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Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside
Bondes, Maria - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011
The proliferation of social organizations in China has engendered a lively debate about how to conceptualize these social forces. This paper argues that such a conceptualization should take into account the role that both the party?state and social actors attribute to social organizations. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207515
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Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP’s Quest for Legitimacy
Bondes, Maria; Heep, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012
In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650717
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Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy
Magistretti, Giacomo; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210083
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Voting for Democracy : Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation
Kaplan, Ethan - 2019
argue that the plebiscite contributed to the emergence of one party rule the twenty years following democratization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480383
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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa
Inman, Robert P. - 2008
We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under "democratic federalism" the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464914
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Democratic Rulemaking
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2015
This paper examines to what extent agency rulemaking is democratic. It reviews theories of administrative rulemaking in light of two normative benchmarks: a "democratic" benchmark based on voter preferences, and a "republican" benchmark based on the preferences of elected representatives. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456906
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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
Bentzen, Jeanet - 2015
We document that rules for leadership succession in ethnic societies that antedate the modern state predict contemporary political regimes; leadership selection by election in indigenous societies is associated with contemporary representative democracy. The basic association, however, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457474
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458917
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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459939
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Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa
Inman, Robert P. - 2012
South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy stands as one of the past century's most important political events. The transition has been successful to this point because the new constitution adopted a form of federal governance that has been able to provide protection for the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460859