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The culture of fear and control in Costa Rica (I) : crime statistics and law enforcement

Huhn, Sebastian - 2009

The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that crime rates have increased significantly in recent years and that there is today a vast and alarming amount of crime. On the basis of this assumption, fear of crime, the call for the "iron fist", and drastic law...

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Power, governance, and ideas in Chile’s free trade agreement policy

Wehner, Leslie - 2009

Why is Chile following such a proactive FTA policy and at the same time promoting the benefits of these type of agreements to other Latin American countries? There is a pre-dominance of economic explanations to analyze why countries pursue an active FTA policy. Yet within an FTA policy,...

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Stagnation of a "miracle"? : Botswana's governance record revisited

Soest, Christian von - 2009

Botswana has been dubbed an "African miracle". The country has been praised not only for maintaining a multiparty system and high growth rates since independence but also for its good governance record. In contrast to other African countries, the extent of neopatrimonialism, which runs counter...

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Private security in Guatemala : the pathway to its proliferation

Argueta, Otto - 2010

It has become commonplace to explain the proliferation of private security services as causally determined by crime rates and institutional weakness. By contrast, this paper argues that another explanatory factor needs to be emphasized, especially for post-war societies: continuity and change of...

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Nigeria : a prime example of the resource curse? : Revisiting the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta

Kuhn, Annegret - 2010

This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the 1990s, confirms the differentiated interplay of...

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" Dreams don't come true in Eritrea" : anomie and family disintegration due to the structural militarization of society

Hirt, Nicole - 2010

This article analyzes contemporary Eritrea's acute crisis within the framework of the theory of anomie. It is based on the hypothesis that militarization, forced labor, mass exodus, and family disintegration can be interpreted as the consequences of two incompatible norm and value systems: the...

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The production of insecurity by African security forces : insights from Liberia and the Central African Republic

Mehler, Andreas - 2009

Little attention has been paid to the factual effect of the state's security forces on the security of African citizens. Reports about security forces - contribution to widespread insecurity are frequent: the protectors become violators and their appearance causes fear, not security. In many...

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Oil-rent boom in Iran?

Beck, Martin - 2009

These verfochten, dass die erhöhte Rente für eine populistische Politik eingesetzt wurde. Wirtschaftspolitisch verfolgte … 75 Iran angesichts der hohen Kosten der redistributiven Politik vor ernsthafte haushaltspolitische Herausforderungen … auf die Innenpolitik die These verfochten, dass die erhöhte Rente für eine populistische Politik eingesetzt wurde …

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Iran's oil wealth : treasure and trouble for the Shah's regime ; a context-sensitive analysis of the ambivalent impact of resource abundance

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2009

The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political instability and/or violent conflict to the resource wealth of a country. It therefore works well as a case study for the purposes of this paper: to show the necessity of a broader approach to the...

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Contingent democrats in action : organized labor and regime change in the Republic of Niger

Elischer, Sebastian - 2013

The effects of organized labor on regime change in developing countries are not clear‐cut. Optimists argue that union agitation is conducive to both democratic transition and consolidation processes. Pessimists hold that unions will support any regime that is conducive to their demands....

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