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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Dictators"”.
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Dictators and democracy: reflective journalistic practice in covering post-Soviet Russia
My thesis commentary ‘Dictators and Democracy: Reflective Journalistic Practice in Covering Post-Soviet Russia’ examines the evolving landscape of journalism in and about Russia, and my journalistic work within it. It focuses on two pivotal periods: the years immediately surrounding the collapse of …
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Digital Dictators: How Different Types of Authoritarian Regimes Use Cyber Attacks to Legitimize Their Rule
As states and populations around the world have become increasingly interconnected and dependent on digitized technologies and cyberspace, threat actors have been aggressively exploiting these changes to their own advantage. Of particular concern to academics, cyber experts and national security …
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Donors versus dictators : the impact of multilateral aid conditionality on democratization : Kenya and Malawi in comparative context
Donors versus Dictators examines the "exporting democracy debate" and the related issue of "nation-building" as manifested in the foreign aid relationship in the post-Cold War era. This dissertation centers on two in-depth case studies of countries where all major donors froze aid on a multilateral …
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A New Perspective on the Early Roman Dictatorship, 501-300 B.C.
… sources writing during the late Republic, Roman dictators exercised supreme authority over all other magistrates in the Roman polity for the duration of their term. Modern scholars have followed this traditional paradigm. A close reading of narratives describing early dictatorships and an …
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Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics
… and the effect of endogenous information on dictators’ decision. I find that receivers having deservingness levels far from the median level of deservingness in a session are significantly less likely to disclose information about their deservingness. Furthermore, the choice to disclose …
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Essays on resources and institutions
… practices of international credit markets to dictators during resource booms. We show that the combination of institutional weaknesses such as unaccountable leadership and unsound lending may give autocrats perverse incentives to loot and destabilise their countries, which impedes economic …
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The Impacts of Authorised Dictatorial Discourse on Heritage Management - Case study: South Korea's Military Dictatorship Era 1961 - 1988
This thesis investigates some of the impacts a ‘dictatorship’ can have on the management and uses of heritage sites. More specifically, it endeavours to examine how a dictator’s interests in certain heritage sites and particular territories can affect how heritage becomes preserved and promoted in …
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‘The Worship of Failure’: Cults of Personality in Three Failed Fascist Movements
… are a noted feature of virtually every dictatorship of the 20th Century and have received a great deal of scholastic investigation. However, reasonably little work has been done on the cults of failed, would-be dictators and political agitators. This thesis aims to study the common …
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Three Essays in Luck, Effort, and Economic Opportunity
… recipients’ effort and opportunities. I find dictators consistently give less to low-effort recipients. However, dictators do not significantly consider opportunities when redistributing.
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Fashioning Women Under Totalitarian Regimes: "New Women" of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
… the complex interaction of women and the dictators, focusing on state organizations for women, policies, official propaganda, and mass literature and culture.
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On dictatorships
This dissertation consists of three essays on dictatorships. The first two study the economic impact of power struggles in dictatorships. They focus on one mechanism used by dictators to remain in power, shuffling, where delegates have a short and uncertain tenure in any assignment. In these …
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Vers une nouvelle colonisation : le roman du dictateur francophone subsaharien et caribéen
… African and Caribbean countries with intensive dictatorships. Writers included come from Guyana (Damas), Haiti (Victor, Chauvet), Cameroon (Nganang, Beti), Congo (Tansi) and Senegal (Diop). Despite their different locales and time periods, all the writers included depict leaders whose unsavory …
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Learning to be Free: The Print Media of Cotonou, Benin
… the French colonization, a multiplicity of dictators, and a 17-year period of Marxism. During the early years of the colonization, the print media was particularly dissident, always advocating an end to the colonization, which greatly disrupted the regions core pan-African values. In 1990, …
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Commitment and conflict
… divergence by comparing an infinitely lived dictatorship to a democracy with a replaceable leader and allow a range of leader incentives within these institutional frameworks. We show that dictators, even welfare maximizing ones, may lead to war if the initial distribution of resources is …
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Building Coercive Capacity: Three Essays
… Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators" focuses on the strategic use of purges by leaders to undermine adverse collective action among officials. I test the theory that leaders purge according to factional ties to undermine collective action on the case of the Stalinist purges …
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN POST-SOVIET SPACE: SERVING TO AUTOCRACY OR SIMULATING DISSENT?
… where in the early 2010s, several long-lasting dictators got overthrown as a consequence of digitally-enabled mass uprisings. However, autocrats across the globe quickly learnt how to embrace new media to secure their rule in the modern world and started using it for propaganda and surveillance. …
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Capitalism in moral perspective - an Islamic alternative
… prime ministers, and even autocrats and dictators, in addition to their obvious and expected place in the world of business, banking, and finance. The celebrated twentieth-century economist John Maynard Keynes gives an apt description of the influence of economics in our time: �The ideas …
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The Double Edge: Contradictory Functions of Civil Society Organizations in the Tunisian Democratic Process
… several Arab Spring nations overthrew their dictators, fewer underwent a democratic transition, and only one – Tunisia – achieved democratic consolidation (Bouchlaghem and Thepaut, 2019; Sadiki, 2019; Gianni, 2019). Tunisia constitutes the sole Arab Spring country to have: 1) created and …
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Economic Experiments on Conflict, Information Acquisition, and Public Goods
… behavior. In the experiment, subjects play as dictators (using the strategy method) in a dictator game, where they must choose either a known distribution or an unknown distribution between themselves and the recipient. They can choose to acquire signals about the recipient’s payoff in the …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… of the politics in Nigeria. He has tyrants, dictators, who are not ready to listen, featuring in form of colonialists in Death and the King’s Horseman. Because of his dual cultural makeup, he also has images of biblical characters such as Jesus Christ in his drama, specifically in The Strong …
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