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The Slaveholders, the Mexican Liberals, and the Texan Revolution
The revolt of Texas from Mexico and its subsequent annexation to the United States produced a conflict of opinion. Anti-slaveryites of all degrees united against acceptance of the new republic either in the family of nations or within the United States, The annexation of Texas was one of the …
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'Real Liberals' and Conservatives in the City of London, 1848-1886
This is not an economic history. Neither is it a post-modernist tract. Rather this thesis is a knowledge based history that examines the political and cultural life of the City of London between 1848 and 1886 alongside its financial and commercial institutions. In attempting this task it has not …
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AVERSIVE RACISM AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY: CONTEXT-DEPENDENT DECISIONS AND PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS
This study examined perceptions among non-racists, aversive racists, and blatant racists of differentially-performing African-American employees and the effects of the evaluation manipulation on future hiring decisions of an African-American applicant. Using a procedure for categorizing …
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The Attitude of Some English Liberals Toward Napoleon as Reflected in The'edinburgh Review' and Leigh Hunt's 'Examiner'
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5900561.pdf: 14079189 bytes, checksum: 02f9fc44ff7dd10fd0a3ff628b239fe7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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A More Updated Union: A History of New Liberals and Their New Computers in the New New South
By the end of the twentieth century, the United States welfare state itself seemed to exist inside of a computer system. Software and hardware mediated the experience of managing poverty. To seek entailments was to wait for a caseworker to find you in the system. This dissertation traces the …
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The negative effects of the liberals' usurpation of th Green Movement : a study in the demise of the liberal paradigm
… political groups. The thesis argues mat the liberals' domination of the green movement has caused its demise. The systematic entrenchment of their role and status in the green movement has created the impression (sometimes believed by many) that green issues are theirs, and their alone. The …
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Political liberalism, social pluralism and group conflict
… alternative to its dismissal by some egalitarian liberals and its celebration by some multicultural liberals. Some egalitarian liberals overstate the liberal tension with group-specific claims, disregard the role of culture in a person's life, and exaggerate the propensity of group-specific claims …
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Ideological differences in the use of social class categories to organize and understand society
Why do liberals and conservatives often fail to see eye-to-eye on social policies that seek to reduce economic inequality in the United States? I integrate a historical/cultural perspective with contemporary research on liberals’ and conservatives’ motivations to show that social policy …
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The Relationship Between Ideology and Disgust Sensitivity
… political decision-making. Studies indicate that liberals and conservatives rely on respective moral foundations that influence their choices. Haidt et al. (2009) argue that liberals’ views on morality are based primarily on harm/care and fairness/reciprocity, whereas conservatives’ views on …
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Autonomy and neutrality in liberal political thought
… the good life. In addition to this tenet, some liberals hold the view that we ought to define freedom as individual autonomy. Moreover, such liberals claim that the state is required to promote and protect freedom conceived of as individual autonomy. Such autonomy-based liberalism is frequently …
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Lietuvos Respublikos liberalų sąjūdžio reitingų pokyčiai. Makrolygmens tyrimas /
Changes in ratings of Liberals' movement of the Republic of Lithuania. Macrolevel study Liberal parties were not very popular in Lithuania since the reestablishment of independence in 1990. They were constantly shifting, splitting into several different parties, merging together and changing their …
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Christianity at the Crossroads: William Louis Poteat and Liberal Religion in the Baptist South
… and helped secure space for Southern Baptist liberals to expand their influence for generations to come. Like theological liberals in the North, Poteat and other liberals in the South reconceptualized Christianity to fit with the higher revelations of modern science and the progressive spirit …
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Transylvanian Baroque: Liberalism and its Others in Rural Romania
… context, were “domesticated” by Transylvanian liberals as complementary resources that could be mobilised to combat entrenched problems of Romanian society and modernity, as liberals saw it, notably the failure of the state to provide key services and the stagnation of the public sphere. The …
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Economic Uncertainty as a Source of Self-Uncertainty and a Threat to Confidence in Elections
… in elections especially among political liberals (vs. conservatives) and in nations where election integrity (i.e., freedom and fairness) was high. Study 2 ( N = 342) zoomed in on the causal effect of economic uncertainty in one specific context (i.e., the contemporary United States). …
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The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
The central issues in dispute between the liberals and communitarians arise from the social nature of individuals. Communitarians claim that this aspect of our nature requires a methodology that is rooted in the traditions and customs of particular societies. The substantive conclusions of this …
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Education for Muslim children in the UK : a critical analysis of some issues arising from contrasting liberal and Islamic approaches to contemporary problems
… The search for sufficient common ground between liberals and Muslims is unsuccessful because Muslims insist on building their education around a set of religious beliefs which liberals believe schoolsh ave no businesst o reinforce, while liberals offend Islamic principles by insisting that …
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