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Eldis What is the link between education and democracy? - 0 views

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    This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favour democracy where their opinions matter, the empirical
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International Crisis Group - Congo: A Stalled Democratic Agenda - 0 views

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    Creating new momentum to reverse current trends will require that institutional reforms and legislative programs are not considered merely as technical processes, but as tests of the government's political will to improve governance and as a central part
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They Have Achieved a Lot Because we Have Paid Them to do a Lot: NGOs and the Internatio... - 0 views

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    Strengthening civil society has had a prominent place in the international community's strategy for the West Balkans. Rather than creating an independent and sustainable NGO sector, however, it has made local NGOs largely dependent on the international co
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The 'Poverty' of Political Society: Partha Chatterjee and the People's Plan Campaign in... - 0 views

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    Prominent postcolonial thinker Partha Chatterjee's concept of political society is an important one in understanding the vast domain of politics in the 'Third World' which falls outside hegemonic Western notions of the state and civil society. This domain
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Promoting Democracy with Neither State Nor Security: U.S. Democracy Promotion Efforts i... - 0 views

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    Democracy promotion in the Middle East has been a foreign policy imperative for every U.S. President for the past three decades. Geoffrey Swenson details the aspirations, projects and outcomes of U.S. - funded democracy building efforts in the Palestinian
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Eldis - Assessing democratic development in transit states V.D. Shkolnikov - 0 views

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    Nations in transit 2009 is Freedom House's comparative study of democratic development from Central Europe to Eurasia. It documents how journalists were once again at risk throughout the region, from Croatia to Uzbekistan, and how national governments wer
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Cuban Development Strategies and Gender Relations - Socialism and Democracy - 0 views

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    Over the past 50 years Cuban society has radically transformed its institutions and openly encouraged women to become independent, educated, and empowered. As a result, Cuban women revolutionized gender relations and made much more progress than men. This
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Project on Middle East Democracy Egypt: More Concern Over Proposed NGO Law - 0 views

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    Last week brought news that the Egyptian government is circulating a new draft NGO law, one which would severely restrict available space for civil society and criminalize the activities of unregistered civic organizations. A coalition of 41 NGOs, headlin
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CJO - Abstract - Constitutionalizing Difference: A Case Study Analysis of Gender Provis... - 0 views

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    This article examines the use of gender in constitutions and its significance for gender equality. New democracies, and some older ones, are increasingly including gender provisions in their constitutions. What is the impact of these provisions on women's
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Rethinking the Modern Prince: Partisanship and the Democratic Ethos. Jonathan White. 20... - 0 views

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    This article lays out and defends the role of political parties in cultivating a democratic ethos among citizens. It argues that citizens' commitment to the democratic idea of self-rule requires positive conviction of the worth of collective political age
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Introduction: democracy, equality, and justice - Critical Review of International Socia... - 0 views

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    In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, we hoped to stimulate discussions that went beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept. The papers fall, rather rou
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The role of external factors in advancing non-liberal democratic forms of political rul... - 0 views

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    This article argues that deliberate and unintentional external influences play both direct and indirect roles in advancing non-liberal democratic political rule. Specifically, it identifies four key external factors whereby Russia has strengthened Central
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Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security John Kampfner - 0 views

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    head of the Index on Censorship, which is Britain's leading organization promoting freedom of expression. We are delighted that he has chosen the Carnegie Council to discuss his new book, Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security.
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    This article argues that deliberate and unintentional external influences play both direct and indirect roles in advancing non-liberal democratic political rule. Specifically, it identifies four key external factors whereby Russia has strengthened Central
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Would autocracies promote autocracy? A political economy perspective on regime-type exp... - 0 views

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    Non-democratic regional powers are increasingly blamed for authoritarian backlashes in formerly democratising countries, or for the persistence of entrenched autocratic regimes in their neighbourhood. Yet there is a striking scarcity of theoretical delibe
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Are dictatorships returning? Revisiting the 'democratic rollback' hypothesis - Contempo... - 0 views

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    Since 2007 an increasing number of articles have diagnosed 'freedom in retreat' and predicted a 'return to the authoritarian great powers'. Highly distinguished scholars warn against the 'democratic rollback', and articles on the resilience of authoritari
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Promoting democracy - promoting autocracy? International politics and national politica... - 0 views

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    Has the last tide of democratization been replaced by a new wave of democratic reversal? Do two decades of international democracy promotion now have to compete with the promotion of authoritarian rule by powers that have resisted democratization internal
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'Bringing the outside in': illustrations from Haiti and Mali for the re-conceptualizati... - 0 views

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    This article is about the conceptualization of democracy promotion in political science. It argues that democracy promoters in aid-dependent states do not influence the change and stability of political regimes mostly 'from without', as typically assumed
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Exploring democracy in the Russian Federation: political regime, public opinion and int... - 0 views

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    This article discusses three questions: what is the purpose of 'democratic' institutions and practices in Russia's authoritarian political system; how do these institutions and practices resonate with Russian public opinion; and how do they relate to the
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Democracy promotion circa 2010: an Indian perspective - Contemporary Politics - 0 views

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    This article examines how and why India, the world's largest democracy, remains sceptical about the idea of promoting its own political order abroad. It first lays down the historical background of India's long abstinence from promoting democracy and desc
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