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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"parliamentary democracy"”.
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Mr. Diefenbaker, parliamentary democracy, and the Canadian Bill of Rights
… understanding of, and reverence for, parliamentary democracy. The bulk of this thesis is based on research of the John G. Diefenbaker Papers, opened to the public in 1991. In addition to this, use has been made of recently released government documents, Cabinet minutes and conclusions, …
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Gender equality and human development in Macedonia during transition (1991-2006)
… from the socialist system to the one of parliamentary democracy. The main aim is to mainstream the gender perspective in the analysis of the transitional policies through the examination of the basic citizenship rights to which citizens are entitled and by the means of the evaluation of …
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Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
… order by critiquing a dysfunctional system of parliamentary democracy and highlighting the cultural tensions of the day. My thesis does not just read these texts as reflections of larger political and cultural debates; it argues that secret societies and conspiracies served a specific literary …
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Deliberative Practices In and Outside the Malaysian Parliament
… a Westminster-style parliament in an illiberal democracy. This study makes a contribution to the literature by filling the apparent gap and contributing to an understanding of the extent to which the Malaysian Parliament incorporate deliberation as a means of involving their citizens in the …
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Is small really beautiful? The impact of scale on political institutional capacity for integrated environmental management in Malta
Malta is a small self-governing parliamentary democracy, with contiguous biophysical and political boundaries fitting into the description of a bioregion, where the small-is-beautiful claim is expected to hold true. However, the country's development of integrated environmental management (IEM) …
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A constant in an ever-changing world: Washington's pursuit of its interests through regime change after 1989
… desire to spread the 'blessings' of liberal parliamentary democracy and decent human rights practices as widely as possible outside the borders of the US. Three non-US regime changes provide the raw data from which the validity of all five research questions can be evaluated. A portion of …
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Handcuffs or Stethoscopes: A Cross-National Examination of the Influence that Political Institutions and Bureaucracy have on Public Policies Concerning Illegal Drugs
This dissertation attempts to explain why cross-national variation exists in government approaches to dealing with illegal drugs. As other scholars have shown, several domestic and international political factors do account for some of this variance. However less is known of the effect that …