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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Democratic institutions"”.
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Political sadness: Democratic institutions and citizens in a depressing world
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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The use of democratic institutions as a strategy to legitimize authoritarian rule.
Numerous authoritarian states use institutions usually associated with democratic regimes like a constitution, elections, and a legislature. This seems to be counterintuitive. Authoritarian regimes should rather shrink away from democratic institutions. Elections can be won by the opposition and …
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Astrologinių įsitikinimų sąsajos su asmenybės bruožais ir pasitikėjimu kitais žmonėmis, mokslininkais bei demokratinėmis institucijomis /
… and personality traits and trust in scientists, democratic institutions and other people. The empirical study involved 150 participants (124 women and 26 men). Their average age was ~34 years. The instruments used in the study were the Belief in Astrology Inventory (Chico & Lorenzo-Seva, 2006) …
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Inequality in Political Representation
… in elections has been a core attribute of their democratic institutions for decades, and in some cases over a century. However, the political experience of many of these very countries over the past decade have often alternated between apathy and frustration in these democratic institutions. …
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Transnational Network of Autocrats. Study of Democratic Erosion
… thesis investigates the systematic erosion of democratic institutions under personalist leadership amidst a documented global decline in democracy. It addresses the central question of how elected leaders dismantle institutional safeguards to establish authoritarian rule and examines the extent …
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To trust or not to trust. Trust Towards Democratic Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe after the Regime Change in 1989-1990 – with a Special Focus on Hungary = Bízni vagy nem bízni? A demokratikus intézmények iránti bizalom a rendszerváltás után Kelet- és Közép-Európában – és ezen belül Magyarországon
A szerző disszertációjában azt vizsgálja, hogyan változott a társadalmi bizalom Kelet- és Közép-Európában, illetve ezen belül Magyarországon a rendszerváltást követő két évtizedben. A kutatás nagyrészt exploratív megközelítést használ, de konfirmatív része is van. A bizalom elméletei közül a civil …
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Essays on financial development and economic performance
… the question of whether the existence of sound democratic institutions is necessary for financial development to stimulate economic growth in these countries. The baseline results show that financial sector development per se has the capacity of exerting a significantly positive impact on …
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Democratization and the development of Japan's uneven welfare state
… than its peers. Why does a country, endowed with democratic institutions, deep pockets, and a sizable social welfare system provide so little public assistance to the poor? I identify two features of Japan's political and economic development that gave rise to a distinctively threadbare safety …
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The Role of Institutions and Policy in Knowledge Sector Development: An Assessment of the Danish and Norwegian Information Communication Technology Sectors
… and telecommunications, supportive social democratic institutions, and effective innovation/technology policy, help to explain overall Nordic ICT performance. Cross-country variation persists in sector outcomes, however, and cannot be reduced to differences in institutions and policy. …
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Political Misuse of Domestic Intelligence: A Case Study on the FBI
… causes serious damage both to individuals and to democratic institutions. There are various theoretical explanations for political misuse of domestic intelligence. The political use of domestic intelligence is best explained by the sociological theory of unfulfilled needs. On the other hand, …
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The Role of Authoritarianism in the 2020 Election
… as an impossibility in the face of long-standing democratic institutions and processes. Yet recent trends in American political behavior suggest that this is not the case, that authoritarian behaviors can in fact be facilitated through these means. This study is concerned with measuring the …
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The Political Economy of Argentine Development
… necessary to understand the erosion of political institutions that occurred in the 1930s. The military coup of 1930 and the afterwards fraudulent elections throughout the decade undermined democratic institutions and opened the gates of opportunity for populism. One of Peron's first measures was …
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The institutional determinants of property regime change in new democracies: the Russian Federation, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
Is there a relationship between the design of democratic institutions and optimal collective decisions? Optimum decisions are defined as achieving goals important to the transition such as deep and equitable property reforms. Democratic institutions refer to first-order institutions of governance …
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Illiteracy in Virginia: a social problem
… in keeping with the development and extension of democratic institutions. A people cannot at the same time he ignorant and free.
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The Affective Politics of Democratic Erosion: Explaining Mass Support for Executive Aggrandizement
… has emerged as one of the chief threats to democratic regimes. In various countries, ranging from Turkey and Hungary to Venezuela, elected incumbents used their democratic mandates to gradually dismantle democratic institutions. Similar patterns of executive aggrandizement have been visible …
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Religion as a factor in the defeat of Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928
… and the accommodation of Catholics to American democratic institutions -- all of these factors helped to make the Church of Rome more acceptable to the majority of Americans. Nonetheless, there was still a considerable amount of latent anti-Catholic feeling in the country, especially in the …
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Resisting the Partisan Temptation: Public Opinion on Election Laws in a Polarized Era
… public places a high priority on the fairness of democratic institutions. This dissertation tests which model predominates in the public’s decisions on election rules across a variety of policies and political contexts. It finds that most citizens prefer fair electoral institutions at the expense …
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Synergetic Effects of Democracy and Economic Development on Income Inequality and the Role of Relative Political Capacity
… growth but also fortify the foundations of democratic institutions. As an additional dimension, a forthcoming regional case study focusing on Latin America will enrich the general understanding of these intricate relationships. In the regional case study, I find significant results that …
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The distortion of the meaning of bride wealth: significance for the evolution of living customary law in southern Nigeria
… during the law-making process will strengthen democratic institutions in Nigeria.
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