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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Autocracies"”.
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Diversionary Repression in Electoral Autocracies: Crisis Onset, Loss-Domain Conditions, and State Escalation
… control, paying close attention to how electoral autocracies in a loss-domain react. To map out the actual causal mechanisms at play, the project then traces the political trajectory of Bangladesh over the same 15-year period.</p> <p>The data shows almost no evidence of a universal "crisis effect" …
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Why Democracies and Autocracies Go to War: Comparing the Cases of Iraq and Ukraine
<p>History shows that both democratic and nondemocratic countries wage wars to advance their strategic interests. This study has comparatively analyzed two conflicts – the 2003-2011 U.S. invasion of Iraq and Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine – to identify the trends that motivate both democratic and …
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Autocracies and the implementation of human rights treaties - the case of Cameroon and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
Cameroon is a constitutional and political autocracy that has been ruled by two presidents with enormous executive powers for 58 years. The persistence of systematic violation of personal integrity rights despite its evolving constitutionalism which has widely adopted rights friendly legislations …
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Institutional Determinants of Human Rights Violations Across Political Regimes
… offers a deeper look at how courts function in autocracies. I argue that even with the best judicial institutions, courts in autocracies will not perform as well as in democracies to protect human rights. The dictator designs independent courts and enforces the decisions, to attract foreign …
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The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa
… late maintaining of democracies, maintaining autocracies, and liberalizing autocracies), levels of democracy (liberal democracy, electoral democracy, and hybrid regimes) and their relationship with economic growth. Regime dynamics refers to the stability or interruption of democratic and …
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Authoritarian regime types, political and socio-economic outcomes, and democratic survival
… the dictator’s powers, compared to uncontested autocracies, are associated with better institutional and socio-economic outcomes during the authoritarian rule as well as a higher survival rate upon transition to democracy. The first two papers of this dissertation provide evidence that regimes …
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Causes of domestic terrorism: 1970-2010
… were categorized into three different types - autocracies, anocracies, or democracies. Autocracies were the least susceptible to terrorism. Anocracy was the regime type most conducive to terrorism. Democratic regimes occupied the middle space. They suffered more terrorism than dictatorships but …
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Mythmaking, Mega-events, and Coercion: Autocratic Legitimation in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
What constitutes legitimate order in modern autocracies? This research argues that the persistence of autocratic domination evolves beyond simple mechanisms of repression but represents a dynamic process of nurturing public consent and imitating socioeconomic progress. It explores why and how the …
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Understanding hybrid regimes: How are they maintained and operated?
… it apart from previous ones. Likewise, while autocracies have always been around throughout human history, hybrid regimes that are gaining ground today systematically differ from “classical” autocracies. First, current episodes of autocratization tend to be subtle and gradual. Coups and overt …
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
… of national leaders in both democracies and autocracies, and reduces the short-run likelihood of democratic change. Results also indicate that long-run economic growth sees countries climb an "electricity ladder", substituting away from hydroelectricity and oil-fired electricity and toward …
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
… of national leaders in both democracies and autocracies, and reduces the short-run likelihood of democratic change. Results also indicate that long-run economic growth sees countries climb an "electricity ladder", substituting away from hydroelectricity and oil-fired electricity and toward …
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The Power of Protest Messages: An Information Model on Protest Participation in China}
… responsiveness and increasing social demands in autocracies.</p>
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American relations with the Russian Provisional Government, March to November, 1917
… make the transition from the “autocracy of autocracies” to that of a democratic nation. One of the reasons why the Provisional Government did not make peace with Germany was the role played by the United States. American relations with the Provisional Government were designed to aid the …
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Institutionalization, repression and political instability in authoritarian regimes
… about the factors that explain coups’ success in autocracies and demonstrates there is a transnational interdependence in autocratic repression. The findings of this dissertation have implications for dissidents mobilizing against autocrats, for professionals and policy makers interested in …
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Castro's Cuba and Stroessner's Paraguay: A comparison of the totalitarian/authoritarian taxonomy.
… and styles of the Castro and Stroessner autocracies, habitually labeled totalitarian and authoritarian, respectively. Totalitarianism emerged as an analytic concept as social scientists attempted to understand characteristics of the Hitler and Stalin regimes distinctive from other forms …
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Policing and Police Reform in Turkey since 1980: Regime Transitions and Policing Transformations
… science scholarship on coercive institutions in autocracies, which theorizes how authoritarian leaders organize their coercive institutions to remain in power.
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The revolution will be made public: The effects of international actors on protest movements in hybrid and authoritarian regimes today
… signs held by political protesters in autocracies throughout the world, signaling activists’ desire to capture the attention and interest of a global audience. Innovations in telecommunications make it easier than ever before for people in one country to know what actors elsewhere are …
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Rethinking Judicial Independence in Democracy and Autocracy
… necessary to maintain judicial independence in autocracies and democracies. </p><p>In Chapter 2, I build a theory regarding the methods by which autocrats credibly still maintain judicial independence, given the lack of formal institutions capable of constraining their ever-present chance of …
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Exploring the second wave of democratic peace critiques : commonality, territoriality, and selectivity
… attack weaker foes to a greater degree than do autocracies, countries with bad human rights and undemocratic practices, and those without important economic relations.
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“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… across six continents affecting democracies and autocracies alike with such fervor that journalists repeatedly declared it the year of the street protest. Despite globalization and mobile technologies, contentious politics largely continue to take shape through the performances, narratives, and …
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