This thesis discusses the emergence of ethnic, or indigenous, parties in Bolivia and Peru. More specifically, it seeks to explain why Bolivia has seen the emergence of indigenous-based political parties at the national ...

Security is a public good that is cheap to maintain in a stable system, but expensive to establish once it has been lost. Internally armed conflicts and civil war are detrimental to public security. Afghanistan has endured ...

This thesis sets out to explain the outcome of liberalization processes across the globe during the post war period, the research question being: When a regime liberalizes, what affects the risk of the process ending with ...

Nonviolent collective action emerged during the last century as a potent tool for democratization and the pursuit of freedom and human rights. Yet the phenomenon remains somewhat understudied, and our understanding of ...

The thesis addresses the subject of ageing societies resulting from demographic trends of population, individual and active ageing. Societies are aging across the world, but the focus of this study is the OECD area in ...

Aim: This study investigates how satisfaction with democracy is affected by economic globalization in Europe. A special emphasis is placed upon the interaction between economic globalization and national governments’ room ...