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Showing 1 to 20 of 266 for “"Coalitions"”.
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Coalitions and Incumbency Advantage in Mexico
… parties can take advantage of this by forming coalitions, even with unlikely partners. This paper tries to answer whether such a coalition was indeed successful or not during the 2010 elections. In 2010, 14 Mexican states held elections. Each of them renewed state Congressand in six of them a …
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Unpacking Coalitions: Explaining International Commitment in European Governments
… were more or less constrained than multiparty coalitions in their international behavior, yet they have failed to reach conclusive empirical findings. This dissertation responds to this puzzle by unpacking coalitions: as it captures the variation among coalition governments along mathematical …
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Comprehensive planning and collaborative action : neighborhood coalitions in Boston
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Actors, coalitions and the framework convention on climate change
This study examines the political processes through which the Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and the initial efforts of the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan to adopt national policies and measures to implement it. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as a …
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State-movement coalitions for building labor market systems at scale
… to employers. I found that state-movement coalitions can effectively scale labor market systems statewide by using three kinds of tactics: organizing tactics (building statewide governance structures and modifying governance processes over time), cultural tactics (providing new frames and …
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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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COALITIONS IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT: PARTY POLITICAL STRATEGIES IN HUNG COUNCILS
… by the largest party group, although majority coalitions are becoming more prevalent. Contrary to expectations, minority administrations are also more durable than coalitions. The large number of minority administrations demonstrates that not all politicians are 'office-driven', and that policy …
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Population Dynamics and Dispersal Coalitions in the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker
… of the whole species. The creation of dispersal coalitions can lead to complex outcomes and affect how changes in abundance occur on the landscape. I examined population dynamics and dispersal coalitions in a population of cooperatively breeding acorn woodpeckers in central California, USA. Using …
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Role of Social Preferences and Coalitions in a Public Goods Game
… individuals in a society form small groups or coalitions to carry out collective decisions about contribution levels. Such cooperative action is further augmented when we account for social and other-regarding preferences in individuals, which make them care about well-being of others. While …
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It takes a ballpark village : stadiums, coalitions, and growth in two cities
The typical stadium development story features a City interested in investing in its future. The City looks to a new ballpark to spark revitalization, provide new jobs and industry, and increase civic pride. Yet, academic research suggests that the City is looking in the wrong place. Economic and …
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The role of contracts, informal agreements and coalitions in assuring downstream coordination
… mechanisms, contracts, informal agreements, and coalitions differ with respect to their use of bonding mechanisms, power, conflict resolution, and enforcement of obligations. This research attributes the relative predominance of any one institutional mechanism in the vertical relation to relevant …
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Predicting success in social change coalitions: learning from 25 years of leader experience
… success and failure in their respective coalitions. This study replicates the Mizrahi and Rosenthal study by returning to participants from the original study and, adapting the original instrument, interviewing those participants to examine their perceptions after 25 years has passed. …
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Evidence-based Practice: An Exploration of Meaning Making Among Leaders of Community Coalitions
… in the specialized practice of leading community coalitions.</p> <p>This study aims to help fill this void by exploring these questions: Are community coalition leaders familiar with the term EBP; and, if so, how were they introduced to it? How – in their own words – do leaders define EBP? What …
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Shattered power, reconstructed coalitions : an analysis of rural labor unions in Mananhão, Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Searching for Sustainable, Intergenerational, and Multiracial Coalitions on the Neoliberal Campus: A Case Study
… employs to stall and dissipate antiracist coalitions on campus. In that unraveling, the study also identifies and offers strategies, values, and methodologies for fostering subversive communities on campus that can sustain the infrastructure needed to build antiracist coalitions that are …
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'Red-green' coalitions in the Federal Republic of Germany: models of formation and maintenance
The thesis examines the processes of coalition formation and maintenance involving the SPD and Green party at the sub-national level in the Federal Republic of Germany. The theoretical component builds upon formal models of coalition formation to posit a New Model of Coalition Formation and …
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Experimenting With Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Political Parties, Coalitions, and Policies
… and the formation of pro and anti-pension reform coalitions. While this theoretical argument has been developed based on experiences of Central and Eastern European countries, it is useful for the analysis of pension reform beyond the post-communist setting.
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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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