Reactive Limits To Diaspora Enfranchisement Policies: A Conceptual Categorization

Keywords

diaspora disenfranchisement; diaspora enfranchisement; diaspora voting; Transnational politics; voting abroad

Abstract

Building on Matland’s ([1995]. “Synthesizing the Implementation Literature: The Ambiguity-conflict Model of Policy Implementation.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 5 (2): 145–174.) ambiguity-conflict policy processes and implementation matrix, I create a conceptual categorization of limits to expatriates’ voting rights. Limits vary with adoption and implementation timing, and the degree of disenfranchisement they generate. Some limits are included in enfranchisement legislation, while others are adopted years after initial enfranchisement, or are just implemented, without any legal basis, leading to partial or full diaspora disenfranchisement. While not seeking to theorize limits’ origins or causes, I aim to create conceptual categories that are much needed for the study of this rapidly growing phenomenon. Four such categories, drawing on the importance of timing and experience in policy adoption and implementation divide limits according to varying degrees and combinations of ambiguity and conflict. Each category contains examples of limits adopted within the last decade, which may dramatically redefine expatriates’ rights and political participation in the years to come.

Publication Date

1-2-2018

Publication Title

Diaspora Studies

Volume

11

Issue

1

Number of Pages

1-24

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/09739572.2017.1331607

Socpus ID

85031402822 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85031402822

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