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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"level of democracy"”.
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Financial Transfer and Its Impact on the Level of Democracy: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Time Series Model.
… time series, cross-sectional, quantitative study of the impact of international financial transfer on the level of democracy. The study covers 174 developed and developing countries from 1976 through 1994. Through evaluating the democracy and democratization literature and other studies, the …
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Diffusion, co-evolution and strategic interdependence in comparative and international politics: new spatial econometric and event history approaches
"Interdependence is ubiquitous across theories of democratization. For example, the level of democracy in one country might be dependent on its level in other countries; the timing of democratization might be related to the survival of existing democracies. In contrast, much of the empirical …
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Climate Justice and the Distribution and Scarce Resources
The global climate policy options of mitigation and adaptation are both characterized by the question of how to fairly distribute a scarce resource. Adaptation measures aim to prevent the materialisation of future climate risks that threaten the lives, health, homes, and economic prospects of many …
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Foreign direct investment, democracy, and income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1991 to 2017
… dissertation contributes to the discussion of the theoretical relationship between FDI and income inequality by arguing that the relationship depends on the political system. Focusing on the region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), this dissertation uses a fixed-effects model and a …
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Globalization and the diffusion of gender policy reforms in Latin America
… convergence took place were the criminalization of domestic violence, the introduction of state agencies for women, and the incorporation into law of candidate gender quotas for national parliamentary elections. This thesis evaluates the explanations offered in the existing literature, including …
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What Can the Collective Action Problem Tell Us about the Recurrence of Civil War and the Long-term Stability of a Country?
… war build long-term stability from the rubble of conflict. The explanation of why civil war recurs focuses on the collective action problem, centering on the rebel leaders' ability to solve the Rebel's Dilemma. I further argue that once the Rebel's Dilemma has been solved once it is much easier …
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Economic voting in new democracies
… 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. This study addresses a series of questions related to …
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Does support for democracy matter? : a cross-national study of regime preferences and system change
… data from the third World Values Survey and democracy scores from Freedom House, I outline and test a supply and demand model of democratic change and stability. While "support for democracy" is a common concept in political science, the only empirical studies of the relationship between …
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L'Etat, c'est pas moi : Reframing citizenship(s) in the Baltic republics
… democratization and citizenship. The notion of citizenship has not been prominent in academic perspectives on post-communism. This study aims at bringing citizenship back into these perspectives. Starting from the idea that citizenship is both a condition of democracy and an indicator of the …
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How and why do states provide for children? Comparing social grants for families with children in Southern Africa
… in public policy with a focus on the provision of social grants (social cash transfers) for families with children. The thesis investigates how and why three middle-income countries (South Africa, Namibia and Botswana) and a low-income country (Zimbabwe) in Southern Africa provide for children …
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Political economy of health in the Southern African Development Community(SADC) region:The effect of political instability on health outcomes and expenditure
This dissertation studies the effect of political stability on health outcomes and expenditure in the SADC region. The health outcomes under investigation are life expectancy at birth, maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality rate and HIV incidence. Health expenditure is captured as the …
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Demographic Dividend in Central Asia
A short summary of Kurbanova Muyassar’s doctoral dissertation “DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND IN CENTRAL ASIA” During the demographic transition, when the share of the working-age population increases, it presents an opportunity for economic gain, a phenomenon known as the "demographic dividend. This topic …
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Exploring the second wave of democratic peace critiques : commonality, territoriality, and selectivity
This dissertation consists of three related but distinct essays on the second-wave debates on the democratic peace. I explore three important caveats remaining in the extensive democratic peace literature: the potential confounding effect of the Cold War, the lack of contentious issues between …