From the Inside Out: Ethnographic Methods in Political Research

Volo, Lorraine Bayard de; Schatz, Edward

doi:10.1017/s1049096504004214

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“…When political consumerism is sophisticatedly embedded in daily nonpolitical behaviours (Stolle et al, 2005), in-depth case studies and the observation-based ethnographical approach rooted from the research tradition of cultural anthropology (e.g. Geertz, 1994;Bayard de Volo and Schatz, 2004) would be a promising new research direction as well.…”

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‘Voting with dollars’: a cross‐polity and multilevel analysis of political consumerism

Zhang

2015

Int J Consumer Studies

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In addition to canonical political actions, political consumerism, i.e. using market purchases to express political and societal concerns, is becoming a new form of political participation, and it varies significantly among societies. Two society-level distinctions would account for such variations: the level of political freedom and the level of economic development. Using data from the 2004 International Social Survey Program, multilevel models estimate the effects of both individual and structural factors on individuals' political consumerism, i.e. boycotting certain products, across 21 countries (n 5 30 666). Political consumerism takes place in affluent countries with lower levels of political rights but higher levels of civil liberties. Individual-level political media uses, political orientation and demographics account for boycott behaviours as well. Furthermore, canonical discriminant analysis differentiates political consumption from other types of political behaviours. The study reveals that political consumerism results from the impacts of both individual characteristics and societal determinants.

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‘Voting with dollars’: a cross‐polity and multilevel analysis of political consumerism

Zhang

2015

Int J Consumer Studies

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“…Palestinian communities in these cities were directly affected by the 1982 withdrawal of the PLO and guerrilla organizations (PLO and guerrilla personnel did not evacuate eastern or northern Lebanon), the Israeli occupation, Lebanese government campaigns, and the War of the Camps. granted external categories of participation or behavior (Bayard de Volo and Schatz 2004;Gerring 2001;Pachirat 2009, 143-144;Wedeen 2009Wedeen , 2010. Trust and analytic insight are crucial to accessing and situating restricted information that is unlikely to be gathered in a one-shot interaction and that is not captured in documents or other accessible historical material.…”

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Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War

2013

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R esearch on violent mobilization broadly emphasizes who joins rebellions and why, but neglects to explain the timing or nature of participation. Support and logistical apparatuses play critical roles in sustaining armed conflict, but scholars have not explained role differentiation within militant organizations or accounted for the structures, processes, and practices that produce discrete categories of fighters, soldiers, and staff. Extant theories consequently conflate mobilization and participation in rebel organizations with frontline combat. This article argues that, to understand wartime mobilization and organizational resilience, scholars must situate militants in their organizational and social context. By tracing the emergence and evolution of female-dominated clandestine supply, financial, and information networks in 1980s Lebanon, it demonstrates that mobilization pathways and organizational subdivisions emerge from the systematic overlap between formal militant hierarchies and quotidian social networks. In doing so, this article elucidates the nuanced relationship between social structure, militant organizations, and sustained rebellion.H ow is rebellion sustained? This question is more complex than it appears. Scholarship on individual and group mobilization has demonstrated how relative deprivation (may influence actors' decisions to participate in collective violence and other high-risk behaviors. Research on organized rebellion, for its part, has focused on determinants of explicitly violent behavior (Humphreys and Weinstein

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“…In the words of Bayard de Valo and Schatz, 'unless we believe that agents have no bearing on political outcomes, we must employ tools that uncover, rather than presuppose, individual's motivations and behaviours'. 44 Yet the transposition of ethnographic methods or anthropological approaches from one discipline to another has raised controversy. In particular, there is dispute over the appropriateness of using ethnography as a positivist data-collection tool that promises access to an objective social reality: a promise that cannot be kept according to more interpretivist and reflexive schools of ethnographic and anthropological research.…”

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New Perspectives on Security Sector Reform: The Role of Local Agency and Domestic Politics

Schroeder¹,

Chappuis²

2014

International Peacekeeping

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This special issue identifies new directions in research on the consequences of international involvement in security sector reform (SSR). Both empirically and theoretically, the focus lies on the so far neglected role of local agency and domestic power constellations. The introductory article maps out different ways to analyse the external-domestic interaction dynamics that structure the often contentious and asymmetric encounters between international and local interests and demands in SSR processes. It makes the case for moving beyond a state-centric approach to the study of security governance in areas of limited statehood and for engaging more closely with the layered, mixed or hybrid security orders that can result from external engagement in domestic reform contexts.

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From the Inside Out: Ethnographic Methods in Political Research

Cited by 94 publications

References 12 publications

‘Voting with dollars’: a cross‐polity and multilevel analysis of political consumerism

‘Voting with dollars’: a cross‐polity and multilevel analysis of political consumerism

Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War

New Perspectives on Security Sector Reform: The Role of Local Agency and Domestic Politics

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