On 7 November 1999, something more than half the registered electors of Guatemala cast their votes in presidential, legislative, and municipal elections. Since the transi[...]

This study theoretically and empirically examines altruistic and joyof- giving motivations underlying contributions to charitable activities. The theoretical analysis sho[...]

The attempt to revolutionize Bolivia that began with the election of Evo Morales in 2005 has led to the breakdown of constitutional democracy and the polarization of the [...]

The rise of China can be considered either the wrench in the gears of most scholars' interpretations of globalization, or viewed as the new big gear in furthering globali[...]

The 1948 Costa Rican civil war stands as the most significant breakdown of emerging democratic practices in what many believe is a country with a democratic destiny.1 No [...]

On Sunday, 6 February 1994, elections were held in Costa Rica to elect a president, all 57 members of the Legislative Assembly and to fill 953 municipal seats (the rigido[...]

In an analysis of National Assessment of Educational Progress data, Niemi and Junn (1998) found that students in the United States know very little about politics. While [...]

Objectives. Property rights are central to debates about natural resource policy. Governments traditionally have been seen as the appropriate custodians of natural resour[...]

After voting in two rounds of elections in the Spring of 1994, El Salvadorans elected a president, a vice-president (on the same ticket), 84 legislative deputies and 262 [...]

Poster presented at the North Carolina Library Association Biennial Conference in October of 2021. Describes a multi-year collaboration with a Political Science professor[...]

My dissertation is a response to the lacuna in the literature regarding the semiotic moments of the entrepreneurial university. The scholars on the entrepreneurial univer[...]

This article explores the art of governing academic civic engagement.  Due to the diversity in institutional missions, locations, faculty cultures, and capacities, civic [...]

La forma de escribir sobre el pasado político escogida por Carlos Meléndez se podría calificar como un ejemplo de la historia patria. Esta forma de construir una historia[...]

This paper describes the findings of a qualitative study of six government teachers from three diverse high schools in the Southwest Chicago suburbs during the 2008 Presi[...]

This article seeks to identify the conditions that prompt executives and legislators to reform electoral laws, especially those with far-ranging and redistributive conseq[...]

Costa Rica's long-term standing as one of the few countries in Latin America with a stable democracy has prompted many to view its polity as an inevitable outcome of a ra[...]

Why do politicians reform the institutions that keep them in power? Why do they relinquish the ability to rig elections? The nonfraudulent 1988 Chilean plebiscite trigger[...]

Secondary civics and government courses are often framed as a content area in which students learn about processes of government and ways of participating in a democratic[...]

This study aims to begin filling this void by drawing upon a rich documentary source--the petitions to nullify electoral results (demandas de nulidad)--from Costa Rica, a[...]

As human populations and their demands on natural resources continue to grow, citizens and officials from around the world search ever more intensely for effective soluti[...]

This paper identifies the correlates of voter turnout rates in the ethnically complex country of Guatemala. It uses maps and regression analysis to comprehend varying tur[...]

One of the more haunting images from George Orwell's (1949) 1984 is that of the protagonist, Winston Smith, altering official government history on behalf of the Party as[...]

The rise of state-mandated standards in public education have allowed legislators to answer the question of what constitutes a proper civic education, a debate that has e[...]

The radical shift in development strategy in Latin America to market-based reforms was a product of the 1982 debt crisis. In its aftermath Latin American economies stoppe[...]

In 2001, Richard Niemi and Julia Smith published an article in PS: Political Science and Politics on enrollments in high school civics and government courses. They framed[...]