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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Political Transitions"”.
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Guns or Roses: A Comparative Case Study on the Influence of the Military and the Labor Unions on Regime-Change
… such similar trajectories of social and political revolution, raise the question of why Egypt would return to authoritarian rule, while Tunisia is on the path towards a transitional democracy? In this dissertation, I explore the conditions of internally driven regime-change to explain the …
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Winning Well: Civil Resistance Mechanisms of Success, Democracy, and Civil Peace
… resistance lead to more democratic and peaceful political transitions than either violent revolutions or elite-led political transitions. However, this general trend has not been disaggregated to explain the many prominent cases where nonviolent revolutions are followed by authoritarianism or …
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Profits versus human rights : accountability for corporate complicity in human rights violations
… business and human rights within the context of political transitions from authoritarian to democratic rule. In the wake of the globalisation process and the subsequent breakdown of the Westphalian state system, transnational corporations (TNCs) have acquired augmented powers at a global level …
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Bridging the gap : the role of the private sector in track-two diplomacy and South Africa's political transition
… can and do make to conflict resolution and political transitions. The theories regarding unofficial negotiations are explored in the context of a South African case study and will look at the ways in which the efforts made by members of the private sector during the last five years of …
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The law and economics of bargaining: an examination of the bargaining model employed by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… to traditional retributive justice schemes when political transitions necessitate an accounting for human rights violations during prior regimes. As regimes move from illiberal to liberal, post-transition justice methodology has developed from the restorative justice model to engender truth and …
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RUSSIA IN TRANSITION: A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE DISOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION, EVOLUTION OF CAPITALIST REFORM AND THE CREATION OF PUTINISM, 1985-2015
… the historical progression of social and political transitions in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, seeking to establish the development of Putinism in an historical context and assert a definition of Putinism as a governing philosophy which exploits the rhetoric of democracy and civil …
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Post-Conflict Justice and Legal Traditions: A New Conceptual Framework
… with legacies of the most brutal conflicts and political transitions within states; however, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Post-conflict justice, as a subset of transitional justice, is concerned with justice mechanisms in the wake of armed conflict. Despite a growing literature …
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The Politics of Social Networks : Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany
… should be relevant for example to rapid political transitions, such as the democratizations of former East Bloc countries, where old institutions succumbed to external pressures for reform. Where institutional structures are weaker, social network structures are likely to be more salient. …
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Policing and Police Reform in Turkey since 1980: Regime Transitions and Policing Transformations
Extant scholarship examining how political transitions affect policing have suggested that police forces in transitional states continue to be characterized by repressive and predatory practices, and have primarily investigated the causes of such continuities. Drawing on a case study of the …
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An Elusive Victory - Egyptian Workers Challenge the Regime (2006-2012)
… of workers as socio-economic actors and then as political actors in political transitions. Social Movement Theory (SMT) and its mechanisms and Social Movement Unionism (SMU) will be the lenses through which this research will be presented. The methodology will be the comparative case studies of …
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Memoria y nostalgia del Ochocientos: Il Gattopardo y Bearn. La transformación de la clase aristocrática italiana y española y su retrato en la literatura del siglo XX
… present the tensions and dilemmas of social and political transitions. Because, in the end, history and literature engage in a constant dialogue, and what truly endures is not so much historical reality itself, but the way we choose to remember and narrate it.
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Can Justice be Traded for Democracy?
… is employed in the examination of the political transitions of Brazil, Chile and South Africa. These countries have each employed different approach to amnesty, though all coming to the same general end. The political and social outcomes in each country speak to the fundamental …
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Precarious printers : labour, technology & material culture at the NSW Government Printing Office 1959-1989
… marked by dramatic technological change and political transitions, the Gov was pulled in conflicting directions by traditionalists, unionists, economic rationalists and those somewhere in between. It was also one of the first Australian factories to open printing apprenticeships to women. …
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Solidarity versus Sisterhood: Women's Issues, Feminism and Potential in Poland
… trade union movement, continuing through the political transitions during the 1990s and ending in the present day. By examining a multitude of issues which affect women's lives (in the quotidian and overall senses), the existence, development and necessity of women's organizations and feminist …
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Televising truth commissions: the interaction between television, perpetrators, and political transition in South Africa
… broadcast coverage of truth commissions within politically transitioning societies, particularly how these discourses may influence the perceptions and experience of transition out of conflict. It focuses on the narratives constructed around apartheid-era perpetrators who participated in the …
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Alternative media and African democracy: The Daily News and opposition politics in Zimbabwe, 1997-2010
… were marked by enormous social, economic and political challenges in Africa and in other developing contexts. This was partly due to the effects of a global economic recession and arguably failed national economic structural adjustment programmes, rampant public sector corruption and a rise in …