This paper assesses the relationship between non-programmatic parties (NPP) and participation following the - effect-of-the-causes - approach. Using the method of process-tracing it identifies the causal mechanisms linking non-programmatic parties and one of the dimensions of democratic quality...

This paper compares and contrasts the coalition building theory with historical institutionalism. It tests the relative power of the two theories in explaining state expansionism in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Germany and Italy were the two states that pursued expansionist...

This article demonstrates the adoption of a multilateral mindset by great powers in the aftermath of the Second World War. It argues that after 1945 the United States, Britain, France, and Canada started to cooperate on security issues based on the basic principles of multilateralism. They came...