Carolyn M Warner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1608698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn M Warner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn M |
| FAMILY NAME | Warner |
| SIGNATURE | WARNER C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9170-6372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military
Many care‐ethics scholars argue that care and justice should harmonize. While agreeing in general, we argue for a hard limit on justice in some instances. For example, we find evidence to support limiting justice in favor of care in the US military's restricted reporting policy in cases of sexual assault. This policy allows victims to receive medical treatment without initiating a criminal investigation. Moreover, the article finds additional evi…
The socioeconomic matrix of support for sharia: A cross-national study of Muslims’ attitudes
What explains the variation in support for the implementation of formal religious laws in societies? To address the question, we analyse the socioeconomic bases of support for sharia, Islamic law. Our findings suggest that there is a negative correlation between the state’s ability to provide social order and welfare, and support for sharia across social strata. A state with low capacity is associated with high support for sharia among the lowest…
Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality
Social science answers to the essential question of group conflict have focused on two main explanations—their motivating “grievances” and their mobilization “capacity” for collective action. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on grievances in the form of horizontal inequalities (between-group inequality), but the important conceptual and potential empirical differences between horizontal inequality and relative deprivation have not yet been …
Benevolent Secularism and the Recalibration of Church-State Relations in Ireland in the Aftermath of the Clergy Child Sex Abuse Scandals
In 2011, the Irish prime minister (taoiseach), Enda Kenny, gave a speech that made international headlines. He accused the Vatican of frustrating a civil inquiry into child sex abuse in Ireland, a sovereign, democratic republic and using the “gimlet-eye of a canon lawyer” to parse its responses, rather than to apologize and to prioritize the safety of children. He criticized the “dysfunction, disconnection, elitism and narcissism” of the Vatican.…
The Role of Military Law and Systemic Issues in the Military's Handling of Sexual Assault Cases
Allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment by prominent entertainment and media figures and politicians in the United States have brought renewed attention to a political debate that earlier had been focused on universities and the military: the apparent failure of institutions to address and punish cases of sexual assault by their members. In light of this debate, we consider how cases fare in an institution that is perennially accused …
The Politics of Sex Abuse in Sacred Hierarchies: A Comparative Study of the Catholic Church and the Military in the United States
The paper explores similarities in patterns of abuse and in patterns of how the known abuse cases are handled by the Catholic church and the U.S. military and develops preliminary explanations of why. The paper considers how the two organizations deal with external efforts by civil authorities at oversight and prosecution, and the extent to which they invoke their sacred status authority to evade responsibility and civilian oversight. The paper f…
Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam: Beliefs, Institutions, and Public Goods Provision
Using an innovative methodological approach combining field experiments, case studies, and statistical analyzes, this book explores how the religious beliefs and institutions of Catholics and Muslims prompt them to be generous with their time and resources. Drawing upon research involving more than 1,000 Catholics and Muslims in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, the authors examine Catholicism and Islam in majority and minority contexts, discer…
Religion and Public Goods Provision: Experimental and Interview Evidence from Catholicism and Islam in Europe
Micro-Foundations of Religion and Public Goods Provision: Belief, Belonging, and Giving in Catholicism and Islam
While debates continue about the relationship between state-provided social welfare and religious charities, and whether organized religions are more capable of providing social welfare than is the public sector, less attention has focused on the question of what motivates religious adherents to contribute to the charitable work of their religions. In this article, we examine how adherents of Catholicism and Islam understand their generosity and …
Christian Democracy in Italy: An alternative path to religious party moderation
This article argues that historical context can be a strong force for the origins of an ideologically and behaviourally moderate religious political party. It explores the origins of Italian Christian Democracy, following the trajectory of the Partito Popolare Italiano and Democrazia Cristiana in order to highlight a path to religious party moderation that excludes extremism and violence at all stages. That path includes the development of a mode…
Charitable Giving Model or Muddle
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarolyn M. Warner is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University. Her research areas are religion and politics, and the political economy of corruption in the European Union. She has done extensive research on the Catholic Church and on Islam in Europe. Her book, The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union, was published with…
The Danish Cartoon Controversy and the Challenges of Multicultural Politics: A Discussion of The Cartoons That Shook the World
Jytte Klausen's The Cartoons That Shook the World offers an interesting political science account of the Danish cartoon controversy and of a broader set of tensions between multiculturalism, civility, and freedom of expression. The book is also a fascinating case study of how political science can itself become the object of dispute, due to Yale University Press' decision to publish the book without any reproductions of the controversial cartoons…
Thinking about the Role of Religion in Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis
Journal Article Thinking about the Role of Religion in Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis Get access Carolyn M. Warner, Carolyn M. Warner Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen G. Walker Stephen G. Walker Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 113–135, h…
Democracy, Security, and Religious Political Parties: A Framework for Analysis
This article analyzes the effects of democracy on religious political parties. Using a comparative and cross-regional approach, we argue that religious political parties in democracies can be “tamed” with access to patronage, power, and policy. While democracy tends to have a moderating influence, we identify the conditions and circumstances under which extremism may not be quelled merely by the party's participation in the government. The articl…
Religious Parties in a Secularizing Political Space: The Case of Italy
The Christian democratic parties in Italy from the end of World War II to 2006 show that while the popularity of religious political parties may diminish due to fewer religious voters, if political institutions facilitate the participation of small parties in government then religious parties can survive, albeit in reduced size. Their political influence may be greater than suggested by their size if they can be a deciding element in a governing …
Democracy, the Rational Patron, and the Rational Client
Journal Article Democracy, the Rational Patron, and the Rational Client Get access Patrons, Clients, and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition. Edited by Kitschelt Herbert Wilkinson Steven I.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 390 pp., $96.00 cloth (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-86505-0), $37.99 paper (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-69004-1). Carolyn M. Warner Carolyn M. Warner Department of Political Science, Arizona State U…
The best system money can buy: Corruption in the European Union
As the European Union moved in the 1990s to a unified market and stronger common institutions, most observers assumed that the changes would reduce corruption. Aspects of the stronger EU promised to preclude - or at least reduce - malfeasance: regulatory harmonization, freer trade, and privatization of publicly owned enterprises. Market efficiencies would render corrupt practices more visible and less common." "In The Best System Money Can But, C…
Religion and the Political Organization of Muslims in Europe
Some analysts have raised serious concerns about the foreign and domestic policy implications of the large numbers of Muslims living in Western Europe. The fear is that Muslims as a bloc will co-opt the domestic and foreign policy of various European states, subsuming it to those of Muslims from a variety of Islamic states in the Middle East and Asia, and transform the secular nature of most European states. The historic and ingrained fear of Isl…
Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide
Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. By Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 348p. $70.00 cloth, $24.99 paper. Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart tackle two pressing empirical and theoretical questions about religion and politics: Why have most wealthy countries become less religious, and why have most poor countries become more religious? Their answer will be no surprise to those who have …
Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation: The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective
This 2001 book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the 'supply-side' - the institutional context in which party leaders devise and implement their political strategies - and the 'demand-side' - the degree of 'empowerme…
The rise of the state system in Africa
Africa's relation to the concept and practice of ‘state’ and ‘states system’ has been problematic since its first encounters with those who were armed with the concept. In observing the collapse of authority and governance in a number of African states, some scholars have suggested that Africa presented the states system with alternative political organizations. Others argue that so long as there is a kernel of armed authority in territorially de…
Confessions of an Interest Group: The Catholic Church and Political Parties in Europe
Following World War II, the Catholic Church in Europe faced the challenge of establishing political influence with newly emerging democratic governments. The Church became, as Carolyn Warner pointedly argues, an interest group like any other, seeking to attain and solidify its influence by forming alliances with political parties. The author analyzes the Church's differing strategies in Italy, France, and Germany using microeconomic theories of t…
A Reply to A.G. Hopkins
The political scientist who relies upon historiographic sources to propose and test hypotheses runs the risk of riling up not only her peers in the discipline, but also the historians upon whose work she must rely to provide the materials for these hypotheses. It was intellectually satisfying and stimulating to learn that my work has been read not only by scholars in ‘my’ discipline, but also by those in the discipline which made my own analysis …
The Political Economy of 'quasi-statehood' and the demise of 19th century African politics
This article challenges two prevailing views of the failure by African polities to attain sovereign statehood in the late 19th century by providing evidence from two case studies showing that many African polities were not 'quasi-states,' lacking the empirical political and economic capacity to join the international community of sovereign states. Nor were they unable to sustain or promote international commerce. Instead, when heightened internat…
Sovereign states and their prey: The new institutionalist economics and state destruction in nineteenth-century West Africa
This article examines the economics of institutions approach which purports to explain the rise of sovereign territorial states as the prevalent unit in the international system. According to this institutional analysis, sovereign territorial states emerged as the dominant unit because they were more efficient than other political arrangements in the international system. This argument frames the failure of most non-western policies to become sov…
Religion and the Political Organization of Muslims in Europe
Some analysts have raised serious concerns about the foreign and domestic policy implications of the large numbers of Muslims living in Western Europe. The fear is that Muslims as a bloc will co-opt the domestic and foreign policy of various European states, subsuming it to those of Muslims from a variety of Islamic states in the Middle East and Asia, and transform the secular nature of most European states. The historic and ingrained fear of Isl…
Thinking about the Role of Religion in Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis
Journal Article Thinking about the Role of Religion in Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis Get access Carolyn M. Warner, Carolyn M. Warner Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen G. Walker Stephen G. Walker Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 113–135, h…
Political Parties and the Opportunity Costs of Patronage
Analyses of patronage and political parties often start from the assumption that patronage is a vote-winning and useful organizational strategy for a political party. This paper questions this assumption and suggests that, for the political party using it, patronage exacts a variety of costs. These undermine the party's existence as an organization with a collective purpose, and even its vote-winning capacities. Examples from a number of differen…
Religion and Public Goods Provision: Experimental and Interview Evidence from Catholicism and Islam in Europe
Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality
Social science answers to the essential question of group conflict have focused on two main explanations—their motivating “grievances” and their mobilization “capacity” for collective action. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on grievances in the form of horizontal inequalities (between-group inequality), but the important conceptual and potential empirical differences between horizontal inequality and relative deprivation have not yet been …
Christian Democracy in Italy: An alternative path to religious party moderation
This article argues that historical context can be a strong force for the origins of an ideologically and behaviourally moderate religious political party. It explores the origins of Italian Christian Democracy, following the trajectory of the Partito Popolare Italiano and Democrazia Cristiana in order to highlight a path to religious party moderation that excludes extremism and violence at all stages. That path includes the development of a mode…
The rise of the state system in Africa
Africa's relation to the concept and practice of ‘state’ and ‘states system’ has been problematic since its first encounters with those who were armed with the concept. In observing the collapse of authority and governance in a number of African states, some scholars have suggested that Africa presented the states system with alternative political organizations. Others argue that so long as there is a kernel of armed authority in territorially de…
Democracy, Security, and Religious Political Parties: A Framework for Analysis
This article analyzes the effects of democracy on religious political parties. Using a comparative and cross-regional approach, we argue that religious political parties in democracies can be “tamed” with access to patronage, power, and policy. While democracy tends to have a moderating influence, we identify the conditions and circumstances under which extremism may not be quelled merely by the party's participation in the government. The articl…
The Role of Military Law and Systemic Issues in the Military's Handling of Sexual Assault Cases
Allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment by prominent entertainment and media figures and politicians in the United States have brought renewed attention to a political debate that earlier had been focused on universities and the military: the apparent failure of institutions to address and punish cases of sexual assault by their members. In light of this debate, we consider how cases fare in an institution that is perennially accused …
The Political Economy of 'quasi-statehood' and the demise of 19th century African politics
This article challenges two prevailing views of the failure by African polities to attain sovereign statehood in the late 19th century by providing evidence from two case studies showing that many African polities were not 'quasi-states,' lacking the empirical political and economic capacity to join the international community of sovereign states. Nor were they unable to sustain or promote international commerce. Instead, when heightened internat…
Micro-Foundations of Religion and Public Goods Provision: Belief, Belonging, and Giving in Catholicism and Islam
While debates continue about the relationship between state-provided social welfare and religious charities, and whether organized religions are more capable of providing social welfare than is the public sector, less attention has focused on the question of what motivates religious adherents to contribute to the charitable work of their religions. In this article, we examine how adherents of Catholicism and Islam understand their generosity and …
The socioeconomic matrix of support for sharia: A cross-national study of Muslims’ attitudes
What explains the variation in support for the implementation of formal religious laws in societies? To address the question, we analyse the socioeconomic bases of support for sharia, Islamic law. Our findings suggest that there is a negative correlation between the state’s ability to provide social order and welfare, and support for sharia across social strata. A state with low capacity is associated with high support for sharia among the lowest…
A Reply to A.G. Hopkins
The political scientist who relies upon historiographic sources to propose and test hypotheses runs the risk of riling up not only her peers in the discipline, but also the historians upon whose work she must rely to provide the materials for these hypotheses. It was intellectually satisfying and stimulating to learn that my work has been read not only by scholars in ‘my’ discipline, but also by those in the discipline which made my own analysis …
Sovereign states and their prey: The new institutionalist economics and state destruction in nineteenth-century West Africa
This article examines the economics of institutions approach which purports to explain the rise of sovereign territorial states as the prevalent unit in the international system. According to this institutional analysis, sovereign territorial states emerged as the dominant unit because they were more efficient than other political arrangements in the international system. This argument frames the failure of most non-western policies to become sov…
Benevolent Secularism and the Recalibration of Church-State Relations in Ireland in the Aftermath of the Clergy Child Sex Abuse Scandals
In 2011, the Irish prime minister (taoiseach), Enda Kenny, gave a speech that made international headlines. He accused the Vatican of frustrating a civil inquiry into child sex abuse in Ireland, a sovereign, democratic republic and using the “gimlet-eye of a canon lawyer” to parse its responses, rather than to apologize and to prioritize the safety of children. He criticized the “dysfunction, disconnection, elitism and narcissism” of the Vatican.…
The Politics of Sex Abuse in Sacred Hierarchies: A Comparative Study of the Catholic Church and the Military in the United States
The paper explores similarities in patterns of abuse and in patterns of how the known abuse cases are handled by the Catholic church and the U.S. military and develops preliminary explanations of why. The paper considers how the two organizations deal with external efforts by civil authorities at oversight and prosecution, and the extent to which they invoke their sacred status authority to evade responsibility and civilian oversight. The paper f…
Religious Parties in a Secularizing Political Space: The Case of Italy
The Christian democratic parties in Italy from the end of World War II to 2006 show that while the popularity of religious political parties may diminish due to fewer religious voters, if political institutions facilitate the participation of small parties in government then religious parties can survive, albeit in reduced size. Their political influence may be greater than suggested by their size if they can be a deciding element in a governing …
Structure and Irony in Social Revolutions
Structure and Irony in Social Revolutions
Political Parties and the Opportunity Costs of Patronage
Analyses of patronage and political parties often start from the assumption that patronage is a vote-winning and useful organizational strategy for a political party. This paper questions this assumption and suggests that, for the political party using it, patronage exacts a variety of costs. These undermine the party's existence as an organization with a collective purpose, and even its vote-winning capacities. Examples from a number of differen…
Sovereign states and their prey: The new institutionalist economics and state destruction in nineteenth-century West Africa
This article examines the economics of institutions approach which purports to explain the rise of sovereign territorial states as the prevalent unit in the international system. According to this institutional analysis, sovereign territorial states emerged as the dominant unit because they were more efficient than other political arrangements in the international system. This argument frames the failure of most non-western policies to become sov…
The Political Economy of 'quasi-statehood' and the demise of 19th century African politics
This article challenges two prevailing views of the failure by African polities to attain sovereign statehood in the late 19th century by providing evidence from two case studies showing that many African polities were not 'quasi-states,' lacking the empirical political and economic capacity to join the international community of sovereign states. Nor were they unable to sustain or promote international commerce. Instead, when heightened internat…
Confessions of an Interest Group: The Catholic Church and Political Parties in Europe
Following World War II, the Catholic Church in Europe faced the challenge of establishing political influence with newly emerging democratic governments. The Church became, as Carolyn Warner pointedly argues, an interest group like any other, seeking to attain and solidify its influence by forming alliances with political parties. The author analyzes the Church's differing strategies in Italy, France, and Germany using microeconomic theories of t…
A Reply to A.G. Hopkins
The political scientist who relies upon historiographic sources to propose and test hypotheses runs the risk of riling up not only her peers in the discipline, but also the historians upon whose work she must rely to provide the materials for these hypotheses. It was intellectually satisfying and stimulating to learn that my work has been read not only by scholars in ‘my’ discipline, but also by those in the discipline which made my own analysis …
Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation: The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective
This 2001 book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the 'supply-side' - the institutional context in which party leaders devise and implement their political strategies - and the 'demand-side' - the degree of 'empowerme…
The rise of the state system in Africa
Africa's relation to the concept and practice of ‘state’ and ‘states system’ has been problematic since its first encounters with those who were armed with the concept. In observing the collapse of authority and governance in a number of African states, some scholars have suggested that Africa presented the states system with alternative political organizations. Others argue that so long as there is a kernel of armed authority in territorially de…
Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide
Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. By Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 348p. $70.00 cloth, $24.99 paper. Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart tackle two pressing empirical and theoretical questions about religion and politics: Why have most wealthy countries become less religious, and why have most poor countries become more religious? Their answer will be no surprise to those who have …
Religion and the Political Organization of Muslims in Europe
Some analysts have raised serious concerns about the foreign and domestic policy implications of the large numbers of Muslims living in Western Europe. The fear is that Muslims as a bloc will co-opt the domestic and foreign policy of various European states, subsuming it to those of Muslims from a variety of Islamic states in the Middle East and Asia, and transform the secular nature of most European states. The historic and ingrained fear of Isl…
The best system money can buy: Corruption in the European Union
As the European Union moved in the 1990s to a unified market and stronger common institutions, most observers assumed that the changes would reduce corruption. Aspects of the stronger EU promised to preclude - or at least reduce - malfeasance: regulatory harmonization, freer trade, and privatization of publicly owned enterprises. Market efficiencies would render corrupt practices more visible and less common." "In The Best System Money Can But, C…
Democracy, Security, and Religious Political Parties: A Framework for Analysis
This article analyzes the effects of democracy on religious political parties. Using a comparative and cross-regional approach, we argue that religious political parties in democracies can be “tamed” with access to patronage, power, and policy. While democracy tends to have a moderating influence, we identify the conditions and circumstances under which extremism may not be quelled merely by the party's participation in the government. The articl…
Religious Parties in a Secularizing Political Space: The Case of Italy
The Christian democratic parties in Italy from the end of World War II to 2006 show that while the popularity of religious political parties may diminish due to fewer religious voters, if political institutions facilitate the participation of small parties in government then religious parties can survive, albeit in reduced size. Their political influence may be greater than suggested by their size if they can be a deciding element in a governing …
Democracy, the Rational Patron, and the Rational Client
Journal Article Democracy, the Rational Patron, and the Rational Client Get access Patrons, Clients, and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition. Edited by Kitschelt Herbert Wilkinson Steven I.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 390 pp., $96.00 cloth (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-86505-0), $37.99 paper (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-69004-1). Carolyn M. Warner Carolyn M. Warner Department of Political Science, Arizona State U…
Thinking about the Role of Religion in Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis
Journal Article Thinking about the Role of Religion in Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis Get access Carolyn M. Warner, Carolyn M. Warner Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen G. Walker Stephen G. Walker Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 113–135, h…
The Danish Cartoon Controversy and the Challenges of Multicultural Politics: A Discussion of The Cartoons That Shook the World
Jytte Klausen's The Cartoons That Shook the World offers an interesting political science account of the Danish cartoon controversy and of a broader set of tensions between multiculturalism, civility, and freedom of expression. The book is also a fascinating case study of how political science can itself become the object of dispute, due to Yale University Press' decision to publish the book without any reproductions of the controversial cartoons…
Christian Democracy in Italy: An alternative path to religious party moderation
This article argues that historical context can be a strong force for the origins of an ideologically and behaviourally moderate religious political party. It explores the origins of Italian Christian Democracy, following the trajectory of the Partito Popolare Italiano and Democrazia Cristiana in order to highlight a path to religious party moderation that excludes extremism and violence at all stages. That path includes the development of a mode…
Charitable Giving Model or Muddle
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarolyn M. Warner is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University. Her research areas are religion and politics, and the political economy of corruption in the European Union. She has done extensive research on the Catholic Church and on Islam in Europe. Her book, The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union, was published with…
Religion and Public Goods Provision: Experimental and Interview Evidence from Catholicism and Islam in Europe
Micro-Foundations of Religion and Public Goods Provision: Belief, Belonging, and Giving in Catholicism and Islam
While debates continue about the relationship between state-provided social welfare and religious charities, and whether organized religions are more capable of providing social welfare than is the public sector, less attention has focused on the question of what motivates religious adherents to contribute to the charitable work of their religions. In this article, we examine how adherents of Catholicism and Islam understand their generosity and …
Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam: Beliefs, Institutions, and Public Goods Provision
Using an innovative methodological approach combining field experiments, case studies, and statistical analyzes, this book explores how the religious beliefs and institutions of Catholics and Muslims prompt them to be generous with their time and resources. Drawing upon research involving more than 1,000 Catholics and Muslims in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, the authors examine Catholicism and Islam in majority and minority contexts, discer…
The Politics of Sex Abuse in Sacred Hierarchies: A Comparative Study of the Catholic Church and the Military in the United States
The paper explores similarities in patterns of abuse and in patterns of how the known abuse cases are handled by the Catholic church and the U.S. military and develops preliminary explanations of why. The paper considers how the two organizations deal with external efforts by civil authorities at oversight and prosecution, and the extent to which they invoke their sacred status authority to evade responsibility and civilian oversight. The paper f…
Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality
Social science answers to the essential question of group conflict have focused on two main explanations—their motivating “grievances” and their mobilization “capacity” for collective action. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on grievances in the form of horizontal inequalities (between-group inequality), but the important conceptual and potential empirical differences between horizontal inequality and relative deprivation have not yet been …
Benevolent Secularism and the Recalibration of Church-State Relations in Ireland in the Aftermath of the Clergy Child Sex Abuse Scandals
In 2011, the Irish prime minister (taoiseach), Enda Kenny, gave a speech that made international headlines. He accused the Vatican of frustrating a civil inquiry into child sex abuse in Ireland, a sovereign, democratic republic and using the “gimlet-eye of a canon lawyer” to parse its responses, rather than to apologize and to prioritize the safety of children. He criticized the “dysfunction, disconnection, elitism and narcissism” of the Vatican.…
The Role of Military Law and Systemic Issues in the Military's Handling of Sexual Assault Cases
Allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment by prominent entertainment and media figures and politicians in the United States have brought renewed attention to a political debate that earlier had been focused on universities and the military: the apparent failure of institutions to address and punish cases of sexual assault by their members. In light of this debate, we consider how cases fare in an institution that is perennially accused …
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