Do democratic elections help reduce corruption? Many reformers—both anticorruption advocates and democracy promoters—hope and believe the answer is yes. Does the evidence support that view? Social scientists have been investigating this and associated questions for at least a quartercentury, and—as is often the case—the answers they have found are not straightforward. Nonetheless, this research...

On May 25-26, the Taiwan Democracy Project (with support from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco) held its seventh annual conference entitled "How the Public Views Democracy and its Competitors in East Asia: Taiwan in Comparative Perspective.” The conference, cosponsored by the Program for East Asia Democratic Studies at National Taiwan University, brought together leading...

Abstract This joint-authored essay concludes the thematic issue ‘Marking Race’. Drawing on authors’ individual essays and reviewing wider literatures in field of race immigration, imperialism decolonization, social democracy welfare state, deindustrialization, makes a series proposals about what an analytical focus adds to our understanding modern British history.

This article examines the political crisis of social-democratic parties in Western Europe light its impact on emancipatory project, and asks whether first calls second into question. It begins by defining social democracy as an identifies three major historical phases that correspond to distinct conceptions project. “Social-democratic dilemmas” section recent literature comparative welfare stat...

Lipset's 'Democracy in Private Government' was a remarkable publication for three reasons. It was his first attempt to challenge Michels' 'iron law of oligarchy' and would lead to a programme of research that that would culminate with the publication of the widely admired classic study Union Democracy. Second, the inspiration for this work came from Lipset's student days when he was a socialist...

Brazil became the first country in the world to conduct a large-scale national election using e-voting technology. What does it mean for democracy to hold an electronic election for millions of poor people, most of them living under the poverty line? Is the high investment in e-voting technologies designed to the benefit of millions of illiterate people? The discussions about the lack of securi...

The article aims to discuss the school's education for citizenship and democracy in light of the economic crisis in the early 1990s and the subsequent depletion of the Swedish welfare state. Increased economic inequality, exclusion and marginalization of the school as well as in society in general raise the question about the school equivalency. The discussion sets out from a theoretical approa...