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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"parliamentary debates"”.
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A Missed Opportunity: The Rhetoric of Social Cohesion in Parliamentary Debates - 1994 – 2014
… This thesis aims to explore whether the parliamentary rhetoric of Members of Parliament as leaders in South Africa contributed to social cohesion in the country. The motivation for the thesis was the violent actions by South Africans towards foreign nationals, specifically from the …
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The Bradlaugh Case: A Study of the Parliamentary Debates Concerning the Affirmation-Oath Controversy, 1880-1891
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The Politics of Animal Anti-Cruelty Legislation in Canada: An Analysis of Parliamentary Debates on Amending the Criminal Code
… present, using official transcripts of Canadian parliamentary debates, and seeks to understand the politics of animal cruelty legislation in Canada. Using thematic analysis, this paper explores how resistance to the amendments is articulated and rationalized, as well as the grounds upon which …
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Owing and Owning: Zubayr Pasha, Slavery, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Sudan
… Revolt. What I found in interviews with him, parliamentary debates over him, articles about him, and proclamations concerning him, was that the emotional responses to his story show different perspectives on the processes of overlapping imperialisms, voluntary slavery, and a host of integrated …
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Parliamentary Discourse and Humanitarian Decision-Making: An Analysis of Canada's Response to the Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine
This thesis investigates the extent to which parliamentary debates and committee hearings influenced the Canadian Cabinet's humanitarian assistance decisions for Afghanistan (2021) and Ukraine (2022). Conducting a mixed-method discourse analysis, including quantitative frequency analysis and …
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The debate on stem cell research in the EU
… on the matter. This is done by analyzing the Parliamentary debates, Council minutes and Commission official documents and scrutinizing the different political positions in each. This paper will argue that the views held by the Council Members depend on their national constitutions, the state …
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Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668
… the textual traces of this transformation in the parliamentary debates, poems, pamphlets, and petitions of the period.</p>
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Gladstone and the Bank of England: A Study in Mid-Victorian Finance, 1833-1866
… his reading. In addition, I have used Hansard's Parliamentary Debates and nineteenth-century periodicals and books on banking and finance to understand the political and economic debates of the time.
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DIE EUROPÄISCHE IDENTITÄT IN DEUTSCHEN BUNDESTAGSDEBATTEN: EINE POLITOLINGUISTISCHE ANALYSE
… Analyse (European identity in German parliamentary debates: a politolinguistic analysis) The question of European Identity is controversial and its topicality in the public debate has not disappeared within the last years, consider for example the results of the last European elections …
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Contemporary Public Debate on Religion: Parliamentary Debate on Church Property Restitution and its Taxation in the Czech Republic
… conducted thematic content analysis on two parliamentary debates related to church property restitution. Transcripts of the debates in The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on the 2012 Church Property Restitution Bill and the 2017-2019 Proposal to Tax Church …
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The politics of the rope: the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969
… the interplay between them, and scrutinizes the Parliamentary debates. It examines the role of the main political parties and their internal conflicts, both structurally between front bench, backbench and grassroots membership, and ideologically between pro and anti-hangers and examines the way …
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The Anti-Maynooth Campaign: A Study in Anti-Catholicism and Politics in the United Kingdom, 1851-69 (Protestantism, Ireland)
… Britain. The anti-Maynooth campaign had both a parliamentary and an extra-parliamentary character, and printed sources form the basis for studying the two. Of particular value were the organs of sectarian public opinion, such as the Catholic weekly Tablet, and the ultra-Protestant Bulwark. …
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The political origins and development of Australia’s people smuggling legislation: Evil smugglers or extreme rhetoric?
… smugglers’. It does so by examining a number of Parliamentary debates and previously confidential Cabinet papers. Negative depictions of asylum seekers and their voyage facilitators as well as the prevailing political discourse is critically explored while Parliamentary debates are analysed using …
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The substantive representation of women in the Tanzanian parliament
… if the use of a reserve seat system of parliamentary quotas that has produced a substantial descriptive increase in the number of women in the Tanzanian parliament has translated into substantive representation for women in terms of either process or outcome. It utilized the Tanzanian …
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A portfolio of work on stigma, personality disorder and counselling psychology
… articles, broadsheet and tabloid press articles, parliamentary debates published in Hansard). Constructions and discourses exemplified were shown to prescribe particular positions for individuals with personality disorder, which were, more often than not, limiting and served to close down …
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'No easy fix': The Supervised Injection Site Debate in Canada
… in Canada prevails within public and parliamentary debates. Guided by the theoretical contributions of Joel Best (2008) on claims-making and the construction of social problems, this thesis explores the SIS debate in Canada and the assertions advanced with respect to the implementation …
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"WIsh I would be normal": LSD and Homosexuality at Hollywood Hospital, 1955-1973
… (retrieved from the CAMH archives), Canadian parliamentary debates on the decriminalization of homosexuality, and contemporary parental advice literature support the sociological theory that various authorities competed to define homosexuality as deviance in mid-twentieth-century Canada. A …
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Roman Catholic women religious in Ireland, 1849-1907: self representations and public perceptions
… sphere, from the landscape of Irish towns to parliamentary debates. Their public image was not monolithic, but rather shifted depending on the context and intended audience. Nuns both influenced and were themselves shaped by contemporary ideas about femininity and middle-class culture, …
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Race to the Bottom? : A Critical Analysis of Canada's Modern Slavery in Supply Chain Legislation
… supply chains - empirical data is drawn from parliamentary debates about this bill and its earlier iterations as well as a report produced by the House of Commons committee originally charged with studying the issue. Informed by the corporate crime and business management literature as well as …
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