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Showing 1 to 20 of 21873 for “"Political"”.
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Political Content And Political Behavior: Using Functional Theory To Test The Ability Of Political Content To Stimulate Political Interest
… up with Internet access--are engaging in formal political participation, compared to their parents. Digital natives lack the information needed to participate. This study examined the effects of interactive political content on digital natives' political information efficacy (PIE) through an …
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Civic and political involvement among young adults: Exploring political talk, political efficacy and political participation in a community context
… research on uses and gratifications by exploring political information-seeking uses of the Internet and social networking sites (SNS) and their relationships with political efficacy and political participation. Approximately 300 young adults completed a survey covering information-seeking, …
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WOMEN’S POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN AFRICA: POLITICAL VIOLENCE TARGETING WOMEN, POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS
My dissertation examines women’s political representation in Africa. While there have been great strides in women’s representation in certain African countries, especially in those countries with a robust gender quota law, women’s inclusion in politics and government has been uneven across the …
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Local Television News, Political Participation and Political Knowledge
… the study explores the relationships among political information, political participation, and the incumbency advantage. The study demonstrates that individuals living in media markets where the geographical boundaries of the media market are more congruent with the geographical boundaries …
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Conceptions of Authority, Political Orientations and Political Dissent
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412213.pdf: 5875888 bytes, checksum: 01fc3137bf36c609ee058d85a7efae53 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Political creativity
This thesis is about political change and the possibilities for politically creative individuals to achieve desired change. To identify such possibilities, I argue that we should employ a catalog of analytical tools from the social, psychological and cognitive sciences, organized in three sets. One …
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CONSTITUTING THE POLITICAL: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICAL LIBERALISM
… to develop a phenomenological account for Political Liberalism. My hypothesis is that a re-articulation of the main issues in transcendental phenomenology as it relates to social philosophy, first in a genetic sense (as developed by Alfred Schutz), but also in a generative context (as …
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Political Participation and Political Repression: Women in Saudi Arabia
… women were for the first time in history granted political space through electoral suffrage. To evaluate whether the new political opening for Saudi Arabian women has improved women's rights and equality in the Kingdom, I sought to conduct interviews to acquire their views and attitudes. In the …
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Political Marginalisation and Political Violence in the Niger Delta
… of civilians to participate in, and justify political violence in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. The dominant literature in this area tends to highlight political, economic and identity marginalisation as the causal factors behind political violence. However, there remains a lack of clarity in …
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Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory
… and methodological resources would it take for political theory to be able to more deeply analyze the emotional and affective dimensions of political life? In this dissertation, I articulate interdisciplinary work on affect and emotion into political theory in order to realize four linked …
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Measuring Political Activity How Online and Offline Political Activities Connect
… media has emerged as a pivotal platform for political involvement, influencing how both individuals and political entities engage in political activities. Its widespread use encompasses diverse aspects of political engagement, from organizing protests to election campaigning, making it an …
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Shia Political Islam in Iran. A political and economic approach
… understanding of the nature and function of Shia Political Islam. Despite internal and external concerns, Shia Political Islam has emerged and continued to have control over power in Iran for more than four decades. The post-revolutionary Islamic government has been able to keep its power through …
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Citizenship, exclusion, and political organizations : political response to immigrant policy
… examines whether policy can foster the political incorporation and democratic participation of immigrants. The study compares immigrants' political responses to immigrant policy in Sweden and Germany. Sweden is the critical case because Sweden's immigrant policy attempts to shorten the …
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Predicting Political Revolution
… and sociological factors associated with political revolutions in order to create a predictive model. I do this by using statistical methods with nation level panel data collected from public domain sources. I anticipate being able to create a predictive model that provides a probability …
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Political Disengagement and Spaces of Neglect in the Current Political System
… highlight spaces of disengagement from formal political processes and are a legitimate cause for concern. Political disengagement has the potential to create spaces of inequality in terms of the level of political representation a given area or group in society receives, and as such, can create …
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Laughing Our Way To Stronger Democracy: Political Comedy's Potential To Equalize Political Interest And Political Knowledge In Community College Students
<p>Political comedy is the one off-line news source – albeit soft news – that young adults access in higher rates than older adults. They are tuning into political comedy to be entertained, but while watching, they also get a healthy dose of politics. For otherwise apolitical young people, does …
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