Sökning: "parliamentary systems"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade orden parliamentary systems.
1. Threatening and Appropriate Bodies in Nation Building: Paths to the World’s 1st Female Parliamentary Majority in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Sammanfattning : While Rwanda first attracted the world’s attention for the genocide that took place in 1994, 16 years later the country is capturing interest because it now has the highest number of women in its parliament than in any other country in the world. After the first post-genocide legislative elections, in 2003, about 49% of elected legislators in the lower house of Parliament were women. LÄS MER
2. Voters' Perceptions of Party Politics - A Multilevel Approach
Sammanfattning : Modern representative democracies are often described as government by the consent of the governed rather than government by the people. Elections play a central role in this context and several theorists of modern democracy have struggled to determine the circumstances under which effective political representation can exist. LÄS MER
3. The Heart and Soul of the Party : Candidate Selection in Ghana and Africa
Sammanfattning : The ambition of this book is to shed light on the power dynamics within African political parties through studying how different parties select their candidates for parliamentary elections. Having control over who should represent the party in elections is often considered an important factor in the distribution of power. LÄS MER
4. Frihetstidens politiska praktik : Nätverk och offentlighet 1746–1766
Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with the organization of political practice in Sweden 1746–1766. It focuses on the clergy and how they mobilized political activities before and during the meetings of the Diet. LÄS MER
5. The tug-of-war between presidents and prime ministers : semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe
Sammanfattning : Presidential power and constitutional issues are at the very core of recent popular upheavals in the former Soviet republics, as demonstrated by the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004, and similar protests in Georgia in 2003 and in Kyrgyzstan in 2005. After the demise of the Soviet Union, these countries opted for a particular form of semi-presidentialism, here referred to as president-parliamentary. LÄS MER
