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The Bolsonaro Government as the Limit Form of Pemedebismo
This chapter analyzes the Bolsonaro government as it unfolded from 2019 to mid-2022. It seeks to answer a central question about the relative...
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Jumpstarting Ideological Alignments in Clientelist Party Systems: Evidence from Honduras’s 2009 Coup
This article examines the disruptive effect of coups on party systems. Coups are junctures that can increase polarization and explain party system...
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The Social Transformation from Labor Movement to Political Movement—The Praxis of Committee for Action of Labor Legislation and People’s Democratic Political Movement
This paper discusses the empowerment of the powerless in Taiwanese society. It also reviews praxis of Taiwan’s democratization by left-wing social...
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Public Engagement on Childhood Vaccination: Democratizing Policy Decision-Making Through Public Deliberation
Immunization is considered one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions by the World Health Organization, preventing an...
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Rainbows in Latin America: Public Opinion and Societal Attitudes Towards Homosexuality
This contribution analyzes changes in public opinion attitudes towards homosexuality and LGBTI rights in Latin America over the last three decades....
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Throwing the baby away with the bathwater: dynamics of intra-party wrangling and “primary penalty” in Ghanaian politics
The study examined how deep-seated intra-party conflict could lead to a “back-stabbing” posturing as well as the machinations deployed by sore losers...
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The Relationship Between Democracy and Subjective Well-Being as a Function of Anti-Democratic Attitudes: a Multilevel Analysis of 78 Countries Worldwide
Past research has shown a non-significant association between the level of democracy and subjective well-being. This study attempts to address this...
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A Contemporary Portrait of Life in Korea Researching Recent Social and Political Trends
This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years. Compiled by leading Korean scholars,...
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The political power of internet business: A comprehensive dataset of Telecommunications Ownership and Control (TOSCO)
The ‘internet’—familiar shorthand for information and communication technologies (ICT)—is built on a physical infrastructure owned by a variety of...
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The Origins of Motor Sport in France: Sites of Racing Memory
France at the turn of the twentieth century was a place of great change, and even though the motorcar was invented in Germany it was in France that...
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Social Interpersonal Relationship Attitudes Toward Cisgender and Transgender Peers Among Cisgender Heterosexual University Students in Taiwan
The purpose of this study was to investigate cisgender heterosexual university students’ social interpersonal relationship attitudes toward...
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Political leadership, ethnicity and government effectiveness in Africa: comparative evidence from Kenya and Nigeria
This article examines political leadership and government effectiveness in ethnically diverse countries in Africa using the experiences of Kenya and...
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The Association between Subjective Well-being and Regime Type across 78 countries: the moderating role of Political Trust
This study investigates the association between regime type, political trust, and subjective well-being (SWB) in 78 countries. Differently from...
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Et Tu, Brute? Wealth Inequality and the Political Economy of Authoritarian Replacement
What motivates elite factions to seek to replace an authoritarian incumbent? In this article, I provide a political economy theory of authoritarian...
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1982 World Cup: Democratic Winds in Spain and Brazil
The present chapter aims first to describe the political and economic context of the organization of the World CupWorld cup held in Spain. Next,...
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East European exceptionalism as a challenge to democratization. Cultural Aspects of the Consolidation after State Socialism: A note on the peculiarities of postcommunist transformations (1997)
Transitions to democracy after state socialism differ from earlier transitions in at least two aspects: their agenda are longer, and the repertoire...