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Showing 1 to 20 of 621 for “"political economic"”.
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A Political, Economic and Social History of Kerrville, Texas
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Copyrighting Chinese media: cultural commodification in a political economic context
… and works to understand copyright in social and political economic perspectives. The chapters study the history of copyright, debates and conflicts in the making of the Copyright Law, copyright’s role in production and labor in media institutions, copyright control and freedom of expression in …
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Decolonizing Moral Visions: Christian Political Economic Ethics, Latino/a Religiosity, and Postcoloniality
… dissertation examines moral visions of the political economy of mainstream Christian social ethics through a liberationist and postcolonial analysis of the work of three leading political economic ethicists, Daniel Finn, Max Stackhouse, and Philip Wogaman. Constrained by their subject …
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Multidisciplinary Approach to Civil Conflict: Political, Economic, and Social Determinants of Violence
… findings. This dissertation explores specific political, social, and economic factors that impact the onset, severity, and duration of civil conflict and the frequency of nonviolent conflict. It adopts a unified transdisciplinary approach incorporating the most robust variables based on the …
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Industrial relations in the road passenger transport industry-a political-economic analysis.
This thesis examines the British Bus and Tram Industry from 1889 to 1988. The first determinant of the pattern of industrial relations is the development of the labour-process. The labour process changes with the introduction of new technology (electrified trams and mechanised buses), the …
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Depression and 'crises of meaninglessness' in the political-economic theology of the money-God
… it originates from and is reinforced by the ‘political-economic theology of neo-liberalism’ which becomes virtually generalized in the West, erecting money as a God. The study concludes that by undermining culturally established values, ideals, institutions and principles that may block the …
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Death at birth: The political, economic and social impact of the decolonization and perpetual, neocolonial control of Congo.
… slight variances, in all stages of Congolese political and economic development since 1960. This work contributes to the field of Congo studies by demonstrating the aforementioned paradigm. It argues that Belgian decolonization policies and Western intervention during the first days of Patrice …
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Local Media and the Olympic Bidding Process: A political economic analysis of Calgary’s 1988 and 2026 Olympic pursuits
This research project explores how changes to the political economy of the local media industry impact public opinion by analyzing two case studies: Calgary’s successful bid for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games and the city’s failed bid exploration for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The …
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Canada’s Net Zero -440 Megatons of CO2 by 2030: Is a battle between Human System Dynamics and the Political - Economic systems.
… signifying the carbon embedded “hockey stick of economic growth” from its’ wealth of fossil fuel and mining industries. However, affected by climate change, Canada is determined to mitigate its carbon emissions and thus committed to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 40 per cent below 2005 levels …
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Corruption, good governance, and the African state : a critical analysis of the political-economic foundations of orruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
… are often called corrupt indicating that the political system in Africa differs from the one prevalent in the economically advanced democracies. This however does not give us any insight into what makes corruption the ruling norm of African statehood. Thus we must turn to the overly neglected …
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Feasting on foreign aid : a political economic examination of foreign aid's potential role in perpetuating chronic hunger and starvation in Malawi
… along a narrow set of indicators - such as economic growth - dictating the direction of policy for recipient nations wishing to maintain the inflow of aid. For Malawi, this is all but inevitable as foreign aid accounts for 40% of government revenue. As a result of this dependency on external …
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Hearing health care in the United States: A multi-scale spatial & political economic analysis of health care policy and access to audiology services
… health care services is sharply constrained by economic and geographical barriers and inequalities. The services to diagnose and treat hearing loss—audiology services—are not covered under most insurance plans, nor are they covered beyond a physician-referred assessment under Medicare; …
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Challenges to democratic and economic transition in Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan: a comparative study of the political, economic and social structures in the three countries
… whose leadership quality did not contribute to economic development and social affairs as it did in some Asian countries and elsewhere. A cycle of ethnic conflicts, economic collapse, poverty in both absolute and relative terms, political instability, civil wars (Ethiopia, Sudan) etc. have often …
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Adaptive capacity and the responses of local governance actors to evolutionary political-economic change: lessons from the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership
… capacities operate and unfold in local/regional economic development governance in the context of cumulative and often disruptive political-economic change. It argues that states often seek to promote the adaptability and growth of local/regional economies by reconfiguring subnational governance …
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The Role and Limits of Women’s Rights Movements in Shaping the Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Processes in the Maghreb from Independence Until Present : A Case Study of Tunisia and Morocco
… pressure on decision-makers. However, the socioeconomic conditions (political turmoil in Tunisia, foreign indebtedness, the increase in the unemployment rate) overwrote initial expectations and did not allow the actors to fully exploit the new opportunities. • The Arab Spring brought about the …
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Education in the National Interest
… further with an interpretation of the long-term political-economic trends as well as the immediate political-economic context leading up to the reform movement.
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Changing continuities : experiencing and interpreting history, population movement and material differentiation in Matatiele, Transkei
… structural responses to both broad and local political-economic structures and processes. The aim of this thesis is to build on that approach. I argue that while some persistences of social form are best explained in functionalist and instrumentalist terms, to explain others one needs to look …
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The education of the Indian in Natal,(1860-1947). Volume One
… 0f a people 1s influenced by various factors - political, economic and social. The growth of Indian education in Natal must be studied in this context.
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