Tag: Wouter Veenendaal

Democracy in small states: why everything we think we know about democratisation is (mostly) wrong

Democracy in small states: why everything we think we know about democratisation is (mostly) wrong

Why do small states often rank highly in comparative measures of democracy? Jack Corbett and Wouter Veenendaal outline how their research into states with populations under one million challenges existing theories of why democracies can persist or fail.