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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"New Right"”.
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The British New Right and the Problem of Public Opinion, c.1965-1987
… who can loosely be described as belonging to a ‘New Right’, identified and sought to tackle a particular problem in politics: how to mould public opinion such that it would support ideas and policies that ran counter to conventional wisdom. The five chapters of the thesis examine stages in the …
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National identity in a changing South Africa : a study of 'new' right discourse
… study considers the process of constructing a new South African national identity in the political discourse of the 'new' right-wing during the transitional period between 1990 and 1994. It is concerned with how speakers for the "new" Nationalist Party who were implicated in the production of …
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Re-reading the new right: risk, media, and rhetoric in Republican environmental policy
The rise of the new right in U.S. Politics from 1994-1996 is examined as a process of asymmetrical communication and informational deployments of signs constructed to appeal to a conservative political subculture. Lash and Urry’s analysis of the economy of signs and space is employed to trace the …
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Dividing the political : a feminist critique of the New Right / by Sandra G. Lilburn.
Errata sheet pasted inside front cover.
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Hostile Takeover: The New Right Insurgent Movement, Ronald Reagan, and the Republican Party, 1977-1984
… such as race, a shift in public thinking to the right, a divided Democratic party, demographics, and cultural issues as a way to explain the success of conservatism in the latter half of the twentieth century. Some historians credit grassroots movements for their impact on conservatism, while …
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Taxes, Welfare and Democratic Discourse: Mainstream Media Coverage and the Rise of the American New Right
<p>Research demonstrates that news media can shape mass opinion on specific public policy issues in politically consequential ways. However, systematic and critical empirical analysis of the ideological diversity of such news coverage is rare. Scholars have also illuminated how and why U.S. …
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Political Low Roads: The Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century American Demagoguery and the Rise of the New Right
… the middle and late 1970s, however, the once-Old Right of the Republican Party---inspired by Goldwater's 1964 rhetoric on national ""morality"" and racial scapegoats; and inspired as well, though to a lesser extent, by McCarthy's rhetoric---metamorphosed as the ""New Right."" Through its …
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Health promoting schools – the right way
The aim of this research was to determine how the New Right agenda has impacted on the perceptions about the Health Promoting School (HPS) model and its practice. The case study school – a Catholic secondary school, provided opportunity to reflect upon the daily experience of those in a HPS and how …
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Silent, no more: The 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy and the rise of conservatism in America
… with the campaigns of George Wallace, the New Right, and the New Christian Right. The thesis shows how the Kanawha County protestors' words and actions paralleled that of aforementioned conservative movements, creating, in the end, one of the first manifestations of a single-issue …
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Vanguard of the Right: The Department of Education Battle, 1978-1979
… Carter confronted opposition from states’ rights, social, and religious conservatives that were beginning to form the nucleus of the New Right in the Republican Party. Using divisive racial and religious issues, these conservatives tried, and failed, to thwart the Department of Education …
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Teen ages: Youth market romance in Hollywood teen films of the 1980s and 1990s
… of the Reagan era and the conservatism of the New Right. The 1990s films are examined as continuing a conservative sensibility, but they additionally posit consumption as instrumental to achieving an idealized romance. Romantic comedy is traditionally a conservative genre, but these films …
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Legitimate concern: the assault on the concept of rape
… this piece, I will explore the efforts of the Right to delegitimize the legal gains made by women in the fight against rape. I will begin with a brief context of rape law in America, and then explain exactly what precedent the judicial system in Michigan set for a woman’s ability to achieve …
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Understanding the Zero Tolerance Era School Discipline Net: Net-widening, net-deepening, and the cultural politics of school discipline
… in United States public schools. Guided by the New Right, the school safety problem has been framed as an issue of school crime, violence, and student misbehavior that is best mitigated by zero tolerance policies. This stance has emerged as an agenda that has proven disproportionately …
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The new traditionalist movement: a study of church, state, and economy
In the past, emergence of right-wing conservative moral reform movements has resulted in profound changes for our society. Two of the most visible examples would be the 18th amendment establishing the prohibition of alcohol and the movement to destroy communism in America, McCarthyism. since the …
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Language education and national identity : a comparative study of Flemish and Afrikaans L1-instruction materials since 2000
… Since 1991, a gradual political move towards New Right has been made 'visible' through democratic elections with sweeping victories for right-wing parties. Halfway around the world, South Africa was gradually moving out of the Apartheid-era. With a democratic win for the African National …
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Deconstructing Michael Jordan: Popular Culture, Politics, and Postmodern America
… the fatalistic racial indifference of the New Right. Having deconstructed Jordan's position and influence upon the experiencing of everyday life in contemporary America, the dissertation concludes by pointing toward the problematics that need to be addressed in order to formulate a more …
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Cálculo de sensibilidades: uma aplicação do método dos elementos de contorno à otimização de forma
… the surface tractions and displacements are the new unknowns. They are computed by the solution of a system of linear equations that presents the same coeficient matrix of the original B.E.M. problem. The sensitivities for each design parameter are computed after the formation of the respective …
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Paradoxes of the Heart and Mind: Three Case Studies in White Identity, Southern Reality, and the Silenced Memories of Mississippi Confederate Dissent, 1860-1979
… of community memory which surrounded Newt Knight in the early twentieth century, and Mississippi’s interaction with the Civil War through popular culture. These examples will reveal the cultural and discursive systems that have existed in the state for more than a century. This work …
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