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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"post-communist countries"”.
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Civil-Military relations in post-communist countries
Since 1989 the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone an unprecedented transition from communism to democracy. Establishment of democratic control of armed forces is an inseparable part of the process of consolidation of democracy. The purpose of this thesis is to define those …
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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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The Electoral Success of Communist-Successor Parties in the Czech Republic and Romania
<p>Communist-successor parties are impacted by six social and political factors: party reimaging, coalition building, corruption and scandal, party leadership, EU accession, and social indicators. This project explores how the descendants of the totalitarian communist parties in the Czech Republic …
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Gender Based Violence as a Continuum of Human Rights Violations in Russia and the Czech Republic
… violence have become a significant problem in post-communist countries. The fall of the Soviet Union also shaped national gender policies in post-communist countries. Despite the common challenges they face, success in implementing anti-trafficking procedures and measures against domestic …
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The new politics of welfare in post-socialist Central Eastern Europe
… explores the evolution of welfare systems in post-socialist countries. Utilizing a range of data on social policy legislation and outcomes across countries, the author shows the extent to which post-socialist welfare systems vary in their design and effects. Variation is demonstrated using six …
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When “it's time” to say “enough!”: youth activism before and during the Rose and Orange Revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine
… the influence and the role of youth activism in post-communist countries, and attributes a new role to the Kmara and Pora campaigns as vanguards of oppositional protest and transmitters of public grievances in the under-researched context of semi-authoritarian regimes. Two sets of questions are …
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Collaboration in online courses in Slovakia
… online and collaborative learning methods in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe are nearly non-existent. Yet, these nations typically have authoritarian teaching and learning traditions which present unique and significant challenges to the development of these methods, and …
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Enlargement Goes Western Balkans-Croatian Institutions in Time [:] Sluggish Institutional Evolution, Resilience, and Shallow Europeanisation
… polity, politics, and policy domains of the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe. This study extends candidate-state Europeanisation research further to the South-East corner of the continent. Unlike the other Western Balkan states, Croatia is very close to concluding its entry talks …
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Political history of the Serbian media in transition (2000-2006)
… but were more actively involved than in other post-communist countries. Abundance of media outlets call for a new citizen - one who is more analytical and capable of putting together scattered pieces of information. Such a new citizen, fundamentally different from the old socialist subject, …
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The politics of DTT policy-making in Bulgaria: the significance of path dependencies and institutional characteristics
… in Bulgaria. Bulgaria is an Eastern European post-communist country and a member of the European Union (EU) since 2007. The policy of digitalisation of terrestrial broadcasting is studied from a domestic perspective that focuses on the relevance of the national institutional structures and …
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Public Sentiment on Immigrants and Immigration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. A Cross -National Multilevel Analysis
… toward immigrants and immigration in the post-communist European states is puzzling, as foreigners' presence is less visible than in Western Europe and has yet to become politicized. Thus, the crucial question that arises is: How different are the ex-socialist publics in their …
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: a study of the effects of social and political change on primary schooling, 1878 – 2002
… relating to educational developments in post-communist countries in political and economic transition. From the literature key themes were developed as a basis from which the data could be interrogated. The themes relate to how: (i) in times of transition or conflict, schools become …
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Jaunimo partinių preferencijų logika: ar egzistuoja politinės skirtys? /
… Existence of Political Cleavages? Past decades, Communist and anti-communist cleavage was a dominant factor to explain the preferences of Lithuanian voters. In 2012, however, post-election poll revealed interesting results. A new determinant proved itself to be valuable in elections, namely, the …