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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Freedom House"”.
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NGO-State Relations: Freedom House Status and Cooperation Versus Conflict
… to state. Considering an assumption that more freedom afforded to a state provides space in society for a more vibrant third sector, it seems intuitive that states with more freedom will experience more cooperative relationships with the NGO sector than states with less. However, six case …
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The Czech Republic's Transition: The Environment and Human Rights
… the European Union, the World Bank, and Freedom House. The purpose of this study is to better understand the Czech Republic and to generate hypotheses that might be used in future cross-national studies. Chapter III provides the underlying theory linking the environment and human rights. …
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Does support for democracy matter? : a cross-national study of regime preferences and system change
… World Values Survey and democracy scores from Freedom House, I outline and test a supply and demand model of democratic change and stability. While "support for democracy" is a common concept in political science, the only empirical studies of the relationship between these regime preferences …
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AUTOCRATIZATION AND PUBLIC OPINION ONDEMOCRACY: INSIGHTS FROM TURKEY
In recent years, Freedom House (2023) and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute (2023) have documented a significant global surge in autocratization. While much research addresses the drivers of this wave, its consequences—especially for public opinion—remain underexplored. This gap is …
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Running from the Periphery: An Exploratory Analysis of Women Presidential Candidates in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Utility of Minor Parties
… or "partly free" as of their 2020 elections (Freedom House). As the role of women in democratization continues to be in question, this research is vital to understanding how women are incorporated into the politics of new democracies.
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The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa
… system with a set of minimal civil rights and freedom), late interruption democracies (countries that became democracies after 1997 but broke down), late maintaining democracies (countries that became democracies after 1997 and have maintained their democratic status), early interruption …
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The Role of *Education in Economic Transition and Political Transformation in Post -Communist Countries
… reveals that political stability measured by the Freedom House index for democratization and investment in education positively impact foreign direct investment. In the second section the analysis of the determinants of democratization, human rights and political stability in these countries is …
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Political Cultures in Times of Crisis: Measuring the Effects of Liberal Values on Interstate Crisis Onset
… of institutions with broader political values of freedom as measured by Freedom House. It then adds that interaction variable to a modified Poisson regression model with crisis onset as the dependent variable. The results indicate statistically significant findings for crisis onset in dyads with …
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What explains authoritarian success and failure in Central Asia? : Exploring regime stability, economic performance, and governance strategies
… organisations such as Human Rights Watch and Freedom House. Previous scholarship was also consulted. It was discovered that many different mechanisms have kept incumbents in power in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The leaders of both countries have been successful in promoting a narrative of …
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Suverenus valstybių internetas žmogaus teisių kontekste: Kinijos ir Rusijos kibernetinės erdvės reguliavimo lyginamoji analizė /
… rights. The main empirical objective is the Freedom House “Freedom on the Net" annual reports from 2015 year. Exactly at that year, China was the first country to bring "Digital Sovereignty" to the international relations discourse, and Russia, in those years, started to think about digital …
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Women, Fertility and Labor Market
… between democratization (as measured by the Freedom House indices) and FLFP. Democratization appears to lower FLFP. Part of this finding stems from the decline in FLFP in former Communist countries. But the fall of Communism is not a complete explanation. Perhaps authoritarian regimes more …