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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"Democratisation"”.
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Intervention Legitimisation and the Modern Democratisation Movement
… The act of invasion and the imposition of democratisation, raises the question can ‘democracy by force’ be reconciled in international law and international relations? There is little agreement of a theoretical definition of democracy in any discipline. The democracy which this study …
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Civil society and democratisation theory : an inter-regional comparison
This thesis constitutes an inquiry into the relationship between civil society theory and democratic theory. It revolves around an investigation into, and comparison between, recent discourses on civil society originating from within diverse political contexts. This is in order to uncover what the …
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Democratisation of Local Government and Local Governance in Kazakhstan
Serik Onalbaiuly Democratisation of Local Government and Local Governance in Kazakhstan Since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 Kazakhstan has aspired to join international community of developed and economically prosperous democracies, and is implementing various institutional and …
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Segmented pluralism and democratisation in Africa : the case of Ethiopia
… state on the basis of "ethnic federalism" and democratisation. Among the many African multiethnic polities, Ethiopia is the only country that recognises ethnicity explicitly as an organising principle, even to the extent of de-emphasising the idea of a unitary state and national identity. …
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Instituting Dissensus: The Democratisation of Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century
… antagonism, and channeling them towards the democratisation of cultural institutions. This entails the attempt to envisage an open, dynamic, and self-reflective model of a “dissensual institutionality” that can safeguard the continuous inscription of a multiplicity of social demands. Drawing …
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State, Civil Society and Political Change: The Dialectics of Democratisation in Nigeria
This thesis is a dialectical analysis of democratisation in Nigeria focusing especially on the dynamics of social forces operating within the terrains of state and civil society. It revisits the structural link between state and civil society and explores the processes of interaction in these sites …
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Extensible business reporting language: an interpretive investigation of the democratisation of financial reporting
… of each of 'XBRL', 'financial reporting' and 'democratisation' are elicited in order to assess whether they have a common interpretation of the assertion. Sixty-seven percent of survey respondents profess to agree with the assertion, 13% explicitly disagree and 20% are non-committal. However, …
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The Democratisation of Photography and the Promotion of Tourism: the Polytechnic Touring Association (1888-1939)
… photography and tourism, that is, how the democratisation of photography infl uenced the marketing of tourism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It focuses on the fi rst fi fty years of activity of the Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA), an initially philanthropic turned …
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Contentious Activities and Party-State Responses in Contemporary China -- Investigating China’s Democratisation during its Modernisation
… hand an implicit but unrecognised scenario of democratisation nurtured by modernisation and actively involving different social forces. Due to the intensifying social problems – and perhaps even social crisis – that accompany the many transformations, such as the restructuring relationship …
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The democratisation of space for people experiencing homelessness within the city bowl of Cape Town
Homelessness is a complex and dynamic challenge for which there is no simple solution. Due to rapid population increases and urbanisation, cities are under large amounts of pressure to provide the necessary human rights that people need to survive. The gap between people who are homeless, and those …
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Democratisation of the classroom:an analysis of teachers' language practices in selected multilingual classrooms of Chibombo, district.
… 7 exams in two or more languages. Keywords: Democratisation, Multilingual Classroom, translanguaging, Chibombo District, Zambia
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Democratisation of the classroom:an analysis of teachers' language practices in selected multilingual classrooms of Chibombo, district.
… 7 exams in two or more languages. Keywords: Democratisation, Multilingual Classroom, translanguaging, Chibombo District, Zambia
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Democratisation, mass media and the anti-corruption drive in Africa: the case of Nigeria, 1999-2015
… is the media. This thesis examines the impact of democratisation and press freedom on transparency and accountability in the conduct of public affairs following Nigeria’s return to “civil rule” in 1999. Largely qualitative, and nominally quantitative, in nature, the study covers some of the major …
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Nazis into Germans : re-education and democratisation in the British and French occupation zones, 1945-1949
… consciousness. This research focuses on the democratisation policies of the two smaller of the four Allied powers, France and Great Britain, during the four years between the collapse of the Third Reich and the foundation of the Federal Republic. The title of this study is an inversion of …
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DEMOCRATISATION OF THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN SELECTED MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS OF CHIBOMBO DISTRICT
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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DEMOCRATISATION OF THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN SELECTED MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS OF CHIBOMBO DISTRICT
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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Roma as a Unique Cultural Minority: the Impact of Communism and Democratisation on Roma in Eastern Europe
This thesis examines the socio-economic situation of Roma in three Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. It observes that the governments of these three countries, to varying degrees, have failed to develop effective policies for improving the marginal situation of the Roma …
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