Much of the scholarship on democratization has a myopic focus on economic conditions. Using Afrobarometer … citizens' trust in political institutions and attitudes toward democracy. The results show that a citizen's perception of … finding is important because widespread support for democracy and its institutions among the citizenry is considered a …

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

contexts. Elections, and particularly democratization efforts, often bring with them changes in the ethnic identity of the head …

of a truly independent Confucianism that is either politically “neutral” or even supportive of democracy and human rights …

In the years since the demise of the Soviet Union, the process of democratization never started or, if it did, stalled … devoted to the impact of transnational and international actors and forces on the democratization of the non-Soviet post …-incomplete processes of democratization in most of the non-Baltic post-Soviet countries. In particular, little attention has been devoted …