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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"British politics"”.
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Right-Wing Refugees and British Politics, 1830-1871
… investigates the role of right-wing refugees in British politics during the middle years of the nineteenth century, considering the relationships which these refugees established with British politicians, and the difficulties which their multifarious activities created for the makers of British …
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The Rent Act of 1957: A Case Study in British Politics
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British Politics, Imperial Ideology, and East India Company Reform, 1773-1784
… analyses the various factors behind the British East India Company’s metamorphosis from a mercantile corporation into a semi-privatised imperial agency in the crucial period between Lord North’s Regulating Act in 1773 and Pitt’s India Act of 1784. To untangle these factors, this …
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From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism: The British Politics of Nationalist Violence in Cyprus
… the relationship between nationalist violence, British colonial and neo-colonial policies, and Cyprus' geostrategic location within the imperialist world system. By contextualizing the Cyprus Conflict into the theories of decolonization and neo-colonialism, this research examines how Cyprus' …
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The presentation of politics : the place of party publicity, broadcasting and film in British politics, 1918-1939
… a serious intent. Yet coverage of domestic politics was limited and overwhelmingly concerned with government activities. The considerable attention given to the newsreels by the Conservative Party and the National Government complemented existing editorial predilections, and the consequence …
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Constitutional change in the United Kingdom: an institutional analysis
… Dicey's analysis and the Westminster model of British politics. It is argued that these models can no longer provide the analytical toolkits necessary to unlock the nature and scope of power in British politics. It also questions the efficacy of micro level analyses in explaining the absence of …
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How parties behave: the role of strategy in contemporary British political parties
… concept, nature and role of party strategy in British politics, introducing a new way of discovering how parties behave and making original observations of historical events. This thesis tackles party strategy in contemporary British politics in a number of interdisciplinary ways. It draws a …
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Events leading to the internment and deportation of Maltese Nationalists : 1940-1942
… much responsible for the decision taken by the British authorities to intern and deport some Maltese Nationalists. Yet the British authorities did not view them as being so excellent politicians to play pro-British politics in Malta.
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Fractional Integration and Political Modeling
… fractional differencing, multivariate models of British politics are developed in Chapter IV to compare competing theories regarding which subjective measure of economic evaluations best predicts support levels for the governing party; egocentric measures outperform sociotropic measures. The …
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Politics of Electoral Reform: The Case of the United Kingdom’s 2011 Referendum on the Alternative Vote
This thesis focuses on the politics of electoral reform. It examines dynamics operating at both the public and political elite levels. The first paper looks at the place of electoral reform in British politics, in particular the place of the Alternative Vote (AV), and demonstrates a positive …
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The Tories and the Soviets: the British conservative reaction to Russia, 1917-1927
… Historians have claimed frequently that British Conservatives were violently hostile toward the "bogey " of Bolshevism and that, therefore , Tory governments were persistently hostile toward Soviet Russia. Conservatives dominated British politics during the interwar period and played a …
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The British general election of 1923; an anomaly or the election that changed British political history?
The 1920`s saw British Politics in a state of flux. The First World War had shattered the conventions and issues existing before it, broken the pre-war Liberal Party into two warring factions and seen the emergence of a developing and stronger Labour Party. There were three General Elections in …
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Political traditions and Scottish devolution
… traditions has heuristic value when applied to British politics. Discussion of a distinctive British Political Tradition has been kept to the margins in explanations of the British political system with only a few authors seeking to explore the ideational underpinnings of the institutions and …
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Richard Cobden, educationist, economist and statesman.
… Cobden sought to make fundamental changes in British society and that he tried to initiate them by piecemeal constitutional methods. He also believed that the British example would have a powerful influence on other countries and thus contribute to a new world order. Cobden had a coherent, …
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Political behaviour in the United Kingdom: An examination of Members of Parliament and Voters
This thesis builds on quantitative British politics scholarship with four papers unified by a strong emphasis on positivist theory, research design and cutting edge statistical methodology. I examine political behaviour among representatives in the UK's House of Commons and voting behaviour in the …
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Factionalism in the Conservative Party : the 'anti-Europeans' since 1970
… the nature of party factionalism in contemporary British politics.
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Scottish Noblewomen, the Family and Scottish Politics from 1688-1707
… previously been considered. The formation of a British parliament in 1707 reduced the number of Scots parliamentarians and changed the role of the governing elite in Scotland but did not diminish Scottish women’s influence and participation. This thesis argues that Scottish noblewomen operated …
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