: Albania, Indonesia, Madagascar and Nepal. Simple descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, contingency tables and …

This paper investigates when and how Islamic political actors support democracy, and in particular, the EU's democratic …-majority, EU applicant states, Turkey and Albania. The analysis suggests that Islamic actors endorsed democratic rules based on a … support for democracy and related EU-demanded reforms, which ultimately improved their fragile domestic power position. In …

ecological dynamics, and consequently, on poverty. – poverty ; globalization ; environment ; ecosystem resilience ; institutions …

. Contrary to the culturalist vision of the Federal Republic's democracy, satisfaction with the political system in Western …

. This article compares the EU criteria for evaluating applicants for membership with those of democracy indexes. It uses …Although analyses of democracy and governance may be complementary rather than in conflict, they are not identical … governance in the eight Central and East European countries admitted to the EU in 2004. Factor analysis confirms statistically …

themes emerge, such as the finding that there are no major trends suggesting a decline in support for democracy as a form of … furtherance of democracy. … wird nachgewiesen, daß die Bürger Einstellungen zur politischen Gemeinschaft, zur Demokratie als Regierungsform und zur …