A serious rift divides the way professional analysts explain political systems and the way voters within those systems actually see the world, whether in the United States or in societies where ...

Since then, federalism as a concept and a political system has only evolved and the many constitutions around the world are but the hybrid offshoots of the robust constitutional-based federal ...

The study utilized causal inference techniques to demonstrate that cultures with indigenous alcoholic drinks were more likely to develop hierarchical political systems with multiple layers of ...

The US follows a two-party system. This means that, although more than two parties can campaign and hold office, two political groups, the Democrats and the Republicans, hold majority of the power.

Attitudes towards the political system have often been assumed to be stable attributes that are not easily influenced by short-term forces. We examine the extent to which attention to media coverage, ...

The answer is America's two-party political system. While third parties occasionally make some noise, they never threaten the Democratic-Republican duopoly. It’s just as America's Founders ...

We find that the secularization of public school systems can be explained by path-dependent state-church relationships (countries with established national churches were less likely to have ...