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The framework presented in this article supplies tools for delineating candidate selection
methods, defines what is meant by their democratization and offers an analytical framework …

Until recently electoral systems have usually proved remarkably resilient to radical reform.
Yet in the last decade this pattern has been broken in a number of established democracies …

Plasser examines the changing practices of election campaigning worldwide. Based on data
of an indepth survey of campaign managers and political consultants from 43 countries, he …

Democratic design is increasingly seen as the key to crafting stability in the fragile states of
the developing world. Getting the democratic institutions right may not guarantee success …

Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the
attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have …

This article reviews the deterioration of government stability in Israel since the late 1990s
and in the last three years in particular and examines the causes and consequences of this …

In the early 1990s, popular discontent with politics in Italy, New Zealand, and Japan led to
the enactment of new electoral systems in all three countries. The results of the reforms have …

This article examines the classification of regime types. It shows that most writers classify
regime types with reference to both their dispositional properties (whether there is a …

In today's liberal democracies, does the political process focus on the people, or on the
political leaders representing them? In 'Toward Leader Democracy', Jan Pakulski and …