Does education influence income inequality? Despite being a widely examined subject within political, sociological, and economic research over the past 70 years, researchers have not reached unanimity on whether higher ...

Local government amalgamation reforms are politically demanding ventures because potential benefits are often diffuse and long term, while costs are concentrated and immediate. We investigate the role of national political ...

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

Settler colonialism eliminates Indigenous sovereignty, enthrones itself, and thereby makes Indigenous land ‘ours’. It may do this meta-politically, by absorbing ‘them’ into ‘us’. This article explores three recent lawsuits ...

This thesis is a comparative study of substantive representation of women in parliament, focusing on the process of abortion legislation in Argentina and Uruguay. Women's representation in parliament has increased across ...

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 ...

Projections reveal that developing countries’ emissions of GHG will rise tremendously in the decades to come. The UNFCCC has identified the World Bank as having an important role to play in assisting client countries develop ...

Civil society support in democratizing countries has become a central focus of international donors during the last two decades. Yet, our understanding of the phenomenon and the possible consequences remains incomplete. ...

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 ...