The media upholds democracy and rights of mass people in the contemporary globe, and it is regarded as the fourth estate of a state. It is known to all that freedom of press is a fundamental right of citizens in a democracy. This fundamental right is being questioned by world go…
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This study concerns itself with the moral economy of history education, or a system of dissemination of values and moral sentiments within a national community through the teaching of history in schools. This system prescribes which emotions are the most appropriate to feel rega…
This thesis examines Democratic and Republican party platforms over the 1980–2016 period in a content analysis to test claims of partisanship increasing on identity lines in American politics. As a key issue facing democracies in recent years, polarization has coincided with cha…
Despite the end of apartheid in 1994 and the advent of democracy; the historical legacies of apartheid remain vivid in a post-apartheid society and inequality has worsened (IMF, 2020). As such, education is seen by many as a tool to address the persistent inequalities in South A…
I was born at the beginning of democracy, but grew up at a time where Ghana was ruled over by a military government in the early 1990’s, until finally a civilian was president for the first time in over twenty years. Prior to this period in our political history, the country was…
My dissertation offers a novel understanding of democratic subjectivity. It ultimately argues that the digitalization of everyday practices and the public sphere reveals the constitution of collective subjectivity. Rather than analyzing the actions and words of elites, I focus o…
This thesis examines the role of civil society in Egypt and argues that it was central to the success of the 2011 revolution that ended in the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. I will discuss the development of civil society under Mubarak and demonstrate its strength. In unders…
Saudi Arabia continues to be an anomaly for democratic researchers because of its assumed vast wealth. It also continues to be a hot bed for radical Islamist rhetoric. Oil’s relationship with democracy asserts that the presence of the former prevents that latter by mere happenst…
Michigan's emergency manager law raises many questions about the nature of American democracy. The law specifically targets financially troubled municipal governments for state take over. The demographics of the cities where an emergency manager has been installed have been over…
The political reforms in1998 has brought about changes in the social and political dynamics including the increase in the numbers of political parties and candidates competing in all levels of legislative and executive elections in Indonesia. This dissertation examines the facto…
In the years preceding the Third Wave of democracy, the prevailing belief was that democracy in Africa will not flourish unless it delivers the crucial economic goods its citizens live and die for. In an area of the world where poverty is highlighted, the individual pursuit of i…
While the notion that civil society organizations can democratize authoritarian regimes from below has become an article of faith among many policy makers and democracy promoters, some area experts warn that practitioners and advocates should not overestimate civil society's dem…
Several recent studies indicate that revolutions of non-violent civil resistance lead to more democratic and peaceful political transitions than either violent revolutions or elite-led political transitions. However, this general trend has not been disaggregated to explain the m…
This dissertation is a collection of three essays which examine issues at the intersection of international economics, political economy, and macroeconomics. A common theme which emerges in the subsequent chapters is a reliance on intuitive models of economies populated by ratio…
This research explores the transformative potential and effect of democratic education as an alternative to mainstream hegemonic education. It examines and compares two unique schools in two diverse communities: The one is a bilingual (Spanish and English) multicultural public e…
Do new information and communication technologies (ICTs) empower repressive regimes at the expense of civil society, or vice versa? For example, does access to the Internet and mobile phones alter the balance of power between repressive regimes and civil society? These questions…
In this dissertation, I examine the reasons for differences in electoral institutions and party development in new democracies. I investigate why political leaders sometimes choose candidate-centered electoral rules during democratization, which tend to foster personalistic part…
This dissertation examines the links between electoral reform and political party system development in new democracies where iterated reforms are increasingly common, requiring an understanding of their causes and short-term consequences. It examines this relationship in detail…
The United Nations (UN) talks a lot about democratization. The Secretary-General (UNSG) declares it a priority, and the Security Council and General Assembly resolve to support new and restored democracies. However, action does not always follow. The UN has an Electoral Assistan…