Jonathan Rosenbalm
Political Science Seminar: TBC
Political Science Seminar: TBC
Political Science Seminar: TBC
The Political Logic of Persistent Deforestation: Electoral Incentives and Public Goods in the Brazilian Amazon
A growing literature shows that democratic institutions, particularly elections, are associated with higher deforestation. To enhance our understanding of the mechanisms driving this relationship, we study the link between the electoral backlash to environmental protection, the incumbents' electoral needs and the behavior of environmental bureaucracies. We argue and show that bureaucratic enforcement follows a politico-economic logic.
Keeping the Rascals In: How Redistricting Entrenches Power
What drives variation in redistricting across U.S. history? Redistricting is an electorally disruptive action that reshapes the representative-constituent relationship, and gerrymandering is a persistent feature of American politics. But leaving maps unchanged is just as political as changing them. This book introduces the concept of district protectionism: the strategic preservation of existing electoral geography to maintain established distributions of power.
Factionalised Voters in Latin America: Polarisation in Changing Party Systems
Why do intensely polarised electorates coexist with unstable parties and volatile elections? Factionalised Voters in Latin America challenges conventional accounts of Latin American voters as politically unmoored and prone to shifting parties unpredictably. It argues instead that beneath the region’s fluid party systems lie persistent identities and antagonisms. At the heart of the book is the concept of the factionalised voter: a citizen who interprets social life through powerful distinctions between political friends and foes.
Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics
Purity and Power: A History of White Christian Masculinity in America
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