Abstract The question this article tries to answer is: what extent can the recent rise of populism outside West be attributed anti-Western sentiment? Interest in has focused on Western democracies, with far less attention devoted regimes non-Western parts world. This takes three major cases – India, China, and Turkey. examines intensification cases, but also shows how fits into longer comparati...

This article examines the fortunes of American government in light work James M. Buchanan, Virginia school political economist whose thinking on constitutional revolution played a formative, if largely unrecognized, role shaping tax revolt. By looking backwards, to an earlier wave and spending limits enacted South during Redemption era, forwards, increasingly regressive nature local revenue gen...

Article Christopher M. Smith: Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution 2022, 384 Seiten was published on September 1, 2022 in the journal SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen (volume 6, issue 3).

Many puzzling social behaviors, such as avoiding eye contact, using innuendos, and insignificant events that trigger revolutions, seem to relate to common knowledge and coordination, but the exact relationship has yet to be formalized. Herein, we present such a formalization. We state necessary and sufficient conditions for what we call state-dependent equilibria – equilibria where players play...