Global Gender Gaps
By Nicole Speulda and Mary McIntosh
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Muslim Politics and U.S. Policies: Prospects for Pluralism and Democracy in the Muslim World
9:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m. Washington, D.C. Welcome & Project Overview Scaling Up Pluralism and Democracy Download transcript Political Transitions and Contests Download transcript Bahman Baktiari, University of Maine Democratization and Repression in post-Khomeini Iran Jenny B. White, Boston University The End of Islamism? Turkey’s New Muslim Politics Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University Egypt: Democratic Capital Lost […]
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Global Gender Gaps
Women Like Their Lives Better
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Chapter 6. Social and Economic Values
Free-market economies and the individual freedoms that underlie them are highly favored around the world. Majorities in 33 of 44 countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project believe that people are better off in a free-market economy, even if it leads to disparities in wealth and income. But this global endorsement of capitalism goes […]
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Chapter 4. Globalization with Few Discontents?
For more than a decade, globalization has been a deeply divisive topic among social activists, intellectuals, business leaders, policy makers and politicians. But the global public is less divided on the subject. To varying degrees, people almost everywhere like globalization. The 38,000 people surveyed in 44 countries by the Pew Global Attitudes Project report that […]
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Chapter 2. Muslim Opinion on Government and Social Issues
Muslims surveyed in the Pew Global Attitudes Project favor a prominent – in many cases expanded – role for Islam and religious leaders in the political life of their countries. Yet that opinion does not diminish Muslim support for a system of governance that ensures the same civil liberties and political rights enjoyed by democracies. […]