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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"political authority"”.
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Evidential Modern Political Authority
<p>Under what conditions can a government justifiably punish citizens for disobeying its laws? Most philosophers today think that the government can morally obligate citizens to obey the laws only if the citizens actually consent to them. This amounts to philosophical anarchism, because no extant …
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Withholding Political Authority: Civil Society and People's Power in Zimbabwe
… antagonistic and at most times supportive. The political regime and civil society are taken to be interdependent social structures that interact through hegemonic, supportive and socially constructed dimensions. Given this interdependency, when does civil society challenge authority or does its …
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Reflections on political authority and rootlessness in works of Hawthorne and Melville
… how we should live. The literary form of their political reflections recalls the incarnation of political theory in Plato's dialogues. The stories of Hawthorne and Melville enlarge our understandings about political authority and rootlessness, two features of every political community, within …
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When Companies Rule: Corporate Political Authority in India, Kenya and South Africa
This thesis examines the role of corporations as political authorities, focusing on corporate land acquisition and corporate provision of services and infrastructure. It considers these activities as “Company Rule,” a political project to secure corporate control of territory and population, …
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Political Authority within the European Community: The Operation of the Council of Ministers
The Council of Ministers is arguably the most powerful of the EC's institutions, yet its operation still awaits an authoritative analysis. To date, research into the operation of the Council has tended only to deal with aspects of its structure, rather than analysing it as a complete body. …
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Contractarianism and Legitimacy
… the varieties of contractarianism and legitimate political authority. The first chapter defines the idea of legitimacy and responds to two objections to the project. The second chapter examines the idea of a social contract and defends its use as the proper heuristic for understanding political …
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Autoritetas demokratijoje: Carl Schmitt ir Alexander Kojeve perspektyvos /
… explores the interplay between the theories of authority and democracy by analyzing the concepts of authority by Alexandre Kojeve and Carl Schmitt. The main question addressed is: "Are there preconditions for political authority in a democracy?" The study is structured around the following …
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Women in politics : a cross-national demand and supply analysis
… democracy has not been accompanied by more equal political representation of women. What is equally puzzling is the contrast in the share of women in positions of political authority observed between countries, with many developed nations having fewer women legislators than a number of …
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With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear
… basic components of masculinity, military and political authority and rationality, and by consequence the concept of femininity, meekness and subjugation, I will show how the play's tragedy is bound up in the reversal of standard gender roles. Lear exhibits little rationality and loses all …
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Experimental Democracy - Collective Intelligence for a Diverse and Complex World
… of uncertainty and disagreement that define political problems. On this account, a desirable political mechanism is one that realizes an experimental method of policy-making directed at solving problems, such that we can expect it to make progress over time, even though we cannot rule out …
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Postcolonial Criticism and the Gospel of Mark: An Assessment
… the first century CE the Roman empire exercised political authority over Jewish authorities such as the High Priest and the Pharisees. The gospel of Mark represents a form of resistant literature as the portrayal of Jesus is not an attempt to abolish the structure of "Empire," but to replace the …
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Italy and the Sanusiyya: Negotiating Authority in Colonial Libya, 1911-1931
… shaped the development of a religious and political authority in Cyrenaica with lasting implications for the Libyan nation. As a latecomer to the European "Scramble for Africa", the Italian occupation of the Libyan territories has received little attention in Italian historiography or in …
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Marena a Lesotho: chiefs, politics and culture in Lesotho
… are the two questions which begin this study of political authority in rural Lesotho. These questions are contained within a broader one, 'why do villagers often hold chiefs, individually and generally, in contempt but recoil at the suggestion of dissolution of the chieftainship?' The latter …
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Crisis manager of the American Revolution: Henry Laurens
… Laurens went beyond his limited sphere of political authority to settle the matter. When a peace commission from England arrived in the United States to begin discussing terms for an end to the hostilities, Laurens found himself in an increasingly difficult diplomatic situation. While …
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Work in Progress: Gender and Politics in Late Elizabethan Progress Entertainments
… to engage directly in debates about gender and political authority and to accomplish a wide range of goals: they lobbied for positions at court, urged the Queen to adopt certain policies, advertised their wealth and influence, and sought further power. I propose that several decades of …
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Referendum on the Revolution: The Pennsylvania Constitutional Debate, 1776-1784
… for governmental structure and popular political agency. Competing notions regarding these issues, while expressed within a general framework of consensus concerning the source of political authority [the people], revealed fundamentally different visions of governmental order. Partisans …
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Where Subjects were Citizens: The Emergence of a Republican Language and Polity in Colonial American Law Court Culture, 1750-1776
… passive subjecthood that deferred to social and political authority. Within their law court culture, colonial American jurors acted as powerful, independent decision makers, representatives of their communities judging matters of law as well as fact. Jurors sometimes even acted as arbiters in …
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Least Knowen and Most In Practice': The Nature and Utility of Practical Music In Early Modern English Thought
… of playing music works in relation to poetry and political authority. Using Morley as a representative figure, I will explore how practical music is figured in during this period and how those figures work in relation to other activities. Instead of hastily collapsing music, poetry, and politics, …
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The Foundations of Civilian Supremacy: Civil-Military Relations During the American Civil War
… It examines the relationship between civilian political authority and the military establishment, while incorporating the related roles of Congress, public opinion and international influences. The research explores the decision-making processes, the balance of power, and the impact of …
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Crisis at the crossroads: the conjuncture of internal and external impediments to development in Sudan
… single process, blending the forces that hinder political and economic growth. The case of the Sudan illustrates this 'holistic' concept in that certain fundamental constraints wi thin the Sudan combined with specific external factors place severe limitations on both the economic and political …
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