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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Democratic Development"”.
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The Rubik’s Cube of democratic development a normative model of statebuilding
… as international political theory, international development, or transitology. The outcome of the schema helps understand, explain and forecast the challenges related to state failure and statebuilding. Although, there were several techniques to address state failure most of them were ineffective. …
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Political Parties and Democratic Development in Ghana: From Transition to Consolidation and Beyond
… of the Ghana’s independence in March 1957, a democratic system of government was instituted, but the process of political development was derailed and often interrupted by frequent coups. This is evident in the interchange of military and civilian regimes in the last fifty-one years. While in …
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Democratic development states in Southern Africa : a study of Botswana and South Africa
… surrounding the need for the emergence of Democratic Developmental States in Africa, this thesis analyses the concept within the context of two Southern African states: Botswana and South Africa. In this regard, it critically analyses the extent to which Botswana and South Africa can be …
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Strategic decision-making in development theory and practice : a learning approach to democratic development
… develops a theoretical framework for analysing development policy and practice. A central argument is that a reason for widespread discontent with the so-called ‘Washington consensus’ is the exclusion of the majority of people from the governance of their development. An implication is that …
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Leadership for democratic development in Tanzania: the perspective of Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere during the first decade of independence
… and interesting time in politics and social development in Africa, and puts questions forward in order to unveil Nyerere's perspectives on leadership. The particular period investigated is the decade of the 1960s, the critical time of independence and nation building. The study is composed of …
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S(t)imulation: A comparison of international democracy assistance objectives and non-elite perceptions of democracy in eastern Madagascar
This thesis explores the nexus of democratic development, international democracy assistance and local political cultures in one eastern region of Madagascar. In so doing, it questions whether common targets of the democracy assistance industry (i.e. electoral process, freedom of expression, rule …
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The George W. Bush Administration's aid strategy and its impact on development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Much of Sub-Saharan Africa economically and democratically lags behind the rest of the world. Many wealthy countries have worked to speed up Africa's development through the use of foreign aid. The George W. Bush Administration utilized aid in their efforts to help eliminate poverty and deepen …
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Civil Society, Ideas, and Policymaking: Building a New Framework for Democratization Research
… both as a means for analyzing past political development, and as a means for projecting its future prospects for political development. Data used in this analysis are from field research conducted in 1995--96, and comprise survey results, economic data, legal documents, interviews, and other …
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Challenges for the Democratisation Process in Tanzania. Moving Towards Consolidation 50 years after independence?
… Tanzania is an interesting case for Peace and Development research. This thesis analyses the political development in Tanzania since the introduction of the multiparty system in 1992, with a focus on the challenges for the democratisation process in connection with the 2000 and 2005 elections. …
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Crafting Democracy : Civil Society in Post-Transition Honduras
… with regard to civil society’s relation to democratic development. This study analyzes how, and under what circumstances, civil society can contribute to democratic development in newly established democracies. A conceptual framework is outlined that draws attention to civil society’s …
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The position of the emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), in the further development of the multilateral trading system
… explore the role of BRICS in the further development of the multilateral trading system, this research poses the following questions: 1- What is the legal and institutional framework of the BRICS group and how does this framework relate to the objectives of BRICS group? 2- What is the …
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Party system institutionalization and nationalization in dominant party systems
… are believed to be positively interrelated with democratic development and party system consolidation. The goal of this dissertation is to examine the influence of dominant parties on party system institutionalization and nationalization in non-democratic countries. The results of this …
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Tracing Violence Against Women from the Francoist Dictatorship to Democratic Spain
… 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 created the institutional …
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The news media and democracy in Ghana (1992-2000)
… particularly, the newspaper media contribute to democratic development of Ghana. In this context, a comparative analytical study of the Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Chronicle, state and private entities respectively, underpinned the enquiry into the possible influences on elections, checks on …
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Radio Power: An exploration of agency for the participants of a climate change communication campaign in South Africa
Communication for Development (C4D) appeared after World War 2 and has since become a key approach to achieving sustainable and democratic development, especially in the Global South. It borrows from behaviour economics and psychology, focusing mostly on behaviour change outcomes. While it has been …
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A critical-theoretic study of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission : with reference to the work of Jurgen Habermas
… the problems and prospects for sustained democratic development in a country that has been affected by the impact of a series of cumulative civilizing offensives.I argue that the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) must be judged in relation to the outcomes that its …
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Who's Attending the Party? Elections, Parties, and Democratization in Postcommunist States
… system they adopted and the success of their democratic development--countries which instituted proportional representation (PR) elections have achieved greater success than have those countries which instituted single member district (SMD) elections. The record also shows a second …
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RIGHTS OR RICE? THE POLITICS OF POVERTY IN THE CONSOLIDATION OF AFRICA'S DEMOCRACY
… data on individual attitudes and scores of democratic development in Africa. I find citizen support for democracy overwhelmingly a function of political performance factors, as opposed to the expectations of material returns as once believed. This finding runs contrary to conventional …
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American social science and the psychology of development in India, 1940s-1960s
… post-colonial leaders embraced the concept of ‘development’ as a central objective of nation-building and a raison d'être of the post-colonial state. The opportunity of freedom, it was argued, would pave the way for a dramatic process of economic, social and political transformation that would …
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PRO-POOR PLANNING: A Tool for Strategic Territorial Planning and a Conceptual Framework Drawn from Studies in Colombia and Costa Rica
… the causal link between decentralization and democratic development in Latin America appears to be tenuous, which helps to understand why the impact of local planning practice on poverty reduction still looks weak. Six specific findings emerged: • the combination of poverty and inequality maps …
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