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Voters and Candidates of the Future
The Intention for Electoral Participation among Adolescents in 22 European countries
(2013)
Within the literature there is a growing concern about lower voter turnout rates among young age cohorts. In this article we investigate the reported willingness to vote among 72,466 14-year old adolescents from 22 European ...
The Effects of Civic Education on Political Knowledge
A Two Year Panel Survey among Belgian Adolescents
(2011-09)
Traditionally political knowledge was regarded as an important potential outcome for civic education efforts. Most of the currently available research, however, tends to focus on non-cognitive goals, despite the fact that ...
Party Members as an Electoral Linking Mechanism
An Election Forecasting Model for Political Parties in Belgium, 1981-2010
(2014)
While party membership figures are clearly in decline in several Western countries, different interpretations have been offered on the likely consequences of this trend. Some authors stress that members have lost most of ...
How IMET your mother : revisiting foreign military training, human capital, and coup risk
(2020)
How does foreign aid in the form of military training impact civil-military relations in recipient states? Savage and Caverley (2017) find that US foreign military training alters the balance of power between recipient ...
Diverging against all odds? Regulatory Paths in Embryonic Stem Cell Research across Western Europe
(2013-03-20)
An interest-driven account of Embryonic Stem Cell Research would, given the considerable financial and scientific concerns, likely predict regulations to converge towards permissive policies. However, across Western Europe, ...
Rationalism and Public Policy: Mode of Analysis or Symbolic Politics?
(2011-02)
This article takes up the distinction between incremental analysis and incremental politics as elaborated by Lindblom in his 1979 article. We argue that while rationalism as a mode of analysis has lost much of its prominence, ...
Critical Junctures and Missed Opportunities: The Case of Lebanon's Cedar Revolution
(2014-06-11)
This article addresses three shortcomings in the path dependency literature on critical junctures: the neglect of negative cases, non-state actors and of power asymmetries. The 2005 Cedar Revolution had the makings of a ...
A Journey of a Thousand Steps: The Challenges of State and Nation Building in South Sudan
(2011)
On July 9th, 2011, South Sudan will officially become independent. When southern Sudanese voted in the January 9 referendum on independence, they sought to affirm their African identity and shed the Arab identity that they ...
Half a Century of “Muddling”: Are We There Yet?
(2011-02)
Half a century after the publication of Lindblom's seminal article “The Science of Muddling Through”, we revisit the heritage of incrementalism in this special issue, analyzing its legacy in public policy and public ...
Norm Transmission in Peace- and State-building: Lessons from Democracy Promotion in Sudan and Lebanon
(2012)
This article examines the transmission and reception of democratic norms in the context of liberal peace interventions. It identifies two reasons for the failure to promote democracy: the strategies favored by liberal peace ...