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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Communitarian"”.
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Communitarian perspectives on corporate governance
… we believe should be promoted within a culture. Communitarian perspectives on corporate governance, therefore, reflect the social aspirations of entrepreneurs, attitudes towards unitarist and democratic organisation, and organisation members’ constant struggle to balance social and economic …
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Woman's essential "nature" : a classical, communitarian gender mythology
… investigation) but from the heuristic classical, communitarian world view. Whether the notion of a distinct 'woman's nature' is accepted or rejected, this decision results in a pragmatic orientation toward women, their roles, and their potential that has a direct effect on the educational …
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The Practice and Meaning of Communitarian Spirituality in the Focolare Movement
… and plausible for social change through a communitarian lifestyle that affects their everyday life. Within the sociological tradition of studying religion and social movements, this study addresses how religiously-motivated, "non-elite" individuals can be collectively recruited and …
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Women’s Memories of Oudlājān: From A Communitarian Neighbourhood to A Placeless City
The aim of my project is to give a narrative form to the Oudlājān neighbourhood of Tehran (the old Jewish quarter), collecting memories and stories of the Jewish women who used to live there and then moved out during the 1940s. Living in Oudlājān had guaranteed the cohesiveness of the Jewish …
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The politics of cultural diversity : a survey in the liberal-communitarian debate
… a survey in the debate between liberal and communitarian thinkers. My aim is to show which side of the debate represents a more adequate position in relation to the politics of the existing cultural diversity in western liberal democracies compatible with the claims of multiculturalism which …
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Liberalism and community: Communitarian criticisms of John Rawls' liberal theory of justice
Liberal political philosophy is often accused of being excessively individualistic and of failing to provide an adequate conception of political community. The purpose of this study is to evaluate such criticisms as they have been most recently advanced against the liberal theory of John Rawls by …
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As One United People: An Inclusive Communitarian Approach to Constitutional Rights in Singapore
… analysis, that this is caused by Singapore’s communitarian approach to rights. It prioritises the collective interest over individual rights, resulting in the disjunction between the rights’ elevated status and their practical non-application. To correct this disjunction, I demonstrate that …
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Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and Ethnic Target Marketing: A Communitarian Ethical Framework in Action
… on top of a theoretical foundation based in communitarian ethics in order to provide a more culturally relevant framework for marketing to United States Hispanics. Lastly, a pedagogy for teaching this framework will be included as an application of the theory.</p><p> Specifically, in the …
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Towards a just community: an examination of the development of cultural citizenship rights in Canada from a communitarian perspective
… of citizenship rights are based. In particular, communitarianism has subjected liberal rights discourse to a closer examination. Communitarian theory holds that universalist principles negate any articulation of community and its internal diversity, such as cultural citizenship. It is this …
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A Communitarian Approach to Accountability for the Common Good: A Case Study of Community Participation in Planning and Policy Making for Lake Taupo
… and empirical understanding of the meaning of a communitarian approach to accountability for the common good (CAACG). The hermeneutic analysis adopted in this study starts by explaining the researcher's pre-understandings which includes contemporary ideas on accountability, communitarianism and …
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A Social Contract Perspective on Organizational Citizenship Behavior
… relationship is proposed between stronger communitarian normative ideological values and beliefs regarding the political and economic social contract, and greater amounts of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The theoretical foundation supporting this relationship is based in …
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Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination
… especially among small legislature size in communitarian countries. </p> <p>The findings suggest that: among the cultural explanation: (1) Only Lutheran Christian countries are significantly different from Islamic and Buddhist countries. (2) Calvinist countries are not different from Islamic …
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Socialist communitarianism and its values for contemporary society
… of this thesis is to demonstrate how a socialist communitarian ethic, rather than a Western capitalist market ethic, provides the necessary foundations for the existence of democracy, freedom and equality, in contemporary society. In order to show this, I will use as my primary texts Karl …
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Contested Land Use Planning: A Case Study of a Grassroots Neighborhood Organization, a Medical Complex, and a City
… the neighborhood organization's claims were communitarian. This case study explores (1) how the setting within which city planners acted was a strong counter to the participation of citizens in the land use planning process, and (2) how the neighborhood organization mediated, engaged …
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The politics of indigenous social struggle in Colombia
… by the Nasa indigenous people of Colombia: the communitarian economy, the Proyecto Global, and the Tul home garden project. The thesis finds that the communitarian economy can be characterized as both a project of alternative development and alternative modernity; Proyecto Global can be …
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The EU and the changing lives of fishermen. A study of Lampedusan and Fuerteventurian fishing communities.
… concentrating on two well-established Communitarian policy frames -- the Common Fishery Policy (CFP) and the management of the external border of the Schengen space of free movement of people – and two populations of artisanal fishers who were exposed to them. It analyses how …
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Human Rights, Positive Obligations and the Development of a Right to Security
… a right to security broadly grounded in ‘communitarian’ ideals. The ‘absolutist’ state theory of, say, Thomas Hobbes, to protect society from collapse, pays too little attention to genuine fears that the state can actually pose a threat to security; in giving the state significant powers …
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"""A Better Guardianship"": Mothers, Surrogates, and Female Education in Domestic Literature, 1790--1860"
… registers a residual commitment to republican, communitarian values amid the emergence and eventual domination of a liberal-capitalist social order.
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"You Are Safe": Black Maternal Politics Of Resistance And The Question Of Community Consensus In African American Women's Literature
… that demands a renegotiation of the basis for communitarian unity. In these texts, black mothers murder their children in often utterly grotesque and spectacular ways to claim brazenly that they provide safety for their children from slavery and lynching. Safety is the one thing missing in …
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Railway cooperation among V4 states — The role of political spillovers in rail transport integration between the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Republic of Poland, and the Slovak Republic (1999–2021)
… railway actions on the one hand, and the communitarian financial/legislative/institutional toolkit triggering such quadripartite projects on the other. Throughout the dissertation, conclusions of the literature review involving regional integration theory papers are supported by …
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