Conflicted African societies are confronting a crisis of public authority caused by the ethnic, sectarian and class conflicts generated their ongoing transitions from authoritarian to liberal democratic institutional systems. Most have introduced competitive elections which rarely produced stable inclusive political outcomes, discrediting dominant state-building agenda. We draw on classical ‘du...

I reconstruct the civic republican foundations of Eugene Debs’s socialist critique capitalism, demonstrating how he uses a neo-roman conception freedom to condemn waged labour. Debs is also shown build upon this liberty in his objections plutocratic capture law and threats violence faced by labour movement. This Debsian republicanism can be seen rest on an ambitious understanding demands citize...

The present work analyzes the evolution of thinking that drives political scientists and economists vis-a-vis relationship between a regime development. This article addresses important question whether democracy promotes economic development helps to provide powerful framework for results autocracy democracy. Given relations democratic transition growth are fairly complex with uncertain result...

Security intelligence agencies play a central role in state capture. Due to the very nature of how they are organised and operate, security first become targets these processes, before becoming their principal agents. Indeed, political elites natural partners this endeavour, with process capture coming resemble complex operation. Even though experiences many countries bear out, attempts researc...

This article analyses the state of democracy in 2020. The world is still more democratic than it was 1970s and 1980s, but a trend autocratization ongoing affecting 25 countries 2020, home to 34% world’s population. At same time, number democratizing has dwindled by nearly half, reducing 16 countries, mere 4% global Freedom expression, deliberation, rule law elections show most substantial net d...

AIMS This work examined the role of cultural values in understanding people's satisfaction with health services across Europe. METHODS We used multilevel linear regression analysis on the seventh round of the European Social Survey from 2014, including c. 40,000 respondents from 21 countries. Preliminary intraclass correlation analyses led us to believe that some explanations of variance in t...