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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Regime Types"”.
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Authoritarian regime types, political and socio-economic outcomes, and democratic survival
… of which factors shape outcomes in autocratic regimes, and, in turn, what influences the survival of democratic regimes in light of their authoritarian legacies. I argue that regimes which are able to curtail the dictator’s powers, compared to uncontested autocracies, are associated with better …
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Temporal Context, Inequality and Democratic Survival
… 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 consensus in …
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Inside the red box: North Korea's post-totalitarian politcs
… By contrast, I argue that these monolithic ideal types fail to capture the institutional pluralism that helps distinguish the younger Kim’s rein from his father’s. While Kim Il Sung’s rule can be described as totalitarian, Kim Jong Il governs through a more decentralized post-totalitarian, …
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Does Selectorate Size Matter?: How the selectorate size of authoritarian regimes impacts trade levels
States are currently experiencing an increase in autocratization and support for authoritarian leaders and policies. This change in domestic politics can impact states' interactions in the international system. One of the changes that may be observed in state behavior is the willingness of states …
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Internal Security and Military Reorganization: The Rise of Paramilitaries in Developing Societies
… 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 by examining paramilitary growth in China, Iran, Russia, Indonesia, India, and Colombia. The study finds …
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Family leave policy and child health: Evidence from 19 OECD countries from 1969 to 2010
… leave policy vary by period and across welfare regimes. This research contributes to the existing literature (Ruhm, 2000; Tanaka, 2005) by including one additional country, South Korea, a highly developed but considerably understudied country, and by incorporating data from 2001 to 2010. I use …
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Presidential Instability in a Developing Country: Reassessing South Korean Politics from a State-Society Relations Perspective
… addressed, the problem may remain regardless of regime types.</p>
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Tough Sell: Rising Powers, Domestic Legitimation and Costly International Initiatives
… domestic legitimation into three ideal types: approval, quiescent acceptance, and disapproval. It proposes that resonance with dominant identity narratives, emotional alignment, and timing-particularly during crises-can lead to greater acceptance or even support for costly initiatives …
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Resetting public policy? Democracies, Dictatorships, and Policy Change
Despite regime transitions raising expectations of policy change, the empirical evidence linking regime type and policy is not conclusive and transitions from authoritarianism to democracy —and vice versa— often fail to lead to policy change. In part, such inconclusiveness and mixed outcomes …
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The intelligence regime in South Africa (1994-2014) : an analytical perspective
… 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 studies), is to …
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AUTOCRATIZATION AND PUBLIC OPINION ONDEMOCRACY: INSIGHTS FROM TURKEY
… underexplored. This gap is critical, given that regime types and transitions shape citizens' public opinion on democracy, ultimately affecting the long-term stability and consolidation of autocratizing regimes. This dissertation examines how autocratization, through changes in political and …
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Mysteries of Mankind, Secrets of the State, and Complexities of Conflict: A Dynamic, Multi-Level Pre-War Bargaining Model
… of configurable economic and military size, regime type, and leadership bargain over a contentious issue and decide whether to use military force to resolve it. By integrating the international, domestic, and individual-level material secrets and immaterial mysteries into a coherent dynamic …
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The geology, petrography, geochemistry and uranium ore mineralogy of the Namibplaas sheeted leucogranites, Damaran orogen, Namibia
… and geochemical studies into B, C and D-types based on the classification scheme ofNex and Kinnaird (1995) in the Goanikontes area. In addition, the stratigraphic positions of the SLG' s were established. The research techniques applied in the study included review of historical data, …
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Carbon gains, losses, and feedbacks in shallow, eutrophic lakes of phytoplankton and macrophyte dominance
… data suggested that this difference between regime types could be common in moderately eutrophic lakes with mean depths under three to four meters, where benthic primary production is a potentially major contributor to the whole-lake primary production. It thus appears likely that a regime …
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Three Essays on Africa
… climate change, rising urbanization rates, and regime types in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This project uses the national-level ND-GAIN (Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative) score and a selection of its sub-variables. The ND-GAIN score is a composite index that grades a …