The constitution of a European demos with a collective identity is one of the preconditions for adjusting the legitimacy problem of the European Union (EU). The analysis attempts to clarify empirically whether there is sufficient commonality regarding Europeans' political value orientations to...

Over the past quarter century, an unprecedented and often unanticipated wave of democratization has spread over large parts of the world. While some skepticism is reasonable regarding both the level and durability of many of the new experiments of democratization, the direction and scope of...

Dem deutschen Wahlsystem werden international einige Vorteile gegenüber anderen Wahlsystemen bescheinigt, die z.B. Neuseeland sogar zur Nachahmung angeregt haben. Als gemischtes Wahlsystem kombiniert es das Prinzip proportionaler Repräsentation mit einer Mehrheitskomponente. Wegen dieser...

This paper traces the political behavior intentions of satisfied democrats, dissatisfied democrats, and non-democrats in western and eastern Germany. Dissatisfaction is most commonly expressed in support for the loyal opposition, with some minor tilt toward parties of the ends of the spectrum....

This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regime performance constitute a coherent syndrome of social change'a syndrome whose common focus has not properly been specified by standard modernization theory. We specify this syndrome as Human...

Using the natural laboratory of 18 post-communist Central and Eastern European countries, this article presents a basic model for democratic transition, specifically testing two alternative explanations for the degree of citizen satisfaction with the performance of their fledgling democracies:...