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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Local politics"”.
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Immigrant Inclusion: Reframing Local Politics in Immigration Debates
… I explore the causes and consequences of local immigrant integration policies, such as the adoption of sanctuary practices, municipal IDs, the establishment of local immigrant affairs offices, and more. While these policies have gained traction in recent years, we know little about why …
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RURAL POLITICAL AGENCY AND LOCAL POLITICS IN GLOBALIZED MARKET
… by certain political environment at the local level. The findings in this dissertation will help us better understand democracy in developing countries such as Indonesia, as nearly three-quarters of its population lives in rural areas and engaging in agricultural activities.</p>
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Weighted Policymaking: Federal, State and Local Politics of Obesity
In less than one generation, more than two-thirds of American adults have become overweight or obese. The financial and societal costs of obesity shift this condition from a private to a public problem necessitating a collective solution and an understanding of it as a public policy issue. This …
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Local politics in Cowra Shire: structure, ideology and resources
… thesis offers explanation for the maintenance of local power relations in a rural community in terms of ideologies and the ways in which they are reflected, responded to and reconstructed in and around a local political system. It does so by developing concepts useful to the study of power …
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Local politics in Cowra Shire: structure, ideology and resources
… thesis offers explanation for the maintenance of local power relations in a rural community in terms of ideologies and the ways in which they are reflected, responded to and reconstructed in and around a local political system. It does so by developing concepts useful to the study of power …
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Rural transformation and local politics in a central Thai district
… thesis is a study of socio-economic change and local electoral politics in a Central Thai district and is based on ethnographic research carried out between 1989 and 1990. Local electoral politics has received little attention in Thai studies in recent years. This thesis aims to fill this gap …
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The role of the greens in the local politics of West Germany.
… Greens to the changing nature of West Germany's local politics in the 1980s. The changes correspond broadly to the politicisation and parliamentarisation of a sphere of government traditionally perceived as being "unpolitical". Building upon theories of the New Politics, it is suggested that the …
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Development, local politics and the "new Europe" in County Donegal : an ethnographic study
… in view of the new European Union-sponsored local development initiatives which have been implemented in Ireland during the past decade. It is argued that the way in which each of the three groups experience, talk about, understand and reify development elements which together provide the …
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Local politics and industrial adjustment : the political economy of Italy in the 1980's
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1989
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The limits of local politics: local socialism and the local economy in the 1980s; a case study of Sheffield's economic policies
The analysis of local politics has too often been partial and one-sided. Dominant approaches to its study have tended to emphasise either the institutions of local government, or the logic of the local state, or (more recently) its relationship to localities. This thesis seeks to bring together a …
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The Dimension of Coercion in Chantal Mouffe's Theory of Agonism: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Applications to Local Politics in the UK
… coercion in Chantal Mouffe’s theory of agonistic politics and its subjective presuppositions. It concludes that coercion is a ubiquitous and constitutive aspect of agonistic politics and pluralism. Focusing on Mouffe’s agonism and endeavours to apply this approach in empirical analysis, the thesis …
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Stadspolitik i Malmö : Politikens meningsskapande och materialitet
… more and more committed to entrepreneurial city politics. However, both the international and Nordic research communities have shown little interest in studying whether these trends are viable in a Nordic context. Thus, through a case study of the city of Malmö, this doctoral dissertation …
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Popular Politics in a Philippine Municipality
… ordinary peopleb s perceptions and styles of politics in Tanauan, Philippines. Tanauan local politics resembles the image found in earlier studies. However, relations between political elites and constituents cannot be understood by merely subscribing to the traditional models of patron-client …
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Local powers and decentralization in Southern Mozambique : the case of the administrative post of Mocumbi
… and NGOs in Mocumbi, Southern Mozambique and the local appropriateion of a neo-liberal democratic discourse. It explores local power dynamics in the context of post-war democratization and decentralization policies in Mozambique and provides historical evidence that suggests the centrality of …
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Using the Local News: Campaigns, Newspapers, and Accountability
The steep decline of local newspapers in recent years represents a major shift in the media environment that may be detrimental to political accountability and knowledge. I argue that despite these seismic changes in the marketplace for news, local newspapers remain critical to American politics. …
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Threatening Discourse: Cultural and Contextual Challenges to Constructing Antiracist Narrative and Practice Among One Elementary School Staff
… narrative, dominant educational discourse, local politics, community histories, and personal stories all work to inscribe and maintain racism in this school even as it is actively contested. Implications for educational policy and future research on the culture of teaching, antiracist …
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Mobility politics : local ideologies in the multi-jurisdictional metropolis
What is the interplay between local politics and metropolitan infrastructure planning in the context of the multi-jurisdictional governance of contemporary urban regions? I interrogate, first, how cities make policy when many governmental organizations are involved in city planning. And I ask, …
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Woes of the Arkansas Internationalist: J. William Fulbright, the Middle East, and the Death of American Liberalism
… and national conversations, showing that local politics influenced the larger global narrative during the Cold War.</p>
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Constructing Valparaiso: Infrastructure and the Politics of Progress in Chile's Port, 1842--1918
… affairs in the early twentieth century. Thus, local politics contributed directly to the formation of the kind of state familiar to twentieth-century Chileans. However, until late in the period, state-controlled projects and foreign investment, upon which most Latin American urban …
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