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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Electoral Politics"”.
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Electoral politics in Grimsby 1818-1835
… that hiatus, and is somewhat novel in examining electoral behaviour over a number of elections spanning the period of the first Reform Act. That voting was open is crucial to an understanding of voting behaviour in this period, for in general the smaller the constituency the greater the …
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Essays in Transportation and Electoral Politics
… Overall, this work provides more evidence of the politics behind transit service planning, especially the political influences of voting behavior in representative democracies.
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The Language of British Electoral Politics 1880-1910
… fundamentally, the dissertation contends that electoral language was a distinct discourse: an elastic, interconnected debate rather than parallel streams of speeches which passively reflected wider developments in society and politics. In this respect, it argues that Conservatives better …
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Patterns of Electoral Politics in Ceylon, 1947-1970
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7207008.pdf: 10942258 bytes, checksum: 423e276536b8463aff9cc988947e7ba2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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The Time Is Now: Empowering Nurses In Electoral Politics
… many capabilities that could easily translate to politics, very few nurses serve in political office in the United States. Resources such as a candidate training program that capitalizes on nurses' particular skills to prepare and assist them to run for elected office are practically nonexistent.A …
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Mississippi electoral politics, 1903-1976 : the emerging modernization consensus
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1979.
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Hindu nationalism, electoral politics, and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata party in India
… propelled the party to the forefront of Indian politics, and poses a major challenge to India's secular democracy. The central argument of this thesis is that by appealing to Hindu nationalist sentiments, the BJP has successfully "outbid" the Congress Party for the loyalty of Hindu nationalist …
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Independence and deference : a study of the West Riding electorate, 1832-1841
… upon the development of popular, participative politics has recently been challenged. This study seeks to rehabilitate the 1832 Act and to examine the consequences of this major piece of franchise reform upon the electorate of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The central focus is the twin themes of …
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National security panics : overestimating threats to national security
… reasoning, tested here). The Domestic Politics Perspective argues oversell, logrolling, electoral politics and/or militarism causes public overestimations. Domestic Politics best explains the national misperceptions examined. In each case, the sources of the specific misperceptions …
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Identity Politicking: New Candidacies and Representations in Contemporary Canadian Politics
… the extent to which identity matters in Canadian electoral politics at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels, bridging sociological understandings of power and authority with feminist analyses of identity. The project engages broadly with qualitative methods—discourse analysis, media …
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Transformation of Rebel Movements into Political Parties in Transitions from Civil Conflict: A Study of Rebels' Decision-Making amid Violence in El Salvador and Zimbabwe
… decide to negotiate, disarm and participate in electoral politics? The analysis relies on historical narrative and process–tracing to uncover complex, interactive causal mechanisms beyond the purely rationalist motives of rebels and regimes.</p> <p>This qualitative study analyzes two …
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Elite perspectives on three crises of legitimacy in post-National Front Colombia
… process, the long Colombian tradition of electoral politics has remained intact. The longevity of the regime is surprising not only in comparison with its neighbors, but also in light of its consistently high levels of domestic political violence.
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Rural transformation and local politics in a central Thai district
… is a study of socio-economic change and local electoral politics in a Central Thai district and is based on ethnographic research carried out between 1989 and 1990. Local electoral politics has received little attention in Thai studies in recent years. This thesis aims to fill this gap with …
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A normal vote approach to the nationalization of the American electorate: Presidential elections, 1828-1984
… They both contended that the sectional nature of electoral politics was deteriorating, leading to the ""nationalization"" of the electorate. A number of other researchers have since examined whether the electorate has indeed been nationalized, but the methods, data, and findings vary considerably. …
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Political legitimacy, citizens' mobilization, and leaders' survival
… Social Science Data (Chapter 4), the effect of electoral politics on political trust and a leader's survival is examined; and the leaders' data of Archigos and other country-level data (Chapter 5) allow me to examine leaders' survival.Chapter 2 reviews literature about the potential causes of …
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Institutionalizing ethnic demands: framing processes, resource mobilization, and indicators of party formation in Colombian ethnic movements
… have created viable ethnic party vehicles in electoral politics while black social movement organizations have failed in this endeavor. I find that fragmented framing in the black movement led to disunity and inhibited mobilization processes culminating in the inability to mobilize a loyal …
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Virginia and the Equal Rights Amendment
… They then shifted to a campaign based on electoral politics. However, the transition occurred too late to effect the outcome of ERA ratification in Virginia.
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Chicana politics: Maria Cardenas and La Raza Unida Party, 1935-1993
Chicana Politics is centered on the life of María Cárdenas, as a way to reveal a complex history of Chicanas in electoral politics and their relationship with the larger feminist movement in Texas. By examining the life of María Cárdenas, I make two arguments. First, even though María Cárdenas …
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The politics of college affordability : a multiple streams analysis of financial aid policymaking in Texas
… streams approach (MSA) to the examination of how politics in Texas shapes state financial aid policymaking. I analyzed three bills considered by the Texas Legislature between 2011 and 2015, each affecting a different type of student aid: a need-based grant, forgivable loan, and tuition exemption. …
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Engaging in the quota debate: From equal opportunity to equality of presence
… of gender quotas to secure women’s inclusion in electoral politics is one of such policies. In this thesis, through a comparative analysis of gender legislation in Chile and Peru, I explore the effectiveness of gender quotas policies for women’s greater formal political participation. The study …
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