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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"government power"”.
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Party Voting In The American States: How National Factors And Institutional Variation Affect State Elections
… elections? Second, how does variation in state government power mediate how state elections are influenced by those national factors? I approach the first question by testing existing theories that help to explain how party voting is affected by the presidential election cycle. Specifically, I …
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Violence and American Statebuilding, 1860-1895
… communities—have established and maintained US government power at the local, state, and national level. This dissertation’s three case studies correct that tendency. They explore how American statebuilders deployed, sanctioned, or turned a blind eye toward private actors conducting violence …
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The arbiter state : governance of the minority at the micro-level
… from most conventional descriptions of colonial governmental rationality. This study argues that the specifically colonial formulation of the minority as a figure to be both protected and inserted on to the path to modern citizenship shaped the regulation of customary modes of charity and …
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The inevitable clash? Inter-religious violence and local power-sharing in Nigeria
… is a function of pre-existing ethno-tribal power-sharing arrangements at the local level. While scholars and policy-makers are disappointed by the ability of formal, national-level power-sharing institutions to avert ethnic conflict and instability, they overlook the peacebuilding capacity …
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Transportation data as disruptive innovation in Mexico City
… in rich countries, relatively few city governments in the Global South possess even basic information about public transportation routes and operations within their jurisdictions. The growing ubiquity of affordable mobile phones and internet-capable devices has enabled some developing …
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Transcending the Fight: Culture, Power, and Adaptation to the Information Environment
… this digitized world to project information power in order to get what they want, regardless if they are using unethical or illegal means such as cyber hacking or creating disinformation campaigns to skew voters' opinions. This poses a new challenge for national security professionals as they …
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Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
… sites expose the close relationship between governmental authority and the discipline of black people, a relationship that has gone largely unexplored and one that ultimately recasts larger questions about race and criminality, property and ownership, and state formation in the slave South. …
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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
… because they intervene between individuals and government power. Sociologist Robert Nisbet highlighted their importance for the well being of individuals and society in his book The Quest for Community (1953). He stated, "The modern release of the individual from traditional ties of class, …
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Labour dispute resolution in southern Africa : a study of emerging trends and realities in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland
… for reforms, particularly those with economic power exerting a diluting influence on the dominant position of the state. The research demonstrates how such orientation accounts for subsequent reluctant tinkering with transformational efforts. It also resulted in sporadic, reactive and generally …
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Women's participation in community development projects: the case of Khmu women in Laos
… history of Laos, the Khmu have lacked political power, education and a role in administration. Consequently, they have lagged behind in socio-economic development. While Lao women in general show interest in participating in development projects, Khmu women do not seem to share the same …
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Vulnerabilidade socioambiental: análise da cidade do Natal/RN a partir do índice geral de vulnerabilidade socioambiental por bairro
… combat and mitigation of its effects, the public government power finds in the methodologies that use indicators subsidies to urban socioenvironmental management. It highlights the importance of knowing its urban terrritorial planning and concludes, from the analysis of the Vulnerability …
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Economic Revolution From Within: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt And The Emergence Of The National Industrial Recovery Act Of 1933
… Delano Roosevelt as they reshaped the federal government’s role in bringing about an end to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The dissertation most closely focuses on Roosevelt’s enactment of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, the response of the Ford Motor Company and General …