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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Thatcher"”.
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Margaret Thatcher. Formazione e ascesa di un leader.
… the character of British politician Margaret Thatcher, following the path of her life and her career since her years at the University of Oxford, where she studied chemistry, to her election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. The investigation has been conducted by examining a …
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The Thatcher era: economic decline and electoral hegemony
The reelection of Mrs Thatcher's Conservative Government to a third term of office in June 1987 was remarkable and deserves repeated and in depth analysis. The performance of the government, and <i>Thatcherism</i> need to be seen in terms of their success in reversing Britain's relative economic …
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A Welfare Consensus? Social Policy from Thatcher to Blair
… Abstract A Welfare Consensus? Social Policy from Thatcher to Blair This thesis examines two central aspects of asset management by central government with special reference to health and education. First, it analyses the nature, structure and procedural legacy inherited by New Labour after …
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Preparing for Power: Margaret Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition
This thesis attempts to explore Margaret Thatcher’s years as Leader of the Opposition, by examining how this period helped to shape her as a credible leader and future Prime Minister. Specifically, this research analyses the idea of ‘soft power’, demonstrating that domestic and foreign politics are …
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Reconstructing the past in the academic novel : the concept of nostalgia in Thatcher Britain
… British Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher upon the portrayal of the past and the use of nostalgia in academic novels of the period. After situating the economic status of higher education during the early Thatcher era, and examining the academic novel as a genre, attention shifts …
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The television policies of the UK administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major 1979-1997
… the UK Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1997 and examines the causes, coherence and consequences of those policies. In particular, it identifies the potential forces for change in UK television policy from the late seventies: notably, international …
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The Politics of the Past in Britain, c. 1939-1990
… in Britain, from the Second World War to the Thatcher government.
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Thatcherism and the restoration of governability
Mrs Thatcher's third electoral victory in the summer of 1987 appeared to confirm and consolidate both the success and the popularity of the political and economic experiment attempted during her eight years in office. Thatcherism is perhaps most remarkable for guiding Britain out of the dark …
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The Conservative Party and Thatcherism, 1970-1979: A grass-roots perspective
This thesis argues that ‘Thatcherism’ was consistent with the values, prejudices, and interests of the Conservative party. The threat of socialism was pervasive and underpinned by the party’s socio-economic base. The economic status of the middle class, under threat from inflation, pay controls, …
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Test-Retest Reliability of Coherence Measures of Qeeg During Resting State
… shown to relate to general intelligence (e.g., Thatcher, et al., 2005), working memory (e.g., Sarnthein et al., 2005) and various neurodevelopmental disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; Barry, et al., 2002). As such, qEEG coherence presents a novel measurement of …
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Perceptions of the Psychological Rehabilitation of a Student-Athlete with an injury in Sport at the NCAA Division I Level : A Narrative Approach of Student-Athletes and Athletic Trainers
… 2009; Podlog, Lochbaum, & Stevens, 2009; Walker, Thatcher, & Lavallee, 2007). Those working directly with injured athletes are in a unique position to administer both physiological and psychological rehabilitation. Research has surfaced regarding the need of athletic trainers to also focus on the …
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Hymenopterous parasites of lps spp. bark beetles (Coleoptera:Scolytidae) in Virginia
… spot kills cornnon1y occur. According to Thatcher (32), spot kills, although not conspicuous, add up to large volumes of timber loss each year.
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Labor Law and the State: The Crises of Unions in the 1980s
… union strikes in Great Britain reveal that the Thatcher administration's legislative restructuring of industrial relations had a significant impact in exacerbating the crisis of British unions as the 1980s progressed. Three case studies of union strikes in the United States reveal that the …
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Any Port in a Storm: UK Freeports as a Typology of Governance
… decades beginning with the election of Margaret Thatcher.
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The diplomatic bargaining process of the British budgetary rebate
… tett európai diplomáciai törekvéseket. A Thatcher által a végletekig igazságtalannak tartott helyzetet (és valóban az is volt annak idején) az idézte elő, hogy míg Nagy-Britannia a közösségi költségvetés legnagyobb nettó befizetője volt, addig a tagállami jóléti rangsor hátsó traktusába …
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Thatching in Cambridgeshire
… and what obstacles modern roofs present to the thatcher today. Chapter 4 then examines the training of the thatcher, most particularly the traditional form of apprenticeship still in use, why this continues and how it has been little affected by attempts to introduce government-sponsored …
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English nurse education and National Health Service reform 1985-1997
… the radical reform of the NHS under the Thatcher government. Examination of the implications of these issues is wide in scope, ranging from the position of individual nurses and nurse trainers, through college management, qualitative and quantitative workforce supply issues through to …
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
… on the Left during the 1980s as a response to Thatcherism. Freedom and the City shifts the terms of this debate in a new direction by using the thought of Hannah Arendt to reappraise the relationship between culture, Left politics and the British novel in the contemporary period, and to reveal …
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Making waves behind bars: the story of the Prison Radio Association.
… prisons, and social activism in post-Thatcher Britain, acknowledging the emergence of the PRA as both a product of New Labour technologies of governance and of the counter-discursive opportunities they produced. Against a backdrop of public service privatisation and media …
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Emotion Perception in Early Childhood: Relations with Attachment Security and Internal Working Models
… environmental experience (Pollack, Klorman, Thatcher & Chiccetti, 2001; Pollack & Sinha, 2002), and adult close relationships (e.g Feeney, Noller and Callan, 1994; Neidenthal, Brauer, Robin & Innes-Ker, 2002). However, despite these findings, no work has previously addressed emotion …
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