This thesis is a collection of three independent essays on the causes and consequences of local elections in non-democratic regimes. The first essay examines the political consequences of local elections on the first democratic election after the fall of an autocratic regime. My theoretical analysis highlights that officials that were appointed by upper levels of government have a stronger incentive to continue to use local patronage networks to signal their alignment to upper levels of government
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Bomb disposal is the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. Bomb disposal is an all encompassing term to describe the separate‚ but interrelated functions in the military fields of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD)‚ and the public safety roles of Public Safety Bomb Disposal (PSBD) and the Bomb Squad. Many shells‚ bombs and munitions fail to explode‚ leaving them around the battlefield after the fighting is
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The name was given to the poem because the poet shows that the speaker is studying the poem. This poem "A contemplation upon flowers by Henry King" is about a man who wants the flowers to teach him to become humble. But instead the flowers taught him three lessons. His first lesson that he learnt was to become brave and to remember the place where the flower came from‚ as referred to line 1‚ 5-6 " Brave flowers that I could gallant it like you"‚ " You are not proud you know your birth for your embroidered
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government official) or indirectly (by electing a representative). The word democracy originates from Greek roots meaning “people” and “power”. Two basic forms of democracy are direct democracy and representative democracy. Direct democracy is when all eligible citizens have active and direct participation in the decision making for politics. One example of this is the government of Athens in ancient Greece. Representative democracy is when the whole body of citizens remain the higher power but political
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communication systems enhance democracy by offering greater access and participation to citizens than traditional media. Discuss. Digital communication systems have largely enhanced democracy‚ offering greater access and participation to many‚ but not all‚ citizens. This essay will discuss both sides of the argument‚ beginning by examining the notion of new‚ digital media as compared to old‚ traditional media‚ the concepts which make such media “new”‚ and how this adds to democracy and greater participation
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Pursuit of happiness Facebook http://www.facebook.com/minnievalentin Twitter https://twitter.com/Minnievlntn Random thoughts last year http://pamandmicks.tumblr.com/tagged/366 Project 365 http://pamandmicks.tumblr.com/tagged/365 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <!--FIRST TIME BY JAHRENESIS--> <!--you can edit
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The university of Tripoli The English department Postgraduate program The fall semester 2012 Course in Contrastive analysis A research on what is Contrastive analysis Extracted by Abo-ajela.M. Attamimi Academically supervised by Dr. Habeeb Alramaash Table of contents 1- What is Contrastive Analysis? Page 3 2- Types of Contrastive analysis Page 4-5 3- History and development
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Word list Here is a list of most of the new words in the units of New Headway Plus Intermediate Student’s Book. adj = adjective adv = adverb US = American English coll = colloquial conj = conjunction pl = plural prep = preposition pron = pronoun pp = past participle n = noun v = verb Unit 1 achievement n /əˈtʃi:vmənt/ advertisement n /ədˈvɜ:tɪsmənt/ afford (can’t) v /əˈfɔ:d/ amazing adj /əˈmeɪzɪŋ/ ambassador n /aemˈbaesədə(r)/ amount n /əˈmaʊnt/ ancient adj /ˈeɪnʃənt/ apologize v /əˈpɒlədʒaɪz/
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pg1 The Three Items That Mean the Most to me The short story "Medicine Bag" by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve is about a boy named Martin who has a family tradition that passes a medicine bag down from generation to generation to keep family culture. A medicine bag is a traditional North American Indian container or bag for items of supernatural or great power.I have created a medicine bag that symbolizes my family’s history throughout the years
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Computer [pic] A computer is a programmable machine that receives input‚ stores and automatically manipulates data‚ and provides output in a useful format. The first electronic computers were developed in the mid-20th century (1940–1945). Originally‚ they were the size of a large room‚ consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PCs).[1] Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines‚ and occupy
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