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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"State-society relations"”.
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SHIFTING COHERENCE OF IMMIGRATION POLICY: STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN JAPAN AND SINGAPORE
WHY SOME STATES HAVE COHERENT POLICIES WHILE OTHERS HAVE MORE MIXED POLICIES WITH CONFLICTING ELEMENTS WITHIN? IN THIS THESIS I EXAMINE THE IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF TWO DISSIMILAR COUNTRIES, JAPAN AND SINGAPORE. THEY ARE DISSIMILAR PARTICULARLY IN TERMS OF ETHNIC COMPOSITION, POPULATION SIZE, AND …
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Complicated Campuses: Universities, Middle-Class Politics, and State-Society Relations in Brazil, 1955-1990
… increasingly important to Brazilian politics and society? By focusing on the university system as both a physical and discursive site of negotiation, the dissertation traces how the military, bureaucrats, business leaders, pedagogues, students, and parents entered into complex debates over …
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Presidential Instability in a Developing Country: Reassessing South Korean Politics from a State-Society Relations Perspective
… theory that establishes a causal link between society-rooted politics and political outcomes. Building on his analytical frameworks that non-Western countries are characterized by over-politicization in politics as a function of social context, I argue that patterned downfalls of all Korean …
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At the Confluence: Participatory Development, State-Society Relations, and Transboundary Water Management in the Kura River Basin
… are negotiated between development actors and state-level actors across transnational, domestic, and local scales. I answer the puzzle of limited local stakeholder participation in GEF international waters projects by drawing attention to the role of side payments as the site of negotiation …
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Spontaneity by command: Soviet state-society relations under Gorbachev and the emergence of the Russian environmental movement
… a modern and increasingly restive post-Stalinist society played in forcing the Soviet leadership to initiate reforms. Once liberalization of the system loosened the strictures on society, social pressures forced the pace and scope of future reforms.
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War Heroes: Constructing the Soldier and the State in Modern China, 1924-1945
… figure played an important ideological role in state rhetoric and social discussions. Different political, social and cultural forces, such as Jiang Jieshi (1887-1975)’s Nationalist government (1927-1949), the Whampoa Military Academy, urban intellectuals, activists, professionals, writers, …
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State-society exchange in modern Sahelian Africa: Cultural representation, political mobilization, and state rule (Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Sudan).
Modern African states need to be analyzed from a perspective which complements, corrects, or specifies dependency/world-system and structural marxist explanations of peripheral political dynamics. This dissertation offers such a perspective as it seeks to explain variations in state-society …
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Patterns of Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe
… protest and thereby helped to constitute general state-society relations. It is argued that big structural changes like the abolition of the market and civil society and the growth of the Party-state removed many resources necessary for people to turn their grievances into organised resistance …
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Political Triage: Health and the State in Myanmar (Burma)
… ideology and isolationism that had shaped the state since independence, embarking on a transition to an open economy and engagement of the international community. ¶ Where socialism had failed, economic development and partnerships with former insurgent groups became the new strategy to advance …
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Political Triage: Health and the State in Myanmar (Burma)
… ideology and isolationism that had shaped the state since independence, embarking on a transition to an open economy and engagement of the international community. ¶ Where socialism had failed, economic development and partnerships with former insurgent groups became the new strategy to advance …
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The Vatican and the Making of the Atlantic Order, 1920-1960
… religion in shaping the international state system in the twentieth century. This dissertation attempts to fill the gap. It draws on newly released archival material to show how through diplomatic activism, theological innovation, and the centralization of Catholic associational life, …
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Feeling the Pulse of the Street: Socio-Cultural Demands and Regime Responsiveness in the Arab Monarchies of the Gulf
… place of popular socio-cultural contestation in state-society relations. Where the literature does investigate the socio-cultural, it does so either from: A state-centric perspective, which examines how regimes undertake nation-building projects and promote local cultural heritage through, for …
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Feeling the Pulse of the Street: Socio-Cultural Demands and Regime Responsiveness in the Arab Monarchies of the Gulf
… place of popular socio-cultural contestation in state-society relations. Where the literature does investigate the socio-cultural, it does so either from: A state-centric perspective, which examines how regimes undertake nation-building projects and promote local cultural heritage through, for …
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Contesting hegemony : civil society and the struggle for social change in Zimbabwe, 2000-2008
… in order, firstly, to explore the role of civil society in legitimating and resisting state hegemony, and secondly, to examine the sociological basis of counter-hegemonic politics in post-2000 Zimbabwe. The thesis arose out of a critique of reductionist approaches in the theorising and study of …
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Il mondo del lavoro a Taiwan. La nascita della classe operaia e la formazione del movimento dei lavoratori
… be examined through an historical approach of state–society relations under the Gramsci model of historical analysis expressed on Notebook 25 “On the Margins of History, History of the Subaltern Groups”. Gramsci assumed that labour history is a disaggregated function of civil society’s history …
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Ghana: From fragility to resilience? Understanding the formation of a new political settlement from a critical political economy perspective
… Ghana was described as a collapsed and failed state. In contrast, today it is hailed internationally as beacon of democracy and stability in West Africa. In light of Ghana’s drastic image change from a fragile and even collapsed polity to a resilient state, this thesis contributes to the …
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Conflicts of consciousness : the state, Inkatha and ethnic violence in Natal
… of descriptive studies concerned with the state. This dissertation situates the violence and the operation of Inkatha in a larger theoretical framework that focuses upon state-society relations. A significant part of the dissertation centres on an attempt to answer the question: why is it …
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Queering Chinese Youth Cultures: Biopolitical Negotiations in Post-Xi China
Post-Xi Chinese society stands at the confluence of shifting norms, with the administration transitioning from neoliberal developmentalism to a more biopolitical mode of social governance. Amidst these changes, Chinese youths are particularly susceptible to the state’s stringent control over the …
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The Role of the State in Urban Development: The Case of Urban Waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt
… in Cairo are used to trace processes of state-society negotiations and claim-making. Based on qualitative action research tools like community and elite interviews, narrative walks, archival research and government meetings, I contend that informal practices are used by political and …
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No meaningful participation without effective representation: the case of the Niall Mellon Housing Project in Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… public debate and further engagement between the state and the people. Notably, this dissatisfaction endures despite the fact that South Africa’s post-apartheid government discourse on state-society relations has centred on greater participation, especially at local government level, as reflected …
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