The idea that democracy is contagious, that democracy diffuses across the world map, is now well established among policy makers and political scientists alike. The few theoretical explanations of this phenomenon focus ...
This article uses Donald Horowitz’s theory of ethnic party competition in order to understand the development of the Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) during the first decade of its existence. The ...
The democratic nature of the EU, or the lack of it, has never been so important
(Schmitter 2000; Erne et. al. 1995). It is generally acknowledged that the existing
governance structures and mechanism of the EU “are not ...
This paper explores the vital role played by the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in the formulation of a new political discourse and conceptual approach to the Northern Ireland problem. In particular, it shows ...
Les syndicats pourraient être des agents de la démocratisation
de l'Union européenne pour deux raisons : primo, le syndicalisme a souvent joué
un rôle substantiel dans les processus de démocratisation nationale.
Secundo, ...
Little attention has been paid in the recent scholarly literature to Europe's old religious conflicts - particularly those that stem from the Reformation. Yet for a long time religiously informed conflict was the principal ...