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Non-linear geographics and the economics of transition and democratization
Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012
simple model of transition and democratization is presented wherein we show that the effectiveness of repression by the … country to start a transition process towards democratization is not necessarily the one nearest to the free world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336055
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Exploring Key External and Internal Factors Affecting State Performance in Southeast Asia
Jakobsen, Michael - 2015
The main aim of this article is to identify key external and internal factors that are capable of impacting and thus influencing directly or indirectly state performance in Southeast Asia with special emphasis on Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore. The theoretical aim is to develop a framework for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142448
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Globalization, Redemocratization and the Philippine Bureaucracy
Tillah, Mirshariff - 2005
The increasing demands and expectations placed upon the Philippine bureaucracy by a redemocratizing society are further … through downsizing, privatization, deregulation, decentralization, harnessing civil society and private sector capacities … into the impact of globalization on the Philippine bureaucracy in a redemocratizing context. In order to observe these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429801
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Vietnam as a role model for development
Thoburn, John - 2009
Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid integration into the world economy, with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273512
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Donor’s double talk undermines African agency: Comparative study of civic agency in Burkina Faso and Togo
Kohnert, Dirk - 2015
in particular, little is known on the effect of donors policies on civic agency for democratization in aid dependent … Zuwendungsgebern auf den zivilgesellschaftlichen Einsatz für Demokratisierung in hilfeabhängigen autokratischen Regimen. Diese Studie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341120
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Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the "Arab Spring"
Beck, Martin; Hüser, Simone - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287563
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Economic-social interaction in China
Lindbeck, Assar - 2008
This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country's change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important features of the social development are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264279
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Economic-Social Interaction in China
Lindbeck, Assar - 2007
This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country's change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important features of the social development are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320120
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Has Liberalization Strengthened the Link between Services and Manufacturing?
Liao, Christine Marie; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2007
Globalization and pressure from increased competition have led to "splintering" of in-house services from formerly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429868
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Democratic consolidation and civil society: problems of democratic consolidation in East Central Europe
Merkel, Wolfgang - In: Civil society, political society, democracy, (pp. 325-351). 1994
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