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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"policy ideology"”.
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Dynamic responsiveness in the American states : legislators, constituents, and organized interests
… large, exogenous shocks to the composition and policy preferences of many districts. The first paper of the dissertation assesses repositioning among members of the state legislature. Did they respond when redistricting led to changes in the policy ideology of their districts? The result speaks …
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An Ontological Explication of Electronic Benefit Transfer as an Institutional Mechanism of Reification and Relations of Ruling
… products that reify institutional ideology, then the companies further their profits and power by selling the products back to the government. These finding lead me to offer a Dynamic Model of Institutionalization as a research tool to explicate other digital discourses and …
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What place has grammar in the English curriculum? An analysis of ninety years’ policy debate: 1921 to 2011.
… sanctioned publications represent their policy aspirations for English and literacy. Research studies have explored the subsequent challenge for schools and teachers who must integrate grammar into a subject whose wider philosophies may conflict with an explicit grammar element. My study …
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Essays in Political Economy
… overcoming a cloture vote without any change in policy ideology. This chapter then uses a laboratory experiment to test the model's predictions and underlines how, generally, simple experiments can guide theorists to first find identifiable, testable comparative statics predictions, and second, …
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A Neoconservative Theory of International Politics?
… material and its influence in US foreign policy, few works in IR have attempted to build a stand-alone theory out of it. Furthermore, previous work on the topic has resulted in an under-developed and poor understanding of the movement’s core ideas. The thesis redefines neoconservatism as a …
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Marketing Institutions of Afforestation Generated Carbon Offsets in Canada: Political Sustainability, Ideology and the New Institutional Economics
… Their performance in fulfilling various policy objectives is evaluated. The results indicate that the primary variation between scenarios is the distribution of benefits. This focus on the distribution of benefits continues through demonstrating how subtle variations in modeling …