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ISA President Kristian Gleditsch's talk for ISA Midwest 2021 i

[Please click "More" to read our disclaimer below] ISA President Kristian Gleditsch gave a virtual talk for the ISA Midwest annual conference, held in St. Louis, MO from November 19-21, 2021. To learn more about the International Studies Association Midwest region, click here: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Regions/Midwest _The viewer should note that the opinions expressed in this audio/video recording are those of th....

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HOW can more women get into politics? - BBC My World i

Even though women make up half of the world’s population, it’s still men who make most of the big decisions. Less than 1 in 4 of the world’s politicians are women. So how do you get more women into politics to make politics more equal? BBC reporter Reha Kansara explains how some countries have tried. BBC My World presents this video, outlining some steps which can be taken to help break the glass ceiling and c....

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Happiness is rising around the world i

ISR World Values Survey identifies happiest nations in the world. More at http://ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6629 and http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org.

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A ranking of 178 countries across 12 indicators of the risks and vulnerabilities faced by individual nations, see data..

Fragile States Index

Information about multiculturalism policies in a standardized format that aids comparative research and contributes to the understanding of state-minority relations.

Multiculturalism Policy Index

Platform for research on economic growth and development, comprehensive databases on indicators of growth and development that the Center compiles and maintains on a regular basis..

Groningen Growth & Dev. Center

Data collection in more than 80 electoral democracies. The expert surveys for data collection were done in 2008 and 2009..

Project on Democratic Accountability & Citizen-Politician Linkages

Research and other initiatives related to the theme of citizenship in its legal, political, and social dimensions.

Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite)

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Share Insights

Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge..

Power 3.0

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research addresses political and economic development issues.

WIDER Angle

(Sage Journals) Forum for the analysis of political parties..

Party Politics

A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte..

Two Weeks Notice

From the World Bank..

Governance for Development

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