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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"regime type"”.
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Democratic Paradox: The Role Of Regime Type In Civil War Intervention Initiation And Success
… M. Burnett: democratic paradox: the role of regime type in civil war intervention initiation and success. (Under the direction of Dr. Timothy Nordstrom) regime type is an important yet largely ignored factor in the likelihood of civil war intervention initiation and success. Most research …
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Africa's Unresponsive Democratization: the Relationship between Regime Type and the Quality of Life in Africa
<p>Scholars and policy makers alike argue that leaders of democracies should find it in their interest to provide high levels of social services due to a fear of being voted out of office. Yet, I find that Africa's newer democracies provide levels of social services strikingly similar to what the …
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Resetting public policy? Democracies, Dictatorships, and Policy Change
Despite regime transitions raising expectations of policy change, the empirical evidence linking regime type and policy is not conclusive and transitions from authoritarianism to democracy —and vice versa— often fail to lead to policy change. In part, such inconclusiveness and mixed outcomes …
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Violence After Victory: Explaining Variation in State Repression Following Contentious Politics
… have traditionally focused on a country’s regime type and leaders’ incentive structures. This is insufficient, I argue, because many regimes with obvious incentives to curb repression (especially democracies) fail to do so. In addition to regime-type, therefore, the answer depends on …
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Repression and international conflict
… I find that--even after controlling for regime type, civil war, and military capabilities--states that repress are more likely to initiate conflict the following year than states that respect basic human rights. Simultaneously, engaging in extreme repression virtually guarantees that no …
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Contemporary political opposition in Russia’s competitive authoritarian regime
… has come to resemble a competitive authoritarian regime type. Despite this continually shrinking political environment, opposition candidates still compete in elections and organize protests around the country. This paper provides an analysis of the Russian political opposition and assesses its …
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Theocratic Governance and Military Force Structure: Correlation Vs. Causation
This study scrutinizes the relationship between regime type and military force structure. In particular, the paper will be examining the correlation between modern day theocracies and their parallel military systems. These systems are constructed of the regular armed forces and an autonomous …
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Causes of domestic terrorism: 1970-2010
… effect. It depressed terrorism. Political regimes were categorized into three different types - autocracies, anocracies, or democracies. Autocracies were the least susceptible to terrorism. Anocracy was the regime type most conducive to terrorism. Democratic regimes occupied the middle …
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Slaying the Dragon: An Analysis on How to Dismantle Terrorist Organizations
… as ideological motivations, economic conditions, regime type, size, and legitimacy within the community surrounding a terrorist organization help craft a policy fitted to it directly and uniquely.
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Family leave policy and child health: Evidence from 19 OECD countries from 1969 to 2010
… leave policy vary by period and across welfare regimes. This research contributes to the existing literature (Ruhm, 2000; Tanaka, 2005) by including one additional country, South Korea, a highly developed but considerably understudied country, and by incorporating data from 2001 to 2010. I use …
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Impact of religion and religious differences on political and economic cooperation between countries
… such as geographical proximity, political regime type, and the different fiscal and monetary policies, among others. The impact of religious affiliation, however, stayed mainly as theory. The clash between and/or within religions had important proponents. We provide evidence that religion …
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COMMUNIST STATES IN THE IMF AND IBRD: CONFLICT AND COOPERATION
… this restriction, political criteria such as regime type and foreign policy orientation with respect to the East-West conflict have entered into Bank and Fund lending behavior. Political criteria do not, however, dominate decisions to lend in either organization; rather, the appearance of …
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Unpacking the relationship between political institutions and conflict recurrence
… aggregated perspective, by analyzing a country’s regime type, or has focused on one specific institution only, namely post-conflict elections. Results of the first approach show no clear connection between democracy and conflict recurrence, while results of the second have led several authors to …
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Interest Groups and Exchange Rate Policy Choice in Brazil and Venezuela: Incorporating the Workers
… and inflation. Political explanations examine regime type, parliamentary structure, and interest groups. This study further explores the role of interest groups in determining exchange rate policy choice. Existing research on interest groups focuses primarily on major economic sectors such as …
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Minor Powers Confronting Major Powers: A Comparative Examination of the Conditions Facilitating Decisions to go to War
… expectations. Fourth, minor powers of autocratic regime type can also misperceive the situation through anomalous beliefs. The importance of the study stems from the observation that minor powers still fight conventional asymmetric wars, despite growing military capabilities of major powers. …
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Child well-being and the welfare state: a comparative analysis of poverty, child care, and child protection across welfare regimes
… across three nations representing three welfare regimes – France (Conservative), New Zealand (Liberal), and Denmark (Social Democratic). An examination of child poverty revealed that Denmark does best in protecting children from poverty, followed by France and lastly New Zealand – with small …
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Essays on Political Factors, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Economic Growth
… explores the relationship among political regimes, regional initiatives, and exchange rate regimes in East and Southeast Asian countries, with a particular focus on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The work is structured around three interrelated essays, each addressing a critical aspect …
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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
… data on intergovernmental relations, regime type, political bargaining, electoral design, and cameralism were regressed on 6 different drug policy indices: law enforcement, deterrence-based prevention, abstinence-based treatment, educationbased prevention, substitution-based treatment, …
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RIGHTS OR RICE? THE POLITICS OF POVERTY IN THE CONSOLIDATION OF AFRICA'S DEMOCRACY
… where one would suspect more ambivalence to regime type in the face of pressing economic concerns. If poverty is no more the root source in explaining democratic commitment in Africa, then, what is? I probe further into the specific instances of Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria and find commitment to …
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Assessment of the Performance of a Resilient Hybrid Political System: The Case of Malaysia
… and typology rather than how this kind of regime actually performs and functions. However, studying this regime type only at its surface does not help us to understand the in-depth nature of a hybrid regime nor its political setup. A thorough assessment is needed for this purpose. …
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