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Promoting peace and democracy through party regulation? : ethnic party bans in Africa
Becher, Anika; Basedau, Matthias - 2008
untersucht und der vorliegende Artikel unternimmt eine vorläufige Analyse ihrer Auswirkungen auf Demokratie und Frieden …
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¿Es el crecimiento económico suficiente para apoyar la democracia? : lecciones del caso chileno
Aravena Lavín, Pedro - 2010
Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Unterstützung der Demokratie in Chile im ökonomischen, institutionellen und politischen … Demokratie zu beantworten. Die Analyse zeigt drei bedeutsame Ergebnisse: 1) Obwohl das nationale Pro-Kopf-BIP keinen Einfluss auf … das Niveau der Unterstützung der Demokratie hat, zeigt sich in einer Analyse auf Individualebene gleichwohl, dass die …
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A regional power promoting democracy? : India’s involvement in Nepal (2005-2008)
Destradi, Sandra - 2010
Als größte Demokratie der Welt und gleichzeitig als dominierende Regionalmacht in Südasien, könnte man erwarten, dass … im Interesse einer Demokratie wie Indien liegt, von Demokratien umgeben zu sein, da somit die Wahrscheinlichkeit von …
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Contingent democrats in action : organized labor and regime change in the Republic of Niger
Elischer, Sebastian - 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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Hooray for global justice? : emerging democracies in a multipolar world
Culp, Julian; Plagemann, Johannes - 2013
Rising powers are fundamentally shifting the relations of power in the global economic and political landscape. International political theory, however, has so far failed to evaluate this nascent multipolarity. This article fills this lacuna by synthesizing empirical and normative modes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211918
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Origins and outcomes of electoral institutions in African hybrid regimes : a comparative perspective
Stroh, Alexander; Elischer, Sebastian; Erdmann, Gero - 2012
In the early 1990s most African countries carried out extensive reforms of their electoral regimes. Adopting a historical institutionalist approach, this paper critically examines the role of institutional path dependence in accounting for the setup of six African electoral regimes. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552915
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Problems of categorizing and explaining party systems in Africa
Erdmann, Gero; Basedau, Matthias - 2007
Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic consolidation, this article argues that problems can only be properly addressed on the basis of a differentiated typology of party systems. Contradictory research results do not pose...
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The evolution of cleavages in the Indonesian party system
Ufen, Andreas - 2008
The basic patterns of the initial Indonesian party system have reemerged after more than four decades of authoritarianism. The cleavage model by Lipset and Rokkan is well-suited to analyzing the genesis of and the most salient features of this party system. However, in applying the approach,...
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Social movements as agents of innovation : citizen journalism in South Korea
Kern, Thomas; Nam, Sang-hui - 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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The cleavage model, ethnicity and voter alignment in Africa : conceptual and methodological problems revisited
Erdmann, Gero - 2007
Recent research on political parties and ethnicity has challenged the conventional wisdom about ethnicity as the major factor that explains voter alignment in Africa. The paper maintains that the cleavage model, although modified to include ethnicity, still provides heuristically the best...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907570