PSJ 54/3 2026-07-07
Original Imagined Integration: The Logics of Japanese Immigrant Integration Policy
Mariri Niino, William L. Allen
Abstract
ABSTRACT As governments develop immigrant integration policies, they draw on and express conceptions about what successful integration looks like—what we call “imagined integration.” Yet this imagination likely displays variation that matters for implementation: integration policymaking is increasingly multilevel as it involves subnational layers of bureaucracy, and it may differ across national contexts which have distinct immigration experiences and political dynamics. In response, we trace the logics within Japan's approach to integrating a range of immigrants (“multicultural coexistence”) as its objectives pass through to subnational (prefectural) governments. As a major industrialized economy, Japan is instructive because its centrally organized approach to integration differs from Western cases, and yet its growing policy attention to integration typifies trends in neighboring Asian countries facing similar demographic and economic challenges. Through the first comprehensive content analysis of all available prefectural plans regarding multicultural coexistence ( N = 31 as of 2025), we identify how subnational policymakers conceive coexistence, its justification, and its successful achievement on paper. Our study contributes to better connections between empirical understanding of important policies affecting immigrants in a key world region, as well as to theorization about the ideational aspects of policymaking.
CQ — pp. 1-23 2026-07-06 Original The Emergence of Local Digital Platform Vehicles in China
Wenjia Song, Tianguang Meng
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Abstract As China’s land-financed development model faces increasing constraints, local governments have turned to public data as a new strategic resource. However, there is a governance puzzle with public data: how can the state mobilize a resource whose ownership remains legally and politically unresolved? This article examines Local Digital Platform Vehicles (LDPVs), hybrid corporations that have proliferated since the early 2010s. Drawing on data gathered from extensive interviews and an original nationwide dataset of LDPVs from 2014 to 2025, we argue that these entities enable local governments to exercise “control without ownership” by asserting authority over data flows rather than through formal property rights. Internally, control is achieved through co-shareholding, task approval, personnel and strategic partner selection, which bind market actors to local developmental objectives. Externally, LDPVs extract value by internalizing subcontractor profits, pursuing data financialization and shifting towards platform-based models. The article shows how China’s local developmental state is developing new organizational instruments for governance in the digital age.
JCC — pp. 1-20 2026-07-05 Original “Top-Down Communitarianism”: The Purposes and Limitations of China’s Point System Governance
GOV 39/3 2026-07-04
Original Informational Crowding‐Out? Targeted Transparency, Environmental Nonprofits, and Public Concern in China
GOV 39/3 2026-07-02
Original Regulatory Governance in the Era of Populist Ascendancy: A Tug‐of‐War Between Independent Public Authorities and Central Government in Greece
AJPS — 2026-07-02
Original Bureaucrat assignments as instruments of political control: Theory and evidence from land administration officials in India
Anustubh Agnihotri, Aditya Dasgupta, Devesh Kapur
JOP 88/3 pp. 952-966 2026-07-01 Original Toward Understanding Condonation of Gender-Based Violence: The Interaction of Patriarchal Values and Contextual Elements of Violence Against Women
James L. Gibson, Amanda Gouws
WP 78/3 pp. 459-508 2026-07-01 Original The Myth of the Traditional Gender Gap? Evidence from Catholic Countries
Evelyne Brie, Dawn Langan Teele
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abstract: In rich democracies today, women are less conservative than men. Yet for most of the twentieth century, politicians, pundits, and scholars believed that family life and religiosity tied women to conservative causes and parties. Recent scholarship has reexamined this traditional gender gap hypothesis but has done so in cases in which electorate-wide shifts to the left make it least likely that a conservative gender gap would emerge. This article scrutinizes a hard case, Quebec, a Catholic province in Canada that experienced a dramatic shift to the right after suffrage. Using Gallup polls and ecological inference techniques, the authors show that political geography drove gender preference gaps, with rural women voting more conservatively, and urban women more liberally, than men. In two other Catholic contexts, Austria and Argentina, they show that after suffrage women were not more conservative than men in general, undermining the traditional gender gap thesis in several crucial cases.
JOP 88/3 pp. 935-951 2026-07-01 Original The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation
Tobias Nowacki
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中文 比例代表制下的政治生涯性别差距
Tobias Nowacki
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性别差距、政治生涯、比例代表制、选举制度、政治代表
DOI: 10.1086/735871
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JOP 88/3 pp. 1175-1185 2026-07-01 Original The Compleat Economic Voter in Belgium: Channels of Accountability in a Complex Multilevel Government System
Martin Okolikj, Marc Hooghe, Michael S. Lewis-Beck