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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"democratic values"”.
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Expertise, Democratic Values, and Tolerance
… legal and normative `rules' of democracy (i.e. "democratic norms"), which guarantee free speech, or they may consider democratic norms to be more important than non-experts do, or some other related mechanism may drive the effect. While many explanations for this link between expertise and …
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The development of the academies policy, 2000 – 2010 : the influence of democratic values and constitutional practice
… in constitutional practice and a realignment of democratic values in informing schools policy. The work of this thesis, in tracking the development of the academies policy, reveals a marked shift in decision-making style at the top of government. In the years of the Labour governments between …
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The developing environment--an investigation of democratic values (landowner's rights), environmental trends, and implications for development : a case study of Columbia, Missouri
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1993.
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Worldview education: a possibility for autonomy-facilitating education in Islamic schools
… countries is fueled by the belief that Islamic values are incompatible with those of the liberal democratic West. One area that could prove especially challenging for integration is education, as the foundational values of Islamic education would also, on this view, clash with the foundational …
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Healthcare Reform in Two States: A Comparative Analysis of Georgia and Massachusetts
… throughout the formation of America's sense of values and rights based on its Constitution. The role that the state plays in ensuring access to care based on legislation passed by the United States Congress is crucial for the public administrator to understand. This paper attempts to review the …
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Education and Democracy; Can Education Foster Greater Democracy for Africa?
… democracy, educational systems must support democratic principles and ideals. The main focus of this study is Africa. In order to assess this hypothesis, the study uses a case study approach examining the education models of three Africa countries: Botswana, Ghana, and Uganda- to determine …
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Absurd machine : project on the National Mall
… by Jefferson in 18th century as symbols of democratic institutions. These symbols are in contradiction to our evolving dialogue with democracy that are subject to laws of 'proper' use and extreme security. The National Mall as a symbol of democratic values, has been reduced to a synthetic …
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The post-1990 demise of the alternative press
… The concept of this press carried important democratic values, which contributed to media diversity, but when the 1990s ushered in the democratic era, theses 'alternative' ideals were lost along with the whole alternative press sector. ... A close analysis of [the] demise of Grassroots and …
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Patriotic piety : the ideals and experiences of conservative Protestant women on the American home front during World War II.
… conservative morality and spirituality with democratic values. Conservative Protestant women embodied the ideal of patriotic piety as they entered the public sphere (including the work force and the military). Still, in the midst of all of these changes, patriotic piety maintained its …
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Social Aesthetics: Affecting Change in Food Provisioning
… groups, and collective projects codify their values and beliefs. The diffusion of innovation theory suggests that ideas and information from a highly specialized world require translation into a language the rest of society understands to reach widespread adoption. This thesis translates …
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Value change during societal transition: Japanese teachers and the war
… this ideology and had to teach the new ""democratic"" values promoted by the American Occupation. The teachers now had to emphasize freedom instead of order, rights instead of obligation, and independence instead of obedience. They were forced to admit, in front of their students, that …
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Does Democratic Peace Theory Apply to Small Powers? A Case Study of Turkey and Israel
This thesis hypothesizes that shared democratic values and institutional constraints, proposed as explanations by Democratic Peace Theory (DPT), should in theory prevent small powers from engaging in physical conflict. However, because these democracies are small and developing, these constraints …
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Analysis of the Appointment of the First African American Ambassador to Apartheid-Era South Africa
… as well as his policy preferences, beliefs and values. International factors included U.S.-South Africa relations, alliances, international organizations, and transnational movements for human rights and racial equality. Among the domestic factors were the dynamics between the executive and …
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Public Art Between Authoritarianism and Democracy (The Case of the Maidan Protest in Ukraine)
… of a new Ukrainian subjectivity based on democratic values which reached its peak during the recent revolution continues to manifest through the popular approach to public space as opposed to both the totalitarian one of the USSR and its mirror image in the post-Maidan government’s …
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Terrorism and Democracy
… consider it the method of choice for attacking democratic societies and ideals. Democracies are both uniquely vulnerable and uniquely resilient to terrorist attack, by virtue of the openness and liberal values that underpin them. This thesis will seek to examine why terrorism is effective in …
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A study of teacher misconduct as a problem in the transition to school democracy in South Africa by Yusufu Mohamedi Walongole.
… of misconduct arise, because of the fact that democratic values are not strongly developed in the society at large, nor in the schools and the teachers that work in them. The problem of misconduct is therefore, an extremely difficult to resolve within a short period of time. In other words, …
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Women’s Rights in Limited Democracies: Comparative Study of Femicide in Turkey and Bulgaria
… democracies, yet currently are struggling with democratic deficiency. Since I compare fairly similar countries and treat each country as a distinct object of the study, the findings tell more about the degree of similarities and differences in the femicide numbers. I investigate the contributing …
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An analysis of the presentation of Namibian history in the Namibian secondary school history textbooks
… views and thus does not promote tolerance and democratic values.
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The press of a people : the evolution of Spanish-language news and the changing political community
… life and the ability of the media to affect democratic values. Evidence from other countries shows the dangers of fractured mass communication, and a theory based on (a) the treatment of minorities by the state, (b) the special functions demanded by consumers of the ethnic media, and (c) the …
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
… towards a secular humanist politics to protect democratic values.</p>
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