TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fruhstorfer, Anna
A1  - Hudson, Alexander
T1  - Majorities for minorities
BT  - Participatory constitution making and the protection of minority rights
JF  - Political research quarterly : PRQ ; official journal of Western Political Science Association, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Southern California Political Science Association, Northern California Political Science Association
N2  - Does the process of making a constitution affect the expansiveness of rights protections in the constitution? In particular, is more participation in constitution-making processes better for minority rights protections? While the process of constitution making and its impact on various outcomes have received significant attention, little is known about the impact public participation or deliberation in this process has on the scope and content of minority rights. Using a wide variety of data to empirically assess the relationship between constitution-making processes and the protection of rights for minorities, we find a positive relationship between participatory drafting processes and the inclusion of minority protections in constitutions under some conditions. The article's findings have important implications for understanding political representation and lend support to core arguments about the role of the public in constitutional design.
KW  - constitution-making
KW  - human rights
KW  - minority rights
KW  - direct democracy
KW  - public participation
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912920984246
SN  - 1065-9129
SN  - 1938-274X
VL  - 75
IS  - 1
SP  - 103
EP  - 117
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tanneberg, Dag
T1  - Does repression of campaigns trigger coups d’état?
JF  - The politics of repression under authoritarian rule : how steadfast is the Iron Throne?
N2  - Does complementarity between restrictions and violence stabilize authoritarian power-sharing in the face of popular rebellion? Scholars widely concur that the central political conflict in authoritarian regimes plays out between people on the inside of the regime. This chapter adds to the debate and studies coup attempts in light of two interconnected hypotheses. First, violence against campaigns destabilizes power-sharing because it exposes a weak leadership. Second, this adverse effect of violence declines as the routine level of restrictions increases, because restrictions act as a sorting mechanism for uncompromising political opposition. Both hypotheses are tested using Bayesian multilevel statistical analysis on a data set of 253 coup attempts in 198 authoritarian regimes between 1949 and 2007. This study design allows separation of repression’s time-dependent effects from its context effects, and it demonstrates the value of Bayesian methods for studying rare political phenomena such as coups d’état. The chapter’s conclusion, however, is straightforward: Once citizens form campaigns, repression can only deteriorate the situation because it opens a frontline right at the center of authoritarian rule.
KW  - contentious politics
KW  - human rights
KW  - state repression
KW  - political stability
KW  - policy substitutes
KW  - dictatorship
KW  - political repression
KW  - political campaigns
KW  - authoritarian rule
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-030-35477-0
SN  - 978-3-030-35476-3
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35477-0_5
SN  - 2198-7289
SP  - 121
EP  - 162
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Fitzi, Gregor
A1  - Joas, Hans
A1  - Marcucci, Nicola
T1  - Interview by Gregor Fitzi and Nicola Marcucci with Hans Joas on the reception of Emile Durkheim in Germany. Berlin: Humboldt University of Berlin, 6 October 2014
T2  - Journal of Classical Sociology
N2  - The interview offers a reconstruction of the German reception of Durkheim since the middle of the 1970s. Hans Joas, who was one of its major protagonists, discusses the backdrop that finally permitted a scholarly examination of Durkheim’s sociology in Germany. Focussing on his personal reception Joas then gives an account of the Durkheimian themes that inspire his work.
KW  - Durkheim
KW  - human rights
KW  - modernity
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17736131
SN  - 1468-795X
SN  - 1741-2897
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
SP  - 382
EP  - 398
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -