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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Economic Insecurity"”.
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Economic insecurity and populist radical right voting
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The Impact of Consumer Insecurity On Product Evaluation
… the impact that various types of consumer insecurity have on response to and evaluation of products. Consumer insecurity has long been noted as an influence on consumption behavior; however, this research examines it from two specific angles – materialism level and economic insecurity level …
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The Political Consequences of Socio-Economic Inequality
… of an intermediary factor in-between socio-economic inequality and rise of populism, namely the institutions, both political and economic. While there is some empirical evidence showing the direct effect of economic insecurity and institutional trust on populism (e.g. Guiso et al. (2017), …
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White racial attitudes in the age of Obama
… The first empirical chapter examines the role of economic insecurity and education on White racial attitudes. The second empirical chapter evaluates the relative importance of individual vs. contextual factors in shaping Whites' attitudes about race. The third empirical chapter seeks to evaluate …
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Tea and Sympathy: The United States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985-2005.
<p>The specters of violence and economic insecurity have haunted the Sudan since its independence in 1956. The United States Congress has held numerous hearings on the Sudan's civil war and U.S. television news outlets have reported on the conflict since 1983. While attempting to engage the Sudan …
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Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town
… of spaces of belonging, the experiences of economic insecurity, and lastly a 'culture of violence' in South Africa. This thesis argues that these four stressors are the result of an on-going active process of xenophobic attitudes.
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White Opinions Of United States Immigration: Testing Rival Hypotheses, 2004
… as well as the individual-level factors of economic insecurity, political knowledge, national identity, group pride, and racism. Using data from the 2004 American National Election Study, the thesis provides a critical test of the competing hypotheses using multivariate analysis. …
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Violent peace in Liberia. A Study of the Roles and Ambitions of Ex-combatants
… (b) re-criminalization (c) exploitation, and (d) economic insecurity, which are then applied to the outcome of the reintegration of ex-combatants in Liberia. On the basis of the data collected in fieldwork, the analytical framework reveals how these factors and dynamics interacted and facilitated …
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Violent peace in Liberia. A Study of the Roles and Ambitions of Ex-combatants
… (b) re-criminalization (c) exploitation, and (d) economic insecurity, which are then applied to the outcome of the reintegration of ex-combatants in Liberia. On the basis of the data collected in fieldwork, the analytical framework reveals how these factors and dynamics interacted and facilitated …
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The temporal dynamics of neoliberal redevelopment governance and the restructuring of urban space: Chicago's Bronzeville (1989 - present)
… In the current context of the global economic crisis and increased grass-roots efforts to thwart gentrification, the legitimacy of this mode of urban governance is now increasingly questioned. Set against this reality, new pragmatic strategies are now required to keep the neoliberal …
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A Snowball Effect: a Pandemic’s Impacts on Household Food Insecurity in the United States
<p>Economic insecurity exists whenever income sources are uncertain, and this is a failure of a fundamental human right. The Covid-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented disruptions to the US economy and has created unparalleled food insufficiency and economic hardships. Before the pandemic, …
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Systems Economics: Bringing complexity into post-Keynesian economics to address the 21st Century’s problems
… array of challenges for society. Growth in economic prosperity is stalling and growing inequality, both within and between countries, is leading to social and political tensions. The financial sector, previously seen as a driver of economic development, has become a source of disruption, and …
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Legalising the illegal: an assessment of the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project (DZP) and Zimbabwe Special Dispensation Permit (ZSP) regularisation projects
Since the late 1990s economic insecurity and political uncertainty have continued to worsen in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's economy plunged into deep crisis in the early 2000s owing to failed fiscal policies and the highly criticised 'Fast-track' land reform program. Election related violence between 2002 …
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ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC POLICIES ON HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND INCOME INEQUALITY
… of public policies on three related but distinct economic outcomes: employment, housing stability, and income inequality. In the second chapter, I examine the employment impact of the Paycheck Protection Program, a key element of the federal government’s fiscal stimulus efforts during the 2020 …
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Toward A More Comprehensive Model of Economic Vulnerability, Family Stress, and Children’s Social-Emotional Competence
<p>Low-income families experience economic pressures that may adversely affect their members. The Family Stress Model of Economic Hardship (Conger & Elder, 1994) is a prominent conceptual model of the adverse effects of economic hardship on child and adolescent outcomes. Research on varying family …
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A critical review of the literature on UBI experiments
… could help solve the problems associated with economic insecurity. However, sceptics about this idea argue that it is too simple and that despite best intentions, could have adverse results. These possible adverse results include spreading the welfare revenue too widely and too thinly to have a …
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Right-wing populism in the European Union and the rise of Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and Hungary's Jobbik
… both the Cultural Backlash Thesis (CBT) and the Economic Insecurity Perspective (EIP) are employed as theoretical nodal points to ascertain each of the two countries’ unique set of socio-political and socioeconomic circumstances that propelled right-wing parties to political prominence. This …
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Fiscal Sovereignty: Reconfigurations of Value and Citizenship in Post-Financial Crisis Argentina
… individualism shared by neo-classical economic science and Anglo-American citizenship theory, and the relational and recursive nature of monetary value, which exceeds, and cannot be encompassed by, the languages of market exchange and the social contract. The first chapter is a …
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When things fall apart and when they come together: Tracing the processes of a task-shared intervention for perinatal depression in South Africa
… Countries (LMICs), and include partner abuse, economic insecurity, HIV, unwanted pregnancy, and food insecurity. Despite the substantial burden, there is a considerable 'treatment gap' between the need for treatment and the provision of services for perinatal depression in LMICs. Task sharing …
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Optimizing Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Adolescents Living with HIV in Low and Middle-Income Settings
… the pathways through which addressing household economic insecurity using an economic empowerment intervention might influence ART adherence among ALHIV in Uganda by assessing the mediating effects of adolescent social transition, barriers to medical care, and adherence self-efficacy. The …
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