For the past 45 years GerrtU.Jny has lwd two health care systems: one in the former Federal Republic of Germany and one in the former German Democratic Republic. The system in the Federal Republic was undergoing some imponant reforms when German reunification took place in October 1990. Now the system in eastern Germany is undergoing a major transformation to bring it more into line with that i...

For the past 45 years Germany has had two health care systems: one in the former Federal Republic of Germany and one in the former German Democratic Republic. The system in the Federal Republic was undergoing some important reforms when German reunification took place in October 1990. Now the system in eastern Germany is undergoing a major transformation to bring it more into line with that in ...

Most large-N research on recurrent conflict and rivalry has downplayed the role of domestic politics, either overlooking the domestic political context within states entirely or mentioning domestic politics only implicitly. This paper focuses explicitly on the domestic political actors and processes that may be relevant to processes of conflict recurrence, in order to develop a more domesticall...

How does presidentialism affect democratic representation, both in theory and in practice? In this paper, part of a larger book project, we build on our previous research (Samuels and Shugart 2003), which argued that all else equal, presidentialism impedes representation based on prospective government “mandates.” Inspired by and building on research on Latin America by Susan Stokes (2001), her...