Left and Right in Global Politics
Table 2.6. Scores for relationships between left–right self-placement and attitudes about social justice, competition, and gover ...
Table 2.6. (cont .) Western Europe Anglo-SaxonDemocracies Former SovietSphere of Influence Latin America Asia-Pacific Middle Eas ...
with scores of 0, there are almost no old democracies (three out of eighteen). The left–right cleavage is a social construction, ...
institutionalized party systems helping to draw a clear line between the left and the right.^23 Populism, personalism, and clien ...
it should be noted that on social issues such as abortion and homo- sexuality, Latin Americans are very much divided along left– ...
over time, to reach voters and present meaningful competitive stances in the public sphere. To a large extent, the left–right te ...
Inglehart and Norris in their own argument, the common ground that also connects peoples, across these cultural divides. More pr ...
3 Two tales of globalization It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of fo ...
human folly. Since they have low expectations regarding domestic as well as international politics, they are more easily content ...
in the right direction, that history constantly begets progress, and that, in the final analysis, the world could be much worse ...
trade is one of the mainstays of the recent phase of globalization. And nowhere is the positive impact of globalization more evi ...
1980 and 1998, the South’s share of the global trade in high technology products rose from 20 to 30 percent.^11 In the financial ...
living in absolute poverty, that is, with an income of $1 per day or less, declined from 1.5 billion in 1981 to 1.1 billion in 2 ...
population-weighted international inequality is now diminishing. The Gini coefficient for weighted international inequality inde ...
which heralded the triumph of the capitalist economic model over that of the planned economy, was the emblempar excellenceof thi ...
market economy.^24 Elaborated on the initiative of the heads of state of Algeria, South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, and Senegal, the ...
number of students at this level is now in the South.^29 And while it is true that access to schooling remains more difficult fo ...
are probably that the leaders of the G8 countries agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, and that the leadershi ...
The last hundred years must, furthermore, be seen as the century of democracy. The full meaning of this observation appears clea ...
a range of difficulties. At the beginning of the twenty-first century the most serious problems are without a doubt those relate ...
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