STUDY OBJECTIVE Australia has had a two party parliamentary political system for most of the period since its Federation in 1901, dominated either by a social democratic (Labor) or a conservative ideological perspective. This paper investigates whether such political differences at Federal and State levels have influenced suicide rates in the state of New South Wales (NSW) for the period 1901-1...

While constitutions regulate political authority within a state, there is much we do not know about the interaction between political conditions and constitutional texts. Much of the literature relies upon hand-coded databases of constitutional texts. However, this approach raises both methodological and theoretical concerns. Advances in natural language processing, particularly latent text ana...

power of the muslim brotherhood after egypt’s revolution of 2011 and effective role in the approval of the constitution in 2012 ,led to be considered the idea of an islamic state by the various media and academic circles . this issue has necessitated need for research on this topic with a focus on the question: what is the idea of an islamic state in the muslim brotherhood's political thou...

Building on the social science literature, we hypothesized that population health indicators in wealthy industrialized countries are 'clustered' around welfare state regime types. We tested this hypothesis during a period of welfare state expansion from 1960 to 1994. We categorized data from 19 wealthy countries into 4 different types of welfare state regimes (Social Democratic, Christian Democ...

Objectives. The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealing national prohibition is the only amendment ratified by state conventions rather than state legislatures. The referenda held to select delegates for these conventions offer a promising source of data for identifying determinants of support for prohibition repeal. Methods. We use various proxy measures to determine the importance o...

The point of departure of our analysis on the evolving role of the state in contemporary society is offered by the innovations introduced by e-government within the democratic, administrative and bureaucratic processes of the modern state. A vast literature on this topic presents e-government as a great opportunity to innovate the business of government, for instance by the re-introduction of N...

Michael Mann criticizes class reductionist theories of the capitalist state which described the state as an organization for managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie (504). While he acknowledged that Marx had a point in this regard, he insists that Marx had “underestimated the constraints on capitalism that moralideological and party-democratic crystallizations might bring.” My question to Micha...

this paper sketches a framework for the separation of church and state and, with the framework in view, indicates why a government’s maintaining such separation poses challenges for balancing two major democratic ideals: preserving equality before the law and protecting liberty, including religious liberty. the challenge is particularly complex where healthcare is either provided or regulated b...

CONCLUSION: DEMOCRACY AND VIOLENCE, EARLY WARNING AND CONFLICT PREVENTION – IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE Marc Chernick The six chapters presented here each provide a different optic from which to view the functioning of democratic governance, violent conflict, and the relationships among the various components of each. Four of the chapters address political processes (García Villeg...