Dan Hough
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Hough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hough |
| SIGNATURE | HOUGH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3695-7472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Understanding Corruption
Corruption takes many different forms and the systems that enable it are complex and challenging. To best understand corruption, one needs to examine how it operates in practice. Understanding Corruption tells the story of how corruption happens in the real world, illustrated through detailed case studies of the many different types of corruption that span the globe. Each case study follows a tried and tested analytical approach that provides key…
Ruth Wittlinger and Wade Jacoby
Citizens, bribery and the propensity to protest
It is widely assumed that the more one experiences corruption the more likely one is to want to protest about it. Yet empirical evidence illustrating this is thin on the ground. This paper fills that gap by focusing on the extent to which self-reported experience of bribery affects the willingness to engage in protests against corruption in Africa. We find that the more one experiences bribery the more one is likely to support anti-corruption pro…
Bishops Who Live Like Princes
This article contributes to the debate on defining corruption. Rather than attempting to provide a definitive definition, it uses the case of Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, a German bishop from the diocese of Limburg who stepped down in 2014, to illustrate that the disciplines of law, political science, economics, and anthropology all make important contributions to understanding what corruption is and how it should be conceptualized. Seen through…
Analysing Corruption
The corruption scandals that have engulfed many western states and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to confront corruption as a subject for serious academic research. Corruption analysis has become a rigorous discipline with a broad consensus on what corruption is and a range of indicative case study analyses. This textbook int…
Anticorruption
This article utilizes a neoinstitutionalist framework to argue that while Germany's anticorruption infrastructure remains strong, resilient pathdependent tendencies often make it difficult to reform. The article analyzes three specific areas: the state's attitude to regulating German business, meeting international anticorruption commitments, and doing justice to the rising transparency agenda. High-profile examples of corruption in multinational…
Not Much Ado About Quite a Lot? The German Election of September 2013
The German election of 22 September 2013 saw Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU return triumphantly to office. \nMerkel’s party won as she is widely admired and, most importantly, she is widely trusted to lead \nGermany through potentially challenging times. So, all much as was. Yet beneath the surface the tectonic \nplates of German party politics are shifting. The Social Democrats appear to be stuck in an electoral trough, whilst the number of politically…
Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Governance
By exploring the anti-corruption strategies in six countries, this book is the first detailed, cross-national analysis on techniques to address corruption. It highlights the importance of understandin
Regionalist Parties and the Mobilization of Territorial Difference in Germany
Analysis of political regionalism and regionalist parties has traditionally neglected the case of Germany. We argue that this is a curious ommission. This article looks to redress this balance by applying frameworks created for understanding the determinants of regionalist party success to the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and the eastern Germany Party of Democratic Socialism (1990–2005, PDS). Although very different in terms of their pol…
Breaking the Mould
Small but Perfectly Formed? The Rise and Rise of Germany's Smaller Parties
This article analyses the reasons for the rise and stabilisation of the Free Democrats, the Greens and the Left Party as long-term actors in the German party system. It explains why they have become more electorally relevant in recent years and also analyses what effect this is having on the dynamics of everyday political life in Germany. It analyses the bases of their support as well as their future prospects, before concluding with a discussion…
Towards an Analytical Framework for Party Mergers
The theoretical literature on party mergers is thin. This article draws upon organisational behaviour research to create an analytical framework that is suitable for explaining the processes inherent in party mergers. The authors operationalise this framework by examining two cases of party merger: in Germany, between the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and the Electoral Alternative for Labour and Social Justice (WASG) in 2006/07, and in the …
Political Opposition in the Era of the Grand Coalition (2005–09)
Political parties in opposition have a number of possible strategies open to them. They may look to act as policy pushers, stressing the government's apparent neglect of a set of core issues that they hold dear. They may act as strategic opponents, opposing the government's agenda wherever possible, but not opposing the system within which it is embedded. Alternatively, they may choose to be a more obstructionist force, attempting to both delegit…
Germany at 60
To say that Germany’s political and socio-economic development since 1945 has been successful is a statement of the obvious. Whilst defining ‘success’ can, to use the old adage, frequently be like trying to nail a blancmange to a wall, there can be little doubt that the term is apt in this case. The German social market economy remains, despite the buffeting that the world economy has taken during the recent global recession, remarkably resilient…
A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing or a Gift from Heaven? Left–Left Coalitions in Comparative Perspective
Communist, post-Communist and radical socialist political parties have recently been brought into the coalition equation in a number of democratic states. This article seeks to develop and apply an analytical framework suitable for understanding under what conditions this occurs. It concentrates primarily on coalition formation at the sub-state level between social democratic parties and competitors to their ideological left. The framework is app…
A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany
The (eastern) German Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) survived for 15 years post-unification as a de facto regionalist party. During this time its attempt to expand its electoral base into western Germany largely failed and it found itself forced to act as a regionalist party in denial. Events in 2002–05 changed this position fundamentally. This contribution analyses, first, how the PDS survived as a regionalist party pre-2002. It then outline…
Understanding Post-Devolution Elections in Scotland and Wales in Comparative Perspective
In this article, we explore the electoral dynamics of multi-level political systems for the case of the United Kingdom (Scotland and Wales) through a comparison with multi-level voting behaviour in Germany, Spain and Canada. The analysis suggests that sub-state elections can be `second order' in relation to state-wide elections, but that this `second orderness' is reduced when more powers are decentralized to the sub-state level (and, thus, more …
Populism Personified or Reinvigorated Reformers? The German Left Party in 2009 and Beyond
Despite its recent electoral successes, the Left Party's position in the German party system is more fragile that it may at first appear. The Left Party gained support in 2005 largely on account of dissatisfaction with other parties and not because masses of voters were flocking to its (nominally socialist) cause. Not even a majority from within its own supporter base thought it possessed "significant problem solving competences." Rather, much of…
Politicizing migration
Centre-right parties have by and large been keen to mobilize support by adopting relatively restrictive approaches on immigration and multiculturalism. However, such mobilizing strategies carry a number of costs: centre-right parties risk losing support from more moderate supporters, and they may lose legitimacy by pursuing policies that conflict with more liberal approaches, or which prove difficult to deliver. This contribution develops a typol…
Different Road Maps, Similar Paths? Social Democratic Politics in the UK and Germany
Parties that win elections – particularly if they win them frequently and convincingly – are never short of admirers. The recent successes of New Labour are a prime example of this. The German SPD initially showed considerable interest in New Labour's programmatic transformation but it was only a matter of months before it began to back away from much of the Blair-inspired ‘Neue Mitte’ agenda. This contribution analyses some of the reasons for th…
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
This article analyses the development of Left Party/PDS-SPD coalitions in the eastern German Länder. It develops an explanatory framework based on attempts to understand how red-green coalitions came into being in the 1990s. The article concludes that red-red coalitions emerge when four basic criteria are fulfilled: the SPD has few other viable potential coalition options and believes it can gain in strategic terms; the ideological distance betwe…
The Germanbundestagelection of September 2005
Between a rock and many Hard Places
It is now widely recognised that unification has led to an increased regionalisation of party politics in the Federal Republic. On the one hand a significant number of decision-making competencies within parties remain decentralised. On the other, regional party systems have become ever more differentiated both from each other and from that which exists at the national level. This article assesses to what extent there is any empirical evidence su…
Learning from the west
Communist successor parties (CSPs) have never been a homogeneous group of political actors. Like their predecessors, the communist parties that ruled in each of the countries of the state-socialist world, initial perceptions of ideological coherence, programmatic similarity and organizational consistency apply in only the most superficial of ways. Some have ‘reformed’ much more extensively than others, but – as a group – CSPs remain significant a…
The programmatic development of the Eastern German PDS
The unification of Germany in 1990 left the PDS in an ideological and programmatic vacuum. It found itself in a position where it had to develop programmes and policies from scratch, largely devoid of contact with other parties in other countries. In the immediate post-unification period the PDS therefore espoused programmatic positions with the single aim of self-preservation. None the less co-operation with like-minded parties and movements abr…
Regional Elections in Multi-Level Systems
This article sets out to find ways of analysing the relationship of regional and statewide electoral processes in multi-level systems. First, we analyse a number of `top down' approaches with the aim of assessing how and when statewide issues are perceived as shaping regional election outcomes. Second, we discuss a `bottom up' approach in which the importance of territorial politics can be measured. Both of these approaches, although not original…
Understanding Post-Devolution Elections in Scotland and Wales in Comparative Perspective
In this article, we explore the electoral dynamics of multi-level political systems for the case of the United Kingdom (Scotland and Wales) through a comparison with multi-level voting behaviour in Germany, Spain and Canada. The analysis suggests that sub-state elections can be `second order' in relation to state-wide elections, but that this `second orderness' is reduced when more powers are decentralized to the sub-state level (and, thus, more …
Politicizing migration
Centre-right parties have by and large been keen to mobilize support by adopting relatively restrictive approaches on immigration and multiculturalism. However, such mobilizing strategies carry a number of costs: centre-right parties risk losing support from more moderate supporters, and they may lose legitimacy by pursuing policies that conflict with more liberal approaches, or which prove difficult to deliver. This contribution develops a typol…
Towards an Analytical Framework for Party Mergers
The theoretical literature on party mergers is thin. This article draws upon organisational behaviour research to create an analytical framework that is suitable for explaining the processes inherent in party mergers. The authors operationalise this framework by examining two cases of party merger: in Germany, between the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and the Electoral Alternative for Labour and Social Justice (WASG) in 2006/07, and in the …
Populism Personified or Reinvigorated Reformers? The German Left Party in 2009 and Beyond
Despite its recent electoral successes, the Left Party's position in the German party system is more fragile that it may at first appear. The Left Party gained support in 2005 largely on account of dissatisfaction with other parties and not because masses of voters were flocking to its (nominally socialist) cause. Not even a majority from within its own supporter base thought it possessed "significant problem solving competences." Rather, much of…
A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing or a Gift from Heaven? Left–Left Coalitions in Comparative Perspective
Communist, post-Communist and radical socialist political parties have recently been brought into the coalition equation in a number of democratic states. This article seeks to develop and apply an analytical framework suitable for understanding under what conditions this occurs. It concentrates primarily on coalition formation at the sub-state level between social democratic parties and competitors to their ideological left. The framework is app…
Regionalist Parties and the Mobilization of Territorial Difference in Germany
Analysis of political regionalism and regionalist parties has traditionally neglected the case of Germany. We argue that this is a curious ommission. This article looks to redress this balance by applying frameworks created for understanding the determinants of regionalist party success to the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and the eastern Germany Party of Democratic Socialism (1990–2005, PDS). Although very different in terms of their pol…
A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany
The (eastern) German Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) survived for 15 years post-unification as a de facto regionalist party. During this time its attempt to expand its electoral base into western Germany largely failed and it found itself forced to act as a regionalist party in denial. Events in 2002–05 changed this position fundamentally. This contribution analyses, first, how the PDS survived as a regionalist party pre-2002. It then outline…
Between a rock and many Hard Places
It is now widely recognised that unification has led to an increased regionalisation of party politics in the Federal Republic. On the one hand a significant number of decision-making competencies within parties remain decentralised. On the other, regional party systems have become ever more differentiated both from each other and from that which exists at the national level. This article assesses to what extent there is any empirical evidence su…
Learning from the west
Communist successor parties (CSPs) have never been a homogeneous group of political actors. Like their predecessors, the communist parties that ruled in each of the countries of the state-socialist world, initial perceptions of ideological coherence, programmatic similarity and organizational consistency apply in only the most superficial of ways. Some have ‘reformed’ much more extensively than others, but – as a group – CSPs remain significant a…
Citizens, bribery and the propensity to protest
It is widely assumed that the more one experiences corruption the more likely one is to want to protest about it. Yet empirical evidence illustrating this is thin on the ground. This paper fills that gap by focusing on the extent to which self-reported experience of bribery affects the willingness to engage in protests against corruption in Africa. We find that the more one experiences bribery the more one is likely to support anti-corruption pro…
Bishops Who Live Like Princes
This article contributes to the debate on defining corruption. Rather than attempting to provide a definitive definition, it uses the case of Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, a German bishop from the diocese of Limburg who stepped down in 2014, to illustrate that the disciplines of law, political science, economics, and anthropology all make important contributions to understanding what corruption is and how it should be conceptualized. Seen through…
The Germanbundestagelection of September 2005
Small but Perfectly Formed? The Rise and Rise of Germany's Smaller Parties
This article analyses the reasons for the rise and stabilisation of the Free Democrats, the Greens and the Left Party as long-term actors in the German party system. It explains why they have become more electorally relevant in recent years and also analyses what effect this is having on the dynamics of everyday political life in Germany. It analyses the bases of their support as well as their future prospects, before concluding with a discussion…
Third Ways or New Ways? The Post-Communist Left in Central Europe
Communist successor parties in central Europe are not a homogeneous group of political actors. Processes of organisational reform undertaken in the immediate post-1989 period placed them on a programmatic trajectory which has since proven difficult to successfully modify. Parties that centralised power around a small group of elite actors have enjoyed more flexibility in their attempts to maximise votes and remain ideologically broad. Parties tha…
The post-communist left and the European Union
This article traces the development of two post-communist parties—the Czech KSČM and the German PDS—illustrating how they may continue to shape hard left policy in an expanded European Union (EU). It analyses three policy areas in detail (security and defense policy, employment policy and policies towards the institutional reform of the EU) and argues that, providing the parties avoid internal ideological conflict, they may come to play significa…
Not Much Ado About Quite a Lot? The German Election of September 2013
The German election of 22 September 2013 saw Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU return triumphantly to office. \nMerkel’s party won as she is widely admired and, most importantly, she is widely trusted to lead \nGermany through potentially challenging times. So, all much as was. Yet beneath the surface the tectonic \nplates of German party politics are shifting. The Social Democrats appear to be stuck in an electoral trough, whilst the number of politically…
Breaking the Mould
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
This article analyses the development of Left Party/PDS-SPD coalitions in the eastern German Länder. It develops an explanatory framework based on attempts to understand how red-green coalitions came into being in the 1990s. The article concludes that red-red coalitions emerge when four basic criteria are fulfilled: the SPD has few other viable potential coalition options and believes it can gain in strategic terms; the ideological distance betwe…
It's the East Stupid!’ Eastern Germany and the outcome of the 2002Bundestagswahl
Elections to the German Bundestag are, according to the popular adage, won and lost in eastern Germany. Despite its relatively small size, citizens of the six eastern states are seen as being crucial pendulum voters - in other words, the way that they swing will decisively tip the national balance. Eastern Germany is, in many respects, Germany's key battleground: a must win constituency for the Christian and Social Democrats if they are to succes…
The German election of September 1998
In 1998 a national German election produced a decisive voter‐led change of power for the first time since 1945. Charlie Jeffery and Dan Hough report
Industrial Textile Machinery
The German election of September 1998
In 1998 a national German election produced a decisive voter‐led change of power for the first time since 1945. Charlie Jeffery and Dan Hough report
Regional Elections in Multi-Level Systems
This article sets out to find ways of analysing the relationship of regional and statewide electoral processes in multi-level systems. First, we analyse a number of `top down' approaches with the aim of assessing how and when statewide issues are perceived as shaping regional election outcomes. Second, we discuss a `bottom up' approach in which the importance of territorial politics can be measured. Both of these approaches, although not original…
It's the East Stupid!’ Eastern Germany and the outcome of the 2002Bundestagswahl
Elections to the German Bundestag are, according to the popular adage, won and lost in eastern Germany. Despite its relatively small size, citizens of the six eastern states are seen as being crucial pendulum voters - in other words, the way that they swing will decisively tip the national balance. Eastern Germany is, in many respects, Germany's key battleground: a must win constituency for the Christian and Social Democrats if they are to succes…
The post-communist left and the European Union
This article traces the development of two post-communist parties—the Czech KSČM and the German PDS—illustrating how they may continue to shape hard left policy in an expanded European Union (EU). It analyses three policy areas in detail (security and defense policy, employment policy and policies towards the institutional reform of the EU) and argues that, providing the parties avoid internal ideological conflict, they may come to play significa…
Learning from the west
Communist successor parties (CSPs) have never been a homogeneous group of political actors. Like their predecessors, the communist parties that ruled in each of the countries of the state-socialist world, initial perceptions of ideological coherence, programmatic similarity and organizational consistency apply in only the most superficial of ways. Some have ‘reformed’ much more extensively than others, but – as a group – CSPs remain significant a…
The programmatic development of the Eastern German PDS
The unification of Germany in 1990 left the PDS in an ideological and programmatic vacuum. It found itself in a position where it had to develop programmes and policies from scratch, largely devoid of contact with other parties in other countries. In the immediate post-unification period the PDS therefore espoused programmatic positions with the single aim of self-preservation. None the less co-operation with like-minded parties and movements abr…
Third Ways or New Ways? The Post-Communist Left in Central Europe
Communist successor parties in central Europe are not a homogeneous group of political actors. Processes of organisational reform undertaken in the immediate post-1989 period placed them on a programmatic trajectory which has since proven difficult to successfully modify. Parties that centralised power around a small group of elite actors have enjoyed more flexibility in their attempts to maximise votes and remain ideologically broad. Parties tha…
The Germanbundestagelection of September 2005
Between a rock and many Hard Places
It is now widely recognised that unification has led to an increased regionalisation of party politics in the Federal Republic. On the one hand a significant number of decision-making competencies within parties remain decentralised. On the other, regional party systems have become ever more differentiated both from each other and from that which exists at the national level. This article assesses to what extent there is any empirical evidence su…
Different Road Maps, Similar Paths? Social Democratic Politics in the UK and Germany
Parties that win elections – particularly if they win them frequently and convincingly – are never short of admirers. The recent successes of New Labour are a prime example of this. The German SPD initially showed considerable interest in New Labour's programmatic transformation but it was only a matter of months before it began to back away from much of the Blair-inspired ‘Neue Mitte’ agenda. This contribution analyses some of the reasons for th…
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
This article analyses the development of Left Party/PDS-SPD coalitions in the eastern German Länder. It develops an explanatory framework based on attempts to understand how red-green coalitions came into being in the 1990s. The article concludes that red-red coalitions emerge when four basic criteria are fulfilled: the SPD has few other viable potential coalition options and believes it can gain in strategic terms; the ideological distance betwe…
Politicizing migration
Centre-right parties have by and large been keen to mobilize support by adopting relatively restrictive approaches on immigration and multiculturalism. However, such mobilizing strategies carry a number of costs: centre-right parties risk losing support from more moderate supporters, and they may lose legitimacy by pursuing policies that conflict with more liberal approaches, or which prove difficult to deliver. This contribution develops a typol…
A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing or a Gift from Heaven? Left–Left Coalitions in Comparative Perspective
Communist, post-Communist and radical socialist political parties have recently been brought into the coalition equation in a number of democratic states. This article seeks to develop and apply an analytical framework suitable for understanding under what conditions this occurs. It concentrates primarily on coalition formation at the sub-state level between social democratic parties and competitors to their ideological left. The framework is app…
A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany
The (eastern) German Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) survived for 15 years post-unification as a de facto regionalist party. During this time its attempt to expand its electoral base into western Germany largely failed and it found itself forced to act as a regionalist party in denial. Events in 2002–05 changed this position fundamentally. This contribution analyses, first, how the PDS survived as a regionalist party pre-2002. It then outline…
Understanding Post-Devolution Elections in Scotland and Wales in Comparative Perspective
In this article, we explore the electoral dynamics of multi-level political systems for the case of the United Kingdom (Scotland and Wales) through a comparison with multi-level voting behaviour in Germany, Spain and Canada. The analysis suggests that sub-state elections can be `second order' in relation to state-wide elections, but that this `second orderness' is reduced when more powers are decentralized to the sub-state level (and, thus, more …
Populism Personified or Reinvigorated Reformers? The German Left Party in 2009 and Beyond
Despite its recent electoral successes, the Left Party's position in the German party system is more fragile that it may at first appear. The Left Party gained support in 2005 largely on account of dissatisfaction with other parties and not because masses of voters were flocking to its (nominally socialist) cause. Not even a majority from within its own supporter base thought it possessed "significant problem solving competences." Rather, much of…
Towards an Analytical Framework for Party Mergers
The theoretical literature on party mergers is thin. This article draws upon organisational behaviour research to create an analytical framework that is suitable for explaining the processes inherent in party mergers. The authors operationalise this framework by examining two cases of party merger: in Germany, between the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and the Electoral Alternative for Labour and Social Justice (WASG) in 2006/07, and in the …
Political Opposition in the Era of the Grand Coalition (2005–09)
Political parties in opposition have a number of possible strategies open to them. They may look to act as policy pushers, stressing the government's apparent neglect of a set of core issues that they hold dear. They may act as strategic opponents, opposing the government's agenda wherever possible, but not opposing the system within which it is embedded. Alternatively, they may choose to be a more obstructionist force, attempting to both delegit…
Germany at 60
To say that Germany’s political and socio-economic development since 1945 has been successful is a statement of the obvious. Whilst defining ‘success’ can, to use the old adage, frequently be like trying to nail a blancmange to a wall, there can be little doubt that the term is apt in this case. The German social market economy remains, despite the buffeting that the world economy has taken during the recent global recession, remarkably resilient…
Breaking the Mould
Small but Perfectly Formed? The Rise and Rise of Germany's Smaller Parties
This article analyses the reasons for the rise and stabilisation of the Free Democrats, the Greens and the Left Party as long-term actors in the German party system. It explains why they have become more electorally relevant in recent years and also analyses what effect this is having on the dynamics of everyday political life in Germany. It analyses the bases of their support as well as their future prospects, before concluding with a discussion…
Regionalist Parties and the Mobilization of Territorial Difference in Germany
Analysis of political regionalism and regionalist parties has traditionally neglected the case of Germany. We argue that this is a curious ommission. This article looks to redress this balance by applying frameworks created for understanding the determinants of regionalist party success to the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and the eastern Germany Party of Democratic Socialism (1990–2005, PDS). Although very different in terms of their pol…
Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Governance
By exploring the anti-corruption strategies in six countries, this book is the first detailed, cross-national analysis on techniques to address corruption. It highlights the importance of understandin
Not Much Ado About Quite a Lot? The German Election of September 2013
The German election of 22 September 2013 saw Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU return triumphantly to office. \nMerkel’s party won as she is widely admired and, most importantly, she is widely trusted to lead \nGermany through potentially challenging times. So, all much as was. Yet beneath the surface the tectonic \nplates of German party politics are shifting. The Social Democrats appear to be stuck in an electoral trough, whilst the number of politically…
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