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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Political liberalization"”.
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The Rhetorical Linkage Between Economic and Political Liberalization: A Case Study of the United States' Foreign Policy Response to the Arab Citizen Revolt
… views regarding the bond between economic and political liberalization. In achieving this task, I conduct three separate rhetorical investigations.
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U.S. democracy promotion and al Jazeera a view into Arab reactions and opposing movements
… world, an area to date resistant to effective political liberalization, hasbecome a central pillar in American Middle East foreign policy as well as an integral element in the Global Waron Terrorism (GWOT). How will this advocacy of democracy be received, given our theoretical and …
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Internal Security and Military Reorganization: The Rise of Paramilitaries in Developing Societies
… It argues that paramilitary growth represents a political-military innovation that emerges from the circumstances of state formation and the necessity for regime protection. However, this need is manifested differently and with varying consequences across regime-types. The propositions are tested …
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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 Role of *Education in Economic Transition and Political Transformation in Post -Communist Countries
… in education in the economic transition and political transformation in the 22 post-communist countries of the former Soviet Union and East-Central Europe. In the first section an empirical analysis of the determinant of economic growth and investment in physical capital is performed. This …
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Africa's Unresponsive Democratization: the Relationship between Regime Type and the Quality of Life in Africa
… continent because of this exogenous nature of political liberalization. Rather than institutionalizing electoral incentives to provide social services, leadership of exogenously derived democracies become principally accountable to the foreign actors for whom political change was meant to …
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Reforming Kenya: Explaining the Influence of Internal and External Actors in the Process of Liberalization
… external actors in pressuring Kenya to embrace liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s during the Moi presidency. It argues that internal actors had more influence than external actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in forcing the Moi government to concede to …