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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Republicans"”.
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Aristocrats, Republicans, and Cannibals: American Reactions to French Women in Violence
This thesis discusses the reactions of American newspapers and elite individuals to French women in violence as perpetrators and victims during the French Revolution. Canvassing the years between 1789 and 1799, it includes papers, especially politically aligned ones, from across the states of …
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Republicans, Citizens, and Wards: Indian Voting in New Mexico and Arizona, 1598—1912
<p>The Spanish settlers and friars who came to colonize the Indigenous nations of the Southwest Borderlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought with them distinct ideas of voting, town governance, and citizenship. Wary of dealings with large cadres of traditional village elders, they …
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Finding Meaning In the Sociopolitical Experience of African American Republicans: A Phenomenological Approach
… political factors specific to African American Republicans. A qualitative research design, with a phenomenological approach to data collection, analysis, and interpretation, was used to explore the deeper issue of meaning that African American Republicans may find in their sociopolitical …
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Ideological Differences Between Whigs, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa, 1838-1860: Real or Illusory?
The problem. There has long been historical controversy surrounding political parties of the Jacksonian period. This thesis focuses on Iowa's political parties in the legislative process to determine whether there is ideological concensus or conflict on selected issues in the period from 1838 to …
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Who are the dissidents? : analysing changes in the sociological profile of violent dissident republicans in Northern Ireland
This thesis presents an empirical analysis of a unique data set of 427 men and women who have been charged with criminal offences as a result of suspected involvement in dissident republican activity in Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2014. The charges result from involvement in the four main …
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Irish republicans and Basque abertzales: to what extent is the Irish peace process an effective model for a Basque peace process?
… constitutional change as an objective for republicans, and increasingly abertzales, to new, albeit ambiguously stated, objectives around self-determination. The extent to which the objectives of the separatist nationalists and the other political groupings involved such as the Unionists and …
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Reconstruction Unbound: American Worldviews In A Period of Promise and Conflict, 1865-1874
… political factions, Democrats and northern Republicans, thought about and argued over Reconstruction. Democrats and northern Republicans, despite all their disagreements with each other, both attempted to situate the reconstruction of the southern states in a context that was at once …
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The Benjamin Franklin Randolph Monument: A Symbol of Remembrance and Defiance In the Age of Reconstruction
… Monument became a political symbol around which Republicans and the African American community rallied around during the days of Ku Klux Klan violence in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Randolph, a leading member of the Republican Party and state senator from Orangeburg County, was assassinated …
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The Voice of America and the Republican Cold War, 1945 to 1953
Previous studies of Congressional Republicans have focused mostly on the latter's support for the Truman administration's containment policies. This approach overlooks the significance of domestic politics in relation to foreign affairs. My dissertation shows how Republicans used the anti-communist …
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Study of voting alignments in the 1977 U. S. House of Representatives : a policy dimension approach.
… for the three party groups (Northern Democrats, Republicans, and Southern Democrats) to determine if the political alignments of party members were similar in different policy areas. The correlation coefficients for the party groups were consistently smaller than the correlation coefficients for …
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The Republican Dilemma: Liberating Republicanism, Sacrificing Pluralism
… pure negative freedom. I further explore how republicans can conceptualise their freedom ideal to avoid the equivalent-judgments thesis. I show why the only possible strategy for 'liberating' republican freedom from pure negative freedom is to reduce the scope of freedom - that is, making it …
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The Republican Dilemma: Liberating Republicanism, Sacrificing Pluralism
… pure negative freedom. I further explore how republicans can conceptualise their freedom ideal to avoid the equivalent-judgments thesis. I show why the only possible strategy for 'liberating' republican freedom from pure negative freedom is to reduce the scope of freedom - that is, making it …
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The FAIR Act of 1996: Party, Production and Practicality in the Passage of a Farm Bill
… qualitative methods, I argue that Democrats and Republicans were affected differently by a number of influences. Democratic members of Congress appear to have been influenced most by state or district dependence on federal agriculture payments and the timing of the farm bill debate. Party …
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Conservatism and liberalism in the American Congress : a selected study of congressional voting ratings, 1947-1972
… moderation as urbanizing congressional Republicans moderated appreciably. During the 1959-1966 liberal surge, congressional Republicans fashioned a conservative pro-Southern strategy in order to achieve power. From 1967 to 1972, the parties converged ideologically; Southern congressional …
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RESISTANCE TO MANDATED HEALTHCARE CHANGE: USING PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE TO PREDICT RESPONSES TO THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT INSURANCE COVERAGE REQUIREMENT
… being repealed in comparison to Independents, Republicans or Libertarians. In study 2, the non-significant individual insurance mandate findings from study 1, were replicated in study 2. However, Democrats again were found to have significantly less negative attitudes towards the ACA and …
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Oliver Cromwell and the Print Culture of the Interregnum
… of King Oliver I were monarchists, sects, and republicans. Monarchists sought to illustrate the advantages of kingship, the sects wrote of the consequences of kingly rule, and the republicans were divided on the question. An analysis of the language and arguments in both the pamphlets addressed …
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
… their own partisan indignation meetings, the Republicans more successfully harnessed northern indignation to their cause than did their rivals. The Republicans did not triumph in the presidential election of 1856, but they won the popular vote in the free states and established themselves as …
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Relationship Goals: A Social Network Analysis of the Relationships between Bill Sponsors and Cosponsors on Immigration Legislation from 1973-2016
… The results in the House and Senate reveal that Republicans were more likely to cosponsor with other Republicans on immigration legislation that provided benefits, and Democrats were only more likely to form copartisan ties with one another on this subtype for four of the twenty-two terms—only …
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Style Over Substance? The Effect of Perceptions of the Economy and Affect Toward the President on Trust in Government
… significant differences between Democrats and Republicans in the trust they afford the government via affect toward the president, suggesting a difference in how self-identified Democrats and Republicans view the president's role in government.
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