In order to be able to place the three countries on the comparative democratization scale accordingly, the expectations of democratization have to be established. ... Turning our focus to the Czech Republic, a lot of evidence is pointing towards a trend of weakened governmental accountability in the last years as some major corruption scandals took place in 2013. ...

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The constitution of Nigeria also holds that if no candidate succeeds in winning a majority of total votes and obtaining the two thirds threshold in the first round, a second round of voting will take place a week later, pitting off the two candidates in a run off. ... Other than the president, several small parties and minority groups in Nigeria are also represented in the legislature. ... (O'Neil (2010) Page 553) This justifies Dahl's theory about broadened participation combined with political competition, based on which different ethnic groups and small groups in Nigeria have a ch...

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