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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"regime change"”.
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Studying Regime Change using Directional Change
… financial crisis or political events. The term regime change is used to describe such significant change of collective behaviour. This thesis studies how regime change can be measured and detected in financial markets. The traditional ways to detect regime changes are based on analysis of the …
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Explaining Regime Change: A Directed Acyclic Graph
… attention yet again to the question of why some regimes fail and others do not. This paper seeks to discover the conditions under which regime change occurs. Following Pearl (2000), I build a Bayesian network (using a directed acyclic graph) based on theory from which I then derive testable …
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Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes: narrating a regime change
… States has demonstrated an ability to effect regime change through the use of special warfare, particularly clandestine and covert operations. However, these regime changes have failed to yield favorable, enduring strategic results for the United States. One reason for this failure can be …
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Regime change and weak form efficiency of South African foreign exchange markets
… examines the empirical evidence about how a change in monetary policy affects return predictability. Samples of daily Rand/dollar. Rand/euro and Rand/sterling exchange rates for 1995 to 2005 were used. February 2000 was the date for a regime-shift and the sample is divided into two sample …
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Burning questions: a geospatial analysis of fire regime change in Côte d’Ivoire, 1984-2014
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-04-30 at 13:24.
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CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE (BRI): CHINESE LINKAGE AND LEVERAGE, DEMOCRATIZATION, AND REGIME CHANGE IN ASIA
… focusing on its impact on democratization and regime change. With the rise of China, amidst declining levels of democracy, and changing nature of autocratization, this research examines if the increased Chinese engagement under BRI poses challenges to democratization in partner regimes. This …
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The institutional determinants of property regime change in new democracies: the Russian Federation, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
Is there a relationship between the design of democratic institutions and optimal collective decisions? Optimum decisions are defined as achieving goals important to the transition such as deep and equitable property reforms. Democratic institutions refer to first-order institutions of governance …
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Fire regime change and the boreal forest carbon cycle from 10,000 years ago to 2100 AD
… carbon dynamics. Rapid high latitude climate change will likely alter boreal fire regimes, potentially disrupting the historical role of the biome as a major sink for anthropogenic carbon emissions. However, the brevity of observational fire records limits understanding of the trajectory and …
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A constant in an ever-changing world: Washington's pursuit of its interests through regime change after 1989
… the targets of "successful" Washington-backed regime change campaigns. My analytical focus is on determining if the "successful" occurrence of a Washington-backed regime change in a non-US country appears to serve as an inflection point in the "policy trajectory" that is pursued by the target …
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Guns or Roses: A Comparative Case Study on the Influence of the Military and the Labor Unions on Regime-Change
… I explore the conditions of internally driven regime-change to explain the variation in political outcomes of the Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia. I argue that authoritarian regimes with a politicized military and a fragmented labor movement are more likely to experience a return …
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Are optimum currency area (OCA) theory criteria endogenous to regime change?: the case of the economic and monetary union (EMU) before and after 1999
… Area (OCA) theory criteria are endogenous to regime change. To reach this aim I used data on eleven of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), and I investigate two linked issues: the first is related to the OCA preconditions and it …
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Winning or losing media support for regime change: A comparative analysis of UK government media agenda building during the Suez 1956 and Iraq 2003 conflicts
… action in two separate conflicts in which regime change was the main government agenda and to which there was substantial internal domestic opposition. This opposition led to the necessity of winning the support of the media in order to influence public support in the lead-up to direct …
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Magyar‒román államközi viszony és az RMDSZ kapcsolatrendszere a rendszerváltástól a könnyített honosítási eljárás bevezetéséig = Hungarian‒Romanian inter-state relations and the impact of RMDSZ from the regime change to the adoption of the simplified naturalisation procedure
Doktori értekezésemben a magyar‒román államközi kapcsolatok alakulását és a Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség (RMDSZ) érdekérvényesítési lehetőségei vizsgáltam az 1989-es rendszerváltást követő időszakban. Kutatásomban három olyan döntésre fókuszáltam ‒ magyar‒román alapszerződés, státustörvény, …
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The Federal Gamble: The Russian Federation in Comparative Perspective
… in countries that experienced simultaneous regime change and federalization, this study adopts a most-different systems research design across the cases of the Soviet Union (confederalism and collapse), Russia (""exclusive bilateralism""), Brazil (""fragmented federation""), Spain …
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Essays on political economy
… on economics focusing on the determinants of regime change and economic growth. I put the focus primarily on political, institutional, and historical factors. I started working on these topics after studying the importance of regime change and institutions in the modern economics literature. …
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To trust or not to trust. Trust Towards Democratic Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe after the Regime Change in 1989-1990 – with a Special Focus on Hungary = Bízni vagy nem bízni? A demokratikus intézmények iránti bizalom a rendszerváltás után Kelet- és Közép-Európában – és ezen belül Magyarországon
A szerző disszertációjában azt vizsgálja, hogyan változott a társadalmi bizalom Kelet- és Közép-Európában, illetve ezen belül Magyarországon a rendszerváltást követő két évtizedben. A kutatás nagyrészt exploratív megközelítést használ, de konfirmatív része is van. A bizalom elméletei közül a civil …
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U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran: structures, actors, and policy communities
… Board of Governors. These initiatives promoted regime change in Iran, ignoring a substantial majority of Iran’s population opposed to U.S.-sponsored interventions. The study finds U.S. public diplomacy as it relates to Iran fits with the two-way asymmetrical model of public relations. The …
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Realism and Hegemonic Moralism: Germany and the United States in the Build-Up to the Second Gulf War
… early 21st century, the United States initiated regime change in Iraq with claims of necessity pertaining to morality and security that could not be adequately explained using either framework. This thesis postulates that a paradigm shift in International Relations, as described by John Vasquez …
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