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Showing 1 to 20 of 1657 for “"State, The"”.
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Multinationals and the state : the Chilean case
Includes bibliographical references.
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Housing and the state : the case of Honduras
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Rescaling the State: The Politics of Educational Decentralization in Catalonia
This dissertation examines the processes surrounding educational policy production through an exploration of the shifting policies of educational decentralization in Catalonia, Spain. It provides an account of the ways in which these policies are articulated and rearticulated through Catalonia's …
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Political Parties in a Bifurcated State: The Case of Guyana
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Demystifying the welfare state: the case of the Republic of Moldova
<p>During the communist era, Eastern Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shared a similar welfare system in which welfare states were part of an inseparable political and economic system controlled by a totalitarian power i.e., the Communist Party. After the fall of the USSR, …
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THE ELUSIVE STATE: THE FAILURE OF IRAQI KURDS TO SECURE INDEPENDENCE
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire brought about significant changes for the political structure of the Middle East. The Kurds emerged as one of the largest ethnic groups striving for independence. However, Kurdish efforts at independence failed despite periods of significant opportunity. This …
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Poetry and the State: The Politics of Nabat Tradition in Kuwait
<p>This thesis analyzes the relationship between the practice of an old tribal Bedouin oral tradition (Nabat poetry) and the politics of the nation-state in Kuwait. The historical context of this tradition, its development within modern state boundaries, and its current role in the …
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An Institutional Analysis of Reforming the *State. The Case of Peru
According to North, the notion of path dependency implies that an exogenous institutional change will not alter the pattern of growth in developing countries, such as Peru, as dramatically as policy makers and some scholars would expect. Our study argues that permanent effects may be derived from …
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Deinstitutionalisation of the welfare state: the case of mental health care
no abstract provided by author
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Technology, Time, and the State: The Aesthetics of Hydropower in Postcolonial Egypt
This thesis analyzes the work of Hamed Owais, Tahia Halim, and Inji Efflatoun, three artists who were active in Egypt during its era of decolonization following the 1952 Revolution. Using the large-scale public works project of the Aswan High Dam as a lens, this study focuses on the ways in which …
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Separation of Church and State: The Dynamics of Supreme Court Decision-Making
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Labor export, development, and the state : the political economy of Portuguese emigration
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1984.
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Labor Law and the State: The Crises of Unions in the 1980s
This study broadly assesses the role played by political factors in the widespread union crises that occurred in many Western capitalist democracies during the 1980s. Specifically examined are the effects of state labor law policies on union strike effectiveness in Great Britain and the United …
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Breakdown in the broker state: The Cio in southern Nevada during World War Ii
During World War II, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) fought a bitter jurisdictional dispute at Basic Magnesium, Incorporated (BMI), a defense plant in southern Nevada. While the CIO concentrated on organizing African-American workers, the …
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The decline of the Mexican state? : the case of state housing intervention (1917-1988)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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