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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"political response"”.
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Citizenship, exclusion, and political organizations : political response to immigrant policy
… examines whether policy can foster the political incorporation and democratic participation of immigrants. The study compares immigrants' political responses to immigrant policy in Sweden and Germany. Sweden is the critical case because Sweden's immigrant policy attempts to shorten the …
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The humanitarian, technical and political response to shipwreck in the first half of the nineteenth century: the 1836 Inquiry and its aftermath
… the close of the Napoleonic Wars.<br/><br/>The response to this on-going national disaster was slow but eventually emerged principally in three areas: humanitarian, technical and political. The humanitarian driven reform came from amongst other sources by way of incentives to inventors from the …
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The Wyndham Land Act, 1903: The Final Solution To The Irish Land Question?
… be a systematic examination of the nationalist political response to the act or, indeed, o f its contribution to the history o f the United Irish League (U.I.L.). Nor is it a comprehensive analysis o f the unionist political response. While both have been examined and their relationship to the …
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Race, Representation, and Recovery: Documenting the 2006 New Orleans Mayoral Elections
… materials to posit that race rendered all political response to Katrina impotent, and that the reductive discourse of a racialized campaign was founded upon traditional, outmoded, and predictable interpretations of racial differences facilitated by socioeconomic hierarchies that both …
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Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
… While the Cohen narrative explains the political dimension of Hecht's ideology and the Bodenheim story explains the cultural dimension, both overlap on the issue of ethnicity, the question of Jewish American identity. Hecht's political response to the genocide and the struggle for a …
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Is SA law and policy equipped to deal with the peculiarities of Human Trafficking?
… central thesis is that the legal and policy response to human trafficking in South Africa is inadequate to deal with its peculiarities. The anti-trafficking response must extend beyond the application of human rights and criminal law to include a cross-cutting, multi-sectoral, socio-economic …
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The windy city : harnessing power in the neighborhood landscape
… in the urban context? 2) Does the community and political response to wind power in towns and cities differ from the experience in rural or offshore settings? To answer these questions, I investigated wind energy projects in Hull (Boston, MA region), Toronto (ON), Palmdale (Los Angeles, CA …
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British civil defence policy in response to the threat of nuclear attack 1972-1986
… external contexts fused those policies with the political framework during those 15 years. It examines the theory and reality of civil defence, from its rebirth as a political and practical concern in 1972 until the end of civil defence as a practical and political response against a specific …
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Market Challenges to Democracy: The Political Economy of Hyman P. Minsky
This dissertation seeks to reengage the field of political economy to establish a political response to financial crisis, as well as the resulting social crisis of everyday life, using the political economy of Hyman P. Minsky. As an academic field, political economy is in a strange kind of limbo. …
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Compassion and conflict: The impact of the medicare end-stage renal disease program
… ESRD and the patients, the public, and the political response to it. I will look at the variety of issues, both within and beyond the range of medical practice, that reveal how ESRD is treated in the United States. To address these concerns, this research will explore the history, describe …
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Public opinion and agriculture 1875-1900
… originating as it did in the contemporary response of public opinion to the fate of agriculture. It was not the economic fortunes of agriculture alone which excited contemporary interest. Rather, it was the effect of these on the role which agriculture played in the life of the nation and …
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“Something to look forward to” - Experiences of Older Adults Taking Part in a Peer Support Group
The political response to Wales’ ageing population has been to strive to make Wales the best place in the world to grow older (Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, 2019). Third sector interventions to improve the wellbeing of older adults have been recognised by the Welsh Government as “pivotal” …
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Movement, knowledge, emotion : gay activists and the Australian AIDS movement
… gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the thesis argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes toward gay men and lesbians. It also concludes that AIDS activism …
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Movement, knowledge, emotion : gay activists and the Australian AIDS movement
… gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the thesis argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes toward gay men and lesbians. It also concludes that AIDS activism …
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Political Responses against Terrorism and Hypothetical Voting Intention.
<p>This paper explores the impact of political responses against terrorism and how they are linked to hypothetical voting intention. After September 11, 2001, terrorism became a major concern of democratic governments and their residents. Terrorism poses a constant unseen threat that people want to …
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Environmental (in)activism: pollution, people, and politics in two Indianapolis neighborhoods
… of environmental activism (or lack thereof) in response to urban environmental injustices in two communities to understand differences in response between the communities. The goal is to better understand how and why residents take action to secure improvements in environmental quality and the …