A Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 18893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0416-5975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Surveillance communautaire au Québec
L’importance d’adapter les pratiques correctionnelles aux réalités des femmes est aujourd’hui reconnue, notamment en milieu carcéral. Pourtant, cette sensibilité au genre demeure peu étudiée en surveillance communautaire, alors même que la majorité des femmes judiciarisées purgent leur peine dans la collectivité. Cet article propose une réflexion sur l’intégration des principes appartenant aux approches sensibles au genre dans les pratiques corre…
Evaluating the transition
Billionaire Politicians
We introduce an original dataset of formal political participation for over 2,000 individuals included in the Forbes Billionaires List. We find that billionaire politicians are a surprisingly common phenomenon: Over 11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office. Even compared to other elite groups known for producing politicians from their ranks, this is a high rate of political participation. Moreover, billionaires focus t…
National Attachments and Good Citizenship
The recent popularity of nationalist movements bears witness to the continued power of national feeling in politics. This article considers the potential relationship between different kinds of national attachments and what we call active and allegiant citizenship—support for democracy, community participation, and prosocial behavior. We analyze these relationships using data from two waves of the European Values Study. We find that a set of atta…
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness
Gender gaps have been documented in numerous areas of American politics, but one area that has not yet been fully explored is responsiveness, the link between citizen preferences and public policies. Equal responsiveness to the preferences of citizens is a central aspect of democratic representation. This article extends work on income gaps in responsiveness to gender gaps. Specifically, it considers whether women’s preferences are less likely th…
Biases in elections with well‐informed voters
Objectives How much does group membership influence voting behavior? This article adds to existing work by considering a novel context where voting is public and voters are well‐informed. Methods The article analyzes public votes in a prominent award for the best football player in the world. It uses ordered probit regressions to assess the extent to which votes by players, coaches, and journalists are related to national, regional, cultural, rac…
Consensus and dissensus in comparative politics
Are comparative political scientists divided over the goals, methods, and results of their field? This article attempts to answer this question, drawing on an original survey of US-based political scientists. The main conclusion is that there is relative consensus on the goals of research—comparativists favor broad generalizations and causal inference—but there is also acceptance of a variety of methodological approaches, both qualitative and qua…
The Heart of the Matter
This article presents the transcript of the Sixth Annual Peter Fraser Memorial Lecture that was held in Wellington, New Zealand on October 4, 2016. The lecture comprised of five invited speakers broadly drawn from the education, media and union sectors with an interest in the legacy of Prime Minister Peter Fraser to New Zealand’s public education system. Using the documentary of the introduction of arts education in post-war New Zealand entitled …
What is ‘policy’ and what is ‘policy response’? An illustrative study of the implementation of the Leadership Standards for Social Justice in Scotland
This article examines ‘policy’ and ‘policy response’ through documentary analysis and an illustrative study of policy implementation. Our approach is informed by Foucault’s (2009) theory that power relations in society are conditioned by a culturally generated set of ideas, and that these relations contain the space for both coercion and resistance. Our aim is to consider the potential for policy compliance and contestation by: (1) describing pol…
How Stable and Reasonable is Postcommunist Public Opinion? The Case of the Czech Republic
The quality of democracy depends on both politicians and citizens. While most attention has focused on politicians, this paper looks at citizens. There has been some scepticism about whether the postcommunist public is prepared to rule their countries. The legacies of communism and the rigours of the transition may have produced citizens whose opinions are unstable and ill-informed and therefore a poor basis for democratic policy making. This pap…
What Americanists Don’t Know About American Politics
This paper follows Noel’s 2010 attempt to introduce journalists and practitioners to findings from professional political science which are relevant to the interpretive challenge of American politics but with which they may not be familiar. It extends his work by focusing on comparative politics this time – the domestic politics of foreign countries – and it argues that American politics might be interpreted differently if it were analyzed throug…
Security and Progress
1London Security and Progress: Lord Salisbury at the India Office Paul R. Brumpton Westport, CT Greenwood P. 2002 245 N.p
The State of Socialism
Scholars use a variety of terms to refer to the regimes of the former Soviet bloc. Some prefer communist , while others use socialist or state socialist . In this article, Andrew Roberts argues that communism is the better choice. Using socialism or state socialism to refer to these regimes stretches the concept unnecessarily, making one label refer to two regimes with little in common. This conceptual stretching has two negative consequences. Fi…
Demythologising the Czech opposition agreement
For many observers of the Czech political scene, 8 July 1998 was confirmation of their worst fears. It was then, two weeks after parliamentary elections, that the largest party in parliament, the Czech Social Democratic Party (CˇSSD), announced that it had signed what came to be known as the ‘opposition agreement’ with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the second largest party in parliament. The agreement stated that ODS would allow CˇSSD to gove…
Law and the Use of Force After Iraq
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Nostalgia
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Nostalgia
Counter-terrorism, Armed Force and the Laws of War
In military operations involving action against terrorists, the relevance of the laws of war, often now called international humanitarian law, is problematical. The US-led ‘war on terror’, especially the use of armed force in Afghanistan, raises three questions. Is the law applicable to such operations? Should it be applied in situations different from what was envisaged in treaties? And are detainees ‘prisoners of war’? A difficulty in applying …
The Price of Protection
Bibliographie générale
I. Constitution historique et devenirs actuels de la photographie anthropologique – Histoire générale de la photographie BENJAMIN W., 1983. « Petite histoire de la photographie », inEssais I, 1922‐1934. Paris, Denoël : 149‐168. DIAS N., 1999. « La fiabilité de l’œil », Terrain, 33 (sept.) : 17‐30. FRIZOT M. (éd.), 1994. Nouvelle histoire de la photographie. Paris, Bordas (importante bibliographie). LA LUMIERE, 1995. Réimpression des numéros parus…
Thesis Abstracts
Government Gazettes for Northern Rhodesia
Government Gazettes are a neglected source for the colonial history of Africa, and it may be worthwhile to draw attention to various types of information to be found in those for Northern Rhodesia, which have recently been made available on microfilm. Up to 1911 the British South Africa Company administered two territories north of the Zambezi: North-Eastern Rhodesia and North-Western Rhodesia. For North-Eastern Rhodesia the Company published at …
American State Legislatures
White judges under attack
Demythologising the Czech opposition agreement
For many observers of the Czech political scene, 8 July 1998 was confirmation of their worst fears. It was then, two weeks after parliamentary elections, that the largest party in parliament, the Czech Social Democratic Party (CˇSSD), announced that it had signed what came to be known as the ‘opposition agreement’ with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the second largest party in parliament. The agreement stated that ODS would allow CˇSSD to gove…
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness
Gender gaps have been documented in numerous areas of American politics, but one area that has not yet been fully explored is responsiveness, the link between citizen preferences and public policies. Equal responsiveness to the preferences of citizens is a central aspect of democratic representation. This article extends work on income gaps in responsiveness to gender gaps. Specifically, it considers whether women’s preferences are less likely th…
Billionaire Politicians
We introduce an original dataset of formal political participation for over 2,000 individuals included in the Forbes Billionaires List. We find that billionaire politicians are a surprisingly common phenomenon: Over 11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office. Even compared to other elite groups known for producing politicians from their ranks, this is a high rate of political participation. Moreover, billionaires focus t…
The State of Socialism
Scholars use a variety of terms to refer to the regimes of the former Soviet bloc. Some prefer communist , while others use socialist or state socialist . In this article, Andrew Roberts argues that communism is the better choice. Using socialism or state socialism to refer to these regimes stretches the concept unnecessarily, making one label refer to two regimes with little in common. This conceptual stretching has two negative consequences. Fi…
National Attachments and Good Citizenship
The recent popularity of nationalist movements bears witness to the continued power of national feeling in politics. This article considers the potential relationship between different kinds of national attachments and what we call active and allegiant citizenship—support for democracy, community participation, and prosocial behavior. We analyze these relationships using data from two waves of the European Values Study. We find that a set of atta…
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Nostalgia
Biases in elections with well‐informed voters
Objectives How much does group membership influence voting behavior? This article adds to existing work by considering a novel context where voting is public and voters are well‐informed. Methods The article analyzes public votes in a prominent award for the best football player in the world. It uses ordered probit regressions to assess the extent to which votes by players, coaches, and journalists are related to national, regional, cultural, rac…
Consensus and dissensus in comparative politics
Are comparative political scientists divided over the goals, methods, and results of their field? This article attempts to answer this question, drawing on an original survey of US-based political scientists. The main conclusion is that there is relative consensus on the goals of research—comparativists favor broad generalizations and causal inference—but there is also acceptance of a variety of methodological approaches, both qualitative and qua…
How Stable and Reasonable is Postcommunist Public Opinion? The Case of the Czech Republic
The quality of democracy depends on both politicians and citizens. While most attention has focused on politicians, this paper looks at citizens. There has been some scepticism about whether the postcommunist public is prepared to rule their countries. The legacies of communism and the rigours of the transition may have produced citizens whose opinions are unstable and ill-informed and therefore a poor basis for democratic policy making. This pap…
White judges under attack
American State Legislatures
Government Gazettes for Northern Rhodesia
Government Gazettes are a neglected source for the colonial history of Africa, and it may be worthwhile to draw attention to various types of information to be found in those for Northern Rhodesia, which have recently been made available on microfilm. Up to 1911 the British South Africa Company administered two territories north of the Zambezi: North-Eastern Rhodesia and North-Western Rhodesia. For North-Eastern Rhodesia the Company published at …
Thesis Abstracts
Bibliographie générale
I. Constitution historique et devenirs actuels de la photographie anthropologique – Histoire générale de la photographie BENJAMIN W., 1983. « Petite histoire de la photographie », inEssais I, 1922‐1934. Paris, Denoël : 149‐168. DIAS N., 1999. « La fiabilité de l’œil », Terrain, 33 (sept.) : 17‐30. FRIZOT M. (éd.), 1994. Nouvelle histoire de la photographie. Paris, Bordas (importante bibliographie). LA LUMIERE, 1995. Réimpression des numéros parus…
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Nostalgia
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Nostalgia
Counter-terrorism, Armed Force and the Laws of War
In military operations involving action against terrorists, the relevance of the laws of war, often now called international humanitarian law, is problematical. The US-led ‘war on terror’, especially the use of armed force in Afghanistan, raises three questions. Is the law applicable to such operations? Should it be applied in situations different from what was envisaged in treaties? And are detainees ‘prisoners of war’? A difficulty in applying …
The Price of Protection
Demythologising the Czech opposition agreement
For many observers of the Czech political scene, 8 July 1998 was confirmation of their worst fears. It was then, two weeks after parliamentary elections, that the largest party in parliament, the Czech Social Democratic Party (CˇSSD), announced that it had signed what came to be known as the ‘opposition agreement’ with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the second largest party in parliament. The agreement stated that ODS would allow CˇSSD to gove…
Law and the Use of Force After Iraq
Security and Progress
1London Security and Progress: Lord Salisbury at the India Office Paul R. Brumpton Westport, CT Greenwood P. 2002 245 N.p
The State of Socialism
Scholars use a variety of terms to refer to the regimes of the former Soviet bloc. Some prefer communist , while others use socialist or state socialist . In this article, Andrew Roberts argues that communism is the better choice. Using socialism or state socialism to refer to these regimes stretches the concept unnecessarily, making one label refer to two regimes with little in common. This conceptual stretching has two negative consequences. Fi…
What Americanists Don’t Know About American Politics
This paper follows Noel’s 2010 attempt to introduce journalists and practitioners to findings from professional political science which are relevant to the interpretive challenge of American politics but with which they may not be familiar. It extends his work by focusing on comparative politics this time – the domestic politics of foreign countries – and it argues that American politics might be interpreted differently if it were analyzed throug…
How Stable and Reasonable is Postcommunist Public Opinion? The Case of the Czech Republic
The quality of democracy depends on both politicians and citizens. While most attention has focused on politicians, this paper looks at citizens. There has been some scepticism about whether the postcommunist public is prepared to rule their countries. The legacies of communism and the rigours of the transition may have produced citizens whose opinions are unstable and ill-informed and therefore a poor basis for democratic policy making. This pap…
What is ‘policy’ and what is ‘policy response’? An illustrative study of the implementation of the Leadership Standards for Social Justice in Scotland
This article examines ‘policy’ and ‘policy response’ through documentary analysis and an illustrative study of policy implementation. Our approach is informed by Foucault’s (2009) theory that power relations in society are conditioned by a culturally generated set of ideas, and that these relations contain the space for both coercion and resistance. Our aim is to consider the potential for policy compliance and contestation by: (1) describing pol…
The Heart of the Matter
This article presents the transcript of the Sixth Annual Peter Fraser Memorial Lecture that was held in Wellington, New Zealand on October 4, 2016. The lecture comprised of five invited speakers broadly drawn from the education, media and union sectors with an interest in the legacy of Prime Minister Peter Fraser to New Zealand’s public education system. Using the documentary of the introduction of arts education in post-war New Zealand entitled …
Consensus and dissensus in comparative politics
Are comparative political scientists divided over the goals, methods, and results of their field? This article attempts to answer this question, drawing on an original survey of US-based political scientists. The main conclusion is that there is relative consensus on the goals of research—comparativists favor broad generalizations and causal inference—but there is also acceptance of a variety of methodological approaches, both qualitative and qua…
Biases in elections with well‐informed voters
Objectives How much does group membership influence voting behavior? This article adds to existing work by considering a novel context where voting is public and voters are well‐informed. Methods The article analyzes public votes in a prominent award for the best football player in the world. It uses ordered probit regressions to assess the extent to which votes by players, coaches, and journalists are related to national, regional, cultural, rac…
National Attachments and Good Citizenship
The recent popularity of nationalist movements bears witness to the continued power of national feeling in politics. This article considers the potential relationship between different kinds of national attachments and what we call active and allegiant citizenship—support for democracy, community participation, and prosocial behavior. We analyze these relationships using data from two waves of the European Values Study. We find that a set of atta…
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness
Gender gaps have been documented in numerous areas of American politics, but one area that has not yet been fully explored is responsiveness, the link between citizen preferences and public policies. Equal responsiveness to the preferences of citizens is a central aspect of democratic representation. This article extends work on income gaps in responsiveness to gender gaps. Specifically, it considers whether women’s preferences are less likely th…
Billionaire Politicians
We introduce an original dataset of formal political participation for over 2,000 individuals included in the Forbes Billionaires List. We find that billionaire politicians are a surprisingly common phenomenon: Over 11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office. Even compared to other elite groups known for producing politicians from their ranks, this is a high rate of political participation. Moreover, billionaires focus t…
Surveillance communautaire au Québec
L’importance d’adapter les pratiques correctionnelles aux réalités des femmes est aujourd’hui reconnue, notamment en milieu carcéral. Pourtant, cette sensibilité au genre demeure peu étudiée en surveillance communautaire, alors même que la majorité des femmes judiciarisées purgent leur peine dans la collectivité. Cet article propose une réflexion sur l’intégration des principes appartenant aux approches sensibles au genre dans les pratiques corre…
Evaluating the transition
Political science (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works)