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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Infighting"”.
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Not my brother's keeper: How ethnic violence causes infighting
… literature provides few answers to the puzzle of infighting during ethnic conflict because the ethnic conflict literature generally assumes that ethnic violence increases ethnic cohesion. I examine that assumption in detail, and find it both theoretically and empirically flawed. Instead, I argue …
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A history of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, 1920-1946
… the collection was also beset with political infighting and racial tensions. Due to the Latin American Collection's close ties to the History department, maturation of the collection as an archive and library were slow to develop. As one of the largest Latin American collections in the United …
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The Security Situation for Central Asia: Afghanistan, Water, and Uzbek Stability
… due to its centrality in the region, clan infighting, the unresolved issue of succession, and the tenuous stability in the country.</p>
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Bush's hedges on the environment : an analysis of George Bush's rhetoric on the environment.
… warming given February 5, 1990. Administrative infighting on environmental issues is documented. Leaks as a rhetorical stratagem are also discovered. Chapter Four concludes the paper with analysis of Bush's environmental rhetoric in March and April 1990. New terms in the redefinition process are …
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The Islamization of knowledge
… traditional views on science and to disciplinary infighting between advocates of the different Islamization strategies. Each approach to science uses different legitimation strategies and has different objectives. The advocates of traditional approach are trying to maintain the status quo. The …
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The Paranoid Style of Tea Party Politics
… move towards the far right, and it has caused infighting amongst Congressional Tea Partiers and moderate Republicans for influence within the party. These findings reinforce observations of Republican retrenchment and further leanings to the far right of the American political spectrum. This …
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WESTMINSTER LEGACY? EXECUTIVE AGENDA CONTROL AND LEGISLATIVE TIME IN A MULTIPARTY PARLIAMENTTHE ISRAELI KNESSET IN COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
… in private to avoid the high costs of public infighting. The analysis also reveals a predictable lifecycle of this conflict, driven by government alternation and legislative timing. The dissertation traces this hybrid framework to its origins in Israel’s founding (1948–1951), where two …
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Middle Class Guerrilas: The Failure of the Mexican Student Revolutionaries to Build a Mass Movement
… extreme sectarianism and left-wing factionalist infighting due to dogmatic obsessions with theoretical purity becoming priority above all else for many of the urban guerrillas. These urban guerrillas did not have the manpower necessary to win a decades long, drawn out civil war, a problem that …
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TAMILS IN MALAYSIA: PROBLEMS IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR AN IMMIGRANT MINORITY GROUP
… Plagued by incessant political factional infighting at all levels of society the laboring masses have been manipulated into a dependent passivity by the impotency the politics of exclusion and parochial divisiveness. . . . (Author's abstract exceeds stipulated maximum length. Discontinued …
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Towards a history of a Senegalese brotherhood in Cape Town
… itself in Cape Town. It is dealing with infighting borne of its new context, and adapting to changing historical circumstances. Moreover, it can be seen as an alternative social way to respond to the difficult challenges that human beings face in our society.
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An analysis of the nature and implications of military participation in politics in the Kingdom of Lesotho
… executive authority reside, party splits due to infighting and the role played by the RCC, politicised and polarised political and security establishments, electoral act as a result of outdated constitution as well as political and security instability caused by coalition governments that also …
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Buffalo city metro - is bigger better? The hierarchy of urban labels and why they matter
… brings a slew of political and governmental infighting at local, regional and even national level.
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The organisation of a land occupation : a case study of Marikana, Cape Town
… leaders came and went, while episodes of infighting and conflict broke out sporadically as committees lost legitimacy and faced accusations of corruption, illustrating the dynamic and uncertain nature of the new informal settlement. The trend of increasing formalisation and …
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Young Conservatives, Young Socialists and the great youth abstention : youth participation and non-participation in political parties
… suffered from poor perceptions of extremism, infighting and unfashionability at certain times in the period under study which helped deter potential members. These problems were often compounded by a poor relationship between the youth organisation and the parent party. However, whilst, …
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Exploring skills development within the interface of public and private sectors
… opposing expectations and mandates, and the infighting spills over to executive managers and to the rest of the organisation. Boards that are preoccupied with internal power struggles are wont to lose focus on their fiduciary duties which revolve around the implementation of the National …
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Post-settlement challenges on land restitution beneficiaries in the Vhembe District
… such as - inability to access capital, group infighting, lack of adequate support from key stakeholders, corruption, as well as lack of communication and planning amongst the stakeholders. The study concluded that inappropriate planning and lack of post-settlement support impact negatively on …