David Doyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 547663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Doyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Doyle |
| SIGNATURE | DOYLE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0157-0115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 431 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana
Mobile money platforms are ubiquitous in many emerging economies. Hailed for raising financial inclusion and economic wellbeing, governments have now turned to mobile payments as a source of tax revenue. Transaction levies are often regressive, unpopular, and can encourage a return to cash. We present experimental evidence that they may also harm tax morale, a core component of the social contract between citizen and state. We present results fro…
The November 2015 Policy and Me
As someone who is gay and grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it has been an interesting journey to witness changes by the Church in how it understands and treats gay people. There have been changes in the language used, such as the switch from “homosexual” to “same-sex attraction” and more recently to “gay, lesbian, and bisexual.” There have been changes in the discussion as to why gay people even exist. Explanations have…
Garli: A millennium-old dingo burial on the Baaka (Darling River), Kinchega National Park, Menindee Lakes, Western New South Wales
The deliberate burial of dingoes by Aboriginal people is a widespread and significant Late Holocene practice in Australia, yet the details of this practice remain poorly understood, in part due to the scarcity of well-documented archaeological excavations. Here, we report on the excavation of a dingo burial in Kinchega National Park on Barkindji Country, in the Menindee Lakes region of western New South Wales. First identified by Barkindji Elders…
Migration, Remittances, and Petty Corruption in Africa
Driven by rising access to mobile money and growing diaspora communities, remittances to African countries have reached record highs. Yet while scholars have connected aggregate remittance flows to macro-level political change, we know little about how these transfers shape individual-level dynamics among recipients. Since private sector markets are weak in many parts of Africa, we argue that recipients cannot easily substitute government service…
Women, (re)birth and collective wellbeing on Barkindji Kiira
The overall goal of this article is to present a fresh entanglement of diverging and converging cross-cultural perspectives on land, wellbeing and people. At times, what we weave is tightly bound, and at other times it frays off because that is life, relationship and research. We word-weave the complexity of our intersecting standpoints like a traditional Barkindji Club Rush emu net. One aim was to amplify and preserve Barkindji ecological and cu…
Protest and Incumbent Support: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Ghana
How do protests shape incumbent support in lower-income democracies? Protests serve an accountability function by informing voters about government performance, but can also polarise opinion around pre-existing social and political identities. Leveraging an anti-government demonstration in Ghana that intersected an original survey in the field, we find that respondents interviewed immediately after the protest are more trusting and approving of t…
How Presidents Answer the Call of International Capital
How do governments manage expectations from international capital keen on pressuring them into adopting market-oriented economic policies during times of crises? Studying executive communication in 267 annual state-of-the-union speeches in 12 Latin American countries between 1980 and 2014 reveals two broad options for strategic position-taking on economic policies. First, when times are dire, presidents not only talk more about the economy and le…
Robert Elgie: Supervisor, mentor, friend
Crime, remittances, and presidential approval in Mexico
Previous work on remittances and incumbency support has focused on recipients’ (pocketbook and sociotropic) economic assessments. In Mexico, however, crime has become the second (if not the first) concern of voters and security evaluations have become closely linked to the national executive’s performance. In this paper we posit that in Mexico remittances can also increase incumbent support through their effect on recipients’ security assessments…
Measuring the Significance of Policy Outputs with Positive Unlabeled Learning
Identifying important policy outputs has long been of interest to political scientists. In this work, we propose a novel approach to the classification of policies. Instead of obtaining and aggregating expert evaluations of significance for a finite set of policy outputs, we use experts to identify a small set of significant outputs and then employ positive unlabeled (PU) learning to search for other similar examples in a large unlabeled set. We …
Stigma-Based Rejection Experiences Affect Trust in Others
Rejection experiences are likely to influence individuals’ subsequent feelings about others and their behavior in social interactions. The present study specifically examined whether stigma-based rejection leads to decreased trust in others, compared to rejections that are not stigma based. Trust was assessed behaviorally with an online task where the interaction partner was preprogrammed. Participants showed less trust after stigma-based rejecti…
Opting Out of the Social Contract: Tax Morale and Evasion
We examine the individual-level determinants of tax morale in low-capacity states, specifically Latin American countries, where the social contract is often perceived as fractured. We argue that individuals in such states perceive the social contract as an agreement to which they can opt in or opt out. Those who choose to opt out prefer to substitute state-provided goods for private providers, rather than pay for public goods through taxes or fre…
Breakdown, Cooperation, or Backsliding? A Return to Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America
This essay reviews the following works:Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Alemán and George Tsebelis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 266. 16.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781524762940
Presidential Power and Party Strength: The “Inverse Relationship” Reconsidered
This article revisits theoretical claims that separation of power systems will display an inverse relationship between presidential power and party strength. Shugart and Carey posited this as a general equilibrium within presidential democracies; later, Shugart proposed that the inverse relationship resulted from founding institutional choices shaped in turn by modes of democratic transition. We test both the equilibrium and the genetic versions …
Progressive tax policy and informal labor in developing economies
Governments in many industrializing democracies face difficult policy trade‐offs. Liberalization and informality have placed electoral pressure on them to expand noncontributory social spending. However, governments in developing democracies face constraints when attempting to finance this expansion. In some countries, the informal labor market is very large, thereby undermining the revenue that can be collected through income tax. We argue that …
When the Money Stops: Fluctuations in Financial Remittances and Incumbent Approval in Central Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Fluctuations in the volume and the value of financial remittances received from abroad affect the livelihood of households in developing economies across the world. Yet, political scientists have little to say about how changes in remittances, as opposed to the receipt of remittance payments alone, affect recipients’ political attitudes. Relying on a unique four-wave panel study of Kyrgyz citizens between 2010–2013 and a cross-sectional sample of…
The European Political Science Agenda: A Multilevel Analysis from a Country Perspective
This presentation introduces the analytical framework applied in this symposium for the analysis of publishing trends of European political scientists. Our goal is to ascertain the degree to which the discipline in four contrasting countries (Ireland, Norway, Portugal and Spain) speaks to a wider European or international audience. Is political science insular in these countries, or is it internationalised? On which aspects are the publications s…
Irish Political Science in Ireland and Abroad: Publications in Major Journals (1999–2014)
We examine and discuss the state of political science in Ireland, using a new dataset on articles published in major domestic, European, and international academic journals by authors affiliated with Irish institutions during the period 1999–2014. Our main findings are as follows: political scientists in Ireland have generally focused more on comparative politics and international relations than on methodology, political theory, or public policy.…
Measuring Legislative Power: An Expert Reweighting of the Fish‐Kroenig Parliamentary Powers Index
The Parliamentary Powers Index (PPI) developed by Fish and Kroenig (2009) is the most important effort to date to measure legislative power in cross‐national perspective, but it has been criticized on both theoretical and methodological grounds. We build on the 32‐item PPI to develop an alternative indicator of legislative strength that is based on an expert survey of 296 political scientists in 2014. We reweight each of the powers by expert opin…
Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
Presidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highlights that some form of ideological compromise on behalf of the president is vital to sustain successful legislative coalitions. Yet, primarily due to the lack of a firm empirical basis on which to measure such presidential give-and-take, the extent to which presidents make use of such policy compromise, and under what conditions this is a viable strat…
Maximizing the Reliability of Cross-National Measures of Presidential Power
This article aims to maximize the reliability of presidential power scores for a larger number of countries and time periods than currently exists for any single measure, and in a way that is replicable and easy to update. It begins by identifying all of the studies that have estimated the effect of a presidential power variable, clarifying what scholars have attempted to capture when they have operationalized the concept of presidential power. I…
Remittances and Social Spending
Remittances are a significant source of foreign exchange for developing economies. I argue that remittances, due to their compensation and insurance functions, will increase the general income level and economic security of recipients, thereby reducing their perceived income risk. Over time, this will dampen demand from recipients for government taxation and social insurance. Therefore, I expect increases in income remitted to an economy to resul…
Partisanship, Democracy and the Global Market Economy
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Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond - by Levitt, Barry S
The Political Economy of Policy Volatility in Latin America
Why are some Latin American states plagued by persistent policy volatility while the policies of others remain relatively stable? This article explores the political economy of natural resource rents and policy volatility across Latin America. It argues that, all else equal, resource rents will create incentives for political leaders, which will result in repeated episodes of policy volatility. This effect, however, will depend on the structure o…
Maximizing the Reliability of Cross-National Measures of Presidential Power
This article aims to maximize the reliability of presidential power scores for a larger number of countries and time periods than currently exists for any single measure, and in a way that is replicable and easy to update. It begins by identifying all of the studies that have estimated the effect of a presidential power variable, clarifying what scholars have attempted to capture when they have operationalized the concept of presidential power. I…
The Legitimacy of Political Institutions: Explaining Contemporary Populism in Latin America
Populism is an enduring feature of Latin American electoral democracies. Within the past decade, scholars have witnessed the political ascendancy of populist politicians from both the left and right of the ideological spectrum. This naturally raises the question as to why populism has proven resilient in some Latin American democracies, whereas in others political forces have remained relatively moderate and institutionalized. This article argues…
Remittances and Social Spending
Remittances are a significant source of foreign exchange for developing economies. I argue that remittances, due to their compensation and insurance functions, will increase the general income level and economic security of recipients, thereby reducing their perceived income risk. Over time, this will dampen demand from recipients for government taxation and social insurance. Therefore, I expect increases in income remitted to an economy to resul…
Attitudes, Ideological Associations and the Left–Right Divide in Latin America
Do Latin American citizens share a common conception of the ideological left–right distinction? And if so, is this conception linked to individuals’ ideological self-placement? Selecting questions from the 2006 Latinobarómetro survey based on a core definition of the left–right divide rooted in political theory and philosophy, this paper addresses these questions. We apply joint correspondence analysis to explore whether citizens who relate to th…
The Importance of Ideas: An A Priori Critical Juncture Framework
This paper sets out an improved framework for examining critical junctures. This framework, while rigorous and broadly applicable and an advance on the frameworks currently employed, primarily seeks to incorporate an a priori element. Until now the frameworks utilized in examining critical junctures were entirely postdictive. Adding a predictive element to the concept will constitute a significant advance. The new framework, and its predictive el…
When the Money Stops: Fluctuations in Financial Remittances and Incumbent Approval in Central Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Fluctuations in the volume and the value of financial remittances received from abroad affect the livelihood of households in developing economies across the world. Yet, political scientists have little to say about how changes in remittances, as opposed to the receipt of remittance payments alone, affect recipients’ political attitudes. Relying on a unique four-wave panel study of Kyrgyz citizens between 2010–2013 and a cross-sectional sample of…
Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
Presidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highlights that some form of ideological compromise on behalf of the president is vital to sustain successful legislative coalitions. Yet, primarily due to the lack of a firm empirical basis on which to measure such presidential give-and-take, the extent to which presidents make use of such policy compromise, and under what conditions this is a viable strat…
Measuring Legislative Power: An Expert Reweighting of the Fish‐Kroenig Parliamentary Powers Index
The Parliamentary Powers Index (PPI) developed by Fish and Kroenig (2009) is the most important effort to date to measure legislative power in cross‐national perspective, but it has been criticized on both theoretical and methodological grounds. We build on the 32‐item PPI to develop an alternative indicator of legislative strength that is based on an expert survey of 296 political scientists in 2014. We reweight each of the powers by expert opin…
Opting Out of the Social Contract: Tax Morale and Evasion
We examine the individual-level determinants of tax morale in low-capacity states, specifically Latin American countries, where the social contract is often perceived as fractured. We argue that individuals in such states perceive the social contract as an agreement to which they can opt in or opt out. Those who choose to opt out prefer to substitute state-provided goods for private providers, rather than pay for public goods through taxes or fre…
Politics and Privatization: Exogenous pressures, domestic incentives and state divestiture in Latin America
Despite a pervasive trend towards state retrenchment in Latin America since the 1980s, there remains significant variation in the levels of privatization across the region. However, very few cross-national studies of the determinants of privatization have been conducted and we still do not truly know why states privatize. This paper examines the determinants of privatization for 14 Latin American states over the period 1975 to 2003. I contend tha…
Progressive tax policy and informal labor in developing economies
Governments in many industrializing democracies face difficult policy trade‐offs. Liberalization and informality have placed electoral pressure on them to expand noncontributory social spending. However, governments in developing democracies face constraints when attempting to finance this expansion. In some countries, the informal labor market is very large, thereby undermining the revenue that can be collected through income tax. We argue that …
Pressures to Privatize? The IMF, Globalization, and Partisanship in Latin America
Despite pervasive downward pressure on government policy from exogenous forces, the author argues that partisanship still exerts an effect on privatization in Latin America. When a country is indebted to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a government of the right is in power, scholars can expect increased levels of privatization. However, when a country is indebted to the IMF and a government of the left is in power, electoral incentives…
Crime, remittances, and presidential approval in Mexico
Previous work on remittances and incumbency support has focused on recipients’ (pocketbook and sociotropic) economic assessments. In Mexico, however, crime has become the second (if not the first) concern of voters and security evaluations have become closely linked to the national executive’s performance. In this paper we posit that in Mexico remittances can also increase incumbent support through their effect on recipients’ security assessments…
The Determinants of Privatization: A Comparative Analysis of Developing Countries
Privatization has altered the traditional relationship between the state and the productive sector. However, only a handful of empirical studies concerned with the determinants of privatization exist, and explanations have tended to diverge. Drawing on the new World Bank database on privatization transactions, we estimate the main determinants of privatization across 77 developing world economies, between the years 1988 and 2008. Our findings ind…
Discontent and the Left Turn in Latin America
The electoral success of the left across Latin America has largely been interpreted as a backlash against globalization and a manifestation of anti-market voting of citizens increasingly frustrated with their experience of representative democracy. However, studies trying to test these propositions show rather inconclusive results and face the problem of translating objective economic conditions into observable individual perceptions. This articl…
A comparative framework: How broadly applicable is a ‘rigorous’ critical junctures framework
Foreign Fields and Foreigners on the Field: Irish Sport, Inclusion and Assimilation
This article explores how Ireland, a country whose history was dominated by emigration, found a place on the global sporting map. The article traces the spread of the global Irish and argues that the tradition of the Irish abroad was to assimilate through sport rather than seek sporting exclusivity. The complexity surrounding Irish and diaspora identities is illustrated through an examination of Irish sporting involvement in international events.…
Protest and Incumbent Support: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Ghana
How do protests shape incumbent support in lower-income democracies? Protests serve an accountability function by informing voters about government performance, but can also polarise opinion around pre-existing social and political identities. Leveraging an anti-government demonstration in Ghana that intersected an original survey in the field, we find that respondents interviewed immediately after the protest are more trusting and approving of t…
Measuring the Significance of Policy Outputs with Positive Unlabeled Learning
Identifying important policy outputs has long been of interest to political scientists. In this work, we propose a novel approach to the classification of policies. Instead of obtaining and aggregating expert evaluations of significance for a finite set of policy outputs, we use experts to identify a small set of significant outputs and then employ positive unlabeled (PU) learning to search for other similar examples in a large unlabeled set. We …
Breakdown, Cooperation, or Backsliding? A Return to Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America
This essay reviews the following works:Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Alemán and George Tsebelis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 266. 16.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781524762940
The Political Economy of Policy Volatility in Latin America
Why are some Latin American states plagued by persistent policy volatility while the policies of others remain relatively stable? This article explores the political economy of natural resource rents and policy volatility across Latin America. It argues that, all else equal, resource rents will create incentives for political leaders, which will result in repeated episodes of policy volatility. This effect, however, will depend on the structure o…
Macroeconomic Policy Change: Ireland in Comparative Perspective
This paper sets out to develop an improved framework for examining critical junctures. This a priori framework is a significant improvement over existing critical juncture frameworks that lack any predictive element. It is an advance for historical institutionalism in particular, and political science in general. After the new framework is set out in detail here, it is tested. The framework is used to examine a number of potential critical junctu…
The Importance of Ideas: An A Priori Critical Juncture Framework
This paper sets out an improved framework for examining critical junctures. This framework, while rigorous and broadly applicable and an advance on the frameworks currently employed, primarily seeks to incorporate an a priori element. Until now the frameworks utilized in examining critical junctures were entirely postdictive. Adding a predictive element to the concept will constitute a significant advance. The new framework, and its predictive el…
Foreign Fields and Foreigners on the Field: Irish Sport, Inclusion and Assimilation
This article explores how Ireland, a country whose history was dominated by emigration, found a place on the global sporting map. The article traces the spread of the global Irish and argues that the tradition of the Irish abroad was to assimilate through sport rather than seek sporting exclusivity. The complexity surrounding Irish and diaspora identities is illustrated through an examination of Irish sporting involvement in international events.…
Macroeconomic Policy Change: Ireland in Comparative Perspective
This paper sets out to develop an improved framework for examining critical junctures. This a priori framework is a significant improvement over existing critical juncture frameworks that lack any predictive element. It is an advance for historical institutionalism in particular, and political science in general. After the new framework is set out in detail here, it is tested. The framework is used to examine a number of potential critical junctu…
A comparative framework: How broadly applicable is a ‘rigorous’ critical junctures framework
Politics and Privatization: Exogenous pressures, domestic incentives and state divestiture in Latin America
Despite a pervasive trend towards state retrenchment in Latin America since the 1980s, there remains significant variation in the levels of privatization across the region. However, very few cross-national studies of the determinants of privatization have been conducted and we still do not truly know why states privatize. This paper examines the determinants of privatization for 14 Latin American states over the period 1975 to 2003. I contend tha…
The Legitimacy of Political Institutions: Explaining Contemporary Populism in Latin America
Populism is an enduring feature of Latin American electoral democracies. Within the past decade, scholars have witnessed the political ascendancy of populist politicians from both the left and right of the ideological spectrum. This naturally raises the question as to why populism has proven resilient in some Latin American democracies, whereas in others political forces have remained relatively moderate and institutionalized. This article argues…
Pressures to Privatize? The IMF, Globalization, and Partisanship in Latin America
Despite pervasive downward pressure on government policy from exogenous forces, the author argues that partisanship still exerts an effect on privatization in Latin America. When a country is indebted to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a government of the right is in power, scholars can expect increased levels of privatization. However, when a country is indebted to the IMF and a government of the left is in power, electoral incentives…
Attitudes, Ideological Associations and the Left–Right Divide in Latin America
Do Latin American citizens share a common conception of the ideological left–right distinction? And if so, is this conception linked to individuals’ ideological self-placement? Selecting questions from the 2006 Latinobarómetro survey based on a core definition of the left–right divide rooted in political theory and philosophy, this paper addresses these questions. We apply joint correspondence analysis to explore whether citizens who relate to th…
The Determinants of Privatization: A Comparative Analysis of Developing Countries
Privatization has altered the traditional relationship between the state and the productive sector. However, only a handful of empirical studies concerned with the determinants of privatization exist, and explanations have tended to diverge. Drawing on the new World Bank database on privatization transactions, we estimate the main determinants of privatization across 77 developing world economies, between the years 1988 and 2008. Our findings ind…
Discontent and the Left Turn in Latin America
The electoral success of the left across Latin America has largely been interpreted as a backlash against globalization and a manifestation of anti-market voting of citizens increasingly frustrated with their experience of representative democracy. However, studies trying to test these propositions show rather inconclusive results and face the problem of translating objective economic conditions into observable individual perceptions. This articl…
Partisanship, Democracy and the Global Market Economy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond - by Levitt, Barry S
The Political Economy of Policy Volatility in Latin America
Why are some Latin American states plagued by persistent policy volatility while the policies of others remain relatively stable? This article explores the political economy of natural resource rents and policy volatility across Latin America. It argues that, all else equal, resource rents will create incentives for political leaders, which will result in repeated episodes of policy volatility. This effect, however, will depend on the structure o…
Remittances and Social Spending
Remittances are a significant source of foreign exchange for developing economies. I argue that remittances, due to their compensation and insurance functions, will increase the general income level and economic security of recipients, thereby reducing their perceived income risk. Over time, this will dampen demand from recipients for government taxation and social insurance. Therefore, I expect increases in income remitted to an economy to resul…
Maximizing the Reliability of Cross-National Measures of Presidential Power
This article aims to maximize the reliability of presidential power scores for a larger number of countries and time periods than currently exists for any single measure, and in a way that is replicable and easy to update. It begins by identifying all of the studies that have estimated the effect of a presidential power variable, clarifying what scholars have attempted to capture when they have operationalized the concept of presidential power. I…
The European Political Science Agenda: A Multilevel Analysis from a Country Perspective
This presentation introduces the analytical framework applied in this symposium for the analysis of publishing trends of European political scientists. Our goal is to ascertain the degree to which the discipline in four contrasting countries (Ireland, Norway, Portugal and Spain) speaks to a wider European or international audience. Is political science insular in these countries, or is it internationalised? On which aspects are the publications s…
Irish Political Science in Ireland and Abroad: Publications in Major Journals (1999–2014)
We examine and discuss the state of political science in Ireland, using a new dataset on articles published in major domestic, European, and international academic journals by authors affiliated with Irish institutions during the period 1999–2014. Our main findings are as follows: political scientists in Ireland have generally focused more on comparative politics and international relations than on methodology, political theory, or public policy.…
Measuring Legislative Power: An Expert Reweighting of the Fish‐Kroenig Parliamentary Powers Index
The Parliamentary Powers Index (PPI) developed by Fish and Kroenig (2009) is the most important effort to date to measure legislative power in cross‐national perspective, but it has been criticized on both theoretical and methodological grounds. We build on the 32‐item PPI to develop an alternative indicator of legislative strength that is based on an expert survey of 296 political scientists in 2014. We reweight each of the powers by expert opin…
Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
Presidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highlights that some form of ideological compromise on behalf of the president is vital to sustain successful legislative coalitions. Yet, primarily due to the lack of a firm empirical basis on which to measure such presidential give-and-take, the extent to which presidents make use of such policy compromise, and under what conditions this is a viable strat…
When the Money Stops: Fluctuations in Financial Remittances and Incumbent Approval in Central Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Fluctuations in the volume and the value of financial remittances received from abroad affect the livelihood of households in developing economies across the world. Yet, political scientists have little to say about how changes in remittances, as opposed to the receipt of remittance payments alone, affect recipients’ political attitudes. Relying on a unique four-wave panel study of Kyrgyz citizens between 2010–2013 and a cross-sectional sample of…
Presidential Power and Party Strength: The “Inverse Relationship” Reconsidered
This article revisits theoretical claims that separation of power systems will display an inverse relationship between presidential power and party strength. Shugart and Carey posited this as a general equilibrium within presidential democracies; later, Shugart proposed that the inverse relationship resulted from founding institutional choices shaped in turn by modes of democratic transition. We test both the equilibrium and the genetic versions …
Progressive tax policy and informal labor in developing economies
Governments in many industrializing democracies face difficult policy trade‐offs. Liberalization and informality have placed electoral pressure on them to expand noncontributory social spending. However, governments in developing democracies face constraints when attempting to finance this expansion. In some countries, the informal labor market is very large, thereby undermining the revenue that can be collected through income tax. We argue that …
Stigma-Based Rejection Experiences Affect Trust in Others
Rejection experiences are likely to influence individuals’ subsequent feelings about others and their behavior in social interactions. The present study specifically examined whether stigma-based rejection leads to decreased trust in others, compared to rejections that are not stigma based. Trust was assessed behaviorally with an online task where the interaction partner was preprogrammed. Participants showed less trust after stigma-based rejecti…
Opting Out of the Social Contract: Tax Morale and Evasion
We examine the individual-level determinants of tax morale in low-capacity states, specifically Latin American countries, where the social contract is often perceived as fractured. We argue that individuals in such states perceive the social contract as an agreement to which they can opt in or opt out. Those who choose to opt out prefer to substitute state-provided goods for private providers, rather than pay for public goods through taxes or fre…
Breakdown, Cooperation, or Backsliding? A Return to Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America
This essay reviews the following works:Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Alemán and George Tsebelis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 266. 16.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781524762940
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