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Why are small Island States Democracies?

Pages 375-390 | Published online: 25 Aug 2010

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David Harris & Sait Matty Jaw. (2024) A ‘New Gambia’? Managing political crisis and change in an African small state. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 62:1, pages 45-64.
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Abrak Saati. (2022) The political consequences of smallness: the case of Saint Lucia. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 60:4, pages 339-356.
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Wouter Veenendaal & Leila Demarest. (2021) How population size affects power-sharing: a comparison of Nigeria and Suriname. Contemporary Politics 27:3, pages 271-291.
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Jack Corbett & Wouter Veenendaal. (2016) Westminster in small states: comparing the Caribbean and pacific experience. Contemporary Politics 22:4, pages 432-449.
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Wouter P. Veenendaal. (2015) Democracy in microstates: why smallness does not produce a democratic political system. Democratization 22:1, pages 92-112.
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Wouter Veenendaal. (2013) Size and institutional legitimacy: the case of St Kitts and Nevis. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 51:3, pages 343-361.
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Natasha T. Duncan & Dwayne Woods. (2007) What About Us? The Anglo-Caribbean Democratic Experience. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 45:2, pages 202-218.
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Jun Makita. (2023) Smallness and democracy in Pacific island countries from an institutional perspective. Social Science Quarterly 104:3, pages 345-363.
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Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, Nic Cheeseman, Wouter Veenendaal & Jack Corbett. (2021) African exceptions: democratic development in small island states. Journal of International Relations and Development 25:1, pages 210-234.
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Kim Moloney. (2018) Debt administration in Small Island‐States. Australian Journal of Public Administration 78:3, pages 325-340.
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Caroline Morris. (2018) Attempting constitutional reform on the island microjurisdiction of Alderney. Common Law World Review 47:2, pages 105-135.
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Sebastian Garmann. (2017) God save the queen, god save us all? Monarchies and institutional quality. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 65:2, pages 186-204.
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Wouter P. Veenendaal & Jack Corbett. (2014) Why Small States Offer Important Answers to Large Questions. Comparative Political Studies 48:4, pages 527-549.
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Direnç Kanol. (2014) Interest group influence in micro-states: the role of networking skills. European Journal of Government and Economics 3:1, pages 47-59.
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Heather Congdon Fors. (2014) Do island states have better institutions?. Journal of Comparative Economics 42:1, pages 34-60.
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Robbert Maseland & André van Hoorn. (2010) Why Muslims like democracy yet have so little of it. Public Choice 147:3-4, pages 481-496.
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Elaine Stratford. (2006) Technologies of agency and performance: Tasmania Together and the constitution of harmonious island identity. Geoforum 37:2, pages 273-286.
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