Yuxuan (Carlos) Hua

Category: Political Science

  • Comparative Review of Democratic Preconditions

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    Both the development’s theory contended in Lipset (1959) and the social origin theory introduced in Moore (1966) and reviewed in Skocpol (1973) discuss on various preconditions of establishing democracies. This article will examine on the mechanisms to establish democracy that Lipset and Moore argued, as well as the evidence and comparative design that their studies…

  • Explanatory Leverage of the Development Theory

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    Various studies examine on how a country’s development can account for the survival and stability of its democracy. They connect different concepts and indicators of development with the persistence of democracies worldwide, testing their whether correlations or causations, or both, exist between the two.

  • Conceptual Distinction among Dictatorships

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    “Dictatorship” or “authoritarian regimes” is a residual category for political regimes (Svolik 2012: 20), meaning anything that cannot satisfy the definitions of democracy goes into this category as a dictatorship. Due to this nature, authoritarian regimes differ greatly from one another, with various shapes and sizes, and even demonstrates greater internal diversity than their distinction…

  • A Fatal Alliance

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    On 17 May 2018, three months after jointly winning the national elections, Nepal’s two major communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) announced their coalition into a unified Nepal Communist Party (NCP). Unlike most communist parties that gained power by violent means, the NCP and…

  • A Nonrewarding Escape

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    Nepal is now home to over 20,000 Tibetan refugees and descendants fleeing from the Chinese-controlled Tibetan Plateau, a majority of whom followed the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and became refugees in the 1960s. According to the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board and the U.S. Department of State, many of them integrate well into local…