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Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy
We develop an account of societal democratization that synthesizes cultural sociology and deliberative democracy. Cultural sociologists emphasize the...
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Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey
This paper examines the susceptibility of post-conflict democratization processes to civilian forms of ethnic violence. Shifting the focus away from...
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Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy
This article seeks to provide a comprehensive re-evaluation of the redistributive models of democracy advanced by Carles Boix, and Daron Acemoglu and...
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Music and democracy in America: historical perspectives on ‘democratization’ in the digital age
What meanings of democracy are invoked in talk about democratization and music, and how does this discourse reflect struggles over democracy in our...
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The Future is Public! The Global Reclaiming and Democratization of Public Ownership Beyond the Market
Faced with the convergence of economic, social, political and environmental crises, the importance of the public sector has been rediscovered on a...
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Music and Democracy in America: Historical Perspectives on ‘Democratization’ in the Digital Age
What meanings of democracy are invoked in talk about democratization and music, and how does this discourse reflect struggles over democracy in our...
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Risk Governance Dilemmas and Democratization: Public Trust, Risk Perception and Public Participation in Risk Decision-Making
Risk scholars and practitioners are grappling with how best to govern risk in the face of growing calls and rationales for democratization. The...
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Where Has the “Minsyuka (Democratization)” Gone? A Thorough Assessment of the New Japanese Fishery Act from the Perspective of Small-Scale Fishery Sustainability
The fishery governance system in Japan, characterized by the fishery rights system as detailed in the Fisheries Act, has primarily contributed to...
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Is Democracy Associated with Reduction of Poverty, Child Mortality and Child Deprivation in Low-income Countries?
Is democracy related to lower poverty rates and better living conditions for children in develo** countries? Multiple sources have confirmed that...
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International Networks of Societal Actors and Democratic Diffusion
International relations (IR) scholars have examined the relationship between international ties and democratization. However, they disproportionately...
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Measuring Partial Democracies: Rules and their Implementation
This paper proposes a new index that focuses on capturing the extent of democracy in a country using not only the existence of rules but also the...
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Another nexus? Exploring narratives on the linkage between EU external migration policies and the democratization of the southern Mediterranean neighbourhood
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century and after two turning point events – 09-11 terrorist attacks and the ‘Arab spring’ – both migration...
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Framing the Public Sphere: A Study of Print Media in Veracruz (Mexico)
How does the combination of democratization and violence shape the public sphere? This should entail an enlargement of the public sphere and an...
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Does Democracy Matter for Lifespan Inequalities? Regime Type and Premature Mortality by Sex
Reductions in premature mortality are widely attributed to economic, educational, and medical factors. This study contributes to our understanding of...
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The Perils of Parliamentarism: Executive Selection Systems and Democratic Transitions from Electoral Authoritarianism
Why are some electoral authoritarian regimes immune to democratization for decades while others not? This article explores the impact of executive...
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Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring
The 2011 Arab Spring uprisings are often portrayed as a wave of failed revolutions that devolved rapidly into anarchic violence. Yemen and Libya...
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Civil Society Under Attack: The Consequences for Horizontal Accountability Institutions
Existing research shows that the activity of independent civil society organizations (CSOs) is an important ingredient of democratization and...
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Inequality and Democracy in (Southern) Africa
Mainstream analyses of contemporary democratization processes in sub-Saharan Africa have tended to explain their pitfalls and shortcomings by...
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The only living guerrillero in New York: Cuba and the brokerage power of a resilient revisionist state
This article explores how weak countries deflect systemic pressure towards change and even succeed in preserving old institutions to their advantage....
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The Authoritarian Origins of Dominant Parties in Democracies: Opposition Fragmentation and Asymmetric Competition in India
What explains the electoral dominance of a single party over a prolonged period of time in a democracy? Focusing on the case of India’s former...
