Death or Dearth of Democracy in Zimbabwe?

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origin of youth movements in iran: generation gap or democracy

the present paper aims to highlight the origin of the youth movements in iran during the intervening years of 1971 and 2002. during these three decades, youth movement was one of the important social movements in the political arena of the country. while explaining the origin of the movement, two changes i.e. 'generation gap' and 'democracy' have been studied and it was found that the origin of...

Democracy or Dictatorship: The Effect of Political Regime Type on Economic Institutions

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of political regime types, including democracy and dictatorship, on the quality of economic institutions as the main variables in the formation of the economic growth process. The political power is distributed among a wide range of interest groups in mature democracies, while it is concentrated in the hands of the elected executive in init...

Praying until Death: Apostolicism, Delays and Maternal Mortality in Zimbabwe

Religion affects people's daily lives by solving social problems, although it creates others. Female sexual and reproductive health are among the issues most affected by religion. Apostolic sect members in Zimbabwe have been associated with higher maternal mortality. We explored apostolic beliefs and practices on maternal health using 15 key informant interviews in 5 purposively selected distri...

Death colonized: historical adult mortality in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).

Using historical census reports from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1901 to 1962, this article discusses some of the socio-political forces that influenced the collection of census data during the colonial period, ft evaluates the underlying attitudes in which race, colonial interests and apartheid define the quality and quantity of mortality data collected, and how in turn mortality data were 'c...