Using a data set of religious parties across advanced industrial democracies between 1945 and 2011, this paper analyses this argument and finds that religious diversity puts downward pressure on the number of religious parties over time.doi:10.1057/s41304-020-00256-zChristopher D. Raymond...
DSA had only 6,000 members a few years ago but now it has over 87,000 dues-paying members with several hundred chapters in all 50 states. A much larger number of Americans embrace its ideas and its activities, too. Many of DSA’s rank-and-file activists have beco...
This is quite the operation on multiple levels. First there is the ruse of getting not only rigged devices but making sure Hezbollah’s network acquired them. Then there is the tech to be able to detonate at a designated time. Tactically, hitting something like 3,000 terrorist all at once ...
*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** The Media Matrix numbers below raise some really interesting questions about media linking policies during major news events. Netpulse reported that according to Mike Cornfield with GWU <http://www.democracyonline.org> that 8...
* China has unicameral system of government; a single group of legislators meet to make its laws. Unicameral means "one-chambered," and the term is generally used only to describe a governing body. Our federal legislature, like those of most democracies, is bicameral, with two legislative (...
The Greek democracies made the great and revolutionary discovery that a community could consciously make new laws and repeal old ones. So for us a human law is something which is valid only over a certain number of people for a certain period of time. Laws of Nature,...
In particular, they have proposed that in contrast to the highly individualistic Western democracies that are the source of these "individualistic" ideas, Singapore needs to be guided by "Asian values," defined by Michael Haas as: "(1) community before self, (2) the family as the basic ...
Like many other South American countries, a free political process is still a relatively new concept; many countries in South America, including Bolivia, did not replace dictatorships with full-scale democracies until the middle part of the twentieth century. Thus, authoritarian traditions and ...
the tipping point, female enrolments went from one in three at the beginning of the 1970s toreaching parity just over a decade later. In 1987, for the first time, women made up the majority of enrolments—now, theymake up 55.5%. This figure has beenemulated across western democracies. ...
the tipping point, female enrolments went from one in three at the beginning of the 1970s toreaching parity just over a decade later. In 1987, for the first time, women made up the majority of enrolments—now, theymake up 55.5%. This figure has beenemulated across western democracies. ...