We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political…
Does democratic governance expand wealth and prosperity? There is no consensus about this issue despite the fact that for more than half a…
As we consider over two decades of change in Bolivia, it now seems to us that understanding history involves adjusting short-term…
This article evaluates a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to answer the question of whether informed voters can…
We examine several hypotheses regarding the determinants and implications of political protest,
motivated by the wave of popular uprisings…
On a recent Saturday morning, several hundred pro-democracy activists congregated in a Moscow square to protest government restrictions on…
I no longer recognize Turkey, the country where I was raised and spend most of my time when I am not teaching in the U.S.
It wasn't so…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
If the Women’s Reservation Bill becomes law, then 181 out of 543 national legislators and 1370 out the 4109 state legislators will be women…