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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Party Organizations"”.
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Playing in the Margins: Collaboration Between Local Party Organizations in the Canadian Party System
Collaboration between local party organizations is a peculiar organizational trait for Canadian political parties. It is peculiar because local party organizations were once conceived to be solely concerned with electoral activities in their own district, while central parties helped local …
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State Political Parties in American Politics: Innovation and Integration in the Party System
<p>What role do state party organizations play in twenty-first century American politics? What is the nature of the relationship between the state and national party organizations in contemporary elections? These questions frame the three studies presented in this dissertation. More specifically, I …
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Do parties still matter? : the politics of gubernatorial nominations
… 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 through a succession of major …
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Patronage, Corruption, and Political Culture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880--1916
… of newspapers and pamphlets, engagement in local party organizations, and mobilization in street rallies and meetings, with the study of the discourses and performances that gave meaning to these practices. My contention is that subaltern groups decisively participated in the political culture of …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
… regime centered around a small number of party-aligned think tanks. Democrats followed a few decades later to create their own alternative knowledge regime. These think tanks fill a privileged role advising political parties that is reserved for formal party organizations in most …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
… regime centered around a small number of party-aligned think tanks. Democrats followed a few decades later to create their own alternative knowledge regime. These think tanks fill a privileged role advising political parties that is reserved for formal party organizations in most …
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Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Financing, Patronage and State Capacity in African Democracies
… Why? This dissertation argues that modes of party financing are integral to understanding patterns of patronage-based recruitment to public office, and that these patronage practices have consequences for the broader developmental capacities of the state. </p> <p>The first part of the …
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Understanding the Tea Party Response to Local Environmental Initiatives: A Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism
The Tea Party movement became a significant political force in American politics in 2009. Soon after their arrival on the national scale, this movement turned its attention to environmental policymaking. In particular, it spurred a strong opposition to local sustainable development initiatives. …
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Understanding collaboration in fluid organizations, a proximity approach
As fluid organizations become increasingly important and more commonly used, continued volution in approaches to understanding collaboration within organizations is required. The aim of this study was to understand collaboration in a fluid organization through the exploration of proximity and the …
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Special Interest Partisanship: The Transformation of American Political Parties
Why have group-party alliances become more common since the mid-twentieth century? This dissertation employs both qualitative and statistical tools to address the puzzle of contemporary special interest partisanship. After tracing partisanship across several measures, I develop a continuum of …
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Understanding the Dimensions of International Engineering Programs in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study with Faculty and Students
… of the faculty members or through third-party organizations that specialize in international work. Maintaining relationships was highly varied between programs, but a common deficit among programs was the ability to evaluate project outcomes with partners in a numerical way. The …
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WOMEN’S POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN AFRICA: POLITICAL VIOLENCE TARGETING WOMEN, POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS
… and how women’s inclusion in the structure of party organizations shapes women’s representation and attainment of leadership positions in government. I argue that political parties are a key component for women’s advancement in politics given their gatekeeping role and centrality in the …
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Gendered Civil Society Context, Local Party Strength, and Candidate Emergence: Explaining Female Representation across the US State Legislatures
… female representation observed across states and party caucuses in the US state legislatures. I develop and test the theory of gendered civil society context and party strength to explain why female candidates are more likely to run for office in some places rather than others. Gendered civil …
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ΕΝΔΟΚΟΜΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΝΤΑΓΜΑ. ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΙΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΕΣ ΠΡΟΥΠΟΘΕΣΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΘΡΟΥ 29 ΤΟΥ ΣΥΝΤΑΓΜΑΤΟΣ 1975/1986
ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΑΡΘ. 29 ΤΟΥ ΣΥΝΤΑΓΜΑΤΟΣ (Σ.) 1975, Η ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΔΡΑΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΩΝ ΚΟΜΜΑΤΩΝ (Π.Κ.) ΟΦΕΙΛΕΙ ΝΑ ΕΞΥΠΗΡΕΤΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΚΟΥΠΟΛΙΤΕΥΜΑΤΟΣ. Η ΑΣΑΦΗΣ ΑΥΤΗ ΔΙΑΤΥΠΩΣΗ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΕΙ ΤΟ ΕΡΩΤΗΜΑ ΕΑΝ ΙΣΧΥΕΙ Ο ΚΑΝΟΝΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΝΔΟΚΟΜΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ (Κ.Ε.Δ.). ΣΤΗΝ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ …