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Showing 1 to 20 of 240 for “"political environment"”.
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How the EU Membership Has Affected Turkey’s Political Environment
… EU candidacy, Turkey has gone through radical political changes, most of which have proved negative given the history of the country. Such changes included the weakening of the Turkish Army, strengthening of Kurdish separatism, the rise of Islamic-oriented parties, and Turkey’s political shift …
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Constraints to youth participation in the current Federal political environment
This research explores the constraints to youth participation through the mechanism of the National Youth Roundtable. In 1999 the National Youth Roundtable was established as the centrepiece of the Federal Government's `Voices of Youth' initiative, designed to go to the grass roots of the youth …
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Shifts in Political Environment and Industry Momentum: Evidence from Global Stock Markets
This paper aims to examine whether shifts in the political environment can explain industry momentum profits in global stock markets. In the U.S., Canada and Australia, I find that the politically consistent momentum strategy, which takes a long position in industries that are both winners and …
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The project handbook : a working tool for daily operations in a political environment
The quality of the project handbooks in the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) and other institutions in Scandinavia and the EU was examined and compared to the ISO21500 guidance on project management. Project management maturity in the NCM was also investigated and the following research question …
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Opposition in a Changing Political Environment: Leadership and the Conservative Party, 1997-2010
… changing nature of opposition within the British political system through a study of the balance of power between the Conservative Party and its leader in their most recent period in opposition from 1997 to 2010. A literature on the place of the opposition within the British political system was …
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The Discursive Commons: The Establishment, "Outside Agitators," And "Communist Subversives" In Gadsden's Depression-Era Political Environment
… thesis addresses a turbulent and often violent political environment in Gadsden, Alabama during the Great Depression. Using a theoretical construct called the discursive commons my analysis suggests how very particular ideas such as the trope of the outside agitator, and the idea of the …
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The dilemma of justice : how religion influences the political environment of post-1948 Israel and Palestine.
… specific inter-group events, and internal political tensions that intensified the early Jewish and Arab national projects against the British and that later pitted each group against the other. The second section examines the values enshrined in the sacred texts of each monotheistic …
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The Coon Carnival in the 1940's: An expression of culture within a changing political environment
… world was consequently repositioning itself in political and social terms to deal with the implementation of these changes
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A study of the relationship between community participation in educational governance and the socio-political environment of the school board
… to the community and other factors of the socio-political environment of the school board. A questionnaire was mailed to all public school board of education members in Maryland. A return rate of 83.7 percent was obtained. Data gathered was used to determine: 1) what community groups were most …
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Political contributions, voter turnout, and the effects of redistricting
Individual contributions to political campaigns are a significant aspect of the political process in the United States. Understanding how the political environment affects these contributions increases the understanding of what drives elections and political campaigns. One aspect of the political …
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Africa's recent oil boom : are the same mistakes being made again? Investigating the effect of the recent surge in oil prices upon the prospects of long term development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… countries. I argue that improvements in the political environment have increased the possibility that the 21st century price rise has been used more productively than was the case thirty years ago. Thus the focus of this paper is to identify how oil states have improved their use of oil …
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Contemporary political opposition in Russia’s competitive authoritarian regime
… Putin came to power in 2000, the Russian political opposition has faced increasing levels of oppression by the state. As elections have become less democratic and the governing practices of Putin have become more authoritarian, Russia has come to resemble a competitive authoritarian regime …
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A case study of irrigation water management at Kaudulla irrigation scheme and development of water management alternatives for the dry zone of Sri Lanka
… to the system, namely the national economic and political environment. The delicate economic status of a majority of the farmers, grassroot level political environment and the economic vicissitudes of the entire country have resulted in the formation of vicious economic cycles that have …
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Imagining Jazzocracy: Notes Toward a new Democratic Subject
… indigenous art form of the United States—jazz. Political engagement in America must learn from the jazz aesthetic which realizes the communal projects of individuals in concert. After a brief survey of the biological, historical, and cultural formations that construct our political environment …
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Tenants and residents associations and council collaboration: rhetoric and reality
… traditions and customs) and their affect on the political environment within which organizations are located and collaborate at the meso-level and individuals in organizations act at the micro-level. The thesis uses ideas and concepts that are part of institutional theory and theory on power to …
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Liberal ethics in South Africa since 1948 : power, principle and responsible action
… in 1948, have been characterised by a sense of political powerlessness; (b) that as a consequence of this powerlessness, these ethics have been more concerned with principle, motives, conscience and internal consistency than with the consequences of liberal action; (c) that this sense of …
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Stunted Growth: Institutional Challenges to the Department of Homeland Security's Maturation
… and authorities and suggestions as to how the political environment might coalesce around engendering these changes.
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Developing image based positioning strategies for retaining the political parties’ electoral bases : a new theoretical perspective
… behaviour in the context of both commercial and political environment. However, there has been little research aimed at linking voters’ value priorities, and the influence of these values in the formulation and implementation of successful organizational strategies.This dissertation is concerned …
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Public finance management reform and expenditure control in Ghana: the role of the ministry of finance in implementing the MTEF
… systems and cash management systems, the political environment and the commitment control. The findings revealed that, despite the importance of political environment and the commitment control, planning and forecasting, the monitoring and evaluation capacity, information management system …
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