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Democratic Opposition Parties And Democratic Outcomes In Hybrid Regimes, Jeremy M. Ladd
Democratic Opposition Parties And Democratic Outcomes In Hybrid Regimes, Jeremy M. Ladd
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Leading up to and following the end of the Cold War a new wave of democratisation commenced in Sub-Saharan Africa and around the world which, in both cases, has been characterized by “blocked transitions,” the “rise of competitive authoritarianism,” and the proliferation of hybrid regimes. This thesis is primarily concerned with “democratic” outcomes within these hybrid regimes. Excluding data from prior to the end of the Cold War in global investigations of democracy, this thesis utilizes a temporally truncated dataset to reanalyse dominant theories of democratisation both at the global and regional (Sub-Saharan Africa) level, finding that when contaminating effects …
Aboriginal Fractions: Enumerating Identity In Taiwan, Jennifer A. Liu
Aboriginal Fractions: Enumerating Identity In Taiwan, Jennifer A. Liu
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Notions of identity in Taiwan are configured in relation to numbers. I examine the polyvalent capacities of enumerative technologies in both the production of ethnic identities and claims to polit- ical representation and justice. By critically historicizing the manner in which Aborigines in Taiwan have been, and continue to be, constructed as objects and subjects of scientific knowledge production through technologies of measuring, I examine the genetic claim made by some Taiwanese to be ‘‘fractionally’’ Aboriginal. Numbers and techniques of measuring are used ostensibly to know the Aborigines, but they are also used to construct a genetically unique Taiwanese identity …