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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Authoritarian Regime"”.
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Contemporary political opposition in Russia’s competitive authoritarian regime
… governing practices of Putin have become more authoritarian, Russia has come to resemble a competitive authoritarian regime type. Despite this continually shrinking political environment, opposition candidates still compete in elections and organize protests around the country. This paper …
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Electoral reform in an authoritarian regime--the case of Mexico
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1988.
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Authoritarian regime types, political and socio-economic outcomes, and democratic survival
… of which factors shape outcomes in autocratic regimes, and, in turn, what influences the survival of democratic regimes in light of their authoritarian legacies. I argue that regimes which are able to curtail the dictator’s powers, compared to uncontested autocracies, are associated with better …
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Making Sense of the News Under an Electoral Authoritarian Regime : Russian TV Viewers and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
… domains of news processing under an electoral authoritarian regime: the formation of political opinions based on television news, the use of heuristics to evaluate the credibility of TV news, and the use of a range of information sources, both offline and online, in a high-choice media …
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Unravelling the dynamics of authoritarian strategies : a comparative study of Suharto’s new order in Indonesia and Jammeh’s rule in the Gambia
The dynamics of authoritarian power consolidation is receiving more attention today than it has ever been before as a result of rising authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. However, there exists an undertheorized and variations on autocrat’s decision calculus for prioritizing repression over …
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The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa
This research will deal with regime dynamics (early interruption of democracies, early maintaining of democracies, late interruption of democracies, late maintaining of democracies, maintaining autocracies, and liberalizing autocracies), levels of democracy (liberal democracy, electoral democracy, …
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Challenging the Authoritarian Theory of the Press: Mostafa Amin and Press Freedom Under King Farouk's Rule in Egypt
This thesis examines the authoritarian theory of the press coined by Siebert et al. (1956), which proposes a strict control over the press, and its applicability on monarchical Egypt. It challenges the rigid categorization by presenting a case study of a famous Egyptian journalist Mostafa Amin and …
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An Elusive Victory - Egyptian Workers Challenge the Regime (2006-2012)
… After thirty-two years of a Mubarak-led authoritarian regime, massive protests began in January 2011 and forced President Mubarak to step down from his position. The first question of this research endeavor is: how did Egyptian workers challenge the regime and how they became one of the …
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Economic voting in new democracies
… in 70 new democracies that have experienced regime transition since 1974. By incorporating the analysis of elections in virtually all new democracies, this study shows how electorates react to changes in economic conditions under various socio-economic, institutional, and political …
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Sino-American Relations in the 21st Century: The Political, Social and Economic Realities of China's Rise
… Economic growth has legitimatized the authoritarian regime in China, freedom is not related to decisions of trade and investment, and the Chinese people have not grown closer to America as their ties to the outside world have strengthened. China has changed, not in the direction …
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Tracing Violence Against Women from the Francoist Dictatorship to Democratic Spain
… rights when a country transitions from an authoritarian regime to a democratic state? This thesis examines how Spain’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy impacted the advancements of women’s rights through a specific analysis of violence against women. While democratization …
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Civil-military relations and monarchical survival : a comparative analysis of Morocco and Jordan
The literature on regime persistence in the Arab world, particularly when it comes to the monarchies, has missed many crucial elements. Specifically, the role of the military within the elite coalition and the factors that lead to variation on this variable have not been adequately studied. In this …
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Repression, Elections, and Competitiveness in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
Competitive authoritarian regimes are identified as a Post-Cold War phenomenon that utilize democratic institutions, but cling to authoritarian tendencies to remain in power. I posit that these authoritarian tendencies towards repression are limited by the competitive nature of the regimes. …
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Businessmen and authoritarianism in Egypt
… of this thesis is to examine how the Mubarak authoritarian regime survived for three decades, especially after the introduction of economic liberalization. I argue that the Mubarak regime created a new constituency of businessmen who benefited from economic reform and in return provided …
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Rhetorics of Everyday Resistance: The Belgrade 1996/97 Student Protest
… tactics employed to subvert and undermine the authoritarian regime. Apart from examining day-to-day practices of the movement – its mechanisms and rhetorical devices – I interrogate the role of carnivalesque humor and the carnivalesque body present in political jokes and al fresco satirical, …
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Masculinidades bajo Pinochet: simbologia y simbiosis en Mala onda y Tony Manero
… social environment during its period of authoritarian regime. From this perspective, the protagonists of both fictional works, who come from different social and economic sectors of the Chilean society, can be considered oppressed individuals and oppressors themselves within this context, …
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Testing the limits of civil society in Jordan
… as a motor of democratization or stabilizer of authoritarian rule. This dichotomy is partly due to the dominance of domains-based definitions of the concept that reduce civil society to a small range of formally organized, independent and democratically oriented NGOs. Additionally, research …
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American Nationalism in the Early Twenty-first Century: A Discursive Analysis of the Politics of Immigration and National Security
… of proof can lead to curbed freedoms under an authoritarian regime, a direction toward which Trump appears ready and willing to lead the American electorate.
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THE SOCIAL MEDIA ROLE IN FORMING POLITICAL AWARENESS AMONG IRAQI YOUTH
… as a “democratic” state, is dominated by an authoritarian regime. Protesters demanded government policies change and policy reforms, but soon people across the region the demands shifted to regime change and asked for new leadership and the resignation of their current governments. This …
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The soul of the White Muslim: Race, empire and Africa in Turkey
… Africa south of the Sahara under the neoliberal authoritarian regime of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). In contrast to the political science and international relations literatures on South-South relations, this anthropological research explores how the transnational political, economic …
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