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This dissertation answers the question of whether or not democracies can win counterinsurgency conflicts. This is done first through an analysis of the arguments made by those who claim that democracies are uniquely incapable of doing so due to various limitations imposed by pub…

This study compares media in democracies on a global scale. The structure of news media and the content of news coverage are analyzed in relation to the social and political structures in which they operate. Part I of this study asks if the institutional structure of a democracy…

The word 'democracy' today generally signifies a liberal form of democracy, which provides citizens with both a public sphere in which they have their say in running their affairs, and a private sphere where basic negative freedoms are enshrined. Globalization and the knowledge …