Political risk consultancy Eurasia Group listed "Divided States of America" as one of the top risks for 2023 in a recent report, saying the United States "remains one of the most politically polarized and dysfunctional of the world's advanced industrial democracies." The 118th House speaker was...
How democracies grow up: countries with too many young people may not have a fighting chance at freedom.(ARGUMENT)Cincotta, Richard P
For example, the mid-18th-century democracies were designed under the assumption that both travel and communications were hard. Does it still make sense for all of us living in the same place to organize every few years and choose one of us to go to a big room far away and create laws ...
Political risk consultancy Eurasia Group listed "Divided States of America" as one of the top risks for 2023 in a recent report, saying the United States "remains one of the most politically polarized and dysfunctional of the world's advanced industrial democracies." The 118th House speaker was...
Book review: war and democratic constraint: how the public influences foreign policy The book presents an original and engaging argument for the necessity for further analysis into choices democracies make prior to engaging in conflict, and the impact of the media and the public on decision makers...
Like the majority of other Western democracies have what is called a strong social safety net. They have good social services. They have universal health care. I went and visited some friends in Sweden about 12 years ago, and I was blown away. I was really blown away with how well taken...
Figure 2: Ministerial power transfer in European democracies over time As we measure the relative importance of each position, the dataset also allows us to visualise the extent to which power changes hands in different countries at different times (see figure 2). Major shifts in the makeup of...
become a much stronger partisan issue in thelast decade or soas Trump and other Republicans have played with rhetorical fire. It’s true that far-right leaders have been stoking this issue in multiple western democracies, and as the chart below shows, it’s evident among Republicans in the U...
In this case, they are equivalent to votes. In this last conceptualization, property-owning democracies may be socialist or not. When people’s shares of capital are widely but non-equally distributed or they are tradable, the system is not socialist. In any case, both approaches are ...
expansion included yet more funding and arms, but a key alteration was the commitment of U.S. soldiers to the region. Kennedy’s expansion stemmed in part fromCold War-era fears about the “domino theory”: if communism took hold in Vietnam, it would topple democracies throughout the whole...