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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Factionalism"”.
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Factionalism in the Conservative Party : the 'anti-Europeans' since 1970
… roles in the CPP and the nature of party factionalism in contemporary British politics.
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The battle to stem the tide of decline
… aim is to understand the role that intra-party factionalism has in two major social democratic parties – the Labour Party and the SPD, respectively – on the parties’ responses to electoral decline. To so do, a review of the changing social, political, economic and electoral environment wherein …
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Political Economy of Natural Resources and Governance in Iran: An Empirical Investigation
… which takes into consideration political factionalism interaction with oil rents in the case of Iran. The results show that oil resources have a direct positive effect on economic growth in Iran. However, the interaction effect of factionalism (as a proxy for political asymmetry degree) …
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Paul's Rhetorical use of Complex Metaphors in 1 Corinthians 3-4
… to address the problems of authority and factionalism in the Corinthian church. Paul addresses these issues succinctly by the use of complex metaphors. The purpose of this thesis consists of examining and discussing the manner in which Paul addresses the problems of authority and …
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‘DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HIS RACE’: BLACK OFFICEHOLDERS AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF FREEDOM IN WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, 1865-1877
… public office. They did so by using Republican factionalism or what the dissertation argues was an alternative partisanship. Ultimately, it was not factional divisions, but voter suppression, gerrymandering, and constitutional revisions that made local government appointive rather than elective, …
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State, Dissidents, and Contention: Iran, 1979-2010
… the first project of its kind to focus on elite factionalism and its impact on popular mobilization in contemporary Iran. Although other scholars have extensively written on elite factionalism in postrevolutionary Iran, they have not analyzed the implications of the inter-elite conflict for the …
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Returning to Babylon: Processes of social change and the characteristics of former participants in a new religious movement
… itself has been one of dissenting views, factionalism, and fragmentation. Unresolved questions of authority and control within the R.L.D.S. church and divisions over modem shifts in doctrinal emphases have contributed to widespread dissatisfaction among members clinging to more traditional …
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Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault
… structures that regulate and inhibit not just factionalism, but group formation as such.</p>
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The image of human condition: Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue
… Devereux, despite being associated with court factionalism, also draws, I argue, on the optimistic and conciliatory philosophy signified by Sidney’s New Arcadia. Sidney’s romance affirms its author’s piety, in which human fallibility is recognized and tolerated. Amphialus represents Sidney’s …
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The division of Everton Football Club into hostile factions : the development of professional football organisation on Merseyside, 1878-1914
… strategies within the club, and gave rise to factionalism amongst the club membership. The split of 1892 resulted in the disengagement of oppositional forces within the original club and their coalescing into separate organisational forms: Everton Football Club Company Limited, and Liverpool …
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Theatre Under the Stars : the Hilker years
… development of a professional company; political factionalism in the elected Park Board; and the relationship between Hilker and the Park Board which varied from mutual admiration to mutual loathing. Particularly analyzed are the pivotal events of 1949 that resulted in a complete change of …
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In “the American Strain”: The Hybrid Poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Chin, and Sherman Alexie
… by boundaries, binaries, divides, and factionalism. The critical separation of the social and political from the aesthetic, the “ethnicity/poetry binary” described by Alan Golding, and the evolution of cultural studies departments are a few examples. However, most prominent is the …
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An evaluation of Greene's resource theory of party dominance with reference to the South African case
… resource imbalances. An historical analysis of factionalism within the ANC since 1994 is undertaken. Factional dynamics within the ANC have proven important to party dominance, as the direction of patronage became primarily targeted at winning intra-party battles, and lack of factional …
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The characterization of the Christ as ideal king in Ephesians.
… disparate ethnic groups, and for freedom from factionalism within the social order. In both Greco-Roman and Jewish thought, such a golden age was thought to be the consequence of the reign of an ideal king.
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The Alternation Fallacy: Turnover without Transformation in Zambia (1991-2015)
… they continue to blur the separation of powers. Factionalism stemming from ethnic polarisation, which emerged in the colonial era, undermines all ruling parties in Zambia. The study finds that succession contests, triggered by term limits or the deaths of sitting presidents, are the primary …
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Divisive Rights and Structural Wrongs: A Comparison in Polycentric Constitutionalism
… constitutional structure could better remedy factionalism in the region.
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'Spheres of influence': Simeon's trust and its implications for evangelical patronage
… situation arose with indictments of party factionalism directed at Simeon's trust, and this subsequently introduced the churchmanship issue. Simeon trust incumbents illustrated the phenomenon of evangelical civil religion as they responded to these ecclesiastical issues with arguments which …
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