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Showing 1 to 20 of 410 for “"Political Parties"”.
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Special Interest Partisanship: The Transformation of American Political Parties
… from fluid, unstructured interactions (akin to political pluralism) to highly institutionalized alliances (as we might see in a firm). Drawing on pluralist scholarship and theories of firm formation and evolution, I explore the costs and benefits of different arrangements, and explain why we …
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Selected study for political parties from the Arab countries
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Political Parties and Social Movements: Mobilizing and Representing Civil Society
Most political parties that emerged in Europe since 1945 have roots in social movements, but unlike older mainstream parties with movement origins they did not adopt an electoral-professional party model focused on pursuing the median voter. Neither have they retained their organizational …
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Political Parties in a Bifurcated State: The Case of Guyana
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Printing Politics: The Emergence of Political Parties in Florida, 1821-1861
… and local issues necessitated the use of political parties. Second, Florida’s political parties evolved from a focus on charismatic men and local geographic loyalties to loyalty to party regardless of who was running to national and regional loyalties above local issues and men. Lastly, …
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Chasing the vote : developments in the ways political parties conduct election campaigns
The methods political parties use to engage the electorate during election campaigns undergo a continual process of re-evaluation and modification; this study seeks to further understanding of this process by proposing the concept of a toolkit of techniques from which those who plan campaigns make …
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How parties behave: the role of strategy in contemporary British political parties
… strategy derived from management theory to study parties In Britain during the contemporary period. It discusses the concept, nature and role of party strategy in British politics, introducing a new way of discovering how parties behave and making original observations of historical events. This …
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The Major American Political Parties as Organizations: The Response to Extreme Dissidence
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The Constitutional Theory and the Legal Regulation of Political Parties in India
… constitutional democracy is unimaginable without political parties. Yet, parties have received hardly any attention in Indian constitutional or legal scholarship. To bridge this conspicuous gulf, this thesis studies the constitutional theory and the legal treatment of political parties in India. …
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An analysis of SABC coverage of political parties in the 2019 elections
… analyses the coverage of the three main political parties (ANC, DA and EFF) in the 2019 elections by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). The SABC has been one of the main sources of information for millions of citizens across the country and many South Africans rely on the …
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Political Parties and Democratic Development in Ghana: From Transition to Consolidation and Beyond
… of government was instituted, but the process of political development was derailed and often interrupted by frequent coups. This is evident in the interchange of military and civilian regimes in the last fifty-one years. While in the post-independence era, the development of democracy, the party …
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State Political Parties in American Politics: Innovation and Integration in the Party System
… the second chapter, I ask whether the national parties utilize different strategies in deciding how to allocate resources to state parties through fund transfers and through the 50-state-strategy party-building programs that both the Democratic and Republican National Committees advertised …
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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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Party organisation and perceptions of political power: the role of members in political parties
… a strategy for the incorporation of individual political actors into British political parties. An analysis of the organisational structure of the major British parties is undertaken. Organisational similarities and differences are analysed and juxtaposed with concepts of membership found in …
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Experimenting With Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Political Parties, Coalitions, and Policies
I test my argument concerning the role of political parties and coalitional politics using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. A cross-national comparative analysis of Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia provides empirical evidence of the hypothesized relationship between …
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Rule of law and party systems : a study of regional political parties in India
… about party affiliation determine whether a political party succeeds or fails. By contrast, when the rule of law is strong, voters form attachments directly over political parties; voters therefore determine which parties constitute the party system. The second part of the dissertation …
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Mobilizing for Ethnic Violence? Ethno-national Political Parties and the Dynamics of Ethno-politicization
… ethnic Serbs. Yet, SDS BiH was not an ordinary political party. In the sixteen months that followed the elections, it initiated a series of activities that eroded the power of BiH institutions to which it had been elected. SDS BiH declared its own organs superior to those of BiH and established …
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Factors that hinder participation of the youth in National leadership of political parties in Zambia
Zambia is a multi-party democracy with many political parties in existence with a population that is predominantly young, but the youth are generally hindered from holding leadership positions at national level of these political parties. Opportunities for the youth to take up national leadership …
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