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Deconsolidation of Liberal Democracy in the Baltic States. The Issue of Compliance with the EU Standards at Institutional and Value Levels

Nataliia Khoma, Oleksii Kokoriev • Romanian Journal of European Affairs (2021)

This article analyses compliance of the post-Soviet Baltic States with the EU liberal-democratic standards, at both institutional and value levels. The authors prove that fulfilment of the Copenhagen criteria for EU accession did not dete...

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La nuit à Maboneng (Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud) : un front urbain entre sécurisation, marchandisation et contestation

Chrystel Oloukoï, Pauline Guinard • L'Espace Politique (2016)

Simultaneously feared and desired, night is a polemic field in Johannesburg in general and in Maboneng in particular. In this space which is undergoing a process of gentrification in the lower-class neighbourhood of Jeppestown, the nocturna...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4000/espacepolitique.3977

Los Sistemas de Creencias en la política de drogas en Colombia 2000-2015. Un análisis desde el Marco de Coaliciones Promotoras

Daniel Acevedo Gómez, Andrés Macías Tolosa • Estudios de Derecho (2019)

El fracaso de la lucha contra las drogas ilícitas en Colombia en las últimas décadas, el aumento en los índices de consumo y la relativa tendencia de algunos países a legalizar ciertas sustancias, hacen relevante retomar el análisis de las ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17533/udea.esde.v76n167a01

Jihad as Reflected in Biḥār al-Anwār

Masoomeh Mostofi, Mahdi Mehrizi, Mojgan Sarshar • Religious Inquiries (2020)

Different views of Muslim scholars concerning jihad arises from, and is grounded in, the Quran and hadiths transmitted from the Prophet or Imams. In this paper, we study and analyze hadiths related to jihad as collected in Biḥār al-anwār. W...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22034/ri.2021.265524.1462

The Political Science of Federalism

Jenna Bednar • Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2011)

This article highlights political science's interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (a) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to ac...

OPENALEX cc-by-sa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102510-105522

Network Analysis and Political Science

Michael D. Ward, Katherine W. Stovel, Audrey Sacks • Annual Review of Political Science (2011)

Political science is fascinated with networks. This fascination builds on networks' descriptive appeal, and descriptions of networks play a prominent role in recent forays into network analysis. For some time, quantitative research has incl...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.040907.115949

Machiavelli's Political Science

Harvey C. Mansfield • American Political Science Review (1981)

Machiavelli is presented as the founder of modern political science, with due regard to the fact that he never spoke of “political science.” His usage of “prudence” and “art” in The Prince is examined to see whether, as founder, he was a te...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1961365

Political science, political ideas and rhetoric

Alan Finlayson • Economy and Society (2004)

The article reviews ‘ideational’ analysis and theory in political science. It argues that this is an important area of research limited by lack of a clear sense of what ideas in politics are and of how to analyse them as directly as possibl...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0308514042000285279