.... For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected] Drawing on recent theories of world order, this article argues that the case of the Russia–Ukraine war exemplifies how the responses of democracies—whether in the global North or South—to issues of world order are likely to converge...

... constituting the largest non-Manx born minority (38.3% of the population) ( Statistics Isle of Man 2022 : 10). In contrast to other small democracies which have been studied, the historical relationship with a larger state does not fit easily into a decolonization model (e.g. Bishop, Corbett, and Veenendaal...

... on crime and politics by highlighting the significant role of private security in today’s balance of security provision. private security penal policy European democracies comparative law and order police Safeguarding the security of its citizens has been the core promise of the modern state ( Hobbes...

...Endrit Lami; Drini Imami Our study aims to analyze VAT performance before elections in advanced, OECD democracies. Our main hypothesis is that tax collection effectiveness (or fiscal performance) in advanced democracies is lower before elections. In addition, we test whether the length...

... democracies. However, despite their political significance, there have been few attempts to analyse and theorise their internal dynamics. This article aims to address this gap by identifying the triggers of constitutional ‘softening’, when the opportunity for convention change emerges; and examining how...

...—the internal organisation of a parliament. Legislative organisation Majoritarian democracies Parliamentary negotiation Party Negotiation Mechanism Propensity score matching Taiwan ‘Inclusions are not sufficient to democracy: if collectivities lack the capacity to act, inclusions remain powerless...

... of cross-national indicators across a wide range of regulatory target areas, which is detailed alongside the methods for analysis and the rationale for selecting the nineteen long-lived democracies covered. analytical tools codes of good practice compliance court legal sanction organized civil society...

...-lived democracies. Regarding regulation of organizations’ constitutive functions, it covers areas such as lobby regulation, third-party regulation, and other legal restrictions on groups’ political activities. In terms of resource regulation, it covers aspects such as tax benefits for donors...

... organizations’ legal environments adopted in long-lived democracies varies with the relative acceptability of constraining regulation in that sphere, which, in turn, is shaped by distinct configurations of political systems’ democratic history, their legal family, and voluntary sector traditions. administrative...

...Deeply rooted demands on democracy emerge regularly in advanced democracies. This chapter summarizes the analyses of the former three chapters, providing a synthetic diagnosis of considerable political instability. The chapter examines in addition the consequences of European integration...

...This chapter explores Schmitt's critique of liberalism. It notes that the main themes of Schmitt's work, particularly his critique of liberalism, can be found today in political philosophy and, to an increasing extent, in popular thought as the liberal democracies of the West drift to the right...

...This chapter tests the theory through a quantitative analysis of populist electoral success. It conducts a statistical analysis of the performance of populist candidates in all democracies across Asia, Europe, the, and Australasia. This analysis shows that as subnational units gain autonomy...

... that provides independent evidence from a rolling expert survey to document these problems and monitor how elections vary worldwide. According to expert estimates developed by EIP, the 2012 and 2014 elections in the United States were the worst among all Western democracies. Without reform, these problems risk...

... with the civil law tradition and structures of ordinary adjudication in those countries. It concludes that, while the decentralized model works for the United States, there is more than one way to preserve democratic values and that these values are best preserved in the parliamentary democracies of Europe...

... scenarios of new violence: democratic counterinsurgency, violence in illiberal democracies, and urban criminal violence in nearly consolidated democracies. Using this typology, the chapter analyzes contemporary violence in Mexico. Citizenship Drug related violence Insurgencies Latin America democratic...

... Gareis K Colombo F Carers Working age Work-care reconciliation Welfare systems Comparative policy analysis Nordic countries East Asian countries Liberal democracies This book, while not the first to address the reconciliation of paid work and the care of older, sick or disabled people...

...In an era where citizens of liberal democracies are becoming increasingly disillusioned, dissatisfied and disenfranchised by the dominant political institutions and decision-making processes in these polities, new ideas of how to deepen democracy, re-engage citizens and enhance decision-making...

...The innovations of the past fifty years in the Western democracies and Japan are transferable today to virtually every corner of the earth. These innovations improve productivity and cause today's high material standard of living in rich countries. They can also be applied in poor countries...

...This article discusses recent empirical and theoretical research on the electoral rule, which is one feature of modern democracies. It determines that the electoral rule systematically shapes economic policy. An outline of some key objectives of electoral rules is presented in the first section...