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Razian Authority and Law
… would be confused about the extent of their authority. After I prove my claim, I will offer a solution to the problem.</p>
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Evidential Modern Political Authority
<p>Under what conditions can a government justifiably punish citizens for disobeying its laws? Most philosophers today think that the government can morally obligate citizens to obey the laws only if the citizens actually consent to them. This amounts to philosophical anarchism, because no extant …
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The Authority of Traditional Islamic Leaders: A Sociological Study of Kyai's Authority in Pesantren
1 PDF file (vi, 101 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Mapping Cultural Models of Authority
… that cultures may differ in their models of authority. For this qualitative study, 20 Hispanic workers and 19 non-Hispanic white workers were interviewed about their experiences with supervisors and their views about ideal supervisory behavior. Results suggest that Hispanics and non-Hispanic …
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A Conception of Educational Authority
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:24:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6706739.pdf: 10466223 bytes, checksum: 2620bd1e20062a92138e074aa1defdaa (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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The authority of indeterminate law
… can play in law. In particular, I focus on the authority of indeterminate law: how it can be that laws of which it is not clear which obligations they impose, nonetheless impose obligations. I argue that there are more sources of legal indeterminacy than is commonly assumed in the literature, …
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Retrofitting the Tennessee Valley Authority
… flagship of the New Deal, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was a triumph of regional and environmental design that has since fallen on hard times. When writer James Agee toured the region in 1935, he described the massive dam construction underway as a great skeleton across the valley, to be …
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Authority in the Japanese organization.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Islamic Authority and the Articulation of Jihad: Approaching Jihadist Authority through the Islamist Magazine Inspire
… impact of changing views of legitimate Islamic authority on conceptions of jihad. Spearheaded by militant Sunni movements, jihad in the modern era has taken on new purposes and practices that more closely resemble general understandings of terrorism than the regulated forms of warfare cemented …
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Parentification, Attitude Towards Authority, and Adjustment
… potentially affecting the child’s outlook on authority. While these constructs have been investigated separately little research has been done to examine the long-term effects of parentification. This study investigated the relationship between childhood parentification, attitude towards …
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Elizabeth Tudor: Reconciling Femininity And Authority
… when misogynist societal ideology questioned the authority of a female monarch. Religious opposition to a woman ruler was based on biblical precedent, which reflected the general attitude that women were inferior to men. Elizabeth's dilemma was reconciling her femininity with her sovereignty, most …
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Revising impressions with the authority moral foundation
… of five moral domains (Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity). Impression research has been mostly focused on moral situations that would categorically fall into the endorsement of Care and Fairness (Individualizing Foundations). This would be the first experiment to isolate a Binding …
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Gentlemen’s Anxiety: Contesting Authority in Shakespeare’s Plays
… of gentility as a historically situated form of authority that is inherently unstable and consistently contested. Drawing on recent historiographical developments in the study of early modern gentility and combining them with historically informed close readings of these four plays, this thesis …
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Monitoring energy performance in local authority buildings.
Energy management has been an important function of organisations since the oil crisis of the mid 1970’s led to hugely increased costs of energy. Although the financial costs of energy are still important, the growing recognition of the environmental costs of fossil-fuel energy is becoming more …
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Parental authority perspectives of grade one parents
… this investigation was to establish the parental authority perspectives of grade one parents by means of a literature and empirical study. As introduction the life-world of the grade one child was reviewed. Life-world is the world in which people conduct both a way of life and mode of being and …
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Authority through Polyvocality in The Poisonwood Bible
… Bible invites the reader to accept narrators’ authority in different ways depending on their temporal situatedness. I examine how a retrospective, extradiegetic perspective contrasts with limited, homodiegetic and intradiegeitc perspectives among female narrators. I analyze the strengths and …
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