This paper aims at challenging conventional theory according to which the abandonment of Keynesianism by social democratic governments entailed a ‘divorce’ between once very close parties and trade unions. During the 1980s and 1990s, Social Democratic parties endorsed the new economic consensus grounded on restrictive monetary policies. Nonetheless, a collaborative relationship between social d...

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In contrast to general opinion, the responsibility of governments should lie in the prudent regulation of production and distribution of all addictive drugs, precisely because the stated aim is the protection of vulnerable individuals. Handing over the regulation and provision of hard drugs to organised crime has proved harmful to public health and damaging to the very fabric of democratic soci...

How does the domestic political climate within democratic states affect the duration of their foreign military engagements? To answer this question we combine a rationalist model of war termination with a theory about how partisan politics affects the policy preferences of national leaders to predict the duration of democratic military interventions. Specifically, we examine how changes in a ch...

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy. Our model shows that FTAs can critically reduce the incentive of authoritarian groups to seek power by destroying protectionist rents, thus making democracies last longer. This gives governments in unstable democracies an extra motive to form FTAs. Hence, greater democratic insta...

BACKGROUND In this paper, the hypothesis that the spatial distribution of hospital beds is more even in countries with socialist or social democratic governments than in countries with conservative or Christian democratic governments was tested. To avoid the confounding influences of historical and institutional differences between countries, we used the Federal Republic of Germany as a case st...

Floridi’s work, although diverse and multifaceted, portrays a solid coherence across his different lines of work. Among his wealth of interests and results, we highlight his recent work on information logics, on the ethics of information technology, and his rigorous (and vigorous) philosophical analysis of recent technological trends and developments in information technology. In the present ar...

1 How the Military Shapes Dictatorships 1 Barbara Geddes UCLA All governments depend for their survival on the cooperation of the military. Although democratic regimes in industrialized countries have developed formulas for insulating most aspects of government from military influence, finding ways to insure the support of the armed forces has challenged both democratic and authoritarian govern...

the purpose of this research is to examine the effect of the islamic awakening in the arabic countries of the middle east and north africa on israeli ontological security and, it's strategy ofclosure and deviationin the regional level. in other words, after occurrence of the developments, the ontological security and identity of israel faced with what challenges? this research argues that ...