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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Social base"”.
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The social base of divide-and-rule : left-Islamist opposition alliances in North Africa’s Arab Spring
… and endure when both parties have a similar social base – urban, educated social classes. If one of the two parties draws on a rural and illiterate social base, however, it becomes vulnerable to co-optation that causes alliance collapse. When leftists and Islamists had similar social origins …
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Analysis of the labeling discourse between the Jamaat ud Dawa and its critics seen through the Pakistani print media
… in which the accused organizations have acquired social acceptance. This dissertation presents research on the dynamics of such discourses within the context of a sympathetic society that provides support to an allegedly terrorist organization. Firstly, it reveals whether the GWOT alliances' …
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On the road to sustainable community forestry: a case study of three British Columbia forestry-dependent towns
… industry. Communities have lost the economic and social base that sustains families, the municipal tax base and the local retail market, and the local forest expertise has been forced to look elsewhere for work. Many communities around the world have developed viable community forestry frameworks …
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Factors Affecting Academic Interest and Self Perception of Adolescent Hispanic Females
… identifies deterrents to the educational, social, and cultural success of Latina adolescent females. Across the nation, and especially in states such as Texas and California, the Hispanic population is fast becoming the largest minority in society. Because the adolescent Hispanic population …
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Il mondo del lavoro a Taiwan. La nascita della classe operaia e la formazione del movimento dei lavoratori
… its labour movement. The research question was based on the evidence that the labour movement has been weak. The intention of the research was to understand why, by focusing the attention on the fragmentation of labour produced by the Taiwanese export oriented mode of industrialization. Taiwan’s …
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New social movements, Claus Offe, and environmental groups in British Columbia
New Social Movement Theory characterizes post 1960's protest movements such as the peace, environment and women's movement as being distinctively different from older movements such as the workers movement. The salient differences are in the social bases from which the movements draw their …
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Conducting a Dissonant Symphony: A Case Study of Network Leadership in the National Quality Forum
… healthcare through endorsement of consensus-based national standards for measurement and public reporting of healthcare performance data that provide meaningful information about whether care is safe, timely, beneficial, patient-centered, equitable and efficient. The NQF is representative of …
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Meaning is Use: Civic Initiatives and Europeanisation from below in Bulgaria
… not substantially reach citizens and furnish the social base of democracy. The efforts to develop active civil society in Bulgaria remained limited to establishing an NGO sector, which could not truly reflect the meaning of civil society as constituted by actively engaged citizens mobilizing in …
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An Inconvenient Coalition: Climate Change and Democratic Party Elite Discourse on Class, 1988-2008
… accounts (both primary and secondary) of new social and economic divisions between college-educated and non-college educated workers that have shaped American politics since the 1970s. I focus on how Democratic interest in environmentalism changed as a 'professional-managerial-class' or 'new …
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The Yoke of Isabella: the women's section of the Spanish Falange 1934-1959
… while retaining its original ideological base. The thesis examines the emerging role of SF in the Spanish Civil War as a supporter of the Nationalist cause and its mandate in 1939 to train and prepare the women and girls in Spain for life under the new regime. SF's influence on government …
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Middle Class Guerrilas: The Failure of the Mexican Student Revolutionaries to Build a Mass Movement
… With these groups unable to create a strong social base of support among the workers and peasants of Mexico, they had little to no hope of surviving both the vicious propaganda campaigns and the brutal war of extermination by the ruling party, leading to the eventual and total defeat of these …
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Shia Political Islam in Iran. A political and economic approach
… of the Shia movement in Iran through the lens of Social Movement Theory. This thesis argues that the essential mobilisers of the Shia Movement like the IRGC, the Basij and mosques have succeeded in sustaining the survival of the Shia Political Islam. The durability of this political approach lies …
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Explaining cohesion, fragmentation, and control in insurgent groups
… focusing on two variables: the structure of the social networks and institutions upon which the organization is built, and the organization's access to material resources from outside the war zone. First, the structure of the core networks upon which an organization is constructed determines the …
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The divided roots of Lutheranism in South Africa : a critical overview of the social history of the German-speaking Lutheran missions and the churches originating from their work in South Africa
This study defends the thesis that the present social location of the Lutheran churches can be explained by examining the history of their internal divisions and their relation to broader struggles in society. The history of the Lutheran missions and churches is considered in relation to the …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… and the difficulty of finding an acceptable social role, haul demonstrated the necessity of assimilation to Chinese culture. Alessandro Valignano outlined a sceme of accommodation which Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Rieci carried through. To Ricci belongs the responsibility for the decisive …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… and the difficulty of finding an acceptable social role, haul demonstrated the necessity of assimilation to Chinese culture. Alessandro Valignano outlined a sceme of accommodation which Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Rieci carried through. To Ricci belongs the responsibility for the decisive …
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Plan estratégico para el Fondo de Empleados de Corpecol
… permita alcanzar los resultados deseados. Como bases de este análisis se han tenido en cuenta tanto el entorno interno como el externo, y se han podido identificar las debilidades, oportunidades, fortalezas, y amenazas de Corpecol. Con base en estos resultados, se plantearon objetivos …