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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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International Studies JournalResearch problem Various forms of electoral misconduct ranging from ballot box snatching to technological fraud have undermined the integrity of the electoral process in Nigeria, posing several challenges to the consolidation of democracy in the ...
IHAZA FOLORUNSHO, IHAZA KAYODE
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Banking on Democracy: The Political Economy of International Private Bank Lending in Emerging Markets [PDF]
Clearly, a new agenda is emerging for private international banks. Political issues such as human rights seem to be a current concern. But what about democracy? What about political regimes?
Rodríguez, Javier, Santiso, Javier
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Foreign aid and democratic consolidation in Zambia [PDF]
, 2012 The study examines Zambia's evolving aid relationship in relation to the country's democratic trajectory. The impact of aid in terms of democratic consolidation is linked to the development of the party system, the efficacy of key democratic institutions,
Rakner, Lise
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Lung maneuvers of large amplitudes for probing physiological alterations in mouse models of asthma
Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.Lung maneuvers of small amplitudes, such as the ones performed in oscillometry, are the current gold standard to probe lung mechanics in animals, but they are insensitive to detect baseline physiological alterations in mouse models of asthma. Herein, lung maneuvers of different amplitudes were compared in two mouse models of asthma.
Magali Boucher +4 more
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PolitejaThis study aims to compare the democratization process in Poland and South Korea in the late 1980s. Despite their distant geographical and cultural location, the two countries happen to share many similarities regarding their recent history and ...
Tomasz Wilczyński
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On consolidation: Nonviolent struggle as resource for democratic citizenship
Relaciones Internacionales, 2018 After the Colour Revolutions and the Arab Spring the research, linking nonviolent resistance (NVR) and democratisation increased drastically. Nevertheless, research focussing on the effect on democratic consolidation remains scarce.
Markus BAYER
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Constitutional Review and Democratic Consolidation: A Literature Review [PDF]
This paper reviews the literature on the prevalence of constitutional review across the world, and particularly in emerging democracies, during the last two decades. Two major questions should be addressed in this regard.
Hazama, Yasushi
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Legislative malapportionment and institutional persistence [PDF]
This paper argues that legislative malapportionment, denoting a discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts, serves as a tool for pre-democratic elites to preserve their political power and ...
Bruhn, Miriam +2 more
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The constraining role of political culture in the deepening of new democracies: the case of Chile [PDF]
, 2018 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with Honors.This paper examines the role of political culture in the development of Chilean democracy as a case study for other third ...
Caló, Ximena
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