Research dealing with citizens' preferences for different conceptions of democracy has
grown and diversified greatly. This has resulted in a highly fragmented field in which …

Democracy often confronts citizens with a dilemma: stand firm on democracy while losing
out on policy or accept undemocratic behavior and gain politically. Existing literature …

Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the
Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of …

In order to measure ideology, political scientists heavily rely on the so-called left-right scale.
Left and right are, however, abstract political concepts and may trigger different associations …

Although democracy is a widely held value, concrete measurement of it is elusive. Gerardo
L. Munck's constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies promises …

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 …

Much of what we know about public support for democracy is based on survey questions
about “democracy,” a term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts …

Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a
guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept" reconstruction"—the …

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, individual scholars and research
institutes have conducted numerous public opinion surveys to monitor how global citizenries …

A seminal shift has taken place in the relationship between Internet usage and politics. At
the turn of the century, it was presumed that digital communication would produce many …