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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"political elites"”.
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Political elites and development
… consists of three essays on the behavior of political elites and their effect on economic development. The first two chapters focus on political dynasties in the Philippines while the third chapter analyzes the long-run economic effects of the concentration of political power in the state of …
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A quantitative comparative study of the Jewish and Palestine political elites (1920-48)
… circulation of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab political elites. Chapter I is a discussion of elite theory and its relevance for the study at hand, as well as a delineation of who constitutes the two elites and what features of their backgrounds and careers this study is concerned …
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Networks, News and Communication: Political Elites and Community Relations in Elizabethan Devon, 1588-1603
… thesis constitutes the first significant socio-political examination of Elizabethan Devon – a geographically peripheral county, yet strategically central in matters pertaining to national defence and security. A complex web of personal associations and informal alliances underpinned politics and …
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The Role of Political Behavior and Socio-Economic Development in the Transition and Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Sub Saharan Africa
… regression techniques to investigate the role of political behavior; power structure (at the micro level) and socio economic development (macro level) in the transition and consolidation of democracy in Sub Saharan Africa. In the analysis, political behavior, defined as the acceptance of political …
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Nationalism, Identity, and Rhetoric in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Rhetorical Analysis of Presidential Speeches, 2004–2012
… the three main ethnic groups in the country. The political elites influence on how nationalism and identity is experienced in Bosnia-Herzegovina and offer reflections on how the country can or cannot be united. To what extent do the political elites at the level of the presidency articulate more …
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An exploration of attitudes towards the English curriculum in educational establishments in urban and rural Pakistan
… curriculum in Pakistan. As such, it represents politically and religiously contentious educational issues in a country where society is highly stratified and religious and political elites determine the education system.
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The politics of welfare policy reforms: a comparative study of how and why changes of government affect policy making on social cash transfer programmes in Zambia and Malawi
… of this study was to understand variation in political support for reforms within countries and to bring attention to the relative importance of partisanship. The study uses a process tracing method to understand the reform process from the mid-2000s until 2017. It draws on qualitative …
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A Blue-Green Divide? Elite and Mass Partisan Dynamics in Taiwan
… perceptions of the parties, analyze whether any political issues divide the Taiwanese public along partisan lines, and explore the social and demographic bases of partisan divisions. The findings suggest that political elites became polarized along partisan lines after 2000, as observed in …
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Politics and the American clergy: Sincere shepherds or strategic saints?
Scholars have evaluated the causes of clergy political preferences and behavior for decades. As with party ID in the study of mass behavior, personal ideological preferences have been the relevant clergy literature's dominant behavioral predictor. Yet to the extent that clergy operate in bounded …
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Role Expectations and State Socialization: Germany's Rediscovery of the Use of Force 1990–1995
… dissertation engages the question of why German political elites accepted the use of force during the 1990s and started to commit the country's armed forces to multilateral peacekeeping missions. Previous governments of the Federal Republic had opposed foreign deployment of the military and …
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How Insurgent Groups Emerge: The political process in democratic Nigeria
… cooperation these organizations had with local political elites. Other challenges with the existing approaches include the often country-wide narrative which disallows a within-state comparison and the failure to account for timing and location. To address these gaps, this thesis builds on the …
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Judges and Their Loyalties: A Comparative Study Focused On the Venezuelan Supreme Court
… of informal linkages between judges and political elites is a key explanation for judicial behavior, especially in cases in which courts are asked to hold the government accountable. In contexts where particularistic and clientelist relations prevail, judicial nominations to the highest …
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The limits of contestation: towards a radical democratic theory of emergency politics
… closes down possibilities for radical democratic political contestation. Attempts to define a situation as exceptional by powerful political elites are a claim that politics must be foreclosed until they decide that the exigency has been resolved and a ‘normal’ state of affairs has resumed. A …
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From Partisan Banking to Open Access - A Study on the Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
… provides new evidence showing how the majority political party, the Federalists, held a monopoly on banks by dominating the state legislature in charge of issuing charters for new banks, effectively prohibiting members of the opposing political party, the Democratic- Republicans, from opening …
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Distant Relations: A Study of Identity, Ethics and Power in the Relationship Between Britain and the United Kingdom Overseas Territories
… By examining the discourse of social and political elites in Britain and in several Overseas Territories it identifies the significance of the role of identity in shaping perceptions and relations between these international actors. The thesis explores how understandings of the Overseas …
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Coordinating Compromise: Information Manipulation and Bicameral Bargaining in the European Union
… construct such compromises and explores how political elites coordinate around particular proposals when crafting policy. It highlights the ways in which European lawmakers manage and share information to encourage—and hamper—legislative coordination, and emphasizes the role that the European …
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
… in 20th century Filipino America through the political-economic conditions that displaced lowlands peasants and indigenous groups from Northern Luzon in the 19th century. It argues that the constellation of contradictory identities that constitute the “Filipino”—the indigenous “savage” and the …
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Popular Politics in a Philippine Municipality
… in earlier studies. However, relations between political elites and constituents cannot be understood by merely subscribing to the traditional models of patron-client ties, machine politics, and political violence. The thesis follows an alternative approach: It describes everyday acts of …
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The political economy of property rights : institutions, interests, and economic prosperity
… question. My study fills this gap by using political factors to explain why property rights vary cross-nationally. Core chapters demonstrate how political institutions, including the constraints of democracy and checks and balances, enhance the security of property rights. Political …
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