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The three pillars of stability: legitimation, repression, and co-optation in autocratic regimes

Gerschewski, Johannes - In: Democratization 20 (2013) 1, pp. 13-38

Why do some autocracies remain stable while others collapse? This article presents a theoretical framework that seeks to explain the longevity of autocracies by referring to three pillars of stability: legitimation, repression, and co-optation. These three causal factors are derived by...

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Income inequality in Korea : an analysis of trends, causes, and answers

An, Jong beom; Bosworth, Barry - 2013

Explores the relationship between economic growth and social developments in Korea over the last three decades. Analyzes the forces behind the trends in the narrowing of income distribution in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the deterioration evident in the post financial crisis years. - Provided...

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The content analysis of manifestos in multilevel settings: Exemplified for Spanish regional manifestos

Alonso, Sonia; Volkens, Andrea; Cabeza, Laura; Gómez, … - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012

This discussion paper describes a specific approach to content analysing multilevel party manifestos building on a methodology that was originally developed in the context of the Manifesto Research Group (MRG). Since 1979, the MRG has been collecting and coding national-level election programs...

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Togo: Thorny transitions and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Elections and democratization in West Africa 1990 – 2009, (pp. 179-210). 2011

regimes’ propensity to change towards democratization and economic prosperity. They took Togo as model to test their approach …. Empirical findings on the linkage between democratization and economic performance are challenged in this paper because of its … democratization of its institutions or to the improved external environment, notably the growing competition between global players …

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Oil states in the new Middle East : uprisings and stability

Selvik, Kjetil (ed.); Utvik, Bjørn Olav (ed.) - 2016

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Das Kopftuch im Streit zwischen Parlamenten und Gerichten: Ein Drama in drei Akten

Henkes, Christian; Kneip, Sascha - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2009

The ruling by the German Constitutional Court in the famous “Ludin” headscarf case permits the federal states (Bundesländer) to rearrange the treatment of religious symbols in public space (i.e. schools) and to adjust the complex relationship between state and religion in Germany. Based on...

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From the Colour Revolutions to the Arab Awakening : EU Approaches to Democracy Promotion and the Rising Influence of CEE States

Berti, Benedetta; Onuch, Olga - 2015

In this chapter we provide an analysis of European Union (EU) narratives and policies with respect to mass mobilisations in Eastern Europe (EE) and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Specifically, the focus here is on the 2004 ‘Orange Revolution’ and the recent...

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Patterns of participation: Political and social participation in 22 nations

Newton, Kenneth; Giebler, Heiko - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2008

Many studies show that political participation at the individual level is fragmented, multidimensional and non-cumulative, but comparison of 22 nations in Europe shows that different kinds of social and political participation at the country level are cumulative, unidimensional. The result is a...

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Multinational democracy and the consequences of compounded representation: The case of Spain

Alonso, Sonia - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2008

Democracy is feasible in multinational states. Substate nationalism in Europe has grown stronger, not weaker, during the last decades. And this has taken place because of democracy and not in spite of it. The cohabitation of democracy and nationalism is guaranteed by the establishment of...

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Korean political and economic development : crisis, security, and institutional rebalancing

Mo, Jong lyn; Weingast, Barry R. - 2013

"Mo and Weingast study three critical turning points in South Korea's remarkable transformation and offer a new view of how Korea was able to maintain pro-development policies with sustained growth by resolving repeated crises in favor of rebalancing and greater political and economic...

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