Kooistra, Siebren (2022) Civil Liberties in Personalising Autocracies - How personalism degrades civil liberties by disempowering repressors. Bachelor thesis, Sociology.
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Abstract
This thesis investigates the way personalism (e.g., Geddes et al., 2018) affects four civil liberties. I theorise greater personalism to decrease freedom of expression through limiting perceived coup threat, decrease freedom of assembly because the dictator has less need for the general population to monitor the elite, and lower protection of life and physical integrity and freedom of movement because the competence of coercive institutions degrades. I test these hypotheses using multi-level (random intercept) models and find that more personalist countries have slightly lower civil liberties. The competence of coercive institutions operationalised as the rigour and impartiality of the public administration might mediate the relation between personalism both protection of life and physical integrity and freedom of movement, and possibly the relations to other civil liberties. My findings seem in line with Frantz et al. (2019), but substantively weak results and problems in accounting for dependence structures restrict my conclusions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Dijkstra, J. |
| Degree programme: | Sociology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Sociology] |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2022 12:42 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jul 2022 12:42 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/804 |
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