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liberalism had been strong dynamic forces, they were unsuccessful for changing such scheme and only a secularization process …
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The field of development studies owes a great debt to Amartya Sen. This paper reviews the strengths and weaknesses of Sen’s account of ‘development as freedom’. It considers how Sen has developed his arguments in terms of four key ‘spaces’: what he calls the...
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in which democratic failings may lead to a temporary lapse into authoritarianism, followed by a return to democracy. …
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Why do African and Middle Eastern countries seem cursed by an abundance of natural resources yet USA, Australia and Norway seem blessed? A growing literature has argued that the benevolence or malignance of natural resources depends upon the quality of institutions. This paper offers a new...
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major world area where authoritarianism persisted unchallenged for decades. While in various countries of the Arab world …This article deals with the Arab Spring as a process of deep political change in the Arab world, previously the only … examines the empirical results of political diversification in the Arab world. A two-by-two matrix of political rule that …
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This article presents a critical account of Libya’s incipient democratization, contextualizing it within the Arab … Spring élan. This first line of inquiry is twofold: it critically assesses the meaning of democratization in the context of …
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Adam Smith is in these circles considered a prominent representative of an economically unbridled laissez-faire liberalism …
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different from the present one. Despite their differences, sovereigntists and alter-Europeans share a rejection of liberalism …
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This paper aims to show that a precise definition of the term ?neo-liberalism? needs a correct understanding about the …, particularly of its consequences for the economic level, the paper shows, using Anderson (1995), the origins of neo-liberalism, its … economic policies usually associated to neo-liberalism are not neo-liberal policies but only ?liberalization strategies?. …
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