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Oil in Venezuela: Triggering Violence or Ensuring Stability? A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance

Mähler, Annegret - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

democracy-promoting factor, principally through large-scale socioeconomic redistribution, widespread clientelistic structures …

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Drivers of Strategic Contestation in South America

Flemes, Daniel; Wehner, Leslie - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

The politics of contestation on the part of secondary regional powers such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela towards Brazil as the regional leader oscillate between competition and cooperation, inasmuch as the South American region has one regional power and is a zone of negative peace...

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How Neopatrimonialism Affects Tax Administration: A Comparative Study of Three World Regions

Soest, Christian von; Bechle, Karsten; Korte, Nina - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

Neopatrimonialism is a concept that has predominately been applied to describe governance in sub?Saharan Africa. Recently, though, it has also been used to describe states from other world regions. However, scholars have rarely attempted to systematically compare neopatrimonial rule in different...

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Polyarchies, Competitive Oligarchies, or Inclusive Hegemonies? 23 Global Intergovernmental Organizations Compared

Lopes, Dawisson Belém - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2015

In this paper, I assume that global intergovernmental organizations (GIGOs) function as “enablers” of interstate liberal politics by way of their multilateral institutional frame-works. To support this view, I recall and adapt the classical concept of “polyarchy,” coined in the early...

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From Military Instruments of Dictatorship to Political Instruments of Democracy: Regimes of Exception in Bolivia 2000?2010

Wright, Claire; Landivar, Ana Soliz - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

survived the transitions to democracy in Latin America. Focusing on the case of Bolivia, the research is based on relevant laws …

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Democracy and Human Rights in the European-Asian Dialogue: A Clash of Cooperation Cultures?

Loewen, Howard - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

cooperation norms or cultures can account for interregional cooperation problems in the areas of democracy and human rights within … the institutional context: while disagreements over the question of democracy and human rights between the EU and ASEAN … nature of the interregional human rights and democracy dialogue between Asia and Europe. …

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Inclusive Institutions and the Onset of Internal Conflict in Resource-rich Countries

Wegenast, Tim - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

The literature on institutional determinants of intra-state violence commonly asserts that the presence of multiple political parties reduces the conflict potential within countries; by co-opting oppositional groups into an institutionalized political arena, dissidents would prefer...

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In Search of Legitimacy in Post-revolutionary China: Bringing Ideology and Governance Back In

Holbig, Heike; Gilley, Bruce - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

postrevolutionary regime through economic performance, nationalism, ideology, culture, governance, and democracy. At the same time, the …

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

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Promoting Peace and Democracy through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa

Becher, Anika; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

, and this paper engages in a preliminary analysis of their effects on democracy and peace. Theoretically, particularistic …

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