State Regulation of Religion and Muslim Religious Vitality in the Industrialized West
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 56, Issue 4, p. 1087-1097
ISSN: 1468-2508
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 56, Issue 4, p. 1087-1097
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 56, Issue 4, p. 1087-1097
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: Politics, Volume 40, Issue 2, p. 170-188
ISSN: 1467-9256
The democratic transition in Tunisia and free and fair elections that followed offer a unique opportunity to assess whether the experience of participating in successful political efforts translates into subsequent political participation. We consider whether participation in a democratic revolution is associated with greater rates of participation in nascent 'normal' democratic processes. Leveraging data from two surveys fielded in the wake of the revolution and the Constituent Assembly elections that followed, we find scant evidence of a relationship between protest participation and subsequent turnout. We also consider the possibility that young – presumably more impressionable – Tunisians were more likely to be 'activated' by protest participation. However, our findings run directly counter to this expectation. Our findings show that the socializing effects of monumental historical events can be strikingly circumscribed.
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Volume 50, Issue 2, p. 294-323
ISSN: 0043-8871
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In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Volume 50, Issue 2, p. 294-323
ISSN: 1086-3338
This study explores the donor side of debates revolving around the proper role of foreign assistance as a foreign policy tool, by empirically testing for the aid determinants of four industrial democracies: France, Japan, Sweden, and the United States. A pooled cross-sectional time-series design is employed to assess the impacts of six sets of variables on aidflowsto thirty-six African states during the 1980s. Three sets of these variables—humanitarian need, strategic importance, and economic potential—are constructed using data traditionally employed in empirical foreign aid studies. Three additional sets of variables—cultural similarity, ideological stance, and region—are constructed from data that regional specialists consider to be important in the foreign aid equation. Although no two cases are alike, one can nevertheless draw some tentative conclusions about the nature of the foreign aid regime of the final cold war decade of the 1980s on the basis of several cross-national patterns. In short, the results (1) contradict rhetorical statements of northern policymakers who claim that foreign aid serves as an altruistic foreign policy tool designed to relieve humanitarian suffering; (2) confirm the expected importance of strategic and ideological factors in a foreign aid regime heavily influenced by the cold war; and (3) underscore the importance of economic, particularly trade, interests in northern aid calculations.
In: The journal of North African studies, Volume 24, Issue 4, p. 540-557
ISSN: 1362-9387
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In: The journal of North African studies, Volume 24, Issue 4, p. 540-557
ISSN: 1743-9345
In: Third world quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 4, p. 775-801
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Journal of democracy, Volume 22, Issue 3, p. 5-48
ISSN: 1045-5736
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In recent years, debates within academic and policymaking circles have gradually shifted--from a Cold War focus on whether democracy constitutes the best form of governance, to the question of whether (and to what degree) international actors should be actively involved in democracy promotion. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of international efforts to promote democracy during the post–World War II period, with an emphasis on developments since 1989. The authors assess the efforts of major industrialized democracies, multilateral actors, and NGOs. They find that the success of these endeavors is constrained by several realities, ranging from the often significant gap between the rhetoric and the reality of actual policies, to the dilemma that occurs when the goal of democracy clashes with other foreign policy interests