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Interest groups, local politics, and police unions
Police unions raise issues of great importance for political scientists. Yet, the field has neglected them. This essay argues that political...
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Interest Groups, Local Politics, and Police Unions
Police unions raise issues of great importance for political scientists. Yet, the field has neglected them. This essay argues that political...
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Timing Matters: How Adolescent Police Contact Shapes Political Lives
Aggressive policing policies and practices have led to frequent interactions between the police and America’s youth, particularly for young people of...
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Police Budgeting: Using Overtime as a Management Tool
Following the death of George Floyd, there were national calls for budget reductions and reforms for police departments. The City of San Jose’s...
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The “Yellow Vest Protests”: A Challenge for Police and Democracy
This article first describes the challenges that French police faced with Yellow Vest protests, but also for democracy itself, and how the various...
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Trade Unions and Migration in Europe
Rolle Alho’s chapter discusses trade union responses to labour migration in Europe since the turn of the millennium. This has been an era of...
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Polish Unions Towards Populism: Strategies and Dilemmas
Jan Czarzasty and Adam Rogalewski explore the orientation of Polish trade unions vis-a-vis the rise of populism in that country. During the last more...
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Interest groups in US local politics: Introduction to the special issue
Interest group scholarship has so far focused mainly on national politics and has had very little to say about interest groups in American cities,...
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Interest Groups in U.S. Local Politics
Interest group scholarship has so far focused mainly on national politics and has had very little to say about interest groups in American cities,...
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Interest Groups in US Local Politics: Introduction to the Special Issue
Interest group scholarship has so far focused mainly on national politics and has had very little to say about interest groups in American cities,...
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Police and the Control of Firearms in Africa
The major function of police is to provide security and maintain public order and safety. One of the major threats to safety and security everywhere...
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One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers
The statist focus of comparative politics has withheld from view the ability of powerful actors such as transnational corporations to engage in...
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The Rise and Decline of Labor Unions in Mexico: Political and Institutional Factors
This chapter analyses the main political and institutional factors in Mexico explaining the development and decline of labor unions during the...
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Race, Prejudice and Support for Racial Justice Countermovements: The Case of “Blue Lives Matter”
In this article, we develop and test three propositions related to the status of a primary counterpoint of the Black Lives Matter (BLM)...
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Contingency factors explaining policy adoption: body-worn camera policy across US states
Policy researchers suggest that governments respond to societal problems with public policy. However, empirical evidence is mixed regarding the...
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Labour market deregulation, austerity measures, and social unrest: Greece in comparative perspective
Greece experienced near political implosion between 2010 and 2012 with large-scale demonstrations, strikes, riots, damage to public and private...
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Reform of Public Service Regulation
The issue of the legal framework governing public servants in Germany, or Beamtenrecht, is politically sensitive in Germany, as the status of...
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The digital coverage of the yellow vest movement as protest activity
This article investigates a core practice of the Yellow Vest movement (YVM), born in the fall of 2018 in France: its publicizing through social...
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Radical right and anti-vax protests between movements and parties: a comparative study
Mobilisations opposed to vaccinations and other Covid-19-related measures have dominated the protest arena in the recent years of the pandemic....
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Military Unions: Moving from Accommodation to Confrontation to Subversion
This chapter debates the factors that have facilitated the emergence and institutionalisation of military unions. The chapter assesses the evolution...