Good, K. (1996) Authoritarian Liberalism: A Defining Characteristic of Botswana. Journal of Contemporary African Studies 14: pp. 29-51Good, Realizing Democracy in Botswana and Kenneth Good, “Authoritarian Liberalism: A Defining Characteristic of Botswana,” Journal of Contemporary African Studies , ...
Defining Democracy: Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York CityLocal experimentation with electoral systems is more likely in a federal polity than in unitary states where centrally imposed uniformity is characteristic. Hence electoral reformers in the United States have been able to ...
For instance, in the Native American checklist, the following criteria are included: The myth of "discovery" is blatantly Eurocentric. . . . War and violence were not characteristic of Native nations. . . . The Citizenship Act of 1924 was not a benevolent action . ....
which is hypothesised to have a positive impact on the improvement of citizen’s economic welfare. Next to the model itself, an important contribution of this work is the rigorous definition of the concept of rural smartness
Indeed, bound- ary crossing with respect to knowledge production has become the defining characteristic of our age (Klein, 1996, p. 1). Boundaries exist in many forms, including political, social, economic, reli- gious, and ethnic. Surrounded by boundaries, we are mostly unaware of their ...
--is the principal characteristic of the debate that is raging among black intellectuals, it is also its principal metaphor. For all their differences, what Cornel West and Molefi Asante, Randall Kennedy and Houston Baker agree on is that who they are cannot be reduced to just race--that ...
The necessary degree of conformity with these criteria, however, is not clear. In human rights decisions, the Canadian Supreme Court has also elucidated what it regards to be the cardinal features of the secular state in a manner reminiscent of the ‘characteristic’ approach.74 However, in ...
Aditionally, the study explores the hypothesis of a specific democratic model, with a particular model of organization and functioning of the political parties, witch is characteristic solely to Central and Eastern Europe – a pattern in its own right, distinct from the...