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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Political survival"”.
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The political survival of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan: from participation to boycott
… argues that allowing Islamist movements’ limited political participation in Jordan is essential for the country’s stability and religious modernity as since the 2007 boycott, increasing numbers of al-Bannaist Doves have converted into Qutbist Hawks. This has empowered the Hawks to demand …
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Discursive strategies for political survival : a critical discourse analysis of Thai no confidence debates
… parliamentary debates is a product of the Thai political sphere, serving clear functions In its context. Adopting the approach of Critical Discourse Analysis, the thesis presents discourse as socially constituted as well as socially constitutive. The research employs a two level analysis to …
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The Globalization of Natural Resources: How External Actors Affect Political Survival in Resource Rich Countries
… international organizations: IOs), on leadership survival in resource rich countries. According to the existing literature, resource rich countries care less about external reputation and have a higher level of political risks for foreign investors, so, theoretically, they would tend to …
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Religion and political survival: The regional strategies of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar
… and religion as a domestic authoritarian survival strategy, and if so, has this been projected into their regional policies in response to the ‘Arab Spring’? Post-Secular Theory has focused on the role of religion in domestic politics, neglecting the international and regional sphere, …
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El Gran Manipulador: Political Survival, Dual Power, and the Emergence and Maintenance of Social Movements in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
… movements to participate more intensively in the political process, as allies of the state. The result of this alliance is a shift from a representative democracy to a participatory democracy. The purpose of this thesis to determine why, when, and how significant social movements emerge as …
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Religion and the Evolution of Democracy: A Revised Selectorate Model for the Arab Spring
… argument. The theory states that a leader’s political survival is based on the mix of private payoffs he can provide to his selectorate and public goods provided to the general population. The once secular despots are either gone or are on the way out as evident by the removal of Hosni …
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Under Pressure: Target Governments’ Domestic and Foreign Policy Responses to Economic Sanctions
… standing and engagement, and domestic political support for the regime. The main findings suggest that target governments change their spending and borrowing patterns as they face a drop in revenue associated with economic restrictions. Furthermore, they tend to engage more actively …
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
… faster economic growth improves the short-run political survival prospects of national leaders in both democracies and autocracies, and reduces the short-run likelihood of democratic change. Results also indicate that long-run economic growth sees countries climb an "electricity ladder", …
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
… faster economic growth improves the short-run political survival prospects of national leaders in both democracies and autocracies, and reduces the short-run likelihood of democratic change. Results also indicate that long-run economic growth sees countries climb an "electricity ladder", …
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The independence of the judiciary in a multi-Party state: Zambia as a case study(1990-2003)
More often than not both opposition political parties and civil society have raised concern that judiciary is not independent as it is compromised. They allege that despite the country reverting to multiparty political system, some members of the bench are partisan and are there to serve the …
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Precursor to conflict: the cultural re-coding of Serbia
… of a within-group (intra-state/inter-cultural) political struggle. The study will demonstrate that the violence witnessed by the international community can be traced to the destructive strategies adopted by a threatened status-quo elite for political survival. Specifically, the source of this …
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Ideas of Crimea : Crimea in the modern Russian political and cultural imagination
… to justify the annexation of Crimea in 2014? Political mythmaking is a process of instrumentalising power narratives that form a bond between the past and the present, reimagining history through elite lenses for their political survival. Myths function as strategic legitimising mechanisms …
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Inside the red box: North Korea's post-totalitarian politcs
… their expertise while retaining generalist political control over them. Kim and his inner circle of advisers have final authority, but institutional inputs set the decision-making stage and shape most policies’ implementation. These semi-autonomous groups have opportunity and cause to …
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Ideology and diplomacy: the impact of reformed religion on foreign policy and diplomatic practice in the first decade of Elizabeth I
… determined how they saw other actors in the political universe of the late 1550s and 1560s, and that for the most part their policy recommendations follow from these attitudes. In varying degrees Elizabeth’s diplomatic servants believed that her political survival depended on the survival of …
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Fractured elites : the politics of economic crisis in Mexico
… retained important posts. Such assurance of political survival allowed elites to defend the political system's long-run interests, not just their narrow self-interests, and avoid economic crises. In the 1970s and 1980s, "struggle" emerged as power conflicts became all-or-nothing, erupting in …
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Minor Powers Confronting Major Powers: A Comparative Examination of the Conditions Facilitating Decisions to go to War
The political landscape of the world is constituted by states of varying degrees of influence and capability. Major powers have immense resources at their disposal, while minor powers are often constrained in terms of structure and material. Thus, for minor powers, engaging in conventional wars …
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Political budget cycles in Latin America: fiscal policy effectiveness or regulated markets?
Within the Political Budget Cycle theory (PBC), it is well known that reelection-seeking incumbents have incentives to manipulate economic outcomes through fiscal policy. However, there is no research to asses the conditions under which manipulating taxes and spending effectively serve those …
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Nearer to the People: The Interaction Between Decentralisation and the Political Economy in Uganda
… The interaction between decentralisation and the political economy in Uganda Since the introduction of decentralisation in Uganda in the late 1980s, the number of districts has nearly quadrupled, in a process known as district proliferation. Accordingly, districts have become highly dependent on …
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Technological Construction as Identity Formation: the High Speed Rail, Hybrid Culture and Engineering/Political Subjectivity in Taiwan
… construction in Taiwan tell one techno-political story. Since the 1960s and 1970s, Taiwanese engineers were forced by international politics to cannibalize technological projects, but later they began to localize and hybridize different foreign engineering skills and knowledge. This …
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The legal regulation of the right to strike in Zimbabwe: international and comparative perspectives
… Thirdly, and flowing from the second, the political climate in Zimbabwe is such that the government and the workers view each other as two parties in different political divides. This has been attributed to the formation of an opposition political party whose birth is associated with the …
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