Essays about: "dictatorship"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 51 essays containing the word dictatorship.
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16. The role of EITB as a driver of Basque culture among Basque millennials
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This study analyses the involvement of young Basque millennials with EITB, the Basque public media. Specifically, it focuses on knowing what these young people think of these media and revealing what their experience of engagement with television programming is. READ MORE
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17. The story that I was never told
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Winston Churchill once said “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”. Can this sentence be related to economic growth and development? This thesis analyzes the economic outcomes of the two main political regimes (Democracy and Dictatorship) in the developing world and discovers that Churchill’s words cannot be applied for long-run growth. READ MORE
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18. State capacity in dictatorships Investigating variation in income taxation amongst autocracies
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis investigates whether different types of dictatorships construct their state apparatuses in different ways, resulting in higher or lower levels of state capacity. Arguing that income taxes is the hardest form of taxes to collect – and thus is a good indicator of the state’s overall fiscal capacity – the thesis hypothesize that party-based autocracies should display higher levels of fiscal capacity compared to other types of dictatorships, for three reasons: Firstly, party-based regimes tend to have longer time-horizons than most other types of autocracies. READ MORE
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19. Peace at the expense of traditional family values? : A descriptive frame analysis of the concept gender within the anti-gender campaign against the Colombian peace accord
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The aim of this paper is to examine and describe the framing of the concept gender within the Colombian anti-gender campaign against the peace accord between FARC-EP and the government of Colombia. By implementing a frame analysis of gender, this study examines how actors within the resistance movement framed the concept of gender, and how they linked it to the resistance of the peace accord. READ MORE
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20. Women & Social Action - Tracing Women’s Experiences of Activism in the Chilean Women’s Movement
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The Chilean women’s movement has a long history of challenging state power. The role women played in the opposition against Augusto Pinochet’s authoritarian regime has fascinated researchers. There also seems to be a consensus, whereby the contemporary movement is considered to be divided. READ MORE
