'Catholic waves' of democratization? Roman Catholicism and its potential for democratization
In: Democratization, Band 16, Heft 6, S. 1093-1114
ISSN: 1743-890X
In: Democratization, Band 16, Heft 6, S. 1093-1114
ISSN: 1743-890X
In: Commonwealth & comparative politics, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 167
In: Politics & policy: a publication of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 353-370
ISSN: 1555-5623
Describes a Northwestern U course that centers on class discussions in three areas: 1) Democratization/democratization processes; 2) The development of governance in various contexts, including Third World countries & failed democracies; & 3) Alternative forms of governance like totalitarianism & authoritarianism. Student are required to produce an original & an empirical term paper of approximately 20 typed pages on some aspect of institutional building, & to present the class with an outline of their research. Adapted from the source document.
In: Studies in comparative international development, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 42
ISSN: 0039-3606
In: Perspectives on democratization
In: Democratization 16, no. 6 (December 2009), 1093-1114.
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In: Democratization, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 230
ISSN: 1351-0347
In: Democratization, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 235-237
ISSN: 1351-0347
In: Democratization, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 234-236
ISSN: 1351-0347
"While there is widespread agreement that the mass communications media play a potentially crucial role both in democratization and in ensuring democracy's survival, this insight remains remarkably under-researched or theorized. The essays especially commissioned for this volume together analyse differing aspects of the complex relationship between the media and democracy in a diverse range of national contexts."--Jacket
In: Journal of democracy, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 123-137
ISSN: 1045-5736
World Affairs Online
After World War II, democratization came into fashion as panacea for countries in transition. This trend continues to be an issue in the 21st century too. The implications of the transformation for public as well as private life are considerably different for women than for men. Studies have shown that even in democratic states gender inequality has been reinforced than effectively attenuated. Feminist theories take up the issue of female discrimination on a theoretical level and provide explanations and measures in order to erase these inequalities. Gender mainstreaming is an approach to address gender inequalities in practice. The European Union, as a community of values, promotes gender mainstreaming not only among its member states, but also for its candidate states in the context of external democracy promotion. This paper examines the current gender initiatives in Serbia which is currently an EU candidate country. In fact, there are many gender activities form different civil society actors and NGOs around Serbia. The positivist feminist theories are more apt to explain the current gender activities. The post-structuralist theories mainly deal with micro situations. Therefore, it is difficult to apply these perspectives in a study on the overall gender situation in a specific country. By contrast, these theories could be applied for studying micro situations within a particular country. Accordingly, the theory has implications on the research design for such a study. A study based on post-structuralist theory would be based on ethnography rather than statistical data and a literature review.
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In: Democratization, Band 11, Heft 5, S. 235-237
ISSN: 1351-0347
In: Democratization, Band 16, Heft 6, S. 1093-1114
ISSN: 1351-0347
In: Economics & politics, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 259-278
ISSN: 1468-0343
We analyze the process of democratization in a polity with groups that are divided along ethnic as well as economic lines. We show that: (i) the presence of ethnic minorities, in general, makes peaceful democratic transitions less likely; (ii) minorities suffer from discriminatory policies less in democracies with intermediate levels of income inequality; and (iii) in new democracies with low levels of income inequality, politics is divided along ethnic lines, and at greater levels of inequality economic cleavages predominate.