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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"democratic discourse"”.
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Taxes, Welfare and Democratic Discourse: Mainstream Media Coverage and the Rise of the American New Right
… media's role in shaping public opinion to democratically legitimate this major reorientation of political economy to favor business and upper-income constituencies. I combine neo-Gramscian theorizations of hegemony, popular common sense and articulation with social scientific research on …
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Local powers and decentralization in Southern Mozambique : the case of the administrative post of Mocumbi
… and the local appropriateion of a neo-liberal democratic discourse. It explores local power dynamics in the context of post-war democratization and decentralization policies in Mozambique and provides historical evidence that suggests the centrality of family elders in local politics in …
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Troubling creativity discourses: A Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis of the idea of ‘creative subjects’ in public texts and in the context of A level decision.
… a Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, the thesis casts light on hidden discourses of creativity in the public sphere and in a school context. The thesis aims to reveal the current dominant discourse about creativity in education and how it might this affect subject …
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An exploration of the interface between policy and practice
… (implementation domain) on the other hand. Discourse analysis and specifically the technique of discourse analysis proposed by Ian Parker (1992) provides a framework to analyse and understand the issues involved in these two domains, and as such, the relationship between them. In this …
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Re-Imagining America : rural futurism, speculative fiction, And reckoning with a new era
… two levels; 1) the realizable potential of local democratic institutions, the rural electric cooperatives, as sites for democratic discourse and self-determination, and 2) speculative futures, communicated through fictional narratives, as a tool for developing critical consciousness in addressing …
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A Strange Distinction: Religion and Civic Life since Martin Luther King Jr.
… This dissertation argues for further opening up democratic discourse to a wider variety of religious voices.
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An Overheated Debate: The Influence of Premillennial Apocalyptic Rhetoric on Climate Reform Discourse in the United States
… analyze secular and Christian climate reform discourse and apocalyptic evangelical discourse produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, I demonstrate through rhetorical analysis that apocalyptic rhetoric is a persistent frame through which citizens make sense of not only climate change but other …
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Sina Weibo and its political implications: a case study of the Zhou Yongkang incident
… of the new communication technology with democratic discourse. Furthermore, among the literature studying Chinese Internet, there is a lack of empirical research. The number of studies that look directly into the Chinese social media content is still relatively small. Therefore, this study …
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Religion and the legitimation of the state: the development of political thought in contemporary Shi’ism (Case study Iran 1979-2004)
… aims to examine the possibility of developing a democratic discourse within the Islamic context. It focuses on the evolution of the political thought in Shi'i Islam in the context of Iran after the Islamic revolution of 1979. The reconciliation between religion and democracy is argued to be a …
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Teaching for Thinking: an action research inquiry into the Pedagogical potential of modern literature to foster critical thinking and facilitate critical consciousness in third level students.
… education. Through empowering education, a democratic discourse can be developed to ease student-teacher alienation and promote a critical learning process that develops critical scholars and critical citizens both of which contribute to a fuller potential of humanity. Therefore, this thesis …
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The Impact of Blogs on State Politics
… news norms and routines; media and democratic accountability; and political knowledge, efficacy and engagement, this research considers the impact of the blogosphere on politics at the state level, finding many similarities between state-focused bloggers and their already-studied …