Comparing America
Reflections on Democracy across Subfields
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6325124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Didi Kuo (0000-0002-9762-0024, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 788-800 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592719001014 |
| OpenAlex | W2969863607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 95 |
Is America in a period of democratic decline? I argue that there is an urgent need to consider the United States in comparative perspective, and that doing so is necessary to contextualize and understand the quality of American democracy. I describe two approaches to comparing the United States: the first shows how the United States stacks up to other countries, while the second uses the theories and tools of comparative politics to examine relationships between institutions, actors, and democratic outcomes. I then draw on research in three literatures—clientelism and corruption, capitalism and redistribution, and race and ethnic politics and American Political Development—to lay out a research agenda for closing the gap between the subfields of American and comparative politics. In doing so, I also argue for richer engagement between academics and the public sphere, as opportunities for scholars to provide commentary and analysis about contemporary politics continue to expand
Capitalism · Clientelism · Comparative politics · Democracy · Ethnic group · Language change · Opportunity structures · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Redistribution (election · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
American Affective Polarization in Comparative Perspective
American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective
The breaching experiment. Donald Trump and the normative foundations of democracy
Race and Politics in America
Validating the feeling thermometer as a measure of partisan affect in multi-party systems
Political Order in Changing Societies
Polyarchy
Reforming Jim Crow
The Political Construction of Business Interests
Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
Making Race and Nation
Capitalists against Markets
Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa
Lobbying and Policy Change
The Two Reconstructions
The Submerged State
The Government-Citizen Disconnect
Building a New American State
Boundary Control
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
At the Boundaries of Homeownership
The Business of America is Lobbying
Uncivil Agreement
Structural power and political science in the post-crisis era
Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote
The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
Buying Time
Fear Itself
Democracy in Plural Societies
Normcore
Who Speaks for the Poor?
Varieties of Capitalism
Political Order in Changing Societies
Disenfranchising Democracy
Age in the Welfare State
Ironies of State Building
The People vs. Democracy
Forging the Franchise
Deep Roots
Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy
American Capitalism
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
Corruption and Government
Fragmented Democracy
Politics
Competitive Authoritarianism
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Global Inequality
How Democracies Die
Affluence and Influence
Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics
White riot
Constructing Industrial Order in the Center of the American Economy
Cages of Reason
Networks and Institutions in Europe's Emerging Markets
The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies
Paths Out of Dixie
Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy
Deep roots
The populist temptation
Distribution and Redistribution
Winners Take All
Partisan Politics, Financial Deregulation, and the New Gilded Age
The Strengthening of Partisan Affect
Testing Theories of American Politics
The Trump Presidency and American Democracy
Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans
A Theory of Political Parties
Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and the Quality of Democracy in the United States
The Koch Network and Republican Party Extremism
Wealth Inequality and Democracy
American Exceptionalism and the Welfare State
Democratization During the Third Wave
Distributive Politics Around the World
"Business" Is Not an Interest Group
Political Science and the Study of Corporate Power
Cages of Reason
The Myth of the “Weak” American State
Police Are Our Government
Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization
Facing Up to the Democratic Recession
The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
Racial Orders in American Political Development
Structural Dependence of the State on Capital
The Founding of New Societies
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Party and Patronage
Democratizing Finance
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |