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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"political capital"”.
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Shooting up : the impact of illicit economics on military conflict
… illicit markets and military conflict - the political capital of illicit economies -- and contrasts it with conventional wisdom on connections between drug trafficking and military conflict. The political capital of illicit economies argues that belligerents derive much more than simply large …
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Three essays in corporate finance
The first essay shows that political capital is an important determinant of corporate investment and innovation. Using the unexpected exits of legislators from the U.S. Congress as exogenous shocks to politically connected firms' political capital, I find that losing a political connection induces …
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Letting the Village Be the Teacher: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study of Community-Based Learning in Northern Thailand
… site where they can accrue cultural, social, and political capital. Traditional study abroad research suffers from problems of exclusion, with U.S. students the only unit of analysis that is prioritized. In this study, I utilized a critical ethnographic design to structure data collection and …
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At the Crossroads of Civil War
… as a war aim threatened to hemorrhage valuable political capital needed to maintain the Union war effort. Yet in the battle over Confederate recognition, an antislavery cause was the one remaining card the Union could play to avoid increasingly probable European intervention. Recognizing this, …
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The limits of persuasion: Strategic considerations of presidential governance
… strategic considerations include the timing of political benefits, the president's public identification with a policy, investment of political capital, and the level of political conflict acceptable to the president in enacting a policy. After historically and analytically justifying the …
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Informal Learning Through Participation in Fransaskois Community-Based Governance
… and increase the Fransaskois community’s political capital.
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Infrastructure as a vehicle for community building : an urban design strategy for Iztapalapa, Mexico City
… city's water troubles by creating overlapping political organizations whose interests and administrative purview often conflict. This thesis proposes decentralized water infrastructures implemented at the neighborhood scale, that engage directly with dominant institutional arrangements - …
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Speaking for Others: A Political Analysis of Civil Rights Archives
… the notion that those who have social and political capital are also the ones who get to write history Discovering and acknowledging the disparities that exist in these collections will allow researchers to seek out additional perspectives when studying this period, as well as encourage …
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Food urbanism : urban agriculture as a strategy to facilitate social mobility in informal settlements
… while build up on the community's social and political capital. After careful analysis of the community's public life and spaces, this thesis defines four dimensions for an urban agriculture project. While the land use dimension defines the selection criteria for potential community gardens, …
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Eating Edo, sensing Japan: food branding and market culture in late Tokugawa Japan, 1780-1868
… explores the roles specialty foods in the political capital of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868). The development of infrastructures as well as the proliferation of the publishing industry resulted in a considerable scale of information and material circulations in …
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Teacher self-efficacy in Cape Town : a bottom up approach to enhancing the quality of education
… government neither has the resources nor the political capital to address this concern alone, reform efforts may require the expertise of and collaboration with civil society organizations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the Cape Town Teacher Training Program (CT3P)' teacher training …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… a series of essays on network theory and political economy. The work on networks is largely focused on social interactions within communities, and how they impact consumption of status goods, and provision of public goods. The two chapters on political economy provide novel mechanisms for …
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It's In Minnesota's Nature: An Exploration Into Building Social Capital Through Place Branding
… a place brand could build or strengthen social capital among residents of a location through a shared representation of a community's identity. A case study was conducted in Grand Rapids, Minnesota where 30 residents were interviewed from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Through the lens of …
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Beyond the rhetoric: a theoretical analysis of the effects of neopatrimonialism and intergovernmentalism on the integration process in Africa
… the progress towards the goal of economic and political integration has been ineffective. This thesis shows that integration has been ineffective in Africa namely because of the lack of political will to push integration further. The reason for this is the prevalence of neopatrimonialism on the …
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Winning Hearts and Minds: Using "Ag-Gag" Outrage and Corporate Rebranding to Achieve a Public Image Makeover for the Animal Rights Movement
… to engender public trust and attain greater political capital as well as the fostering of helpful corporate and political partnerships to reach wider audiences and pool resources. In addition, there are several communications strategies that would facilitate a positive public image shift that …
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Can hype be a force for good?
… necessary resources, including funding and political capital. From research proposal through to commercialisation, science hype occurs at all stages of the research process. It is produced by all manner of science and technology actors as they imagine and invent technoscientific futures. To …
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Can hype be a force for good?
… necessary resources, including funding and political capital. From research proposal through to commercialisation, science hype occurs at all stages of the research process. It is produced by all manner of science and technology actors as they imagine and invent technoscientific futures. To …
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Driving down emissions : analyzing a plan for meeting Massachusetts' carbon emission reduction targets for passenger vehicles
… it to the state budget. This thesis explores the political, technical, and equity-based considerations that must be addressed to make this policy framework a success. Through spatial analysis of passenger vehicle driving patterns in the state of Massachusetts, a case study of British Columbia's …
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A Shield in the Sky: The Vertical Geopolitics of Transcontinental Air Defense
… vulnerability gave air defense proponents the political capital to build a continental air defense network and test it during the Sky Shield exercises. Further, it describes the enduring legacy of this domestically-focused Cold War defense program. The research finds that America's approach to …
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