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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"economic elite"”.
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The Dominant Human Trafficking Paradigm and Economic Elite Interests
… in terms of how it protects the interests of the economic elite. The DHTP protects these interests through ignoring structural issues which drive human trafficking, which are exacerbated by global inequality largely driven by globalization and neoliberal policy, failing to make the important …
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Political Affiliations of American Economic Elites: Wayne County, Michigan, 1844, 1860, as a Test Case
… precision a theory of political behavior for economic leaders of the mid-nineteenth century it is necessary to document the economic careers, ethnic origins, religious affiliations and family backgrounds of a carefully selected economic elite. What is obtained by the extensive documentation of …
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In Harm's Way: How Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Practices Steered Marginal People to Marginal Land
… Machine theory to consider how the political and economic elite guided the urban renewal process to place particular communities on particular landscapes, despite the presence of a flooding hazard. To understand this issue, I examined how this process occurred in Philadelphia from the 1950s to the …
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Paradigms of social stratification: the contemporary power elite debate
… of power on a national level (i.e., the Power Elite controversy), from a sociology of knowledge perspective. Three general theoretical positions were identified and analyzed in detail. The first of these is the pluralist or “multi-influence hypothesis” of authors such as Robert Dahl and Arnold …
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South Africa s stunted developmentalism: challenges of ideology and practice in building a developmental state
… thus policy dissonance; lack of an economic elite bureaucracy coupled with weakness to deploy existing capacity and capability to areas of competencies; inability to harness society-wide consensus on developmentalism and the threat of corruption. The study's contribution is that it …
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Democratisation and the radical-Left in Latin America: Toward a post-neoliberal citizenship regime? Lessons from Bolivia and Venezuela
… model of democracy has led to the political and economic exclusion of popular sectors. Its adoption by both Left- and Right-parties has fostered a widening legitimacy crisis for democracy as it exists today. As such, the central concerns of this project are to identify how and why an alternative …
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A gazeta médica da Bahia: entre educação do corpo, modernidade, ginástica e outras práticas corporais
… revolved around hygienic, moral, aesthetic and economic ideals. These ideals made up a notion of what would be modern, a central objective that motivated a large part of Brazilians, mainly an economic elite, politicians, intellectuals and, notably, doctors. In the wake of this thought, as …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… presents a new rationale for a self-interested economic elite voluntarily extending property rights. When agents make endogenous investment decisions, there is a commitment problem. Ex post, the elite face strong incentives to expropriate investments from the non-elite (who don’t have property …
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Repertoires of development in economic divergence on the U.S. - Mexico border
… science problem of the underlying causes of economic development. It focuses on two initially very similar cross-border pairs of cities (McAllen, TX - Reynosa, Tamaulipas and Brownsville, TX - Matamoros, Tamaulipas) along the U.S. - Mexico border. The comparison of these two cross-border city …
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The British administration of Hinduism in North India, 1780-1900.
… interaction with Maratha royals and other elite pilgrims. It looks at the way in which elite pilgrims smoothed the way for non-elite pilgrims to make long and hazardous journeys to the north, setting up traditions of relations with sites and priests that enabled non-elite pilgrimage to …