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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"political equality"”.
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FREEDOM AS NON-DOMINATION AND EQUALITY: A NEO-REPUBLICAN THEORY OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
… freedom as non-domination is constituted by political equality. To be free from domination, people should be protected from anyone else’s arbitrary capacity to interfere with their choices, that is, they should be granted an equal status to one another by the state; nonetheless, to avoid the …
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Till vilken nytta? : Om det lokala politiska deltagandets karaktär, komplexitet och konsekvenser
Political participation is promoted as a central component in a democracy. But what specifically is it that makes participation valuable and how do different forms of participation differ in regard to outcomes? A central aim of this study is to understand why different forms of participation …
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'To all who live in it' : an investigation of the dilemmas of, and prospects for, inclusive citizenship in South Africa
… in light of the contradiction between formal political equality and the reality of socio-economic inequality within the context of post-apartheid South Africa. In approaching the topic of citizenship, I will employ T.H. Marshall's conceptual framework of three-fold citizenship to establish the …
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Arendt and Spivak: a feminist approach to political worlding and appearing
<p>“Arendt and Spivak: A Feminist Approach to Political Worlding and Appearing” offers the first systematic and comparative reading of Hannah Arendt and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Beginning with their mutual interests in political speech and appearance (the ability for individuals to represent …
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New Orleans' Plasterers' Union Local 93: Afro-Creole Identity, Family and Organized Labor, 1898-1954
… Local 93, Afro-Creoles were able to assert their political equality with whites and Irish Americans were able to engage in a sophisticated trade that had been traditionally dominated by Afro-Creoles in New Orleans. After almost a half-century of restricting union membership to whites and …
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Confining the Demos: Incarceration in Democratic Political Thought
… hand, incarceration is a space of democratic inequality. Disenfranchised from voting, left off juries, and restricted in speech, the prisoner is excluded from the democratic community. On the other hand, incarceration has a long association with democratic self-rule, a place where the demos (or …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… of these ideas retains many of the socio-political concerns specific to the time of her writing. I have selected 'Mrs Dalloway', To the 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando', as a combination of texts that can be shown to offer a sustained and developing dialogue between Woolf's fiction and …
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The Experiences of Youth from Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds in a Social Justice Leadership Program: A Participatory Action Research Photovoice Project
… of a deliberative model of democracy: inclusion, political equality, reasonableness, and publicity. I used photovoice and semi-structured interviews as part of the research design to work collaboratively with six female high school youth between 16 and 17 years of age to share their social justice …
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Capturing the Chimera: Ideology and Persuasion in the Rhetoric of Soulforce
… rights organizations have sought cultural and political equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in society. The organization Soulforce continues that legacy, but from a distinctive perspective. Soulforce, has positioned itself in a unique playing field by speaking …
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<i>Sucker Punch</i> and the Political Problem of Fantasy to Female Representation
… real world change in gender relations and gain political equality. Fantasy, as the means by which capitalism operates (i.e., it is through the use of fantasy that consumers are convinced to buy products) dominates American popular culture and, since the female body features so centrally in these …
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The political consequences of uneven development in Sudan : an analysis of political struggles, with special reference to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM/SPLA)
… uneven development, regional disparities and political violence as reflected in the recurrent civil wars in Sudan.The Study confirmed the general outcry from the masses, that socioeconomic and political disparities and injustices imposed on the Sudanese people by Anglo-Egyptian Colonialism …
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The role of referendum and non-referendum mechanisms for state-framing processes
… Since international law recognizes people as political communities, if they are sufficiently knowledgeable and aware of their rights, their involvement can legitimize the actions of their governmental authority. In order for the people’s deliberations- or self-governance- to be considered …
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The Administration of Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory (1787-1802)
… --the American plan had as its basis political equality between the original states and the new territory. The task of giving life and meaning to the principles of this important document was entrusted to Arthur St. Clair. St. Clair, a Scotchman of noble descent, had served as a …
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Men as individuals, women as mothers : women's delayed achievement of individualism
… as a luxury for men at the expense of women. Equality between men was created for a large part by the equal position that all men shared over women with men having state-enforced domination within marriage. As new freedoms arose successively from the defeudalization of society, spiritual …
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The political representation of asylum seekers by migrant NGOs in Ireland: examining the policy and practice of deliberative engagement
This thesis explores the political representation of asylum seekers in Ireland through an examination of the policies and practices of migrant NGOs. The rationale for undertaking the study stems from an interest in the way asylum seeker participation is facilitated and a concern that despite the …
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Problematising ‘happiness’: A critical explanation of the UK’s happiness agenda
… objective and as a central focus within social, political and economic research, with public policy makers around the world having demonstrated a growing interest in national accounts of ‘wellbeing’. In the UK context, this growing interest is comprised of a perceived need to ‘know’ ‘happiness’ …
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Assessment of the Performance of a Resilient Hybrid Political System: The Case of Malaysia
… democratization," as ambiguous as they may seem politically, may not be a manifestation of a failed democratization attempt. Rather, their "hybrid" characteristics, portraying neither a full democracy nor outright authoritarian practices entrenched in the system, may plausibly serve as a panacea …
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Shopping for Pleasure: The Fashion Lover in Victorian Fiction
… as an obstacle to their campaign for social and political equality. The fact that the novelists examined here rely on those shifting definitions to pass varying degrees of judgment on the pleasures of fashion (even as they uncover and make those pleasures available) illustrates the highly mutable …
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Evaluating Lobbying in the United Kingdom: Moving From a Corruption Framework to ‘Institutional Diversion’
… individuals raises concerns about corruption and political equality. Professional lobbying is available mainly to those with significant resources and is often the most effective means of influencing decision-makers. Unchecked, it corrodes public trust in core public institutions. This thesis …
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Inclusive Representation In Global Decision-Making Processses: Challenges Of Democracy, Sovereignty, And Liberatory Politics For Marginalized Groups
… decisions turn those who are supposed to be political equals into wards of dominant groups; essentially turning adults into political children. To meet ideals of political equality, liberatory processes for inclusive decision-making are required. The concept of political adulthood provides …
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