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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"High politics"”.
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An elite’s response to democracy: how the Conservative Party adapted to extensions of the franchise; and coped with ensuing political repercussions 1867-1914.
… party leaders through their exploitation of high politics; and how ideology influenced their policy, and decision making. It also examines how the party’s organization was periodically revised to manage changing political circumstances. The relationships between these three elements, high …
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The Conservative Party and Thatcherism, 1970-1979: A grass-roots perspective
… historiography is exercised most by intellectual high politics while the broader Conservative party has been neglected. However Thatcherism was a real political movement, not just the creation of metropolitan intellectuals and politicians. The grass-roots perspective offers a fuller and richer …
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The politics of the rope: the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969
… strategy and influence. It examines the high politics of the campaign; the role played by government and opposition and the interplay between them, and scrutinizes the Parliamentary debates. It examines the role of the main political parties and their internal conflicts, both structurally …
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Postavení žen ve vrcholné politice na konci šedesátých let 20. století a jejich postoje k sovětské okupaci ČSSR
… It is focusing principally on women in the high political offices in 1968: on the politicians working at the National Assembly, Central Commitee of the Communist Party of the Czechoslovakia and in the government. The main direction of the thesis is the attitudes of women to the august …
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A re-examination of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s
… three main areas. Firstly I consider the high politics and intelligence surrounding the introduction ofinternment; in doing so I challenge accepted narratives regarding the measure. I demonstrate that there was ample intelligence available on both republican and loyalist paramilitaries. …
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Arguing for the Death Penalty: Making the Retentionist Case in Britain, 1945-1979
… this reason this thesis priorities Parliamentary politics over popular action. This marks a break from the methodology of the new political histories that study ‘low’ and ‘high’ politics in the same depth.
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Migration and Political Discourse: Comparing the Visegrad Group and European Union Institutional Narratives
… complex nature of the issue, coupled with the high influx of irregular arrivals, has led to intensified disagreements both within and between member states and the European Union's decision-making institutions. This study analyses the temporal and thematic alignment between the securitisation …
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From the Grand Serail to the Great Revolt: Constitutionalism and Revolution in Lebanon, 1925-27
… tension between the rational-legal discourse of High Politics during the French mandate over Lebanon and the seemingly chaotic circumstances of popular unrest. I examine this issue in a specific historical context which I believe has wider significance – the drafting of the 1926 Lebanese …
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Right-Wing Refugees and British Politics, 1830-1871
… the role of right-wing refugees in British politics during the middle years of the nineteenth century, considering the relationships which these refugees established with British politicians, and the difficulties which their multifarious activities created for the makers of British foreign …
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Romanticism in Print: Periodicals and The Politics of Aesthetics in Restoration Paris, 1814-1830
… France took place not only in the world of high politics but also at the level of culture, and particularly through the literary debate between romantics and classicists – the bataille romantique. The literary debates between classicists and romantics, with their conceptions of what was …
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THE MYTH OF THE SLAVELESS SOCIETY: BLACK POLITICS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANTISLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1783
… seized on the mechanisms of Massachusetts’ high politics to lead the first interracial, organized, successful abolition movement in American history. As petitioners, plaintiffs, soldiers, and citizens, Black men, like James Somerset and Felix Holbrook, and Black women, like Jenny Slew and …
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The Politics of History and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
… throughout Eastern Europe. By looking beyond ‘high politics’ and examining the cultural sphere, intellectual discourses and the international context from 1968 up until the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987, this dissertation maintains that the GDR’s ‘Prussia-Renaissance’ unfolded as a …
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Church and State in England in the mid-eighteenth century: the Newcastle years 1742-1762
… both that the Church was an integral part of politics in the eighteenth century, and that the interests of the Church were not wholly subordinated to those of a secular state. These themes are developed through the thesis which is divided into five sections. Part I, the introduction, is itself …
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The Radical Heart: The Politics of Love in the Struggle for African-American Equality, 1833-2000
… private realm, and thus has no bearing on the high politics and economics that used to dominate American historiography. Interracial sexuality occupied a particular historical silence in a nation whose Supreme Court would not strike down all laws against interracial marriage until 1967. In his …
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The Roberts Court Constitution of Freedom of Speech: Preferences, Principles, and the Study of Supreme Court Decision-making
… conservatives’ characterization of our nation’s highest tribunal.</p> <p>These dual storylines present a puzzle that motivate a set of interrelated research questions: What is the nature of the Roberts Court’s constitution of freedom of expression? Is judicial behavior within this politically …