Edmund Burke was a much better political philosopher than he was a politician. Burke was a Member of Parliament for Bristol for six years, from 1774 to 1780. He visited the constituency infrequently during that time, and managed to alienate his electorate through a combination of his rather unpatriotic support for America during the war and a general lack of attention to the principal concerns ...

Protocorporatist West European countries in which economic interests were collectively organized adopted PR in the first quarter of the twentieth century, whereas liberal countries in which economic interests were not collectively organized did not. Political parties, as Marcus Kreuzer points out, choose electoral systems. So how do economic interests translate into party political incentives t...

What influences perceptions of political polarization? The authors examine the polarization of people's own political attitudes as a source of perceived polarization: Individuals with more extreme partisan attitudes perceive greater polarization than individuals with less extreme partisan attitudes. This "polarization projection" was demonstrated in 3 studies in which people estimated the distr...

A basic premise of representative democracy is that all subject to policy should have a voice in the making of it. However, policies enacted by electorally accountable governments often fail to re ect the policy interests of disadvantaged minorities. This, in turn, has led many countries to enact electoral laws that seek to provide such groups political power through mandated political represen...

in recent years the most powerful and effective negotiations to change elements of the united nations, the security council, has sparked a wide debate benefits and special privileges of members of the security council such as the right to veto the, imposing sanctions has forced some states to opposite white this order and 5 permanent members of the security council on the path to maintain the s...

We examine how changes in perceptions of threat affect individuals’ policy views, as well as the political implications of this relationship. We administered a survey experiment to a representative sample of the U.S. population in which we exogenously manipulated individuals’ perceived likelihood of a future terrorist attack on American soil and assessed subsequent changes in support for terror...

This article examines the issues of media representation and cultural distinctiveness within Scotland, one of many national entities currently denied political and cultural expression at the sub–nation state level. Current output of Scotland’s television and film industries is compared with traditional and modern Scottish literature to see which themes and subjects have been preserved, how repr...

Building on the case of the Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS), this working paper provides an analysis of the World Bank’s new aid allocation mechanisms in relation to representative politics. As such, this paper provides an analysis of why parliaments have overwhelmingly been bypassed in the PRS process and more interestingly, how they have come to be replaced de facto by certain depoliticise...

Mike Chrzanowski [email protected] Daniel Levick [email protected] December 14, 2012 Background: An increasing amount of research has emerged in the past few years using social media to either predict the outcomes of elections or, in the case of the United States, to classify users as Democrat or Republican. While predictions based on social media are not representative of the voting popul...

This contribution studies the process of building an EU member state through democracy promotion in the case of Croatia with a special focus on two reform initiatives in the field of Public Administration Reform (PAR). Croatia’s experience is representative of intense efforts of the international community to overcome the consequences of violent state dissolution and civil war. The EU in partic...