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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Political Competition"”.
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Essays in development economics : incumbency disadvantage, political competition, and remedial education in India
(cont.) The remedial education program hires young women from the community to provide remedial assistance to third and fourth grade children who have fallen behind their peers. The program is extremely cheap (five dollars per child per year), and is easily replicable. We find the program to be …
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Between ballots and bullets: Political competition, uncertainty, and MNE strategies in politically challenging environments
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Political competition and electoral competitiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa : a conceputal critique with data
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).
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Analysing the emerging trends and patterns of political competition in Namibia’s democratic landscape: Political party systems and political elitism perspectives, 1990-2024
Critically analysing the emerging trajectories of political party systems and the concomitant political elitism that has ensued in Namibia constitutes the objective of this study. In essence, the study analyses the evolving trends and patterns of political rivalry within Namibia's democratic …
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Rethinking Judicial Independence in Democracy and Autocracy
<p>Building independent courts is a commitment by political leaders that they are willing to tie their hands, restrain their (often arbitrary) power, and respect judicial decisions even if the courts rule against them. But if political leaders are rational, why do they persist in their respectful …
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Economic structure and social order development in Post-Socialist Europe
… tendencies contained within them – economic, political, social and cultural – are resolved according to open, rule-based processes. Social orders are also assumed to exhibit a ‘double balance’ between political and economic systems in which political systems will tend to reflect the prevailing …
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The source of self-restraint? How domestic politics and international markets shape natural resource policy in the developing world
… But if history serves as a guide, most political leaders in resource-rich countries will use their newfound wealth for electoral or personal gain. For example, they will cut taxes, increase personnel spending, and distribute excludable goods like food or medicine, even if these isolated …
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A Comparative Study of the Higher Education Policies in the Fifty American States
… policy is a function of its socioeconomic and political environments. The assumption that higher education policy, or any policy, is a function of the socioeconomic and/or political environments of a state is founded on Easton's systems analysis framework and on Key's study of political …
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National technological and military prestige heavily influenced the development of early United States space policy
… 2) military superiority 3) and ultimately the political competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. The paper will focus primarily on national and military prestige, while briefly touching on the price tag of the early space advancements. It will concentrate on the early days of …
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Revenge of the Radical Right: Why Minority Accommodation Mobilizes Extremist Voting
… accommodation, and is aimed at counteracting the political inroads, cultural concessions and economic gains of politically organized minorities. It differs from other studies of extremist politics in three primary respects: (1) Unlike current approaches that focus on competition between the …
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Essays on Local Political Economy in Brazil and the United States
<p>This dissertation covers different aspects of political institutions and fiscal policy in local governments. The first essay examines the political consequences of an increase in the district magnitude (the number of open seats) for legislatures. The second essay studies how the size of a local …
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Meeting in the Middle: The Impact of Single-Party Dominance on Partisan Politics
… totally controlled by one of the two major political parties. This study seeks to examine the effect this single-party domination has on the policy positions of Senate candidates of the minority parties in these states. It is hypothesized that minority party candidates seeking election in …
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Boko Haram : an African insurgency
… main causes of Boko Haram's insurgency is the political competition over various issues between Nigerian Islamic organizations and political organizations. The most recent examples are the implementation of Sharia law across many of the states in northern Nigeria coupled with elite mobilization …
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Essays in political economy
… dissertation studies game theoretical models for political competition and a class of coordination games, it also includes a chapter focusing on estimation of the U.S. legislators' ideal points in multiple meaningful dimensions. The first chapter presents a formal political competition model with …
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Three Essays on Development and the Political Economy of South Asia
… essays on various aspects of development and the political economy of developing countries. The first two chapters share a focus on issues of political economy in South Asia, the first examining the influence of politics over public goods allocations, and the second the effects of ethno-religious …
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Politics as Violence: A Girardian Analysis of Pre-Genocide Rwandan Politics
… intervention, although Rwanda had close political ties with France and a colonial history with Germany and Belgium. Although dozens of books and articles have been written seeking to understand, in both practical and theoretical ways, the motivations of the killers, this research looks to …
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The Leopard Men of the Eastern Congo (ca. 1890-1940): history and colonial representation
… as institutional developments in the context of political competition. Mythologisation in colonial sources is regarded as a process of structuration underlying all expressions of human experience. While rooted in reality, such expressions are also shaped by what people desire to believe. This …
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Welfare Chauvinism East and West: Romania and France
… process. This led to their radicalization---politically, the members of this group are more authoritarian than any other social group, and they indicate the highest level of disaffection with the working of the political system. At the same time, their positions on economic issues are rather …
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The regulation of irregular work in Japan : from collusion to conflict
… the content of policy is shaped by electoral competition between the parties of the right and left. Irregular work contracts receive favorable policies only when there is an electorally credible party of the left. When there is not a credible leftist party both regular and irregular work …
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An investigation into inter-party conflicts in bus stations in Zambia. a study of selected bus stations in Lusaka.
… had left the running of the bus stations to the political cadres; Bus stations had become campaign platforms for the political parties; that the prevalence of acts of violence in bus stations were being perpetuated by political cadres on account of revenue collections; that the various …
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