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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Dictatorships"”.
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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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Resetting public policy? Democracies, Dictatorships, and Policy Change
Despite regime transitions raising expectations of policy change, the empirical evidence linking regime type and policy is not conclusive and transitions from authoritarianism to democracy —and vice versa— often fail to lead to policy change. In part, such inconclusiveness and mixed outcomes …
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<i>Presenciar el pasado</i>: Witnessing the Spanish and Argentine Dictatorships through Film and Television
… 20<sup>th</sup>-century Spanish and Argentine dictatorships by analyzing these texts on both a narrative and technical level. I examine torture in the Argentine films<em> Garage Olimpo</em> (Marco Bechis, 1999), <em>Crónica de una fuga </em>(Andrés Caetano, 2006), and, from Spain, <em>La voz …
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Truth Commissions: Did the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission serve the purpose for which it was established?
Since the 1980's, many dictatorships around the world have been replaced by new democracies. These old dictatorships were notorious for their human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured; and many others were disappeared. When the new governments came into power, they had to confront …
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Race under dictatorship: the political articulation of blackness in the Dominican Republic and Brazil
… offer important insights into how dictatorships manipulated local, regional, and transnational notions of blackness in an effort to create an idealized—but often contradictory—racial citizenry. At the same time, these discursive venues contribute to our understandings of …
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A New Perspective on the Early Roman Dictatorship, 501-300 B.C.
… A close reading of narratives describing early dictatorships and an analysis of ancient epigraphic evidence, however, reveal inconsistencies in the traditional model. The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a new model of the early Roman dictatorship that is based upon a reexamination of the …
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Women's actions, women’s words: female political and cultural responses to the Argentine state
… of the Liberal State, Peronism, and the military dictatorships of the 1960s and early 1970s. It investigates how national discourse incorporated gender discourse without including women as citizens in their full right. It then explores how women’s movements articulated their ensuing discontent …
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Hombres Normativos: The Creation and Inculcation of Martial Masculinity during the Franco Regime in Spain (1939—1975)
<p>This dissertation investigates the Franco dictatorships construction of normative masculinity through mandatory military service in Spain from 1939—1975. As part of the regime's efforts to normalize its version of Spanish nationalism, it institutionalized a militarized masculinity in the armed …
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Causes of domestic terrorism: 1970-2010
… middle space. They suffered more terrorism than dictatorships but less than anocratic regimes. Cold War bipolarity systemically encouraged terrorism compared to the unipolarity of the post-Cold War era, suggesting superpower rivalry manifested in more terrorist violence. Social tension effects …
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Nouvelles dramaturgies africaines francophones du chaos
… chaos in Africa following the emergence of new dictatorships in the post-independence period. African theatrical aesthetics by the end of the 1970s and through the 1980s, on the contrary, work on an exit out of the African chaos from the perspective of revalorization, providing modern …
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Rising Up to Fall Down: Women, Political Dissent and the Gender Barrier in Brazilian and Argentine Cinema
… very active in resistance groups during their dictatorships. They were very important in groups such as the Montoneros, in Argentina and the Revolutionary Movement October 8th, in Brazil. The Brazilian films Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio and O que é isso, Companheiro?, as well as the …
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The contribution of African Theological Voices, including Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua, Aquiline Tarimo and Desmond Mpilo Tutu to a renewed Theology of Peacebuilding.
The deplorable human rights records of dictatorships around the world in particular from the First World War in 1914, till the wake of this Millennium (2000) and beyond, were matched and even exceeded by the atrocities unleashed by anarchy in failed states or potentially underdevelopedand …
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Personal is political: a photo-narrative study exploring young refugee women's identity development and experiences of womanhood in South Africa
… its history of colonialism, oppressive military dictatorships, economic instability, corruption and ethnocultural civil war. The above issues have come to be the cause of much conflict and violence, resulting in citizens being displaced and seeking refuge throughout the continent of Africa, South …
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“Better Unmentioned:” An Assessment of Reagan Administration Aid to Pakistan, Panama, and Zaire.
… of the overall strategy of supporting dictatorships to achieve short and long term goals</p> <p><a title="">[1]</a> David Van Reybrouck, <em>Congo: the Epic History of a People </em>(New York: HarperCollins, 2010) 528, Frederick Kempe, <em>Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled …
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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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Based on True Stories: Representing the Self and the Other in Latin American Documentary Narratives
… a wide range of topics such as social protests, dictatorships, civil wars, natural disaster, crime and migration. While scholars have focused on the rhetoric and history of this kind of narratives, my reading considers the real, face-to-face encounter between the journalist and others. I argue …
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Aluta Continua: Social Movements and the Making of Ghana's Fourth Republic, 1978 - 1993
… third wave democracies became a foil to military dictatorships and Marxist-style juntas throughout the Third World (see Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave, 1991 and Larry Diamond et. al, Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, 1997). The process of democratization in Africa seemed to have …
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Poverty on the Periphery: U.S. Implementation of Modernization Theory in the Alliance for Progress and the War on Poverty
… process instead led to a resurfacing of dictatorships throughout Latin America and a doubling down by political machines within the local governments affected by the War on Poverty, in order to more firmly hold onto power.
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Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI
… return to countries that were once ruptured by dictatorships and civil wars. In addition, this dissertation provides a theoretical framework for the theme of the return and the auto-fictional narrative processes that have been developed over the last two decades.</p> <p>El presente trabajo …
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Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre
… rule, the Korean war, and Korea’s military dictatorships. Instead of uncovering the historical legacy of the early 20<sup>th</sup>-century cultural trend <em>Ero Guro Nansensu </em>(Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense)<em> </em>during these postwar periods, this dissertation aims to adopt <em>ero …
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