Sökning: "Uncommon Democracies"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Uncommon Democracies.

1. 1. Democratizing Democracy Indices: Towards a More Inclusive Measure

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Författare :Megan Kathleen Baxter; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Several large, international institutes and think tanks, like Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), International IDEA, and Freedom House, among others, focus on measuring and tracking government regime types and political environments, primarily through measuring democracies. Yet for all of their sophistication and massive datasets, there are misalignments between democracy scores and human rights for groups that are marginalized in many countries. LÄS MER

3. 2. Explaining One-Party Dominance - The Case of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Sebastian Carl Mika Härén; [2010]
   Nyckelord :One-party Dominance; Japan; LDP; Hegemony; Uncommon Democracies; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : With the puzzle of one-party dominance still looming large, I seek to shed some light on which factors might be considered as explanatory to the long period of hegemony of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Using existing theories on one-party dominance I examine and argue for Japan’s historical and cultural heritage, the pragmatic flexibility of the LDP, the failure of opposition parties, the 1955 electoral system and the Japanese press clubs as possible explanatory factors for one-party dominance in Japan. LÄS MER