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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"transitions to democracy"”.
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The Blessed and the Damned: Peacemakers, Warlords, and Post Civil War Democracy
This thesis seeks to explain how democracies emerge out of the ashes of civil wars. This paper envisions transitions to democracy after a civil war largely as a function of the peace process. Democracy is thought of as a medium through which solutions to the problems and issues over which the civil …
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Sovereignty under siege: drug trafficking and state capacity in the Caribbean and Central America
… domestic and regional burdens that spill over into neighboring countries and cause secondary and tertiary problems. This thesis examines causes for different state capacities in the Caribbean and Central America through case study comparisons between Haiti, the Bahamas, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. …
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From Diwan to Palace: Jordanian Tribal Politics and Elections
… their authoritarian leaders. Many of those transitions to democracy are still quite contested or in danger of failing. A similar scenario occurred in 1989 in Jordan when King Hussein allowed credibly free and fair elections. These elections should have led to more liberalizing reform and …
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Facade Democracy: Democratic Transition In Kazakhstan And Uzbekistan
… reasons behind the stagnation in the transition to democracy in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. According to their constitutions, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are democracies. In actuality, however, there is little evidence to support that these are democratic systems. These states' post-Soviet …
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Women's Mobilization in Latin America: A Case Study of Venezuela
… <p>I examine the following elements in regards to women’s mobilization in Latin America and Venezuela from the late 1950s to the present: (a) the influence of the state and economy on times when women mobilized (b) class division within the movement (c) women’s demands during different time …
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Radical Democracies: The Politics of the Aesthetic in the Southern Cone
The transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile have been critiqued by numerous artists and analysts alike, both because of the social and economic continuity from dictatorship to democracy, and because of the democratic states’ occlusion of the violence of the preceding dictatorships. Yet …
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Bankruptcy, guns or campaigns : explaining armed organizations' post-war trajectories
This project seeks to explain what happens to armed organizations after they sign peace accords. Why do they dissolve, return to war, or form non-violent socio-political entities (political parties or civic associations)? To explain variation in post-war outcomes, my argument centers on the human …
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Women's perceptions of human rights and rights-based approaches in everyday life: a case study from provincial Russia
… have highlighted how the gendered nature of transitions to democracy and the market have, in fact, limited women's access to rights. The profoundly negative impacts of marketisation, particularly for women, have been starkly illustrated in the social and economic transformations taking place …
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The role of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in the transition to democracy in Mexico
The use of electoral reforms as active instruments of democratisation has been common in many transitions to democracy. However, in Mexico, electoral laws and institutions played an unusually important role in ensuring a peaceful transition to democracy. The current study addresses the effects of …
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Resource Control and Political Development in Africa: The Cases of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Botswana
… and its democratic process? How do other factors come into play, such as MNC involvement or the level of natural resource revenue dependency? This study compares and contrasts two resource-rich countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Botswana between 1885 and 2012. …