Championed by its supporters as a program for the underprivileged and criticized by its opponents as an electoral program, the Mais Médicos program aimed to provide primary care doctors to lacking regions of Brazil and is ...

Words remain in usage while their meanings change without our noticing. This is a particularly vexing problem when a word is intended to capture the central human value in United States history and continues to be the ...

Contemporary events suggest that stable democracies are “backsliding” into authoritarianism.

This paper examines the impact of Chinese aid on African conflicts at local level. Chinese aid is often described as “rogue aid” because of its distinct features of “no-strings-attached” and its ignorance of democracy and ...

State-controlled financial institutions in the form of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) now control globally over US$7 trillion in assets – more than the assets under management by private equity and hedge funds combined. ...

The human activity of emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) is responsible for the intensification of extreme weather, according to nearly all climate scientists. Already, atmospheric concentrations of the three most heat-trapping ...

Political attitudes and behaviors have been extensively studied in a variety of populations, with differences between and within populations being attributed to a range of factors. These include socioeconomic factors and ...

Recent waves of populism raise urgent questions about political stability across the world. Why are populists more electorally viable in some liberal democracies than in others, and why do only some electorally successful ...

In his “new political science…for a world itself quite new,” Alexis de Tocqueville wagers that sociology and political theology can reveal a grounded path forward for democratic peoples. While political democracy has ...

This study examines the discourse of Beppe Grillo, founder of the Five Star Movement, a populist political movement created on his personal blog in 2009. It analyzes three of the texts published on Grillo’s blog about the ...