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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Political office"”.
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Creating Political Leaders: Lawyer Stories About Transitioning into Political Office in Canada
… successfully transition from civilian life into political leadership positions. Despite the need for this transition to take place, little is known about the transition. Globally, lawyers are the most represented professional group inpolitics, therefore, a study of their transition acts as a good …
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The Time Is Now: Empowering Nurses In Electoral Politics
… translate to politics, very few nurses serve in political office in the United States. Resources such as a candidate training program that capitalizes on nurses' particular skills to prepare and assist them to run for elected office are practically nonexistent.A Campaign School for Nurses and …
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Individual Differences In Pyschological Evaluations Of Electoral Risk: Furthering The Explanation Of The Gender Gap In Candidate Emergence
… remain significantly underrepresented in the political realm. Electoral bias against women cannot be blamed; when women run, women win. However, women don't seek political office in high numbers. This project builds on previous examinations of the gender gap in political ambition by proposing …
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Politics, Feminism, and Popular Television: Madam Secretary as a Politician, Wife, and Mother
<p>A recent surge in political dramas on television has produced an opportunity for media scholars interested in gender, politics, and entertainment media. To date, most research involving the study of fictional politics has revolved around male characters, leaving a gap in the study of female …
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Temporal orientation and political perspective
… Post from 1982 through 1985. Patterns of political/temporal perspectives, described by Mannheim, were explored. In this study, it is determined that a pattern of political/temporal perspectives exists in the Green Party. A close look at these political/temporal perspectives revealed that …
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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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Underrepresentation of Women in American Politics
… the most effect on rather women want to run for political office and successfully pursue political careers. Having this specific quantitative dataset, the study provides a better understanding to why women are still widely underrepresented on the state level. I also find that my independent …
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Nurses, Politics And Policy: Moving A Critical Initiative Forward Through Education, Inspiration And Motivation For Political Activity
… educate, motivate and inspire Texas nurses for political involvement. The project was completed in collaboration with the Texas Nurses Association. 78 nurses participated in surveys focusing on nurses’ attitudes and opinions, knowledge level, mental preparedness for political involvement and …
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Katharine Bement Davis: Defying Expectations as a Woman and in the Study of Women
… first woman to be nominated by a major party for political office, and she was the first woman Crime Commissioner of New York City. Davis’ accomplishments were also significant in and of themselves. The cottage system she instituted as director of the Bedford Reformatory for Women was replicated …
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Social movement theory and far right organizations
… Mobilization Theory contends that change is done politically in the sphere of institutional power, while New Social Movement Theory argues that change occurs in civil society.</p> <p> The study was qualitative in nature and involved in-depth interviews with 97 members of four far right …
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California Elected City Council Women of Color: Building a Collaborative Vision With Inclusive Voice
… women of color—made the decision to run for political office for the first time at both the national and local levels. It is imperative that these women’s campaigns and victories are studied as a means to resist essentialism and honor the unique perspectives and histories of the voices of …
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“The Imagined Presidency”: Political Communication as “Narrative” and “Performance” – A Case Study of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign
Many communication scholars agree that political communication in the 21st century has permanently changed due to the enormous shifts in mass media communications landscape. Today, political culture and public debate are characterized by a highly individualistic and consumption-oriented electorate …
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On to bigger and better things: the behavioral consequences of ambition in the US House of Representatives
… progressive ambition—or the pursuit of a higher office—affects the behavior of members of the United States House of Representatives. Drawing upon a wide variety of legislative and campaign activities (including roll call votes, introductions and cosponsorships, amendments, and campaign …
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Prometheus unbound: quality of government and institutionalised grand corruption in public procurement
… on company ownership, financial accounts, and political office of company owners. By using data mining techniques it breaks away from standard, and arguably deficient, measures of quality of institutions and corruption. It proposes a complex ‘blueprint’ for measuring institutionalized grand …
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Uncle Sam on the Family Farm: Farm Policy and the Business of Southern Agriculture, 1933-1965
… by the 1960s. In this context, the economic and political interests of farmers became separate from and oppositional to those of industry or consumers and removed incentives to seek common ground. The unwavering pursuit of commercial farming and agribusiness prevented diversified rural …
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Is Accountability in the Management of Public Finances a Myth? The Case of the West Rand District Municipality
… money into VBS, whereby municipal officials and political office bearers are alleged to have personally benefitted for making such deposits. A forensic report by audit firm Deloitte, published in 2019 indicates that the WRDM may have lost as much as R224.5 million after illegally investing in the …
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General Social Trust And Political Trust Within Social And Political Groups: A Case Study
… with high levels of generalized social trust and political trust are more likely to engage in civic activism and participation. Therefore, people involved in social and political groups will likely have higher levels of generalized social and political trust than the general public. What lacks in …
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The Constituency of Coya Knutson, 1954
<p>Women rarely seek political office and even more rarely achieve the office they seek. Only one woman has been elected to Congress from Minnesota or its adjacent states--Coya Knutson from the rural Ninth District in 1954 and 1956. While legal barriers to women's participation in politics have …
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