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140221
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The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is animated by a pragmatic strain that views external sanctions as effective pressure against a small democratic state and by a moralistic Manichean strain that portrays Israelis as oppressors. Both strains hearken back to the earlier campaign against apartheid in South Africa. We argue that doing so misreads the lessons of South Africa. Sanctions may have contributed to ending apartheid, but they operated in conjunction with improved security and interpersonal trust among negotiators. Key contenders moved from a discourse of oppression to one that humanized one another as partners with legitimate concerns. These conditions are missing from the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Both sides consider their security to be precarious and they are locked in competing narratives of victimization, which further erode mutual trust and security. Measures to improve the parties’ security and trust would contribute to mutual concessions and greater justification for sanctions if the Israeli government is intransigent.
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140216
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The main takeaway for many readers of Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State? concerns the durability of social welfare programs. Certainly for the period that Pierson analyzes, the conservative governments of Reagan and Thatcher largely failed to retrench welfare state spending. Both overall social spending and the split between universal and targeted programs remained fl at during the 1980s, despite the great hopes and eff orts of those administrations.
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140219
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Like wines, for election forecasting there are some good years and then there are some not so good years. The 2014 vintage of PS election forecasts, now aged past runoff s and recounts, ranks among the more successful of years.
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140212
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Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State is a modern classic. For two decades, Pierson’s theoretically innovative and empirically grounded account of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations’ retrenchment eff orts has provided the intellectual foundation for the study of the politics of the welfare state after the golden age. The winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in the fi eld of US national policy, Dismantling the Welfare State has been cited some 3,500 times in Google Scholar and remains essential reading for scholars of comparative politics, American politics, and policy studies.
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140218
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In this brief refl ection I mostly set aside the empirical claims of the book, gratified that the commentators broadly agree that (with important exceptions) they have held up well. 1 Instead, I want to focus on three core ideas from Dismantling that I believe retain importance for understanding the political economies of advanced democracies. In each case, however, my thinking has evolved over the two decades since that book appeared, in large part because of the work of other scholars.
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140214
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Paul Pierson’s work on the politics of welfare state reform in the era of retrenchment, beginning with his 1994 book and stretching through his 2001 edited volume, fundamentally reoriented the fi eld of comparative social policy of post-industrial democracies. The following quote from his 1996 World Politics article well summarizes some of the main arguments of these works
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140217
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Dismantling the Welfare State is a classic work, as fresh and stimulating today as when it was fi rst written. Many of the insights in it are central to the study of policy making today. One is the core thesis, stated on the opening page, that “retrenchment is a distinctive and difficult political enterprise…in no sense a simple mirror image of welfare state expansion.” Paul Pierson was the fi rst scholar to show that theories about how welfare states were built are inadequate for understanding the politics of how they were sustained or reformed in the context of lower growth rates during the 1980s and 1990s. For that purpose, we need a new analysis of the “politics of retrenchment” that the book provides.
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140215
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The publication of Dismantling the Welfare State in 1994 emerged at a moment when the future of the welfare state was very much in doubt. The language of welfare cutbacks had forcefully entered public debates as both scholars and policymakers came to the realization that the postwar economic boom had passed. Throughout the 1980s, anti-welfare parties, espousing a vision of a leaner state, scored major electoral successes on both sides of the Atlantic. Simultaneously, in other sectors of the economy, policymakers began to engage in drastic deregulation and economic privatization.
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140220
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What motivates people to vote strategically? Although a broad literature addresses this question, few studies capture the point at which individuals shift from sincere to strategic voters. Furthermore, the influence of polling information remains debated. The analysis in this article tackles strategic voting with an original embedded experiment in a web survey. Empirical analysis finds that respondents who were told of the margin of error in preelection polls were more likely to vote strategically. This analysis also suggests the limits to strategic voting even in ideal settings.
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140213
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Twenty years on, Paul Pierson’s book Dismantling the Welfare State has earned the stature of a classic text in our discipline. In rereading the book recently, I was struck by how innovative it was for its time, starting with its substantive contribution: when it was written, scholars were still trying to make sense of the creation of the welfare state, never mind eff orts to dismantle it. Along comes Pierson, examining what were then very recent political events by applying the analytical framework of historical institutionalism (Pierson 1994 ). This was truly novel when the book was published and remains a cuttingedge approach: we are still learning how analytical lenses for probing political change and development can help us to understand not only past but contemporary politics as well.
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