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Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the “Arab Spring”

Beck, Martin; Hüser, Simone - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

This article deals with the Arab Spring as a process of deep political change in the Arab world, previously the only major world area where authoritarianism persisted unchallenged for decades. While in various countries of the Arab world mass protests in 2011 forced rulers to resign, other...

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A Regional Power Promoting Democracy? India’s Involvement in Nepal (2005–2008)

Destradi, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

, the paper analyzes the substantial role India came to play in the peace and democratization process in Nepal in the years …

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Lessons to Be Learned: Political Party Research and Political Party Assistance

Erdmann, Gero - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

Generally speaking, the effects of international political party assistance are viewed nega-tively, or at least controversially. This study attributes some of the shortcomings of political party aid to the poor relationship between assistance providers and political science party research. They...

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Claims to Legitimacy Matter: Why Sanctions Fail to Instigate Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes

Grauvogel, Julia; Soest, Christian von - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the …

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Democratization via Elections in an African “Narco-state”? The Case of Guinea-Bissau

Kohner, Dirk - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures … based on dubious concepts. Certainly, the impact of drug trafficking could endanger democratization and state-building if …

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Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas

Kern, Thomas - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006

The article deals with the social mechanism that connects modernization with democratization. Starting from a … differentiation theoretical point of view, the paper argues that the major impetus for democratization is rather given by “functional … short overview over the latest developments in the debate on modernization and democratization. In the second step, the …

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Social Movements as Agents of Innovation: Citizen Journalism in South Korea

Kern, Thomas; Nam, Sang-hui - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

This article aims to further develop the field of innovation studies by exploring the emergence of citizen journalism in South Korea’s social movement sector. To achieve this aim, the framework of innovation theory has been extended to innovations in social fields beyond technology and the...

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Contingent Democrats in Action: Organized Labor and Regime Change in the Republic of Niger

Elischer, Sebastian - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

The effects of organized labor on regime change in developing countries are not clear-cut. Optimists argue that union agitation is conducive to both democratic transition and consolidation processes. Pessimists hold that unions will support any regime that is conducive to their demands....

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Are All Dictators Equal? The Selective Targeting of Democratic Sanctions against Authoritarian Regimes

Soest, Christian von; Wahman, Michael - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

Since the end of the Cold War, Western powers have frequently used sanctions as a reaction to declining levels of democracy and human rights violations in authoritarian regimes. However, some of the world’s most repressive authoritarian regimes have never been subjected to sanctions, while...

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Informal Interference in the Judiciary in New Democracies: A Comparison of Six African and Latin American Cases

Llanos, Mariana; Weber, Cordula Tibi; Heyl, Charlotte; … - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2014

This paper assesses the extent to which elected power holders informally intervene in the judiciaries of new democracies, an acknowledged but under-researched topic in studies of judicial politics. The paper first develops an empirical strategy for the study of informal interference based on...

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