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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Autocracy"”.
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Rethinking Judicial Independence in Democracy and Autocracy
<p>Building independent courts is a commitment by political leaders that they are willing to tie their hands, restrain their (often arbitrary) power, and respect judicial decisions even if the courts rule against them. But if political leaders are rational, why do they persist in their respectful …
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Participatory autocracy : private entrepreneurs, legislatures, and property protection in China
This dissertation addresses the puzzle of why individuals in authoritarian systems seek office in formal institutions, which are often dismissed as weak and ineffective. I argue that individuals seek office mainly to protect their property from government expropriation in China. In contrast to …
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN POST-SOVIET SPACE: SERVING TO AUTOCRACY OR SIMULATING DISSENT?
On the rise of the digital era, social media promised to empower citizens in non-democratic countries by challenging the information hegemony of autocrats on the media market and facilitating citizens' coordination for civil initiative and collective action events. The first evidence endorsing the …
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Post-Soviet Region, Authoritarian Stability, and Autocracy Promotion: Limits to the European Union’s External Governance
This cumulative thesis consists of six single contributions: five independent essays and an introductory chapter. All of the conributions have been published or accepted for publication. The overarching scope of these essays is to analyze different factors accounting for the stability of …
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Suetonius’ Organizational Craft
… them to teach his readers how to analyze Roman autocracy. Suetonius uses the serial biographical form to conduct political analysis and to prompt his readers to do so as well. This dissertation argues that Suetonius’ political insight is an articulation of the nature of Roman autocratic power. …
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Authoritarianism, Threat, and Declining Tolerance and Support for Democracy: Evidence from the Post-Arab Spring Middle East
… be more supportive of democracy and less so of autocracy. I expect that these preferences will be subject to the same dynamics of normative and existential threat as intolerance. Using an original measure of authoritarianism, I find evidence that libertarians in the Middle East react as …
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Sickness of the Spirit: A Comparative Study of Lu Xun and James Joyce
… shared a common concern, namely the problems of autocracy and the degeneration of the prevailing morality. Moral autocracy and degeneration vitiated life by depriving the individual of freedom. Lu Xun and Joyce were committed to exposing the slave mentality of the Chinese or Irish people, …
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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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The use of discourse in the context of authoritarian diffusion
… and theories that examined concepts such as autocracy promotion, and autocracy support, particularly the reinforcement of regime legitimacy and the contestation of liberal democratic norms. The central argument is that discourse, whether in media narratives or diplomatic rhetoric, creates the …
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Narrative, Context, and Conversion: An Application of Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Narrative to the New Catholic Evangelization in the Postconciliar United States
… vacuum of relativism nor to the suffocation of autocracy.
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Building socialist broadcasting with Chinese characteristics : the substance and contradictions of China's broadcasting policy in the Reform Era (1978-1994)
… The Chinese Communist Party's monopoly of and autocracy in broadcasting has become an obstacle to broadcasting reform; has been shaken by the tremendous economic decentralization, and should be replaced by libertarianism so as to meet the people's demand for information and to regain its …
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South Africa's Paradox: A Case Study of Latent State Fragility
… apartheid, liberation struggle, transition from autocracy to democracy, high levels of direct and structural violence, stagnating social, political, and economic developments make South Africa a <em>latently fragile state</em>. Conceptually, the results of this research call into question the …
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Containing the opposition : selective representation in Jordan and Turkey
… parties in two cases, Jordan and Turkey, an autocracy and a democracy, to analyze the impact of engineered election mechanisms on their representation. I contend that parties in power exploit the rules of the electoral game to contain their opposition. This is done by different mechanisms, …
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A descriptive study of the supervisory model used in a large metropolitan school system: the triad support teacher model of Baltimore City, Maryland
… schools are lavishly used to show that the autocracy of the early twentieth century supervisor is no more. It is apparent from a review of the literature that some theorists have strayed rather far from a workable concept of school supervision. Many supervisors are verbalizing various styles …
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Retrospective Revolution: A History of Time and Memory in Urban Russia, 1903--1923
… into a bitingly transgressive critique of autocracy, mass consumerism, of private property and unfettered capitalism. Drawing from archival documents, the boulevard press, diaries, art and literature, my work challenges dominant interpretations of social fragmentation, future-gazing, and …
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American relations with the Russian Provisional Government, March to November, 1917
… peace could Russia 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 …
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Developing Guiding Options for Educational Curriculum for Public Administrators in Tajikistan
… its capacities and transition successfully from autocracy to democracy. It is hoped that the options for educational curricula developed in this study will encourage Tajikistan's national universities to implement graduate level degree programs in public administration. Tajikistan will benefit …
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Developing Guiding Options for Educational Curriculum for Public Administrators in Tajikistan
… its capacities and transition successfully from autocracy to democracy. It is hoped that the options for educational curricula developed in this study will encourage Tajikistan's national universities to implement graduate level degree programs in public administration. Tajikistan will benefit …
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Lèse-majesté: the implications of the example of Turkey in a European context
… not preclude their future abuse by a de facto autocracy, and Turkey is not the sole example in that respect. In sum, it is submitted that it is both a democratic duty and a human rights obligation to abolish lèse-majesté laws, in the hope that Turkey will be viewed as a warning sign by other …
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