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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"political factions"”.
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Using Mathematical Biology to Model a Revolution
… thesis, we seek to model the dynamics of violent political revolutions using adaptations of mathematical biology models. Existing models of similar social phe- nomena either lack recruitment terms from one population to another, or assume the entire population is a constant size, which is not …
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Detecting preference in the archaeological record: a study of glass trade beads among the Natchez Indians
… districts, or village areas. Ethnic and political differences are known to have existed between these districts, so the study sought to explore how this might have affected the use of glass beads. Settlement district assemblages were evaluated on the basis of diversity of bead varieties, …
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Comparative Study of Transition to Democracy in Portugal and Iran
… the outcome of the transition in Portugal was a political democracy while Iran faced the rise of authoritarianism. The research compares the similar and dissimilar variables between Portugal and Iran such as the form of the break with authoritarianism and holding of initial elections, …
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Political integration of Hezbollah into Lebanese politics
… itself to be a resilient, relevant, military and political force within Lebanon as well as across the Middle Eastern region. This thesis focuses on the approach through which Hezbollah, as a military, political and social organization integrates itself into Lebanese society and polity. This thesis …
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Constitutions, not commitment: international law, diffusion, and the construction of universal constitutional principles
… and how do these legal arguments and political pressures change the incentive structures surrounding the drafters of national constitutions? Further, does the involvement of international law and international politics have any effect on the implementation of the text after adoption? …
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Jacksonian Democracy and the Electoral College: Politics and Reform in the Method of Selecting Presidential Electors, 1824-1833
… historians have written on the development of political parties and the increase in voter participation during this time, none have focused on how politicians sought to use the method of selecting electors to further party development in the country. Between 1824 and 1832 twelve states changed …
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Hippies in the Park: Yosemite and the Counterculture in the Sixties American West
… capable of accommodating disparate moral and political factions. My research explores the role of national parks in highlighting--and mediating--conflicting visions of nature, family, and nation in the late 1960s.
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MALLEABLE TERRITORIES: THE POLITICS AND EFFECTS OF MINING GOVERNANCE IN POST-SOVIET GEORGIA
… a year of contentious struggle among competing political factions, yet in the end the mining work moved forward and continues expanding today. RMG’s destruction of Sakdrisi was just one event within Georgia’s broader political transition, de-centralizing resource governance toward corporate …
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Reconstruction Unbound: American Worldviews In A Period of Promise and Conflict, 1865-1874
… led scholars to misrepresent how two leading political factions, Democrats and northern Republicans, thought about and argued over Reconstruction. Democrats and northern Republicans, despite all their disagreements with each other, both attempted to situate the reconstruction of the southern …
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Liminal heritage and political transition in Burma/Myanmar since 1824
… populism (Bugaric 2019) and a ‘brokenness of political reality’ that is both cause and effect (Wydra 2015a, p. 1) of the wicked problems that plague us, from the threat of nuclear warfare to the climate crisis. Infused with powers of annihilation, these crises suspend whole societies in …
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West Germany and Namibia's path to independence, 1969-1990: foreign policy and rivalry with East Germany
… national liberation movement. It shows that the political dynamic that drove the normalisation of relations between East and West Germany played a key role in West Germany's move towards supporting SWAPO in the mid-to-late 1970. Furthermore, this thesis demonstrates that the Federal Republic's …
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Nationalism in Kurdistan: Formalizing a Nation through Reterritorialization
… of Kurdish identity within various sociopolitical environments. Qualitative analysis reveals the fundamental historical, cultural, and territorial factors that shape Kurdish national identity. Participants consistently highlighted the importance of language, geography, and common …
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Divisive Rights and Structural Wrongs: A Comparison in Polycentric Constitutionalism
… and the states. Focusing mainly on socio-political factions over fundamental rights, the research’s overarching goal is to develop a theoretically grounded criteria to help determine which structural division of power may better suit resolving which type of faction. Specifically, the …
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Nuclear bargaining : using carrots and sticks in nuclear counter-proliferation
… they enhance the power and interests of domestic political factions in the target state that support compliance with the sender's nuclear demands. I argue that positive inducements are typically a more effective tool of foreign policy than negative sanctions. Also, the difference in the …
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Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw
… of memory in Germany and Poland, and how political factions have used this malleable state of memory to construct popular narratives. The most common narrative that has been seized upon by right-wing factions in both countries, and which has been supported by the official state memory …
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Searching for a pragmatic aesthetic: the rhetorical strategies of gansta rappers -- myths, rituals, and dramas of an outlaw music
… urban black youth are under attack from all political factions, rap music lies at the heart of their cultural epicenter. More specifically, Gangsta rap music has taken center stage, dominating the pop charts, moving from the streets of the ghetto to the homes of white suburbia. Studies of …
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Enhancing democratic communication? Television and partisan politics in Palestine
Against the political backdrop of the Palestinian conflict and Israeli occupation, this thesis focuses on the most important media in the Palestinian context, television, which has the widest reach and influence among Palestinians. The main aim of the thesis is to investigate the question of how …
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Iraq: The Way Forward—a Political Strategy to Win & End the War in Iraq
… struggles, and the competition for resources by political elites, and dominant political factions.</p> <p>The political and electoral system emplaced in Iraq incentivizes elites and political entities to undertake factional identities; in doing so, it promotes identity politics. The current …
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THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL CONFLICT: KINSHIP NETWORKS AND POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS IN THE CIVIL WARS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHILE
… a novel database of kinship relations among the political elites of Chile in the nineteenth century, this thesis identifies the impact of family networks on the formation of political factions in the period 1828-1894. The sociological literature theorising the cleavages that divided elites during …
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Reflections on the downfall of public international arbitration in the 20th century
… the avoidance of the reaction of internal political factions within the state in the case of a non-favourable award; and the nature of dispute settlement by legal means. The examination will also reflect upon certain aspects of Soviet international law and practice concerning arbitration …