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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"political ambition"”.
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Characteristics of Political Ambition of Iowa State Representatives
My thesis is that the politically ambitious state representative is well-educated, urban and young. An attempt was also made to define other characteristics of ambition. The 100 state representatives were interviewed. Information on their backgrounds and how they operate as legislators were …
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Opening the Chamber: Daughters of the Vote and Political Ambition in Young Women
The political ambition gap between men and women is well-known, and many scholars argue it is a contributing factor to women’s underrepresentation in politics. Several women’s organizations have emerged to address the gender gap, but there is little empirical evidence on whether political …
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Ambition to Run: Women Veterans Pursuing Elected Office
… study was to discover what experiences fostered political ambition in women veterans who anticipated running for state or federal office within the next 10 years. The aim of this study was to utilize the evidence produced on female veterans’ political ambition to develop an education curriculum …
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Individual Differences In Pyschological Evaluations Of Electoral Risk: Furthering The Explanation Of The Gender Gap In Candidate Emergence
… remain significantly underrepresented in the political realm. Electoral bias against women cannot be blamed; when women run, women win. However, women don't seek political office in high numbers. This project builds on previous examinations of the gender gap in political ambition by proposing …
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What’s at Steak? The Political Discourse of Emissions Intensity and Implications of Animal Agriculture
… intensity developed as an economic stance with political ambition, but branded as a mechanism to address climate change.</p>
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Creating War, Inventing Peace: the History Behind Oslo, Its Implications, and the Arab-Israel Conflict
… the Oslo Accord was motivated by the different political ambition of two leaders, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, and that this process eventually consummated as "fact" nearly a century of distorted history and construed myths. In doing so, the Oslo Accord legitimized several "sacred cows" of …
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Orderly Disorder: Rhetoric and Imitation in Spenser's Three Beast Poems from the Complaints Volume
… voices in the beast poems. He reflects on his political ambition to achieve the status of poet laureate in a noble, courtly manner, but he snarls like a fox, too, when he considers the ruin of his ambition.
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Local Amenity Societies - Participation and Power: A case study on the St Marylebone Society 1948 - 2021
… within the planning system and integral to political ambition to increase public participation and engender social capital, as legislated by Neighbourhood Planning. However, they are essentially self-elected volunteers, dominated by a homogenous demographic, raising issues of equity and …
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Italian Psyche and Society: Politics and Networks in Italian Mind and Brain Science and Medicine, 1919–1939
… by a state of creative turmoil, was as much a political and cultural enterprise as a scientific one. The impact of these sciences was far-reaching, as were the consequences of these scientists’ persecution by – and in some cases collaboration with – the Fascist regime. My dissertation …
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The Journeys of Women in Local Elected Office: From Community Engagement to Making Meaningful Contributions
… the dearth of female politicians to a lack of political ambition among women and to gender socialization that prevents women from seeing themselves as political leaders.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to use a grounded theory approach to understand the journeys of women to local elected …
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Hyde Park and Chartwell in History and Heritage
… sites for contending with the character of political leaders as physical expressions of identity. In Part One the author focuses on the interwar years and looks at how Hyde Park and Chartwell were created and dominated by these men. Beginning with major periods of home renovation, Chapter …
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At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900
… next 60 years in Hokianga, where he found his ambition to assert political dominance over his Maori neighbours continually thwarted. Hokianga escaped the full impact of the political forces usually associated with colonisation, such as war and confiscation, but its reliance on the international …
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Essays in health and public policy
… in Brazil This paper investigates the impact of political representation on the local provision of public goods and services. By exploiting variation across terms in the number of elected deputies in the Brazilian lower chamber associated with municipalities, this research investigates whether …