Statistics demonstrate that small states are more likely to have democratic systems of
government, which—based on Dahl's conceptualisation of polyarchy—entails the presence …

Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By
addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, this book …

In recent decades, several scholars have pointed to a statistical correlation between
population size and democracy. Whereas these studies have thus far failed to provide a …

Research on small state politics suggests that smallness reinforces popular rule and that
small states are more likely to be democratic than large states. The mechanisms that serve …

As colonies and territories have been set free, the number of independent microstates and
very small states in the world has increased dramatically. However, the small-sized …

This chapter deals in a comparative vein with two separate but still connected aspects of
small states politics, namely regimes and productivity. The comparisons that are made are …

The municipal structure of the Czech Republic experienced a wave of fragmentation after
the fall of the communist regime. As a result, most Czech municipalities today have …

While several studies suggest that small country size is conducive to democracy, the
understanding of this link between smallness and democracy is still less than complete. By …

In their well‐known volume on 'Size and Democracy'(1973), Robert Dahl and Edward Tufte
argue that small units are likely to be more homogeneous, whereas larger units are likely to …

Theories that involve notions of size belong to a set of theories that are usually submitted to
objections concerning determinism. An examination of the party systems of 31 small island …