Nathan Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4374240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Francis Xavier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6452-5143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Diaspora voting: A new item on the ‘menu of manipulation’
Since 1990, over 100 countries have extended voting rights to citizens abroad, enfranchising roughly 200 million voters around the world. Yet little scholarship addresses the relationship between external voting and electoral manipulation. Drawing on the path-breaking ‘Menu of Manipulation’ (2002), we systematically explore how voting abroad can strategically violate democratic norms, highlighting tactics deployed by governments around the world …
The Rhetoric of Emulation: Debating Emigrant Enfranchisement in Canada
Between 1980 and 2020, more than 120 countries—Canada included—enfranchised emigrants. While the diffusion of democratic practices is a well-established international phenomenon, we know little about the domestic process. How does international policy diffusion influence domestic debate? To explain the structure of Canadian debate about emigrant voting rights, we draw on concepts from the constructivist literature on international norms. In exami…
Extending Voting Rights to Emigrants: A Global Analysis of Actors, Processes and Outcomes
Since 1980, most states have granted voting rights to citizens living abroad. Although cross-national research focuses on when and where emigrant enfranchisement occurs, there has been little systematic attention to the variation in how enfranchisement occurs (for example, by constitutional amendment) and who extends these rights (international actors, for example). We argue that the variation in legal modalities and political actors is important…
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)
This paper introduces the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset (EVRR), the first global time-series dataset of non-resident citizen voting policies and procedures. Although there have been previous efforts to document external voting, no existing data source simultaneously captures the scale (195 countries), time frame (71 years), and level of detail concerning extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions (over 20 variables). After…
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: A global comparison
In recent decades more than one hundred countries have enfranchised their diasporas, allowing emigrants to vote from abroad. However, this widespread formal recognition of extraterritorial voting rights does not always lead to increased participation of emigrants in home country politics. Migrant-sending countries have complex relationships with their diasporas, and this relationship is particularly fraught for countries with endemic violence. Th…
Candidate entry in a non-partisan context: Evidence from Indonesia
Why do candidates enter an electoral contest? The Rational Model of Candidate Entry offers a parsimonious explanation focusing on the probability of victory, the benefit of holding office, as well as campaign costs. Quality challengers enter when there is a high probability of victory, while long-shot races attract amateurs. In most contexts, the presence of parties makes it difficult to disentangle candidate decisions from organizational recruit…
Electoral Systems in Context: Indonesia
This chapter examines the evolution of the Indonesian electoral system and its effects on political outcomes. Although Indonesia has repeatedly chosen to conduct elections using proportional representation, electoral rules have changed considerably over time. The chapter traces two trajectories of reform in the post-Suharto era: one restricting opportunities for small parties and the other restricting the power of party leadership. Efforts to sha…
Canada's twenty-first century discovery of China: Canadian media coverage of China and Japan
Chinese government officials and some Canadian foreign policy experts have challenged the content and tone of Canadian media's coverage of China. Canadian media coverage is thought to negatively bias public opinion and thereby constrain foreign policy choices available to policymakers. Scholars of Canada–Japan relations worry that decreasing media attention could have longer term effects on bilateral ties. Through an analysis of over 30,000 artic…
Ummah or tribe? Islamic practice, political ethnocentrism, and political attitudes in Indonesia
Existing research has uncovered a link between religious practice and political ethnocentrism. Religious individuals are relatively inclined to both support policies that benefit their own ethnic group and support political competitors seeking to represent them. These findings are broadly consistent with a large body of literature that examines the relationship between religion and ethnic prejudice. To date, empirical research has concentrated ov…
Keeping rising Asia at a distance: Canadian attitudes toward trade agreements with Asian countries
This paper asks: why do Canadians oppose trade deals with Asian countries but support them with Europe? While many Canadians view Asia's economically dynamic countries as important to Canada's future prosperity, they are hesitant to formalize ties with the same type of trade agreements they are willing to offer traditional trading partners. Using polls conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, this paper identifies the demographic and a…
Clientelism and the personal vote in Indonesia
From Patronage Machine to Partisan Melee: Subnational Corruption and the Evolution of the Indonesian Party System
The party system in Indonesia has expanded in the post-Suharto era. With each successive election, voters have spread their support across a wider array of parties. This has occurred despite deliberate institutional tweaks designed to consolidate the system by privileging large parties. Why has the party system expanded despite increasing institutional incentives to consolidate? This article places party system change in a broader context of dece…
Physical Culture in Amherst College
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF the Trustees, August 8th, 1861, Edward Hitchcock, M.D., a graduate of the College and of the Medical School of Harvard University ... was appointed professor [of hygiene and physical education] in this department [of physical culture]. And in his first report to the Trustees, Dr. Hitchcock remarks: “I am agreeably surprised that the interest has been kept up during the year in this department, as it certainly has... . Dur…
O'Odham Himdag: The O'odham Way
Excerpts from: Keeper of the House
The Gila River Valley in central Arizona has always belonged to the Akimel O'othom. The blood of the Akimel (the river) enabled my ancestors to live and thrive along its banks. To the south, amontg the giant sahuaros, creosote and mesquite for as far as anyone can see, under the watchful eye of elder brother I'itoi, is the domain of the Tohono O'othom. TheAkimela and Tohono O'othom are my people. My father was a Tohono O'othom from a village call…
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)
This paper introduces the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset (EVRR), the first global time-series dataset of non-resident citizen voting policies and procedures. Although there have been previous efforts to document external voting, no existing data source simultaneously captures the scale (195 countries), time frame (71 years), and level of detail concerning extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions (over 20 variables). After…
Clientelism and the personal vote in Indonesia
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: A global comparison
In recent decades more than one hundred countries have enfranchised their diasporas, allowing emigrants to vote from abroad. However, this widespread formal recognition of extraterritorial voting rights does not always lead to increased participation of emigrants in home country politics. Migrant-sending countries have complex relationships with their diasporas, and this relationship is particularly fraught for countries with endemic violence. Th…
Ummah or tribe? Islamic practice, political ethnocentrism, and political attitudes in Indonesia
Existing research has uncovered a link between religious practice and political ethnocentrism. Religious individuals are relatively inclined to both support policies that benefit their own ethnic group and support political competitors seeking to represent them. These findings are broadly consistent with a large body of literature that examines the relationship between religion and ethnic prejudice. To date, empirical research has concentrated ov…
Canada's twenty-first century discovery of China: Canadian media coverage of China and Japan
Chinese government officials and some Canadian foreign policy experts have challenged the content and tone of Canadian media's coverage of China. Canadian media coverage is thought to negatively bias public opinion and thereby constrain foreign policy choices available to policymakers. Scholars of Canada–Japan relations worry that decreasing media attention could have longer term effects on bilateral ties. Through an analysis of over 30,000 artic…
Keeping rising Asia at a distance: Canadian attitudes toward trade agreements with Asian countries
This paper asks: why do Canadians oppose trade deals with Asian countries but support them with Europe? While many Canadians view Asia's economically dynamic countries as important to Canada's future prosperity, they are hesitant to formalize ties with the same type of trade agreements they are willing to offer traditional trading partners. Using polls conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, this paper identifies the demographic and a…
From Patronage Machine to Partisan Melee: Subnational Corruption and the Evolution of the Indonesian Party System
The party system in Indonesia has expanded in the post-Suharto era. With each successive election, voters have spread their support across a wider array of parties. This has occurred despite deliberate institutional tweaks designed to consolidate the system by privileging large parties. Why has the party system expanded despite increasing institutional incentives to consolidate? This article places party system change in a broader context of dece…
Physical Culture in Amherst College
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF the Trustees, August 8th, 1861, Edward Hitchcock, M.D., a graduate of the College and of the Medical School of Harvard University ... was appointed professor [of hygiene and physical education] in this department [of physical culture]. And in his first report to the Trustees, Dr. Hitchcock remarks: “I am agreeably surprised that the interest has been kept up during the year in this department, as it certainly has... . Dur…
Excerpts from: Keeper of the House
The Gila River Valley in central Arizona has always belonged to the Akimel O'othom. The blood of the Akimel (the river) enabled my ancestors to live and thrive along its banks. To the south, amontg the giant sahuaros, creosote and mesquite for as far as anyone can see, under the watchful eye of elder brother I'itoi, is the domain of the Tohono O'othom. TheAkimela and Tohono O'othom are my people. My father was a Tohono O'othom from a village call…
O'Odham Himdag: The O'odham Way
Physical Culture in Amherst College
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF the Trustees, August 8th, 1861, Edward Hitchcock, M.D., a graduate of the College and of the Medical School of Harvard University ... was appointed professor [of hygiene and physical education] in this department [of physical culture]. And in his first report to the Trustees, Dr. Hitchcock remarks: “I am agreeably surprised that the interest has been kept up during the year in this department, as it certainly has... . Dur…
From Patronage Machine to Partisan Melee: Subnational Corruption and the Evolution of the Indonesian Party System
The party system in Indonesia has expanded in the post-Suharto era. With each successive election, voters have spread their support across a wider array of parties. This has occurred despite deliberate institutional tweaks designed to consolidate the system by privileging large parties. Why has the party system expanded despite increasing institutional incentives to consolidate? This article places party system change in a broader context of dece…
Keeping rising Asia at a distance: Canadian attitudes toward trade agreements with Asian countries
This paper asks: why do Canadians oppose trade deals with Asian countries but support them with Europe? While many Canadians view Asia's economically dynamic countries as important to Canada's future prosperity, they are hesitant to formalize ties with the same type of trade agreements they are willing to offer traditional trading partners. Using polls conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, this paper identifies the demographic and a…
Clientelism and the personal vote in Indonesia
Ummah or tribe? Islamic practice, political ethnocentrism, and political attitudes in Indonesia
Existing research has uncovered a link between religious practice and political ethnocentrism. Religious individuals are relatively inclined to both support policies that benefit their own ethnic group and support political competitors seeking to represent them. These findings are broadly consistent with a large body of literature that examines the relationship between religion and ethnic prejudice. To date, empirical research has concentrated ov…
Electoral Systems in Context: Indonesia
This chapter examines the evolution of the Indonesian electoral system and its effects on political outcomes. Although Indonesia has repeatedly chosen to conduct elections using proportional representation, electoral rules have changed considerably over time. The chapter traces two trajectories of reform in the post-Suharto era: one restricting opportunities for small parties and the other restricting the power of party leadership. Efforts to sha…
Canada's twenty-first century discovery of China: Canadian media coverage of China and Japan
Chinese government officials and some Canadian foreign policy experts have challenged the content and tone of Canadian media's coverage of China. Canadian media coverage is thought to negatively bias public opinion and thereby constrain foreign policy choices available to policymakers. Scholars of Canada–Japan relations worry that decreasing media attention could have longer term effects on bilateral ties. Through an analysis of over 30,000 artic…
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: A global comparison
In recent decades more than one hundred countries have enfranchised their diasporas, allowing emigrants to vote from abroad. However, this widespread formal recognition of extraterritorial voting rights does not always lead to increased participation of emigrants in home country politics. Migrant-sending countries have complex relationships with their diasporas, and this relationship is particularly fraught for countries with endemic violence. Th…
Candidate entry in a non-partisan context: Evidence from Indonesia
Why do candidates enter an electoral contest? The Rational Model of Candidate Entry offers a parsimonious explanation focusing on the probability of victory, the benefit of holding office, as well as campaign costs. Quality challengers enter when there is a high probability of victory, while long-shot races attract amateurs. In most contexts, the presence of parties makes it difficult to disentangle candidate decisions from organizational recruit…
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)
This paper introduces the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset (EVRR), the first global time-series dataset of non-resident citizen voting policies and procedures. Although there have been previous efforts to document external voting, no existing data source simultaneously captures the scale (195 countries), time frame (71 years), and level of detail concerning extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions (over 20 variables). After…
Extending Voting Rights to Emigrants: A Global Analysis of Actors, Processes and Outcomes
Since 1980, most states have granted voting rights to citizens living abroad. Although cross-national research focuses on when and where emigrant enfranchisement occurs, there has been little systematic attention to the variation in how enfranchisement occurs (for example, by constitutional amendment) and who extends these rights (international actors, for example). We argue that the variation in legal modalities and political actors is important…
The Rhetoric of Emulation: Debating Emigrant Enfranchisement in Canada
Between 1980 and 2020, more than 120 countries—Canada included—enfranchised emigrants. While the diffusion of democratic practices is a well-established international phenomenon, we know little about the domestic process. How does international policy diffusion influence domestic debate? To explain the structure of Canadian debate about emigrant voting rights, we draw on concepts from the constructivist literature on international norms. In exami…
Diaspora voting: A new item on the ‘menu of manipulation’
Since 1990, over 100 countries have extended voting rights to citizens abroad, enfranchising roughly 200 million voters around the world. Yet little scholarship addresses the relationship between external voting and electoral manipulation. Drawing on the path-breaking ‘Menu of Manipulation’ (2002), we systematically explore how voting abroad can strategically violate democratic norms, highlighting tactics deployed by governments around the world …
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Voting (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Democracy (4 works)