Olga Shvetsova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1323964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Shvetsova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Shvetsova |
| SIGNATURE | SHVETSOVA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7302-7197 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 647 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Federal Institutions and Strategic Policy Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay examines the policy response of the federal and regional governments in federations to the COVID-19 crisis. We theorize that the COVID-19 policy response in federations is an outcome of strategic interaction among the federal and regional incumbents in the shadow of their varying accountability for health and the repercussions from the disruptive consequences of public health measures. Using the data from the COVID-19 Public Health Pro…
Covid-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments
We examine the roles of sub-national and national governments in Canada and the United States vis-à-vis the protective public health response in the onset phase of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This period was characterized in both countries by incomplete information as well as by uncertainty regarding which level of government should be responsible for which policies. The crisis represents an opportunity to study how n…
Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems
This paper investigates the quest for legitimacy conducted by hereditary, traditional leaders in dual legitimacy systems. We theorise that traditional leaders engage in meta-constitutional bargaining, i.e. bargaining among constitutionally and traditionally defined actors within the meta-constitutional space. This process resembles constitutional bargaining in federations over the institutional balance between the members and centre, and among me…
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Change in parliamentary party systems and policy outcomes: Hunting the core
This paper shows that change in party systems within parliaments can lead to major change in policy outcomes. Specifically, we show that policy mobility of parties and fluidity in their parliamentary membership can generate or upset the existence of the policy core as well as determine its location. Our analysis applies to the general case of a multiparty parliament. We then follow up with empirical illustrations that conform to the major types o…
The Microfoundations of Party System Stability in Legislatures
What sustains stability in legislative party systems between elections? This question commands attention given the potential for change highlighted in recent work on legislative party switching. In addressing the question, this article echoes a prominent theme in research on legislatures, parties, and party systems: the importance of the party label. The novelty here is the treatment of the individual legislator's need for manifest loyalty to the…
Applying the Methodology of Mechanism Design To the Choice of Electoral Systems
In this article we inquire into the strategic intent behind the design of election laws. Presuming that institutional designers are strategic and rational, we identify the extent of information incompleteness as determining their objectives for rule choice. For different levels of information incompleteness, we assess empirically the validity of explaining actual choices with designers' electoral goals. Using parameter-specific predictions for pl…
Parliamentary Cycles and Party Switching in Legislatures
This article examines politicians' changes of party labels during the life of a legislature. The authors view a legislator's choice of party as a strategic decision recurring throughout the parliamentary cycle. In their approach, individuals are open to switching parties as they pursue goals specific to the stage in the parliamentary cycle. Analyzing Italy and Russia, they identify among legislators in both countries patterns of heightened switch…
A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors and The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation
A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors. By James Adams, Samuel Merill, III, and Bernard Grofman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 311p. $70.00 cloth, $28.99 paper. The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation. By Sona Nadenichek Golder. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2006. 209p. $49.95. A Unified Theory of Party Competition “integrates the perspectives o…
Does Federalism Really Matter
Six Books in Search of a Subject or Federalism Exist and It Matter?.'1 As the title suggests, the conclusions of the review were not very kind to the field of comparative federalism. Riker, in fact, questioned the very existence of itself by stating that federalism is no more than a constitutional legal fiction which can be given whatever content seems appropriate at the moment.2 When it came to whether or not mattered, he was equally harsh. Does…
Mass-Elite Equilibrium of Federal Constitutional Legitimacy
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions
Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable alternatives with different distributive consequences, the desire of federation members to change institutional specifics in their favor is a permanent feature of the federal political process. This is so for two reasons. First, states or their equivalents in democratic federations usually can succeed in renegotiating the rules if they feel sufficiently mot…
Endogenous Selection of Institutions and Their Exogenous Effects
Gaining Legislative Control Through Strategic District Nomination: The Case of the Russian Left in 1995
Gaining Legislative Control Through Strategic District Nomination: The Case of the Russian Left in 1995
The greater the importance of the legislative goals for a party, the more it will concern itself in the electoral campaign with the parliament's ultimate composition, rather than simply its own seat gains. While unquestionably the dominant force in the political left, the Communist Party in Russia was also uniquely positioned in the 1995 election to take advantage of the combination of electoral and parliamentary institutions and to devise a nomi…
Heresthetical Maneuvering on the US Supreme Court
Can an apparent loser snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat? This question occupied the attention of the late William H. Riker during the last ten years of his career, and it is one that he answered in the affirmative: By constructing choice situations in order to manipulate outcomes, losers can become winners, and vice versa. Riker even coined a term, ‘heresthetics’, to describe this ‘art of political manipulation’. But is Riker’s rather larg…
Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia
Journal Article Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia Get access Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia by Robert G. Moser. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh University Press, 2001. 191 pp. Paper, $19.95. Olga Shvetsova Olga Shvetsova Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vol…
The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government
What role do courts play in the establishment and maintenance of constitutional democracies? To address this question, we elaborate a model that draws on existing substantive literature and on theories that assume strategic behavior on the part of judges, executives, and legislatures. This model, in turn, leads to several behavioral predictions about the interactions among the relevant political actors. Although those predictions could be assesse…
Party Fragmentation and Presidential Elections in Post-Communist Democracies
Asymmetric bilateral bargaining in the new Russian Federation: A path-dependence explanation
In this essay we identify economic and political factors that led both the federal centre and the regions in Russia first to open the process of federal bargaining and then to pursue it in the form of signing bilateral treaties, unique for each region. Many Russian politicians and most scholars of Russian politics view asymmetric bilateral bargaining as a dangerous institutional choice contributing to federal instability and potentially threateni…
A survey of post-communist electoral institutions: 1990-1998
Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems
Journal Article Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems Get access Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems by Gary W. Cox. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 340 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $18.95. Olga Shvetsova Olga Shvetsova Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4…
Federalism and Constitutional Design
Federalism and Constitutional Design Peter C. Ordeshook (bio) and Olga Shvetsova (bio) The United States is the classic exemplar of federal democracy, but it had the good fortune to be born with many of the essential components of a fully functioning democracy already in place. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1831 that the "constitution of the United States is an admirable work, nevertheless one may believe that its founders would not have succeed…
If Hamilton and Madison were merely lucky, what hope is there for Russian federalism
Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties
Recent events leading to the importation of democratic ideas and ideals by previously totalitarian states increase our interest in the ways in which electoral institutions influence party systems. However, even if we restrict our attention to Eastern Europe or the successor states of the Soviet empire, we encounter a range of social diversity – ethnic heterogeneity - that is as great as those in the set of countries examined in earlier studies th…
Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties
Recent events leading to the importation of democratic ideas and ideals by previously totalitarian states increase our interest in the ways in which electoral institutions influence party systems. However, even if we restrict our attention to Eastern Europe or the successor states of the Soviet empire, we encounter a range of social diversity – ethnic heterogeneity - that is as great as those in the set of countries examined in earlier studies th…
The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government
What role do courts play in the establishment and maintenance of constitutional democracies? To address this question, we elaborate a model that draws on existing substantive literature and on theories that assume strategic behavior on the part of judges, executives, and legislatures. This model, in turn, leads to several behavioral predictions about the interactions among the relevant political actors. Although those predictions could be assesse…
Federalism and Constitutional Design
Federalism and Constitutional Design Peter C. Ordeshook (bio) and Olga Shvetsova (bio) The United States is the classic exemplar of federal democracy, but it had the good fortune to be born with many of the essential components of a fully functioning democracy already in place. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1831 that the "constitution of the United States is an admirable work, nevertheless one may believe that its founders would not have succeed…
Parliamentary Cycles and Party Switching in Legislatures
This article examines politicians' changes of party labels during the life of a legislature. The authors view a legislator's choice of party as a strategic decision recurring throughout the parliamentary cycle. In their approach, individuals are open to switching parties as they pursue goals specific to the stage in the parliamentary cycle. Analyzing Italy and Russia, they identify among legislators in both countries patterns of heightened switch…
Endogenous Selection of Institutions and Their Exogenous Effects
Party Fragmentation and Presidential Elections in Post-Communist Democracies
A survey of post-communist electoral institutions: 1990-1998
The Microfoundations of Party System Stability in Legislatures
What sustains stability in legislative party systems between elections? This question commands attention given the potential for change highlighted in recent work on legislative party switching. In addressing the question, this article echoes a prominent theme in research on legislatures, parties, and party systems: the importance of the party label. The novelty here is the treatment of the individual legislator's need for manifest loyalty to the…
Does Federalism Really Matter
Six Books in Search of a Subject or Federalism Exist and It Matter?.'1 As the title suggests, the conclusions of the review were not very kind to the field of comparative federalism. Riker, in fact, questioned the very existence of itself by stating that federalism is no more than a constitutional legal fiction which can be given whatever content seems appropriate at the moment.2 When it came to whether or not mattered, he was equally harsh. Does…
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions
Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable alternatives with different distributive consequences, the desire of federation members to change institutional specifics in their favor is a permanent feature of the federal political process. This is so for two reasons. First, states or their equivalents in democratic federations usually can succeed in renegotiating the rules if they feel sufficiently mot…
Covid-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments
We examine the roles of sub-national and national governments in Canada and the United States vis-à-vis the protective public health response in the onset phase of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This period was characterized in both countries by incomplete information as well as by uncertainty regarding which level of government should be responsible for which policies. The crisis represents an opportunity to study how n…
Heresthetical Maneuvering on the US Supreme Court
Can an apparent loser snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat? This question occupied the attention of the late William H. Riker during the last ten years of his career, and it is one that he answered in the affirmative: By constructing choice situations in order to manipulate outcomes, losers can become winners, and vice versa. Riker even coined a term, ‘heresthetics’, to describe this ‘art of political manipulation’. But is Riker’s rather larg…
Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems
Journal Article Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems Get access Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems by Gary W. Cox. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 340 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $18.95. Olga Shvetsova Olga Shvetsova Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4…
If Hamilton and Madison were merely lucky, what hope is there for Russian federalism
Change in parliamentary party systems and policy outcomes: Hunting the core
This paper shows that change in party systems within parliaments can lead to major change in policy outcomes. Specifically, we show that policy mobility of parties and fluidity in their parliamentary membership can generate or upset the existence of the policy core as well as determine its location. Our analysis applies to the general case of a multiparty parliament. We then follow up with empirical illustrations that conform to the major types o…
Asymmetric bilateral bargaining in the new Russian Federation: A path-dependence explanation
In this essay we identify economic and political factors that led both the federal centre and the regions in Russia first to open the process of federal bargaining and then to pursue it in the form of signing bilateral treaties, unique for each region. Many Russian politicians and most scholars of Russian politics view asymmetric bilateral bargaining as a dangerous institutional choice contributing to federal instability and potentially threateni…
Gaining Legislative Control Through Strategic District Nomination: The Case of the Russian Left in 1995
The greater the importance of the legislative goals for a party, the more it will concern itself in the electoral campaign with the parliament's ultimate composition, rather than simply its own seat gains. While unquestionably the dominant force in the political left, the Communist Party in Russia was also uniquely positioned in the 1995 election to take advantage of the combination of electoral and parliamentary institutions and to devise a nomi…
Federal Institutions and Strategic Policy Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay examines the policy response of the federal and regional governments in federations to the COVID-19 crisis. We theorize that the COVID-19 policy response in federations is an outcome of strategic interaction among the federal and regional incumbents in the shadow of their varying accountability for health and the repercussions from the disruptive consequences of public health measures. Using the data from the COVID-19 Public Health Pro…
Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems
This paper investigates the quest for legitimacy conducted by hereditary, traditional leaders in dual legitimacy systems. We theorise that traditional leaders engage in meta-constitutional bargaining, i.e. bargaining among constitutionally and traditionally defined actors within the meta-constitutional space. This process resembles constitutional bargaining in federations over the institutional balance between the members and centre, and among me…
Mass-Elite Equilibrium of Federal Constitutional Legitimacy
Applying the Methodology of Mechanism Design To the Choice of Electoral Systems
In this article we inquire into the strategic intent behind the design of election laws. Presuming that institutional designers are strategic and rational, we identify the extent of information incompleteness as determining their objectives for rule choice. For different levels of information incompleteness, we assess empirically the validity of explaining actual choices with designers' electoral goals. Using parameter-specific predictions for pl…
Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia
Journal Article Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia Get access Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia by Robert G. Moser. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh University Press, 2001. 191 pp. Paper, $19.95. Olga Shvetsova Olga Shvetsova Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vol…
Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties
Recent events leading to the importation of democratic ideas and ideals by previously totalitarian states increase our interest in the ways in which electoral institutions influence party systems. However, even if we restrict our attention to Eastern Europe or the successor states of the Soviet empire, we encounter a range of social diversity – ethnic heterogeneity - that is as great as those in the set of countries examined in earlier studies th…
If Hamilton and Madison were merely lucky, what hope is there for Russian federalism
Federalism and Constitutional Design
Federalism and Constitutional Design Peter C. Ordeshook (bio) and Olga Shvetsova (bio) The United States is the classic exemplar of federal democracy, but it had the good fortune to be born with many of the essential components of a fully functioning democracy already in place. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1831 that the "constitution of the United States is an admirable work, nevertheless one may believe that its founders would not have succeed…
Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems
Journal Article Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems Get access Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems by Gary W. Cox. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 340 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $18.95. Olga Shvetsova Olga Shvetsova Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4…
Party Fragmentation and Presidential Elections in Post-Communist Democracies
Asymmetric bilateral bargaining in the new Russian Federation: A path-dependence explanation
In this essay we identify economic and political factors that led both the federal centre and the regions in Russia first to open the process of federal bargaining and then to pursue it in the form of signing bilateral treaties, unique for each region. Many Russian politicians and most scholars of Russian politics view asymmetric bilateral bargaining as a dangerous institutional choice contributing to federal instability and potentially threateni…
A survey of post-communist electoral institutions: 1990-1998
Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia
Journal Article Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia Get access Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia by Robert G. Moser. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh University Press, 2001. 191 pp. Paper, $19.95. Olga Shvetsova Olga Shvetsova Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vol…
The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government
What role do courts play in the establishment and maintenance of constitutional democracies? To address this question, we elaborate a model that draws on existing substantive literature and on theories that assume strategic behavior on the part of judges, executives, and legislatures. This model, in turn, leads to several behavioral predictions about the interactions among the relevant political actors. Although those predictions could be assesse…
Gaining Legislative Control Through Strategic District Nomination: The Case of the Russian Left in 1995
Gaining Legislative Control Through Strategic District Nomination: The Case of the Russian Left in 1995
The greater the importance of the legislative goals for a party, the more it will concern itself in the electoral campaign with the parliament's ultimate composition, rather than simply its own seat gains. While unquestionably the dominant force in the political left, the Communist Party in Russia was also uniquely positioned in the 1995 election to take advantage of the combination of electoral and parliamentary institutions and to devise a nomi…
Heresthetical Maneuvering on the US Supreme Court
Can an apparent loser snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat? This question occupied the attention of the late William H. Riker during the last ten years of his career, and it is one that he answered in the affirmative: By constructing choice situations in order to manipulate outcomes, losers can become winners, and vice versa. Riker even coined a term, ‘heresthetics’, to describe this ‘art of political manipulation’. But is Riker’s rather larg…
Endogenous Selection of Institutions and Their Exogenous Effects
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions
Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable alternatives with different distributive consequences, the desire of federation members to change institutional specifics in their favor is a permanent feature of the federal political process. This is so for two reasons. First, states or their equivalents in democratic federations usually can succeed in renegotiating the rules if they feel sufficiently mot…
Mass-Elite Equilibrium of Federal Constitutional Legitimacy
Does Federalism Really Matter
Six Books in Search of a Subject or Federalism Exist and It Matter?.'1 As the title suggests, the conclusions of the review were not very kind to the field of comparative federalism. Riker, in fact, questioned the very existence of itself by stating that federalism is no more than a constitutional legal fiction which can be given whatever content seems appropriate at the moment.2 When it came to whether or not mattered, he was equally harsh. Does…
A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors and The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation
A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors. By James Adams, Samuel Merill, III, and Bernard Grofman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 311p. $70.00 cloth, $28.99 paper. The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation. By Sona Nadenichek Golder. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2006. 209p. $49.95. A Unified Theory of Party Competition “integrates the perspectives o…
Applying the Methodology of Mechanism Design To the Choice of Electoral Systems
In this article we inquire into the strategic intent behind the design of election laws. Presuming that institutional designers are strategic and rational, we identify the extent of information incompleteness as determining their objectives for rule choice. For different levels of information incompleteness, we assess empirically the validity of explaining actual choices with designers' electoral goals. Using parameter-specific predictions for pl…
Parliamentary Cycles and Party Switching in Legislatures
This article examines politicians' changes of party labels during the life of a legislature. The authors view a legislator's choice of party as a strategic decision recurring throughout the parliamentary cycle. In their approach, individuals are open to switching parties as they pursue goals specific to the stage in the parliamentary cycle. Analyzing Italy and Russia, they identify among legislators in both countries patterns of heightened switch…
The Microfoundations of Party System Stability in Legislatures
What sustains stability in legislative party systems between elections? This question commands attention given the potential for change highlighted in recent work on legislative party switching. In addressing the question, this article echoes a prominent theme in research on legislatures, parties, and party systems: the importance of the party label. The novelty here is the treatment of the individual legislator's need for manifest loyalty to the…
Promotions
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Change in parliamentary party systems and policy outcomes: Hunting the core
This paper shows that change in party systems within parliaments can lead to major change in policy outcomes. Specifically, we show that policy mobility of parties and fluidity in their parliamentary membership can generate or upset the existence of the policy core as well as determine its location. Our analysis applies to the general case of a multiparty parliament. We then follow up with empirical illustrations that conform to the major types o…
Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems
This paper investigates the quest for legitimacy conducted by hereditary, traditional leaders in dual legitimacy systems. We theorise that traditional leaders engage in meta-constitutional bargaining, i.e. bargaining among constitutionally and traditionally defined actors within the meta-constitutional space. This process resembles constitutional bargaining in federations over the institutional balance between the members and centre, and among me…
Covid-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments
We examine the roles of sub-national and national governments in Canada and the United States vis-à-vis the protective public health response in the onset phase of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This period was characterized in both countries by incomplete information as well as by uncertainty regarding which level of government should be responsible for which policies. The crisis represents an opportunity to study how n…
Federal Institutions and Strategic Policy Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay examines the policy response of the federal and regional governments in federations to the COVID-19 crisis. We theorize that the COVID-19 policy response in federations is an outcome of strategic interaction among the federal and regional incumbents in the shadow of their varying accountability for health and the repercussions from the disruptive consequences of public health measures. Using the data from the COVID-19 Public Health Pro…
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