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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Marketisation"”.
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The discourse of the marketisation of higher education : a case study of a post-92 university
… thesis proposes that the discursive practices of marketisation are transforming and degrading the distinctive educational character, meaning and operations of higher education; that the discourse and habitus of higher educations’ constitutive elements are being usurped by an economic ethos and an …
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The impact of marketisation on higher education in post-Mao China, with case studies of universities in Yunnan Province
An important component of the New Public Management, which has spread through many countries in the world, is the emergence of hybrid governance, a structure which has replaced traditional hierarchical governance in many parts of the public sector. Hybrid governance lies between hierarchical …
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The production and mediatisation of political talk television in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom
… content of political talk shows by looking at marketisation and mediatisation. To what extent can marketisation and mediatisation explain political talk content? A cross-national methodology is employed that categorises the three countries according to their marketisation levels. The …
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Shifting academic identities in a post 1992 university. What are the implications for gender?
… identity, destabilised by the pressures of marketisation and accountability. The questions explored within this thesis are based around a research project that aimed to examine the shifting academic identities of lecturers in a post-1992 university. The research adopted a qualitative …
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Marketisation and professionalisation of campaigning of political parties in the new democracy: an investigation of the structural conditions and factors that determined the development of marketization and professionalization of campaigning of the Indonesian political parties in the Post-Soeharto New Order.
This study explores the marketisation and professionalisation of campaigning of political parties. More specifically, it attempts to provide a systematic understanding of the structural conditions and factors that determine such developments in a new democracy. The following propositions commence …
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Death, dying and ‘difficult’ marketing: an ethnographic study of marketing at an English hospice
… by, and in turn inform, broader principles of marketisation. Drawing on the theoretical concept of performativity in relation to markets and marketing, this thesis advances an understanding of how the actions of a newly formed hospice marketing team frame and shape resulting in a particular …
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Corporatising water and wastewater services in Scotland : governance, regulation and operations
… and agents. EU directives, devolution and marketisation provide some of the structural conditions for water policy making. Epistemic water communities, comprising think tanks, policy entrepreneurs and regulators are key agents identified in this research promoting corporatisation. This …
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Discourses of professionalism and the production of teachers' professional identity in the South African Council for Educators (SACE) Act of 2000 : a discourse analysis
… Africa. The first is a bureaucratic discourse of marketisation that defines a role for teachers in preparing students for participation in a global market economy. A second discourse which is identified in the study is a democratic professional discourse, which delineates a critical, independent …
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"Hey! They're trying to learn for free!": An Analysis of The Simpsons as a Satirical Portrayal of Neoliberal Influence on Public Education
… categories are put forth: privatisation, marketisation, performativity, and the enterprising individual. These categories form the basis of the conceptual content analysis that sampled each of The Simpsons’ 12 seasons before the 2001 introduction of No Child Left Behind, the United States’ …
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Provincial government and regional development
… and toleration of decentralisation and marketisation in the economic sphere has generated economic prosperity in some regions. But economic reform was not necessarily accompanied by political transformation. Most characteristics of socialism have been retained, including political …
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Teachers’ discourses around accountability measures and low-attaining pupils: how an economic model of education has commoditised children.
… The Marxist analysis proposed that the marketisation of schools has led to pupils being seen as commodities, with exam data as currency. This has led to differing levels of value being placed on pupils depending on the data they are able to produce. This has resulted in low-attaining …
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Foreign Direct Investment from Developing Countries: A Case Study of China's Outward Investment
… outward FDI was affected by the progress of marketisation in China. China's outward FDI has a very short history and comprehensive data on industrial composition and overseas subsidiaries' operation are not yet available. This has ruled out the possibility of more specific testing with formal …
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Smooth operators: architectural Deleuzism in societies of control
… that in which it serves the advancement of the marketisation of everyday life, its conditions of precarity, and its concomitant instrumentalisation of the communicative and affective capacities of human subjectivity. This critique is pursued through an analysis of the ways in which figures such …
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The television policies of the UK administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major 1979-1997
… and that, while pursuing a general goal of marketisation, the policies were incoherent in many of their specifics. This incoherence stemmed partly from resistance by established institutions within the industry, and partly from internal contradictions within the Tories' overall free-market …
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The transformative potential of human rights : the human right to water and the courts
… water as a form of resistance to the continued marketisation of water service provision.
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Social value creation through community engagement in public service delivery: A qualitative comparison of UK and Vietnamese contexts
… and public service delivery in the UK towards marketisation and managerialism resulted from the perceived inefficiency of state-led public services and an increased welfare burden (Osbourne ad Gaebler, 1992). However, it is also argued that the values created by the market and the state are in …
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Contentious politics and the making of Egyptian public spaces
… of constituting public spaces: monopolisation, marketisation and securitisation. In my research, I will illustrate these three patterns while highlighting their spatial manifestations in particular episodes of contention. I will investigate the process through which the Egyptian ruling regime …
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Creative Industries and the Politics of New Labour
… as opposed to a neoliberal focus purely on marketisation. New Labour produced an essentially benign account of the knowledge economy; the creative industries were capable of producing 'good work', which offered opportunities for highly skilled labour. In addition, because of its links to …
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Towards corpo-nationalism: a Bourdieusian study exploring the relationship between national branding and the reproduction of Polishness (1999 - 2010).
… field of power, specifically with regards to the marketisation of Polish national identity, its co-construction and reproduction; attempts to further corporatise overseas propaganda on behalf of the Polish field of power; and a growing impact of private sector consultants on public policy making …
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Moving the goalposts: the transformation of television sport in the UK (1992-2014)
… increasing commercialisation of sport and the marketisation of broadcasting.
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