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effective civil society participation and the improvement of the quality of democracy. …
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reason nations strive to improve the peaceful coexistence of citizens. This study investigates the effect of democracy … empirical results firstly reveal that democracy increases peace in Africa, particularly in countries where the initial level of …
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In the quest for the attainment of democracy with its fully unleashed potentials, the role of information and … democracy indicators. The analysis is carried out by applying the instrumental variables (IV) Tobit regression to the data to … model. The study finds that weak democracy is detrimental to the effect of mobile phone penetration on integrated governance …
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This study adds to the body of existing literature on the relationship between democracy and terrorism by investigating … the impact of democracy on terrorism in 26 African countries. The study utilises a robust measure of democracy known as … the varieties of democracy index which has been observed in literature to be more superior to conventional measures of …
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The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa. This … result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally stood …
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The 2015 presidential elections in Nigeria were unique in many facets. Apart from being the first time an incumbent candidate of a ruling party lost to the candidate of the opposition party, it was also the first presidential election that did not go through expensive and rigorous post-election...
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This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of militarization, governance, and democracy on human rights in … revealed that militarization significantly increases human rights violation in the region, while governance and democracy … of democracy on human rights is stronger in countries where the existing level of human rights is high. Policy …
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educational outcomes, however, continue to be subpar at all levels. This study examines the impact of democracy on lifelong … learning in 52 African countries from 1990 to 2020, employing Fixed Effects regressions. Six democracy indicators, which … include electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, and total democracy, derived from the principal …
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The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa …. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally …
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qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are … qualities of democracy, we find that while the frequency of change has a beneficial impact on the qualities of democracy, the …
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