Essays about: "Electoral autocracies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Electoral autocracies.

  1. 1. Democracy and the World System: A case for the use of world systems analysis in democratization research

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Teodor Lundberg; [2024]
    Keywords : Regimes; Democracy; Democratization; Trade; World systems analysis; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This paper examines the relevance of the world system as a structural condition to be considered in research on regimes and democratization. This is a pilot study in reformulating world systems analysis into the research topic of regimes, their creation and democratization. READ MORE

  3. 2. One-Party Dominance and Democratic Backsliding in Botswana and Tanzania: Whither Peace and Development?

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Issa Noor Omary; [2023]
    Keywords : One-party Dominance Dominant Party System; Dominant Party; Substantive Democracy; Democratic Backsliding; Third Wave of Autocratisation; Path-Dependence; Peace and Development; Botswana; Tanzania;

    Abstract : Over the past decade, a third wave of autocratisation has stormed the world, hitting democracies and autocracies alike. The ongoing democratic backsliding is attributed to a range of factors. From “executive aggrandisement” and strategic manipulation of elections to "autocratic lawfare”. READ MORE

  4. 3. Investing in the Masses : A quantitative study on the effect of population investments on electoral protest violence

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Lukas Vikinge; [2023]
    Keywords : Electoral autocracies; electoral protest violence; population investments; human capital; violence;

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  5. 4. IS DELIBERATION THE DESTINATION? Analysing the effects of internet access on deliberative democracy

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Samuel Karlsson; [2022-09-05]
    Keywords : Democracy; Internet; Deliberation; Digital; Autocracy;

    Abstract : The extant literature on the connection between the internet and democracy has so far been limited to liberal and electoral democracy. Studying how it affects deliberative democracy is crucial to understand public and government deliberation in the modern age, and also for broadening the debate about the internet and democracy to include other types of democracy. READ MORE

  6. 5. THE PROMISE OF CHANGE. Key Aspects of Democracy and Quality of Government Against Infant Mortality

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Joseph Siaw Akowuah; [2022-06-17]
    Keywords : Democracy; Quality of Government; Infant Mortality; Electoral Democracy; Liberal Components; Impartiality; Corruption and Bureaucratic Quality;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates which aspects of democracy and quality of government (QoG) drive the inverse relationship democracy and the quality of government has with infant mortality. Though studies exist on democracy as well as QoG and infant mortality, the literature does not provide findings on the aspects of these broad concepts of democracy and QoG driving the democracy – QoG and infant mortality relationship. READ MORE