Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always
been with us, their ubiquity in our political discourse is nearly unprecedented. Their salience …

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.
The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass …

This research note describes an update to Golder's (2005) Democratic Electoral Systems
(DES) dataset. We extend the temporal scope of the original dataset by including all …

Although the literature examining the relationship between ideological congruence and
electoral rules is quite large, relatively little attention has been paid to how congruence …

Women have traditionally been underrepresented among government ministers, and when
included in cabinets have largely been relegated to “feminine” and low-prestige policy …

This study focuses on how citizens' satisfaction with democracy is affected by system factors
related to the input side of the democratic system, ie the electoral dimension, as well as to …

Although the phenomenon of dissatisfied democrats has been frequently discussed in the
literature, it has not often been empirically investigated. This article sets out to analyse the …

Democratic and autocratic states routinely violate their international agreements protecting
human rights. Scholars typically link ratification and compliance behavior theoretically but …

" Political equality is an essential political ideal and it is the cornerstone of moral
justifications of democracy. Most people would agree with the proposition that the interests …

Political science is an intensely quantitative discipline, and models are central. Political
scientists use models—formal and informal, statistical and qualitative—to investigate and …