Stephen Bloom
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4375090 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Bloom |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Bloom |
| FIRMA | BLOOM S |
| AFILIACIONES | Southern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0029-7348 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Politics of Perception
While the desire of major powers for spheres of influence in smaller states has been extensively researched, the formation of public opinion in such states remains understudied. Using a series of Central Asian Barometer surveys, this study explores the factors associated with individuals’ foreign policy preferences among lesser powers neighbouring larger powers. We focus on the role of ethnic identity, language, and information sources in shaping…
When Are Gender Quotas Fulfilled? Party Strategy and Historical Memory in Ukrainian City Elections
Many studies have investigated why countries adopt gender quotas for their elections. In this article, we answer a different question: why do political parties comply with gender quotas when the costs of noncompliance are absent or minimal? To answer this question, we analyze data from 1,600 party lists and 106 parties competing across 121 cities in the 2015 municipal elections in Ukraine. Our subnational approach tests whether contextual factors…
Whither the party vote bonus? Stand-down agreements in Ukraine's mixed-member system
Does Nation Building Increase the Strength of Citizen Loyalty? Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Ukrainian Nationalism
A widespread—yet for the most part untested—proposition about nationalism is that it promotes political legitimacy, and thereby undergirds people's allegiance to their state and their willingness to support and comply with government policies. This article reconsiders the general proposition through an examination of survey data from Ukraine. Using multivariate statistical analysis, the study isolates four dimensions of nationhood and explores ho…
National Subversion of Supranational Goals
The structural funds were designed to give the European Commission supranational control over where regional aid was spent. In this article, we argue that domestic ‘pork-barrel’ politics determine which regions are awarded regional aid in the new member states of Eastern Europe. Support for our argument comes from a dataset that includes 1,688 European Regional Development Fund grants to Latvia's 118 regions and 1,533 pre-accession Phare awards t…
Minority Group Size, Unemployment, and the Extreme Right Vote
Objectives I test the importance of demographic and economic contextual variables for the success of extreme right parties. Methods I employ subnational data from the crucial case of L atvia to capture the effects of minority group size and economic change on the extreme right vote. Ethnic L atvians constitute a bare majority of the L atvian population and GDP dropped by 18 percent in 2009. Results I find that localities with high or rising unemp…
The legitimacy of foreign intervention in elections
The empirical and theoretical study of the effect of foreign intervention in the electoral processes of states is exceedingly weak. Using insights from the nationalism literature, this article provides a theoretical argument on domestic reactions to foreign interference in a state's internal politics. It then tests the predictions generated by the argument using mass survey data in Ukraine. The article analyses the Ukrainian people's reaction to …
Does a Nationalist Card Make for a Weak Hand
This article tests theories of group threat, competition, contact, and shared pain. The author argues that economic downturns undermine rather than increase support for prejudice. The absolute pain of a recession is felt by all groups in society, even if the relative costs are often distributed unevenly across groups. While nationalists can scapegoat minorities for economic woes, competing elites have incentives to adopt economic frames that focu…
Merra
The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) was undertaken by NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office with two primary objectives: to place observations from NASA’s Earth Observing System satellites into a climate context and to improve upon the hydrologic cycle represented in earlier generations of reanalyses. Focusing on the satellite era, from 1979 to the present, MERRA has achieved its goals with signifi…
Interest versus Identity
To what extent do economic factors accentuate or mitigate ethno-cultural fault lines in Ukrainian politics? Previous analyses of Ukrainian elections have focused on Ukraine's ethno-cultural regional divide, which splits the Ukrainophone West and Center from the Russian-speaking East and South. A newly-fashioned subnational dataset that includes ethno-linguistic, economic, and electoral data for Ukraine's 225 territorial election districts is used…
The 2010 Latvian parliamentary elections
Which Minority is Appeased? Coalition Potential and Redistribution in Latvia and Ukraine
This article tests fiscal appeasement, needs-based and coalition potential hypotheses for redistribution in post-Soviet Latvia and Ukraine. I argue that the government's decision to reward a minority population depends on the coalition potential of minority parties and voters. In Latvia, the non-participation of minority parties in governing coalitions means that the distribution of spoils among coalition partners does not benefit the regions in …
Competitive Assimilation or Strategic Nonassimilation
This article tests the competitive assimilation and strategic nonassimilation models, using district-level data from Latvia. Unlike the coordination dynamic of the competitive assimilation game, the strategic nonassimilation game highlights the strategic interaction between Russian and Latvian players. Russian parents do not look to other Russian parents when deciding to send their children to Latvian schools; rather, they look to Latvian childre…
Democratization, Nationalism, and War
Journal Article Democratization, Nationalism, and War Get access Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War. By Mansfield Edward D. Snyder Jack. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 288 pp., $32.95 (ISBN: 0-262-13449-7). Stephen Bloom Stephen Bloom Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2006, …
Awards
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
National Subversion of Supranational Goals
The structural funds were designed to give the European Commission supranational control over where regional aid was spent. In this article, we argue that domestic ‘pork-barrel’ politics determine which regions are awarded regional aid in the new member states of Eastern Europe. Support for our argument comes from a dataset that includes 1,688 European Regional Development Fund grants to Latvia's 118 regions and 1,533 pre-accession Phare awards t…
The legitimacy of foreign intervention in elections
The empirical and theoretical study of the effect of foreign intervention in the electoral processes of states is exceedingly weak. Using insights from the nationalism literature, this article provides a theoretical argument on domestic reactions to foreign interference in a state's internal politics. It then tests the predictions generated by the argument using mass survey data in Ukraine. The article analyses the Ukrainian people's reaction to …
Interest versus Identity
To what extent do economic factors accentuate or mitigate ethno-cultural fault lines in Ukrainian politics? Previous analyses of Ukrainian elections have focused on Ukraine's ethno-cultural regional divide, which splits the Ukrainophone West and Center from the Russian-speaking East and South. A newly-fashioned subnational dataset that includes ethno-linguistic, economic, and electoral data for Ukraine's 225 territorial election districts is used…
Minority Group Size, Unemployment, and the Extreme Right Vote
Objectives I test the importance of demographic and economic contextual variables for the success of extreme right parties. Methods I employ subnational data from the crucial case of L atvia to capture the effects of minority group size and economic change on the extreme right vote. Ethnic L atvians constitute a bare majority of the L atvian population and GDP dropped by 18 percent in 2009. Results I find that localities with high or rising unemp…
Does a Nationalist Card Make for a Weak Hand
This article tests theories of group threat, competition, contact, and shared pain. The author argues that economic downturns undermine rather than increase support for prejudice. The absolute pain of a recession is felt by all groups in society, even if the relative costs are often distributed unevenly across groups. While nationalists can scapegoat minorities for economic woes, competing elites have incentives to adopt economic frames that focu…
When Are Gender Quotas Fulfilled? Party Strategy and Historical Memory in Ukrainian City Elections
Many studies have investigated why countries adopt gender quotas for their elections. In this article, we answer a different question: why do political parties comply with gender quotas when the costs of noncompliance are absent or minimal? To answer this question, we analyze data from 1,600 party lists and 106 parties competing across 121 cities in the 2015 municipal elections in Ukraine. Our subnational approach tests whether contextual factors…
Whither the party vote bonus? Stand-down agreements in Ukraine's mixed-member system
Does Nation Building Increase the Strength of Citizen Loyalty? Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Ukrainian Nationalism
A widespread—yet for the most part untested—proposition about nationalism is that it promotes political legitimacy, and thereby undergirds people's allegiance to their state and their willingness to support and comply with government policies. This article reconsiders the general proposition through an examination of survey data from Ukraine. Using multivariate statistical analysis, the study isolates four dimensions of nationhood and explores ho…
The 2010 Latvian parliamentary elections
Competitive Assimilation or Strategic Nonassimilation
This article tests the competitive assimilation and strategic nonassimilation models, using district-level data from Latvia. Unlike the coordination dynamic of the competitive assimilation game, the strategic nonassimilation game highlights the strategic interaction between Russian and Latvian players. Russian parents do not look to other Russian parents when deciding to send their children to Latvian schools; rather, they look to Latvian childre…
Democratization, Nationalism, and War
Journal Article Democratization, Nationalism, and War Get access Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War. By Mansfield Edward D. Snyder Jack. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 288 pp., $32.95 (ISBN: 0-262-13449-7). Stephen Bloom Stephen Bloom Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2006, …
Awards
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Democratization, Nationalism, and War
Journal Article Democratization, Nationalism, and War Get access Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War. By Mansfield Edward D. Snyder Jack. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 288 pp., $32.95 (ISBN: 0-262-13449-7). Stephen Bloom Stephen Bloom Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2006, …
Which Minority is Appeased? Coalition Potential and Redistribution in Latvia and Ukraine
This article tests fiscal appeasement, needs-based and coalition potential hypotheses for redistribution in post-Soviet Latvia and Ukraine. I argue that the government's decision to reward a minority population depends on the coalition potential of minority parties and voters. In Latvia, the non-participation of minority parties in governing coalitions means that the distribution of spoils among coalition partners does not benefit the regions in …
Competitive Assimilation or Strategic Nonassimilation
This article tests the competitive assimilation and strategic nonassimilation models, using district-level data from Latvia. Unlike the coordination dynamic of the competitive assimilation game, the strategic nonassimilation game highlights the strategic interaction between Russian and Latvian players. Russian parents do not look to other Russian parents when deciding to send their children to Latvian schools; rather, they look to Latvian childre…
Merra
The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) was undertaken by NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office with two primary objectives: to place observations from NASA’s Earth Observing System satellites into a climate context and to improve upon the hydrologic cycle represented in earlier generations of reanalyses. Focusing on the satellite era, from 1979 to the present, MERRA has achieved its goals with signifi…
Interest versus Identity
To what extent do economic factors accentuate or mitigate ethno-cultural fault lines in Ukrainian politics? Previous analyses of Ukrainian elections have focused on Ukraine's ethno-cultural regional divide, which splits the Ukrainophone West and Center from the Russian-speaking East and South. A newly-fashioned subnational dataset that includes ethno-linguistic, economic, and electoral data for Ukraine's 225 territorial election districts is used…
The 2010 Latvian parliamentary elections
The legitimacy of foreign intervention in elections
The empirical and theoretical study of the effect of foreign intervention in the electoral processes of states is exceedingly weak. Using insights from the nationalism literature, this article provides a theoretical argument on domestic reactions to foreign interference in a state's internal politics. It then tests the predictions generated by the argument using mass survey data in Ukraine. The article analyses the Ukrainian people's reaction to …
Does a Nationalist Card Make for a Weak Hand
This article tests theories of group threat, competition, contact, and shared pain. The author argues that economic downturns undermine rather than increase support for prejudice. The absolute pain of a recession is felt by all groups in society, even if the relative costs are often distributed unevenly across groups. While nationalists can scapegoat minorities for economic woes, competing elites have incentives to adopt economic frames that focu…
National Subversion of Supranational Goals
The structural funds were designed to give the European Commission supranational control over where regional aid was spent. In this article, we argue that domestic ‘pork-barrel’ politics determine which regions are awarded regional aid in the new member states of Eastern Europe. Support for our argument comes from a dataset that includes 1,688 European Regional Development Fund grants to Latvia's 118 regions and 1,533 pre-accession Phare awards t…
Minority Group Size, Unemployment, and the Extreme Right Vote
Objectives I test the importance of demographic and economic contextual variables for the success of extreme right parties. Methods I employ subnational data from the crucial case of L atvia to capture the effects of minority group size and economic change on the extreme right vote. Ethnic L atvians constitute a bare majority of the L atvian population and GDP dropped by 18 percent in 2009. Results I find that localities with high or rising unemp…
Does Nation Building Increase the Strength of Citizen Loyalty? Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Ukrainian Nationalism
A widespread—yet for the most part untested—proposition about nationalism is that it promotes political legitimacy, and thereby undergirds people's allegiance to their state and their willingness to support and comply with government policies. This article reconsiders the general proposition through an examination of survey data from Ukraine. Using multivariate statistical analysis, the study isolates four dimensions of nationhood and explores ho…
Whither the party vote bonus? Stand-down agreements in Ukraine's mixed-member system
When Are Gender Quotas Fulfilled? Party Strategy and Historical Memory in Ukrainian City Elections
Many studies have investigated why countries adopt gender quotas for their elections. In this article, we answer a different question: why do political parties comply with gender quotas when the costs of noncompliance are absent or minimal? To answer this question, we analyze data from 1,600 party lists and 106 parties competing across 121 cities in the 2015 municipal elections in Ukraine. Our subnational approach tests whether contextual factors…
The Politics of Perception
While the desire of major powers for spheres of influence in smaller states has been extensively researched, the formation of public opinion in such states remains understudied. Using a series of Central Asian Barometer surveys, this study explores the factors associated with individuals’ foreign policy preferences among lesser powers neighbouring larger powers. We focus on the role of ethnic identity, language, and information sources in shaping…
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