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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Modern democracies"”.
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Armed forces, states and threats : civil-military institutions and military power in modern democracies
Two longstanding questions preoccupying political scientists, military officers and policymakers alike are how should and how do political leaders interact with military professionals? This thesis argues that historic patterns of civil-military relations underlay distinct national defense …
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The political economy of health: death, disease and distribution
… and disease exact a heavy toll on citizens in democracies. In response, citizens expect elected politicians to alleviate their suffering by providing public health funding to afflicted areas. I argue that the funding of health policy in democracies is subject to distributional incentives …
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District Magnitude the Tie that Binds: A Comparative Analysis of Political Behavior
Modern democracies rely on elections to select representatives to serve the people in the day to day functions of government. Unfortunately, there is not a consensus in electoral research regarding the optimum electoral institutions. This dissertation considers some of the ways in which district …
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Under what circumstances can a democratic country take steps to legally dissolve a political party?
… the intrinsic value of political parties to modern representative democracy and identifying four basic principles of democracy, this thesis will examine the steps taken within several modern democracies to restrict political rights for the greater good with particular emphasis on freedom of …
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Democracy and city life
… and variegated character of the public sphere in modern democracies. But I caution that this ideal requires conditions that can sustain spatial patterns of wealth and control over land uses that undermine the interests of certain spatially fixed groups. I draw on the experiences of U.S. cities to …
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Neoliberalism, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chesapeake Bay
… corporations and economic elites have within modern democracies holds substantial implications for the rigor and enforcement of environmental policies. Particular to the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency offers numerous illustrations of neoliberal influence within its history …
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Old friends and new enemies, parties in changing time and space
Political parties are the cornerstone of modern democracies and the decisions they make can have important consequences for citizens' well-being. This dissertation studies two different types of party behaviour. The first is coalition building and how social-identity concerns can help predict which …
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Literature and Education: Recalling Matthew Arnold
… the economic forces of the industrial culture of modern democracies, consumed with work and wealth accumulation. He maintains that in the aesthetic experience of literature we behold the being we are capable of. First in his poetry, and later in his critical prose, Arnold confronts the malaise of …
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The Cognitive Underpinnings of Ideological Thinking
… illuminate pertinent societal questions facing modern democracies.
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Implications of a Multidimensional Model of Ideology for Political Psychology
… solution to a multidimensional problem. The modern democratic process implicitly assumes that the single data-point of an individual’s vote must indicate their preference on a plethora of policy issues, from marginal tax rates to the contents of the curriculum; the fixing of potholes in one’s …