We investigate whether and how women's political empowerment relates to technological
change, the main driver of long-term economic growth. We argue that three aspects of …

This paper presents a new measure polyarchy for a global sample of 182 countries from
1900 to 2017 based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, deriving from an expert …

Increasing human pressure threatens plant and animal species with extinction worldwide.
National political institutions constitute an important arena for biodiversity conservation. Yet …

An intriguing phenomenon consists in the fact that widespread support for democracy
coexists in many countries with the persistent absence of democracy itself. Addressing this …

Social movements are critical sources of change in both democratic and undemocratic
contexts, leading authorities and others to attempt to prevent, constrain, or otherwise control …

ABSTRACT Since 2015, the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) governments in
Poland have engineered a revolt against the post-1989 'liberal consensus' and a shift …

Recent research suggests that climate variability and change significantly affect forced
migration, within and across borders. Yet, migration is also informed by a range of non …

International organizations (IOs) try to incorporate policy-specific best practices and country-
specific knowledge to increase well-informed decision-making. However, the relative …

This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of the outcomes of third-wave democratic
transitions. It charts where democracy broke down, stagnated, advanced, and eroded, and it …

Gender scholars show that women in situations of civil war have an impressive record of
agency in the social and political spheres. Civilian women's political mobilization during …