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Communist and post-communist states, and path dependent political economy

Robinson, Neil (University of Limerick, Department of Politics & Public Administration, 2003)

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Economic complexity, regime transition and sectoral forces: the impact of trade unions on democratization in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia

McCorley, Ciara (University of Limerick, 2015)

This thesis interrogates uncertainty in transitional politics in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It questions why some countries transition to democracy and some stagnate or revert to authoritarianism. To address the ...
Explaining Soviet collapse

Robinson, Neil (2017)

Explaining the collapse of the Soviet system is different to explaining the causes of perestroika. The causes of perestroika are generally agreed upon: reform was initiated because of economic decline, Soviet loss of ...
The political origins of Russia's culture wars

Robinson, Neil (2014)

This paper looks at the 'cultural turn' in Russian politics that took place after 2011 and explains it as a 'rhetoric of reaction' that was introduced to deal with a crisis of neo-patrimonialism in Russia.
Russian patrimonial capitalism and the international financial Crisis

Robinson, Neil (Taylor & Francis, 2011)

The international financial crisis brought Russia's run of economic growth to a halt and has given a greater sense of urgency to President Medvedev's calls for modernization. This, however, does not mean that crisis has ...
State, regime and Russian political development

Robinson, Neil (University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2008)

The Russian state at the end of the Yeltsin period was supposedly so emasculated that it had no potential to revive itself. But revive itself it has in some measure and this requires some explanation. This paper tries to ...
States and conflict in the former USSR

Robinson, Neil (University of Limerick, Department of Politics & Public Administration, 2010)

Many would characterise the international politics of the former Soviet Union as being fraught with competition and beset by weakness, war and chaos associated with contestations between nations and identities but this has ...
Transfer of Master of Public Information Administration [MPA] program and implementation in China

Di, Hu (University of Limerick, 2018)

Current comparative studies exploring Chinese administrative reforms within the broader international context of administration tend to compare Chinese administrative reforms with industrial democracies. In other words, ...
Why ‘Return to Europe?’ Exploring public opinion to European union membership in the Visegrad countries 2002-2004

Robinson, Neil; Halpin, Brendan; Andersen, Annelin (University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2010)

This study investigates public opinion formation in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary between 2002-2004 using Zaller’s model of opinion formation and Gabel and Palmer’s utilitarian hypothesis. The study has ...

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