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Showing 1 to 20 of 370 for “"Conservatism"”.
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Groundwork and Principles for Applied Conservatism
This thesis is a broad survey of conservatism-in-general, written in the immediate context of important conservative institutions being threatened by or having already fallen to radical populism and reactionaryism. The thesis provides groundwork to help establish principles of conservatism (POCs), …
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Accounting conservatism, earnings components and accounting losses
This study provides evidence on accounting conservatism based on a large sample of publicly-quoted UK companies over the period 1969-2001. The effects of conservation accounting are studied both indirectly and directly by using earnings measures containing varying levels of accruals and by further …
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Romanticism and Conservatism in France (1815-1848)
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Radical Conservatism and Victorian Poetry: 1830-1906
… dissertation explores the emergence of radical conservatism as a form of disjunctive aesthetic practice in the nineteenth century. Having traced Thomas Carlyle’s positive recuperation of disjuncture as a means by which to regenerate the present, I argue that his early essays and distinctive …
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The origins of Prussian conservatism, 1815-56
… In this way, early nineteenth-century Prussian conservatism is presented as being bound to a generation unit of young Prussian nobles who had experienced the Napoleonic Wars at first hand. These men rejected the modernisation of both the Prussian state and the church(es), while at the same time …
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Corporate governance, conservatism and firm performance: Evidence from China
… the board of directors and supervisory board on conservatism and firm performance, respectively, and the benefits of conservatism on performance. In addition, this thesis investigates whether the effectiveness of firms’ governance on conservatism and firm performance is influenced by ownership …
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Accounting conservatism and debt contract efficiency with soft information.
This paper shows how accounting conservatism affects the efficiency of debt contracting when the optimal debt contract allows parties to renegotiate. In my model allowing for renegotiation is optimal because both borrowers and lenders have access to non-contractible “soft information”, in addition …
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Conservatism in Transition: American Conservative Social Thought, 1860 - 1920.
It required little perceptiveness to call this a period of transition. In a sense, all periods are transitional. Seldom, however, has the transition been so pronounced and the participants so acutely aware that they were living through a transition. Prior to 1860, as Wiebe put it, Americans lived …
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China's Forgotten Revolution: Radical Conservatism in Action, 1927-1949
… War. In highlighting the ascendency of radical conservatism in China and its transnational circulation across Asia, this dissertation sheds light on the distinct qualities, often downplayed in the historical literature, of the Guomindang's revolutionary enterprise vis-à-vis the radical left.
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Libertinism, Political Activism and Religious Conservatism: Some Correlates of Anomie
… being dealt with are libertinism, religious conservatism, political activism, personal anomie, systemic anomie, and probusiness. These are viewed from the perspective that the attitudes and opinions held by the students will influence their behavior. Specifically, this perspective views …
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Russell Kirk's Column "To the point": Traditional Aspects of Conservatism.
<p>From 1962 to 1975, General Features Corporation distributed a column by traditional conservative Russell Kirk. The column appeared on the political page of newspapers across the country under the title “To The Point”.<sup>1</sup> The column provided social commentary on a wide variety of topics …
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British Conservatism, 1945-1951: adapting to the age of collectivism.
… variously to celebrate the advent of ‘new Conservatism’, lament Conservatism’s descent into watered-down socialism, or conclude there was not really much change at all, with some further claiming that the 1950s was characterised by a cross-party ’consensus’. This thesis explores whether …
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The contracting benefits of accounting conservatism to lenders and borrowers
… I examine the ex post and ex ante benefits of conservatism to lenders and borrowers in the debt contracting process. First, I argue that conservatism benefits lenders ex post through a timely signal of default risk in the form of accelerated covenant violations by more conservative borrowers. I …
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Moral Majorities: The Rhetoric of “Real” American Values in Contemporary Conservatism
This thesis explores how public figures associated with the Tea Party movement used rhetoric to create and perpetuate ideas about who "real" Americans are, what they believe, and how they should act. I analyze books by Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck, and Jenny Beth Martin to demonstrate how …
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Colin Powell's 2000 keynote address: Compassionate conservatism in an age of cynicism
Colin Powell faced significant rhetorical challenges when he delivered his keynote address at the 2000 Republican National Convention, including the existing political atmosphere and public sentiment, the political implications of a Republican victory, the influence of technology on campaign …
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Slaying the Leviathan: Catholicism and the Rebirth of European Conservatism, 1920-1950
This dissertation argues that Catholic social thought was a central component of post-1945 West European reconstruction: it simultaneously provided a vocabulary for a post-fascist order, brought Catholics into coalition with liberals and socialists, and inspired much of the social policy of the new …
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'The Poetry Review': Poetic Conservatism in an Age of Experimentation, 1909-1968
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The concept of ecological conservatism and the characteristics of conservative plant species
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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