Essays about: "Political Corruption"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 216 essays containing the words Political Corruption.

1. 6. IS POLITICAL CORRUPTION A MISSING PIECE IN THE PUZZLE OF AUTOCRATIZATION? A quantitative study of the relationship between changes in levels of political corruption and changes in levels of democracy

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Rebecca Sanderöd Rodin; [2023-01-30]
   Keywords : political corruption; autocratization; democracy; political trust;

   Abstract : While previous research has examined how levels of democracy affect corruption, the number of studies investigating how levels of corruption affect democracy is limited. Declining levels of democracy, or autocratization, is an unsolved puzzle with many theorized causes, such as inequality, low accountability, and economic issues. READ MORE

3. 7. Corruption as an obstacle for development: A case study of environmental CSOs working in South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Malte Killander; [2023]
   Keywords : corruption; environmental CSOs; South Africa; organizational objectives; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The topic for this thesis is corruption as an obstacle for development. More specifically the research looks at how corruption affects one of our most important agents of change; the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). READ MORE

4. 8. Foreign Direct Investment, a blessing, or a burden for African states in terms of corruption?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Kajsa Nebrelius; [2023]
   Keywords : Foreign direct investment; corruption; state fragility; Africa; Botswana; Zambia; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The development in Africa has for a long time been harmed because of its high corruption levels. During the last decades, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) have increasingly flown into African states as an attempt to strengthen the societies. READ MORE

5. 9. Negotiating Political Power on Bornholm : The Anonymous Philander Letter and the Response of the Danish Absolutist State, 1737–1739

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Matthías Aron Ólafsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Social history; early modern state; absolutism; Denmark; Bornholm; commissions; interaction; negotiation; political power; political culture;

   Abstract : This thesis studies the negotiation of political power between the Danish absolutist state, the local government on Bornholm, and its subjects there during the winter of 1738–1739. The aim is to better understand how political power was negotiated in a peripheral region of an early modern state, but also to explore what caused this interaction to begin with and why its eventual outcome was a compromise by the state. READ MORE

6. 10. Media Strategies of Russian Opposition in Exile: Values, Visibility, and Virtual Mobilisation

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Aleksei Chumakov; [2023]
   Keywords : anti-corruption; decision-making; democracy and human rights; discourse analysis; ethical leadership; independent media; linguistic constructs; media framing; political exile; public communication; qualitative research; Russian opposition;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the media strategies employed by leading figures and organizations in the Russian political opposition landscape, namely Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), Dmitry Gudkov's Secretariat of European Russians, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Russian Action Committee, Feminist Anti-War Resistance, and Ilya Ponomarev. Using critical discourse analysis as its core methodology, the study aims to unravel the complex dynamics between stated values and media strategies. READ MORE