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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Neo-conservative"”.
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The Holy Ghost Beyond the Church Walls: Latino Pentecostalism(s), Congregations, and Civic Engagement
… and pastor's education, can either be very conservative, inward-looking, and otherworldly, or progressive and this-worldly--in addition to other options along this continuum. Such findings are particularly important given the common social scientific research assumption that Latino …
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The battle over deficits : the struggle to maintain Canada's social welfare state : a thesis /
… two contrasting views regarding deficits: Neo-Keynesian and neo-conservative. The neoKeynesian school focuses al1llOst exclusively on the short term stability of the economy and tends to dismiss concerns regarding the level of debt. Neo conservatives focus almost exclusively on the …
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A constant in an ever-changing world: Washington's pursuit of its interests through regime change after 1989
… are based on the "mainstream" liberal and neo-conservative outlooks in contemporary western politics. Liberal and neo-conservative intellectuals and public figures generally claim that Washington's foreign interventions are based on an enlightened and progressive desire to spread the …
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Judging What They Do: Formal, Informal, and Self Appraisal of New Zealand (Rural) Primary School Principals
… New Zealand government education policy reflects neoliberal economic thinking, neo-conservative ideals and practices of an audit culture. New Zealand’s self-managing schools’ policy, introduced in 1989, changed significantly the complexity of school principals’ work. Leadership frameworks and …
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Systems of valuation
… activism of the 1960s, and prefigured the neo-conservative politics of the 1980s. It represented a decisive moment in that it appeared to reconcile critiques of consumerism and capitalism by linking the limits of global consumption to a finite totality of resources on the planet. As a …
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Teaching, activism, and the purposes of education: Toward an integrated vision of teachers' work
… four contemporary approaches to teachers' work (neo-conservative, caring, contemporary liberal, and critical theory). The result was an integrated vision of teachers' work that brings together teachers' daily practices and their educational commitments around four dimensions of teachers work: …
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Political labels and women's attitudes
… categorised according to libertarian, liberal, conservative, neo-conservative, authoritarian or humanitarian labels. The patterns of attitudes and identification are explored. The findings are that diversity and plurality characterise the women's views. Their opinions cover almost the whole …
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Becoming-Virgin: Re-Virginisation Practices in Turkey
… ignores these practices in line with its neo-conservative policies. Furthermore, it utilises the notion of “becoming” as originated by Gilles Deleuze and developed with Felix Guattari, and its feminist interpretations to discuss how women’s relationship to their body changes, how they …
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The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir
… in three cinematic eras: classic film noir, neo-conservative retro noir, and millennial neo-noir. Feminist film criticism tends to identify the femme fatale as a protofeminist, a productive transgressor of social norms whose worth has only been posteriorly discovered. In opposition to this …
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Making the invisible visable : an analysis of the Home and Community Care Program : a socialist-feminist perspective
… These assumptions, combined with an increasingly neo-conservative view about a reduction in the role of the State and a corresponding increase in family responsibility in welfare, have major implications for Australian women. This socialist-feminist analysis argues that women who are providing …
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Justifying jihad: US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen
… national security policy documents and contemporaneous media commentary. It concludes that propaganda and public diplomacy were integral to the Reagan administration and other mujahedeen supporters’ determination to challenge the USSR. It finds that the conflict was used to justify military …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… saw in the automobile, strengthening the neo-conservative state by enabling direct and indirect control of individual mobility and strengthening corporations by intensifying the relationship between mobility and commercial consumption.