Published in Białostockie Studia Prawnicze
This article investigates the designed transformation of South African political identity and its constitutional framework as a core aspect of the democratization of South Africa. It compares the racist and exclusive identity of the apartheid state with a redesigned identity of an inclusive and open ‘Rainbow Nation’, a concept coined by Archbishop ...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Shadi Hamid, in his book “The Problem of Democracy, advocates for the promotion of minimalist democracy for the Middle East. Can minimalist democracy respond to the aspirations of the Arab public? Using data from the Arab Barometer (2018) survey, I emphasize that many citizens of Arab countries define democracy by its expected economic outcomes. Wh...
This article surveys the growing field of political demography, which explores the political consequences of structural population change. It underscores the importance of integrating demography and political sociology research to better understand the complex and nuanced relationship between demography and political dynamics. The existing research...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
There is currently a global trend of democratic backsliding. The term democratic backsliding refers to the process in which a country undergoes a transition towards more authoritarian values and behavior. This process can weaken the democratic norms and institutions and can occur in democratic, hybrid, and nondemocratic regimes. Many countries arou...
How do weak states build state capacity in the face of resistance from powerful local elites? This dissertation explores the historical struggle of weak states to mobilize resources, including (a) information, (b) human capital, and (c) fiscal revenues, due to the opposition of local landowning elites. During the late eighteenth and nineteenth cent...
This article aims to analyze the Audiovisual Communication Services Law No. 26.522, enacted This article aims to analyze the Audiovisual Communication Services Law No. 26.522 (a.k.a. LSCA), passed in October 2009 in Argentina, to examine two specific concerns: to challenge how acknowledging the right to communication enabled the deployment of inter...
How do violent elections affect the willingness of citizens to defend democratic institutions? We argue that in the wake of violent elections, support for democratic constraints on the executive will diverge amongst ruling and opposition party supporters. To protect their position, ruling party supporters become more likely to endorse weakening con...
Why it is that if Mexico went from an authoritarian regime to a supposedly democratic one in which various instances of transitional justice have been implemented that the country suffers nowadays unprecedented levels of violence? Two hypotheses have been proposed. First, the specific manner in which the democratic transition occurred, made effecti...
This paper analyses the impact of Lukács' work on the philosophy of Antoni Domènech based on two concepts, reification and democratization. To do so, it will consider the criticisms that the Catalan thinker made of orthodox Marxism in the 1980s and the search for a normative republican interpretation. The central part will study the relationship be...
