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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"legitimization"”.
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Legitimacy Competition: China and the United States Legitimization of International Criminal Court Referral Decisions
<p>How do the United States and China legitimize their position regarding United Nations Security Council (UNSC) referrals to the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Existing literature addresses that states seek to gain and maintain legitimacy. However, there is an overall lack of attention given …
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Tensions in Welcoming LGBT Older Adults: Discourses of Legitimization and Silence in a Senior Center
… Findings suggest an underlying tension between legitimization of LGBT identities and silence evident across policy, practice, and participant discourse. Implications for practice and future research are discussed and situated in emerging literature on LGBT institutional allyship.</p>
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Exotica, Ethnicity, and Embodiment: An Ethnography of Latin Dance in United States Popular Culture
… and codification as strategies for legitimization and as a means for stylistic transformation; and most important, how the perception of ""self"" informs perceptions of the ""other."""
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Constrained Partisanship: A Comparative Study of Policy Choices and Party Discourses in the British and Spanish Crisis Experiences (2008-2014)
… across the ideological spectrum adapt their legitimization discourses. Appeals to ideological discourses of left and right lose traction as these appeals become less effective in justifying parties’ choices in an ideologically coherent way. In their place, other political discourses gain …
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Forging the "Iron Fist" Inside the "Velvet Glove": a Case Study in the Character and Culture of a Police Paramilitary Unit
… paramilitary policing culture, attitudes, legitimization, and tactics was gained and several important cultural themes were developed. Findings include that while this department publicizes themselves as community policing oriented, it has also significantly broadened the role of their …
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Unpicking a Feeling: Interrogating the role of heritage in indigenous collective identity formation on the Caribbean island of Bonaire
… and searched for historical and scientific legitimization for their heritage and identities. The research concludes that bottom-up understandings of heritage and identity formation are necessary to effectively manage heritage in colonial contexts.
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Silent Dissent: The Effect of Structural Secrecy on Professional Communication at NASA
<p>This dissertation examines the creation and legitimization of knowledge through an examination of Dr. Warner von Braun’s weekly communications with his department heads during the Apollo project. My researched is focused on an archive of memos from the Marshall Space Flight Center during the …
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Constructing identities: the transition of the Hutu/Tutsi dichotomy in Rwanda
… by those competing for political domination and legitimization. This paper will explore theories relative to identity formation and the origins of the Hutu/Tutsi dichotomy. Using participant observations and formal and informal interviews, my research was concerned with the processes of …
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POLITICA E GIUSTIZIA ALL¿OMBRA DI VENEZIA. I GIUDICI ASSESSORI NEL SISTEMA DI POTERE VENETO DI ETÀ MODERNA (LA TERRAFERMA, 1550-1600)
… how justice functioned as a tool of control and legitimization for central authority, channeled specifically through the figure of the assessors who accompanied the Venetian nobles appointed as "rettori" in the "Terraferma" territories. Although they played a crucial role in mediating between the …
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Insurgency, Secession and Encroachment: Contemporary National Security in the Republic of the Philippines
… through various incarnations; the birth, legitimization, and splintering of the Muslim secessionist movement; the external threat posed by the People's Republic of China; and the Spratly Islands dispute. It also evaluates the new security relationship between the United States and the …
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Mega shed : regional rooms for the Orgman's City
The recent legitimization of Landscape Urbanism as a theory for architectural design may signal a growing cultural shift toward environmental custodianship. Design strategies that blur buildings and landscape have become architecture's new orthodox response to this trend, promising continuity …
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A pobreza na teoria social hegeliana
… is a fundamental theme because it challenges the legitimization of rational ethical life and the realization of freedom. Here, we revisit Hegel's steps through his critical legacy, to present his conception, that is, the concept itself, its actuality, and possible solutions to poverty. In the …
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PUBLISH AND PERISH: ACADEMIC CANCEL CULTURES, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NETWORKED ACADEMICS
… as counterpublics while seeking institutional legitimization as an endgame, i.e., the removal of a panel from a conference or the retraction of an article. Consequently, institutional neutrality has become more integral than ever in maintaining the norms of academic practice and publication. …
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Communication as Ontology for a Structurationist Approach to Role Enactment
… the creation, recreation, enactment, and legitimization of gender-role structures among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). The findings in this study point to the central role of communication in explaining structuration processes whereby individuals …
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The cession of Sarawak to the British Crown in 1946
… upon which the Raj was avowedly based. The legitimization of cession was a grubby affair undertaken more for the benefit of British domestic opinion than the people of Sarawak. Nevertheless, it provided an issue which fostered the political development of Sarawak from a loose group of …
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The cession of Sarawak to the British Crown in 1946
… upon which the Raj was avowedly based. The legitimization of cession was a grubby affair undertaken more for the benefit of British domestic opinion than the people of Sarawak. Nevertheless, it provided an issue which fostered the political development of Sarawak from a loose group of …
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STRIKING A GREEN BALANCE: ASSESSING EQUITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELEVATED PUBLIC PARK PROJECTS IN PHILADELPHIA AND WASHINGTON D.C.
… with stakeholder perceptions of equity and the legitimization of socioeconomic concerns expressed by the community in urban green infrastructure development. This research concludes that the inclusion of an equitable development (ED) process impacts greening project implementation and the …
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Chains of virtue: Seventeenth-century saints in Spanish colonial Lima
… communities with religious narratives of self-legitimization and self-definition. This questions a general scholarly assumption that saints of the Early Modern period are the creations of the ecclesiastical powers in Rome. Likewise, the assertion that hagiography is written in order to provide …
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The right to be heard' : Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis political activism, 1922-1946
… to Native political issues and a degree of legitimization to Native political activism. Despite historians’ interest in Native politics, however, some general weaknesses remain within the historiography. In particular, there has been a general tendency to document the political actions only …
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On the Creation of Gods: Lenin’s Image in Stalin’s Cult of Personality
… over Nazi Germany in World War II and its legitimization of Stalin’s rule and policies, the purpose of the Stalin cult changed from legitimizing Stalin’s rule to aggrandizing his image. This thesis ultimately concludes that while the Stalin cult propelled the image of the Soviet dictator to …
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