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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Politics and Social Change"”.
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White racial attitudes in the age of Obama
… chapter examines the role of economic insecurity and education on White racial attitudes. The second empirical chapter evaluates the relative importance of individual vs. contextual factors in shaping Whites' attitudes about race. The third empirical chapter seeks to evaluate the extent to which …
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Scale Validation Of American Exceptionalism Index
… Index. The current study draws from instruction and examples from academics and professionals who have experience with scale validation – a primer was developed and available to guide future scale development. Following these steps or the inherent purpose behind these steps, the current study …
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Politics and pandemics: an investigation of the potential covariates in the relationship between conservative political ideology and reduced facemask wearing
… are less likely to comply with mask mandates and engage in less mask wearing. This study investigated five variables that could explain the relationship between political identity and less mask wearing: loyalty to ingroup and obedience to authority moral foundations, trust in science, …
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The Food Court in the Magic Kingdom: Globalization, Cuisine and Attitudes in Saudi Arabia
… Saudi Arabia has been modernizing much faster and in a shorter period than in the majority of the world’s countries. This study seeks to examine factors that influence the diet of Saudi Arabians. Aside from language, one of the principal manifestations of culture is a country’s cuisine.</p> …
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The Neoliberal Construction of Immigration as Crisis
… of current immigration patterns as crises and argue that they are better understood as ‘business as usual’ in the neoliberal state. This paper highlights the connection between neoliberal policies and negative public perceptions of immigrants. Neoliberal policies disenfranchise citizens and …
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Party Time: The Working Families Party and the US Political System, 1998–2018
… Party for the first time in many decades, and a torrent of progressive legislation ensued. This dissertation is a history of the WFP from 1998 to 2018, when the Republicans were again—and this time stably—vanquished at the state level and socialists began to enter state and federal office …
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The Influence of Inequality and Noneconomic Institutions on Cross-National Terrorist Incidents
To expand the research base concerning terrorism this study connects terrorist incidents on a global scale with economic and noneconomic institutional factors. Whereas most terrorism studies use social disorganization theory or anomie theory as their theoretical bases, this study uses institutional …
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Remembering, Forgetting, and Artifact Deposition in Late Prehistoric Florida
… are an important means of both connecting with and cutting ties with a real or imagined past. They can be reminders or symbols of connection to other people, places, things, powers, or memories, making them key components within networks and relations. The way materials are deposited or …
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Five Public Concerns Represented by Environmental Groups in the Development of Regional Free Trade Agreements: A Case Study of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
… successfully had public concerns addressed and codified in the Environment chapter of the USMCA. By analyzing official statements made in press releases by seventeen prominent Environmental groups operating in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, the thesis provides an account of the …
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Egyptian Civil Society (Transnational vs. Local): The Distinction Between Theory and Practice
<p>Abstract:</p> <p> The strength and dominance of political society, rather than the weaknesses of civil society, is arguably one of the primary reasons for massive civil uprising in Egypt led by independent, unaffiliated members of society. In many cases it appears that civil society was behind …
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Challenging Space through Activism: Scaling Local and Global Issues at the 2012 London Olympic Games
… of space created by the Olympic Games in London and the ways in which activists demonstrated against these issues by using space to their advantage. The Olympic Games is a phenomenon that scales local, national and international space in various ways, through its effects on global culture, …
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The Romani Place in Kosovar Space: Nationalism and Kosovo’s Roma
… its independence. The path to independence and the claim to Kosovo was a long process that developed in three primary phases: A) the fostering of territorial solidarity under direct rule and an emphasis on historical ties to the territory; B) the foundation of the national idea within the …
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Migratory Timescapes: Experiences of Pausing, Waiting, and Inhabiting the Meanwhile of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Mexico
… engaging with the notions of movement, control, and settlement from a critical perspective. I explore these experiences through the idea of <em>migratory timescapes</em>, defined as structural temporal-relational contexts in which migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are socially embedded. In …
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Islamism and Women’s Movements in Iran: Hijab as a Burden of Representation
… history, Islamic discourse, political Islam, and the status of Muslim women have been subjects of study. Still, few research efforts have concentrated on the changes and dynamics between Islamic discourse and feminist resistance. Particularly in Iran, attention has primarily been given to the …
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Freedom to Vote in Kenya: Effects of Perceived Corruption, Levels of Political Trust, and Fear of Political Violence and Intimidation
<p> <p>To understand attitudes about voting in Kenya, this study examines Kenyan voters’ feelings of freedom to vote according to their own will and without pressure. More specifically it seeks to determine the extent to which these feelings are affected by 1) perception of corruption, 2) levels of …
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The Hapathetic Generation
… targeted at individuals born between 1982 and 2000. Research indicates that these individuals, known as the Millennials, are the most socially concerned demographic to date; yet they are also the least likely to involve themselves in solutions that address their concerns. One cannot help …
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The Origin of Usurpation and Tyranny: Nonagentic Anti-Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century and the Legacy of Chavismo
… descent into Latin America’s worst refugee and humanitarian crisis in modern times, a mass exodus of nearly five million Venezuelans since 2015, the rhetoric of Western anti-imperialists and the regime itself has absolved it of any responsibility for the crisis and the increasing …
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