Tag Archives: Comparative Politics
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Kate Baldwin
Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential term limits, it organized a civil society coalition to protest. When the police threw the opposition leader in jail for four months on charges of treason, […]
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Lucia Motolinia
On March 4, Mexico took a remarkable step backward: Congress approved a new electoral reform that will, once again, ban consecutive reelection for all elected officials starting in 2030, with the stated goal of “preventing political entrenchment and nepotism.” After only a few election cycles with reelection, with the original ban on consecutive reelection just […]
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Gabriel Vommaro, Ryan Lloyd, André Borges
The past ten years have been surprising, to say the least, for observers of the Latin American right. There was a time where the left was the star of the show in the region; in the 2000s and 2010s, leaders of the “Pink Tide,” such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, and Michelle […]
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Tanu Kumar
Making housing affordable is now a top priority for countries and subnational governments around the world. While much of the debate appears to be happening in countries like the United States and United Kingdom, low- and middle-income countries have been pursuing policies to make housing accessible for decades. What do these policies look like, what […]
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Belén Fernández Milmanda
How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization should lead to the increasing taxation or even expropriation of their assets in response to redistributive demands from the poor. However, agrarian elites and democracy have coexisted in Latin America […]
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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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Juan A. Bogliaccini
“Empowering Labor” delves into the utilization of wage policy as a pre-distributive instrument by leftist governments in South America and Southern Europe. This comparative study focuses on three small open economies: Chile, Portugal, and Uruguay. The book sheds light on the underlying political dynamics of strategies pursued by leftist parties in power and the evolving […]
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Kate Baldwin
Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential term limits, it organized a civil society coalition to protest. When the police threw the opposition leader in jail for four months on charges of treason, […]
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Lucia Motolinia
On March 4, Mexico took a remarkable step backward: Congress approved a new electoral reform that will, once again, ban consecutive reelection for all elected officials starting in 2030, with the stated goal of “preventing political entrenchment and nepotism.” After only a few election cycles with reelection, with the original ban on consecutive reelection just […]
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Gabriel Vommaro, Ryan Lloyd, André Borges
The past ten years have been surprising, to say the least, for observers of the Latin American right. There was a time where the left was the star of the show in the region; in the 2000s and 2010s, leaders of the “Pink Tide,” such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, and Michelle […]
Read More
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Tanu Kumar
Making housing affordable is now a top priority for countries and subnational governments around the world. While much of the debate appears to be happening in countries like the United States and United Kingdom, low- and middle-income countries have been pursuing policies to make housing accessible for decades. What do these policies look like, what […]
Read More
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Belén Fernández Milmanda
How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization should lead to the increasing taxation or even expropriation of their assets in response to redistributive demands from the poor. However, agrarian elites and democracy have coexisted in Latin America […]
Read More
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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 […]
Read More
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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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Juan A. Bogliaccini
“Empowering Labor” delves into the utilization of wage policy as a pre-distributive instrument by leftist governments in South America and Southern Europe. This comparative study focuses on three small open economies: Chile, Portugal, and Uruguay. The book sheds light on the underlying political dynamics of strategies pursued by leftist parties in power and the evolving […]
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