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Clubs of autocrats: Regional organizations and authoritarian survival
While scholars have argued that membership in Regional Organizations (ROs) can increase the likelihood of democratization, we see many autocratic...
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Argentine Catholic Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century: an Analysis in Perspective
Religious culture is presented as a significant plot with delimited borders, although inserted in a broader cultural framework, and sustained in a...
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Transition to Democracy or Hybrid Regime? The Dynamics and Outcomes of Democratization in Myanmar
This article analyzes Myanmar’s transition from authoritarianism and asks if it represents a transition towards democracy or a hybrid form of rule....
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Challenges of Restrictive Legislation on Domestic CSOs in Promoting Democracy: Lesson from Ethiopia
The operation of strong Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) within a given country helps make the state democratic: CSOs struggle for justice, the...
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Public Health, Democracy, and Transition: Global Evidence and Post-Communism
Democracy is generally associated with governmental accountability, better public policy choices and public health. However, there is limited...
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Dating Apps and Shifting Sexual Subjectivities of Men Seeking Men Online
Leading theories of the recent history of sexuality have pointed to trends toward detraditionalization and precarity in intimate relations, but also...
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Democracy and National Identity in South Korea After 1987
Jaesok Son traces how South Koreans’ sense of national identityNational identity has changed over decades. South Koreans’ national identity used to...
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Transparency and Accountability: Two Significant Political Reforms of Twenty-First Century in India
After 1990s, the democratization process all the world became effective in widening the scope of peoples’ participation in the governing process....
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Participation and Democratization in Youth Research—To What Extent? Critical Reflections on Current Pathways in Qualitative Youth Research
To what extent is it possible to nurture the participation of young people in a methodological setup developed by adults? The chapter revolves around...
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Getting It Right? The Site Selection Process for Canada’s High-level Nuclear Waste
This chapter focuses on assessment and risk management of the site selection process for Canada’s permanent high-level waste management facility for...
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Turnout
As politics evolves through a multitude of external and domestic developments, looking at the relevance and impact of turnout as a force of social...
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Established-Outsiders Relations in the Education System: Images of “Us” in School Magazines
This chapter traces the established-outsider dynamic in reproducing national norms at Polish schools to the symbolic mobilization that emerged in the...
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COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 282 million cases and almost 5.5 million deaths (WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard, 2022)....
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Decision-Making About Newborn Screening Panels in Canada: Risk Management and Public Participation
Newborn Bloodspot Screening (NBS) enables diagnosis and early treatment of rare diseases in non-symptomatic neonates. NBS has well-documented...
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Comparing Social Policy Responses Between Separate Crises: Taking the Case of Indonesia
This article draws on an institutional approach to compare social policy responses and changes between the Asian Financial Crisis and the current...
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Contested Conservation: Implications for Rights, Democratization, and Citizenship in Southern Africa
Two competing ideological approaches have emerged in African wildlife conservation: an exclusionary approach that is aligned with the, mostly...
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Societal Change
A major task of comparative/historical sociology is to examine the array of different economic and sociopolitical characteristics of a range of...
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Media in Croatia: from freedom fighters to tabloid avengers
The article provides an overview of the Croatian media landscape and its transformation that has been driven by the processes of democratization,...
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The Global Diffusion of Work-Injury Insurance: The Role of Spatial Networks and Nation Building
Work-injury law often marks the beginning of the modern welfare state and as we argue this type of insurance is particularly important to...
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Cultural sociology in East Asia: three trajectories in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea
The essay reviews the trajectories of cultural sociology in three East Asian societies, namely Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea, which show interesting...