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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Political Regimes"”.
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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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The Wartime Origins of Postwar Democratization: Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes
… support, civilians become mobilized as a political force. Widespread social mobilization can in turn create political pressures on postwar elites to respond with a democratization strategy. Second, where rebel groups engage in extensive wartime "statebuilding," they create formal and …
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Some prerequisites for late industrialisation: political regimes, leadership and economic growth in the developing world
… of one such country - South Korea - to highlight political factors that have emerged as prerequisites for late industrialisation. Late industrialisation is seen as a new paradigm that places unique demands on the state as the catalyst of economic change. Therefore, the political economy of policy …
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Political Regimes and Social Well-Being in the Sahel: An Analysis of Gendered Development and Children's Education
… and education, the research examines how political structures and leadership priorities deeply influence access to education and healthcare, specifically for women.</p> <p>Authoritarian regimes often centralize power and prioritize regime stability over public welfare, leading to chronic …
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Pathways to public life for professional women in Afghanistan: Negotiating shifting patriarchal political regimes and gender regimes
… their agency and public life during different political regimes. Resisting the Western representation of Afghan women as passive victims, it uses the life story method, based on interviews with a wide range of women in public life during the period of US-sponsored democracy and intervention, to …
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Pathways to public life for professional women in Afghanistan: Negotiating shifting patriarchal political regimes and gender regimes
… their agency and public life during different political regimes. Resisting the Western representation of Afghan women as passive victims, it uses the life story method, based on interviews with a wide range of women in public life during the period of US-sponsored democracy and intervention, to …
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Financial development, credit rationing and the distribution of income: South Africa 1913-2008
… interesting, as it includes three distinct political regimes: colonialism, apartheid and democracy.
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Poder absoluto violencia política en tres novelas de la dictadura Latinoamericana.
… Violence, in all its manifestations, from political to social—has been a constant feature of modern Latin American reality, often associated with dictatorial political regimes that have systematically infringed on the basic rights of citizens. In some instances under dictatorial …
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Rhetoric and the architecture of empire in the Athenian agora
The various political regimes of ancient Athens established and legitimated their power through civic architecture and public rhetoric in the agora. A study of the parallel developments of architectural and rhetorical form , supported by previously published archaeological evidence and the well …
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Diffusion, co-evolution and strategic interdependence in comparative and international politics: new spatial econometric and event history approaches
… of democracy; the second is the diffusion of political regimes across countries; The third the reinforcement and local convergence of political regimes across countries and over time. Although each type of interdependence raises a unique set of methodological challenges, the emergence of …
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Message from the State: Uncovering Effects of Public Policy on Women's Movements in Chile and the Czech Republic
… under both authoritarian and democratic political regimes. As such, this dissertation provides some important clues into how citizens' experience with certain policies enhances or delimits their future political action, and how it affects their beliefs and attitudes. Gaining a better …
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The International Criminal Court in Self-Referral States: Legitimacy, Reputation, and the Court’s Anti-Impunity Mandate
… is the previously discovered tendency for the political regimes of these states to co-opt the ICC’s investigations to enhance their international legitimacy and other related interests in the face of fierce challenges to their holds on power. Paying particular attention to this problematically …
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"Writing ""Taiwanese"": The Péh-oē-jī romanization and identity construction in Taiwan, 1860s-1990s"
… Taiwan from 1865 through the 1990s. Under three political regimes― the Qing Empire, Japanese colonial rule, and the post-war Nationalist regime, POJ, originally created by the Presbyterian Church missionaries for Taiwanese peoples in the 1860s, was utilized in proselytism, school education, …
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Essays on international trade and institutions
… in which trade opening in societies with weak political institutions may lead to worse economic policies. The reason is that general equilibrium price effects of taxation and expropriation in closed economies also hurt the elites, and this puts a natural barrier against inefficient policies. …
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Causes of domestic terrorism: 1970-2010
… Maryland's Global Terrorism Database. Economic, political, systemic, and social structural determinants were tested with a negative binomial regression on 194 states between 1970 and 2010. Results suggested an inverse U relationship between wealth and the incidence of terrorism. Interestingly, …
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Institutional relationships and organizational change : lessons from a prominent African NGO in Dakar, Senegal
… of the country's most powerful expressions of political and economic disintegration in recent times. Almost equally striking was the absence from these events of Enda Tiers Monde, Senegal's oldest, largest, and most influential indigenous NGO and the champion of the "popular economy." This …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… or negated such strategies, and how diverse political regimes---democratic, fascist, and communist---shaped both modernization drives and laborer responses. In the last analysis, German companies had been unable to gather worker consent to rationalization because extending managerial control …
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On the Land, Territory, and Crisis Triad: Enclosure and Capitalist Appropriation of the Russian Land Commune
… plans, and husbandry manuals, but also through political and public discourses. I argue that land enclosure exploited practices of autonomous land management in the commune and furthered growing agrarian and economic crises in the countryside. The urban periphery became a strategic territory …
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State ownership, petroleum revenue, and the enduring legacy of authoritarianism in Angola
In the post-independence period, Angola's political economy has been shaped by the petroleum industry. After gaining independence in 1975, Angola turned authoritarian and subsequently, Sonangol, a state-owned oil company, was created. Once established, authoritarianism in Angola persisted for a …
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