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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Political Actor"”.
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"Hammering in the wedges": The political praxis of Harriette Colenso in Zululand and Natal, 1884 to 1913
… tracks and analyses the praxis of the political actor, Harriette Colenso, in support of Africans in the struggle against imperialism, in Natal and Zululand, between 1884 and 1913. It examines the interplay between Colenso's political praxis and the rapidly changing colonial political …
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Economic and political liberalisation in the Middle East:the Muslim brotherhood and the politics of succession in Egypt
This thesis explores the process of economic and political reform in Egypt, by taking into consideration the role of the Muslim Brotherhood and the politics of succession in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is arguably the most important political actor in Egypt, and by looking at how the Muslim …
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The Supreme Court and labor policy: A rational choice perspective
… with little attention been paid to the political context in which the Court operates. This dissertation attempts to address this allusive issue. A theoretical model is developed that accounts for the political environment in which the Court operates. This model assumes that the Court is …
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Iran; A Nuclear Super Power? Understanding Nuclear Ambitions
"Iran is a nation in flux, with a history of political strife and revolution. The everchanging political atmosphere in the nation has made Iran an unpredictable political actor. It is a nation coping with a new governing system, just a few decades out from a revolution from the reign of the Shah of …
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Memoria comunista e memoria del comunismo in Italia dopo il 1989. Il caso dei militanti bolognesi
… between collective memory, identity and political culture. In particular, it focuses on the importance of the activity of interpretation and reconstruction of the past which is constitutive of processes of social and political change where specific collective actors are involved. The …
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Roesia De Verdun, Thirteenth Century Femme Sole
… managed estates, and emerged as a legal and political actor, appearing in court records and corresponding with influential figures like Bishop Robert Grosseteste. Finally, the third part turns to her material legacy, analyzing personalized artefacts such as her seals and tomb effigy alongside …
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Politicized armies, militarized politics : civil-military relations in Turkey and Greece
… emerged as a roughly unitary, independent political actor in Turkey, whereas in Greece it remained divided into factions aligned with civilian political parties through patronage relationships. This empirical observation is then used as a basis for an attempt at theory building. Several …
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La construcción discursiva de la identidad en los nuevos movimientos sociales: el caso español del 15M.
… between discourse and society and discourse and political identity will be delved on. Furthermore, this work will place the new social mobilization within the digital sphere, and will try to offer a first look into the new forms of political action and organization developed in the net society, …
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Political integration of Hezbollah into Lebanese politics
… itself to be a resilient, relevant, military and political force within Lebanon as well as across the Middle Eastern region. This thesis focuses on the approach through which Hezbollah, as a military, political and social organization integrates itself into Lebanese society and polity. This thesis …
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Assessing changing relations between the Russian Federation and South Africa
… South Africa, as a significant economic and political actor in the continent that subscribes to similar ideals, can help Russia to reassert its status as a major world power. The study traces voting patterns of Russia and South Africa within the UN Security Council, and discusses …
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Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism
… seeking to theorize the meaning of 'political' gender work in relation to its dominant perspective of class justice. The researcher has followed a specific empowerment initiative targeting women activists during the year, and has also engaged closely with the institutional dynamics in …
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THE MEANING OF MARKETS: HOW THE DOMESTIC FAIR TRADE ASSOCIATION UNDERSTANDS CREATING SOCIAL CHANGE USING MARKET INITIATIVES
… education and empowerment of the consumer as a political actor, and the role of policy in a complete transformation of the food system.
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THE MEANING OF MARKETS: HOW THE DOMESTIC FAIR TRADE ASSOCIATION UNDERSTANDS CREATING SOCIAL CHANGE USING MARKET INITIATIVES
… education and empowerment of the consumer as a political actor, and the role of policy in a complete transformation of the food system.
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Il giudice costituzionale colombiano vis-à-vis dello sfollamento interno
… rights of IDPs, both as a judge and a public political actor. Colombia has the second highest number of IDPs in the world, making it a crucial social problem for human rights and humanitarian law. The Colombian constitutional judge declared the “estado de cosas inconstitucional” vis-à-vis the …
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A Reign of Burnt Wounds and Crowded Cells: Exploring how political power is upheld at street level through observations of the municipal police in Mexico City
… source of mediation between state and non-state actors and an apparatus that enforces the status quo. But if these findings entail a conceptualisation of the police as a political actor, then how does it enact politics at street level? Moreover, how are political elites upheld through police …
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The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection
… properly is not a purely academic exercise. The political language and behavior we associate with conscientiousness are empty to the point of being vulnerable to co-option by manifestly non-conscientious, violent, and reactionary movements. My argument is that the ease with which political actors …
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The Impact of European Monetary Integration on the Labour and Conservative Parties in Britain, 1983–2003
… effect the movement towards deeper economic and political integration in the EU has had on the domestic politics of a member country, Britain. This study argues that this pressure to integrate by joining the single currency, or European Monetary Union (EMU), and its predecessor, the European …
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Corruption as a rational choice: The case of the first post-independence government of Ghana: 1951-1966
… in spite of the fact that many well educated political leaders emerged from the potentially good human resource base of Africa—Nasser, Nkrumah, Nyerere, Balewa, Senghor and more recently, Mandela whose terms of offices held so much hope for the ordinary African, nothing concrete seems to have …
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The Consolidation of Power through Electoral Engineering
… as follows: • The consolidation of power is a political, actor-focused concept that supplements the literature on democratization/democratic backsliding and is applicable as a foundation for empirical analysis. • The consolidation of power is defined as an action that meets four criteria: an …
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A New Form of Authoritarianism? Rethinking Military Politics in Post-1999 Nigeria
… important because the relationship between the political elite and the military in post-military authoritarian states guarantees either democratic consolidation, or its reversal. In Nigeria, despite an appearance of significant progress in subordinating the military institution to democratic …
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