Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Seats in Israel’s legislative assembly, the Knesset, are assigned through a system of nationwide proportional representation: Rather ...

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.

A conceptual model, linking the nature and intensity of bureaucratic politics in advisory systems to the characteristics of the political leaders served by them, is also developed.

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 ...

In it, at the beginning, the relation between the political system and the civil society is explained more specifically, followed by a review of the relation between the political system and the ...

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 ...