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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Civic Rights"”.
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Expressing civic rights for individuals with intellectual disabilities : social network responsibility and silences in communication
… in the understanding of expressions of civic rights for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). One expression of the low social capital held by individuals with IDD is their low rate of participation in elections. Electors in Canada are not subject to …
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Disenfranchising the Black Other: A Critique of American Drug Laws
… disproportionately black and stripped of their civic rights because of their status as present or former felons. I propose that unequal drug laws which provide different sentences for crack cocaine, used more often by poor blacks because of its cheapness and availability in poor neighborhoods, …
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The political geography of annexation--Roanoke, Virginia
… and relative importance of four issues -- civic boosterism and community autonomy, public services and planning, financial considerations, and race-related considerations -- were examined and analyzed as critical factors in Roanoke, Virginia's historic use of annexation. Particular …
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"Millions of Luxurious Citizens": Consumption and Citizenship in the Urban Northeast, 1800-1865
… in the northeast slowly abandoned a vision of civic non-consumption that rested on the strength of imperial boycotts and instead converted their consumption of luxury goods and products into a civic act. This dissertation reveals how these citizens challenged the limitations that a republican …
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High School Students, the Catholic, and the Struggle For Inclusion and Citizenship In Rock Hill, South Carolina 1970-1972
… joined by religious leaders, parents, and civil rights activists, continued to fight for inclusion in schools, participation in shaping school policy, and to have their voices heard in the broader political community. By refusing to relinquish their right to equal educational opportunities and …
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Identities of difference in the contemporary city: a spatial and policy analysis of men who sell sex in metropolitan Sydney
… in order to provide sex workers with the same civic rights as other urban dwellers. Overall, the study conveys that private sex work and MWSS are an identity of difference which can exist cohesively in metropolitan Sydney.
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Reconciling Social Housing and access to urbanity in Rio de Janeiro
… city should be contemplated within the scope of civic rights. CPBU is a way to promote the use of unused and underused land by pressuring the owners of these properties through the increase of property taxation and the eventual seizing of the areas. Some of the measures proposed by the City …
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Institutional and fiscal policies for forest conservation
… the general governance variables democracy and civic rights decrease the likelihood. Furthermore, it can be shown that additional elements of study design, notably the choice of the control variable and the estimation technique, significantly influence the study outcome. Chapter 3 uses a forest …
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State Transformation and European Integration: The Expression of Rights (1990-2014)
… focusing in particular on the expression of civic, political, and social rights in these states. Without an accurate understanding of how integration has transformed states, those involved in the creation of state institutions--now and in the future--cannot hope to know how their societies …