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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"JF Political institutions (General)"”.
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Developing electronic participation framework for public policy formulation in Malaysia
Electronic participation (e-participation) is a research domain that focuses on the development of information and communication technology (ICT) to support participation in a nation‟s governance processes. One of the problems in implementing this process in Malaysia is the lack of participation …
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Institutional Determinants of Human Rights Violations Across Political Regimes
… evidence on the contexts in which judicial and political institutions promote human rights. In the first chapter I argue that judicial independence is not enough for courts to protect human rights. I found the empirical evidence supports my hypothesis, both judicial independence and judicial …
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Government expenditure and growth in Libya.
This study attempts to answer two main questions. First, how does the composition of public expenditure affect the economic growth rate of macroeconomic variables such as the real output of the non-oil sector, employment, and total imports in Libya? Second, what is the appropriate fiscal and/or …
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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Foreign Policy Discourse: Iranian Threat, Gulf Crisis and the Question of Khalijism
… Council in 1981, the international and regional political discourse regarding the council’s establishment, achievements and challenges have revolved around loose and foggy concepts like: ‘GCC foreign policy’, ‘GCC collective security’, ‘GCC security alliance’, and ‘GCC influence on Gulf …
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Unpacking the relationship between political institutions and conflict recurrence
What role do political institutions play in determining whether countries coming out of conflict manage to remain peaceful or revert to war? The current literature has addressed this question either from a highly aggregated perspective, by analyzing a country’s regime type, or has focused on one …
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Political power and rule in Kuwait
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The role of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in the transition to democracy in Mexico
… However, in Mexico, electoral laws and institutions played an unusually important role in ensuring a peaceful transition to democracy. The current study addresses the effects of the Electoral Reforms in the Transition to democracy in Mexico with special reference to the Federal Electoral …
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A One-shot Deal on the Spot: How Vote Buying Affects Electoral Behaviour. Experimental Evidence from Mexico
For the 2012 Mexican Presidential Elections, about 50 million voters went to polls to elect more than two thousand posts. The runner-up attributed the defeat to a massive vote-buying mobilisation in favour of the front-runner. Reports from electoral observers supported that version. Did vote buying …
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Old friends and new enemies, parties in changing time and space
Political parties are the cornerstone of modern democracies and the decisions they make can have important consequences for citizens' well-being. This dissertation studies two different types of party behaviour. The first is coalition building and how social-identity concerns can help predict which …
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A Study of the Implementation of the Constitution and the Quality of Governance in Kurdistan
… Kurdistan Region and explains how a system of political checks and balances in a democratic society can improve QoG and democracy. This research considers the main obstacle to the establishment of a good and democratic government in the region to be political influence on all state …
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Anti-parliamentary passage: South Wales and the internationalism of Sam Mainwaring (1841-1907)
… invention and as maximising reification. Local institutions, economic and more widely cultural, can be created within the interstices of existing states as seeds of desired, post-State, circumstances. But, again by definition, Anti-Statists cannot look to take over existing Governmental systems. …
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Records management and the accountability of governance
Governance is the process by which power and authority are exercised in a society by which government, the private sector, and citizens' groups articulate their interests, mediate their differences, and exercise their legal rights and obligations. Governance in public organisations is different …
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On chiefs and peace: Examining the role of traditional governance in sub-Saharan African conflict dynamics
… relevant in providing governance and exercising political influence alongside and beyond the state. This thesis expands research on hybrid governance by examining comparatively how traditional forms of governance influence sub-Saharan African conflict dynamics. I argue that in order to understand …
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Uncrossing the Rubicon: Transitions from Violent Civil Conflict to Peace
… armed conflict a viable instrument for pursuing political goals. Third, involvement of the United Nations (UN) mitigates the adverse impact of conflict fragmentation over peaceful resolution. UN involvement changes the incentives and opportunities of actors to founder a possible bargain. The UN …
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Institutionalization, repression and political instability in authoritarian regimes
… mechanism on the coup reducing effect of institutions and a transnational theoretical account of autocratic repression. The empirical contribution of this dissertation rests in showing that accounting for actors’ characteristics improves models’ predictive power, that we know very little …
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The Labour Party's commonwealth : an analysis of discourses on political community in the 1930s
… develops a method for the analysis of political discourse from the work of Foucault which it uses to construct the Labour Party in the 1930s, in a specific relation to the issues of antisemitism and Indian independence. These issues are chosen because they are some of the issues in …
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Expansion despite permanent austerity? Innovative aspects of social policy in Liberal welfare regimes
This thesis seeks to challenge the entrenched academic consensus that there are no opportunities for welfare state expansion in liberal welfare regimes in the face of neo-liberal economic ideology and new public management reforms to decision-making. It does so though an examination of social …
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Factional strife and policy making in the Bolshevik Party 1912-April 1917: with special reference to the Baltic fleet organisations 1903-17
In January 1912, the Bolsheviks became a separate Party, as opposed to being merely a faction of the RSDLP. Lenin's initial problem was to convince both the leaders of the Second International and his own middle echelon leaders inside Russia that Bolshevism was distinct from Menshevism. This proved …
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Chucking buns across the fence? Governmental planning and regeneration projects in the Scottish Highland economy, 1945-82
… policy towards the Highlands and Scotland more generally, encompassing a literature survey to provide the necessary background and context of the developments, followed by individual case study analysis of the four developments, followed by a conclusion that assesses the overall themes present …
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