Conceptions of Civil Society

In hotly contested parliamentary elections, candidates supportive of President Khatami’s reforms won an overwhelming victory.

It has been claimed in the pages of this journal that a homogeneous society is an advantage when it comes to democratization. How might this suggestion be empirically tested, and…

A country's political regime, regardless of its level of development, affects its social performance. Fewer children die in democracies than in dictatorships.