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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Political behaviour"”.
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Political behaviour and decision-making in large-scale energy development
… were able to capture power in a period of unique political circumstances. These groups represented the centres of power in planning for large-scale hydro development. Terms of reference and membership of committees and commissions were too narrow to consider the relevant issues and options The …
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Political behaviour in the United Kingdom: An examination of Members of Parliament and Voters
… cutting edge statistical methodology. I examine political behaviour among representatives in the UK's House of Commons and voting behaviour in the 2016 EU Referendum. I show that the UK parliamentary system's reliance on strong party discipline has important adverse consequences for public …
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Lived scarcity, social attitudes and political behaviour in Kenya : evidence from Afrobarometer Round 5
… model to test the effect of people's social and political perceptions and attitudes on the linkage between scarcity and violence. I find both direct and indirect significant linkages between respondents' experienced scarcity ('lived scarcity') and their propensity to use violence. I find that the …
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Legitimacy and Continuity in The Horn: A Conceptual Analysis of Alex de Waal’s Political Marketplace
… he formulates to understand it and explain political behaviour in the Horn: the political marketplace. Through this process of critical engagement, I clarify the concept and make it more useful by embedding it within the social and religious realities of the Horn, which results in a …
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Personnel specialists in Scotland: a study of managerial work and knowledge use
… of ambiguity and role, power and influence, political behaviour, and status and effectiveness in personnel were also examined.<br/><br/>Data were obtained from personnel specialists (229 respondents and 109 interviewees), and from 15 non-specialist senior executive interviewees. These samples …
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The making of Lebanese foreign policy: The case of the 2006 Hizballah-Israeli war
… for understanding Lebanon’s international political behaviour during the 2006 war. It tests the hypothesis that substate factors, especially identity, are more important than systemic factors for affecting the conditions against which states make foreign policy-decisions. Using data …
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The social foundations of corporate political strategy
Most traditions within political sociology have long acknowledged the 'central', 'privileged' or even 'dominant' position of business in the politics of liberal democracies. However, the discipline is largely silent on the question of what constitutes the major political divisions within the …
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The social foundations of corporate political strategy
Most traditions within political sociology have long acknowledged the 'central', 'privileged' or even 'dominant' position of business in the politics of liberal democracies. However, the discipline is largely silent on the question of what constitutes the major political divisions within the …
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Proximity, Politics and Policy Attitudes in the North American Context
The study of mass public opinion and political behaviour has developed a substantial corpus of theoretical claims and empirical results linking political, attitudinal and demographic variables to different policy attitudes. Still, the research literature has, to date, paid scant attention to how …
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Between informal and formal politics : Neopatrimonialism and party development in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
… the relationship between informal forms of political behaviour and relations and the development of formal institutions in post Soviet Central Asian states as a way to explain the development of authoritarianism in the region. It moves the debate on from current scholarship which places …
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Politics, power, and decision-making in faith-based organisational change
… this study has investigated the extent to which political drivers impacted decision-making within the organisation. When exploring the political themes surrounding decision-making, this paper adopted a qualitative approach, using networked thematic analysis. The ‘cultural web’ tool was used as a …
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'Red-green' coalitions in the Federal Republic of Germany: models of formation and maintenance
… oriented payoffs as a determinant of coalition behaviour. To this end it uses the ‘policy network’ idiom of public policy analysis (with an emphasis on environmental policy) as a secondary theoretical framework. The theoretical framework is used in tandem with empirical data on institutional …
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Treason, passion and power in England, 1660 – 1685.
… by tracing public expression of the passions in political and print culture surrounding treason trials, from the first decade of the king’s reign to the infamous plots of the Exclusion period. The connection between the king and his people became increasingly fraught as a result of the decreasing …
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Deliberating in an Emergency: Participant Experiences and Public Perceptions of Deliberative Mini-Publics on Climate Change in Canada and the United Kingdom
… particularly in terms of their implications for political behaviour and public opinion. The first study compares the political efficacy and behaviour of DMP members before and one year after participating in a DMP (Climate Assembly UK). This study shows that members reported higher internal …
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People like us: gentrification and the service class in Hackney in the 1980s
… living in Hackney has had on their social and political attitudes. Chapters two to four are concerned with debates about the structure and class formation of the service-class, whether it is one class or many, what (if any) are its political allegiances, and the relationship between the …
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Essays on Ethnic Party Competition and Public Goods Provision in South Asia
… on causal factors behind the rise of ethnic political parties in multiethnic democracies. The thesis contends that ethnic party success is primarily driven by insecurities borne from ethnic violence. Original data from fieldwork in India provides evidence that demand for security from ethnic …
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The expression of George Orwell’s racial and social attitudes
… seen to have much in common with contemporary political behaviour: Socialist ‘doublethink’ about Empire paving the road to totalitarianism, and the in-group/out-group urges of Anglo-India being related to patriotism and rationalism. Antisemitism is included as an example of irrationality which …
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Developing image based positioning strategies for retaining the political parties’ electoral bases : a new theoretical perspective
… values and their influence on end-users’ behaviour in the context of both commercial and political environment. However, there has been little research aimed at linking voters’ value priorities, and the influence of these values in the formulation and implementation of successful …
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The 'failure' of Political Islam? : The Muslim Bortherhood's experience in government
… to power. This event dramatically changed political calculations across the region, and came with significant implications for both the Muslim Brotherhood and for the wider understanding of Political Islams. However, the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule was short-lived, as Morsi was deposed by a …
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