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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Presidentialism"”.
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Putting the winner-loser effect in context: presidentialism & democracy in the Americas
This project concerns the winner-loser effect on individual citizens’ political attitudes and behaviors. The process of electoral politics mandates that voters win or lose in tandem with their preferred political candidates. As such, the relationship of such voters vis-à-vis the government and the …
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The Integrated State: Architecture, Planning, and Politics in Mexico, 1938-1958
… branch empowerment with varied levels of presidentialism, and eventually the embrace of a developmentalist, technocratic and bureaucratic authoritarianism. An important faction of Mexican Architects argued their indispensability to political society and appealed to popular support via …
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"When the President Says 'Democracy'": Examining the Relationship Between Presidential Discourse and Democritizatsiia in Kazakhstan
… has resulted in the formation of authoritative presidentialism, though with limited liberalization (Cummings, 2002, p. 9). Kazakhstan has neither established the anomalous democracy as its most influential neighbor in Eastern Europe, Russia, nor has become the extreme sultanism like its Central …
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The role, nature and authority of the Legislature in Zambia's One-Party system of Government
… the principle of supremacy of the Party and Presidentialism and the fact that the Executive is not responsible to Parliament in Zambia legally. The chapter concludes that the Legislature is not very effective, it appears to be. symbolic. The Dissertation concludes by confirming the notion for …
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Presidential Instability in a Developing Country: Reassessing South Korean Politics from a State-Society Relations Perspective
<p>This study attempts to explain why ALL of South Korean presidents, without exception and notwithstanding their individual major contributions to the process of Korea’s development, have fallen victim to disgraceful downfalls.</p> <p> For the analysis, I employ S.N. Sangmpam’s middle-range theory …
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Postavení francouzského prezidenta v kontextu V. republiky
The current French president has more possibilities to strengthen his position within the political system of the Fifth republic than his predecessors before the year 2000. This is the conclusion of this paper. At the turn of the millennium, French citizens have approved in a referendum the …
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Constitutional Development in Zambia, 1890-1975
… points out in the introduction to his book Presidentialism in commonwealth Africa are not to be regarded as a selfsufficient subject of study. The underlying political and social forces motivating them are as vital as the rules. This is more so with regard to the present study. The …
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Handcuffs or Stethoscopes: A Cross-National Examination of the Influence that Political Institutions and Bureaucracy have on Public Policies Concerning Illegal Drugs
This dissertation attempts to explain why cross-national variation exists in government approaches to dealing with illegal drugs. As other scholars have shown, several domestic and international political factors do account for some of this variance. However less is known of the effect that …