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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Special interests"”.
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Special Interests and Climate Change: An Analysis of PAC Contributions to Members of the 111th U.S. House
… committees (PACs) representing fossil fuel interests and environmental advocacy groups. Industry not only outspends environmental advocacy groups, but is better represented in the campaign finance space. Using OpenSecrets data on contributions to candidates in the 111th U.S. House, logistic …
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Influence and information in U.S. bureaucracy : how agencies, congress, and interest groups use federal advisory committees
… hand to resist particularistic pressures of special interests both within and outside of government. Many governments choose to reconcile these demands in different ways - through balance of power, direct oversight, and procedural controls, for example - but these control mechanisms are …
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Three Papers on Liberalization Policies in Developing and Transition Countries
… more than politicians that are captured by special interests. Nonparametric classification-tree and means analysis of privatization decisions in the telecommunications industry in developing countries suggests that deeper financial markets and government deficits help constrain political …
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Analysis of Aerosol Optical Depth for South Korea
… in the atmosphere, for South Korea, taking special interests in urban factors and topography. Through analyses using Matlab, a correlation between the AOD, urban factors, and topography was determined.
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Conceptions of collaterality in modern Europe: Kinship ideologies from companionship to trusteeship
… estate. These kinship orientations support the special interests of religion, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status, view marriage as a contract between spouses and a unity of affines, regard the maternal role as especially salient, and have comparatively higher economic and occupational standing. …
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A Study of Faculty Resources for the Purpose of Improving Curriculum Planning
Teachers often have interests, skills, and specialties that can enrich their students’ experience by extending their learning beyond the traditional confines of grade-level education. This paper proposes surveying faculty about their personal hobbies and interests, and creating a reference resource …
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Institutionalizing class conflict : Gouverneur Morris on mediating class warfare through separation of powers.
… the popular president would balance against the special interests of the wealthy in Congress, mediating the socioeconomic class conflict that he thought was an unavoidable part of politics. The result, according to Morris, would be a peaceful and prosperous society, secure in the blessings of …
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Debating NBN policy : the influence of issue management
… to beneficial outcomes for society – not just special interests. However, media reporting about a proposal or issue and representations by special interests – often referred to as lobbying – can affect policy development and political decision-making; and this was demonstrated in interview data …
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Model Legislation as a Measure of Special Interest Influence: The American Legislative Exchange Council and the Koch Network
… work seeks to examine the relationship between special interests, political parties, and major donors who help to fund certain types of interest group coalitions. Specifically, the work will seek to further understand the relationship between the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the …
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The real rules of the budget game : minority fiscal decision making in the United States Senate
… often block spending benefiting concentrated special interests than other types of spending. The study concludes that super-majority budget rules do not restrain spending, much less spending on special interest legislation. The Gramm-Rudman rules were not responsible for the budget surplus …
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A study of the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Richard Danielpour
… including jazz, rock, and pop music. His special interests in metaphysics and non-Western culture, especially Zen Buddhism, are also reflected in his compositions. This study examines Danielpour’s Quintet for Piano and Strings, written in 1988. The work consists of three movements with the …
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No more hats thrown into the Olympic rings: an analysis of the Olympic bidding process
… of the bidding process inherently favors special interests with the most to gain from hosting the Games at the expense of the city as a whole. Stemming from the central condition of public support, I deduce six underlying conditions that are pivotal for successful bids: 1) the use of …
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BEYOND ORGANIC: DEFINING ALTERNATIVES TO USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC
… defining organic in a way that appears to favor special interests, including industrial-size organic operations, as imposed standards are highly technical, scientific, and focus considerably on what substances, both synthetic and non-synthetic, may be used in organic food production, handling, …
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BEYOND ORGANIC: DEFINING ALTERNATIVES TO USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC
… defining organic in a way that appears to favor special interests, including industrial-size organic operations, as imposed standards are highly technical, scientific, and focus considerably on what substances, both synthetic and non-synthetic, may be used in organic food production, handling, …
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A New Terazulenic Platform
… in molecular electronics. One of the special interests is the design of molecular rectifiers. This thesis includes the work toward a novel rectifying molecule. A terazulenic scaffold with electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups at odd and even positions of the azulenic …
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US Labor Demand: a Discourse Analysis on the "Hidden Force" behind Illegal Immigration
… the government's political objectives or the special interests of employers. Loopholes in the immigration laws have tended to insulate employers from prosecution. Meanwhile, undocumented workers have faced lower wages and increased risk. This thesis examines what constitutes the dominant …
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A Study of the Roles of Interest Groups and the Courts in Canadian Educational Policy Development
… accessible to input from groups representing special interests; (b) that interest groups are becoming more numerous, more aggressive and more likely to use litigation as a method of influencing educational policy; and, (c) that the courts are adopting a more quasi-legislative role and a more …
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Explaining and predicting suggested relationships between human social capital, citizen political trust, and citizen political engagement
… benefit individuals, groups of individuals, and special interests. A citizen’s type of political engagement and level of political engagement may be influenced by the individual and group resources a citizen possesses, as well as the citizen’s level of trust in government to respond to their …
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DePUDS: Decentralized Prosocial Urban Development System
… and susceptible to obstruction by narrow special interests (NIMBYism), failing to engage the broader community or adapt to evolving needs. This dissertation proposes the Decentralized Prosocial Urban Development System (DePUDS), a novel governance framework designed to overcome these …
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Governing Large-Scale Assessment Programmes in Mexico: A Multi- Scalar Account of Policy and Practice
… by different institutions, each with their own special interests and their own distinct scalar architecture (global, regional and national), yet mutually focused on seeking to shape education practice improvement and policy decisions through the production of data regarding student learning. …
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