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The effects of electoral institutions in Rwanda : why proportional representation supports the authoritarian regime

Stroh, Alexander - 2009

While much has been written about the special design of Rwanda's judiciary in order to handle the aftermath of the genocide in 1994, other institutional actions resulting from the 2003 constitution have rarely been addressed in research. However, the second (partial) parliamentary elections in...

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Can historical institutionalism be applied to political regime development in Africa?

Erdmann, Gero - 2011

Historical institutionalism has been used to explain the emergence of democracy and dictatorship in various regions of … institutionalism, the aim of this study is to provide a framework for the analysis of the various regime types that have been … justified. We then provide a proposition of how to link up concepts of historical institutionalism with empirical cases in …

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Informal institutions in autocracies : analytical perspectives and the case of the Chinese Communist Party

Köllner, Patrick - 2013

Analyses of the shape and functioning of systems of political rule need to address informal institutions, which exist alongside and can relate to formal institutions in various ways. In this paper, I first discuss some analytical foundations of the study of such institutions. I then suggest that...

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The Institutional presidency from a comparative perspective : Argentina and Brazil since the 1980s

Inácio, Magna - 2014

This paper focuses on the evolution of the institutional presidency - meaning the cluster of agencies that directly support the chief of the executive - in Argentina and Brazil since their redemocratization in the 1980s. It investigates what explains the changes that have come about regarding...

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