scholarly journals Voting with your feet: Political competition and internal migration in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 101931
Author(s):  
Wai-Man Liu ◽  
Phong Ngo
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 256-265
Author(s):  
Konstantin V. Simonov ◽  
Stanislav P. Mitrakhovich

The article examines the possibility of transfer to bipartisan system in Russia. The authors assess the benefits of the two-party system that include first of all the ensuring of actual political competition and authority alternativeness with simultaneous separation of minute non-system forces that may contribute to the country destabilization. The authors analyze the accompanying risks and show that the concept of the two-party system as the catalyst of elite schism is mostly exaggerated. The authors pay separate attention to the experience of bipartisan system implementation in other countries, including the United States. They offer detailed analysis of the generated concept of the bipartisanship crisis and show that this point of view doesn’t quite agree with the current political practice. The authors also examine the foreign experience of the single-party system. They show that the success of the said system is mostly insubstantial, besides many of such systems have altered into more complex structures, while commentators very often use not the actual information but the established myths about this or that country. The authors also offer practical advice regarding the potential technologies of transition to the bipartisan system in Russia.


Author(s):  
Dawn Langan Teele

This chapter presents a case study of women's enfranchisement in the United States. It argues that the formation of a broad coalition of women, symbolized by growing membership in a large non-partisan suffrage organization, in combination with competitive conditions in state legislatures, was crucial to securing politicians' support for women's suffrage in the states. The chapter first gives a broad overview of the phases of the US suffrage movement, arguing that the salience of political cleavages related to race, ethnicity, nativity, and class influenced the type of movement suffragists sought to build. It then describes the political geography of the Gilded Age, showing how the diversity of political competition and party organization that characterized the several regions mirrors the pattern of women's enfranchisement across the states.


1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Hidalgo

SUMMARY Mexican Spanish and Chicano Spanish: Fundamental Problems and Proposals The first sections of this article discuss the historical circumstances that intervened in the emergence of Mexican Spanish as an independent variety of Mexican Spanish; it also describes the geographic and social dialects of contemporary Mexican Spanish in the light of the studies carried out or directed by J. M. Lope Blanch. The second part compares the phonological and morphosyntactic phenomena that characterize Mexican and Chicano or Mexican American Spanish, the variety spoken in the southwestern part of the United States. Although the language data presented herein evidence countless similarities between the two varieties, the author assumes that the varíability of Mexican Spanish is greater than that of Chicano Spanish inasmuch as the demographic explosion, the intense internal migration, and the growth of the mass media in Mexico have caused speakers of diverse geographic and social backgrounds to be in close contact. Finally, since Chicano Spanish is very similar to and less varíable than Mexican Spanish, the author proposes a possible language planning based on a Chicano variety with salient Mexican features. RESUMO Meksika hispana lingvo kaj cikana hispana: Fundamentaj problemoj kaj proponoj. La unuaj sekcioj de tiu ci artikolo traktas la historiajn cirkonstancojn, kiuj intervenis en la ekapero de la meksika hispana kiel sendependa varíanto de la duoninsula hispana lingvo. Ĝi ankaǔ priskribas la geografiajn kaj sociajn dialektojn de la nuntempa mek-sika hispana en la kunteksto de la studoj faritaj aǔ direktitaj de J. M. Lope Blanch. La dua parto komparas la fonologiajn kaj morfosintaksajn fenomenojn, kiuj karak-terizas meksikan kaj ĉikanan aǔ meksik-amerikan hispanan lingvon, do tiun varíanton parolatan en la sudokcidenta parto de Usono. Kvankam la lingvaj informoj donataj ĉi tie montras sennombrajn similecojn inter la du varíanto], la aǔtoro supozas, ke la va-riemo de la meksik-hispana estas pli granda ol tiu de la ĉikan-hispana pro tio, ke la demografia eksplodo, la intensa interna migrado kaj la kresko de la amaskomunikiloj en Meksiko metis en proksiman kontakton parolantojn el diversaj fonoj geografiaj kaj sociaj. Fine, ĉar la ĉikan-hispana estas tre simila al la meksik-hispana, kaj malpli va-riema, la aǔtoro proponas eblan lingvoplanan procedon bazitan sur ĉikana varíanto kun evidentaj meksikaj elementoj.


2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis R. Gale ◽  
Will Carrington Heath

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