We provide evidence that economic circumstances are a key intermediating variable for understanding the relationship between schooling and…
Despite the growing concern about elections which fail around the world, there has been little systematic understanding of the importance…
Many elections confront challenges in meeting international standards of electoral integrity, including in established democracies such as…
Many malpractices generate flawed elections which fail to meet international standards of electoral integrity, including issues such as…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
Drawing upon theories of the diffusion of global norms, this study addresses two issues: is there a shared consensus among experts about…
We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of political participation, using data from Italy. We…
Book abstract: Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices From Within provides an expansive understanding of secularism in the Muslim World by…
Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…