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French Medical Syndicates as Political Pressure Groups
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Pressure groups and government policy on education, 1800 - 1839.
This study examines the roles of the principal groups and individuals, who, during the years 1800-1839, promoted the education of the poor and pressurised governments with the notion that the state ought to ac ept responsibility for the formation of a nationa1 system. Their m tives were primarily …
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Access to justice in environmental law: An investigation of the locus standi of environmental pressure groups in English law and the creation of an environmental court
Pressure Groups, the subject of this work, their selfperception and their access to our Courts is a subject that has, for some time, been of personal interest to me. I had had no personal contact with any pressure group until approximately 10 years ago when, standing at the window of a naval …
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Polish American pressure groups, Woodrow Wilson and the thirteenth point : the significance of Polish food relief, the Polish vote in the 1916 Presidential election, and European events in the eventual self-determination for Poland.
… formation and organization of Polish-American groups which formed a so-called "Fourth Part of Poland," but, with the exception of independence-minded Polish Socialists in America, worked primarily for the bettering of the Polish lot in the United States. Chapter Five presents the devastation …
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The production of environmental news: a study of source-media relations
… and key news sources, such as environmental pressure groups, related interest groups, scientists and the Department of the Environment. It suggests that a major lacuna exists within the analysis of source-media relations. Researchers have, until recently, adopted a media-centric position and …
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The South African flag controversy, 1925-1928
… commissions, conferences, deputations, pressure groups and different compromise proposals make their appearance, narrative and description are inevitably prominent.
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Nationalism and regional integration arrangements : a case study of Indonesia and the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement
… elite remain supportive of AFTA, some Indonesian pressure groups, particularly non-governmental. organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs), have expressed their scepticism. Despite this, scepticism about AFTA is not a result of increased nationalist sentiment in Indonesia, but is …
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Interest group analysis of electoral college reform.
… of this study is the identification of national pressure groups which have formulated group policies with regard to either the maintenance or reform of the electoral college system. After categorizing the groups in terms of their preference for the present electoral college or one of the four …
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Special Interest Partisanship: The Transformation of American Political Parties
… pluralism offers flexibility to parties and groups, and alliances have little value when parties are too weak to discipline their members in Congress. On the other, institutionalized alliances offer significant efficiency gains, which are especially valuable during periods of growth. I argue …
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Schulen der Nation? : Nationale Bildung und Erziehung an höheren Schulen des Deutschen Kaiserreichs von 1871 bis 1914
… und Lehrerverbänden sowie nationalistischen pressure groups. Auf die kulturgeschichtliche Nationalismusforschung der letzten Jahre zurückgreifend, fragt die Doktorarbeit auch nach den geschlechterspezifischen Ausprägungen und Brechungen nationaler Bildung. Hier zeigt sich, dass die moderat …
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Repression, freedom, and minimal geography: human rights, humanitarian law, and Canadian involvement in El Salvador, 1977-1984
… thus arises: do counter-consensus or public-pressure groups exert any influence over a state’s foreign policy and, if so, does this phenomenon contribute to conflict resolution? While there is disagreement over the actual success that public groups and interested parties have over government …
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Minorites, military service, and the legacies of post-war reconstruction in the British Isles, 1918-1939
… in the form of associations, clubs, and pressure groups: testament to the new politics of the post-war age. On this field, minority agendas were founded and articulated, while dominant notions of citizenship, what it meant to belong, were contested and reshaped. Contributing to a history …
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The animated gaystream: how streaming services, social media, adult fandom, and the visibility of creators have influenced representations of gender and sexuality in twenty-first century U.S. children’s animation
… the importance of both conservative and LGBTQIA+ groups to networks, this thesis has developed an understanding of how creators, LGBTQIA+ supportive audiences and conservative pressure groups influence network decisions.
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The social and political determinants in the formation and implementation of habitat conservation policy : the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
… of a negative proof. Hypothesis 3 is that pressure group activity in the pre-parliamentary stages of its enactment was a determinant. This shows a possible positive proof. Hypothesis 4 is that the influence of pressure groups and Parliament was a determinant during the parliamentary stages …
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Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60
… power of the spoken word was such that all major pressure groups employed lecturers and sent them on extensive tours. Print historians tend to overplay the importance of newspapers and tracts in disseminating political ideas and forming public opinion. This thesis demonstrates the importance of …
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Il voto elettronico come processo sociale
… bureaucrats, politicians, civil society, pressure groups and the market within four case studies (Estonia, Ireland, Great Britain and the Netherlands) to highlight the direct and unexpected consequences of changing a long established habit in such a delicate matter as voting. It also draws …
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The rise and fall of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy; a critical review of the history of a child protection issue
… experts within the field in the UK. A number of pressure groups emerged that opposed the diagnosis of this type of child abuse. In 2003, the Court of Appeal (UK) released three mothers who had been convicted for the murders of their children, in each of these cases, the expert medical witnesses …
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The role of a newspaper in an advocacy campaign to save Dhaka’s rivers in Bangladesh
… a platform for the government, environmental pressure groups and activists to engage with the public to work together to save Dhaka’s major rivers. This ongoing media advocacy campaign provides a unique case study. Applying the method of content analysis, this research takes a closer look at …
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The environment agency and regulation towards sustainable development
… as such to hold the hopes of environmental pressure groups and the public in terms of its ability to improve the quality of the environment. The Government has gone about providing the Agency with support in achieving sound environmental protection by providing it with powers to prevent …
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