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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Coalition Building"”.
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Civil society strategies on urban waterways : stewardship, contention, and coalition building
Urban, industrial waterways-with their contamination, environmental injustice, and nebulous development futures given changing economies-present multiple problems that are confronted by environmental civil society organizations. Despite the many problems, these groups view urban waterways as some …
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Understanding Multi-State, Stakeholder Directed, Corridor Coalition Building: An Interstate-81 Case Study
Corridor coalitions have been described by some as a model for the development of public-private partnerships to help finance and manage corridor wide traffic flow programs and construction projects (Vega & Penn, 2008). Others have suggested corridor coalitions could also be effective tools for the …
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Coalition-Building and the Fight for Universal Child Care in Ontario, Canada, 1981-2022
… account of the advocacy work of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) from 1981 until 2022, evaluating how effectively the OCBCC advanced an inclusive vision of child care that served all families and child care workers. This account of the OCBCC was based on a descriptive …
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Strategies for Chronic Disease Prevention in California: Focus on Research, Policy, and Coalition Building
… and evaluation, policy and policy advocacy, and coalition building, share the following overarching goals: to reduce rates of chronic disease, decrease health disparities by addressing the social determinants of health, build a culture of prevention, and achieve health equity. </p>
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Shades of gray : race, class and coalition building in the fight to save New Orleans' public housing
… Rather than a unitary movement, I find three coalitions intersecting in their mutual opposition to the demolition plans but not collaborating with each other; I identify a set of push/pull factors that hold the coalitions together internally but divide them externally from one another; and I …
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The Electoral Success of Communist-Successor Parties in the Czech Republic and Romania
… social and political factors: party reimaging, coalition building, corruption and scandal, party leadership, EU accession, and social indicators. This project explores how the descendants of the totalitarian communist parties in the Czech Republic and Romania are influenced by each factor by …
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Development of a predictive coalition building analysis for stakeholders of sociotechnical systems: case studies of high-speed rail development in the Northeast Corridor of the United States and the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori, Japan
… We present the development of Predictive Coalition Building Analysis (PCBA). The three-phase methodological framework assigns likelihoods to possible future coalitions of stakeholders by 1) identifying and discussing stakeholders and their interests in various objectives for system …
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Public-private partnerships: an evaluation of propositions for successful community coalitions
Objective: To evaluate coalition members' perceptions of key coalition building propositions (i.e., leadership, communication and formal structures) as predictors of coalition success (i.e., improving community outcomes by reducing hospital readmission rates and improving coordination of patient …
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The End of an Era: A Case Study of the Dissolution of a Special Education Governance Structure
… that gave rise to political maneuvering, coalition building, and negotiation. Specifically, concerns over the fundamental tensions of power and control, fiscal and administrative redundancies, and the rising cost of providing special education services contributed to the dissolution of the …
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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony
… emergent archipelagic politics of heterogenous coalition-building presents a viable path of becoming for liberatory political projects.
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Feminism(s), Politics, and Domestic Violence: Tensions and Challenges in Shifting the Discourse and Institutional Relationships
… NGOs has helped promote new forms of community coalition building across agencies and systems. Based on ethnographic research within a quasi-state agency and multiple community coalitions, this dissertation examines the knowledge and practice of actors situated within these different sites and …
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The Aesthetics of Resistance in Latin American Art in Canada
… as fundamental. The research also focuses on coalition building as a method of resistance with a close examination of the non-profit arts organization, Latin American Canadian Art Projects. Furthermore, recognizing "Latin American art" as a contested construct serving a geopolitical and …
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The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Indonesia's Foreign Policy
… shift from non-ratification to ratification: coalition-building and advocacy persistence. In coalition-building, policy entrepreneurs believed that the emergence of ARRAK 90 significantly transformed the policy context. Working in coalition, policy entrepreneurs undertook continuous activities …
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The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Indonesia's Foreign Policy
… shift from non-ratification to ratification: coalition-building and advocacy persistence. In coalition-building, policy entrepreneurs believed that the emergence of ARRAK 90 significantly transformed the policy context. Working in coalition, policy entrepreneurs undertook continuous activities …
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The role of catalyst organizations in the formation of metropolitan coalitions : metropolitics in Baltimore and Chicago
… to success for organizations aiming to build coalitions between the inner city and declining and low-tax base suburbs. Regional catalyst organizations (RCOs) need to devise compelling metropolitics strategies, cultivate dynamic leadership, manage organizational complexity, and learn, adjust, …
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Vietnam and the More Flags campaign, 1964--1965: The search for American allies in the Commonwealth
… campaign in an attempt to establish a western coalition force and diplomatic support system for the South Vietnamese government and for American intervention against the North. Three of the most heavily courted nations were the Commonwealth members of Australia, Great Britain, and Canada. This …
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Marginalized Multiplicities: The Journeys of Chicana/Latina Lesbian and Bisexual High School Students
… narrative inquiry, historical analysis and coalition building) of LatCrit and Queered Chicana Theory to go beyond a traditionally pathological approach toward queers in general to analyze institutional dynamics that both impede and contribute to the prosperity of these young women in their …
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South of Eden: The Limitations and Possibilities of Interracial Solidarity on the South Side of Chicago
… Dawson’s conception of linked fate to detail the coalition building efforts between Black and Asian Americans. The focus on Black and Asian Americans further expands racial theories of inter-minority relations by examining how racial groups—often characterized by society as being in conflict—forge …
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How the green guys won : interest group strategies & the California Clean Cars Legislation
… This thesis describes the environmentalists' coalition-building and problem-definition tactics and how they enabled the environmentalists to gain public support.
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A phenomenological study of the relationship between deaf students in higher education and their sign language interpreters
… relationship (e.g., withdrawal, networking, coalition building, ego stroking). Implications for deaf students, interpreters, faculty, interpreter coordinators, disability offices, and educators for the deaf are provided.
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