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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Popular support"”.
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Population-centric warfare: How popular support determines civil war outcomes
… doctrine focuses on a government’s lack of popular support to explain this. Academic literature, however, currently treats popular mobilisation as a dependent variable, rather than using it as a framework for understanding the dynamics and outcomes of civil wars. This thesis represents a …
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The Nexus between the Ballot and Bullet: Popular Support for the PKK and Post-election Violence in Turkey
This study examines the relationship between popular support for the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), which is an ethnic insurgent and terrorist organization mainly operating in Turkey, and its terrorist activities during the pre-and post-election periods in Turkey . Popular support has been measured …
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How one city in Côte d'Ivoire successfully tackled its sanitation problem : building popular support and adopting an incremental approach
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.
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The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Theory of Mobilization and Conflict Outcome
… overlook the role that the population plays in supporting an insurgency or fail to specify how the requirements of a rebel group's mobilization of popular support might have their own effect on conflict outcome. In this dissertation, I develop a theory of conflict outcome that links a rebel …
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Assessing sentiment in conflict zones through social media
… accepted that polling can assess levels of popular support in a geographic area by surveying a cross-segment of its population, it is less well accepted that analysts can use social media analysis to assess sentiment or popular support within the same space. We examine this question by …
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Contractarianism and Legitimacy
… which highlights the connection between actual popular support and stability. The fourth chapter, appealing to recent work by Scanlon and Nagel, explores the implications of the idea of hypothetical unanimity for thinking about morally rightful political institutions. The final chapter …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Media and Information Manipulation
… how unconstrained leaders use media to sustain popular support and how they leverage such uncertainties for their benefit. I first analyze how governments in mixed regimes manipulate the informational environment in an era of conglomerate-owned media. I argue that state contracts in non-media …
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Revolution of the right: explaining the rise of the front national in light of the 2008 financial crisis
… aims to unpack the reasons for the surge in popular support for the far right Populist Party in France, the Front National. The research is conducted according to the methodology that there are three main contributions to the surge, including economic factors, political factors and social …
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John Adams and France: A Remarkable but Costly Relationship
… in office. George Washington was elected by popular acclamation due to his military leadership in the Revolutionary War. John Adams was narrowly elected and had little popular support such as had been evident in the Washington Administration for two terms. John Adams stood up for his beliefs …
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Political obstacles to adopting congestion pricing in New York City
… political figures, federal funding, and broad popular support, yet in failed to clear the state assembly without even getting a vote. The failure of Bloomberg's proposal is instructive not only to New York and other cities considering congestion pricing, but also to proponents of a broad range …
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Does support for democracy matter? : a cross-national study of regime preferences and system change
… model of democratic change and stability. While "support for democracy" is a common concept in political science, the only empirical studies of the relationship between these regime preferences and democracy (Inglehart, 2003; Inglehart & Welzel, 2003; Welzel, Inglehart and Klingemann 2003) do not …
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"True Patriots for the Salvation of the Fatherland": Sinarquistas and the Struggle for Post-Revolutionary Mexico
… propaganda, the Sinarquistas sought to generate popular support for the movement leadership's right-wing political agenda. This thesis explores the mass culture of the Sinarquista movement, as well as that of Sinarquismo's enemies on the Mexican left, to argue that discourses of nationalism and …
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Explaining the success of the Nepal Communist Partymaoist (NCP-M) a comparison of the Maoist insurgencies in the 21st century
… created by initial military gains while popular support remains high. This thesis also highlights the benefits of employing political negotiations and foreign mediation as a genuine means for achieving both political change and sustainable peace.
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… that in specific circumstances indicated neither popular support for nor rejection of the Confederacy. It focuses on wartime activities like swearing the Federal oath, illicit trade with the Union army, and Confederate desertion to show how Mississippians acted on co-existent loyalty layers to …
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The Taliban the Second Time Around: The Evolution of Taliban Strategy and Tactics and Future Scenarios For Afghanistan
… more religious-based politics and to win popular support. In the 1990s, they used conventional weapons and met the enemy directly on the battlefield. There has been a shift towards the use of improvised explosive devices, psychological operations, and hit-and-run tactics because the …
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School to Prison Pipeline Unmasked: Review of how the School to Prison Pipeline Reinforces Disproportionality in Mass Incarceration
… simultaneously garnering funds and encouraging popular support for discriminatory practices when targeting poor communities of color. Additionally, it goes on to analyze how zero-tolerance policies have negatively impacted students of color. It explains an analysis of how zero tolerance …
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Understanding hybrid regimes: How are they maintained and operated?
… institutions, sometimes with relatively broad popular support (Diamond, 2021). Second, the emerging hybrid regimes tend to maintain a democratic façade, as they claim to be the true champions of the people (Guriev & Treisman, 2022). While these regimes limit citizens' freedoms and political …
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Organizzazione del consenso e strategia militare del Partito Comunista Indocinese nel nord Vietnam dalla conferenza di Pac Bo al 2 settembre 1945
… of Pac Bo (May 1941). The origins of the massive popular support, which enabled Ho Chi Minh and its organization to keep the leadership of the country for decades, lie in the period between 1941 and 1945. This is the hypothesis verified by the thesis. The research studies the organization of the …
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A War of Words: Jacobitism as a Language of Dissent in England during the Reign of William III, 1688-1702
… III’s Glorious Revolution enjoyed overwhelming popular support, was bloodless, and that the Jacobite movement had little support in England. My thesis explores this topic through deep biographical case studies to highlight the material and interpersonal interconnectedness of those involved in …
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