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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Regime stability"”.
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Perceptions Of Corruption & External Political Efficacy: Regime Stability & Democratic Legitimacy
Do perceptions of corruption affect external political efficacy? If so, how? This paper investigates whether perceptions of corruption contribute to external efficacy on the aggregate, country level, and on the individual level. This paper seeks to expand the scope of the current corruption and …
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What explains authoritarian success and failure in Central Asia? : Exploring regime stability, economic performance, and governance strategies
… seeks to explain the reasons why some autocratic regimes remain stable for long periods of time, whereas others experience greater degrees of instability. The task is approached through a comparative case study approach, where three Central Asian countries that share multiple historical and …
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Ruling with Rules: Electoral Institutions and Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East
<p>What explains the resilience of authoritarian regimes in the face of regular competitive elections that ostensibly should promote democratic transitions? This dissertation examines both why and how parliamentary elections in Jordan and Morocco have served to reinforce these two Arab monarchies. …
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Political Regimes and Social Well-Being in the Sahel: An Analysis of Gendered Development and Children's Education
… specifically for women.</p> <p>Authoritarian regimes often centralize power and prioritize regime stability over public welfare, leading to chronic underfunding of education and health services. In Mali and Burkina Faso, repeated coups and insecurity have affected schools and hospitals, …
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Nationalism and Common Prosperity: The Impact of Ideological Symbiosis on Redistributive Preferences in China
… redistribution among citizens and may challenge regime stability. Conventional wisdom suggests that the regime can mobilize nationalism to divert citizens' attention from inequality and delegitimize their demands for redistribution. In China, both inequality and nationalism have risen sharply in …
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The Drivers of Government Megapolicies: Internal Settler Colonisation in Indonesia
… situated in specific forms (states, nations, and regimes), depend on several sublimes (statehood, national community, regime stability) for their existence. Governments pursue policies that advance the interests (extracting resources, controlling territory, distributing goods) essential to these …
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The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa
This research will deal with regime dynamics (early interruption of democracies, early maintaining of democracies, late interruption of democracies, late maintaining of democracies, maintaining autocracies, and liberalizing autocracies), levels of democracy (liberal democracy, electoral democracy, …
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#Democracy: The Internet And Support For Democracy In Central And Eastern Europe
… 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 mechanism of attitude change is mass media. Previous studies in political science have noted the importance of mass media in …
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Outsourcing Security and the Reconfiguration of State Power after the Arab Uprisings
… of the security institutions to state power and regime stability in the Arab region, this research explores how increased privatization and outsourcing of security, amid wider reconfigurations of the market for force, has contributed to the reconfiguration of state power in some of the Arab …