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Contingent Democrats in Action: Organized Labor and Regime Change in the Republic of Niger

Elischer, Sebastian - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 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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The Role of Southern Actors in Global Governance: The Fight against HIV/AIDS

Bartsch, Sonja; Kohlmorgen, Lars - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

This paper analyses the role of actors from developing countries in global processes of pol-icy making and governance. To systematically examine the channels of influence of South-ern actors and the interactions in global governance it develops the concept of interfaces. It differentiates...

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Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside

Bondes, Maria - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

The proliferation of social organizations in China has engendered a lively debate about how to conceptualize these social forces. This paper argues that such a conceptualization should take into account the role that both the party?state and social actors attribute to social organizations. With...

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The Reform of China‘s Energy Policies

Betz, Joachim - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

China’s shift in energy policies has been broader, deeper and more successful than that of most other emerging economies, although the economic costs of this transition are tremendous because China is an over-industrialized country whose production is highly energy-intense and it depends on...

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Civic Organizations in Vietnam’s One-Party State: Supporters of Authoritarian Rule?

Wischermann, Jörg - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

Associationalism under authoritarian rule is not automatically a good thing. The empirical findings laid out in this article indicate that authoritarian dispositions and practices are prevalent in all types of Vietnamese civic organizations, at least as far as internal decision-making processes...

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Measuring Party Institutionalization in Developing Countries: A New Research Instrument Applied to 28 African Political Parties

Basedau, Matthias; Stroh, Alexander - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

The institutionalization of political parties is said to be important for democratic development, but its measurement has remained a neglected area of research. We understand the institutionalization of political organizations as progress in four dimensions: roots in society, level of...

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Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP’s Quest for Legitimacy

Bondes, Maria; Heep, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …

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Social Movements as Agents of Innovation: Citizen Journalism in South Korea

Kern, Thomas; Nam, Sang-hui - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

This article aims to further develop the field of innovation studies by exploring the emergence of citizen journalism in South Korea’s social movement sector. To achieve this aim, the framework of innovation theory has been extended to innovations in social fields beyond technology and the...

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Informal Interference in the Judiciary in New Democracies: A Comparison of Six African and Latin American Cases

Llanos, Mariana; Weber, Cordula Tibi; Heyl, Charlotte; … - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2014

This paper assesses the extent to which elected power holders informally intervene in the judiciaries of new democracies, an acknowledged but under-researched topic in studies of judicial politics. The paper first develops an empirical strategy for the study of informal interference based on...

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Claims to Legitimacy Matter: Why Sanctions Fail to Instigate Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes

Grauvogel, Julia; Soest, Christian von - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the … enjoy strong claims to legitimacy and have only limited linkages to the sanction sender. …

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