Tag Archives: Area Studies
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Aditi Malik
Political parties play vital roles in the healthy functioning of democratic regimes. They form the government and the opposition, provide structure to the electoral process, aggregate and channel citizens’ preferences, and promote democratic accountability. Yet, increasing global and comparative evidence suggests that parties are also key protagonists in events of violence around the world. From […]
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Christopher Chambers-Ju
Mobilizing Teachers is a book that shows how teachers’ unions have turned into powerful labor organizations that developed different roles in the political arena. Teachers’ unions lie at the juncture of two global changes that are playing out in countries around the world. First, with labor unions in decline (because of changes including automation and […]
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Kim L. Fridkin, Patrick J. Kenney
We write this blog knowing the 2024 presidential election will be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We are not fully aware, though, how changes in the political landscape from 2020 to 2024 will alter how citizens make decisions at the ballot box. In our book, Choices in a […]
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Ekkehard Wolff
In this blog, I provide answers to a few basic questions that I imagine a reader, who is not an expert in historical African linguistics, might wish to ask the author. Why this topic, what’s so interesting about it? Africa is the cradle of humankind and where human language evolved. Tens of thousands of years […]
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Robert Kubinec
Despite the costly efforts of Arab activists and citizens over the past decade of the Arab Uprisings, today no Arab state can claim to be fully democratic. Two countries, Egypt and Tunisia, traveled farthest down the path towards democracy, and Tunisia witnessed ten years of democratic elections–but today neither country protects the rights of citizens […]
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Will Walker, Wendy Wagner
TMI (“too much information”), TLDR (“too long; didn’t read”), and DNC (“does not compute”). These acronyms offer painful reminders of our contemporary relationship with information. Many of us, particularly those in the legal field, face a steady stream of abstruse and over-complicated information: from convoluted contracts to wordy and confusing statutes and regulations. A superficial […]
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Ahmet T. Kuru
In both academia and the media, a well-known perception is that Christianity essentially embraces religion-state separation whereas Islam essentially rejects it. Defenders of this perception provide some textual evidences. To show religion-state separation in Christianity, they quote a Biblical phrase, “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are […]
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Aditi Malik
Political parties play vital roles in the healthy functioning of democratic regimes. They form the government and the opposition, provide structure to the electoral process, aggregate and channel citizens’ preferences, and promote democratic accountability. Yet, increasing global and comparative evidence suggests that parties are also key protagonists in events of violence around the world. From […]
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Christopher Chambers-Ju
Mobilizing Teachers is a book that shows how teachers’ unions have turned into powerful labor organizations that developed different roles in the political arena. Teachers’ unions lie at the juncture of two global changes that are playing out in countries around the world. First, with labor unions in decline (because of changes including automation and […]
Read More
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Kim L. Fridkin, Patrick J. Kenney
We write this blog knowing the 2024 presidential election will be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We are not fully aware, though, how changes in the political landscape from 2020 to 2024 will alter how citizens make decisions at the ballot box. In our book, Choices in a […]
Read More
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Ekkehard Wolff
In this blog, I provide answers to a few basic questions that I imagine a reader, who is not an expert in historical African linguistics, might wish to ask the author. Why this topic, what’s so interesting about it? Africa is the cradle of humankind and where human language evolved. Tens of thousands of years […]
Read More
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Robert Kubinec
Despite the costly efforts of Arab activists and citizens over the past decade of the Arab Uprisings, today no Arab state can claim to be fully democratic. Two countries, Egypt and Tunisia, traveled farthest down the path towards democracy, and Tunisia witnessed ten years of democratic elections–but today neither country protects the rights of citizens […]
Read More
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Will Walker, Wendy Wagner
TMI (“too much information”), TLDR (“too long; didn’t read”), and DNC (“does not compute”). These acronyms offer painful reminders of our contemporary relationship with information. Many of us, particularly those in the legal field, face a steady stream of abstruse and over-complicated information: from convoluted contracts to wordy and confusing statutes and regulations. A superficial […]
Read More
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Ahmet T. Kuru
In both academia and the media, a well-known perception is that Christianity essentially embraces religion-state separation whereas Islam essentially rejects it. Defenders of this perception provide some textual evidences. To show religion-state separation in Christianity, they quote a Biblical phrase, “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are […]
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