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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Opposition party"”.
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‘We vote for good things’: The moral economy of voting in South Africa, 2009-2019
… there was an increase in both abstention and opposition party support, making it a fruitful time to interrogate how voters make the decisions which ultimately determine the trajectory of democracy - supporting the ruling party, abstaining, or voting for the opposition. In contrast to the …
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The decline of the Namibian opposition 1990-1994, and prospects for the future
… did not bring SWAPO a two-thirds majority. Opposition parties' combined votes totalled a third of the poll, giving a strong minority of National Assembly seats to a number of opposition parties. Namibia seemed a ready example of a successful negotiated transition to multi-party democracy. …
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A Critical Reflection on the Persistence of Electoral Instigated Violence in Zimbabwe (2000-2018)
… trend in politically motivated violence against opposition supporters in Zimbabwe, this study specifically looks at the period from 2000 to 2018. This period was chosen because it witnessed one of the most terrifying incidents in the history of Zimbabwe’s general elections. This is also the …
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Budgetary Redistributive Instruments and Electoral Support
… tend to use tools, which are less visible to the opposition party and more evident to their base. The results confirmed that when parties use more of one type of transfer, they use less of the other. Finally, parties use alterations in total transfers to influence their base early in the election …
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Hindu nationalism, electoral politics, and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata party in India
… thesis examines the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its remarkable success in the 1989 and 1991 elections in India, to the point where it has become the leading opposition party in India's national parliament. The BJP's powerful "Hindutva" ideology, based on the idea of a Hindu …
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Democratization in South Korea during 1979-1987
… significant division within the regime, the opposition bloc can manage to make a transition to democracy by maintaining coordination between the social movements and the moderate opposition party. Second, the U.S. played an important role in the process of negotiation. The negotiated …
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Egypt's Unresolved Media Transition: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of the Egyptian Press Amid Political Turmoil.
… Al-Ahram, the private Al-Masry Al-Youm, and the opposition party paper Al-Wafd, presenting a panoramic overview of the print media landscape. The study analyses the role played by the press as a tool of democratization considering the ownership, political power, and political economy of the …
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Devolution and party change in the Scottish and Welsh Conservative Parties, 1997-2011
… branches of the statewide UK Conservative Party in Scotland and Wales between 1997 and 2011. It uses a comparative analytical framework derived from the literature on party change, multi-level party politics and path dependency. Both parties had to change to accommodate the Scottish …
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Il mondo del lavoro a Taiwan. La nascita della classe operaia e la formazione del movimento dei lavoratori
… Thus, the movement was born as a tool of party politics and was directed by both the ruling party (KMT) and the opposition party (DPP). As a conclusion, labour movement in Taiwan rather than being a workers’ way of affirming their interests, it has been a strategy of capital to affirm its …
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From Minority to Mainstream - The Electoral Rise of the Scottish National Party 1999-2016
… Parliament in 1999, the Scottish National Party (SNP) became the main opposition party, and since 2007 has been the governing party. This rise to power was not a given, and is in comparison to the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, which lost seats over the same period in Welsh …
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From Minority to Mainstream - The Electoral Rise of the Scottish National Party 1999-2016
… Parliament in 1999, the Scottish National Party (SNP) became the main opposition party, and since 2007 has been the governing party. This rise to power was not a given, and is in comparison to the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, which lost seats over the same period in Welsh …
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Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70
… about the rise and fall of India’s Swatantra Party between 1940 and 1970. Reframing the history of economic thought around politicians and publicists from landed and mercantile communities in southern and western parts of the country, it presents an alternative history of the political Right …
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The Gukurahundi "genocide": memory and justice in independent Zimbabwe
… Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), as an opposition party, as well as their supporters - predominantly from these targeted provinces. Essentially, the key aspect that this study speaks to is: How has state denial and produced silences of Gukurahundi shaped survivor memories across …
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Youth involvement in political violence during the 2015 and 2016 elections in Munali constituency.
… the 2015-2016 campaign period between the ruling party cadres (PF) and those from the main opposition party (UPND), and the youths were at the center of this violence. The findings also revealed that youths were involved in beating, brutalizing, verbally assaulting and extremely victimizing people …
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Youth involvement in political violence during the 2015 and 2016 elections in Munali constituency.
… the 2015-2016 campaign period between the ruling party cadres (PF) and those from the main opposition party (UPND), and the youths were at the center of this violence. The findings also revealed that youths were involved in beating, brutalizing, verbally assaulting and extremely victimizing people …
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The Paradox of Localism: Exploring rhetoric and reform promoting the devolution of power, from 1964 to 2017
… election campaigns and most commonly amongst opposition parties, this thesis suggests that legitimacy and populism both offer useful frames for understanding how localism is used and operationalised in the political sphere. The empirical and analytical core can be found in chapters four, five …
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Fiscal federalism: the study of federal-state fiscal relations in Malaysia
… are not affiliated with the ruling political party that control the federal government, federal-state fiscal relations will be strained. The effects are felt in petroleum royalties payments, disbursement of grants, borrowing and other form of fiscal 'sanction' imposed by federal executive …
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Candidates, the economy and voting behavior
… to vote choice. Negative affection to the opposition party leads voters to be more loyal to their own party. A natural question then arises, that is, do candidates matter to negative partisanship? Do they promote strong oppositions by emphasizing negative advertising and campaigning? Are …
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Why Do People Spread Disinformation on Social Media? The Role of Social Identity and Perceived Morality
… either supported or undermined their own or the opposition party. Participants were more morally lenient towards spreading misinformation and disinformation that could help their ingroup (i.e. supported their ingroup or undermined an outgroup). However, exploratory analysis suggests that biased …