The goal of this article is to place the role that social media plays in collective action within a
more general theoretical structure, using the events of the Arab Spring as a case study. The …

Risk is a central feature of political decision making. Prospect theory, an empirically correct
theory of choice under risk that deals precisely with this condition, therefore seems to have …

What does political science tell us about important real-world problems and issues? And to
what extent does and can political analysis contribute to solutions? Debates about the …

Has the European Union (EU) succeeded in socializing citizens to support the democratic
values it claims to promote? On the face of it, the prevailing skepticism precludes any …

This is a study on international news flow based on a computerized analysis of foreign news
coverage of national leaders in seven liberal democracies (Canada, Germany, France …

Scholars of democratic peace theories argue that the causal mechanism of the democratic
peace is founded on the internalized liberal norms of democratic societies, which are …

Bakker, FE (2017). Do liberal norms matter? A cross-regime experimental investigation of
the normative explanation of the democratic peace thesis in China and The Netherlands …

Agent-based models and computer simulations are promising tools for studying emergent
macro-phenomena. We apply an agent-based approach in combination with data analysis …

Eine Regression der Demokratie, der Verfall oder gar der bewusste Abbau der
demokratischen Leitprinzipien Freiheit, Gleichheit und Kontrolle, die sich ua in …

Democratic peace theory is built on the assumption that liberal-democracy has a pacifying
effect on people, a socialization process that is assumed to lack within autocracies. This …