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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Democratic Governance"”.
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Local ownership and democratic governance in security sector reform
… and sustainable, in addition to developing democratic governance as the foundation to a post-war regime. Subsequently, what scholarship on local ownership has sought to clarify is conceptual content, including the complex question of who is local. Furthermore, there have been different …
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A democratic governance approach to urban economic development policymaking
… politics. It takes a normative ideal, democratic urban governance, out of the esoteric realm of academic debate and applies it to a critical case study which concerns the most financially consequential area of urban policy, that of urban economic development. The principal elements of …
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Minor parties and democratic governance in Ghana's fourth republic, 1992 - 2022
… success; and their contributions to Ghana’s democratic governance. The study was based on a multiple-case study research design, relying on semi-structured in-depth interviews and observation to generate qualitative data on three minor parties in Ghana, namely, the Convention People’s Party …
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Rhetoric as Praxis in Leading and Organizing A Public Administration: A Journey in Democratic Governance
… and organizing reveal a greater understanding of democratic governance. The field study provides insights into leading and organizing that are also constitutive of a normative position regarding democratic governance.
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The role of parent-teacher-student-associations (PTSAs) in the democratic governance of schools : future policy implications
… the Parent-Teacher-Student-Associations in the democratic governance of secondary schools for purposes of contributing towards the education governance policy discourse as South Africa moves away from apartheid to democracy. Central to this largely fact-finding exercise was an attempt to make a …
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The role of the Pan African Parliament in promoting constitutionalism and democratic governance in Africa : lessons from other supranational parliaments
… that the promotion of constitutionalism and democratic governance is imperative to the achievement of sustainable development and that the deficit of constitutionalism and democratic governance is the major problem militating against the realization of Africa’s development initiatives. It …
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"Candles of the nation": community-based nonprofit human service institutions in the process of public governance
… groupâ is the center of citizenship and democratic governance. In doing so, she takes us into territory that remains largely unexplored: social processes and how they can create an ideal democracy.
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African legislatures and HIV/AIDS : an exploratory analysis
… represents a serious challenge for national governance institutions, particularly within the unique and complex socio political environments of the region. The need for ‘democratic governance’ and a ‘multi-sectoral’ approach within the HIV & AIDS response highlights the critical role of …
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Examining the relationship between law libraries and democracy in transitional states — a case study of the republic of Rwanda
… is now recognized as the preferred form of governance in the world. With its rise from the foundation of the United States and growth throughout the world, most recently with the fall of the Soviet Union, democratic governance is the cornerstone for the majority of governments worldwide. …
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Computational approaches for democratizing online community governance
Although democracy is a common real-world governance model, large swaths of the social media landscape are run in a quasi-dictatorial manner. From Usenet newsgroups to Reddit subreddits, online communities are managed by volunteer moderators who have sole authority to create and enforce community …
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Diversity and Expertise in Representative Governance
… democracy is a widespread and essential part of democratic governance. Our understanding of it has been largely shaped by the triumph of elections that vest peripheral access to power through episodical polls. How would representative democracy look under different selection rules? In an attempt …
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The Political Economy of Argentine Development
… elections throughout the decade undermined democratic institutions and opened the gates of opportunity for populism. One of Peron's first measures was to impeach all Supreme Court justices. Peron's economic policies punished the rural conservatives by imposing rent and price controls. The …
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Authoritarian Member States in International Organizations
… in International Organizations that require democratic governance in their treaty law. The European Union is used as a case study along with two of its Member States that are in the process of transitioning to democracy from previous authoritarian regimes—Hungary and Romania. This thesis …
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Minority rights and democracy: The transitions of post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania
This study examines the broad problem of democratic governance of multiethnic societies by focusing on three post-Soviet states--Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania. In particular, it explores how the three states are attempting to deal with the national question as they seek to institutionalize …
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The Final Frontier of Freedom: a Prospectus for Future Democratization of the Middle East
… do not appear to have an endemic impact on democratic governance one way or the other. Both the tribal system and Islam have avenues for liberalized freedom, just as they do for authoritarianism. Meanwhile, the two most liberalized nations of the Middle East – Turkey and Kuwait – face …
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Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World
… power and tension between private wealth and democratic governance. In this dissertation, I examine how philanthropy can foster enduring spaces of human flourishing, or reduce beneficiaries to objects of pity, surveillance and domination. I trace philanthropy's evolution from ancient to …
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MSMEs (Microsoft, Small and Medium Enterprises) and Democracy, a Panel Data Model
… the mechanisms whereby MSME’s appear inimical to democratic governance, and under what conditions MSMEs may advance democratic decision-making.</p>
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All dressed up with nowhere to go? the rapid transformation of the South African parliamentary committee system (in comparative theoretical perspective)
… Town, lies at the heart of the country's new democratic dispensation. Those who were fortunate enough to be present on 9 May 1994 to see the National Assembly elect the country's first black President, Nelson Mandela, will never forget the moving spectacle that followed, as black MP after …
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When the State Takes Over a Life: the Public Guardian as Public Administrator
… substitute decision making and in enhancing democratic governance to give voice to wards through their own participation in decision making and relationships with their public guardian.
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New Public Management in Charlotte, North Carolins: A Case Study of Managed Competition
… on four primary study areas including (1) democratic governance, (2) the politics administration dichotomy, (3) organizational effects, and (4) accountability. The study findings indicate that the economic model has had a significant impact on the four study areas to varying degrees. The …
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