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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"non-partisan"”.
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The Soldier and the Citizen: Examining the U.S. Military’s Non-partisan Norms
This dissertation improves our understanding of non-partisan norms in the U.S. military. These norms are an essential part of American civil-military relations because they help ensure the military does not use its latent political power to influence domestic politics or become aligned with a …
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Latino Voters in the United States: Mobilization and Mechanisms of Engagement Through Political Parties, Campaign Contact and Non-Partisan Organizations
… used by political parties, campaigns and non-partisan organization to increase voter turnout, as well as the mechanisms through which these strategies affect voting behavior. Current theories of political mobilization provide a solid foundation; however, it is crucial to understand the …
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The influence of a non-partisan slating group in a board of education election in an East-Central Indiana school corporation
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Getting the message: a transcendental phenomenology of youth experiences of persuasive (partisan) and informative (non-partisan) campaigns during the 2019 Canadian and United Kingdom general elections.
… question: "what experiences do youth have of partisan and non-partisan campaigns in electoral situations?" The rationale for researching this question is found within the field of campaign effects research, where myriad factors are explored, in order to understand how these integral facets of …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
… U.S. political parties adopted a consensus non-partisan knowledge regime, consisting of experts at universities, non-partisan think tanks and government agencies, to inform policymaking decisions. However, after the consensus supported by the knowledge regime enabled the expansion of the …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
… U.S. political parties adopted a consensus non-partisan knowledge regime, consisting of experts at universities, non-partisan think tanks and government agencies, to inform policymaking decisions. However, after the consensus supported by the knowledge regime enabled the expansion of the …
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Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
<p>High levels of partisan polarization on environmental policies, and on climate change in particular, have led to policy gridlock in the United States. While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their policy preferences on highly polarizing issues, other non-partisan …
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The Potential of Metaethics for Moral Education
… concerning indoctrination without violating the non-partisan requirement of education. Non-partisanship is recognized as one of the constitutive criteria of the domain of education. To work within the non-partisan parameter, a new conception of philosophy is required which permits the uncovering …
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Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press
… but this study instead concentrates on Drum's non-fiction reporting. It looks at both Drum's role in the birth of the popular black press and the magazine's complex conceptions of urban life. It argues that Drum's non-fiction promoted a cosmopolitan identity for its urban readers, in direct …
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Power and the People’s Action Party : a study of two parliamentary schemes
… Parliamentary schemes introduced by the PAP. The Non-Constituency Member of Parliament ( N C M P ) scheme was intended to raise the number of Opposition members in the unicameral Parliament which was dominated by the PAP. The Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) scheme was intended to bring …
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The Middle East Peace Process and U.S. Special Interest Groups
… Commission, and the monthly publications of the non-partisan Washington Report on Middle East Affairs from 1989-2011. The qualitative data is based on experts’ and scholarly reflections about the Peace Process and the influence of special interest groups on the making of U.S. foreign policy.
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Essays About Newspaper Political Endorsements
… how market competition might affect newspapers' partisan behavior, and whether and to what extent competition makes partisan papers endorsement behavior resemble that of non-partisan papers. In the second chapter of my dissertation, "The Tuesday Advantage of Candidates Endorsed by American …
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Student Partisan Identity and Online Discussions
… science and psychology. While political partisanship looms large over discussions of the national political climate’s influence on schools and classrooms, very little work exists that directly examines the effects of high school students’ political beliefs. Prior research on adults …
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Noisy-signalling models of organizational decision making
… management. Conversely, coexistence of partisan and non-partisan channels within an organization or community (e.g. tabloids and professional news sources in the journalism industry) may also be socially efficient for other environments. In the third chapter, I consider a different …
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Strategic interactions in modern elections and markets
… though efficient regulatory frameworks and non-partisan constraints can enhance robustness. For RCV, I develop efficient algorithms that circumvent computational complexity barriers to uncover its strategic incentives. A large-scale analysis of over 100 diverse real-world elections shows …
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The Women's Equality Party: Sustainability, Longevity, and Impacts
… its status as a women’s/feminist party and its non-partisan positioning. It goes on to assess WEP’s abilities to descriptively and substantively represent women, and the party’s unique positioning at the crossroads between movement and institutionalised politics. Ultimately, this thesis looks at …
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Addressing Aboriginal disputes in Canada : a new initiative
… in relations between Aboriginal communities and non-Aboriginal institutions and bodies in Canada. Additionally, many Aboriginal communities are fraught with internal divisions that prevent their leaders from taking consistent policy stands and negotiating effectively with other parties. These …
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Can federal intervention impact college affordability? An assessment of federal maintenance of effort legislation at American public regional universities
… the definitions of recession from the non-partisan National Bureau of Economic Research were used. In order to compare the current economic situation of higher education, the current economic situation of the country was taken into consideration. The analysis of state investment and …
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The role of public participation in facilitating integrated development planning for improvement of services in uMhlathuze Local Municipality
… order to promote participatory democracy that is non-partisan and non-discriminating.
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The presidential campaign of 1948
… Truman left the Capitol on a supposedly non-political Western trip. Although his aids insisted the journey was to be non-political, the fiction deceived no one. However, it enabled the President to charge off the cost of the excursion to his $30,000 a year travel allowance instead of …
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