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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"domestic policy"”.
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THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE & COMPLEX SOVEREIGNTY: USING THE PATHWAYS FRAMEWORK TO EXPLAIN DOMESTIC POLICY OUTCOMES
… principle, it is repeatedly invoked by policy makers and incorporated within international and domestic environmental law and agreements. This thesis explores how the international norm of precaution comes to be translated from the international sphere to domestic public policy. The …
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LGBTI rights and NGOs in international relations: how NGOs use the international system to affect domestic policy-making in majority Catholic countries
… use international channels to advance the cause domestically, with a focus on countries that have a strong presence and influence of the Catholic Church. Academia has investigated the formulation of so-called new rights (Bob, 2009), their rise to international recognition, and the role played by …
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At the Intersection of Foreign and Domestic Policy: The United States and Central America During the Cold War and the Rise of the Gang Wars
… is inextricably linked to past U.S. foreign and domestic policies. Existing scholarship often examines these policy spheres in isolation, either focusing on U.S. interventionism in Central America or on domestic immigration reforms. This thesis, however, posits that these seemingly distinct …
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State-Centered Federalism: Subnational Autonomy and Job Training Policy
It is essential that domestic policy research takes a federal approach and addresses policy contexts to reflect the significant role of subnational actors throughout U.S. history and current domestic policy. Subnational governments influence federal legislation and make decisions that substantially …
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Essays on International Trade Agreements Under Monopolistic Competition
… help us understand and evaluate the history of domestic policy coordination in the multilateral trading system. Relative to perfect competition, imperfect competition gives rise to new cross-border concerns that governments do not internalize when setting both trade policy and domestic policy. …
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A Reassesment of the Presidential Use of Executive Orders, 1953-2008
… action and success is conditioned by policy area (foreign and domestic) and executive order type (major, routine, or symbolic). An original dataset was constructed by coding all executive orders issued between 1953 and 2008 as related to either foreign or domestic policy. Thus, an …
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The War Powers Resolution: Reassessing the Constitutional Balance of Power
… attempts at similar legislation. Through a major domestic policy blunder, the Watergate break-in, and a foreign policy disaster, the on-going war in Vietnam, opposition to Nixon’s presidential conduct united both the House and the Senate and resulted in legislation that would attempt to restore …
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Country programmable aid : differences, divergences and contradictions between donor aid strategies and beneficiary country developments plans
… aid accounts for more public spending than domestic revenues do. Even in countries less dependent on aid, international donors influence policy making by investing in a technical competitive advantage over domestic policy makers in sectors ranging from climate financing to resilience and …
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Treatment as a Common Good: Adopting HIV/AIDS Policy in Russia and South Africa, 1999-2008
… dissertation is to increase our understanding of domestic policy responses to initiatives and expertise as provided by international health organizations. Although following international recommendations often improves domestic public health, in certain circumstances resistance to adopting them …
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U.S.-Austrian Relations in the Pre-Anschluss Period: FDR'S Unwillingness for War
… is the two-front evaluation of both the internal/domestic affairs of the United States and the foreign policy of the US Government vis-à-vis Hitler's aggressive foreign policy. As this paper will show, Anschluss might have been prevented, but at a cost neither the United States nor European powers …
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Does South Africa have a coherent policy for source-based taxation based on the permanent establishment concept, and how has this policy been implemented in its bilateral tax treaties?
The difference between South Africa’s domestic PE definition and the PE definition in its various DTCs and regional MTCs suggest some material inconsistency in South Africa’s PE policy. The research question this minor dissertation seeks to answer is whether South Africa has a coherent PE policy …
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The new politics of welfare in post-socialist Central Eastern Europe
… countries. Utilizing a range of data on social policy legislation and outcomes across countries, the author shows the extent to which post-socialist welfare systems vary in their design and effects. Variation is demonstrated using six indicators that measure: the extent of universality of social …
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Industrialization under the WTO : the impact of asymmetric free trade agreements on middle-technology developing countries
… provide developing countries with additional policy flexibility that is often not used to its fullest potential. Existing work on individual features of free trade agreements has focused primarily on those features that further constrain domestic policy options; the proposal that they may also …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
… think tanks and government agencies, to inform policymaking decisions. However, after the consensus supported by the knowledge regime enabled the expansion of the scope of federal government domestic policy during the 1950s-1970s period, ideological conservatives rejected the non-partisan regime …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
… think tanks and government agencies, to inform policymaking decisions. However, after the consensus supported by the knowledge regime enabled the expansion of the scope of federal government domestic policy during the 1950s-1970s period, ideological conservatives rejected the non-partisan regime …
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The stability of coerced economic reform : the case of IPR
… or by an international institution to enact domestic policy reform. However, these theories ignore the important follow-on question of whether such externally imposed reforms can be expected to stick. Using intellectual property rights (IPR) reform as a policy case, this dissertation seeks to …
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The Impact of European Union Asylum Policy on Domestic Asylum Policy in Germany and Britain: 1990-2007
… the establishment of a common European asylum policy. The question of the impact of this cooperation on domestic asylum policy has so far received surprisingly little attention. Most explanations have focused on how an agreement on restrictive policies was achieved at EU level, and assumed a …
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Understanding American identity: an introduction
… means to unify Americans. Leaders must make domestic policy decisions that increase inclusiveness in American society and avoid valuing one identity over another. Policymakers must depart from divisive identity policies in favor of those that unify Americans. Any attempt to shape the existing …
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Modernization and music in contemporary China : crisis, identity, and the politics of style
… of Chinese culture has been a major feature of domestic policy since the Chinese Communist Party assumed political leadership in 1949. This modernization program has had profound effects upon indigenous musical practices. But the influence is mutual, for music, as a participant in modernization …
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