... democratization show- as named by Mcfaul (2002), outcomes differ from state to state and today not all qualify as full or partial 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 ... it before Slovakia and the Czech Republic on the scale. Slovakia achieved its strongest performance of horizontal accountability during the governance of Prime Minister Iveta Radičová. She implemented a ...

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... eighteenth century, in this period there was no ruling unifying idea in men's minds. The impulse of the empire had failed until the Emperor was no more than one of a number of competing princes, and the dream of Christendom also was a fading dream. The developing "powers" jostled one another throughout the world; but for a time it seemed that they might jostle ... reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire and explain the probable causes of our actual security. "The Romans were ignorant of the extent of their danger, and the number of their enemies. Beyond the Rhine and ...

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... own national budget. While in the European CMEA-states many workmen were needed, Vietnam had a huge ''available'' labour reserve. Minor economic growth and the rising populations increase caused a constantly rising number of unemployment, so working abroad seemed to be the only solution to the Vietnamese government. Likewise these workers were seen as an important source of income for the state, because ... ...

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