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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Civic culture"”.
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Civic Culture: Scotland's Struggle for its Political Interests
… that Scotland represents a nation with a unique civic culture. This thesis seeks to determine which elements of Scottish political and cultural history have led to its modern day civic culture, in the form of a civic nationalism, or patriotism. It asks: why is Scottish nationalism unique, and why …
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The peculiarity of Russian politics: authoritarianism, civic culture, and the issue of electoral falsification
In recent years much has been said both about Russia's status as a democracy, as well as the issue of falsification in Russian elections. While there is little reason to challenge the assertion that Russia's transition from dictatorship to democracy has been far from satisfactory, much more can be …
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The capacity of industrial topographies for civic culture: a case study and reinterpretation of the urban order in Shipai, Dongguan, Guangdong, China
… rendered as industrial production and ethical civic culture in the contemporary urban condition, where the meaning of cities becomes predominantly oriented towards utility and efficiency. The research takes as its main case study Shipai township in Dongguan, the latter being one of the most …
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The Tholian Web: The Political/Institutional Context of Regional Cluster-Based Economic Development
… theories (i.e., market model, economic forces, civic culture, regime theory, the growth machine, and civic entrepreneurs) all provide important insights for the adoption of cluster-based policies. Other important factors that need to be considered are the importance of public administrators, …
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The search for city : between being and seeming in the rapid urbanisation of Doha, Qatar
… discloses the possibilities and limitations of civic culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. This thesis’ contribution to knowledge is four-fold: (1) to add generally to architectural and urban theory, and particularly to Arabian Gulf studies; (2) to develop an analytical …
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Coming together or going it alone: How resource -dependent communities survive in Newfoundland and Labrador
… of local social structures and the civic culture---and how they impact community socioeconomic well-being. Data gathered from participant observation and from over 100 in-depth interviews with leaders of local institutions, fishers and citizens are supplemented with quantitative …
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Calls to be counted: Rhetorics of aggregation and numerical representation in 20th century American democracy
… in twentieth-century American political culture. Scholarship in political science, history and rhetorical studies tells us that the census and public opinion polling have long been used to tell Americans who they are or to justify political actions in democracy. Scholarship on citizenship …
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Gray City of the Midway: The University of Chicago and the Search for American Urban Culture, 1890-1932
… more nuanced portrayal of Progressive Era urban culture but which fail to consider the built environment directly. The research’s critical questions reconsider the role of nature within the city, the definition of the urban public, and the intertwining of commerce and civic culture. Its …
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Appalachia's new region-wide CDFI : building local community with global capital?
… address the problems posed by a dysfunctional civic culture, in part the legacy of big coal's historic corporate paternalism and subsequent disinvestment, as corrupt local elites "other" the mostly white mountain poor as an intractable, permanent underclass. Further, even if the new entity …
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Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity Research in Vienna, 1910-1938
… structure this study. One is the role of the civic culture of Vienna and the spatial arrangements specific to the <i>Mediziner-Viertel</i> in establishing the context of the intellectual work of the physicists. A second concerns the ways the Institute's architecture helped to define the …
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New media, new citizens: the terms and conditions of online youth civic engagement.
… of empirical research linking young people's civic motivations to their internet uses, and in particular to their evaluations, as users, of UK civic websites. This thesis brings together the study of youth civic engagement and the practice of user experience in order to explore the civic …
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'Tried and Tested’: community cookbooks in Australia, 1890-1980
… not only of the evolution of Australian food culture, but of twentieth-century discourses of identity. Community cookbooks express the voices of "ordinary people" in everyday life, in particular the large cohort of mostly middle-class twentieth-century women who recognised the community …
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The New Local Activism in Russia : Biography, Event, and Culture
… led to the emergence of the new politicized civic culture. The question the author answers is how the event of the protest mobilization could lead to the long-term changes in activist political culture. Considering this political evolution, she focuses on activists’ biographical trajectories. …
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Free to Air: An examination of the role played by a radio phone-in programme, Liveline, in the democratic process
… In order to address that tension between the civic and the commercial I firstly explore those fields of theory that shed light on the connections between communicative agency and democratic effectiveness. One such is the concept of a public sphere where citizens may assemble in public to …
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Freiwilligenmanagement als Instrument zur Förderung Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements in Nonprofit-Organisationen
Diese Arbeit untersucht, was passiert, wenn in Non-Profit-Organisation (NPO) der Anspruch des Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements auf Praktiken des Freiwilligenmanagements trifft. Ausgangspunkt dieser Fragestellung ist eine doppelte Diagnose: Zum einen setzen NPOs aufgrund mehrerer Faktoren - u.a. …
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Propuesta de soluciones para mejorar el ingreso de pasajeros en la ruta m82 en el portal de Transmilenio del 20 de julio
Este proyecto tiene como objetivo proponer soluciones en la plataforma donde la ruta M82 recoge pasajeros en el Portal de TransMilenio del 20 de Julio en Bogotá. El principal objetivo de esta iniciativa es proponer una solución de mejora para el ingreso de pasajeros en la ruta M82 del Portal de …
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Fortalecimiento de la protección animal en Bogotá mediante estrategias ciudadanas, institucionales y tecnológicas
La investigaación busca analizar las causas y manifestaciones del maltrato animal en Bogotá, con el fin de proponer estrategias que fortalezcan la prevención y atención de esta problemática. Para ello, se integran perspectivas institucionales, normativas y sociales, reconociendo la importancia de …