Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective
Scholars writing on migration in the European Union have called attention to the competing dynamics where Europe’s borders have been softened and simultaneously hardened: internal borders have been removed while external border controls now limit and monitor the entry of non-Europeans. This softening/hardening is evident in the contest between effective border management and the protection of human rights, above all the right to asylum.
Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective
Media and Politics in New Democracies focuses chiefly on new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe, but chapters analysing new democracies in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia are also included. These new democracies represent a variety of what sociologists call 'glocalism': homogenisation and heterogenisation coexist, revealing hybrid models and multiple modernities. It is local culture that assigns meaning to global and regional influences.
'Migration, Protection and Reception: The "Crisis" in the Mediterranean'
Counterbalancing, Spatial Dependence, and Peer Group Effects
Previous studies identified several domestic factors that may influence a country’s level of structural coup-proofing, i.e., counterbalancing strategies that shall prevent internal groups from seizing power via acoup d’état.
The Procedure of the UN Security Council
A Voice Despite Exit: The Role of Assimilation, Emigrant Networks, and Destination in Emigrants’ Transnational Political Engagement
What explains varying levels of emigrant transnational engagement in homecountry politics? The well-known difficulties in obtaining migrant profile data and restriction to a few destination countries have resulted in a lack of systematic empirical investigation of this question. We expand nascent efforts to fill this gap by offering a new theoretical framework and novel research design that stress the potential importance of destination characteristics.
Bureaucratic norms and state capacity in India implementing primary education in the Himalayan region
Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic norms-unwritten rules that guide public officials-influence how well state agencies deliver services for the poor. The findings call attention to the informal, everyday practices that generate state capacity.