We examine the effect of a sudden influx of government spending, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), on support for the President’s party. Using a difference-indifferences design, we find that stimulus spending had a modest positive effect on Democratic vote share, but only in counties that were already Democratic-leaning. In Republican counties, by contrast, government spen...

Developing an argument based in theories of democratic consolidation and religious competition, and discussing the reasons for the secularist opposition to the government, this article analyses how government by a party rooted in moderate Islamism may affect Turkey’s peculiar secular democracy, development and external relations and how Muslims in the world relate to modernization and democracy...

The political trajectories of the post-Soviet states are varied, with democracy being the outcome in only a minority of these countries. The different outcomes are striking, given the similarity of starting points. The key to understanding a democratic outcome lies in the different relationships between old regime elites and civil society-based opposition forces, and the ethnic balance in the c...

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We analyze how a country’s political institutions affect oil production within its borders. We find a pronounced negative relationship between political openness and volatility in oil production, with democratic regimes exhibiting less volatility than more autocratic regimes. This relationship holds across a number of robustness checks including using different measures of political conditions,...

an essential issue from the very outset of the field of public administration was to find proper limits of bureaucrats authorities in a democratic state .contemporary research on the issue lead to emergent of two set of theories. the first is theories of political control of bureaucracy and the second is theories of bureaucratic politics. the research is against theoretical efforts and is consi...

Abstract:The present Russian political system is tied up with Putin's name; and Putin is consi-dered as a full-fledged political reality. Today's powerful Russia, which has got a new life after the Cold War and the weak collapse period, and has a major impact on global developments including the Middle East, is not understandable except under this title. What inspired writers to analyze P...

Are certain citizens more likely to feel entitled evaluate the quality of democratic institutions in their country? Previous studies show that women are than men answer “don’t know” when asked express views about state democracy. This article analyzes how political knowledge and internal efficacy contribute such a gender gap item non-response rates research on evaluations. Based an original sur...