Democratization studies became a sub-field of political science/international relations only
very gradually. Despite the rich pool of data generated by the early 'third wave'transitions in …

Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design which social programs
take is to a large extent determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' …

Research on invalid voting has expanded rapidly over the past few years. This review article
for the first time examines its principal findings and provides a new theoretical perspective …

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 …

Scholars typically understand vote buying as offering particularistic benefits in exchange for
vote choices. This depiction of vote buying presents a puzzle: with the secret ballot, what …

Although many studies of clientelism focus exclusively on vote buying, political machines
often employ diverse portfolios of strategies. We provide a theoretical framework and formal …

We present a novel approach for measuring democracy based on Support Vector Machines,
a mathematical algorithm for pattern recognition. The Support Vector Machines Democracy …

Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death?
Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public …

While the literature on populism is rich on specifying the characteristics of populist
movements that distinguishes them from non-populists, much less attention has been paid …

Preface--Introduction--GM crops, global ethnography, and the dynamics of de-mobilization--
The dark side of the boom--Neoliberalization, GM soybeans, and environmental change in …