Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…
In every society in many arenas, the reality of collective decision ;making falls far short of the democratic ideal in countless ways.…
The UNDP publication Gender Equality in Elected Office in
Asia-Pacific: Six Actions to Expand Women’s Empowerment
provides an overview of…
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the…
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the…
The essay discusses the negative effects of the politicization of
religion in the U.S. The authors note that modern U.S. partisan…
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political…
For years, the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has been saddled with a reputation for empirical narrowness and lack of…
Book abstract: In the 25 years since Arend Lijphart remarked that 'the study of electoral systems is undoubtedly the most underdeveloped…