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Anti-immigrant backlash: the Democratic Dilemma for immigration policy
Anti-immigrant backlash has emerged in recent years as a considerable threat to democracy. In many countries illiberal and anti-democratic political...
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Covid-19: did higher trust societies fare better?
Social trust — between governments and people and between individuals—and trust in science were proposed as prerequisites for tackling covid. Others...
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Building strong executives and weak institutions: How European integration contributes to democratic backsliding
Although the European Union (EU) is considered unrivaled in its democracy promoting abilities, democracy is being challenged within its borders. Over...
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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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Democratic Sovereignty and Populism
Regardless of whether populism is traced within the electoral context or outside of it, the question of sovereignty seems to offer a vantage point...
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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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Does Social Media Penetration Enhance Democratic Institutions? Evidence from Varieties of Democracy Data
We examine whether social media enhances democracy using cross-sectional data from 145 countries. We used Facebook penetration as a proxy for social...
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Who Will Sustain a Culture of Democracy in Post-Communist States? Examining Patterns of Democratic Competence among Youth in Albania and Belarus
Research is mixed on the current state of democratic consolidation in transitioning states and whether young people are prepared to help sustain a...
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Open and Closed Societies
The threat to the Open Society cannot simply be classified into a left-right political schema, it does have a certain affinity to democracy and...
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Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights
Sociologists have long studied the ways people resist oppression but have devoted far less empirical attention to the ways people resign to it. As a...
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Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe
This article explores how multiple, interrelated violence(s) shape the ways in which migrants relate to democratic politics transnationally. It takes...
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Liberal, Republican, Conservative and Social-Democratic Mindsets? Exploring the existence of Citizenship Regimes in Civic Attitudes
This paper explores whether civic attitudes cluster in ways that correspond to distinct citizenship regimes. Drawing on political philosophy and...
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Medicinal Plant Use Among the Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo) Community in Belgium
When the biocultural landscape differs from the country of origin, migrants develop strategies to maintain ethnobotanical habits and/or adapt them to...
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The Emergence of Positive Masculinity in Conflict-Fragile Societies
This chapter tries to gauge whether the evolution of ‘positive’ masculinity in conflict-fragile societies (CFS) is an indication of change in the...
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Discrimination and Civic Engagement of Immigrants in Western Societies. A Systematic Sco** Review
Research has highlighted the barriers that immigrants face due to discrimination in their everyday lives. At the same time, it has been shown that...
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Machine learning, political participation and the transformations of democratic self-determination
This contribution addresses links between machine learning technologies and democracy with a focus on political participation. Democracy research...
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Welfare Regimes in Chinese Societies
This chapter discusses the policies of outsourcing to religious institutions social services provision directed at vulnerable populations in the...
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Consciousness towards religious belief and re-radicalization in societies
Psychological studies of religious belief were numerous at the turn of the century, but interest in the phenomenon dwindled in the following decades....
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Why Study News? The Democratic Role of News
This chapter asks, why is it important to understand and analyse the factors that influence the production of news? The democratic role attributed to...
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Paternity Uncertainty and Parent–Offspring Conflict Explain Restrictions on Female Premarital Sex across Societies
Although norms of premarital sex vary cross-culturally, the sexuality of adolescent girls has been consistently more restricted than that of...
