Browsing by Subject "Democracy"
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Arab Public Opinion on Political Systems : A Comparative Study Using Principal Component Analysis
( Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies , 2022 , Article)The 2019–2020 Arab Opinion Index (AOI) offers interesting data on how responsive Arab societies are toward political regimes. Our study used principal component analysis to evaluate trends in public opinion regarding the ... -
Civic life and democratic citizenship in Qatar: Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey
( Brill Academic , 2013 , Article)The present study examines the Arab nation that has remained least affected by the regional upheaval that has gripped much of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of 2011: the Gulf state of Qatar. Using ... -
Corruption and Economic Development: New Evidence from the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)This paper analyses the role of economic development in curbing corruption by focusing on political and economic freedoms for a sample of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries over the period 1984-2013. In ... -
Democracy and Banking Stability: Is the Relationship U-Shaped?
( Springer , 2022 , Article)This study addresses the impact of democracy on the stability of the banking system for a sample of 114 countries over the period 2000-2017. Our findings offer strong evidence for a U-shaped relationship between democracy ... -
Does ICT promote democracy similarily in developed and developing countries? A linear and nonlinear panel threshold framework
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper assesses the impact of ICT adoption on democracy for a panel of 70 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider two different measures of ICT and check for the stability of the relationship for different ... -
Media-ting democratic literacies
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Re-visioning Germany's democracy promotion in the Arab World
( GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2022 , Article)This article briefly investigates German democracy promotion in the Arab world since the 2011 popular uprisings and revolutions. It seeks a parsimonious discourse analysis, looking at Germany's "democracy-promotion speak" ... -
The Arab uprisings and the united states: The dichotomy between balancing stability and upholding commitment to democracy
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)The Arab Spring, a revolutionary movement for democracy that swept across the Arab Middle East in 2010, has contributed to the downfall of several oppressive authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. The ... -
WEALTH AND THE PERSISTENCE OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE GULF STATES: ECONOMIC PRIVILEGE OR A CULTURAL PHENOMENON?
( Foundation for Good Politics , 2021 , Article)During the Arab Spring the idea of the Middle East as an authoritarian exception appeared to be no longer valid. Yet the Gulf states seem to be safe from political turmoil. This paper examines the persistence of authoritarianism ... -
الانتخابات البلدية والتطور الديمقراطي في دولة قطر
( Qatar University , 2000 , Article)