Browsing by Supervisor "Zirker, Daniel"
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Political reform in US states: Governors, legislators, and struggles over election redistricting law reform
(The University of Waikato, 2021)In the United States, the decentralization of power over redistricting to the states has prevented the emergence of a national compromise between the major political parties to mutually reject election manipulation through ... -
Political parties, strongmen and populism: Why Jair Bolsonaro won the 2018 Brazilian election
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil in 2018 is an example of the recent global phenomenon of election victories by right-wing populist leaders, such as Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, and Viktor Orbán. ... -
The rise of homicides on the Baja California Peninsula in 2017: A bloody mess
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The Baja California Peninsula (BCP) is situated in the northwest of Mexico and consists of two major Mexican states, Baja California and Baja California Sur. For decades the peninsula has remained relatively quiet in the ... -
The Zapatista rebellion and Mexican reluctance to repress a dissident group
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Mexican dirty wars, the disappearances of thousands, the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre, the 1971 Corpus Christi Massacre, genocidal plans, kidnappings, tortures and mass graves: Mexico has a long and well-documented history of ... -
Indonesia’s great power and superpower environment in the post Cold War era: A study of Indonesia’s search for a dynamic regional equilibrium
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Against the backdrop of regional transformation, during President Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) period of office from 2004 – 2014, Indonesian officials have frequently expressed an expectation of a peaceful region through ... -
Can Justice be Traded for Democracy?
(The University of Waikato, 2017)For much of the Twentieth Century, the transition processes of democratizing states have followed a familiar pattern. Outgoing authoritarian regimes relinquished power after extracting the promise of amnesty from the ... -
Income Inequality, Voter Turnout and Employment in 2005 – 2014 Elections in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2017)As Robert Dahl put it in 1971, ―a key characteristic of a democracy is the continued responsiveness of the government to the preferences of its citizens, considered as political equals‖. Democracy is thought to break down ... -
Democratization, Press Freedom and Corruption Scandals in Vietnam: Causal Relations?
(University of Waikato, 2015)Vietnam started a renewal process named “Doi moi” in 1986 to liberalize its economy and improve its status in the world. This process has resulted in the country’s fast economic development with GDP growth of between 6 and ... -
A New Form of Authoritarianism? Rethinking Military Politics in Post-1999 Nigeria
(University of Waikato, 2015)Despite the vast research that has been done on the Nigerian military, virtually all of these studies have failed to critically examine the accepted role of the military in the democratising phase. This is important because ... -
Engaging Corrupt Somalia
(University of Waikato, 2014)This thesis addresses a fundamental question, which is particularly relevant in the Somali context; why has corruption remained endemic in international aid programmes in Somalia? In researching and analysing this question ... -
Coping with Vulnerability: State Resilience to Armed Conflict in Guinea
(University of Waikato, 2014)The aim of this study is to explain why peace has prevailed in Guinea despite the presence of unfavourable conditions. Guinea exhibits many of the major risk factors commonly associated with the onset of civil war and/or ... -
International Climate Change Governance: Issues of Democracy, Institutions and the Media
(University of Waikato, 2014)The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was established in 1992 to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The ... -
State, Civil Society and Political Change: The Dialectics of Democratisation in Nigeria
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis is a dialectical analysis of democratisation in Nigeria focusing especially on the dynamics of social forces operating within the terrains of state and civil society. It revisits the structural link between ... -
Military Regimes, Political Power and Human Rights Violations in Postcolonial Algeria
(University of Waikato, 2014)Following Algeria’s bloody war of independence, a new, revolutionary military establishment gradually formed out of several largely independent revolutionary units, stationed mostly on Algeria’s borders. It soon expanded ... -
The atomisation of the American Left: The unravelling of collectivism in protesting United States’ Foreign Policy
(University of Waikato, 2012)This thesis addresses the question: has the rise of postmodernism and the New Social Movements essentially undermined and “individuated” the traditionally collectivist American Left? The thesis seeks to address the shift ...
