Muslim Support for Secular Democracy
Book abstract: Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices From Within provides an expansive understanding of secularism in the Muslim World by exploring different trajectories and varieties of secularism, from
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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
The New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents—the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as
Political Violence
Although international relations as a field focuses largely on war and peace between nation-states, the vast majority of conflicts have been within countries rather than between them.
Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
A Google search for a person's name, such as “Trevon Jones”, may yield a personalized ad for public records about Trevon that may be neutral, such as “Looking for Trevon Jones?
Democracies and Dictatorship in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall.
Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that eli
Egypt’s Constitution Needs an Expiration Date
Egyptians living abroad began voting Dec. 12 on whether to accept the nation’s proposed new constitution.
Review of Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited
Schooling, Political Participation, and the Economy
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics.
Tiananmen Square
Book abstract: The two-volume Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics fills a gap in scholarship on an increasingly important field within Political Science.
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