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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Political order"”.
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The case for assisted dying/euthanasia in specific cases in South Africa with reference to the development of the South African and Canadian Jurisprudence under a human rights political order
In this thesis, I argue that the present jurisprudence, particularly constitutional law and the common law of South Africa all lend support to the case for decriminalising physician assisted suicide through invoking a right to die with dignity (RDD). This argument is foundationally premised on the …
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The Cities on the Hill: Urban Politics in National Institutions
The contemporary "Red-Blue" political alignment is characterized by a national divide between cities and rural areas. This urbanicity divide is stronger than it has ever been in our modern history, but it began with the development of an urban political order that changed the Democratic Party …
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Civil Conflict in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Spain, Italy, and Britain, 1968--2001
… violence, identity, and ideas of sovereignty and political order converge and, importantly, shape the actions of challenger groups and target states.
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Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
… as framed by the succession of the political order (imperium). Whereas earlier scholars attributed the twelfth-century success of Sigebert’s chronicle to its chronological precision rather than its political ideas, this thesis shows that the Eusebius-Jeromian tradition, as …
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The Restoration Movement and the American Bible Union, 1850-1883.
… of independence had brought changes to the political order which required organized religion to re-evaluate its position. Nearly all the traditional churches saw the need to develop national organizations. Some churches, most notably the Anglicans, were forced to make structural changes …
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Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder Rethinking Germany’s response to irregular migration
This thesis studies political action in crisis situations, especially around the phenomenon of irregular migration. I identify a political meaning-making strategy, wherein representatives use fear of disorder to side-line rights-based arguments about an identified social problem in favour of their …
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Faith seeking understanding : the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.
… primacy to Greek philosophy over Christianity in order to restore political order through a "noetically-controlled Christianity."
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Rhetoric, reason, and the problem of rule : Aristotle and J.S. Mill on speech and politics.
… aim to disconnect reason from the human good in order to provide the individual with authority to pursue his own good freely while constructing rational political order. The result of such theories is a distortion of the purposes and meaning of human rationality. This dissertation argues that, in …
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"We are all products of history, but each of us can choose whether or not to become its victims" : an exploration of the discourses employed in the Women's National Coalition.
… were represented in the defining of the new political order. At the heart of this movement was the Women's National Coalition (WNC), formed in 1991 to identify and advocate for women's primary needs in the post-apartheid Constitution. This created unprecedented opportunities for women from …
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Popular Politics in a Philippine Municipality
… in earlier studies. However, relations between political elites and constituents cannot be understood by merely subscribing to the traditional models of patron-client ties, machine politics, and political violence. The thesis follows an alternative approach: It describes everyday acts of …
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The Final Frontier of Freedom: a Prospectus for Future Democratization of the Middle East
… is endemically flawed because the religious, political, or cultural conditions in the region would constrain, or prohibit outright, democratization. However, upon examination, the central cultural and religious institutions of the region do not appear to have an endemic impact on democratic …
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"Washington in Golry": Clerical Reflections on the Death of George Washington and the Making of a New Nation
… that helped to strengthen the social and political order by fostering a sense of community that transcended local boundaries, bringing an entire nation together to mourn their fallen leader. By ruminating on a number of theological as well as political themes, clergymen across the country …
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From public person to private prisoner: the changing place of women in medieval Russia
… changes in the organization of the Russian socio-political order, culminating in the rise of the Muscovite sovereignty; the evolution of Russian forms of Orthodox Christianity; and the emergence of serfdom as the basic production organization of the realm. These are, of course, the three most …
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Bolshevik era, the extreme case of urban planning
… the old government and establishment of the new political order under the one party leadership of the Bolsheviks. The political platform of the new government extended well beyond the promise of simple reforms. Its foundation was a vision of an entirely new society governed by a set of new …
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The politics of enjoyment: the media viewing preferences and practices of young higher-educated Chinese
… urban and educated youth relates to the Chinese political order as the country integrates into the global market economy. Using observation, interviews and written responses, supplemented by journalistic and online material collected „in the field‟ during 2006-2007 and 2010, the research centres …
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La crise d'Oka à la télévision : l'éloge du barbare
… over the forces that represent social and political order. Furthermore, television accounts of the Oka crisis are not instances of production and reproduction of a "dominant ideology". Postmodernism implies the renunciation of all claims to universality, for the televised discourse produces …
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If These Hills Could Speak
… in response to an ongoing, imposed socio-political order. For these hills to speak again, the ruins must be transformed. This thesis begins that process by applying acts of pidginization learned from below to the three ruins. It proposes their conversion through deconstruction and …
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
… they also figured in debates about identity and political order. These were, moreover, debates in which nuns themselves could engage. Excluded from the secular world in their cloisters they may have been, but they were nonetheless actors both spiritually and as contributors to the wider Catholic …
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Promising America: Imagining Democracy, Democratizing Imagination
… I evaluate the role of imagination in political theory and in United States history, contextualizing my theoretical arguments through analyses of the Revolution and Founding and through a case study of the Populist movement of the late 19th century. I treat imagination as a productive …
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An Early Modern Islamicate Port: The Politics and Society of al-Zubāra, 1766 – 1842.
Drastic political change marked the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the heartlands of the Islamic world, with the rapid succession of regimes in Iran, the decentralisation of the Ottoman Empire, and the rise of the Wahhabis of Arabia. Due to this political fragmentation, the …
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