Essays about: "hybrid regimes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words hybrid regimes.

  1. 1. What are the odds of civil war? Investigating the relationship between quality of government, voter turnout, civil war, and the Democratic peace theory

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Salome Nordberg; [2023-10-05]
    Keywords : Quality of government; civil war; voter turnout; democratic peace theory; logistic regression;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to quantitatively investigate the relationship between the quality of government, voter turnout, and civil war. By doing a hypothesistesting analysis through logistic regression. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Inflationary Universe

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teoretisk fysik

    Author : Benjamin Cavcic; [2023]
    Keywords : general relativity; inflation; cosmology; cosmic inflation; chaotic inflation; natural inflation; eternal inflation; valley hybrid inflation;

    Abstract : Astrophysical observations of the cosmic microwave background point to inconsistencies in the standard model of cosmology, and a primordial accelerated expansion of the universe known as inflation has been suggested as a solution. Unfortunately, observational evidence of inflation is lacking, and there exists hundreds of models that populate the inflationary landscape. READ MORE

  4. 3. Masked Autocratization : Testing Levitsky and Ziblatt's Theory of Democratic Backsliding in the Context of Polish Covid-19 Autocratization

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Josefine Vallbom; [2023]
    Keywords : Covid-19 pandemic; crisis; Covid-19 autocratization; Levitsky Ziblatt; democratic backsliding; autocratization; hybrid regimes; Poland; PiS; theory-testing;

    Abstract : The study examines to what extent Levitsky & Ziblatt’s theory of democratic backsliding, as a universal three-step sequential process of democratic deterioration, can explain the novel phenomena of Covid-19 autocratization, in the context of Poland. Via said aim, the research serves as an explorative investigation into the strategies and methods used to invoke democratic backsliding amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. READ MORE

  5. 4. "Where there is room to fight for your beliefs that is the ideal place" : Imagination and agency of Athenians with migratory background

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Georgia Dekavalla; [2022]
    Keywords : Migration; city; space; bordering; othering; imagination; hybridity;

    Abstract : In the globalized world, border regimes are ambiguous, withdrawn or reinforced based on who approaches them, where and how. Borders are equally the boundaries that permeate spaces of nation-states and cut across them through racialized, gendered, and classed divisions. READ MORE

  6. 5. When Hybrid Autocratic Regimes Abuse the “Constitutional State of Emergency” : Repression Towards Social Movements

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

    Author : Afaf Doleeb; [2022]
    Keywords : Social Movement; Constitutional State of Emergency “CSoE”; hybrid regime; Political Collective Action “PCA”; threat; repression; coercive repression; channeling repression; and process tracing;

    Abstract : Global awareness of governments’ abuse of the Constitutional State of Emergency “CSoE” took place after the COVID-19 pandemic, although it is not a new phenomenon and is widely used, especially by hybrid autocratic regimes. However, few studies have studied its impact on social movements’ Political Collective Action “PCA” and were limited to the analysis of single deviant cases. READ MORE