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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"oligarchy"”.
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Xenophon on Athens : between democracy and oligarchy
… democracy and the Athenian demos and in favor of oligarchy. It is the argument of this dissertation that this interpretation of Xenophon’s view of Athens is overly simplistic and often inaccurate. Xenophon is not limited to a single ideological perspective in his treatment of Athens; instead, he …
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The ascent of oligarchy: the case of Israel
… this thesis is to explore the development of an oligarchy in the Israeli political economy. In that, it both sheds light on the state-business relationship in the Israeli political economy, and refines the understanding of oligarchy in general. In order to achieve this two-folded objective, I …
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The politics of oligarchy : the persistence of traditional elites in contemporary Brazil
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1986.
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Communities rule : intra-service politics in the United States Army
… a service (e.g., the U.S. Air Force); and an oligarchy of communities controlling a service (e.g., the U.S. Army). In the latter two patterns, doctrinal developments, capabilities, and distribution of resources will mirror and tend to reinforce the power of the dominant unions. In order to …
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Survival of a Perverse Nation: Sexuality and Kinship in Post-Soviet Armenia
… country blame this emigration on a post-Soviet oligarchy, with close ties to the government. This oligarchy, having quickly and massively privatized and liquidated industry and land during the war over the region of Nagorno-Karabagh (1990-1994) with Azerbaijan, created widespread …
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Temporal orientation and political perspective
… Thus, some support for Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchy which predicts change in a social rnove..rnent's orientations once that movement gains a political office was found.
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THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL CONFLICT: KINSHIP NETWORKS AND POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS IN THE CIVIL WARS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHILE
… because it imputes overwhelming power to the oligarchy vis-à-vis other groups in society, and relational because its analytical leverage comes from identifying the effects of networks on political outcomes. The most influential tradition in Chilean historiography sees nineteenth-century …
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The Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Sixteenth Century
… (d. 1559). Members of the Lawson-Anderson oligarchy dominated mining and hosting in Elizabethan Newcastle at a time when there was a more than three-fold increase in the volume of coal leaving the town’s port by the seaborne trade. They mined extensively in the vicinity of Newcastle on the …
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The Impact of Chinese Investments on the Kenyan Economy
… the Chinese government and a few corrupt Kenyan oligarchy. The methodology for this thesis project is from secondary academic data, acquired from online sources, news articles, as well as information from sources found in various libraries in Kenya.</p>
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The internet and the politics and processes of trade unionism
… Michels' classic formulation on the "iron law of oligarchy" and its grounding in a communications based theory of leadership domination is presented as a heuristic devise for uncovering the significance of Information Communication Technologies for trade unionism. The present relationship of trade …
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Printing peace: cultural and pedagogical negotiation through children's periodicals in Costa Rica, 1912-1947
… intricately connected with the agro-export oligarchy, directed social and political reforms. The Olympians were overwhelmingly patriotic and patriarchal, and aimed to create a national culture that would reinforce existing economic, gender, and racial hierarchies. This project focuses on …
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The Redecoration and Alteration of Castletown House By Lady Louisa Conolly 1759-76
… to the zest of a high spirited and competitive oligarchy inspired by the entire absence of suitable housing to vie in magnificence.
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Essays on volunteer mobilization in peer production
… consistent with Robert Michels' "Iron Law of Oligarchy."
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Righting and Re-Writing The Blueprint: The creation of an Afrofuturistic television series and a self-sustaining television network to disrupt the misrepresentation of the Caribbean Family in British Television Drama
… narrative originating from Hollywood media oligarchy misinformation. This reinforces White Privilege, theoretically referred to as the Fish-in-Water culture, and stifles significant advancement under the guise of Integration, Individualism, and Assimilation. This thesis has three unique …
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The formation of a colonial society : Belize, from conquest to Crown Colony
… the power of the hitherto dominant white settler oligarchy.The settler oligarchy, having completely controlled the Settlement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was virtually eliminated after 1850, losing control of the political and administrative apparatus to the Colonial …
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Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias
… in the democracy--and Critias--the worst in the oligarchy--are the most notorious characters.. This dissertation argues that Plato uses these characters in order to open a diachronic dimension in the synchronic accounts of the dialogues. This dimension turns historical characters into …
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Examining the factors influencing organizational creativity in professional sport organizations
… For example, teams operate essentially in an oligarchy (Wolfe, Wright & Smart, 2006). Additionally, professional sport industry tend to be isomorphic (O’Brien & Slack, 2004), hyper-traditional (Wolfe et al., 2006), or a hierarchical-type organization (Hartnell et al., 2011). Therefore, the …
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Kagame’s Ruse in Rwanda: The Debilitating Role of Authoritarianism in Rwanda and its Impact on Long Term, Sustainable Development
… on foreign aid, which is funneled to a select oligarchy in the country. Political diversity is, overall, nonexistent and leadership has been accused of manipulating economic statistics to continue the ruse of development. In this work, I aim</p> <p>to show how the lack of democratic freedoms …
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Imperial dilemma : the Japanese intervention in Siberia, 1918-1922.
… history, cabinet supremacy over both the genr6 oligarchy and the military authorities in structuring and implementing foreign policy. With the backing of Army Minister Tanaka Giichi, Hara adopted a policy of 'cooperative expansionism', which sought a friendly relation with the Western powers in …
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Government in an English provincial town: the Corporation of Ipswich, 1720-95
… not subject to the tyranny of an unresponsive oligarchy nor dominated by its wealthiest members. The Ipswich Corporation’s particular institutional structure and the town’s developing political culture meant that domination of the senior offices by a narrow elite grew increasingly difficult. …
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