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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...
East Asia, Civil Society and Social Movements in
Mary Alice Haddad
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Civil Society and Social Movements in East AsiaIntroductionCivil society in East Asia emerged from two community-generated needs: Rural villages relyi...
Economic Voting
Mary Stegmaier, Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Economic Voting Introduction Voting is an act of political behavior that has been explained in a number of ways. A sociological approach may s...
Effects of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on American Public Opinion and Behavior
Carlin Crisanti, Jennifer Merolla
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Effects of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on American Public Opinion and BehaviorIntroductionThe September 11th attacks were the deadliest international t...
Egalitarianism
Carl Knight, Andreas Albertsen
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
EgalitarianismIntroductionEquality as a bare concept refers to two or more distinct things or people being the same in some dimension. Different forms...
Election Forecasting
Mary Stegmaier, Helmut Norpoth
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Election ForecastingIntroductionElection forecasting appeals to a basic human urge to peek into the future. Ever since elections were invented to choo...
Election Laws in Democracies
Ignacio Lago
Subject: Political Science »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Election Laws in DemocraciesIntroductionContemporary democracies are based on the principle of division of labor: citizens delegate the tasks of gover...
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