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Church Space, State Space : Nonprofit Sector Regimes in Social Services, Healthcare, and Education in Europe, the United States, and Australia

Kahl, Sigrun - 2014

One of the most fascinating puzzles of comparative politics is why the extent of the modern state's reach into core areas of public policy varies so wildly. This paper suggests a preliminary explanation of the size of the nonprofit provision in the areas of social services, health care, and...

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Curses and Conditionality : Do Oil and Aid Affect Democratization Differently?

Wright, Joseph - 2011

empirical analysis employs data on transitions to democracy from non-democracy to examine how aid and oil affect democratization …

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Democracy, Development, and Armed Conflict

Hegre, Haavard - 2010

development and democracy. Low-income democracies are at least as conflict-prone as low-income non-democracies, but high …

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Voting Power in Multi-Party Democracies : Evidence from a Model of Electoral Targeting for Income, Gender, Age and Education Groups in 15 European Democracies

Idema, Timo - 2010

This paper develops a model of electoral targeting in multi-party systems. Seat-share maximizing parties can use policy transfers to win votes by 1) converting undecided voters, 2) mobilizing loyal supporters, or 3) lowering the turn-out of voters loyal to other parties. The model allows for the...

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Disenchanted Workers, Selective Abstention and the Electoral Defeat of Social Democracy in Germany

Elff, Martin - 2010

The Bundestag elections of 2009 meant a crushing defeat for the German social democrats. Never before had a party faced losses at such a high percentage in post-war Germany. The paper argues that these losses were not incurred at the margin but at the core of the social democrats' traditional...

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Diffusing Liberal Market and Democratic Values : Assessing Turkey's 'Soft Power' in Transforming its Neighborhood

Kirisci, Kemal - 2010

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Democratizing During Hard Times : Germany’s Transition to Democracy in the Wake of the First World War

Peceny, Mark - 2010

distinguishes among cases based on the strength of local pro-democratic forces and of the international commitment to democracy … victorious liberal powers made almost no explicit effort to promote democracy in Germany. Instead, Germany's transition to … democracy in 1918-1919 reflected the weakening of Germany's authoritarian order through defeat in war and the contingent …

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Democratic Leadership and Dirty Hands

Keohane, Nannerl - 2010

a democracy and explore the theme of “reciprocal responsibility” between leaders and citizens …

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Democratic Inequality in Postcommunist Europe

Roberts, Andrew - 2010

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Democratic Governance and the Judicialization of Policy : A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Policy Conflicts in Argentina

Ryan, Daniel - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between quality of democratic governance and the judicialization of public policy. It is an attempt to go beyond the conventional argument that the policy “losers” (those that cannot achieve their policy goals through the traditional policymaking venues)...

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