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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"political careers"”.
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Underrepresentation of Women in American Politics
… the most effect on rather women want to run for political office and successfully pursue political careers. Having this specific quantitative dataset, the study provides a better understanding to why women are still widely underrepresented on the state level. I also find that my independent …
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Nationalism, Democracy, and State Building Among the Young Ireland Diasporic Generation, 1842-72
… them being imprisoned and exiled. It follows the political careers of the Young Ireland exiles after 1848, and argues that their divergent trajectories were all, in different ways, applications of ideas that had developed in the course of their Irish political project. Once dispersed to the four …
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The Silken Cord: Contemporaneous 20th Century Prime Ministerial Biography in Australia & Its Meaning
Political biography as political intervention is explored in this thesis: biography as action rather than as passive publication. This idea is investigated through contemporaneous political biography in twentieth century Australia — specifically, biographies written in the lead up to, or during, …
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Fecunditas, Sterilitas, and the Politics of Reproduction at Rome
… their marriages, their families and their political careers. It is an investigation of the place of fertility in the Roman cultural consciousness. Using a wide range of sources – literary, epigraphic, papyrological, juridical, and numismatic – I argue that the Romans conceptualized …
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ELITES AND POLITICS: WHO GOVERNS US? Measuring and comparing species of capital in the Chilean political elite, 1990-2010
… different forms of capital (cultural, social and political) on access to strategic positions in the legislative and executive branches of government. It focuses on the political elite in the 20 years between 1990, when military dictator Augusto Pinochet handed over the presidency to Patricio …
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The New England Emigrant Aid Company and the response in Massachusetts to its goals and efforts to create a free Kansas, 1854-1856
… and politicians, and several established political careers in Washington, D. C.</p> <p>The overall influence of the New England Emigrant Aid Company in the Kansas free-state cause was far greater than the above statistics seem to indicate. The influence of the Company within Kansas and …
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Representing a Minority Group in Multinational Federal Systems: Career Patterns in Catalonia, Scotland and Wallonia
Dans nos démocraties représentatives, comprendre « qui » gouverne et plus précisément « comment » et « pourquoi » certains accèdent aux positions de pouvoir a toujours été un enjeu démocratique majeur. Avec les processus de régionalisation et de fédéralisation observés à travers le monde, cette …