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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"State party"”.
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State Political Parties in American Politics: Innovation and Integration in the Party System
<p>What role do state party organizations play in twenty-first century American politics? What is the nature of the relationship between the state and national party organizations in contemporary elections? These questions frame the three studies presented in this dissertation. More specifically, I …
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Contemporary political opposition in Russia’s competitive authoritarian regime
… has faced increasing levels of oppression by the state. As elections have become less democratic and the governing practices of Putin have become more authoritarian, Russia has come to resemble a competitive authoritarian regime type. Despite this continually shrinking political environment, …
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Women as Party Leaders: Are the Barriers Partisan?
… up roughly 51% of the population of the United States, they are underrepresented in all branches of American government. Although there has been recent literature on women in politics and women and parties, very little has been done on women in party leadership. Research suggests that there are …
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International Children’s Rights: A Comparative Study of 52 State Parties Concluding Observation Reports, Investigating, Implementation and Legal Incorporation of the UNCRC
This thesis explores children’s rights in 52 State parties. It compares implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by using the Concluding Observations (CO) reports from the Committee on the Rights of the Child. It then investigates the higher scoring State parties, …
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Protection of state parties’ rights under the dispute settlement mechanism of the African continental free trade agreement: Lessons from the World Trade Organisation
… the AfCFTA DS Protocol ensures that an aggrieved State Party can pursue dispute resolution to a definitive conclusion without it being unfairly stalled or terminated. Two key provisions of the AfCFTA DS Protocol, the decision-making requirement for the establishment of Panels and the …
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The Institutional Design of Arms Control: To What Extent Does Institutional Design Increase the Longevity of Arms Control Agreements?
… membership as at least one nuclear-armed state party to the agreement, and technology transfer mechanisms in arms control agreements. It found that membership and a lack of technology transfer mechanisms are necessary to positively impact the longevity of an arms control agreement, meaning …
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Realising the effective enforcement of civil and political rights in Africa: an analysis of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
… normative and institutional protection to member states' obligations, in order to understand the general overview of the prospects and challenges of the African Charter civil and political rights enforcement. Using Nigeria, Tanzania and Benin as case studies to understand state party …
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The International Criminal Court in Self-Referral States: Legitimacy, Reputation, and the Court’s Anti-Impunity Mandate
… Concerning investigations initiated by a State Party to the Rome Statute referring a situation within their own territory to the ICC (self-referral states), the ICC has been criticized for only indicting rebel/ non-state actors when there is credible evidence that state elite were …
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An "anarchist rabbi": The life and teachings of Rudolf Rocker
… the morality of all forms of authority, whether state, party or privileged minority. The only form of organization condoned by him was that of workers' federations or syndicates. In Rocker's vision, these federations would serve as the basis for creating a federated Europe, and ultimately a …
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Risk and the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
This dissertation addresses obligations of States parties under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to refrain from exposing individuals to risk through their own conduct and to prevent or mitigate such risk exposure caused by the conduct of third parties. In this …
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South Africa’s diplomatic strategy on migrants, with specific reference to the United Nations refugee regime, 1994-2009
… of its relative prosperity in Africa. As a State Party to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention on the Status of Refugees, South Africa is under a legal obligation to protect refugees and grant them legal rights. At the same time, South African citizens, who had legitimate aspirations …
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Arbitrations Involving States And Foreign Private Parties: A Study In Contemporary Legal Process
Arbitrations involving states and foreign private parties are a complex phenomenon, sharing certain animating values with other forms of adjudication, particularly international arbitrations of private commercial disputes, but reflecting at the same time singular values that must be fostered if the …
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Monitoring occupational and environmental health as part of the right to the highest attainable standard of health
… contributor to global Burden of Diseases (BoD). State Parties (SPs) to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) are obligated to implement the Right to Health (RtH); which includes improving environmental and industrial hygiene, prevention, treatment and control …
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The Management of the conservation of Masjed-e Jame, Isfahan
… 3. Justification for inscription; 4. State of conservation and factors affecting the properties; 5. Protection and management of the property; 6. Monitoring; 7. Documentation; 8. Contact information of responsible authorities; 9. Signature on behalf of the state party. By clarifying …
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Community media and civil society: lessons from the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela
… capable of displacing hegemonic commercial and state models. One major axis of investigation is the utility of public sphere theory for the structuration of participatory media institutions that function within a system of civil society governance. The work opens by identifying three overlapping …
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An ethical assessment of the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights: a case study of Mumbwa district
… of the study were: to investigate the current state of land ownership between men and women in Zambia; to establish factors that contribute to the existing land ownership patterns; and to ethically assess the impact of existing land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights in …
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An ethical assessment of the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights: a case study of Mumbwa district
… of the study were: to investigate the current state of land ownership between men and women in Zambia; to establish factors that contribute to the existing land ownership patterns; and to ethically assess the impact of existing land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights in …
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Indonesia and the International Bill of Rights: role and implementation
… discussed in the thesis as Indonesia is not a State party to the Optional Protocols as of today. This thesis departs from two research questions: what is the standpoint, position, and role of Indonesia in the drafting of the International Bill of Rights; and does Indonesia accept the …
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An Analysis of Petroleum Contract Renegotiation under Changed Circumstances
… costs and attain a minimum rate of return, the State, as a sovereign entity with the public interest on top of its agenda, prefers contractual flexibility and seeks economic development through the investment. The need for renegotiation of petroleum contracts derives from the necessity of …
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Chasing Tickets: Party Politics, Corruption and Municipal Elections, New Delhi
This thesis is an exploratory study of informal party politics and competition for party tickets in local politics in India. It is an ethnographic account of the Bharatiya Janata Party (the BJP) and its party members in the city of New Delhi where they compete for election tickets in the municipal …
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