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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Non-democratic"”.
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Essays on political accountability in non-democratic regimes
… causes and consequences of local elections in non-democratic regimes. The first essay examines the political consequences of local elections on the first democratic election after the fall of an autocratic regime. My theoretical analysis highlights that officials that were appointed by upper …
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Cyberactivism in a non-democratic context : social campaigning in Saudi Arabia
… technologies in fostering collective action in democratic countries (Bennett and Segerberg, 2012, 2013; Bimber et al., 2005). However, studies in non-democratic settings have tended to focus on high profile but often relatively short-term mobilisations. Longer-term online activism and campaigns …
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The role of parliaments in the resilience of non-democratic regimes : a case study of the Iranian parliament (Majles)
… began considering the dark side of nominally democratic institutions under authoritarian regimes such as legislatures arguing that they predominantly serve as the means of regime survival. Given these facts, the overall goal of this study is to produce an understanding of the role of …
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Democratic Paradox: The Role Of Regime Type In Civil War Intervention Initiation And Success
<p>Abstract: Justin M. Burnett: democratic paradox: the role of regime type in civil war intervention initiation and success. (Under the direction of Dr. Timothy Nordstrom) regime type is an important yet largely ignored factor in the likelihood of civil war intervention initiation and success. …
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GLI STATI UNITI E LA DESTRA ITALIANA NEGLI ANNI CINQUANTA
… The idea that the Embassy had, in addition to non-democratic nature of MSI, was that you could create a democratic right from the monarchists. The project, however, was rejected because Covelli and Lauro feared losing their electorate. They confirmed, in this way, the choice of non-democratic. …
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The Class Action Mechanisms Across the Pacific: The Missions of Class Action Mechanisms in the U.S., China and Taiwan
… China and Taiwan, in the context of distinct non-democratic and democratic governmental systems...
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The importance of time during Peace Negotiations: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Dayton Peace Accords
… the possibility that important aspects of the democratic state building process are going to be overlooked. When they are overlooked, the road back to a functioning democracy will be an exceptionally long one. The events that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a short three year span, …
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Evolution of Tech-Assisted Repression in Putin's Russia
… against two influential texts in the study of non-democratic politics: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt and Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes by Juan Jose Linz. The following chapters look at the techniques, effects, and arcs of television-based repression, social …
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The intelligence regime in South Africa (1994-2014) : an analytical perspective
… be misused by the political regime through less democratic practices that infringe on human rights and the rule of law. The quest of this study (which is not classified, to make the research findings available to both practitioners and scholars of intelligence studies), is to attempt to …
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Party system institutionalization and nationalization in dominant party systems
… are believed to be positively interrelated with democratic development and party system consolidation. The goal of this dissertation is to examine the influence of dominant parties on party system institutionalization and nationalization in non-democratic countries. The results of this …
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Oil volatility and government spending behaviour in oil-exporting countries.
… to government spending behaviour in OPEC and non-OPEC oil exporting countries. A research gap has been identified in three areas, firstly, there is a paucity of comparative literature between OPEC and non-OPEC countries. Secondly, there exists a limited number of studies of oil volatility and …
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Testing the limits of civil society in Jordan
… range of formally organized, independent and democratically oriented NGOs. Additionally, research often treats civil society as a ‘black box’ without differentiating between potential variations in impact of different types of civil society actors on existing regime structures. In this thesis, …
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U.S. in the Unipolar Moment: Analysis of George W. Bush Middle East Foreign Policy
… economic aid and assistance programs to reform non-democratic governments and strengthen existing democratic institutions. Eleven states confirmed the stability hypothesis, nine states confirmed the security hypothesis, and twelve states confirmed the democracy promotion hypothesis. There was no …
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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to Countries of Latin America: A Comparative Study The Cases of Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba
… the obstacles those Latin American countries in non-democratic and authoritarian governments confront when trying to attract FDI. This author researched data and multiple surveys with MNCs from public, private and non-governmental organizations. The findings of this thesis show that despite the …
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An Investigation into the Role of Local Government in Enhancing the Public Participation in Sindh, Pakistan: Policy and Practice in Service Delivery
… governments has always been introduced by the non-democratic forces. The decentralised governments have often been discontinued by the civilian governments of Pakistan. This study has sought to examine the role of the decentralised local governance in initiating the local community …
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Chinese decision-making in reponse to foreign policy crises, 1949-1996 : a poliheuristic analysis
… also make policies against domestic politics. In non-democratic systems, foreign policy decision-makers do not necessarily seek for re-election; however, they tend to seek for legitimacy and public support. Chinese decision-makers put primacy on political survivability at the onset of crisis …
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The (de)personalisation of mediated political communication in communist and post-communist societies: The case of Croatia
… personalisation scholarship by adding to it a non-Western perspective. Specifically, that from the communist and post-communist societies, by using Croatia, the latest member of the European Union, and its communist predecessor Yugoslavia, as a case study. The thesis starts from the premise …
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Choosing an international legal regime: How much justice would you trade for peace?
… by committing crimes), the type of government (democratic, non-democratic), etc. The key observation is that the full specification of these games (i.e., action available, payoffs, etc) depends on the legal regime in place. The study of how the War/Bargaining game varies with the legal regime in …
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Investigating the challenges of monitoring and enforcement of preferential procurement regulations in South African local government
… African local government. The policies of the non-democratic regime created racial disproportions in South Africa and resulted in a need for the transformation of public procurement systems to empower the historically disadvantaged individuals (HDIs) to access government procurement …
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Parental beliefs and expectations concerning the academic competence of learning disabled and nondisabled children
… with low-SES parents of learning disabled and nondisabled children. Forty-eight mothers who had boys in the third- through the fifth-grade were interviewed in their home: twenty-four mothers of learning disabled children and twenty-four mothers of nondisabled children. The following measures …
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