... although political instability, ethnic disunity and bureaucratic corruptions still persists in Nigeria, like many other democracies in the world. On the other hand, despite China's three decades of economic reform and global trends of democratization, the political regime of China remains stubbornly authoritarian. China's historical legacy of over 2,000 years of centralized authoritarian rule has buttressed the ... policy making, thus making China a "competitive oligarchy " on the basis of figure 1.2 of Dahl's "Polyarchy" book. In conclusion, upon personal use of Dahl's classifications i...

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... poliarchies. Given this new phenomena, a vast number of new research is conducted on these countries to determine what the reasons are for different outcomes of democratization. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the democratic performance of three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- of the post-communist region of Central Eastern Europe, to lay the ground for further research into ... and the right to be educated in their mother tongue. (newspaper) Moreover, as an indicator of high level of inclusion, the say of the citizenry in decision making about cultural...

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