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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"post-communist"”.
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Civil-Military relations in post-communist countries
… democratization of civil-military relations in post-communist countries in the process of transition to democracy. My argument is that countries develop democratic control of armed forces in different ways and with different time boundaries, until the end state is achieved. The democratization …
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The Post-Communist Urban Landscape of Bucharest, Romania
This thesis examines the formation of the post-communist urban landscape in Bucharest, Romania, with particular emphasis on the consequences of its transition from a centrally planned, communist economic and political structure to that of a free market system. The lasting legacy of failed communism …
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Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw
… series of reforms that led to the end of their Communist regimes. This study is an attempt to analyze the various modes of commemoration dedicated to the transition from communism that have taken place in the intervening years between 1989 and the present. Included amongst these efforts are …
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Post-communist capital city tourism representation:a case-study on Bucharest
… representations of Central and Eastern European post-communist capital cities and the process of representation. Drawing from a number of academic fields such as urban tourism, culture, marketing, and media, as well as original primary and secondary research, the study wishes to contribute to …
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International linkages and multilateral lending in the post-communist region
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Reform of Secondary Education in Post-Communist Estonia: Advancing or Dismantling Social Cohesion
… focal point of this study as opposed to another post-Soviet nation, is unique in that it is such a small country, and this state possesses a variety of traits that distinguishes it from other states in the process of reform and from other multicultural states. Over 25% of the population of …
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The EU's Impact on Managing Levels of Corruption in the Post-Communist World
… in the process of managing corruption in the post-communist world. Throughout the post-communist transitions, which began in 1989, the EU has been consistent in putting a strong emphasis on the problem of corruption. As part of the transitions, there were many attempts at abating corruption …
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Individual and community empowerment enhancement in sustainable tourism development in post-communist Poland
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Motherhood experiences through transformations : narratives of intergenerational continuities and changes in post-Communist Poland
… of sociological analyses of this period defme post-communist socio-economic groups dichotomously, as either 'winners' or 'losers'. Both groups of mothers participating in this study (constituting the older and younger cohort) can be identified as 'winners' due to their more privileged …
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The Role of *Education in Economic Transition and Political Transformation in Post -Communist Countries
… and political transformation in the 22 post-communist countries of the former Soviet Union and East-Central Europe. In the first section an empirical analysis of the determinant of economic growth and investment in physical capital is performed. This analysis detects positive impact of …
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Democracy, pornography, and state power: The case of legislating obscenity in post-communist Russia
This dissertation examines pornography's arrival in Russia (and the government's attempt to deal with it) as an issue of democratization. Russia, now faced with the challenge of becoming a democracy and shaking off an authoritarian past, must face questions of administrative response in many varied …
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The Politics of Social Networks : Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany
… in the reformation of the East German communist party SED into the PDS. With the help of interviews, auto-biographies and documents, I retrace the takeover of the SED as a process of social network entrepreneurship. I also show how feminist ideas and feminist candidates accessed the …
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Hydrocarbons and Russian foreign policy in the post-communist era (1991-2008): A case study.
… of hydrocarbons on Russian foreign policy in the post-communist period. In doing so it employs a constructivist meta-theory (actorstructure framework) and Susan Strange's approach to international political economy (IPE). The role of hydrocarbons in both the international political economy and …
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The lived experience of economic migration in the narratives of migrants from post-communist Poland to Britain
… of this migration is the fact that they leave a postcommunist country and come to a country with a well established capitalist economy and long-standing democracy. The particular questions are: how these migrants construct their experience of migrating, are they faced with any problems while …
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Defining the nation, defining public television: discourses of publics on public service television in post-communist Latvia
… approaches have long dominated the study of post-Communist public broadcasting, as well as the entire body of post-Communist media transformations research, and the enquiry into publics of public broadcasting has traditionally been neglected. Though media scholars like to talk about a deep …
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The (de)personalisation of mediated political communication in communist and post-communist societies: The case of Croatia
… perspective. Specifically, that from the communist and post-communist societies, by using Croatia, the latest member of the European Union, and its communist predecessor Yugoslavia, as a case study. The thesis starts from the premise that the political communication is more personalized, …
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Democratization and the Post-Communist Militaries: United States Support for Democratization in the Czech and Russian Militaries
… institutions in the democratic transitions of post-communist states. The main thesis is that political systems matter and are, indeed, determinants of patterns of civil-military relations. Authoritarian and democratic political systems produce different forms of civilian control and military …
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Democratization and the post-communist militaries: United States support for democratization in the Czech and Russian militaries
… institutions in the democratic transitions of post-communist states. The main thesis is that political systems matter and are, indeed, determinants of patterns of civil-military relations. Authoritarian and democratic political systems produce different forms of civilian control and military …
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