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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SUMMARY | A contract limiting a party from competing with a business after termination of employment or completion of a business sale.Found in some business contracts‚ noncompete agreements are designed to protect a business owner’s investment by restricting potential competition. Generally‚ businesses pursue these agreements in two instances: when hiring new employees‚ or when purchasing an established business. The noncompete agreement is a form of Restrictive Covenant‚ a clause that adds limitations
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(AGG) have you ever felt that we over use technology or that it has unseen effects on the brain‚ well you’re right and so where Ray Bradbury’s predictions about the future of technology. (BS-1) As americans we over use technology and spend most of our free time devoted to technology. (BS-2) In the book it has shown that being surrounded by technology has profound effects on the brain. (BS-3)It is scientifically proven that being engulfed in technology can affect memory and the ability to retain
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Non-fiction is one of the two main divisions in writing‚ the other form being fiction. Non-fiction is a story based on real facts and information . Non-fiction is a narrative‚ account‚ or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are believed by the author to be factual. These assertions and descriptions may or may not be accurate‚ and can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question‚ however‚ it is generally assumed that authors of such accounts believe them
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Non-violence is more effective than violence because it helps resolve arguments in a peaceful‚ not harmful way without causing any damage. Non-violence means the use of peaceful means‚ not force‚ to bring about political or social change. People will have to wait for a change‚ but it will be a better and greater change. To begin with‚ non-violence is the most effective method for change because it’s safer. Violence is putting people’s lives in danger. Safety is “safer” for everyone. Non-violence
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Students and Video Game Addiction December 13‚ 2012 By Anonymous Until the academic warning letter from my son’s college arrived home last December 23rd following his fall freshman term‚ he assured us that he was getting Bs in his classes. Confronted with this letter‚ he broke down in tears‚ admitted that he spent most of the last half of the semester playing an online computer game‚ and didn’t attend the final weeks of classes nor even sit for his exams. An activity that started out in high
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In Him Church Glendale‚ Arizona Non-Denominational Service Attendance Paper Religion 315 Non-denomination‚ the not denominational denomination. In the past couple of decades the rise in non-denominational churches has been increasing greatly and are said to be the second largest group of Protestants (Moore‚ 2011). It is said that most that break off and become apart of this fast growing belief come from a protestant upbringing. The study shows that more people are determining on where
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Non-repudiation It refers to one of the properties of cryptographic digital signatures that offer the possibility of proving whether a particular message has been digitally signed by the holder of a particular digital signature’s private key. A digital signature owner‚ who may like to deny a transaction maliciously‚ may always claim that his or her digital signature key was stolen by someone and that someone actually signed the digital transaction in question‚ thus not accepting/denying the transaction
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Non-violence Strategies in Israel/Palestine As the world is familiar with the on-going conflict between Israel and Palestine‚ and we are aware that the uproar between these two nations had been in the most extreme form. Judaism and Islam are two of the world’s oldest and largest monotheistic religions. These religions share a variety of customs‚ beliefs‚ and practices. At the same time‚ there are enough differences that make these two clash. Although there are many conflicts going on in this
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Nonconsequentialists figure out whether a demonstration is great or awful in view of the essential estimation of the demonstration itself. Non-consequentialists don’t have any respect of the results yet in the event that the expectations are correct or off-base. The fluctuation amongst consequentialists and nonconsequentialists is the consideration on the demonstration or the individual. The standards nonconsequentialists take after is that there are once in a while tenets to direct our ethical
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