Entrepreneurship has been linked to economic development at the regional and national
levels, yet the microeconomic nuances of entrepreneurial diversity and the challenges that …

Scholars have paid increasing attention to democratic backsliding, yet efforts to explain this
phenomenon remain inchoate. This article seeks to place the study of democratic …

Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction 1 2 The Westminster Model of Democracy 9 3 The
Consensus Model of Democracy 31 4 Thirty-Six Democracies 48 5 Party Systems: Two …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

Populism is best understood as a Manichaean worldview linked to a characteristic language
or discourse. Chavismo, the movement that sustains Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, is a …

Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms? Learner-centred
education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and …

In this article I propose a Yin Yang perspective to understand culture. Based on the
indigenous Chinese philosophy of Yin Yang, I conceptualize culture as possessing …

In the literature, two competing claims can be found on the relationship between political
trust and political participation. While some authors argue that trust is a prerequisite for any …

Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture's Consequences, the classic work published
by Geert Hofstede, one of the most influential management thinkers in today's times …