In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findin

Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government. And yet the aftermath of September 11 has opened the door to a reassessment of the role of a

Provides empirical evidence that power-sharing measures used to end civil wars can help facilitate a transition to minimalist democracy.

Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and

Canada and the United States are consistently ranked among the most democratic countries in the world, yet voices expressing concern about the quality of these