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Showing 1 to 20 of 183 for “"State Power"”.
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Reclaiming state power to bridge governance gaps in global trade
… aren’t paid a living wage? Do we turn to the state that shelters the corporation, even if the wrongdoing occurs outside their jurisdiction? What about the state where the operations are based? Can they impose their will on corporations that are sheltered elsewhere? Are the corporations …
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Advocacy groups versus state power : creating global politics of the environment
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1999
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Outsourcing Security and the Reconfiguration of State Power after the Arab Uprisings
… centrality of the security institutions to state power and regime stability in the Arab region, this research explores how increased privatization and outsourcing of security, amid wider reconfigurations of the market for force, has contributed to the reconfiguration of state power in some …
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Pivotal Crisis: State Power and Social Forces in the Making of Neoliberal Capitalism
… of post-war capitalism and to harness American power to this end. The main argument is that the parochial way in which German state managers sought to preserve the domestic compact between capital and labour prevented a more progressive and solidaristic resolution of the crisis and created the …
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Post-Capitalist Struggles in 21st Century Latin America: Cooperation, Democracy and State Power
… through struggles that express the latent powers found within what Marx called the collective worker. Using a comparative and historical framework, I examine four case studies in Latin America: Venezuelas socialist enterprises, Argentinas recuperated factories, the Chilean student movement …
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The Politics of Bread: State Power, Food Subsidies and Neoliberalization in Hashemite Jordan
… bread, I suggest a new approach to understanding state power, not as the straightforward product of a monolithic entity but as the unstable product of social practices that make the state appear to exist. Building on the work of Judith Butler and Alex Jeffrey, I call these routine actions …
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Migrant Surveillance and State Power: Electronic Tagging of Asylum-Seekers in the UK
… Home Office continues to expand the detention estate and issue new contracts to corporations, asylum-seekers are increasingly endangered by the propensity of further surveillance, privatized abuse, and restricted civil liberties.
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Democracy, pornography, and state power: The case of legislating obscenity in post-communist Russia
… new and have been faced by all other democratic states. Pornography challenges notions of democracy because it presents a clear conflict of self-determination and state interest. It is colored by issues of morality and religion, and it is addressed by critics of democracy from the right and the …
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The politics of the invisible: offshore finance and state power. A country-level comparison
… asks: How does offshore finance affect the power of the state to unite resources in order to finance its politics? The inquiry into the power relationship between offshore finance and the state immediately raises questions about the nature of the modern state and the delineation between the …
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Projection of State Power: State-making in the Dryland Periphery of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda
… and far-reaching expansion of their presence and power in the long-neglected dryland region that straddles the three countries’ borders. Such efforts to project the power of states across their territories are an essential aspect of state-making but have attracted relatively little scholarly …
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State power and revolution : toward a strategic-relational analysis of the 1979 revolution in Iran
… in Iran in the 1970s, which was a decade of state transformation. Employing a conceptual toolbox and methods of investigation based on the Strategic-Relational Approach and Cultural Political Economy, this study introduces fresh perspectives, concerns, and concepts to reconstruct the key …
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Made for export : labor migration, state power, and higher education in a developing Philippine economy
… force in the domestic economy, the Philippine state focused its attention on exporting college-educated/highly-educated workers by creating a set of elaborate institutions to facilitate overseas employment. As a result, currently over 10 percent of its citizens live abroad in over 160 countries …
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Making Sense of Chinese Higher Education Internationalization: Critical Gazes at the Nexus of State, Power, and Globalization
… is animated by the broad questions of how the state governs through, and how we are governed by, higher education nationalization policies. The former question corresponds to the idea of governance whilst the latter relates to governmentality. Both governance and governmentality are …
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‘It’s Not a Protest, It’s a Process’: A Critical Analysis of State Power, Class Struggle, and the Occupy Movement
… conceptual concerns, pertaining to matters of state power, in the context of the war of position in the advanced capitalist state and the neoliberal conjuncture. Presented within this specific depiction of the convoluted process that is class struggle, there is also a consideration of potential …
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On the Evaluation of a State Power aimed at Preventing Urban Sprawl in Peri-Urban Areas of Chilean Cities. A Justification from Property Law
… limits. This paper aims to evaluate one of the state powers that Chilean law offers to address this phenomenon. Since the exercise of such power implies a constraint on the property rights of the rural landowner, we will approach our study from Christopher Essert’s Property Law Theory …
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State, law and community in the politics of housing in South Africa: 1990-2000
… historically constituted a site where state power is both imposed and contested. These processes had their roots in apartheid-era urbanisation policy, but took on a different character during the late-apartheid and early post-apartheid period. This dissertation describes and analyses …
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The New Order and Its Enemies: Opposition to Military Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1789 - 1807
… through an investigation of the challenges the state faced as well as the motivations of political, military, economic, and social groups in opposing the new army. This period represented a moment of crisis of great magnitude for the Ottoman imperial center. However, in military and financial …
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