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A caretaker urban regime is designed to preserve the status quo, keep taxes low, and preserve the quality of life in a city. This is often associated with taxpayers and homeowners' interests. The goal of this regime type is to lower the involvement of the government sector and increase the involvement of the private sector. [25] [26]
A regimen is a plan, or course of action such as a diet, exercise or medical treatment. [1] A low-salt diet is a regimen. A course of penicillin is a regimen, and there are many chemotherapy regimens in the treatment of cancer .
Until the French Revolution, the monastic community constituted a central element of the economic, social, and religious life of many localities under the Old Regime. From the end of the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, Menat , a Cluniac abbey dating back to 1107, ruled over the Sioule Valley in the northwest region of the Clermont ...
Regime change is the partly forcible or coercive replacement of one government regime with another. Regime change may replace all or part of the state's most critical leadership system, administrative apparatus, or bureaucracy .
The regime favoured very conservative Roman Catholicism and it reversed the secularisation process that had taken place under the Republic. According to historian Julian Casanova , "the symbiosis of religion, fatherland and Caudillo" saw the Church assume great political responsibilities, "a hegemony and monopoly beyond its wildest dreams" and ...
Susan Strange had a five-fold critique of regime theory: It is a fad: regime theory is a temporary reaction to current events and it has cumulative value to knowledge; The concept of regime is imprecise; It is value-laden: it is pre-occupied with preserving U.S. hegemony and U.S.-led institutions, which are seen as benevolent
The regime was characterized by the systematic suppression of political parties and the persecution of dissidents to an extent unprecedented in the history of Chile. Overall, the regime left over 3,000 dead or missing, tortured tens of thousands of prisoners, [ 2 ] and drove an estimated 200,000 Chileans into exile. [ 3 ]
A hybrid regime [a] is a type of political system often created as a result of an incomplete democratic transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one (or vice versa). [ b ] Hybrid regimes are categorized as having a combination of autocratic features with democratic ones and can simultaneously hold political repressions and ...