Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…
Egyptians living abroad began voting Dec. 12 on whether to accept the nation’s proposed new constitution. Yet, even as they took to the…
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…
Book abstract: The two-volume Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics fills a gap in scholarship on an increasingly important field within…
In every society in many arenas, the reality of collective decision ;making falls far short of the democratic ideal in countless ways.…
El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar un fenómeno de gran trascendencia para la mejora potencial de la participación ciudadana…
Days after the beginning of the Libyan uprising in February 2011, a self-appointed group of human rights lawyers and defectors from Qaddafi…
The UNDP publication Gender Equality in Elected Office in
Asia-Pacific: Six Actions to Expand Women’s Empowerment
provides an overview of…
Book abstract: Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict…