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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Political Legitimacy"”.
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Political legitimacy, citizens' mobilization, and leaders' survival
… parties' representation and accountability of political systems, and how the electorates' behaviors, both conventional and unconventional, instigate politi- cal instability that may substantially increase the risk of deposition. I adopt a theoretical structure of the selectorate theory proposed …
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Luang Wichit Wathakan : official nationalism and political legitimacy prior to World War II
… of state nationalism during this period of political upheaval and conflict. The study, based upon a range of archival materials, diplomatic dispatches and newspapers, together with a series of interviews, traces Wichif's emergence as the preeminent intellectual figure in pre-World War II …
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Luang Wichit Wathakan : official nationalism and political legitimacy prior to World War II
… of state nationalism during this period of political upheaval and conflict. The study, based upon a range of archival materials, diplomatic dispatches and newspapers, together with a series of interviews, traces Wichif's emergence as the preeminent intellectual figure in pre-World War II …
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Soft power and the Qing state: publishing, book collection, and political legitimacy in eighteenth-century China
… and his officials attempted to consolidate the political legitimacy of the Manchu ruling house over the Han Chinese populace through using institutions inside and outside the state to distribute imperial writings. The Qianlong emperor sought to appeal to the values of the Han Chinese literati in …
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India, political development and legitimacy: a modern state in a traditional society
… concentrating on the historical inheritance of political and social values which influence a society. This concept within India highlights the limitation on both economic and political development through traditional fragmentation. This persistence of tradition, such as religion, caste …
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LEGITIMACY FOR HOGS: THE SELFISH CASE FOR EXPRESS CONSENT THEORY
… dissertation investigates the source, if any, of political legitimacy. To answer this question, I examine conceptual, methodological, empirical, and normative issues. First, I define political legitimacy as the state’s claim-right to coerce, correlative to subjects’ duty to accept coercion through …
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Fear itself: Assessing the risks of transporting high-level nuclear waste
… a new process for risk assessment that has political legitimacy, rather than technical elegance, as its goal.
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A People's War: The Transformation of German Politics, 1913-1918
… explores the manner in which one form of political legitimacy came to replace another, how the Volk enfranchised themselves at the expense of monarchy during World War I Germany, and its primary focus is the public display of nationalism in July-August 1914. In 1913, Germany's so-called …
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Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman
… of exchange catalyzes the social production of political legitimacy and ensures continued generous distribution by mythopoetically presenting such cyclicity as resulting from elite and non-elite mutuality. This praise poetry is rendered within two song and dance complexes: al-razḥa, a collective …
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The Dynamics of Political Activity and Organisation
… explanatory model of the changing membership of political parties, capable of reproducing past behaviour and of testing the same systems under alternative conditions. The thesis considers the appropriateness of the General Epidemic Model to political party growth, and considers other models in …
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Language, Ideology and Power in Uganda
… conceptions of linguistic respectability and political legitimacy. These include the widespread association of standard Kiswahili, as historically used in East African trade-union and military activity, with national integration and development. While the NRM's detractors tend to draw their …
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The autonomy of the political
… assesses five arguments for the autonomy of the political. The arguments I examine are those of Niccol6 Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and John Rawls. After presenting what I believe to be the most plausible reconstructions of these arguments for the autonomy of the …
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Explaining Civil War Persistence in Afghanistan
… of societal support and thereby, political legitimacy.
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Public Opinion in Benjamin Constant's Political Thought
… of interest in Benjamin Constant’s (1767-1830) political thought. Most contributions have started from the premise that Constant was a ‘liberal’, despite his own elusive use of the term. As a result, scholars have often interpreted Constant’s thought in ways that correspond to later conceptions …
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Traumatic Familiarity: Fictions and Theories of Community in the Eighteenth Century
… associated (in direct contrast to works of political philosophy) with women, the young, and the "idle," facilitates critical engagement with historically privileged discourses about social and political legitimacy. </p>
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Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City
… I argue that the illiberal state achieves its political legitimacy by successfully convincing citizens that only it can secure Singapore's continuous economic growth. I further assert that within Singapore's strongly communitarian political framework, gay citizens who stress their commonalities …
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Walter Lippmann's Search for a Sustainable Liberalism
… from his attempt to understand the problem of political freedom (are people competent to self-rule in a mass democracy?) throughout this critical time period. In this struggle Lippmann remains a nuanced, though fierce exponent of political freedom as he sought to verify the foundations of …
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Creating War, Inventing Peace: the History Behind Oslo, Its Implications, and the Arab-Israel Conflict
… the Oslo Accord was motivated by the different political ambition of two leaders, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, and that this process eventually consummated as "fact" nearly a century of distorted history and construed myths. In doing so, the Oslo Accord legitimized several "sacred cows" of …
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