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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"political opportunity structure"”.
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Civil society in Wales and European Union policy-making
… in European Union policy-making. A contextual political opportunity structure (POS) approach is employed to help understand the factors that shape this role. The thesis uses the European Convention as an empirical horizontal case study to compare the role of civil society in Wales in the …
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Contention under Consociationalism: The Selection of Strategies by Postethnic Protest Movements in Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina
… when applied to consociations. In particular, structure-oriented theories, such as Political Opportunity Structure (POS), often overlook the distinctive complexities of institutional engineering in consociations. On the other hand, agency-focused theories tend to inflate the autonomy of …
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Varieties of base contestation: anti-U.S. base protests in South Korea and Japan
… in every corner of the world, the local political dynamics they generate remain surprisingly understudied. This project sheds light on different levels of local contestation confronting American military outposts overseas – a puzzle left unanswered by existing studies where prominent …
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Revisiting human responsibilities: prospects and challenges
… social movement literature on the international political opportunity structure to argue that the activities of opponents to human responsibilities initiatives, particularly their framing of human responsibilities as having the potential to undermine and weaken the international human rights …
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Islamic Activism: The Socio-Political Dynamics of the Indonesian Forum of Islamic Society (FUI)
… employs the perspectives of social movements: political opportunity structure, mobilising structures, and framing. This thesis primarily argues that given differences in terms of ideologies and strategies on the part of Islamic movements and organisations in Indonesia, the emergence of FUI was …
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State, Dissidents, and Contention: Iran, 1979-2010
… Republic. While this study primarily utilizes political process and resource mobilization models, it acknowledges the importance of economic, ideological, and breakdown approaches for the interpretation of the emergence and development of popular mobilization in contemporary Iran. Drawing on …
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From Revolution to Devolution: A Social Movements Analysis of the Contemporary Women's Movement in Ireland
… be documented without paying attention to the political opportunity structure, the potential for the development of external alliances, the existence of sympathetic elites and the role of ideology both as a source of conflict and as a valuable resource. The study makes an important contribution …
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The determinants of ethnic minority party formation and success in Europe
Why do some ethnic minority groups in Europe form political parties of their own in order to obtain political representation, whereas others choose to work within the confines of established, mainstream political parties? Further, why do some ethnic minority parties (EMPs) achieve electoral …
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The organisation of a land occupation : a case study of Marikana, Cape Town
… "Third Force" hypothesis), but because of the political opportunity structure that the settlers faced, which they were only partially aware of; the networks and information that they were able to tap; and the identities and cultural frames that defined individual Marikana settlers and guided …
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The role of specialised groups in the debate about the European Constitution.
… by pointing to the importance of considering the political opportunity structure and the institutional barriers to the Europeanisation of general publics.
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Chasing Tickets: Party Politics, Corruption and Municipal Elections, New Delhi
… election of 2017. By exploring the inner political world of the party and the race for election tickets in the organisation’s complex and multi-layered hierarchy, the study tries to explicate the small steps of political candidacy in municipal level politics. It offers a sociological …
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L’estrema destra in Italia. Quali reti e quali strategie d’azione?
L’estrema destra europea è stata oggetto di molti studi dal secondo dopo guerra in poi, intrecciandosi anche con lo studio del populismo. Sebbene buona parte della produzione accademica riguardi ancora i partiti politici della destra radicale ed estrema, alcuni studi hanno riguardato anche altri …