Democratic transition and elections
Senegal: Presidential elections 2019 The shining example of democratic transition immersed in muddy power politics
... presidential elections of 24 February 2019, when a total of 6,683,043 registered voters out of Senegal's 15 million inhabitants were called to cast their vote in 15,397 polling stations, in ...Senegalese ...
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Elections and Democratic Development in Ghana: A Critical Analysis
... country’s democratic transition in the 1990s, but citizens (Ghanaians) became voters as consistent with the theory’s ...Ghana’s transition to multiparty democracy was marked by a number of ...
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Democratic Transition and Electoral Violence in Togo
... troubled elections in ...future elections from being ...held elections in Togo show a continuing institutional weakness for managing electoral ...
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Women in politics in democratic transition: The case of Bhutan
... Government elections, a woman candidate from Teowang Gewog 10 in Punakha stated that rural voters may not elect a woman Gup 11 because one of the roles of the Gups in Punakha is the cultural function carried out ...
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The Role of Civil Society in the Tunisian Democratic Transition
... just elections for a president or legislature but also well-organized political parties, an independent court system, an effective state bureaucracy, and a free and vigilant ...
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Difficulties of Democratic Transition in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova
... presidential elections have not led to an elitist model to facilitate the reform of public ...parliamentary elections brought in the political organisation plan a mix between the old nomenclature and the ...
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Explaining the success of Tunisia's democratic transition. (c2016)
... Tunisia’s Democratic Transition Noura Raghdan Nader Abstract This thesis investigates the democratic transition in Tunisia and the reasons behind its ...in democratic transitions is ...
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Tribalism and Democratic Transition in Libya: Lessons from Iraq
... interest in keeping peace and stability in the nation and has in general demonstrated efforts to do this, especially by turning over power to the General National Congress in the 2012 elections (Foreign Affairs). ...
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Democratic Transition in the Development Context: The Case Study of Tonga
... a democratic transition that saw the balance of power shift from a hereditary monarchy to the ...people. Elections were held that for the first time would result in a majority of Tonga’s Parliament ...
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Democratic dawn? : Civil society and elections in Myanmar 2010 – 2012
... Civil society activities developed in Myanmar despite years of military rule, partly in response to the transition process led by the military elite, although this was a consequence probably unintended by the ...
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The Judiciary and Ghana’s 2012 Elections: Analysis of 2012 Presidential Elections Petition and its Ramifications for Democratic Development in Ghana
... system. Democratic development from 1992 to 2012 has been relatively smooth, with the alternation of political power between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2001 ...
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Korean elections and voters in the transition to democracy, 1985-1992
... Korea Democratic Party through the Democratic Nationalist, the Democratic, and the Civil Rule Party to the New Korea Democratic ...of democratic game rules by the ruling power as ...
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South Korean politics in transition: democratization, elections and the voters
... this democratic 'founding' election was thus far-reaching, in that each of the candidates clearly dominated the others, rather than enjoying only relative advantage, in their respective regional ...
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Democratic Elections in a Global Context
... based on national concerns and shared constitutional values rather than entrenched ethnic or racially exclusive interests. In a country with a history such as ours, it is important to have a system that will not ...
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Voter Discrimination in Democratic Elections
... on Democratic Party vote share by various measures of each county’s predicted racial ...on Democratic Party vote share in statewide low information elections for each quartile of racial ...
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Nigeria and Democratic Progress by Elections in Africa
... These countries have already gone through the main electoral steps of democratisation, including a double-turnover test. Figure 2 tracks the electoral path that Ghana has followed since its 1992 founding ...
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Elections and Taiwan s Democratic Development
... Elections reflect public opinion and shape party politics. Did the new electoral system have broad impact[r] ...
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Economic Transition and Elections in Poland
... The possible consequences of the shifts to the new rules can be illustrated by exploring what the distribution of seats would have been in 1993 and 1997 if either or both these changes had been in place in those ...
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SADC PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES GOVERNING DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS
... The SEOM shall employ, in its best practice, Long-Term Observation (LTO) and analyses that address all aspects of the Election Cycle as well as assess the broader political context that affects the character and quality ...
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EXISTING COMMITMENTS FOR DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN OSCE PARTICIPATING STATES
... of elections have been cautious, however, especially when asked to review the legality of an entire method of ...of elections in single-mandate districts were unrepresentative since the award of mandates ...
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