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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"elite interviews"”.
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Policy, politics, and community: A case study
… update in 1993. Data gathering included using elite interviews with board members, superintendents, students, athletic directors, coaches, and athletic advisor. Newspaper stories, board of education minutes, policy revisions, and program evaluations and studies provided documentation. The …
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THE DECLINE OF COAL? THE HOLCOMB POWER PLANT INCIDENT, THE AMERICAN STATES, AND ENERGY POLITICS
… Using market predictions, state level data, elite interviews, and survey data, this study finds that the decline of coal is mostly real, but the industry is predicted to make a resurgence in a couple of decades because of changing international markets and technology.
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The Role of Product Launch Strategy in the Creation of Sales Momentum : The Case of the Fragrance Industry
… current body of knowledge on product launch. 'Elite interviews' with senior management are employed to gain an in-depth perspective into the dynamics of launch processes. Fourthly, the dynamics of organisational self expression, particularly during product launch are distilled through the …
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Formation of New Ideologies of Administration in American and Russian Administrative Reform
… review and analysis of official publications and elite interviews with high-ranking officials, analysts, and scholars in the United States and Russia. The research demonstrates that although new ideologies of administration in the United States and Russia share significant characteristics, they …
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Identity cards and political commitment: a study in the formation, operationalisation and measurement of a concept
… and executive arenas. Data are drawn from elite interviews, parliamentary archives, biographies, and policy documents. The thesis concludes that this new approach to political commitment allows for a nuanced understanding of the concept, which offers a more accurate description of the …
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The Adoption of Feminist Policies Under Conservative Governments
… tracing, qualitative content analysis, and elite interviews. The dissertation finds that (a) feminist policy adoption under conservative governments is successful when coalition constraints facilitate the inclusion of the feminist policy on the policy agenda of the coalition government; and …
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Defenders of the Faith? Religion and Right-wing Populism in Germany, France and the United States in the 21st Century
… survey data, party manifestos and 115 in-depth elite interviews with right- wing populist leaders, mainstream party politicians and senior religious officials in Germany, France and the United States, this research deploys a demand- and supply-side framework to address these questions. On the …
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Securitisation and European natural gas policy
… and process tracing, enriched with a set of elite-interviews are used to answer these questions. Two case-studies of energy security, concerning the internal market and the security of supply standards are explored in a comparative manner. The analysis demonstrates that while high levels of …
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An exploration and study of the human resource management practices in the Post-Soviet State of Latvia (public sector): A study of the journey of HRM from a command controlled politically motivated system of the cadre to present day
… the period immediately preceding independence. Elite interviews were carried out followed by a survey questionnaire. The opportunity to enter the organisation and undertake observations was thwarted by a change of government and therefore ‘access’ afforded to the researcher. <br/><br/>The …
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Gendering NATO: Analysing the Construction and Implementation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's Gender Perspective
… from official documentation and from a series of elite interviews with individuals working within the international, military structures of the alliance. Drawing upon a composite methodology, framed by feminist theory, that centralises narrative and discourse, the thesis explores subjective …
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Latino Voters in the United States: Mobilization and Mechanisms of Engagement Through Political Parties, Campaign Contact and Non-Partisan Organizations
… on individual voting behavior. Additionally, elite interviews conducted with key stakeholders, including community leaders, I explore the role of non-partisan community organizations in addressing the mobilization gap. I find that while party and campaign mobilization efforts are effective in …
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The press of a people : the evolution of Spanish-language news and the changing political community
… on the mass media. Using content analysis and elite interviews with journalists and editors at a leading Spanish-language newspaper, this thesis examines the potentially polarizing effects of market forces on the Latino media. I find that, after the onset of competition and the transition to a …
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African-American Male Senior Administrators in Predominantly White institutions: A Study on Resilience
… is used in the study. Semi-structured interviews are conducted which can be characterized as elite interviews due to the Participants' knowledge, positions, and experience in higher education. As a result of the Participants' demanding schedules, proximity to the researcher, and …
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The ECOWAS parliament as a tool for conflict prevention in West Africa
… in the ECOWAS-P), case study methods, elite interviews, parliamentary and archival research. The thesis greatest contribution lie in undertaking an institutionalist approach to conflict prevention and drawing from public administration developed and applied a performance management tool …
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Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict
… theory, and qualitative methods such as elite interviews and archival research, the project offers a comprehensive, comparative and contextual treatment of secession and violence.</p>
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Public Housing on Risky Ground: A National Study of Flood Risk and Two Case Studies Investigating the Legacy of Environmental Inequality
… a combination of qualitative methods, including elite interviews, document analysis, observation, and archival research, to examine two local housing authorities undertaking mitigation efforts for aging properties at imminent risk. In Spencer, West Virginia, due to the scarcity of developable …
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Contesting the European Union in times of crisis: an analysis of Facebook interactions
… to and normalise public discontent, whereas elite interviews triangulate the findings. The analysis of EU-focused transnational discussions complements the existing studies drawing on public opinion polls regarding public attitudes towards European integration, and re-conceptualises the …
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From at-risk to disconnected: Federal youth policy from 1973 to 2008
… supplemented with data from a small number of elite interviews. Results suggest that both hypotheses are partially correct, but that the first theory better explains the peaks in the number of hearings, signifying the role external conditions played in motivating Congress to hold more youth …
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Alternattiva Demokratika and EU membership
… in this dissertation was mostly gathered through elite interviews and archival sources, since little information exists about this particular area of research. However, this was also one of the reasons for the choice ofthis particular research project. The findings discussed in the last chapter of …
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Disaster risk reduction in Africa: is the institutionalization of traditional leaders key?
… case study of Zambia based on semi-structured elite interviews with three traditional leaders from North-Western, Southern, and Eastern provinces. The quantitative analysis examines trust in Members of Parliament and Traditional Leaders, contact with these institutions, and perceived …
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