate each characteristic of democracy on its own, rather than in relationship with other goals for the respondent. Voters might say that free and fair elections or freedom of association is essential to democracy in the abstract, but when application of those values leads to political results contrary to other values they hold, they must compromise on one of the two. Connecting to my work under review in this Critical Dialogue, if voters care more intensely about the political result than about the democratic norm, their action might follow politics rather than norms. Indeed, one might even define democratic backsliding as a change in relative intensity for political outcomes versus democratic norms. Americans might continue to endorse free speech and fair elections as before, but if their perception is that the policy consequences of elections are of greater salience—as might be the case with increased polarization between the party coalitions— voter willingness to swallow political defeat in deference to democracy might decline. Despite the rhetoric of “Stop the Steal” around election fraud, my suspicion is that many who entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021 did so more to prevent what they saw as an unacceptable Biden presidency than to prevent certification of a stolen election. More broadly, if readers adopted the perspective on public opinion presented in John Zaller’s 1992 book, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, they might be concerned about the empirical enterprise of Democracy’s Meanings. Many Americans have not thought carefully about what features they deem essential to a democratic system. Their opinion survey responses might simply reflect “what they’ve heard” from the elite political rhetoric in their information milieu. Proceduralists might give responses reflecting the rhetoric they hear about the rule of law and fair elections, and indeed the authors find proceduralists more likely identify as conservative and Republican. Maximalists might give responses reflecting the rhetoric they hear about inequality and disenfranchisement, and indeed the authors find that maximalists more likely identify as liberal and Democratic. Under this Zaller-type story, the relevant influence on meanings of democracy would be elite rhetoric, rather than individual opinion. Democratic backsliding would follow, then, from a change in the elite rhetoric surrounding norms of democracy. My sense is that there is ample evidence of this phenomenon taking place. Research documenting and quantifying this trend so we can better understand its causes and evaluate its effect on individual citizens strikes me as a natural and important part of the project started in this book. If elite rhetoric drives public opinion on the meaning of d
{"title":"Response to Seth J. Hill’s Review of Democracy’s Meaning: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters","authors":"Nicholas T. Davis, Keith J. Gaddie, Kirby Goidel","doi":"10.1017/s1537592723001330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592723001330","url":null,"abstract":"norms, their evaluation of democracy in any setting is necessarily more precarious than the evaluation of a proceduralist holding more minimal criteria. A second front of concern is that the opinion survey asks respondents to rate each characteristic of democracy on its own, rather than in relationship with other goals for the respondent. Voters might say that free and fair elections or freedom of association is essential to democracy in the abstract, but when application of those values leads to political results contrary to other values they hold, they must compromise on one of the two. Connecting to my work under review in this Critical Dialogue, if voters care more intensely about the political result than about the democratic norm, their action might follow politics rather than norms. Indeed, one might even define democratic backsliding as a change in relative intensity for political outcomes versus democratic norms. Americans might continue to endorse free speech and fair elections as before, but if their perception is that the policy consequences of elections are of greater salience—as might be the case with increased polarization between the party coalitions— voter willingness to swallow political defeat in deference to democracy might decline. Despite the rhetoric of “Stop the Steal” around election fraud, my suspicion is that many who entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021 did so more to prevent what they saw as an unacceptable Biden presidency than to prevent certification of a stolen election. More broadly, if readers adopted the perspective on public opinion presented in John Zaller’s 1992 book, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, they might be concerned about the empirical enterprise of Democracy’s Meanings. Many Americans have not thought carefully about what features they deem essential to a democratic system. Their opinion survey responses might simply reflect “what they’ve heard” from the elite political rhetoric in their information milieu. Proceduralists might give responses reflecting the rhetoric they hear about the rule of law and fair elections, and indeed the authors find proceduralists more likely identify as conservative and Republican. Maximalists might give responses reflecting the rhetoric they hear about inequality and disenfranchisement, and indeed the authors find that maximalists more likely identify as liberal and Democratic. Under this Zaller-type story, the relevant influence on meanings of democracy would be elite rhetoric, rather than individual opinion. Democratic backsliding would follow, then, from a change in the elite rhetoric surrounding norms of democracy. My sense is that there is ample evidence of this phenomenon taking place. Research documenting and quantifying this trend so we can better understand its causes and evaluate its effect on individual citizens strikes me as a natural and important part of the project started in this book. If elite rhetoric drives public opinion on the meaning of d","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1031 - 1032"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46201666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S153759272300169X
S. Handlin
{"title":"Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy. By Laura Gamboa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 320p. $105.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.","authors":"S. Handlin","doi":"10.1017/S153759272300169X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759272300169X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1134 - 1135"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48311448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537592723001378
Amanda B. Edgell
{"title":"Democracy in Hard Places. Edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 330p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.","authors":"Amanda B. Edgell","doi":"10.1017/S1537592723001378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723001378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1121 - 1122"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45769564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537592723001275
Andreas Ufen
{"title":"Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia. By Edward Aspinall, Meredith L. Weiss, Allen Hicken, and Paul D. Hutchcroft. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 380p. $99.99 cloth.","authors":"Andreas Ufen","doi":"10.1017/S1537592723001275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723001275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48097,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1106 - 1107"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44834258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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