carried out under the NATO programme of "Democratic Institutions Fellowship" Social stucture of the population as a social dimension of the democratic system

The paper develops a very simple model explaining the process of devolution of an individual region in a politically asymmetric country, where a region and the central government bargain over the distribution of tax revenue given a particular tax rate, focusing on the impact of political regime on the decentralization outcome. It finds that under most political settings large regions, regions w...

OBJECTIVES To compare child pedestrian injury rates on one-way versus two-way streets in Hamilton, and examine whether the characteristics of child pedestrian injuries differ across street types. METHODS The rates of injury per child population, per kilometre, per year were calculated by age, sex and socio-economic status (SES). Child, environment and driver characteristics were investigated ...

Since the early 2000s, many of left groups that spurred alt-globalization movement have embraced directly democratic organizing and creation ethical relationships subjectivities far more than they pursued projects to reform legal political institutions. These practices are often described as prefigurative because people working build alternative possible futures in here-and-now outside dominant...

The modernization of grassroots governance is an important foundation for promoting the state governance. Solving rigid dilemma faced by current mechanism and activating “collaborative inertia” pluralistic democratic consultative up against technology empowerment can stimulate activity governance, improve efficiency, enrich theoretical connotation modernization. Based on case “Black Tea Council...

The empirical evidence on voting behavior suggests that the individuals’ choice of the vote is explained, among other things, by policy issues and the voters’ partisan preferences over the party that rules the government. The evidence also indicates that the voters’ partisan preferences are the best predictor of the choice of the vote (Republican and Democratic voters tend to vote, respectively...

Some studies find that democratic states are more amenable to third party forms of conflict management, while other studies indicate that democracies are able to resolve contentious issues on their own through bilateral negotiations. Using data from the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project, the authors investigate peaceful and militarized conflict management strategies that democratic states ...

IT is always salutary and oft(en inspiring to look back onl our origins, and to a generation-which has been brought up in the Royal Victoria Hospital, one of the most modertn and best-equipped hospitals in the world, it may be of interest to learn something of what the "o0l(Royal" was like. The building still stands, but greatly altered in appearance. Those who, like myself, first approache(d i...