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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Political strategy"”.
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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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Iraq: The Way Forward—a Political Strategy to Win & End the War in Iraq
… struggles, and the competition for resources by political elites, and dominant political factions.</p> <p>The political and electoral system emplaced in Iraq incentivizes elites and political entities to undertake factional identities; in doing so, it promotes identity politics. The current …
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Host-country risk, corporate political strategies and the subsidiary performance of South African multinationals in wider Africa
… aspect of a multinational's (MNE) non-market strategy is its political strategy the management of a firm's political capabilities and actors to influence public policy outcomes. Research on corporate political strategies has, over the years, focused on its local application in …
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Governmentality: the new urbanism and the creative class within Atlanta, Georgia
… growth machines mobilize governmentality as a political instrument. Specifically, this study examines two features of this mobilizing, the rhetoric of growth machines that speaks to what a space is and means, and the actual outcomes that creates a material, semiotic-infused space. Thus, I …
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'I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It': Silence in American Art 1947–2008
This thesis addresses silence as a political and aesthetic strategy in American art from 1947 to 2008. It seeks to develop a historical account of three different artists and their investments in silence, with particularized, historically grounded definitions of silence developed in each chapter. …
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Cartographies of consciousness-raising : mapping out a feminist approach in the work of Marlene Creates
… undertaken in order to show that an underlying political strategy informs both the production and the reception of these works.
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Fighting for recognition : Asian American advocates and their strategic uses of identity
… how organizational identities are deployed as a political strategy, especially in a political environment where politicians blame immigrants for damaging the livelihoods of Americans and in which racist and xenophobic rhetoric is increasingly normalized.
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Land and liberty : the Non-European Unity Movement and the land question, 1933-1976
This dissertation examines the political practice of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) in the South African countryside during the latter half of the Twentieth Century. It demonstrates that the NEUM was the only liberation movement in South Africa which maintained that the land question was …
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Problematizing discourses of feminicide in Guatemala : feminist universalism, neoliberal subject formation and hypervisibility
… should be merely one element of a larger political strategy towards more radical transformations of the state and racial, social and economic inequalities that will end gender based violence in the long-term.
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Images as Defense Policy Determinants in the Soviet-American Military Relationship Since 1945
… focus and American military thought more of a political strategy focus. Soviet and American military thought, for this reason, interact with each other's military policy at different levels. This has led to an evolution of Soviet perceptions of military sufficiency that provides additional …
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Organizations and the state: An interactive view
… utilizing influence tactics such as lobbying and political action committees. By examining such interaction, aspects of the nature of state-organization interactions that have previously not been considered are revealed. To illustrate the process three agencies are qualitatively and quantitatively …
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Bayard Rustin and the Socialist Civil Rights Strategy (1955-65)
… is being challenged to translate itself into a political movement.”1 Rustin’s call for political action capped off a decade-long grassroots struggle for “Jobs and Freedom.” In Rustin’s view, the combination of sustained activism, labor union support, and enduring leadership of King, opened the …
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Rural Electrification Policy and Off Grid Solar: Sector Engagement Strategies in India and Beyond
… business models respond to policy change, their political strategy and how end users are selected. Findings suggest that enterprises respond quickly to changes in their policy environment, and a single change can have large knock-on effects within the business model. Political strategies are …
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You Can’t Have Black Power without Green Power:The Black Economic Union
… Power era, by exploring a lesser-known Black political strategy; namely, the endorsement of capitalism as a means of Black liberation. This study focuses on the Negro Industrial and Economic Union (NIEU), later renamed the Black Economic Union (BEU), which was founded in the 1966. The BEU was …
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Trama: Artists’ Initiatives and the Politics of Autogestión in Contemporary Argentina
… which, all too often, limit discussions of the political to a rhetoric of art activism or artists’ collectives. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s multifaceted conceptualization of autogestión, the study also aims to reinvest the term with its political connotations: autonomy, democracy and …
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The Modern Formulation of Chinese Art History and the Building of a Nation in Early Twentieth-Century China
… formulations of Chinese art history began as a political strategy for nation building amid the political upheavals, including military attacks on China that led to the end of Qing imperial rule and the beginning of the Republican era (1912-1949).</p> <p>In the early 1900s, while exiled in Japan, …
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Ethnic Identity and the Consolidation of Imperial Power in the Grand Khitan Empire (AD 907-1125) Burial Art as Evidence for Ethnogenesis in a Multi-ethnic Society
… treaty across parts of Asia. By deliberate political strategies of cultural construction and the materialization of ethnic ideology, Khitan leaders maintained a multi-ethnic social fabric, consolidated their imperial power, made the ethnic Khitan distinct with the rise of their state, and …
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Populists in power: A comparative analysis of the impact of populism on the foreign policy of Italy, Austria, and Hungary
As populist forces are increasingly winning elections, this thesis aims at understanding how populists in government influence a nation’s foreign policy. The selected case studies are governments in the European context which have all had populist forces in power: the First Conte government …
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