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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Representative Government"”.
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John Stuart Mill on representative government
… thesis examines John Stuart Mill's philosophy of government from the perspectives of the individual in society and of society and its institutions. A critique of scholarly opinion regarding Mill's philosophy on representation leads to a repudiation of charges of inconsistency and elitism. While it …
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Revisiting democracy : Canada's quest for a more participatory form of representative government
… the further deterioration in relations between government and the citizens they claim to represent, four institutional and legislative reforms are suggested in an effort to reconcile basic democratic principles with realities of Canadian political life. These reforms are: (1) recall, (2) …
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The separation movement during the period of representative government at the Cape, 1854-1872
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Sam Sly's African Journal and the role of satire in colonial British identity at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1840-1850
… the abolition of slavery and the granting of representative government to the Cape Colony.
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A Nation in Sight: Visual Technology and Literary Culture in the Early United States
… critiqued, and expanded the aspects of representative government by engaging with the contemporaneous discourses about visual representation. On the one hand, new visual technologies and emerging theories of sight allowed early Americans to collectively imagine an ideal version of the …
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Speech, Law and Civil Society: Liberal Thought Against Democratic Politics
… on democracy reminds us of a curious fact: representative government, supposedly the modern form of democracy, was not originally envisioned as a technical solution to the difficulty of assembling the citizen body of an extensive nation state, but rather as a qualitatively different …
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Failed Liberalism and the Seeds of Revolution: Russian and Chinese Constitutional Reform at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
… reforms to establish meaningful norms of representative government in Russia and China further exacerbated the challenges to the legitimacy faced by each state and subsequently fomented the revolutions that ultimately brought these periods of constitutional reform to an end. In a brief …
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Public Opinion in Benjamin Constant's Political Thought
… as has been assumed, Constant described governments as being underpinned by the people’s opinion. When Constant talked about popular sovereignty, it was not to endorse it, but to urge that it should be disposed of in light of Napoléon’s rhetorical uses of the concept. According to …
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The South African Commercial Advertiser and the making of middle class identity in early nineteenth-century Cape Town
… The final chapter looks at the importance of representative government in the aims of the paper, and draws together some threads on the nature of colonial identity at the Cape as expressed in the Advertiser.
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Responsible Populism: Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Doctrine
… dissertation draws from his works a defense of representative government and discerns within them a balancing act between protection of basic rights, through separation of powers, and the desires of a political community expressed through plebiscitary procedures. My dissertation supports this …
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Contentious Activities and Party-State Responses in Contemporary China -- Investigating China’s Democratisation during its Modernisation
… scenario of modernisation initiated by the government and developing in unexpected depth and rapidity, and on the other hand an implicit but unrecognised scenario of democratisation nurtured by modernisation and actively involving different social forces. Due to the intensifying social …
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Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Representative Democracy
… that he is one of the few thinkers to theorise representative democracy as his preferred form of government explicitly, Jeremy Bentham is conspicuously absent from current scholarly work in these fields. This thesis contends that Bentham put forward an original, realist theory of representative …
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Sacrilege in Dinétah: Native Encounters with Glen Canyon Dam
… and religious freedom while they combated a representative government run amuck. Themes of relocation and resistance emerge, both exemplifying the People's profound connection to the desert world enveloping them.</p>
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Political Cultures in Times of Crisis: Measuring the Effects of Liberal Values on Interstate Crisis Onset
… and measure the role democracy (understood as representative government, liberal culture, or both) plays in interstate relations generally, and the onset of conflict specifically. In the empirical international relations literature, in particular, problems persist surrounding measures for …
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Twitter and the body parodic : global acts of re-creation and recreation
… apart, and in different constellations with governments and news media, these actors use parody accounts to recreate and experiment with everything from law to what constitutes a person. I argue that the Twitter parody account, both as negative critique and ambiguous personification play, is …
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Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century British Empire
… with the first elections under a system of representative government in New South Wales and the Cape, and the early elections of the post-emancipation period in Jamaica, it questions how residents within these sites engaged with elections via the cultures of the canvass, public meetings, …
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An emergent paradigm for propaganda analysis resulting from a comparative study of the allied re-education projects with German prisoners of war
… shift from the WWII alliance of the capitalist governments of the British Empire and the U.S. with the communist Soviet Union to the beginning of the categorical anti-communism of the Cold War, with Germany as a central arena of the action. The political re-education projects with the German …
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