We revisit one of the central empirical findings of the pohtical economy literature that higher hicome per capita causes democracy. Existing studies estabUsh a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not tjqaically control for factors that simultaneously affect both variables. We show that controlling for such factors by including country fixed effects removes the ...

From its inception, the Internet has been touted as a tool for political change. The term “emergent democracy” has been used to describe the new forms of participation that the Internet will facilitate. However, there has been little discussion about how this behaviour will emerge, how to recognise it when it does, and how to integrate it into current models of democracy. This paper traces the ...

This article describes Electronic Democracy as an emergent statecraft model.Electronic Democracy is analyzed from a theoretical perspective that proposes edemocracy as the new millennium democratic system. In order to achieve thisgoal, an e-government concept was required. It is proposed that ElectronicGovernment is presented as the appropriate environment to originate a newrole...

Digital jihadism. Freedom of religion, security, democracy
 ABSTRACT: The Revolution and the emergence Algorithmic Society made difficult relationship between security liberty. On one hand, digitalizing terrorism extremism has put in danger public safety, due to misuse social media platform radicalize (lone wolves), recruit, train or planning terrorist attacks. other public-private model g...

This study is examining the relationship between the rate of religiousity and attitude toward democracy in Nayshabor citizens. To do so, a survey was done in a sample of 295 literate citizens were selected in PPS method. Theoretical framework is selected according to the theories of Lenski, Weber and Cultural wars theory and religiosity measurement is done according to Glock and Stark’s multidi...

The past decade has seen intensified calls for the reform of democratic political institutions in Canada, on the grounds that there is a “democracy deficit” at the level of federal politics. Some commentators have even begun to describe the country as a “banana republic,” or a “friendly dictatorship.” Yet any attempt to assess the state of democracy in Canada must naturally presuppose some theo...

With the irruption of ICTs and the crisis of political representation, many online platforms have been developed with the aim of improving participatory democratic processes. However, regarding platforms for online petitioning, previous research has not found examples of how to effectively introduce discussions, a crucial feature to promote deliberation. In this study we focus on the case of De...

Against recent criticism, this article demonstrates that the effective democracy index (EDI) has scale properties that are fully consistent with the normative premises of the index’s construction logic. Empirically, it is shown that the EDI deviates from all other indices of democracy in a perfectly intended way that incorporates substantiating qualities of democracy which the other indices neg...

T his study investigates the relationship between quality of environment and democracy among different countries over the period of 2002 - 2012. Democracy and accumulated democracy indices have been considered as political inequality variables influencing the quality of the environment among different countries in the reduced form of Kuznets’ environmental curve (EKC) hypotheses mode...