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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"democratic transition"”.
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Facade Democracy: Democratic Transition In Kazakhstan And Uzbekistan
… the reasons behind the stagnation in the transition to democracy in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. According to their constitutions, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are democracies. In actuality, however, there is little evidence to support that these are democratic systems. These states' …
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Democratic Transition and Digital Media Activism in Africa: A Zimbabwean Case Study
… and social change in African countries in democratic transition such as Zimbabwe. The dissertation was also aimed at examining the relationship between democratic transition and digital media activism in Zimbabwe before critically evaluating the significance and extent to which digital …
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Feminism Under and After Franco: Success and Failure in the Democratic Transition
… movement itself had little political leverage in transition-era Spain. Chapter Three describes the shift from an international feminism driven by grassroots activists to an international feminism instead dominated by government-affiliated feminist organizations. Particularly in Spain, the creation …
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Governance in a Democratic Transition: The Case of the Urban Poverty Project in Cirebon
A collaboration of a facilitating government with strong and capable community institutions has resulted in the success and sustainable implementation of the Urban Poverty Project in Cirebon.
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The nexus between national and student politics: managing student conflicts in four African universities in an era of democratic transition
… other means. This is not tenable in the light of transition to multiparty democracy where the development issues that define politics today are different form the liberation issues that defined politics in the past. The study also found that although South Africa and Tanzania are still transiting …
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Bridging the values gap: how support for women's constitutional rights changed University of Cape Town in the two decades following South Africa's democratic transition
… two decades following the first free and fair Democratic national elections in 1994. The theoretical framework within which this research is conducted, is Value Change Theory which will be used as an analytical lens which will be returned to for explanatory purposes rather than hypothesis …
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Political Party Transitions in Post-Conflict States: How Political Parties Reacted and Adapted During Democratic Transitions in Cambodia, El Salvador and Mozambique
… to and capable of changing roles as states transition to peacetime settings. In the aftermath of war in El Salvador, Cambodia and Mozambique and during a democratic transition, changes in political party structures and attitudes, and the influence of external actors emerged as significant …
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Political Parties and Democratic Development in Ghana: From Transition to Consolidation and Beyond
… of the Ghana’s independence in March 1957, a democratic system of government was instituted, but the process of political development was derailed and often interrupted by frequent coups. This is evident in the interchange of military and civilian regimes in the last fifty-one years. While in …
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Bridging the Gap: Feminist Movements and their Efforts to Advance Abortion Rights in Chile
… After Pinochet stepped down, Chile underwent a democratic transition in 1990 that was heavily reliant on a moral fundamentalist mentality, primarily influenced by the Catholic Church and conservative political parties. It has been widely argued that after the democratic transition, the …
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US FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS NIGERIA: INVESTIGATING AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN NIGERIA DURING CLINTON’S PRESIDENCY
… his administration failed to actively influence democratic transition in Nigeria. However, these studies did not sufficiently explain causes of this policy failure. Using the Bureaucratic Politics Model of Foreign Policy Analysis, this thesis examines the causal mechanism of the United States’ …
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Coalitions and Incumbency Advantage in Mexico
… system. Literature has thus far assumed that democratic transitions will permeate from the national to the sub-national level. However, in Mexico, even a decade after the democratic transition occurred at the federal level, some states have lagged behind. Most of the work done on this topic, …
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The Double Edge: Contradictory Functions of Civil Society Organizations in the Tunisian Democratic Process
<p>“Democratic transition,” the act of becoming democratic, and “democratic consolidation,” the subsequent actions that solidify the achievement of becoming democratic, are two separate processes that go hand in hand. While several Arab Spring nations overthrew their dictators, fewer underwent a …
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Women Parliamentarians perceptions of political influence in the South African Parliament
… women in Parliament and has been since the 1994 democratic transition. This study examines the formal and informal factors that South African women parliamentarians discuss as helping and hindering their political effectiveness.Aside from the work of Hassim (2003) and Pandor (1999), little …
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Ascensão da Rússia no cenário internacional pós-Guerra Fria: um enfoque na relação com a Ucrânia
… the historical context of the Cold War, democratic transition, the government of Vladimir Putin and an analysis of the Ukraine region, with the following question: What are the internal changes taking place in Russia after Vladimir Putin came to power and how these policies contribute to …
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Economic voting in new democracies
… 70 new democracies that have experienced regime transition since 1974. By incorporating the analysis of elections in virtually all new democracies, this study shows how electorates react to changes in economic conditions under various socio-economic, institutional, and political circumstances. …
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Exploring Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy, and Consumption: Insights From Middle East and North Africa Nations and Oil-Exporting Countries
… on Economic Development: A Study of Countries in Democratic Transition. The impact of democracy on economic development is inconclusive as existing literature produces mixed results. The second essay examines the role of four democracy indicators on economic development with a focus on 28 …
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Navigating great power competition: The Maldives as a democratising small state
… Maldives as a case study, it demonstrates that democratic consolidation is constrained by mechanisms employed by great powers, such as economic incentives, elite relations, and security expectations. The Maldives’ democratic transition in 2008 coincided with the renewed strategic prominence of …
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Political violence as a form of communication: understanding marginalised voices in South Africa through content analysis
… as a troubling legacy, complicating the nation's democratic transition. While much of the existing research has focused on the manifestations of violence—such as interpersonal, criminal, and public unrest—this study explores violence as a form of communication within the South African …
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