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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"factions"”.
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Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault
<p>This dissertation develops Michel Foucault’s hypothesis that civil war is an illuminating but undertheorized ‘analyzer’ of power relations in modernity, but it breaks with Foucault by looking precisely to his philosophical opponent, Thomas Hobbes, to do so. I argue that civil war is …
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Measurement of branching factions of d meson with final state including kk
<p>Using 818pb−1 of CLEO-c data at √s =3770 MeV, we measure precisely the branching ratios for four D+ → K+K−X hadronic channels. Our measurement improves the errors of B(D+ → K+K−π+π0) and B(D+ → φπ+π0) by factors of 10 respectively. We report first observation of the decay D+ → φρ+, as well as …
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Intractable territorial disputes: Concessions, salience, and the political gain of domestic opposition factions
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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The division of Everton Football Club into hostile factions : the development of professional football organisation on Merseyside, 1878-1914
This study attempts to locate Everton Football Club's early development within the context of the social characteristics of its host community, and to compare and contrast the organisational structure of Everton Football Club and Liverpool Football Club from their formation as limited liability …
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Divisive Rights and Structural Wrongs: A Comparison in Polycentric Constitutionalism
… the states. Focusing mainly on socio-political factions over fundamental rights, the research’s overarching goal is to develop a theoretically grounded criteria to help determine which structural division of power may better suit resolving which type of faction. Specifically, the research …
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Under the Shadow of the Regime: The Contradictions of Policing in Sudan, c.1924-1989
… states have been highly divided. The competing factions included legal and professional groups that wanted to develop a strong, united and institutionalized police force so as to exercise a systematic governance of Sudanese society, and political and administrative factions that sought to make …
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Comparative Study of Transition to Democracy in Portugal and Iran
… uniting the elite and inability of political factions to solely consolidate their power, the Portuguese elite had to compromise. In contrast, in Iran, a charismatic leader, who favored the Islamic Republican Party over other factions, played the most determinative role in directing Iran toward …
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Hegemony and rebellion in Pernambuco (Brazil), 1821-1835
… a division of the elites in 1824. Thereafter two factions of the local elites would strive for control of the state apparatus during the reign of Pedro I.
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Majority influence in negotiation
… and a minority faction or two equal-sized factions), as was social identity (negotiators were led to either identify with their own individual party or with the group of negotiators as a whole). Negotiators' agreements were less integrative when group identity was salient than when …
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Politics and land reform: the case of Esperanza, the Dominican Republic
… The state has realized autonomy from class factions by alternately appeasing different class factions (Grindle 1986). The promise and occasional delivery of land reform in the Dominican Republic is one of the most powerful tools the governmental leaders have to appease the Dominican …
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Spoiling the Peace or Seeking the Spoils?: Civil War Outcomes and the Role of Spoilers
… civil wars comes from ""spoilers,"" leaders and factions who use violent or nonviolent strategies to alter the course and outcome of a peace process. Spoilers have successfully wrecked peace agreements in contexts as diverse as Rwanda, Angola, Northern Ireland, and Bosnia. This dissertation …
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Paul's Rhetorical use of Complex Metaphors in 1 Corinthians 3-4
… he received information that dissension and factions had erupted in the church (1:11). These factions questioned and opposed Paul's authority in the Corinthian church as the socially prominent Corinthian Christians followed and supported various other leaders whom they attributed with a …
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Simin Daneshvar's Savushun: Examining Gender Under Patriarchy
… Iran at the start of the country’s governmental factions in 1941 when Reza Shah Pahlavi overthrew years of Iranian dynasty and established a monarchy. This thesis explores how the novel is a vital part of Iran’s historical literature as well as essential to the present day discussion of gender …
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Transhumanism-Christianity Diplomacy: To Transform Science-Religion Relations
… view, I argue that within each community are factions that have comparable, but contested, views on God, the divine attributes, and human origins, responsibility, and destiny. As a result, an emerging dialog between particular transhumanists and Christians seeks to shape the future of humanity …
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The Schism in The Bulgarian Socialist Movement and The Second International, 1900-1914
… socialist movement in 1903 gave rise to two factions, the Broads and the Narrows, the latter becoming the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1919. Neither the schism, which is still a controversial topic in Bulgaria today, nor the relationship of the Bulgarian Social Democrats to the Second …
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Using Mathematical Biology to Model a Revolution
… model. The other two treat political factions as populations preying on a susceptible civilian pop- ulation, and as such are adapted from predator-prey and competing species models. We begin by analyzing the mathematical properties of each model before extending them to real-world …
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David Rice Atchison, Southern Spokesman: 1844-1855
… represented one of the most radical southern factions in Congress. He accomplished his greatest feat in 1854 by securing passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. When he returned home to face re-election, he lost in Missouri's General Assembly. This work examined the electoral returns of Missouri …
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The 1961 Texas special senatorial election.
… A solid Republican bloc, dissident Democratic factions, and a light turnout, gave Tower the victory and Texas its third Republican Senator in the state's history.
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Printing Politics: The Emergence of Political Parties in Florida, 1821-1861
… divisions within Florida in the 1820s created factions and personal loyalties that would later help characterize national parties in the 1840s. Political leaders, with the help of editors and their newspapers, created factions based more on personal loyalties than on ideology. By the 1850s …
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