We tested the Political Business Cycle theory in Sub-Sahara Africa. To provide an empirical explanation for this nexus, this paper used unbalanced panel data from thirty-six (36) Sub-Saharan African countries between 1990 and 2018. The system Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) developed by...

The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity from one modifying treaty to another, until the latest definition stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using a...

The study analyses the micro-level determinants of voting turnout rates in Greece. In particular, we test for the effects of citizens' socio-economic features, political participation, activism and trust as pointing to either an expressive or instrumental voting decision process. The analysis...

The puzzle of social pacts -- The institutional political economy of social pacts : a critical appraisal -- The political logic of social pacts -- Governments, voters, and social pacts in Western Eeurope -- The divergent trajectories of social pacts in the LMEs : Ireland and the UK -- Social...

1. Reform and revolution, 1848-1852 -- 2. Peelites, protectionists and popular Toryism -- 3. The coalition and the Crimea, 1852-1855 -- 4. Grasping the nettle : the reform bills of 1859 and 1860 -- 5. Democracy in practice : France and America -- 6. 'The liberal dilemma' -- 7. The liberal...