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The Politics of Judicial Review in South Africa
South Africa’s turn to liberal constitutionalism has attracted wide interest from comparative politics scholars.
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World of the Right
Abrahamsen, R., Drolet, J.-F., Williams, M. C., Vucetic, S., Narita, K., & Gheciu, A. 2024. World of the Right. Cambridge University Pre...
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Coups and the dynamics of media freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian, Andreas Freytag and Jerg Gutmann. 2022. Coups and the dynamics of media freedom. Economic Modelling, 116(2), 106025. h...
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Criminalizing History: Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past in Germany, Poland, Rwanda, Turkey and Ukraine
Bachmann, Klaus and Christian Garuka (Eds.). 2020. Criminalizing History: Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past i...
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Politik in Polen
Bachmann, Klaus. 2019. Politik in Polen. Verlag W. Kohlhammer. https://www.kohlhammer.de/wms/instances/KOB/appDE/Sozialwissenschaften/Politi...
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Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2019. Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press . https://glob...
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Aid donors, democracy and the developmental state in Ethiopia
Brown, Stephen and Jonathan Fisher. 2019. Aid donors, democracy and the developmental state in Ethiopia. Democratization, 27(2), 185–203. ht...
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Democracy under Scrutiny: Elites, citizens, cultures
Ursula J van Beek (editor). 2010. Democracy under Scrutiny: Elites, citizens, cultures. Barbara Budrich Publishers (Leverkusen Opladen), 300...
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Democracy Under Stress: The global crisis and beyond? SUNMedIA Press
Ursula J van Beek (editor). 2012. Democracy Under Stress: The global crisis and beyond? SUNMedIA Press.
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The Impact of the Great Recession on Regime Change: Economic and Political Interactions
Berg-Schlosser, Dirk. 2015. The Impact of the Great Recession on Regime Change: Economic and Political Interactions. Taiwan Journal of Democ...
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The Emergence of Democracy: Forces and Counter-Forces
Berg-Schlosser, Dirk. 2015. The Emergence of Democracy: Forces and Counter-Forces. Government and Opposition 50 (03): 336–63. doi:10.1017/go...
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Vergleichende Methoden in Der Transformationsforschung: Politische Kultur
Berg-Schlosser, Dirk. 2015. Vergleichende Methoden in Der Transformationsforschung: Politische Kultur. In Handbuch Transformationsforschung,...
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Illiberale Demokratien
Bachmann, Klaus, and Dominik Héjj. 2018. Illiberale Demokratien. Osteuropa, 68(3–5), 127–147. https://www.zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/201...
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Viel Feind, viel Ehr
Bachmann, Klaus. 2018. Viel Feind, viel Ehr. Osteuropa, 68(3–5), 413–434. https://www.zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2018/3-5/viel-feind-vie...
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Accepting the political face of international criminal justice
Bachmann, Klaus and Aleksandar Fatić. 2019. Accepting the political face of international criminal justice. International Journal of Law, Cr...
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STIAS Series Volume 2: Democracy Under Stress: The global crisis and beyond
Democracy Under Stress: The global crisis and beyond Ursula J van Beek and Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (Editors) SUN PRESS (2012, 227 pp) ISBN: 9...
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Opposition in African Politics: The Case of Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya
This research examines the idea of opposition in African politics against the backdrop of problems inherent in the democratization process in contemporary Africa with a view to analyzing their dimensions and implications for the development of the continent and her peoples.
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The Impact of the Global Recession on Party Policy Preferences
The project continues and wants to bring to an end a project that has been started at STIAS in March 2013.
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Post-apartheid state engagement with customary structures
This project will contribute to a greater comparative understanding of state-customary knowledge and its challenges in Africa by way of a study of the experience of the post-apartheid State in this regard.
