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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"opposition parties"”.
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The decline of the Namibian opposition 1990-1994, and prospects for the future
… did not bring SWAPO a two-thirds majority. Opposition parties' combined votes totalled a third of the poll, giving a strong minority of National Assembly seats to a number of opposition parties. Namibia seemed a ready example of a successful negotiated transition to multi-party democracy. …
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Partisan identification in Africa : an exploratory study in Mozambique
… reported identification with the governing or opposition parties is related to the kinds of factors usually identified in the comparative literature on partisan identification and voting behaviour. These factors include social cleavages (such as ethnicity or region), cultural values (such as …
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Beyond party politics : to what extent, if any, are there unexpected democracy deepening consequences of one-party dominance in South Africa?
… loyalty to the ruling party, lack of credible opposition parties and the electoral system itself are all factors contributing to the entrenchment of the status quo.
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Citizens' political perception and behavior in authoritarian elections
… authoritarian elections? Why do citizens support opposition parties in authoritarian elections? Considering that unfair elections characterize authoritarian elections because of diverse electoral manipulation tactics, how do citizens perceive and react against authoritarian regimes’ electoral …
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Political branding in Botswana and Malawi: electoral competition and the welfare agenda, 1994-2014
… ruling-party governments to change tack as opposition parties in more recent years have emerged to challenge their leadership. In two such countries - Botswana and Malawi - heightened electoral competition has accompanied the efforts of presidential incumbents to demonstrate new public …
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‘We vote for good things’: The moral economy of voting in South Africa, 2009-2019
… there was an increase in both abstention and opposition party support, making it a fruitful time to interrogate how voters make the decisions which ultimately determine the trajectory of democracy - supporting the ruling party, abstaining, or voting for the opposition. In contrast to the …
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TRUTH COMMISSIONS IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. WORKING THROUGH THE PAST IN CHILE AND ROMANIA
… and incoming politicians, government and opposition parties, victim’s groups, civil society, human rights organizations, the judiciary, and the media participate in truth commission processes to achieve multiple objectives. What makes them essentially deliberative is that the commissioners …
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Opozicinių koalicijų sėkmės konkurencinio autoritarizmo rinkimuose priežastys /
… success of pre-electoral coalitions formed by opposition parties in competitive authoritarian elections. Previous research has focused more on the aspects of opposition coalition formation and the impact of such coalitions on regime democratisation. The determinants of success in elections are …
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Thinking outside the box: Extra-parliamentary strategies and their effects on the development of good governance in new democracies
… overwhelmingly supports the idea that opposition parties should pursue tactics akin to those used in Westminster and other Western democracies, and those the choice to pursue extra-parliamentary opposition tactics is ultimately anti-democratic. In particular, there is a popular …
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An evaluation of political interference in the administration of service delivery in uMlalazi Local Municipality of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
… 3 ward committee members and 6 politicians of opposition parties domicile within uMlalazi local municipality. The researcher adopted qualitative methodology for the analyses upon which conclusions were drawn. The study describes the respondents concerns, challenges and possible solutions for …
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Donors versus dictators : the impact of multilateral aid conditionality on democratization : Kenya and Malawi in comparative context
… to pressure authoritarian regimes to legalize opposition parties and hold democratic elections. Through careful historical process-tracing, hypotheses drawn from both sides of the debate and from the academic literatures on democratization, aid and economic sanctions are assessed with respect …
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The social base of divide-and-rule : left-Islamist opposition alliances in North Africa’s Arab Spring
Under what conditions do opposition political parties cooperate across ideological cleavages? Why do such opposition alliances collapse or endure over time? I address these questions by comparing alliances between leftist and Islamist opposition parties in Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania. In …
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Women's Work: Human Rights Journalism in Chechnya, A Case Study of Anna Politkovskaya
… state government towards advocacy groups and opposition parties. The environment for human rights has not notably improved since the official conclusion of the Second Chechen War, but the level of media attention dedicated to issues there has dramatically decreased. Chechnya is currently …
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Islands of effectiveness in co-government arrangements : the case of three coalition-led municipalities in South Africa
… are a necessary evil that provides political parties with an opportunity to take office, exercise power and share the spoils of power. My dissertation examines the reforms and principles that are most useful in co-government arrangements, which are characterised by unstable, complex and …
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Control of Internet search engines in China -- A study on Google and Baidu
… factors which include news, blogs, BBS forums, opposition parties, political process in Taiwan, anti communist, independence movements, illegal religious movements; cultural/moral factors which include sex and homosexuality, health, violence; and economic factors. Among these factors, Chinese …
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Entering one-party dominant democracy in South Africa : political institutions, social demographies and party strategies, 1994-1999
… that shape strategic choices made by political parties. The process by which the ruling African National Congress (ANC) entrenched its dominant position between 1994 and 1999 was attributable to a number of factors. The analysis found that the ANC actively manipulated political cleavages to …
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Containing the opposition : selective representation in Jordan and Turkey
… representation. I focus on the experience of opposition parties in two cases, Jordan and Turkey, an autocracy and a democracy, to analyze the impact of engineered election mechanisms on their representation. I contend that parties in power exploit the rules of the electoral game to contain …
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Korean Electoral Behavior: The 1992 and 1997 Presidential Elections
… age, orientation toward the governing or opposition parties, the regional effects of the Southwest (Honam) and the Southeast (Youngnam), and the evaluation of merged parties in 1992 or a united candidacy of parties in 1997. A Monte Carlo simulation was also employed to test the traditional …
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A CHINESE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING HOUSE IN MALAYSIA
… of the public, in particular the minorities and opposition parties in Malaysia Though the Chinese forms about 25% of the total population, many of the government policies have been unfair and unfavorable to them. However, a balanced and fair reporting will sometimes act against the interests of …
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Activist Intellectuals and Counterterrorism Debates in the Federal Republic of Germany (1968-77)
… (both the SPD-led government and the CDU/CSU opposition parties), as well as to the prison system in the Federal Republic, exploring the motivations that drove writers to campaign on behalf of the radical Left. The contrast between the assumed and actual motivations of intellectuals who …
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