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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Public meetings"”.
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Impacts of (un)civil discourse by organized groups on local governance in sustainable development projects
… setting is increasing, especially during public meetings about sustainable development projects. Planners, mediators, facilitators, and government officials are facing a shutting down of public deliberation by "new activists" who are engaging in public forums in very emotional and …
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Public engagement in sustainable urban development: From engagement to co-creation through a smart city approach, Windhoek, Namibia
… to manage the influxes of urban populations and public participation processes are considered and proven to be an important element for enabling successful sustainable development in a smart city concept because they involve actively engaging the civil society (Brand et al. 2013). This research …
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Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60
… in disseminating political ideas and forming public opinion. This thesis demonstrates the importance of older, traditional forms of communication. Inert printed pages were no match for charismatic oratory. Combining personal magnetism, drama and immediacy, the itinerant lecturer was the most …
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Fracturing Illinois: Fields of Political Contention in Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Policy
… extraction which created an unusual amount of public interest and participation in policy construction. This dissertation provides an overview of the political environment in Illinois during the legislative negotiations for the HFRA, outlining the playing field of political negotiations, and …
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Sustainable Charcoal Project to Reduce Youth Unemployment Problem : A case of Chanzuru Ward in Kilosa District
… Youth Unemployment Problem, aimed at creating public awareness on the ways of addressing youth unemployment problem within the local environment. The study was started with Community Needs Assessment conducted in Chanzuru Ward so as to identify a project for interventions as a response to the …
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An investigation into a local education authority's inclusion strategy : the construction and management of change
… written and spoken, semi-structured interviews, public meetings and media publications. NVivo, a computer programme, was used to analyse the discourse, relating this to different theoretical orientations, cognitive psychology, social psychology, management theory and school improvement. Foucault …
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The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts
<p>New York City has one of the most segregated public school systems in the United States. The Department of Education is attempting to address segregation through district level diversity planning processes that potentially change school admissions policies. Using mixed methods, this thesis …
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Descriptive Analysis of Comments Obtained during the Process of Regulating the Reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004
This study examined the comments submitted by the public to the United States Department of Education (USDE), the Office of Special Education Programs, in response to the 2004 amended IDEA, prior to the development and publication of proposed regulations under 34 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) …
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The production of economic knowledge in the anti-corn law campaign, 1839-1846
… for it. Chapter III explores how the League’s public meetings were conducted, arguing that economic knowledge was produced through the processes of presenting and authenticating testimony, in which mass assent, expressed through various imaginaries of the nation, functioned as a rhetorical …
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Blackshirts and White Wigs: Reflections on Public Order Law and the Political Activism of the British Union of Fascists
… sovereignty, it has decisively disrupted public order since its roots were established in the inter-war political scene. The violence provoked by Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) was one of the stimulating factors behind the enactment of the Public Order Act 1936. This …
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An analysis of eParticipation in Scottish local authorities.
Consulting the public in policy making is a statutory obligation for Scottish local authorities but traditional forms of public participation such as public meetings are not considered to be effective for engaging a representative range of citizens. Developments in ICT have led to speculation about …
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The road to redevelopment: New Urbanism, nostalgia, and the process of downtown revitalization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
… Throughout the Plan Baton Rouge process, public participation was solicited through a charrette town-planning format. I argue that Baton Rouge is promoted in a particular way, creating a seemingly interactive dialogue between charismatic leader, local planners, politicians, and …
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CAREGIVING AND THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE; THE IMPACT OF GENDER EXPECTATIONS ON EMPLOYED PARENT CAREGIVERS
… work and care responsibilities. I analyze eight public meetings held by care professionals and community members, twenty self-help texts about caregiving, and interviews with seventeen men and women who are providing care for their parents, and in some cases, children, in the New York metro area. …
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An Evaluation Plan for a Parent Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
… centres, peer to peer education and one time public meetings. Therefore, programs that concentrate on improving the parent to child communication regarding sex education are gaining in popularity. This approach could be promising in conservative states such as Texas where parental consent is …
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Public stories in public dialogue: Structures of a university faculty senate's democratic public culture
… that recognizing the pattern of how and why public stories emerge in public dialogue was an important part of understanding and strengthening a democratic public culture. I studied the public dialogue of the University of Arizona Faculty Senate in part because I belong to this community. I …
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Race talk and “structural displacement” of African American students in a small urban school district in the Midwest
… the race talk dilemmas of school officials in public school meetings over a 20 year period to attempt to understand why racialized policies and practices still persist against African American students at Blakesdale School District. The research provides insight into the inner workings of …
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Petitioning and Political Culture in Late Company Madras, 1830-1860
… polemical writings, and the transactions of public meetings, it reveals a vigorous political culture existed in the understudied presidency of Madras. Incorporating archival material from British and Indian archives, this dissertation dissects the life-cycles, that is the origins and short …
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The Hawaii carbon dioxide ocean sequestration field experiment : a case study in public perceptions and institutional effectiveness
… The committees also planned a multi-year public outreach program to engage residents of Hawaii about the carbon sequestration project. Before the outreach program began, a reporter wrote about the planned carbon sequestration experiment in a March 18, 1999 front-page article in the local …
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Action path : a location-based tool for civic reflection and engagement
… and set of processes. Examples include town hall meetings, occurring during specific times and in specific places, and online forums, where deliberation occurs within profile-based websites for which you need to sign up and to regularly return. This thesis responds to the design challenge and …
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