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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Ideational"”.
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Rewards, locus of control and ideational fluency in preschool children
… between rewards, locus of control and ideational fluency. Forty-three preschool children were initially administered the Revised Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Preschool and Primary Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale. Based on a median split of the locus of control …
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The effects of posture, time, and attitude on the ideational fluency of student draftsmen
… toward drawing and problem-solving on the ideational fluency of two experimental groups and one control group of student draftsmen. The drawings produced were assessed on the basis of the quantity and quality of ideas generated during a specific drawing task.Five major questions were under …
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The relationships among conformity, locus of control and ideational fluency in the preschool child
… study was to explore the relationships among ideational fluency, conformity, and locus of control in preschool children. Forty-five children (50 to 61 months) from three child care centers were administered the conformity task, the Preschool and Primary Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External …
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A constructivist and institutionalist political economy perspective on ideational, political and institutional changes in France
When examining ideational change, the constructivist approach to institutional change within political economy focuses primarily on economic policy ideas. Yet the reflexive potential of this approach could be further enhanced by paying greater attention to the ideas a community holds about itself - …
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IDEATIONAL POWER IN THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY REFORMS:A DISCOURSE NETWORK ANALYSIS OF INTEREST GROUPS' POLICY NARRATIVES
… increasing criticism. Building on the CAP ideational literature, the thesis explores how policy actors deploy dominant discourses to maintain or change power structures. Using a Discursive Institutionalist lens, this study expands Carstensen and Schmidt's (2016) conceptualization of …
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The remaking of the Polish industrial relations system : the institutional and ideational antecedents of firm-level employment practices
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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From Economic Neoliberalism to Economic Nationalism: Ideational Change in the Economic Programme of the Austrian Freedom Party 1956-2017
In recent years, the far-right nationalist Austrian Freedom Party, much like other far-right parties, has undergone a shift in their economic programme from relative economic openness to ideas of renationalising industries, disenfranchising multinational corporations, and restricting international …
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Interrogation of the fertility differentials between the Malawi DHS and the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project survey data
… who were interviewed in the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP) surveys of 1998 and 2004 are generally higher than the mean parities for the women who were interviewed in the Malawi Demographic and Health Surveys (MDHSs) of 2000 and 2004 respectively.
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The relationships among ideational fluency, self-reports of creativity, intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, and perceived parenting style in gifted and nongifted adolescents
The purposes of this study were to examine the relationships among creativity, motivational orientation, and perceived parenting style in gifted and nongifted adolescents; to compare gifted and nongifted adolescents in creativity, motivational orientation, and perceived parenting style; and to …
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Property Inference Decision-Making and Decision Switching of Undergraduate Engineers: Implications for Ideational Diversity & Fluency through Movements in a Cartesian Concept Design Space
… creativity and innovation through discouraging ideational productivity, fluency and diversity. During the design idea and concept generation phase of the design process, a reliance on perceptual surface feature similarities between design artefacts increases the likelihood of design fixation …
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Commitment, religiosity, and alienation: a study of seven intentional communities
… moving from a sensate or this-worldly form to an ideational or other-worldly definition of reality. It was shown through the works of Kanter and Fairfield that the utopian ideals expressed by commune members tend toward ideational beliefs. Three variables were chosen as indicative of the trend …
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UN Peacekeeping Operations: Conflicting Interests and Effectiveness
… within peacekeeping operations reduce the ideational commitment of troop-providers to the UN, therefore, are instrumental on how peacekeeping operations work. The two empirical chapters and a case study contribute to the understanding of whether troop-providers’ ideational commitment to the …
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The Last Council: Social Security Policymaking as Coalitional Consensus and the 1994-1996 Advisory Council as Institutional Turning Point
… most of its post-enactment history in search of ideational processes and schema in path-dependent, path-shaping, and path-breaking modes of institutional persistence and change. The study is grounded in the historical institutionalist literature, specifically the recent debate about the utility …
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Why public policy ideas catch on: empty signifiers and flourishing neighbourhoods
… on in public policy’ reveals the inadequacy of ideational accounts to compete with the predominance of mainstream models of policy analysis. This thesis reasserts ideational accounts through the application of the political discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe. The approach posits ideas as …
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Pitirim Sorokin and the duality of mind
… solidarity, as well as in Sorokin's Sensate-Ideational dichotomy of main cultural types. In this essay the "duality of mind" is re-examined in light of Sorokin's theory of change. Evidence is found to support the idea that the human psyche has its Ideational and Sensate modes. These modes, …
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Phenomenological Pragmatism: Freedom as the Immanent Transcendence of Desire in John Dewey
… because he presumes that desire is always ideational, rather than explaining how desire comes into cognitive awareness and control to be available for reflective manipulation. This work will extend Dewey's theory of experience and habit by explaining the structural habitual conditions …
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LABOURING TO TEACH: ACCOUNTING FOR POLICY TRANSFORMATIONS IN TEACHERS' LABOUR AND INSTITUTIONAL REGIMES IN CHILE BETWEEN 1980-2021
… with an emphasis on state transformations and ideational resources. Aimed at providing a comprehensive and explanatory account of transformations of teaching, I introduce the notion of teacher accountability policy ensemble which aims to broaden and strengthen traditional conceptualisations by …
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Is this the Future We Want? Understanding the Legitimacy of International Education Agendas. The Example of Equity in Education
… by academics towards equity in education, as an ideational feature of the current IEA, the Education 2030 – SDG 4 agenda. I argue in my thesis that academics can be considered an audience of particular relevance to IEAs, and likewise, equity in education arguably constitutes a critical ideational …
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Coercion, norms and atrocity: explaining state compliance with international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia arrest and surrender orders
… approaches, there will be an exploration of both ideational and material explanatory variables. Moreover, as mainstream neorealist and neoliberal institutionalist theories are unable to cope with entites where an autonomous state is not an ontological given, this thesis will be divided into two …
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Spinoza's Ethology: Recognizing Dynamic Transitions Between Imagination, Reason, and Intuition
… is that within it is a proto-physics of ideational force between the three kinds of knowledge expressed by the attribute of thought and, simultaneously, expressed as ratios of motion and rest, speed and slowness, intensity and transformation by the attribute of extension. Such dynamic …
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