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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Government Agents"”.
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Inequality in the work visa approvals of U.S. immigrants
… how U.S. immigration policies, as implemented by agents acting on behalf of the federal government, shape migration and key employment outcomes of skilled foreign nationals. Using a unique dataset, which encompasses the entire population of 1,441,856 H-1B temporary work visa requests evaluated by …
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A residual infrastructure. The rise and obsolescence of big satellite television dishes in Colombia
… not only technologically, but also in how government agents, businesses, and users conceived of them. Grounded in infrastructure studies of media and Latin American communication and science and technology studies, this dissertation looks at three particular aspects: the role of informal …
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Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
… crisis of 2007-2008 led to extraordinary government intervention in firms and markets. The scope and depth of government action rivaled that of the Great Depression. Many traded markets experienced dramatic declines in liquidity leading to the existence of conditions normally assumed to be …
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'The Man' In the Kitchen: Government Attempts to Change Foodways In the Rural 1930S South
… thesis examines the way in which the federal government, primarily through the United States Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Home Economics, and the Cooperative Extension Services' state-run home demonstration programs, attempted to change foodways in the rural South during the Great …
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The Accelerationist International
… computer software engineer—is picked up by government agents to help the United States as tensions escalate in the ongoing Cold War. He is flown to Japan, the Pacific base of operations for a U.S. and Japanese alliance, against a Sino-Soviet alliance in the East. While he is there, the Cold …
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The Challenges of Promoting and Adopting Biogas Technology as Alternative Energy Source in Semi-Arid Areas of Tanzania: The Case of Kongwa and Bahi Districts of Dodoma Region
… head. The study has further established that government institutions have not fully engaged themselves in promoting biogas technology instead responsibility for development of biogas projects has been left to non-governmental organizations without effectual intervention of government agents. …
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Factors Influencing SMEs’ Access to Finance in South Africa
… of the influence of SMEs on the economy and the government initiatives to grow SMEs, SMEs continue to face challenges of access to finance and high failure rates in their start-up phases. Against this background, this study examined the key reasons SMMEs struggle to gain access to banking finance …
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Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination in Pittsfield, Massachusetts : an investigation of public participation
… in agreements reached between various government agencies and the polluter, General Electric, regarding extensive PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) contamination in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In this case, government acted as a trustee on behalf of the public's interests in the …
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Immigration, inequality, and the state : three essays on the employment of foreign nationals in the United States
… how U.S. immigration policies, as implemented by government agents, shape migration and key employment outcomes of foreign nationals. Using unique quantitative and qualitative data, never previously available outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (U.S. CIS) and U.S. Department of …
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Spying: A Normative Account of the Second Oldest Profession
… attends to the urgent ethical problems raised by government spying. It asks and answers three principal questions: What is spying? What principles should regulate government spying? And how can government agents be constrained to follow these principles?</p><p>The first chapter takes up the …
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Civilian Autonomy and Resilience in the Midst of Armed Conflict
… variables, I then test whether perceptions about government responsibility affect these attitudes. Specifically, I argue that civilian attitudes towards resistance methods are informed by which political actor civilians view as responsible for their security problems. I find that the predicted …
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Eco-compensation, Water Management and Political Power in China
… eco-compensation projects predominantly involve government agents, often with different levels of government as service sellers and buyers; in China individual land users are only directly involved in a few cases. Literature suggests that PES schemes are not simply technical solutions, but are …
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Remediating empire: constituting, documenting and re-mediating U.S. citizenship in Puerto Rico (1898-1941)
… of U.S. citizenship remediated as governmental technology through three forms of media for the U.S. colonial possessions acquired in 1898. More precisely, through critical discourse analysis this research looks at interplays of U.S. government produced documentary media, and …