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Democracy and Authoritarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Douglas A. Yates
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Democracy and Authoritarianism in Sub-Saharan AfricaIntroductionThe end of colonial rule in Africa brought into existence new independent states that ...
Democracy and Dictatorship in Central Asia
Mariya Y. Omelicheva
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Democracy and Dictatorship in Central AsiaIntroductionThe fall of communism in Europe and the demise of the Soviet Union were met with jubilation and ...
Democracy and Minority Language Recognition
Amy H. Liu, Mike Medeiros
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Democracy and Minority Language RecognitionIntroductionLanguage is one of the most important markers of a distinct group identity: It brings members t...
Democracy in Latin America
Agustín Goenaga
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Democracy in Latin AmericaIntroductionFor decades, Latin America’s troubled experience with democracy has served as a testing ground for theories on d...
Democratic Citizenship
Ugur Altundal, Richard Valelly
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Democratic CitizenshipIntroductionDemocratic citizenship is membership in a political democracy. The unit for democratic membership does not have to b...
Democratic Consolidation
Yana Gorokhovskaia
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Democratic ConsolidationIntroductionA democracy becomes consolidated—that is, it is expected to endure—when political actors accept the legitimacy of ...
Democratic Peace Theory
Dan Reiter
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Democratic Peace Theory Introduction Democratic peace is the proposition that democracies are more peaceful in their foreign relations. This i...
Democratic Theory
Michael Laurence
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Democratic TheoryIntroductionDemocratic theory is an established subfield of political theory that is primarily concerned with examining the definitio...
Democratization
David Samuels
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Democratization Introduction Democratization is defined as a change in political regime within a sovereign state from nondemocracy to democracy...
Democratization in Africa
Clark Gibson, Brigitte Zimmerman
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Democratization in Africa Introduction On a continent once dominated by dictators and one-party states, elections are now entrenched in Africa...
Democratization in Central America
Fabrice Lehoucq
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Democratization in Central America Introduction Even as late as the 1980s, no one would have thought of writing about democratization in Centra...
Democratization in Mexico
Jonathan Hiskey
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Democratization in Mexico Introduction For many, Mexico became a democracy on the night of 2 July 2000, when the Partido Revolucionario Instit...
Democratization in the Muslim World
Frédéric Volpi, Francesco Cavatorta
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Democratization in the Muslim WorldIntroductionThe issue of the democratization of the Muslim world has puzzled scholarship since the end of the Cold ...
Development of Survey Research
Richard Johnston
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Development of Survey Research Introduction Survey research and empirical political science grew up together. Although the bills for commercial...
Diasporas and Politics
Nikola Mirilovic, Nadejda Marinova
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Diasporas and PoliticsIntroductionIn 2020, according to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 281 million individuals, or 3.5 percent of t...
Direct Democracy in the United States
Stephen P. Nicholson, Kayla S. Canelo
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Direct Democracy In The United StatesIntroductionThe distinguishing feature of direct democracy is that voters determine policy outcomes. The brainchi...
Dual Citizenship
Cristina Escobar
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Dual CitizenshipIntroductionDual or multiple nationality/citizenship is a status that grants an individual membership in two or more states. This stat...
East Africa, Politics of
George Nyabuga
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Politics of East Africa Introduction The focus of this article is Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, although countries including Rwanda, Burundi, So...
East and Southeast Asia, Political Party Systems in
Olli Hellmann
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Political Party Systems in East and Southeast AsiaIntroductionThis article reviews academic work on party systems—defined as the patterns of interacti...
East and Southeast Asia, Women and Politics in
Netina Tan
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Women and Politics in East and Southeast AsiaIntroductionWomen’s descriptive representation in East and Southeast Asia remains lower than global avera...
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