▪ Abstract Legal consciousness as a theoretical concept and topic of empirical research
developed to address issues of legal hegemony, particularly how the law sustains its …

This article examines the concepts of group membership, group identity and racial identity,
and group consciousness. For each of these we discuss theoretical definitions, research …

Does political violence leave a lasting legacy on identities, attitudes, and behaviors? We
argue that violence shapes the identities of victims and that families transmit these effects …

This paper presents a new measure polyarchy for a global sample of 182 countries from
1900 to 2017 based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, deriving from an expert …

Leaders in public affairs identify tools and instruments for the new governance through
networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations. We argue the new governance also …

The latest volume in this popular series focuses on the best ways to evaluate and improve
the quality of new democratic regimes. The essays in part one elaborate and refine several …

This paper examines whether propaganda broadcast over radio helped to change
interethnic attitudes in postgenocide Rwanda. We exploit variation in exposure to the …

Throughout the world, truth commissions have been (and are being) constructed under the
hope that discovering the 'truth'about a country's past conflicts will somehow contribute to …

Conventional views of African politics imply that Africans' political opinions are based either
on enduring cultural values or their positions in the social structure. In contrast, we argue …

Drawing on recent insights in the nationalism and citizenship regime literatures, this article
develops a macrotheoretical framework for understanding cross‐national variations in …