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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"democratic accountability"”.
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The neoliberal state and multiculturalism : the need for democratic accountability
… in a robustly political model of democratic multi-nationalism (characterized by both agonism and deliberation) in order to combat multiculturalism’s tendency simply to rationalize “privatization” and to enhance democratic accountability. My approach goes beyond dominant …
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Voting for Corruption: How Poverty and Inequality Undermine Democratic Accountability in Latin America
… do citizens fail to hold their elected officials democratically accountable for corruption? In this dissertation, I argue that poverty and inequality undermine democratic accountability for corruption by creating opportunities for elected officials to mobilize political support through targeted, …
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Flexibility with accountability : an experiment in environmental governance
… cooperative and flexible regulation. To maintain democratic accountability, firms that take part in the program are required to create a group of interested community participants. This thesis explores regulatory relationships within this program and under command and control through three case …
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Investigating Economic Inequality And Voter Turnout In The Industrialized Democracies
… in voter turnout. The ramifications for democratic accountability and representative democracy are discussed.
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The Merits of Money and "Muscle": Essays on Criminality, Elections and Democracy in India
This dissertation seeks to understand how democratic elections can coexist with a significant number of politicians implicated in criminal wrongdoing. Specifically, it seeks answers to three questions. Why do parties nominate candidates with criminal backgrounds? Why do voters vote for them? And …
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Electoral backlash against climate policy : a natural experiment on retrospective voting and local resistance to public policy
… of citizens' policy preferences can affect democratic accountability and exacerbate political barriers to addressing climate change.
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The Democratic Deficit in American Policing
… residents have at their disposal to facilitate democratic accountability for carceral state actors more broadly, and municipal police, more narrowly. First, I evaluate an increasingly common institutional reform in municipal governance – civilian oversight boards. This research demonstrates that …
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Learning from venture capital : procurement programs as a way to promote innovation
… flexible bureaucracy challenges our notions of democratic accountability. Because venture capital provides an example of a process of flexible resource management designed to nurture innovation, better understanding its practice might help to address the accountability problems posed by a more …
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The news media and democracy in Ghana (1992-2000)
… particularly, the newspaper media contribute to democratic development of Ghana. In this context, a comparative analytical study of the Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Chronicle, state and private entities respectively, underpinned the enquiry into the possible influences on elections, checks on …
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How Voters Use Issues
… important implications for our understanding of democratic accountability and the design of institutions. In this dissertation, I argue the debate of how voters decide is a false dichotomy and that pitting issue voting against non-issue voting has limited our understanding of political …
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The Impact of Blogs on State Politics
… news norms and routines; media and democratic accountability; and political knowledge, efficacy and engagement, this research considers the impact of the blogosphere on politics at the state level, finding many similarities between state-focused bloggers and their already-studied …
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Mind the gap: Issue positions, candidate preferences, and motivated reasoning in U.S. presidential elections
Democratic norms suggest that voters should support candidates with whom they agree on the important issues of the day. When voters perceive disagreement between themselves and their preferred candidates, they often experience cognitive dissonance and react by engaging in motivated reasoning, …
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A Comprehensive Examination of the Determinants and Consequences of Political Trust among Latinos
… to act on their behalf, and the quality of democratic accountability. Distrust, or when government outcomes fail to meet citizens' expectations, has been linked to discontent and disaffection, and to a broad decline in the legitimacy of government institutions. Research consistently shows …
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The thick blue wall: a socio-historical analysis of police accountability in the Republic of Ireland
The powers afforded to public police in liberal democratic societies to perform their functions of investigating crime and maintaining social order, inherently raise tensions concerning the use of those powers, conflicts with the liberty of citizens, and accountability for these powers. 1n the …
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Minor parties and democratic governance in Ghana's fourth republic, 1992 - 2022
… success; and their contributions to Ghana’s democratic governance. The study was based on a multiple-case study research design, relying on semi-structured in-depth interviews and observation to generate qualitative data on three minor parties in Ghana, namely, the Convention People’s Party …
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Accountability of public organisations : An evaluation of the impact of Information, organisational structures and markets.
… evaluates the impact of these reforms on accountability. In order to do this a model of effective accountability is developed from the existing literature. The criteria of effective accountability are the provision of information by the steward, clarity of assignment of responsibilities, …
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Conveyor-belts of information: the role of political parties in basic service delivery in Africa
… of how political parties contribute to democratic accountability in Africa. For example, the findings suggest that African political parties may be far more important for the transmission of information between the state and its citizens than we have previously believed.
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Artificial intelligence in law enforcement: a critical analysis of the EU AI Act’s framework for protecting public values and fundamental rights
… rights, the rule of law, transparency, and democratic accountability. While AI-based technologies promise enhanced efficiency, predictive capacity, and resource optimisation in policing, their use in this particularly sensitive domain risks exacerbating discrimination, opacity, and arbitrary …
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The emergence of modern civil police in Scotland: a case study of the police and systems of police in Edinburghshire 1800-1833
… justice and a Police service with unique democratic features. Prior to the Union of the Crowns, the crowner in Scotland was the local enforcement officer under the direction of the Sheriff who apart from administrative functions, was responsible for maintaining law and order in the Shire. …
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Assessing police privatisation in the United Arab Emirates
… the effectiveness of governance, oversight and accountability of private security in the UAE. The theoretical basis for this research was underpinned by privatisation theory and principles of accountability and control systems. The research design employed an action research strategy gathering …
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