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Showing 1 to 20 of 356 for “"Political power"”.
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Political power and rule in Kuwait
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The Political Power Of The Black Church
… more than spiritual gathering places, they are power centers within the black community. Dr. King and Malcolm X used churches as mobilization centers in their attempts to equip African Americans with political information and the frame of mind needed for political change. When combining the …
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The manifestations of political power structures in documentary film.
… research is to explore the ways in which the political and social power structures between filmmaker and protagonist are manifested in the aesthetics and cinematic means of documentary film. Through a synthesis of filmmaking practice and “hidden knowledge” with critical theories from the …
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Eco-compensation, Water Management and Political Power in China
… simply technical solutions, but are inherently political. Having undertaken this general survey, the political dimension of eco-compensation is then examined in two case studies in great detail, based on semi-structured interviews and project documents. The first case study is of the Xin’an …
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An Investigation of CSR as a Source of Corporate Political Power
In political philosophy, power and responsibility are known to be two sides of the same coin. Yet surprisingly, corporate political power has not been strongly featured in the long-standing debate surrounding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), despite the parallel debate on the influence of …
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The Ritualisation of Political Power in Early Rus (10th-12th centuries)
… role of ceremony and ritual as representative of political structures and in shaping the political culture of the principalities of early Rus’. The process begins by introducing key concepts and historiographic considerations for the study of ceremony and ritual and their application to the …
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Motherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric
… them." Language - and thus, writing - has the power to transform, to redefine reality. Autobiographical writing is a performative act that forms - not reflects - identity. Mommy blogs are autobiographical acts with dual performativity: identity and maternity. With performativity, mommy blogs …
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Chinese typewriters speak: the political power of writing machines in 20th-century China
… in particular, have been regarded as political instruments—states such as the former East Germany and the Soviet Union restricted their ownership, requiring special licenses or banning them outright for ordinary citizens. In the Chinese context, developing a typing system for a …
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Party organisation and perceptions of political power: the role of members in political parties
… a strategy for the incorporation of individual political actors into British political parties. An analysis of the organisational structure of the major British parties is undertaken. Organisational similarities and differences are analysed and juxtaposed with concepts of membership found in …
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The politics of wealth distribution in post-Soeharto Indonesia: political power, corruption and institutional change
… processes through which the redistribution of political and economic power is taking place in post-Soeharto Indonesia. In order to do this, patterns of `grand' corruption between the business community and the state are explored in three sites: the allocation of government contracts, the …
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The ‘Nasyon': a critical exploration of the ‘Nasyon's' persisting dissociation from political power in Mauritius
… stood at the lowest rungs of the Mauritian socio-political hierarchy, persistently dissociated from political power therein. In this thesis, I set out to uncover and explore the reasons for this through the prism of historical ethnography and from the following question: What are the modes of …
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Turkic Educators and Students Breaking Their Silence: An Oral History of a Tangled Web of Political Power
… worldwide. The practice of genocide as a form of political control is steeped in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey and now the instrument of choice for the Erdoğan regime in a political shift toward authoritarianism. The educators and students whose voices were un-muted …
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The relationship between the exercise of political power and language during the cultural revolution in Inner Mongolia - 1967-1969
… the relationship between language contained in political documents and the exercise of power and authority from the Cultural Revolution in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1967 to 1969. It is based on analytic methods found in the works of Foucault, …
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An Examination of the Relationship Between Concentration of Political Power and Levels of Economic Development in the Nations of Latin America
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Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976
<p>This dissertation is a political-economic, race and class analysis of two moments of struggle at CUNY: the take over of parts of City College, leading to the Open Admissions policy in 1969; and the fiscal crisis of New York City, leading to the imposition of tuition for undergraduate students in …
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A Reign of Burnt Wounds and Crowded Cells: Exploring how political power is upheld at street level through observations of the municipal police in Mexico City
… unmasked policing as an everyday exercise of power, a source of mediation between state and non-state actors and an apparatus that enforces the status quo. But if these findings entail a conceptualisation of the police as a political actor, then how does it enact politics at street level? …
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The Political Power of Diaspora as External Actors in Armed Civil Conflict: Ethnonationalist Conflict-Generated Diaspora Use of Social Media in Transnational Political Engagement in Homeland Conflict: The Case of Rwanda.
This study explores the power of ethnonationalist conflict-generated diasporas (CGD) as external actors in homeland conflict by exploring the nature of their political engagement on a transnational level using Internet Communication technologies (ICTs), with Rwanda as a case study. Virtual …
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Essays on inequality, redistribution and wealth-based politics
… the theoretical relation between economic and political inequality and redistribution policy. Using a static model of politics in which wealth determines political power, we study the relationship between a society's level of inequality, its political system, and the redistributive policies it …
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