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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Liberal values."”.
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Political Cultures in Times of Crisis: Measuring the Effects of Liberal Values on Interstate Crisis Onset
… (understood as representative government, liberal culture, or both) plays in interstate relations generally, and the onset of conflict specifically. In the empirical international relations literature, in particular, problems persist surrounding measures for democracy and the modeling of …
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Should liberal states compel their citizens to adhere to liberal values? The failure of the UK and France to protect ethical independence and equal civic status in relation to freedom of education and other fundamental rights.
… The central argument of my thesis is that a liberal state should adopt a ‘principle of restricted neutrality’, as defined below, when enacting laws, making administrative decisions or adjudicating upon disputes. Toleration and neutrality The concept of ‘toleration’, for beliefs which conflict …
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The Global Spread of Islamism: An Agent-Based Computer Model
… networks. Since Islamism is inimical to western liberal values such as tolerance and women’s rights, the diffusion of Islamism is hindered by a strong commitment to western liberal values. I include all countries in the analysis, scored on the degree to which they are committed to Islamism and …
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Accepting the Unacceptable: Trinity Western University, Religious Freedom, and the Meaning of Liberal Constitutionalism
… a state operating within the framework of liberal constitutionalism may legitimately condition receipt of public benefits on the recipient's conformity with liberal values—a question that is implicitly asked, but never directly answered, by the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Law …
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Terrorism and Democracy
… terrorist attack, by virtue of the openness and liberal values that underpin them. This thesis will seek to examine why terrorism is effective in democratic countries, and it will explore the range of means available to reduce the threat without destroying the liberal values that one seeks to …
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Hate Speech and Public Schools: Autonomy and Equality
Public education operates under the same liberal principles of the larger society. While children's constitutional rights should be protected, more legal leeway has been given to the public school setting. This dissertation argues that two important liberal values of autonomy and equality provide a …
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Make Love to Your Mind: Dance, Disco and American Liberalism, 1970-1988
… can give us an insight into how radically liberal values have spread into mainstream thinking through popular culture. Whilst disco’s embrace of racial and sexual diversity was once rebellious, and of the artistic fringes, these views can now seem as though they have always been common …
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A General Legal Right to Conscientious Exemption: Beyond Religious Privilege
… existence of this general right by appealing to liberal values.
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Legitimacy and diversity : an examination of the problem pluralism presents to the legitimacy of democratic regimes
The foundations of liberalism lie in respect for the intrinsic value of human freedom. This respect is usually expressed through the defence of the twin values of autonomy and equality. It was during the Enlightenment that liberal values acquired concrete philosophical foundations in the writing of …
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I Used to Speak in Tongues: Spirituality and Pentecostal Deconversion Narratives
… protagonists adopt a spirituality that is either liberal or neoliberal. Liberal spirituality encourages experimentation and assimilation of various religious practices and beliefs as long as they complement classic liberal values like individualism, freedom, rationality, pluralism, etc. Neoliberal …
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Contextual Effects and Support for Liberalism: A Comparative Analysis
… in political freedom shapes individuals’ liberal attitudes and challenges existing explanations on value change. I begin by demonstrating that mainland China does not follow the path anticipated by Inglehart’s popular theory of value change, which expects protracted economic development to …
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The political economy of Rexford G. Tugwell
… the context of democracy and cherished American liberal values. The thesis of this work is twofold: 1) this study asserts that Tugwell's work is thoroughly compatible with the OIE tradition. To validate this point, Tugwell's work will be organized into a framework that is consistent with ODE in …
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Worldview education: a possibility for autonomy-facilitating education in Islamic schools
… countries is fueled by the belief that Islamic values are incompatible with those of the liberal democratic West. One area that could prove especially challenging for integration is education, as the foundational values of Islamic education would also, on this view, clash with the foundational …
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Liberalism and ethical life : on equality, neutrality, and culture
Liberalism faces an apparent paradox. Its commitments to values such as neutrality and tolerance seem to recommend a hands-off attitude toward a society's ethical life. It seems the state should not regulate the value systems that underlie a society's ethos, group interests, or individual lives. …
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Liberal Democracy's Asylum Seeker Paradox: A Case Study of Australian Labor Party's Policies on Offshore Detention
… detention as being antithetical to Australia's liberal values, which proclaimed human rights as an Australian value. After winning the 2007 federal election the policy of offshore detention was ended. By 2009, the Australian Labor Party changed its position on the issue going into the 2010 …
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Decentralization, Democracy and Development : Examining the potential and limits of subnational empowerment
… the contemporary world where Keynesian and neo-liberal values contest for space simultaneously, the (re)configuration of the role of the state while fostering democratization is an important dimension to consider. In this context, it is increasingly argued that subnational democracy is important …
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Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism: Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission
… in Africa, adopting instead an openly illiberal colonial outlook. Journalists were at the center of that change, shaping and disseminating across Italy a vicarious colonial experience that eventually undermined the application of liberal values. In this respect the scandal constituted an …
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The political values present in the Presbyterian church in Canada's response to social problems, 1925-1975
This thesis seeks to discern the political values present in the Presbyterian Church in Canada's response to social problems from 1925 to 1975. The author believes that the Presbyterian Church has tended to accept uncritically the dominant political ideology in Canadian society (i.e., liberalism) …
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People pressure : strategic engineered migration as an instrument of statecraft and the rise of the human rights regime
… that perpetrators seek to place their targets' values and/or normative commitments in direct conflict with their (usually) competing and heterogeneous political imperatives, in the expectation that targets will choose to concede to perpetrators' demands rather than suffer the anticipated …
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Respecting Citizens, Protecting Capabilities: the Role of the State in a Liberal Society
… overlooked. In order to grant religious freedom, liberal states often permit discriminatory and oppressive practices. Martha Nussbaum maintains that a balance must be struck between the protection of individual rights and the protection of religious freedom. She suggests the liberal state should …
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