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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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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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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
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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding; Hariri, Jacob Gerner; … - 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...
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