{"id":35379,"date":"2024-10-19T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/why-has-kuwait-typically-exhibited-greater-levels-of-democratic-governance-than-other-gulf-states\/"},"modified":"2024-10-19T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T12:34:46","slug":"why-has-kuwait-typically-exhibited-greater-levels-of-democratic-governance-than-other-gulf-states","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/why-has-kuwait-typically-exhibited-greater-levels-of-democratic-governance-than-other-gulf-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has Kuwait typically exhibited greater levels of democratic governance than other gulf states?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\">I&#8217;ve attached some readings you can use if you&#8217;d like. YOU MUST FIND 5 MORE OUTSIDE SOURCES TO WRITE ABOUT IN THE LITERATURE REVIEW THAT RELATES TO THIS TOPIC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Introduction<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">A description of the research puzzle: in this case that Kuwait has usually ranked so much higher than other states in the Gulf in terms of democratic standards, despite sharing so much in terms of language, culture, history etc. They are also of similar sizes, monarchies, resource rich etc. So why is it that the others remain highly autocratic and Kuwait developed a semi-constitutional monarchy?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Pose the RQ<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Briefly lay out what will happen in the dissertation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Literature review<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Survey the main literature that will be useful in answering the RQ, looking at the major trends.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In here I would expect to see\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Literature on democratization- what are the key theories around why some countries democratize and others don\u2019t (e.g. modernization theory, institutional approaches)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Literature specifically on the political systems of the Gulf monarchies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Literature on semi-constitutional monarchies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Identify a gap in the literature- perhaps there has been little literature on the extent of democracies within monarchies, rather than just democracies v autocracies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Theory<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Develop some hypotheses based in the literature or your observations- present them as statements and then explain why you think they will be correct.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">So you might suggest Kuwait is more democratic because of differences in its society, it\u2019s history or its economy, or something about the process of constitution creation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">If you can have like 3 hypotheses then you\u2019ve got a good structure for later on (e.g. a chapter on the economy which compares the gulf states).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Methodology<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Lay out how you will carry out your research- in this case we are doing a comparative case study- this could also involve the use of process tracing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Defend why you have chosen this method.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Lay out which cases you are looking at and why- in this case they make an ideal<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Most Similar Systems Design<\/b>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Analysis<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">After this the structure is a bit more flexible- it\u2019s good to base it around hypotheses so that you\u2019re clearly testing each one and establishing if it\u2019s accurate or not.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What you need to be doing in each chapter is explicitly comparing the cases so we can see immediately what the differences in the Kuwaiti case might be to cause it\u2019s greater levels of democratisation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Tie the findings of the analysis chapters together.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve attached some readings you can use if you&#8217;d like. 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