Managing the Environment in Theatrical Creativity for Economic and Democratic Survival

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chijioke Agbasiere
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Survival

Safeguarding Democracy: Powersharing and Democratic Survival

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN A.T. GRAHAM ◽  
MICHAEL K. MILLER ◽  
KAARE W. STRØM
Keyword(s):  
Minority Group ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Civilian Control ◽  
Electoral Accountability ◽  
Emerging Democracies ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Ethnic Quotas ◽  
Democratic Survival ◽  
Constitutional Protections

Democracy is often fragile, especially in states recovering from civil conflict. To protect emerging democracies, many scholars and practitioners recommend political powersharing institutions, which aim to safeguard minority group interests. Yet there is little empirical research on whether powersharing promotes democratic survival, and some concern that it limits electoral accountability. To fill this gap, we differentiate between inclusive, dispersive, and constraining powersharing institutions and analyze their effects on democratic survival from 1975 to 2015 using a global dataset. We find sharp distinctions across types of powersharing and political context. Inclusive powersharing, such as ethnic quotas, promotes democratic survival only in post-conflict settings. In contrast, dispersive institutions such as federalism tend to destabilize post-conflict democracies. Only constraining powersharing consistently facilitates democratic survival regardless of recent conflict. Institution-builders and international organizations should therefore prioritize institutions that constrain leaders, including independent judiciaries, civilian control of the armed forces, and constitutional protections of individual and group rights.

Democratic quality and democratic survival 1

2018 ◽  
pp. 72-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán ◽  
Noah Smith
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Quality ◽  
Democratic Survival

Democracy for All: Conceptualizing and Measuring Egalitarian Democracy

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 595-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sigman ◽  
Staffan I. Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Democratic Survival

Although equality figures prominently in many foundational theories of democracy, liberal and electoral conceptions of democracy have dominated empirical political science research on topics like political regimes, democratization and democratic survival. This paper develops the concept of egalitarian democracy as a regime that provides de facto protection of rights and freedoms equally across the population, distributes resources in a way that enables meaningful political participation for all citizens and fosters an environment in which all individuals and social groups can influence political and governing processes. Using new indicators from the Varieties of Democracy project, the paper develops and presents measures of these important concepts, demonstrates their relationship to existing measures, and illustrates their utility for advancing the study of democracy in ways that more fully embrace the richness of democratic theory.

The role of actors and institutions: The difficulties of democratic survival in Mali and Niger

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Moestrup
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Survival

scholarly journals The determinants of democracy: a sensitivity analysis

Public Choice ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 185 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Espen Geelmuyden Rød ◽  
Carl Henrik Knutsen ◽  
Håvard Hegre
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Empirical Measures ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Political Protests ◽  
Natural Resources Education ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Democratic Survival

Abstract Numerous studies—operating with diverse model specifications, samples and empirical measures—suggest different economic, social, cultural, demographic, institutional and international determinants of democracy. We distinguish between democratization and democratic survival and test the sensitivities of 67 proposed determinants by varying the control variable set, democracy measure, and sample time period. Furthermore, we go beyond existing sensitivity analyses and unpack the aggregate results by analyzing how theoretically motivated control variables affect sensitivity for two prominent determinants in the democracy literature: income and Islam. Overall, our results reveal a far larger number of robust determinants of democratization than of democratic survival. For democratic survival, the only robust factors are income and a law-abiding bureaucracy. In addition, our results highlight uncertainty surrounding the relationship between income and democratization, but show that broader development processes enhance the chances of democratization. Moreover, chances of democratization are lower in countries with large Muslim populations, but that relationship is sensitive to controlling for natural resources, education and neighborhood characteristics. Other results of the sensitivity analysis show that political protests, a democratic neighborhood, and the global proportion of democracies positively influence democratization, while natural resources, majoritarian systems, and long-tenured leaders make countries less likely to democratize.

Legal Institutions and Democratic Survival

2013 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Reenock ◽  
Jeffrey K. Staton ◽  
Marius Radean
Keyword(s):  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Democratic Survival

scholarly journals DEMOCRATIC SURVIVAL AND STABILITY: FROM LIPSET HYPOTHESIS TO ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
A.S. Akhremenko ◽  
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A.P. Petrov ◽  
I.B. Philippov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Democratic Survival
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