Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "democracy"
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How Development Matters: A Research Note on the Relationship between Development, Democracy, and Women's Political Representation
(SAGE Publications, 2008)Most studies find that the substantial cross-national variation in women's legislative representation is not explained by cross-national differences in socioeconomic development. By contrast, this note demonstrates that ... -
Income and Democracy: Lipset's Law Inverted
(Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, 2012)In this article, we revisit Lipset’s law (Lipset 1959), which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using dynamic panel data estimation techniques that account for short-run cross-country ... -
International Relations as a Social Science: Rigor and Relevance
(SAGE Publications, 2005)Progress in the study of international politics depends on systematic, rigorous theory and empirical testing. International Relations is most useful when scholars can identify with some confidence the causal forces that ... -
Is Democratic Regulation of High Finance Possible?
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Justice, Responsibility, and the Demands of Equality
(Oxford University Press, 2006)This essay considers the disagreement between Cohen and Rawls on the question of whether individuals should be held responsible for their tastes and preferences. It notes the difference in principle, since the primary goods ... -
Representing Future Generations: Political Presentism and Democratic Trusteeship
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)Democracy is prone to what may be called presentism—a bias in the laws in favour of present over future generations. I identify the characteristics of democracies that lead to presentism, and examine the reasons that make ... -
Resolving the Democracy Paradox: Democratization and Women’s Legislative Representation in Developing Nations, 1975-2009
(SAGE Publications, 2012)Increasing levels of democratic freedoms should, in theory, improve women’s access to political positions. Yet studies demonstrate that democracy does little to improve women’s legislative representation. To resolve this ... -
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
(Springer Verlag, 2000)This paper studies the pattern of allocation of foreign aid from various donors to receiving countries. We find considerable evidence that the direction of foreign aid is dictated as much by political and strategic ...