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Showing 1 to 20 of 333 for “"Democratization"”.
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Democratization and police reform
This paper compares police reforms during democratization in Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It analyses the changes to the structure of the democratic control of the police in each reform, paying special attention to the decentralization versus centralization aspect of it. The research …
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Democratization and the Post-Communist Militaries: United States Support for Democratization in the Czech and Russian Militaries
… on two critical dimensions of the military democratization problem--democratic political control and democratic military professionalism--will address the democratization needs which transitioning militaries face. I explore these concepts in-depth and identify specific issue areas on which …
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Democratization and the post-communist militaries: United States support for democratization in the Czech and Russian militaries
… on two critical dimensions of the military democratization problem--democratic political control and democratic military professionalism--will address the democratization needs which transitioning militaries face. I explore these concepts in-depth and identify specific issue areas on which …
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Civil-Military relations and democratization in Guatemala
… control, thus impacting significantly the democratization process of the country. The stability and structure of civil-military relations in Guatemala will depend not only on the military but also on the consensus reached by all elements of civil and political society as to how best to …
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The Effects of Social Media on Democratization
… the value of digital activism in the process of democratization around the world? How did those that succeed successfully use these new technologies as opposed to the several others that have failed? Are the successful practices replicable in other scenarios with a similar context? In studying, …
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Democratization in South Korea during 1979-1987
… need to be explained. The case of South Korean democratization differs from democratization in other countries in two major respects. First, without significant division within the regime, the opposition bloc can manage to make a transition to democracy by maintaining coordination between the …
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Protests, Development and Democratization in Ethiopia, 2014-2020
… and analyse the challenges and opportunities for democratization in Ethiopia's recent political reform process. As such, the thesis explores how the recent Amhara and Oromo youth struggle for democracy has contributed to the activation of a movement that exposed Ethiopia's long-standing political …
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DOES DEMOCRATIZATION AFFECT GROWTH ACROSS TIME OR SPACE?
… techniques have often shown a positive effect of democratization upon economic growth. These studies have made welcome contributions. However, they often fail to examine how the effects of democratization could differ across countries or over time. In my dissertation, I will look more closely at …
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The Democratization of Coaching in Canadian Public Healthcare Systems
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing challenges within the Canadian public healthcare system, including high attrition rates, burnout, and insufficient support due to funding constraints. This research explores the critical need to democratize coaching in public healthcare, making it …
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Role of legislature in the democratization process in Malawi
Among the many countries that underwent the democratization process in Africa in the mid-1990s, Malawi remains in the transition process while struggling to fully consolidate. Its parliament faces challenges impacting its performance of the core functions: executive oversight, constituency service …
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WE-MOVEO Audience Innovation and the Democratization of Data
This thesis investigates how audience data can be reimagined as an ethical, interpretable, and creator-centred resource for independent filmmaking within the contemporary platform economy. While commercial streaming platforms generate extensive behavioural analytics to optimise engagement and …
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The Democratization and Development of Cell-Free Protein Synthesis
… many advancements toward CFPS development, the democratization of the platform to a wide variety of educational, research, and industrial institutions has lacked due to an absence of resources for new users as well as a limited number of developments toward redesigning the tedious and …
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Struggles for Recognition: Analyzing Democratization Effects of Social Movements
The objective of this work is to examine a model of social movement processes. The three traditional processes of social movements are incorporated into one model in order to allow a comparative discussion of the regime process encountered, identity and claim formulations used, and the shifts in …
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Democratization and the development of Japan's uneven welfare state
Comparative data reveal that Japan consistently has had one of the highest poverty rates among advanced industrialized nations, yet its government taxes the poor more heavily and gives them less in public cash transfers than its peers. Why does a country, endowed with democratic institutions, deep …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Democratization and Democratic Backsliding
… First, does economic development cause democratization? Second, to what extent are citizens willing to defend democracy after it has been established, but is then threatened from within by an anti-democratic state executive? Third, what influence has the recent episode of democratic …
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Democratization of local government in Brazil : decentralisation and people's councils
… and People's Councils be a means for democratization of municipal government in Brazil?'. The hypothesis is that initiatives to reform Brazilian municipal governments face problems that are characteristic of the Brazilian political and administrative reality. These problems are …
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Incomplete democratization and conflict: The role of territory and nationalism
… I advance a nuanced argument, suggesting that democratization leads to belligerent foreign policies, but only in contexts where territory is a salient point of contention between states. The presence of territorial issues allows political actors to use nationalistic rhetoric and, therefore, …
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