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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Political regime"”.
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Judicial Behaviour in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Politics of the Minimum Standard of Treatment under the North American Free Trade Agreement
That subjective and political values form the sources and function of international law, is an often encountered claim and the literature produced by schools of international legal theory in response to this inquiry diverge. On the one hand, according to classical and positivist approaches to …
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The intelligence regime in South Africa (1994-2014) : an analytical perspective
… component in a state, could be misused by the political regime through less democratic practices that infringe on human rights and the rule of law. The quest of this study (which is not classified, to make the research findings available to both practitioners and scholars of intelligence …
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Withholding Political Authority: Civil Society and People's Power in Zimbabwe
… antagonistic and at most times supportive. The political regime and civil society are taken to be interdependent social structures that interact through hegemonic, supportive and socially constructed dimensions. Given this interdependency, when does civil society challenge authority or does its …
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Essays on Political Factors, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Economic Growth
… dissertation explores the relationship among political regimes, regional initiatives, and exchange rate regimes in East and Southeast Asian countries, with a particular focus on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The work is structured around three interrelated essays, each addressing a …
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Free press, torture and the way forward: one journalist's story of reporting in Ethiopia's totalitarian regime
… a prominent Ethiopian journalist who fled political persecution in Ethiopia in 2008 and was granted refugee status in the U.S. in 2012. The goal of this thesis is to tell the story of Tessaye's life and consider it in the context of theories of development communication, participatory …
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Temporal Context, Inequality and Democratic Survival
… countries in the world have transformed their political regime types into democracies. However, not every transition to democracy continued without interruption. Even though some democracies continued without any breaks, some others relapsed into authoritarian regimes via military coups. The …
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Science and technology policies, competitiveness, and economic development : a case study of Taiwan
… what accounts for the growth? Institutions, political regime, geographical locations, or legal origins? This thesis attempts to explain the economic growth in terms of science and technology (S&T) based on the neoclassical and new growth theories, and comes at a finding that S&T development …
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Output performance, institutions and structural policy reforms for transition economies
… rights and contract enforcement institutions. Political reform, in terms of a shift from the autarkic political regime to a democratic political regime, is found to positively affect institutional development in the recovery stage. With respect to the structural policy reforms’ equations, this …
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Impact of religion and religious differences on political and economic cooperation between countries
Studies on economic and political cooperation of countries generally focus on the effects of factors such as geographical proximity, political regime type, and the different fiscal and monetary policies, among others. The impact of religious affiliation, however, stayed mainly as theory. The clash …
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Accounting Education in Libya: An Institutional Perspective
… by coercive pressure emanating from the Libyan political context and political regime and a lack of funding that has fundamentally transcended normative or mimetic isomorphism from international accounting education practices. The influence of this coercive pressure also has led to embedded …
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Mikhail Gorbachev and His Role in the Peaceful Solution of the Cold War
"The role of a political leader has always been important for understanding both domestic and world politics. The most significant historical events are usually associated in our minds with the images of the people who were directly involved and who were in charge of the most crucial decisions at …
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Containing the opposition : selective representation in Jordan and Turkey
… election mechanisms affect the representation of political regime opponents? While the spread of elections has reached all the continents, the number of actual democracies has not increased at a comparable rate. If anything, observers have learned that the presence of elections in a country does …
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Estimating the demand for money in a developing country
… money demand, as expected,while changes in the political regime did not have a significant impact on money demand. In general, the results suggest that the demand for money function employed in this paper is stable
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Exiles From Spain's Civil War: Case Studies of Two Literary Figures
<p>The Spanish civil war and the political regime that resulted from it deprived Spain of the presence and immediate inspiration of a large group of remarkably creative individuals. Some of the best minds of a literary generation left their country to protest the political situation and to continue …
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#Democracy: The Internet And Support For Democracy In Central And Eastern Europe
… undergone a tremendous amount of societal and political change. While previous studies have noted the importance of citizen support for democracy in providing a base for regime stability in these new democracies, there is considerable debate in what influences these values. One possible …
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Thinking Together about the Common Good: The Political Implications of Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Conscience
… of ‘freedom of conscience’ in contemporary political society, and argues that freedom of conscience is a critical foundational component of any free political regime. Yet, conscience is often invoked as the final authority or justification for any choice, regardless whether the action or …
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Metric reform as a workshop of scientific and economic governance in revolutionary France
… they were simultaneously constructing the new political regime and their place within it. This dissertation considers the early history of the metric system as a testing ground to investigate how the scope and reach of both scientific expertise and state action changed in France during the …
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Five things (and a series of comments on liberal space, the demise of the square, and alternatives for its substitution)
… desires, a dwelling for market activities and political discussion. A space, in sum, pregnant with the possibilities to recognize (practically if not consciously), the link between formal politics -that of the crown, the congress and the ballot, and the more pervasive register of the political …
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Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
This dissertation analyses the impact of political and macroeconomic uncertainties on environmental outcomes and design of policy instruments. The first essay examines how the rate of agricultural land expansion in tropical countries depends on the nature and persistence of new political regimes. …
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Three Essays on Globalization, Structural Change, and Political Economy
… change if the country has a democratic political regime. Chapter 2 provides external validity to Chapter 1 by confirming consistent implication. </p><p>In Chapter 3, using six waves of the Swedish National Election Studies (SNES) survey data, I and my coauthors investigate the …
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