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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"US politics"”.
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Justifying jihad: US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen
… Soviet credibility and enhance that of the US, considered under threat from growing ‘moral equivalence’ amongst international publics. The conflict could help the US regain strategic advantage in South Asia undermined by the ‘loss’ of Iran. The Reagan administration used it to justify the …
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US Politics of Betrayal: The Urdu Press on Pakistan-US Relations since the 1971 War
… of the Urdu press discourse on Pakistan-US relations since the 1971 War in order to understand its perceptions of US betrayal. Two of the most popular Urdu newspapers in Pakistan have been studied with reference to three alleged cases of US betrayal. These are: the US failure in the 1971 …
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Contested Majority: The Representation Of The White Working Class In Us Politics From The 1930s To The 1990s
… the representation of the white working class in US politics from the 1930s to the 1990s: how politicians, journalists, pollsters, pundits, political commentators, social movement groups, and others have studied, written about, and claimed to speak for white working class people and how this work …
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An investigation into the media's genderisation of Democrat candidates during the selection process for the 2020 presidential nomination.
… discourse analysis (Fairclough 2010), the way US media portrayed gender during the TV debates for the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 US presidential election. Media coverage from debates from November 2019 to March 2020 was investigated to identify discourses that perpetuated gender …
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Crisis Thought
… thought is a discursive formation, a concept used loosely here to refer to an assemblage of signs such as anxiety or fear that evoke or invoke similar, but inaccurate connotations as crisis in political and everyday usage. The general question this study grapples with is why political, social, …
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The development of European defence integration since 2017
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and US President Trump’s anti-NATO rhetoric have led many to question the European Union’s state of defence and security. Long an issue member states have struggled to fully integrate on, due to nationalistic and sovereign concerns and heavy reliance on NATO. With …
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Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era
… media have aided in the mobilization of previously unpopular extremist social/political movements in the US. This research provides a rich historical account of news media and its dissemination technology. Additionally, the thesis looks to several theories to show that these events are best …
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Democracy in Unequal Times: How Economic Inequality Influences Voter Turnout, Party Polarization, and Union Density
… is twofold: (1) to investigate the political sustainability of large income gaps; and (2) to understand why inequality increased in democracies. The first paper analyzes the behavior of political elites. Scholars of US politics report a strong connection between inequality and party …
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The investigation of scandal from Watergate to Monicagate: the special prosecutor in late twentieth century American politics
… the role of the Special Prosecutor in recent US politics and to assess the rise and relative decline of the reputation of the office in the period from the Watergate scandal of the mid 1970s to the Lewinsky scandal of the late 1990s. The project will evaluate the role of the Special Prosecutor …
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Making oil critical: the criminalization of anti-pipeline protest in the United States
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-07-20 at 07:39.
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Political sadness: Democratic institutions and citizens in a depressing world
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Inequality in Political Representation
… have often alternated between apathy and frustration in these democratic institutions. Stark economic inequalities have mirrored inequalities in political influence, voters observing that elected officials who determine policy are disproportionately from a political elite or establishment. …
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Local Bureaucrats and Climate Change Adaptation
… and more damaging floods, and more. Simultaneously, the issue of climate change is incredibly polarized in US politics with one side claiming it is not happening (or if it is happening it is not human caused) and the other framing the issue as the direst threat (or close to it) facing the …
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Three essays on the topics of China
… three essays. The first essay investigates the causes of China's Great Leap Famine. The Great Chinese Famine from 1958 to 1961 was among the worst throughout human history. The estimates of the death toll vary between 20 and 43 million. Existing literature has shown a debate between two competing …
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It’s nothing personal? - A linguistic account of the personalization of American political communication
… amount of personalization can be detected in politics. Political personalization is a widely researched area of political communication. Yet, no consensus has been established as to which features of political discourse can be applicable across countries, political systems, and elections to …