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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Political conditions"”.
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Nature conservation in changing socio-political conditions at Londolozi Private Game Reserve
… lowveld of South Africa. At the same time sociopolitical conditions in South Africa have also undergone enormous shifts which have affected the distribution of rural people and land use practices in the rural lowveld. This study examines private nature conservation and its relationship to local …
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Learning to Live Together: Hannah Arendt on the Political Conditions of Ethical Life
"I examine four dimensions of Arendt's political ethic: her critique of the political shortcomings of conscience; her attempt to derive a political ethic from the conditions of political action rather than from the potentially anti-political preoccupations of morality; her inquiry into the nature …
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The Influence of Economic and Political Conditions on Revitalizing Downtown and Neighborhood Business Districts.
… business districts depend more on local economic conditions or on political conditions? Political scientists have debated this question of whether political structures and processes or socio-economic needs and resources are more influential in shaping public policy. The original assumption that …
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Israel and the occupied territories: An analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
… Six Day War. In the third chapter, the present political conditions under the Israeli Military Government is discussed as well as the positions taken by the Labour Party, the Likud coalition and the smaller parties within Israel. The role of the P.L.O. and moderate Palestinian mayors within the …
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Fear of the Future: A Speculative Exploration of Cinematic Dystopias
… as well as reflections on current socio-political conditions? The aim of this study was to explore cinematic dystopias and their depictions of and reflections on such themes, including how they might act as speculations on the future. Relying on qualitative content analysis, this study …
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The German part-song in the first half of the nineteenth century
… of the period, also (2) to relate the social and political conditions which helped give it its shape, and finally (3) to select out a number of part-songs of interest to both historians and performers.
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Filosofisociologi : Ett sociologiskt perspektiv på filosofiskt tänkande
… thought cannot normally be reduced to socio-political conditions outside the attention space or the philosophical field. This methodological orientation leads to a focus on contextual factors rather than on socio-political conditions at the macro-level. However, a Bourdieuian sociology of …
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Gatekeeping and the Judicial Processing of Scientific Information
… decisions validate science for legal (political) purposes. Differential treatment by state jurisdictions has created an empirical puzzle whereby state jurisdictions vary in their validation of scientific information. The goal of this investigation is to explain the legal and political …
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PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING: NONCOMBATANT MOBILIZATION FOR PEACE IN AFRICA
… African countries. They did so under unfavorable political conditions. Some of them went further and pursued their objective for peace at the level of formal negotiations. This particularizing inquiry sought to understand the process leading to their engagement with formal negotiations. To achieve …
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Relationships Among Expectations of Reentry Problems of International Students Living in On-Campus Apartments and Off-Campus Housing at Andrews University and Selected Student Characteristics
… in regard to three reentry areas: national and political conditions (p =.001), educational aspects (p =.049) and professional aspects (p =.006).</p> <p>Students who socialized little, or not at all, with other students from the same country had significantly lower expectations of problems in …
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NATIONAL SELF AND NARRATIVE OF IDENTITY: CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM IN MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM
… or alluding to the pre-Islamic legacy and the political conditions of Iran. Through discursive analyses, it shows that these works in new political conditions change the orientation and main thrust of their message, and use or allude to the same pre-Islamic legacy for promoting modernization, …
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Choro and Music Revivalism in Rio De Janeiro, 1973--1995
… for reestablishing their Brazilian identity in a politically and socially turbulent period. As a musical movement, it reinvigorated choro as a musical style by attracting and educating new dedicated players who continue to explore its musical potential. Post-revival choro practice in Rio de …
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Switching to Switchgrass: Pathways and consequences of bioenergy switchgrass entering the Midwestern landscape
… key questions arise: 1) Under what economic and political conditions will switchgrass enter the landscape? 2) Where on the landscape will switchgrass be cultivated given varying economic and political conditions? The goal of this dissertation is to answer these questions by analyzing the adoption …
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Brewing History: How Local Option and Prohibition Altered the Texas Brewing Industry
… Texas breweries who used evolving social and political conditions to combat prohibition and grow their companies, laying the foundation for the Texas brewing industry. This thesis and subsequent digital exhibit provide a better understand of prohibition and local option, while also explaining …
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The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing
… My research details the institutional and political conditions that led to the rise of the standardized assessment movement nationally and locally, and analyzes results from Purdue's piloting program for the test. I argue that literacy educators must adapt to the increasing prevalence of …
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Die deutschen Enwanderer in Sacramento: German immigrants in Sacramento, 1850--1859
The economic and political conditions in Europe pushed German immigrants from their homelands, while the gold rush in California pulled them with dreams of riches. Some came directly from Germany, some made an intermediate stop in the United States, but, after arriving in California, many went to …
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The Mythic Underpinnings of Originalism: A Rhetorical and Legal Analysis
… the founding era. While contemporary legal and political conditions differ radically from those of the 18th century, originalist jurists insist on interpreting the Constitution according to the presumed intentions or public meanings of the Framers. I argue that such insistence is best understood …
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An Inquiry Into the Attitude of the German Center Party (Zentrum) and the Austrian Christian Socialist Party to Austro-German Anschluss
… development, and specific purposes of the two political parties under discussion is given in the first chapter. The discussion does not purport to be a complete or exhaustive treatment of the subject. Political conditions in Germany made it impossible to obtain much needed material, especially …
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Knowledge and Power: Donald T. Campbell's Evolutionary Epistemology and Program Evaluation as Social Experimentation
… we have to look to the social, historical, and political conditions within which evaluation is embedded.
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Intergenerational Differences of the Perception of British and American Accents in the Czech Republic
… with an emphasis on the historical and political context of the country. The theoretical part focuses on the age factor in foreign language acquisition, especially on the Critical Period Hypothesis and key characteristics of the elderly learners' education. In addition, it describes the …
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