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...
We know that electoral systems have an effect on the number of competing candidates. However, a mystery remains concerning the impact of majority runoff. According to theory, the number of competing candidates should be equal (or only marginally larger) under majority runoff than under plurality. ...
like those of most democracies, is bicameral, with two legislative (lawmaking) bodies--the Senate and the House of Representatives. Except for Nebraska, all the state legislatures are also bicameral. But nearly every city is governed by a unicameral council...
aThe competitive paradigm (2)It argues that the media in liberal democracies aspire to communal representation. 竞争范例(2)它争辩说,媒介在宽宏民主向往对共同表示法。 [translate] athe regents of the university upon the recommendation of the faculty of seaver college and by virtue of the authority ...
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 ...
If today’s American socialists have any model at all, it is not Russia, Cuba, or Venezuela, but the social democracies of Scandinavia, like Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway — countries with greater equality, a higher standard of living for working families, better...
That is not quite true, though we are still aware of the importance of Ukraine to the future of the liberal democracies in western Europe, we are only three old guys (with occasional contributions from friends in the alt_news community,) and have simply been overwhelmed by events closer to...
To Hezbollah, they were a defensive measure, but in Israel, intelligence officers referred to the pagers as “buttons” that could be pushed when the time seemed ripe. That moment, it appears, came this week. This is quite the operation on multiple levels. First there is the ruse of getti...
Direct democracies, like Classical Athens, are not affected and analyses of the growth of democracy in such environments (such as Fleck and Hanssen's [2006])5 are immune to them. An implication of our analysis is that the extension of the franchise in countries like Britain cannot be ...