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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Political Strategies"”.
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COALITIONS IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT: PARTY POLITICAL STRATEGIES IN HUNG COUNCILS
… provides the first clear evidence that elected political elites lose power to the body of councillors in most hung councils. However, the power of the bureaucratic elite, unlike their political counterparts, appears to remain relatively constant. Contrary to previous proposals, decision making …
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Host-country risk, corporate political strategies and the subsidiary performance of South African multinationals in wider Africa
… multinational's (MNE) non-market strategy is its political strategy the management of a firm's political capabilities and actors to influence public policy outcomes. Research on corporate political strategies has, over the years, focused on its local application in institutionally stable …
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French and British corporate political strategies in the case of the European Merger Control Regime: national or European?
… of a generic framework of design of corporate political strategies “ based on the management literature “ and adapted to the European merger control regime context, French and British firms corporate political strategies are thoroughly analysed. The comparison refines the original analytical …
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Agents of fundamental policy change?: political strategies of the environmental, sustainable agriculture, and family farm groups in the 1990 farm bill
This study investigates the strategies and policy impacts of the environmental, family farm, and sustainable agriculture groups in the 1990 farm bill legislation. In spite of "genuine" interest in a fundamental policy reform, and in spite of a common agenda, the three different types of interest …
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The political ecology of indigenous movements and tree plantations in Chile : the role of political strategies of Mapuche communities in shaping their social and natural livelihoods.
… against Mapuche individuals and groups. From a political ecology perspective, this thesis examines how indigenous communities resort to various political strategies to accommodate, resist, and/or negotiate as political-economic processes change, and how these responses in turn shape natural …
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The white rightwing in South African politics : a descriptive study of its roots : an assessment of its strength, and an elucidation of its territorial policies and political strategies, 1969-1991
… analysis of the roots, strength, policies and strategies of a very small but potentially potent sector of South Africa's diverse population is required. The aim of this dissertation is to provide an objective analysis of interlinking issues associated with the rightwing, the gathering and …
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Streetwise for book smarts : culture, community organizing, and education reform in the Bronx
… have similar goals frequently employ divergent political strategies in their campaigns. In the literature on social movement organizations, such differences are usually attributed to variations in political context, or variations in resources. This dissertation builds on currently dominant …
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Growth, prosperity, and inequality after the great recession: A regionalist cultural political economy of Chicagoland
… boundaries. This dissertation looks into the political strategies concerning the how and why of the new regional push in Chicagoland, split into three manuscripts (chapters 2, 3 and 3) on components of Chicagoland regionalism that hold broader significance for regional planning and regional …
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“Hero to zero to hero” : exploring the experiences of football managers as they socialise into a new football management job role
… an organisation uses, people already in situ and political aspects that are already in play within the organisation (and workgroup). This thesis contributes to the organisation socialisation literature by providing the Hiplex-D model that represents the relationship dynamics that occur when a new …
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Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds
… will relate to public practice and changing political strategies, a local history indicative of Kincaid’s internal social processes and political trajectory in the broader Ohio Valley and Mississippian culture.
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ΣΥΛΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΔΡΑΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΙΠΡΟΣΩΠΕΥΣΗ ΣΥΜΦΕΡΟΝΤΩΝ ΠΡΙΝ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗ ΜΕΤΑΠΟΛΙΤΕΥΣΗ
… THE THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE MAIN MACROPOLITICAL ISSUES CONCERNING MODERN GREEK SOCIETY: STATE POLICY, AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIAL GROUPS, THE STRUCTURE OFINTERESTS, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATEGIES, FACTORS DETERMING CLASS AGENCY, SYNDCATES, POLITICAL PARTIES ETC, ARE PLACED IN THE …
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Movimentos de resistência à monogamia compulsória: a luta por direitos sexuais e afetivos no século XXI
… subaltern. The collective is revealed to have a political stance, since it articulates strategic, cooperative and cognitive actions as part of a struggle for respect of its sexual and affective expressions, in a context in which sexual rights remain heteronormative in nature. The collective's …
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Nala as Nara, Raja, & Yudhisthira: Masculinity, Kingship, & Dharmic Suffering in the Nalopakhyana
… fit into the epic's overall sociopolitical context. Specifically, I argue that Nala's depictions as a supremely idealized man and king place him squarely within the political strategies of the Mahabharata's composers, drawing heavily upon earlier, Vedic texts, to reassert a system …
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Proteção internacional ao investimento e propriedade intelectual: impacto sobre políticas de saúde e acesso a medicamentos
… systems of signatory countries, affecting political strategies that developing countries implement when facing public interest issues. From the literature review and qualitative analysis of a set of preferential agreements, it was observed that international investment agreements impact the …
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Defeat in victory : organizational learning dysfunction in counterinsurgency
… militaries often struggle to develop effective strategies to address the problem of counterinsurgency. Second, their strategic performance seldom improves over successive counterinsurgency campaigns. This study offers a theoretical explanation for these dominant patterns of learning dysfunction. …
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The Intersections of Social Activism, Collective Identity, and Artistic Expression in Documentary Filmmaking
… movements. With this in mind, I studied how political strategies and artistic expressions intersect within the documentary filmmaking industry. Drawing from preexisting contacts and using a grounded theoretical approach that blended extensive qualitative and supporting quantita-tive …
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Between ballots and bullets: Political competition, uncertainty, and MNE strategies in politically challenging environments
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Why Democracies and Autocracies Go to War: Comparing the Cases of Iraq and Ukraine
… factors – historical memory, their ambitions and political vision, and unwaveringly supportive staff. In the pre-war period, both democratic and autocratic leaders first turn to history to identify their enemies and determine the prospects of their success in war. They form their opinions based on …
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Exkludering, assimilering eller utrotning? : "Tattarfrågan" i svensk politik 1880-1955
… there was a heated debate on what kind of political measures should be taken against these families. This debate, which is the subject of this thesis, was sometimes referred to as the ‘tattare question’. Three main political strategies were proposed or adopted in the ‘tattare’ question. In …
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