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Showing 1 to 20 of 290 for “"Political Participation"”.
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Women's Political Participation in China
… in politics. However, the development of women's political participation in China lags behind women's political participation in Western countries. In the Chinese political field, public positions tend to be gendered, and the authority of female officials is marginalized. In this paper, I examine …
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Economic Empowerment and Political Participation
… in social science centered on exploring the political implications of individual-targeted development programs by empirically examining the political behavior and attitudes of program participants. It also joins the established literatures in political theory and political science on what …
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Black Political Participation: Recent Trends
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212308.pdf: 7944174 bytes, checksum: 8df0240d71a5e2370b6f9d08419a1674 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Transnational Political Participation Among Diasporic Migrants
… participate in a variety of dual social, political, and economic processes. Sending and receiving states overtly encourage transnational practices when they allow migrants to maintain homeland citizenship regardless of their citizenship status in their receiving communities. Yet, we know …
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Sex and political participation on Facebook
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Civic Dignity and Meaningful Political Participation
<p>This dissertation looks at how enhanced political participation opportunities can increase individual liberty and improve public-sector reform efforts. It blends political theory with contemporary concerns for individual well-being and government accountability. To do this, several research …
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Political Participation as a Social Activity: Examining the Relationship of Facebook Endorsements and Political Participation in Young Voters
… examine social endorsement cues’ influence on political participation in youth voters by applying the heuristic-systematic model of persuasion. The HSM of persuasion proposes that an individual takes the information that is most accessible and available and then applies that information before …
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Understanding Local Political Participation In West Africa
… that institutional performance affects citizen participation (see Holzner 2010; Bratton, Mattes et al 2005; Hiskey and Bowler 2005). But despite this recognition of the importance of institutions, there is relatively limited research into the institutional determinants of political …
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Self-efficacy beliefs and young people's political participation
Political efficacy is one of the strongest predictors of adults’ political participation, but it has been less studied among young people. General self-efficacy has been considered a possible causal factor for young people to engage in politics. These constructs, in addition to young people’s …
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Political Participation of Registered Nurses: A Correlational Study
… and provides a base line description of the political participation of nurses practicing in hospitals. The study explores the relationships between political participation and the variables: self-esteem, personal control, political efficacy and critical thinking. The theoretical framework for …
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Leetocracy : Political participation, social network sites and inequality
… have the potential to bring about more equal participation. It deals with a phenomenon that has changed the underlying infrastructure of how millions of people communicate. It studies the way the use of social network sites affects communication within existing political organisations in …
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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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Children's Attitudes Toward Political Participation: A Comparative Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7714948.pdf: 9013278 bytes, checksum: a3c894c5d113950e50d36b735dc46007 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Exploring South African youths' on/offline political participation
… located between the contradiction that youth is politically disinterested and that youth is very much politically engaged. Some scholars have argued that youth political disinterest is a threat to the life of the traditional public sphere and democracy. Against the notion of the youth's …
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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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Religious communities and political participation among Chinese migrants in Australia
… the causal chain that connects citizens to the political process. This is because churches and other religious institutions have often been thought to supply churchgoers with the resources necessary to take part in the political arena, by providing either opportunities to develop civic skills or …
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Online Political Participation: Evaluation of the Changing Effects Over Time
<p>The internet is a political participation medium that has been subject to constant changes. Just since 2008, there has been a significant increase in the amount of people who use the internet for political purposes. Building on the work of Brian Kruger and others I evaluate whether the internet …
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