Reforms and Counter-Reforms in Bolivia [PDF]
This paper analyzes reforms and counter-reforms in Bolivia in recent decades and their effects on the policymaking process (PMP) and productivity. Bolivia’s PMP has shifted from a formal representative democracy to a “participative and direct type of ...
Fernando Candia +2 more
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Mediating the Scottish independence debate [PDF]
, 2015 In the six months leading up to the referendum vote on 18 September 2014 Scotland experienced a period of exceptionally heightened political discourse, a widespread form of political participation unusual in western liberal-democracies.
Law, Alex
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Safeguarding El Salvador’s Transition To Peace And Democracy: A View From The Cultural And Political Magazine Tendencias (1991-2000) [PDF]
, 2018 This article examines the role that the cultural and political magazine Tendencias (1991-2000) played in El Salvador’s transition to peace. Specifically, it studies how Tendencias’s contributors tackled some of the key issues of the transition—the ...
Buiza, Nanci
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Political Autonomy and Independence: Theory and Experimental Evidence [PDF]
We study the process by which subordinated regions of a country can obtain a more favourable political status. In our theoretical model a dominant and a dominated region first interact through a voting process that can lead to different degrees of ...
Jordi Brandts, Klaus Abbink
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A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History [PDF]
Neither economics nor political science can explain the process of modern social development. The fact that developed societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that the connection between economics and politics must be a ...
Barry R. Weingast +2 more
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Mongolia and 14th Dalai Lama in Late 20th and 21st Centuries
Научный диалогThis study explores the role of the Dalai Lama institution in the political processes of Mongolia, both from a historical perspective and in the context of contemporary events.
V. A. Rodionov, O. Khatanbold
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Building Sustainable Partnerships to Promote Women's Political Representation in Southeast Asian Region [PDF]
, 2012 In a democratic country, gender equality is an element that needs to be guaranteed by the government, particularly in political positions such as in government offices, political parties, and other decision-making institutions.
Adisti Ikayanti, Andrew Thornley
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Ambivalent Nature of Political Markets: Does It Undermine a Democracy?
Соціологічні студії, 2018 This article is an attempt to analyze the contradictions of political marketing as a theory and technology. Various aspects of scholarly debate analyzed and various problems associated with application of political marketing are highlighted.
М. А. Beznosov
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Globalization and the transformation of the national political space: Six european countries compared [PDF]
In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe.
Bornschier, Simon +5 more
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The Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods [PDF]
A large share of public funds is spent on private goods (education, health care, day care, etc.). This paper integrates two different approaches to the analysis of public provision of private goods.
Blomquist, Sören, Christiansen, Vidar
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