Sökning: "non-democracy"
Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade ordet non-democracy.
1. Slöjans revolution – Irans väg mot demokrati? : En kvalitativ fallstudie om demokratiseringsprocessen i Iran och dess förutsättningar för demokrati
Kandidat-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapSammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to attempt to answer if, and if so, which phase of the democratization process Iran is in, and what the country’s prerequisites for democracy look like. The study is a qualitative case study and is mainly based on Dankwart Rustow’s transition theory, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison’s social movement theory and Sharon E. LÄS MER
2. Social media and (non)democracy : The analysis of daily Facebook use by political opposition in Belarus
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/JMKSammanfattning : The recent growth of social media and other internet technologies is believed to diminish the control of political elites over information flows and enable citizens to be active participants of political processes. Practice shows, however, that this general tendency acquires different forms in different geopolitical contexts. LÄS MER
3. E-Government in Singapore: strengthening political control over society
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolSammanfattning : Developing an e-government in a state has become a new trend in the world of political reform. However, e-government itself as a way of public service digitalization does not incline that political regime of the state will be democratic and inclusive. LÄS MER
4. Chinese (in)action: Seeing breathing as a means to understand citizens’ (in)action
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : Civic engagement plays an important role in governmental transparency – so how does transparency work in a non-democracy like China where the political and juridical systems repress public participation? Through quantitative methods this paper examines how a selection of citizens in Shanghai, China, make use of environmental information made available through the Chinese government’s Open Environmental Information (OEI) transparency measures. The findings indicate that information on air quality is only utilized by a small percentage of the research sample, while the majority do not adhere to warnings of heath risks associated with smog. LÄS MER
5. Democratic Peace A theoretical discussion on Democratic Peace Theory and Historical Context Dependency
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : In this dissertation I take a closer look upon the theory of Democratic Peace. In what theoretical context is Democratic Peace analyzed and what kind of explanations are in use when democratic peace is being discussed? From this starting point, the mechanism that produces stable peace between liberal democracies is primarily concluded as an important feature in the analysis. LÄS MER