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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"State intervention"”.
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Contractual Coloniality: Strategic State Intervention in Aboriginal Governance
This thesis argues that certain strategic interventions in the delivery of services to Indigenous Australians employ rationalities congruent with colonial-settler governance. The Koori Services Improvement Strategy in the Australian State of Victoria is a case in point. Detailed examination of this …
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State intervention and control of insurance business in Nigeria
In reviewing the efforts of the :~igerian Government to control the insurance industry in Nigeria ,.,rith a view to improving the tarnished image of the industry which was a prominent feature of the late 1960 l s and the early 1970 ' s this study briefly describes the evolution of the control …
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The Roots of State Intervention in The Contemporary Brazilian Economy
This study attempts to explain the character of state intervention in the Brazilian economy, i.e. it attempts to explain why the state has implemented certain policies instead of others. In order to follow the process through which the roots of state intervention in the Brazilian economy have …
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HAYEK AND RAWLS : THE LIMIT OF STATE INTERVENTION IN THE ECONOMY
… and Rawls on the question of the limit of proper state intervention in the economy. Their views are often thought to be totally different and hence incompatible. In comparing and contrasting their views, it is found that while it is true that Hayek and Rawls do differ in their assignments of the …
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The effectiveness of state intervention in the South African electronics industry
… dissertation is to assess the effectiveness of state intervention in the South African electronics industry. In order to assess the impact of the various policies implemented by the government, a nation wide survey, which encompassed 270 firms in the industry, was undertaken. The data collected …
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Sex Trafficking and State Intervention: Conflicts and Contradictions during the 2012 London Olympics
… key policy debates surrounding human trafficking intervention and to conduct a series of in-depth interviews with members of the Human Trafficking Network as well as associated professionals such as the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre, MPs, governmental and non-governmental agencies, law …
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Co-opting culture : State intervention in and party patronage of literary and popular culture, 1929-1941.
… 1930s heralded a new era of crisis in the United States. It also led to innovative strategies of cultural patronage, the latter being defined herein as the relationship between a provider of protection and material support, and a cultural practitioner, whose production was oriented toward the …
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Creating a 'black film industry' : state intervention and films for African audiences in South Africa, 1956-1990.
… specifically for an African audience using a state subsidy. This subsidy was introduced in 1972 and was separate from the general or A-Scheme subsidy that was introduced in 1956 for the production of English- and Afrikaans-language or 'white' films. This thesis is a critical assessment of the …
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Balancing child participation rights, parental responsibility and state intervention in medical and reproductive decision-making under South African law
… children’s rights, parental responsibility and state intervention have been regularly redrawn. At the heart of this process is the need to recognise the separate personhood of the child and the important role played by parental guidance in the proper upbringing of children. While participation …
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The paradoxes of industrial strategies : neoliberal reform and state intervention in Argentine industry from ISI to Martínez de Hoz.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1996
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Wartime agricultural policy in Canada : an analysis of agricultural adjustment to wartime demand with particular reference to state intervention and control in the Second World War
… food imports for the British people. Because the state played a significant role in effecting a major wartime shift from wheat to animal products and in channelling Canadian food into domestic and export markets, a large part of the analysis in each Chapter is concerned with the techniques and …
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TRACING NEWS ON TWITTER: FORCES SHAPING NEWS CONSUMPTION AND PERCEPTIONS IN GULF COUNTRY MEDIA SYSTEMS
… (UAE), and Kuwait. This study identified state intervention as an influential factor that alters news consumers’ perceptions of the credibility and quality of news content as well as their consumption habits. This dissertation conducted a multinational survey of Twitter news consumers in …
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The changing basis of state support for housing associations: A theoretical and empirical analysis
… structuralism focuses upon the role of the state in capitalist society. The state is seen as purposive-rational, acting economically, to ensure the continued accumulation of capital, and/or politically, to ensure the hegemony of the bourgeiosie. According to this view all power resides …
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Desregulamentação financeira e intervenção do Estado na economia: o exemplo americano e o caso brasileiro
… of the deregulation process in the United States, since it exerted a direct impact in triggering the crises witnessed in 2008. Efforts will be addressed to Minsky's theory of financial fragility, with the aim to offer a relevant explanation on the issue of the need for state intervention in …
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Marginalization of Mothers in the Market: A Comparative Study of the Limits and Opportunities for Public Policy
… and the market outcomes of women in the United States and other European nations to determine if the different policies explain the variances, and consequently the necessity of state intervention for achieving gender equality. The findings suggest state intervention is necessary to achieve sex …
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The real effects of debt relief : evidence from independent school districts in Texas
… and graduation rates. The findings suggest that state intervention in debt capacity can produce long-run positive effects by revitalizing previously forgone high-impact projects.
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Getting Out of Debt Poverty
… dissertation proceeds to examine the role of the state in the provision and regulation of credit, and in the entrenchment of extreme poverty. It provides a sustained historical analysis of the role of the postal service, a public institution, in the provision of banking and credit and discusses a …
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Locally grown : statewide land use planning in northern New England
… growth in a coordinated and effective way, state governments have stepped in to intervene. Loosely organized under the banner of "Smart Growth," states are reasserting some of their power to encourage more orderly development and to resolve inter-local conflicts. Yet Americans also have a …
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The evolution of industrial policy in the United Kingdom, 1964-1978
… a variety of problems associated with state intervention in private industry are highlighted. The various attempts by policy-makers to overcome shortcomings in the coordination of policy, communication with firms, public monitoring and exercise of control as a result of experience with …
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