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'liberte, egalite, fraternite' and their practical effects on democracy promotion in Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus	A Colbert bump: The effect of political satire on the American electorate

A culture of crisis: Information and the scope of American civil liberties in an era of terrorist threat	A defense of moderate cosmopolitanism

A wink and a handshake: Why the collapse of the U.S. pension system has provoked little protest	Achieving environmental justice: Applying civil rights strategies to environmental justice

Activating judges: Courts, institutional structure, and the judicialization of policy reform in Brazil, 1988--2002	Affecting Iranian cost benefit analysis: The impact of removing sanctions on Iran's natural gas industry

Balancing power through the market: Government intervention in cross-border mergers & acquisitions	Becoming one: A comparative study of national unification in Vietnam, Yemen and Germany

Building democratic habits: Civil society and local government in comparison	Bureaucratic responsiveness and the administrative presidency

Citizens, volunteers and democrats: The meaning of civic life for women's political integration	Civic integration requirements and the transformation of citizenship

Civil society outside of democracy: A theory	Community and federalism in the American political tradition

Counter-narcotic strategy in Afghanistan: Internal implications and external lessons	Dangerous liaisons: Federal campaign finance practices and the etiology of mass political powerlessness beliefs

Defining work and welfare: The politics of social policy reform in Europe	Delegation and the administrative state: The new processes of governing and its effect on the democratic soul

Determinants of foreign direct investment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A cross country analysis	Determining the relationship between marginal income tax rates and income inequality from 1959 to 2005

Devolution from above: The origins and persistence of state-sponsored militias	Doctrine, discussion and disagreement: Evangelical Protestant interaction with Catholics in American politics

Does a little help always go a long way: A look at the impact of aid on growth	Does money matter? Terrorism and income distribution

Early warning receptivity in the UN and US	Effects of tax policy on economic growth in OECD countries

Enfranchisement through Freire's conscientizacao: The case of the Bachillerato Popular de Jovenes y Adultos "Maderera Cordoba"	Escape from democracy: Autonomy and ambivalence in the experience of democratic politics

Expanding the borders of democracy: Deliberative democracy and populism	Free press: An instrumental weapon in the fight against corruption?

Fringe benefits?: Rural-regime dynamics, retraditionalization, and political (de)liberalization in Jordan	From deprivation to detonation: Identity, political deprivation and homegrown terrorism in the United Kingdom

Globalization, strategic culture, and ideas: Explaining continuity in Korean foreign economic policy	Great Power responses to threat transitions and the legitimacy burden: U.S.-Soviet relations 1943--1950

Hezbollah: Organizational development, ideological evolution, and a relevant threat model	Housing policy and participation: Law 341 in the city of Buenos Aires, 2000--2007

How Pyongyang's stance on the provision of light water reactors has evolved over the two North Korean nuclear crises	How presidential candidates win state nomination contests: Explaining and predicting the Iowa Caucus

How religious actors influence the politics of transitional justice: Truth recovery and reconciliation in South Africa and Guatemala	Imploding state: Pakistan on the brink of collapse

Insurgency outcome and duration: Informing a grand strategy for COIN warfare	Integration in the ranks: Explaining the effects of social pressure and attitudinal change on United States military policy

Islamists and non-Islamists in the Egyptian opposition: Patterns of conflict and cooperation	Justice in transition: Societal actors and the judicialization of politics in Guatemala and Nicaragua, 1979--2004

Leveling the playing field: An examination of compensatory journalism in the 2008 Republican primary	Local peace in civil war: The case of Butembo in eastern DRC

Lost in the ruins: Nietzsche's youthful wanderings	Love, friendship and images: Citizenship and necessity in Thucydides and Plato

Managing migration for development? The promise of temporary worker schemes	Modern First Ladies: How progressive evolution of the role has aided health advocacy in the United States

National, linguistic, and religious identity of Lebanese Maronite Christians through their Arabic fictional texts during the period of the French Mandate in Lebanon	Nomination contests as indicators of general election strength

Normative discourse and European security institutions	Nostalgia, memory and decline at the dawn of modern political thought

Octavio Paz y el circulo de la revista 'Vuelta' (Mexico)	Orthodoxy and democracy in Russia: New interpretations

Perception of the risks of global warming as affected by specific evangelical Christian beliefs about Biblical inerrancy and the authority of God	Persuasion, coercion, and neglect: Understanding state policy and the mobilization of Muslim minorities in Asia

Playing nice: The costs and consequences of China's reassurance strategy in Southeast Asia	Poetic democrat: Ralph Waldo Emerson on democracy, self-reliance, and the imagination

Polarized politics and voter participation: An electoral connection	Presidential limitations on the ethical uses of covert action

Procuring influence: An analysis of the political dynamics of district revenue from defense contracting	Promoting the rule of law through civil society and human rights advocacy

Public diplomacy's undefined role: Policies and themes shaping a new paradigm	Ready to learn? How preschool participation affects children's cognitive and socioemotional development in early childhood

Realismo magico, vallenato y violencia politica en el Caribe Colombiano	Reflexive mistrust: Democratic engagement in post-traditional democracies

Rowing against the stream: Elite regeneration and the question of regime continuation in Cuba	Security aspects of European Union diplomacy---development of a unique actor in international relations

Shifting light in the Qamariyya: The reinvention of patronage networks in contemporary Yemen	Spreading democracy, supporting dictators: Pragmatism and ideology in U.S. foreign policy in the global War on Terror

Strategies of democracy promotion in United States foreign policy	Subjecting power to rules: Constitutionalism in new democracies

Taking democracy to the streets: Contentious politics and the rise of anti-neoliberalism in Bolivia	Terrorist group counterintelligence

The Hegelian compromise: Globalization, justice and the modern state	The Millennial generation: A new group of young, political actors on the stage

The United States Air Force and profession: Why sixty percent of Air Force general officers are still pilots when pilots comprise just twenty percent of the officer corps	The civil power of imagination: Intercultural understanding and democratic politics

The effect of technology on non-profit organization efficiency	The political economy of the Left in Latin America: Explaining governments' reactions to neoliberal reforms

Toward a cosmopolitan political thought: Non-western texts and the methodology of comparative political theory	Votermentary: Inspecting voter engagement in the 2008 presidential election

What effect does a state's economic, political, and demographic characteristics have on the support of the 2008 Presidential general-election Democratic candidate?	What factors impact public opinion on federal government spending?