This article analyses how the issue of democracy protection has been incorporated into South American regionalism. It shows the motivation for building Democracy Clauses in regionalism and identify the challenges for its ...

This article aims to examine regional parliaments of two prominent regional organisations in South America (Southern Common Market) and Western Africa (Economic Community of West African States), by focusing on their ...

This paper introduces the concept of state segmentation and relates it to a causal argument for why unequal democracies survive. State segmentation describes asymmetries between the efficiency of citizenship rights for ...

To speak of the democratic state as the space for citizen participation in political life, it is an intellectual convention. Democracy is a form of government where individuals have the right to present their ideas in ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to decompose the effects of democracy and risk of expropriation on economic volatility. Design/methodology/approach: The authors follow Acemouglu et al. and use settler mortality in ...

When democracy is defined exclusively as majority rule, the interests of minority groups may not be addressed. Their rights may be protected, but their interests may be completely ignored. Restorative justice provides an ...

When democracy is defined exclusively as majority rule, the interests of minority groups may not be addressed. Their rights may be protected, but their interests may be completely ignored. Restorative justice provides an ...