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Current Status and Future Perspectives of Robotic Surgery for Esophagogastric Cancer in Asia. [PDF]
Ann Gastroenterol SurgABSTRACT Robotic‐assisted surgery (RAS) has moved from an experimental adjunct to an increasingly established component of gastrointestinal (GI) oncological practice in parts of Asia, a region that carries a disproportionately high burden of gastric and esophageal cancer. Asian surgeons have been among the earliest and most prolific contributors to the
Ang JJ, So JBY.
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Inequality And Democratization: A Power-Centered Approach to Democratic Transitions [PDF]
, 2023 What are the conditions under which democratization is more likely to happen? After decades of research focused on the relationship between economic development and democratization, the more recent theories have identified economic inequality as the more
Lauka, Alban
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Political strategies of external support for democratization [PDF]
, 2005 Political strategies of external support to democratization are contrasted and critically examined in respect of the United States and European Union. The analysis begins by defining its terms of reference and addresses the question of what it means to ...
Burnell, Peter J.
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Waves of autocratization and democratization: a rejoinder
, 2021 This is a response to Luca Tomini's "Don't think of a wave!" and Svend-Erik Skaaning's "Waves of autocratization and democratization". With this rejoinder we make three arguments: First, the question how global waves shape autocratization processes and ...
Lührmann, Anna, +2 more
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Europeizacja jako instrument polityki zagranicznej Unii Europejskiej w zakresie promocji demokracji [PDF]
Studia Europejskie, 2020 The aim of the paper is to analyze how Europeanization is used as an instrument of the European Union’s foreign policy in the field of promoting democracy in the world.
Olga Barburska
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Cycles of Protest and the Consolidation of Democracy
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2014 Outcomes of democratization paths have been addressed within literature on democratic consolidation as well as on revolution. These approaches have however never been linked with social movement theory that, I argue in this article, can provide new ...
Donatella Della Porta
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South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2014 This study employs four-dimensional and one composite indices of democratization constructed to capture the democratization processes in Nigeria’s transition polity, to investigate the empirical relationships between the levels of democratization in ...
G Dinneya
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The main interpretations of the process of democratization in modern political science
Наука. Культура. Общество, 2023 The article examines the interpretations of the political processes of democratization by authoritative Russian and foreign researchers, primarily by political scientists, as well as modern characteristics and trends of democratization based on both ...
Sergey A. Kudryavtsev
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What makes democratic citizenship democratic?
Citizenship Studies, 2022 I contend that parliamentary representative democracy betrays what must be democratic about democratic citizenship – its directness. I examine this betrayal to consider what makes democratic citizenship democratic, what is direct about direct democracy, and how it may provide a means to (re)democratize democracy. To do so, I engage the conundrums about
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Parliamentary Elections in Indonesia: President Susilo on the Rise
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2009 The Indonesian parliamentary elections in April 2009 have been characterized as peaceful, free, and fair. All in all, the young democracy has been stabilized.
Andreas Ufen
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