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At Africa's expense? : disaggregating the social impact of Chinese mining operations

Wegenast, Tim; Strüver, Georg; Giesen, Juliane; … - 2017

Qualitative studies and media reports suggest that the presence of Chinese oil or mining companies generates resentments among local extractive communities due to low wages, poor working conditions, environmental degradation, the employment of foreign labour, and perceived racial discrimination....

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A democratic rentier state? : taxation, aid dependency, and political representation in Benin

Piccolino, Giulia - 2014

Benin, a low-income West African country that underwent a fairly successful democratization process in the early 1990s. It … its extractive capacities since democratization. However, the effect of democratization has been largely indirect, while …

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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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Informal interference in the judiciary in new democracies : a comparison of six African and Latin American cases

Llanos, Mariana; Tibi Weber, Cordula; Heyl, Charlotte; … - 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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Claims to legitimacy matter : why sanctions fail to instigate democratization in authoritarian regimes

Grauvogel, Julia; Soest, Christian von - 2013

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

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Promoting peace and democracy through party regulation? : ethnic party bans in Africa

Becher, Anika; Basedau, Matthias - 2008

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Promoting peace and democracy through party regulation? : ethnic party bans in Africa

Becher, Anika; Basedau, Matthias - 2008

, and this paper engages in a preliminary analysis of their effects on democracy and peace. Theoretically, particularistic … implementation. -- Sub-Saharan Africa ; party bans ; ethnicity ; conflict ; democracy …

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A regional power promoting democracy? : India’s involvement in Nepal (2005-2008)

Destradi, Sandra - 2010

According to the theory of "democratic peace" India, as the largest democracy in the world and as South Asia …'s predominant regional power, should be expected to promote democracy in neighboring countries. However, New Delhi lacks any … official democracypromotion policy, and its past record on democracy in the region is mixed at best. Against this background …

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Are all dictators equal? : the selective targeting of democratic sanctions against authoritarian regimes

Soest, Christian von; Wahman, Michael - 2013

democracy and human rights violations in authoritarian regimes. However, some of the world's most repressive authoritarian … sanction episodes instigated by Western democracies as an attempt to enhance democracy and human rights. In this paper, we … democracy in targeted authoritarian states. Using a new dataset on democratic sanctions between 1990 and 2010, time …

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The resource curse and rentier states in the Caspian region : a need for context analysis

Meißner, Hannes - 2010

; Caspian Sea ; natural resources ; post-Soviet states ; democracy ; socioeconomic development ; institutions …

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