Democracy and democratization
Democracy in Albania: Shortcomings of Civil Society in Democratization due to the Communist Regime’s Legacy
... makes democratization very difficult for civil society ...of democracy, but it lacks liberal standards and still functions using old communist ...true democratization without “decommunization,” as ...
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Wandering in Twilight? Democracy Promotion by the EU and the USA and Democratization in Armenia
... on democracy and a favourite of democracy ...of democracy promotion the idea of civil society development has not enjoyed similar popularity either with comparative politics and international ...
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Challenges Of Symbiotic Alliance Of Democracy And Information Diversification In The Democratization Process In Nigeria: Public Libraries And Information Centers To The Rescue
... described democracy as ―a fundamental right, an engine of liberation and a catalyst agent of human ...entirety. Democracy in the real sense of its application is a form of government in which every citizen ...
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Future Europe: democracy or technocracy?: the role of European democratization in creating European identity four future scenarios
... the democratization process that their impact is much harder to identity than institutional and political ...participatory democracy” (BOND, ...Open Democracy movement is concerned with a similar ...
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Promoting democracy
... of democracy and democratization’ ...liberal democracy but does not identify ...the democracy promoters would probably say they find much easier to endorse than into practice - especially in ...
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A change in system, a change in Friends? The impact of Myanmar’s democratization on its foreign relations
... of democratization occurred in the early 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union, causing an increase of political freedoms around the ...Myanmar’s democracy and foreign policies are evolving after it ...
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The Freedom of Information Law and Democratization in Nigeria
... The public clamours for democratization have reached unprecedented levels in Nigeria. In the light of such clamours, instances of improvement have been recorded in some areas of the operation of the Nigerian ...
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Media democratization in Brazil and future challenges
... to democracy in the country, there have been demands made by civil society for media ...and democratization that are taking place today in much of Latin America and in Brazil are very much a follow-up and ...
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Kleptocracy, democratization and international interventions
... for the international community. According to Hufbauer, Schott, Elliott and Oegg (2007) (Henceforth HSEO), there have been 187 episodes of economic sanctions since 1914, and 66 of which started after the end of Cold War. ...
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Civil Society and Democratization Processes in Africa
... The prevailing theory in political science, as Sarfo (1991) reminds us, is that liberal democracy requires a developed economy with a substantial middle class that possesses the knowledg[r] ...
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The post-Cold War wave of democratization : regime transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and postcommunist states compared
... As the discussion so far has shown, regime outcomes following the initial transition period have persisted over time, well into the present decade. As the Freedom House Tables indicate, of the nineteen countries in this ...
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"The unfinished democratization of Europe"
... In contrast to such orders the EU has become a polity that subscribes to democracy and human rights as legitimating criteria. It also disposes of an organized capacity to act – to make collectively binding ...
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Democratization and civil war
... the democracy (and other) variables, factors such as education, no longer appear to statistically significantly influence democratization ( Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, & Yared, 2008; Acemoglu, Johnson, ...
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Democratization, Quality of Institutions and Economic Growth
... delayed democratization or had the same ruling party (one-and-a-half party system) during the major part of the catch up ...of democracy in that unhappy ...a democracy, is questioned by researchers ...
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The revolution will not be downloaded? (Internet and democratization in Malaysia)
... of democracy, particularly fair elections, 'adequate opportunities for independent political opinion-naking and political organisation and minimal protection from the individual from arbitrary state power', hardly ...
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Political strategies of external support for democratization
... assessing democracy performance - and in deciding what constitutes successful support from abroad – is attractive but not easy to put ...or democracy assessment, that Beetham et ...for Democracy and ...
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Identity, culture and democratization: the case of Egypt
... of democracy is explained by the existence of Arab/Islamic culture) without presenting any evidence to demonstrate such a ...of democracy is caused by low economic development rates or the absence of full ...
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Instability of Democracy as Resource Curse
... for democracy; a repression effect, by which governments build up their internal security forces to ward off democratic pressures; and a modernization effect, in which the failure of the population to move into ...
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POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA
... Political development on the other hand lacks a precise and standard definition, the reason of which should be traced in numerous studies made from inter – disciplinary perspectives impinging on the subject of ‘growth’, ...
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Seensay: The Citizen Mojo In Information Democratization
... Information Democratization. Mojo gives the democracy in sharing the information as well as knowing the information without any gatekeeping and other imped- ...
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