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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Modernization theory"”.
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Poverty on the Periphery: U.S. Implementation of Modernization Theory in the Alliance for Progress and the War on Poverty
… objective of this paper is to compare how modernization theory was implemented during the Alliance for Progress and the War on Poverty and to explore how this impacted power structures at the national level in the Alliance and the local level in the War on Poverty There have been some …
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A framework to assess the rehabilitation of historic cave dwellings in Libya using modernization theory and technology acceptance model
… between the technology acceptance model and modernization theory with Libyans’ perceptions of cave dwellings in the Nafusa Mountains region, West of Tripoli. The researcher formally tested hypotheses linking cave dwelling's ease of use, usefulness, and the perceived intention to live in a …
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Ethno-nationalism and the Spanish state: a comparison of three regions in Spain
Modernization theory hypothesizes that ethnicity and ethnic activism will diffuse and dissipate following industrialization because in industrial economies class will replace ethnicity as the basis for individual and group identity. However, the persistence of ethnic activism, including autonomist …
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Dilemmas of China's Modernization: Population Problem and the Strategy of Sustainable Development.
<p>By reexamining the process of China's modernization centered on its population in the past half century, this paper explores the grim situation of China's population, historical factors, the relationship between population, resources and environment. Also, focused on controlling the size and …
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The Growing Middle Class and the Absence of Democracy in China
<p>Contrary to the prediction of modernization theory, the vibrant Chinese economy and its growing middle class have not brought democratic change to the authoritarian country. This work sheds light on the puzzle of the absence of democracy in China despite a fast-growing middle class. The study …
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A Debt of One's Own
… state and business actors. Against modernization theory, banks are thus identified as the twin pillars of both civil society and the marketplace.
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Putting It Gently: The Other Side of a Peace Corps Volunteer Experience
… American exceptionalism, capitalism, and the modernization theory of development. The goal of this project was to understand what factors led to the negative experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers. I conducted an ethnography that focused on online communities, semi-structured interviews, Peace …
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The Moral Foundations of Knowledge: Seeking and Avoiding COVID-19 Information
… draws on the intersection of moral foundations theory and modernization theory to investigate this paradoxical relationship between political conservatism and knowledge about COVID-19. Study 1 provided correlational evidence that individualizing foundations (i.e., moral concerns regarding …
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Does democracy deliver? : an analysis of the debate on the relationship between development and democracy
… Three. This paper will describe the link between modernization theory and the development projects that have disappointed African scholars, thus causing them to search for a ""new and improved"" development theory which should replace Western theory. African scholars connect the failures of …
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Vidaus audito poveikis bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos ugdymo kokybės kėlimui /
… total of 100 respondents. Research methodology: Modernization theory, which states that \"the whole nation goes the same path, and the countries during their development at different stages are the same trajectory, at different points only (Janiunaite, 1999). Therefore, and an educational …
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Corporate social investment in development: an analysis and critique of the Anglo American chairman's fund
… (CSR) and development literature specifically Modernization and Dependency theory set the theoretical foundations for the analysis of the Chairman’s Fund. Three schools of thought were identified in the CSR literature namely; Neoliberalism, Neo- Keynesianism and Radical Political Economy. The …
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Resistance and waste work: Women’s environmentalism in Southern Italy
… and development literatures, such as ecological modernization theory and the women-development nexus. By highlighting the role of disenfranchised migrant women in waste regimes, this research provides a new perspective on the global care chain and on the outsourcing of social reproduction.
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Religious freedom as a practice of the nation: religious minorities, Islamic revival and the emergence of defensive inclusion in Turkey
… theories including the Civilizational Approach, Modernization Theory, Assertive vs. Passive Secularism, and Rational Choice Theory that account for the origin of religious freedom by revealing their weaknesses to explain the Turkish case, but also offers an alternative approach by examining …