AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate the didactic and social leadership in parent education groups based on a parent perspective, and to conceptualise parent experiences of the leader roles in these groups. BACKGROUND Leadership in parent education groups has been associated with a lack of confidence in one's ability to function in that role. Research on how it can be delivered to produce a fav...

In a bid to address poor academic performance among students in Jinja City primary schools, this study looked into how students' was affected by school leadership styles within the theoretical framework of Path-Goal theory leadership. The goals were to: 1) comprehend laissez-faire style affects performance; 2) examine authoritarian style; and 3) ascertain democratic performance. Data collection...

The role intermediaries play in resolving land-taking disputes in socialist Asia has rarely been studied, but this inquiry is critical to understanding alternatives to courtbased dispute resolution. This paper explores how intermediaries, such as retired state officials, navigate in and around authoritarian regimes to resolve complex disputes that pit citizens against the state. Empirical studi...

FirstpubIished in Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences Vol. IX (1941), thearticle is a large-scale investigation of that "fetish "of technique, ortechnical efficiency, which, after 1941, represented for critical theory, especially for Marcuse, the key ideological replacement of the commodity fetish under modern industralized authoritarian states. With respect to Marcuse's better-known late...

Many scholars argue that the political regime in contemporary Russia exemplifies the global phenomenon of electoral authoritarianism. But, what are the major features of such a regime in the case of Russia? Why and how did it proceed through a life cycle of emergence, development, and decay? And how might it evolve in the foreseeable future? This article seeks answers to these questions. B the ...

Tanzania's ruling party has long employed authoritarian methods to stay in power, but the 2020 election was a turning point. The apparently manipulated results at scale amid program of oppression. This constitutes change regime from one which permits minimal electoral competition does not. is revelatory event that sheds light on party's strategy power and possible futures. It seems intended bre...

I offer a model of the sustainability of authoritarian rule in which the transparency of productive economic activity enables the ruler to distinguish productive economic activity from preparations for rebellion. The less transparent the productive technology the greater the economic side effects of maintaining authoritarian rule, and the stronger the incentives to liberalize the regime. Using ...