Today’s developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Only a handful of these countries have subsequently attained a level of prosperity and security comparable to that of the advanced industrial world. The implication is clear: those who study the developing world in...

Paper prepared for the workshop on the analysis of political cleavages and party competition, Duke University, Dept. of Political Science, April 2/3 2004. Paper presents first results from a research project conducted jointly by a team at the University of Zurich (Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi, Simon...