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Democratization --- Démocratisation --- Europe, Eastern --- Former Soviet republics --- Europe de l'Est --- Ex-URSS --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- #SBIB:328H27 --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden- en Centraal Europa: algemeen --- Démocratisation --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- CIS countries --- Commonwealth of Independent States countries --- Ex-Soviet republics --- Ex-Soviet states --- Former Soviet states --- New Independent States (Former Soviet republics) --- Newly Independent States (Former Soviet republics) --- NIS (Former Soviet republics) --- Political science --- New democracies

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This book explores the course and causes of the worldwide diffusion of democracy through an assessment of the political and economic development of individual countries from the year 1800 to 2005. Using this extended range of data and examining multiple variables Barbara Wejnert creates a conceptual model for the diffusion of democracy and to measure national democratization. The author characterizes each nation's political system, its networking with other countries, level of development, and media advancement, in order to pinpoint what leads to national and regional progress to or regress from democratization. Her innovative findings challenge established thinking and reveal that the growth of literacy does not lead to democratization but is instead an outcome of democracy. She also finds that networks between non-democratic and democratic states are more important to a nation's democratization than financial aid given to non-democratic regimes or the level of national development.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Political systems --- Democracy --- Democratization --- #SBIB:324H20 --- #SBIB:324H71 --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Politieke verandering: modernisatie, democratisering, regional development --- Democracy. --- Democratization. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Volume 19 in the Research in Political Sociology series is devoted to health problems, challenges and accomplishments in democratic societies. It includes papers addressing health systems, health policies, obstacles to societal healthy behaviors, and/or health conditions that are experienced in democratic societies in the world. The democratic society is understood in a broadly defined term. It includes developed Western democracies, as well as less developed or underdeveloped countries that have democratic system. According to such definition, the category 'democracies' includes democratic countries that have well established democratic system and respect broad network of people rights, as well as democracies that are formally consider democratic states but de facto respect only a few rights or their governments are guided by limited democratic principles. Therefore, the collection of the 19th volume of Research in Political Sociology includes papers addressing these issues in a broad spectrum of countries from India, Sri Lanka and Tanzania, to Sweden, Canada and the United States.

Political sociology. --- Democracy. --- Democracy --- Political sociology --- Public health. --- Health aspects.

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To challenge gender discrimination and to secure the world's prosperity and peace, we urgently need pro-girls and pro-women policies in the contemporary, globally developing world. Such policies could mark an era of building greater gender equality across the world by sheltering domains of women's well-being that are shown to decline. These needs can be best summarized by Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations in 2005: "When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier, they are better fed, their income, savings and reinvestment go up. And what is true for families is true of communities and, eventually, of whole countries." The desperately needed gender equality would honor women's place in the world, would greatly honor each country's political constituencies and enrich democratic institutions. This volume of Research in Political Sociology addresses a broad range of gender equality issues from women's status and opportunities at work, education, health, political participation, community involvement and global migration; from a vast domain of countries in Europe, America, Australia, Asia and Africa.

Sex discrimination against women. --- Women in development. --- Development and women --- GAD (Gender and development) --- Gender and development --- WAD (Women and development) --- WID (Women in development) --- Women and development --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Social policy and particular groups --- Political Science --- Social Science --- Society & culture: general. --- Political science & theory. --- Globalization. --- Women's Studies.

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Populism comes in many guises. Both Berlusconis personalization of politics and the Northern Leagues anti-immigrant regionalist movement are viewed as examples of the phenomenon of populism. A type of left-wing populism embodied by Hugo Chavez swept across Latin America. Insurgent and anti-system movements and parties in places as different as the Netherlands, India, Norway, Thailand, Russia and the United States have experienced what have been labeled populists movements. Such varied manifestations beg the question: what is populism? The objective of this edited volume is to provide an answer by examining "the many faces of populism." The unifying element across the different explorations of the phenomenon of populism is that there is a shared genus that allows for a typology of the different faces of populism and a demarcation of what is not a form of populism.

Liberalism. --- Populism. --- Welfare state. --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Political science --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Political sociology --- Italien. --- Polen. --- Iran. --- Lateinamerika. --- Iberoamerika --- Lateinamerikaner --- Jomhōri-e Islamī-e Iran --- Kišwar-i Šāhanšāhī-i Īrān --- Īrān --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- République islamique d'Iran --- Imperial Government of Iran --- <>-Ǧumhūrīya al-Islāmīya al-Īrānīya --- Daulat-i ʿAlīya-i Īrān --- Pārs --- Ǧumhūrīyat Īrān al-Islāmīya --- <>Ǧumhūrīya al-Islāmīya al-Īrānīya --- <>Ǧumhūriyya al-Islāmiyya al-Īrāniyya --- Daulat-i Šāhinšāhī-i Īrān --- Gouvernement Impérial de l'Iran --- IR Iran --- Persien --- Persia --- Ǧumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- Perse --- الجمهورية الإسلامية الايرانية --- ایران --- Chaladsch --- Iran --- Generalgouvernement Polen --- Polska --- Rzeczpospolita Polska --- Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa --- Poland --- Pologne --- République Polonaise --- Generalne Gubernatorstwo w Polsce --- Polish People's Republic --- Polska Rzeczpospolita --- PRL --- RP --- Polen --- Besetzte Polnische Gebiete --- Besetztes Gebiet in Polen --- Okupowane Polskie Obszary --- Obszary Okupowane w Polsce --- Volksrepublik Polen --- Polska Rosyjska --- Republic Polen --- Respublika Pol'ša --- Pol'skaja Narodnaja Respublika --- République de Pologne --- Polen Links der Weichsel --- Polska po Lewej Stronie Wisły --- Lenkija --- Polija --- Gubernija Carstva Pol'skago --- Republik Polen --- Kongresspolen --- Westgalizien --- 1918 --- -Italia --- Königreich Italien --- Repubblica Italiana --- Italiya Respublikasi --- Italijos Respublika --- Olaszorszaǵ --- Olasz Koz̈taŕsasaǵ --- Regno d'Italia --- Italienische Republik --- République Italienne --- Yidali-gongheguo --- Italy --- Italiener --- Königreich Sardinien --- Republik von Salò --- 17.03.1861 --- -Political Science --- Political ideologies. --- Political activism. --- Political structure & processes. --- Political Ideologies --- General. --- Political Science