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Colonial Legacy and the Role of Society in the Creation and Demise of Autocracy in Zambia, 1964–1991
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2001 This paper explores the origin, growth and demise of autocracy in post-independence Zambia from a macro-historical perspective. It is argued that the underlying dynamic, which gradually turned Zambia into a virtual autocracy after its independence in ...
Bizeck J. Phiri
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Liberalization and Democratization: The Forum and the Hearth in the Era of Cosmopolitan Post-Industrial Capitalism [PDF]
, 2000 Rather than the desire for economic liberalization bringing about political democratization, the struggles against autocracy have created an opening for economic liberalization.
Picciotto, Sol
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Kant on Moral Autocracy, Moral Faith and Happiness [PDF]
Organon FKant’s account of moral autocracy as the strength of will to impose inner self-constraint is usually interpreted as being strengthened and promoted by the pursuit of the obligatory ends of perfection and holiness. In this context, moral autocracy is seen
Neşe Aksoy
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Notas Económicas, 2006 To overcome market failures society creates common laws that stimulate or penalize individual actions, the enforcement of which depends on the actions of public authorities who may be susceptible to corruption.
Pedro Cosme Costa Vieira +1 more
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Europe as the "other" of Russian historiosophical consciousness: from the middle ages to modernity
Вестник Мининского университета, 2021 Introduction. The paper reviews the phenomenon of perception of Western Europe as the "other" in Russian intellectual tradition. The purpose of this survey is to analyze and identify the features of Russian historiosophical consciousness in the ...
D. V. Semikopov, A. A. Zakhriapin
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A Destructive Autocracy Regime – China’s Experience in the Mao Zedong Era [PDF]
Восточная Азия: факты и аналитика, 2022 The article deals with the transformation of the authoritarian collectivist regime of the PRC into the authoritarian personalist regime of Mao Zedong. The author chose the dichotomy of rational and irrational, mind and will as a method of understanding
Borodich V.F.
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The perils of semi-presidentialism. Are they exaggerated? [PDF]
, 2008 There is a standard academic consensus that semi-presidentialism is perilous for new democracies. In particular, this is because semi-presidential countries run the risk of experiencing difficult periods of ‘cohabitation’ between a president and a prime ...
Elgie, Robert
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Reflections on the Arab Uprisings
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2017 This chapter offers reflections on the Arab uprisings grouped under four headings: (1) the entrenchment of autocracy in the region, (2) the unravelling of autocracy, (3) the uncertainty of the transition process, and (4) the challenges of sustaining ...
Samir Makdisi
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The Political Regime of Modern Israel
Международная аналитика, 2016 The current research analyses the structure of the political regime in the State of Israel. It demonstrates that existing Israeli democratic institutions do not control the state’s policymaking in full, and several politically important processes are ...
T. A. Karasova, M. Sterenshis
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Pension policy in autocracy: The case of Hungary
Journal of Government and Economics, 2022 This purpose of this paper is to analyze pension policy in an autocracy, using contemporary Hungary as a context. The inefficiencies and unfairness of the current policy can be characterized by tensions: the intra- and intercohort polarization of ...
András Simonovits
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