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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Political Needs"”.
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The Political Implications of Natural Disasters
… status quo, and create social, humanitarian and political needs. In most cases, people turn to their governments to provide for these needs. However, governments vary widely in their ability and willingness to provide for these needs. Citizens evaluate the outcomes of the government's actions in …
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Tourism with Chinese characteristics : the state and the market in China's domestic tourism industry
… such as tourism can still be dominated by the political needs of the state. Yet this paper also suggests that at least in tourism, even Communist Party values may ultimately be tested in the marketplace.
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AN AGENCY’S PATH TO INDEPENDENCE: HOW TO GAIN ADMINISTRATIVE AUTONOMY AS A U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY
… administrative agencies that are subject to political polarization may find it difficult to fulfill their long-term missions while addressing short-term political needs, lacking sufficient autonomy to do their jobs. This thesis asks what U.S. government agencies can do to foster autonomy from …
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ΤΑ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΚΑΤΑΡΤΙΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΔΑΣΚΑΛΩΝ 1878-1911
… AND THE AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS SERVED THE POLITICAL NEEDS OF THE PREVELANT VIEWPUTS. ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY IS, AFTER RECONSTRUCTING THE SOURCES , TO LOOK INTOTHEM MORE CAREFULLY AND MAKE SOME INTERPETATIONAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TEACHERS IN THE PERIOD OF …
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Precarious Work and Communities: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Working Class Politics
… and where workers have relatively little political power, has been on the rise in North America in the last few decades. If precarious workers are isolated and unengaged, they will not be able to represent their political needs. The goal of this research is to clarify the relationship …
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When Wombs Became Weapons: Women, Policy, and Propaganda in the Third Reich
… policies were certainly driven by the immediate political needs of the National Socialists, such policies could not and would not have succeeded had they not made use of pre-existing cultural sensibilities and a uniquely German sense of gender-specific possibilities, thereby allowing an "old but …
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Latino Evangelicals: How Their Multiple Identity Influences Their Political Preferences
… However, we have a limited understanding of the political needs of the Latino Evangelical who identifies as an ethnic person and a religious person. As the discipline of political science attempts to predict, describe, or explain the political attitudes of Latinos, understanding the political …
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Reel Guidance: Midcentury Classroom Films and Adolescent Adjustment
This thesis examines the cultural and political messages found in "social guidance" films, a genre of films produced for pedagogical purposes in the United States following the Second World War. Educational film producers relied on social science consultants for legitimacy and employed plots that …
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The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia
This dissertation critically examines the political and social significance of colonial portraiture by focusing on domestic portraits commissioned for Virginians between the mid-seventeenth century and 1775. Portraiture was a site where colonial and imperial identity was negotiated and expressed. …
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The Gujaratis of Bolton: the leaders and the led
… to Gujarati identities and by racism within political parties. The settlement patterns of Gujaratis in Bolton reflect in part the socio-economic constraints experienced by black immigrants in Britain generally, and in part their allegiance to faction, caste, sect and religious identities. On …
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Dramatic narratives and the holocaust
… the Holocaust are subtly re-figured according to political Zeitgeist - what Walter Benjamin called Jetztzeit, the blasting of history out of its continuum to service contemporary political needs. This thesis aims to show that narratives and representations of the Holocaust both in Israel, Germany …
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Realms of Remembered Violence: The Emergence of Mass Murder Memorials in the United States, 1986-2012
… about how changing cultural expectations and political needs transformed commemorative practices concerning violence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. By exposing how the timely interventions of national figures increasingly shaped local commemorative aspirations, my …
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Ideologies, policies, and practices: Japanese language education in Australian secondary schools
… tug-of-war between agendas responding to various political needs and societal trends, leading to significant changes in the discourses around JLE. Overall, it was found that JLE has been handled ineffectively, often lacking clear educational objectives, and suffering from frequent shifts in …
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Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976
<p>This dissertation is a political-economic, race and class analysis of two moments of struggle at CUNY: the take over of parts of City College, leading to the Open Admissions policy in 1969; and the fiscal crisis of New York City, leading to the imposition of tuition for undergraduate students in …
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Everyday Heritage, Spatio-temporal Dynamics and Place-making: Rethinking the Social Production of London’s Chinatown on the Backdrop of COVID-19
… address their contemporary economic, social, and political needs. Furthermore, this thesis reveals the challenge faced by ESEA activists when using London’s Chinatown as a space for anti-racism work. The findings highlight the urgent need for researchers, heritage practitioners, activists and …
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In Defense of Empire: Habsburg Sociology and the European Nation-State, 1870-1920
… of nation and empire with a new set of legal, political, and sociological concepts. Social analysis of the state provided, they believed, the means by which to produce these new concepts. A century before the “imperial turn” of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, legal scholars …
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Care and Political Representation: Exploring the Challenges of Contemporary Representative Democracy with an Account of Democratic Care Ethics
… of need but extends into our public and our political lives. Care and democracy, for example, can be intricately linked. This thesis addresses these links and presents an account of democratic care ethics as a productive approach to consider the challenges in contemporary democracies and the …