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Political elites and development
… of three essays on the behavior of political elites and their effect on economic development. The first two chapters focus on political dynasties in the Philippines while the third chapter analyzes the long-run economic effects of the concentration of political power in the state of …
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Russian regional elites: continuity and change
… theoretical approaches to contemporary Russian elites at the national and regional levels leads to an initial hypothesis according to which Russian regional elites embody a combination of continuity in terms of membership and change as regards the structures through which they implement policy …
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ELITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA. EXPLORATORY STUDY ON ELITES' BEHAVIOUR ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECHNOCRATIC, TECHNO-POPULIST AND POPULIST ATTITUDES
… works, we identify the 2.000 core members of the elites, we underestimate the “second circle” of 6.000 of important, but not all-powerful, actors in the Italian society. We also collect socio-demographic information about these actors, including date and place of birth, gender, level of education, …
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Hegemony and Culturedness: Elites after Socialism in Mongolia.
… to the rise, but also to the fall of oligarchic elites is the issue of ‘national interest,’ the valorized notion of an independent state which paradoxically shapes the capitalist dispositions of the elites, while also being a source of their insecurity. In liberal democracies elite power often …
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Elites, Language Policy and Political Integration in Hyderabad
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:47:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7414554.pdf: 7492087 bytes, checksum: b5750ecb45a8c75fbba0b4b81ee247f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Unsettled elites: reproducing the hacendado in neoliberal Ecuador
… independence and nation-building, hacendado elites embody the close association in Ecuador of the possession of landed property with racialized forms of social prestige that have defined the standards for national cultural norms of distinction and political economic power. They are also often …
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Youth, elites and distinction in a Northern Namibian town
This thesis illuminates the process of elite formation and the making of the public space in Rundu, an African middle-range town, against the background of wider transformations in postcolonial Namibia. I address these theoretical issues by bringing to the fore an intergenerational dialogue in the …
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Fractured elites : the politics of economic crisis in Mexico
… Such assurance of political survival allowed elites to defend the political system's long-run interests, not just their narrow self-interests, and avoid economic crises. In the 1970s and 1980s, "struggle" emerged as power conflicts became all-or-nothing, erupting in massive expenditures, other …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
For much of modern history, U.S. political parties adopted a consensus non-partisan knowledge regime, consisting of experts at universities, non-partisan think tanks and government agencies, to inform policymaking decisions. However, after the consensus supported by the knowledge regime enabled the …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
For much of modern history, U.S. political parties adopted a consensus non-partisan knowledge regime, consisting of experts at universities, non-partisan think tanks and government agencies, to inform policymaking decisions. However, after the consensus supported by the knowledge regime enabled the …
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Immigrated Russian Jewish elites in Israel and Germany after 1990
… Suzanne Kellers sociological model of “Strategic Elites”, it easily becomes clear that a huge share of the Russian Jewish Immigrants in Germany and Israel are part of various elites due to their qualification and high positions in the FSU – first of all professional, cultural and intellectual …
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The Politics of Persuasion: Testing the Power of Local Elites
Among the variables of most interest, only opposition by elected officials had a significant influence on the success of a ballot measure: opposition by minority leaders, citizen groups, and established groups had no significant affect on the fate of the ballot measures. I conclude that business …
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Conflicto entre elites y expansión del sufragio en la Buenos Aires posrevolucionaria
El 14 de agosto de 1821 se sancionó en Buenos Aires la ley de sufragio directo y universal masculino. En comparación a países europeos y al resto de América Latina, esta normativa resultó inédita para la época por su inusitado carácter democratizador. ¿Cuáles son las causas detrás de su aprobación? …
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Inequality in Perspective: Rethinking Inequality Measurement, Minimum Wages and Elites in Mexico
… to change, Section IV scrutinizes Mexican elites, exploring how inequality is perceived from the very top of the income distribution, how this affects policy-making and, subsequently, measured inequality levels. Section V concludes by outlining the theoretical and practical implications of …
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As elites e o poder local em Porto de Mós (1898-1926)
O presente estudo versará sobre as elites e o poder local em Porto de Mós, abrangendo o período compreendido entre 1898 e 1926. Estudaremos as elites em Porto de Mós, que assumiram a sua governança, no período em questão. Nos finais do século XIX e viragem para o século XX, surgiram grandes …
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As elites políticas bejeneses ao tempo do senhor D. Pedro (1749-1786)
… versa a temática do exercício do poder pelas elites locais bejenses e o seu condicionamento pelo poder senhorial/central. Este desiderato é alcançado através da análise dos processos eleitorais, abrangendo um período que se estende desde a segunda metade do século XVII até ao final do século …
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