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 how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…
The essay discusses the negative effects of the politicization of
religion in the U.S. The authors note that modern U.S. partisan…
The first book to address children's statelessness and lack of legal status as a human rights issue.
Children are among the most…
Member-based civic associations, or citizen groups, have two crucial roles in American democracy. They advocate for members' interests in…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find…