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The Surviving Parties
This thesis is a collection of short stories that were written and re-written between my time as an undergraduate at Columbia College and my time as a Graduate Student at UMKC. These stories were picked out from many fictional works because they each present a youthful perspective through a unique …
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How parties behave: the role of strategy in contemporary British political parties
… strategy derived from management theory to study parties In Britain during the contemporary period. It discusses the concept, nature and role of party strategy in British politics, introducing a new way of discovering how parties behave and making original observations of historical events. This …
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European integration and the nationalist parties
… analysis of the factors affecting nationalist parties’ support for the EU over time and across regions. Investigating how European integration and nationalist parties interconnect and looking for patterns among a large number of cases are important to understanding the nature of nationalism and …
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Minor Parties In English Local Government
… examines the electoral performance of minor parties in English local government from 1973 to 2008, a period that has seen a sharp increase in the numbers of candidates from such parties. Beginning with an overall assessment of the extent to which candidates from minor parties have contested …
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When will parties comply with electoral results? Political institutions and strategic choices of political parties following electoral defeat
… examines the electoral compliance of political parties. In recent decades the number of countries holding multi-party elections has increased dramatically. Often times, however, one or more of the parties participating in the election refuse to comply with the announced results and frequently …
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Security assessment of open source third-parties applications
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components are ubiquitous in both proprietary and open source applications. In this dissertation we discuss challenges that large software vendors face when they must integrate and maintain FOSS components into their software supply chain. Each time a …
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Tea Parties of Ohio: An In Depth Look
… of eight interviews of members of different Tea Parties throughout the state, this thesis analyzes different aspects of the Tea Party and compares it to claims made by the national movement. Among other areas it explores Tea Party principles, behavior, and organization to come up with a political …
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The Beleaguered Party: Ideological Parties in Adverse Environments
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7803993.pdf: 17209986 bytes, checksum: 7c3b10812cf1d15feec8d456e2bb4c6f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Counting votes right : strategic voters versus strategic parties
… to fully account for the strategic behavior of parties. In an ideal experiment we would like to observe two identical votes with exogenous variation in the party victory probability. Among world parliamentary democracies 104 have a unique Chamber, 78 have two Chambers with different functions, …
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INTERACTIONAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH PARTIES TO A PPP PROJECT
Public private partnership (PPP) projects involve a variety of project governance structures. Common among all these varied structures is the long-term contractual period between multiple public and private entities. These entities include government, concessionaire and financier. The increased …
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Special Interest Partisanship: The Transformation of American Political Parties
… On the one hand, pluralism offers flexibility to parties and groups, and alliances have little value when parties are too weak to discipline their members in Congress. On the other, institutionalized alliances offer significant efficiency gains, which are especially valuable during periods of …
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Selected study for political parties from the Arab countries
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Do parties still matter? : the politics of gubernatorial nominations
… seeks to answer this simple question. Parties have classically been the organizations held responsible for throwing their collective effort behind a candidate and controlling the nominations. Yet, in recent years, scholars have noted a steady weakening of American political parties …
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Parties, Committees, and Rules in the U.S. House of Representatives
This dissertation project aims to build upon the literature of positive theories of legislative politics, and provide three more nuanced stories about various stages in the U.S. House of Representatives: rules making, committee composition, and floor voting. The chapter, Conditional Nature of Rules …
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Political Parties and Social Movements: Mobilizing and Representing Civil Society
Most political parties that emerged in Europe since 1945 have roots in social movements, but unlike older mainstream parties with movement origins they did not adopt an electoral-professional party model focused on pursuing the median voter. Neither have they retained their organizational …
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Parties to gamete donation: from bounded selves to relational persons.
… and academics. In law, relationships between parties are commonly characterised in terms of competing sets of rights. The parties are characterised as adversaries, in conflict, and this conflict is resolved by balancing the competing rights of one against the other. Under this model, rights …
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Political Parties in a Bifurcated State: The Case of Guyana
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:34:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7114915.PDF: 7883147 bytes, checksum: 61fbfa5eb5a9ffd166fd85e3c1f9b292 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Third parties’ reactions to everyday vigilantism: A dual-process perspective
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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