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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"privileged access"”.
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Connections and Privileged Access: Essays on The Political Economy of Corruption
… to elected officials and bureaucrats to obtain privileged access to public services or public procurement contracts. Second, the link between bureaucratic capacity and corruption. Chapter 2 proposes a novel explanation for citizen engagement in collusive forms of petty corruption. It is rooted …
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Umma and Identity in Early Islamic Persia
… Persian local and regional histories assert a privileged connection with the Prophet Muhammad. I examine the ways in which Persian local and regional histories assert legitimacy, authority, and privileged access to Muhammad, the prophetic experience, and a blessed role in the Islamic umma.
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The power of political commentators in the age of social media
… for reappraisal. Commentators, benefiting from a privileged access to elite political sources, are in a position where they may inform the electorate by interpreting, analysing, and explaining complex political processes. To fulfil this remit and thus live up to their democratic function, legacy …
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Listen Like This: Audiovisual Argument in Rockumentary
… The offstage pattern exploits our desire for privileged access to stars and the industries in which they work, selling us the idea that there exists some more real, more authentic reality that the rockumentary will uniquely allow us to see and hear. In my three chapters I take a thematic …
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Coerced into crime? : Legal and media framing of co-accused women
… analysed, due to the terms and conditions of the Privileged Access Agreement granted by Her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Services, which enabled viewing access to the case file material. The case studies analysed are Jane Turner, Sarah Johnson, Alice Jones and Janet Young. The unique aspect of the …
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Acquaintance and the Formation of Negative Phenomenal Belief
This paper argues that Gertler’s (2012) account of acquaintance is inadequate because it cannot perform the explanatory role that it’s supposed to perform. My argument builds from two central claims. First, I argue that our judgments about phenomenal absences have the special features that …
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"Disinheritance" : identity constructions in the prose works and archives of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
… pathways to scrutinise her prose work through privileged access to her bequeathed literary archive at the British Library. The thesis addresses how her creative life’s chronology, and itinerant history, connects to the ways she engages with ideas about dislocation, and diasporic identity, in …
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L'Historien dans la cite l'oeuvre intellectuelle de Donald Creighton et de Michel Brunet
… Pierre Bourdieu, in order to obtain a privileged access to public space. They, more so than ordinary citizens, due to their status and title of university professors, were able to position themselves in the political debate. For example, if both agree to denounce Canadian bilingualism, …
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How does who we are affect what we do : an exploration of the organizational identity-strategy nexus in a UK based megachurch
… Using a single case study approach enabled by privileged access, the research draws on interviews, observations, and document analysis to uncover how organisational identity claims - particularly categorical boundary claims - structure strategic action. The study advances the concept of …
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Sexual citizenship beyond the metropolis: Bareback sex, chemsex and loneliness in a rural county in the United Kingdom
… context, researcher positionality and the privileged access this facilitates. The research concludes that residing in a rural community has a significant, negative impact on the experience of sexual citizenship among the participants. This manifests in experiencing a sense of social …
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Playing Monopoly: Actor/Manager Robert William Elliston (1774–1831) and the Struggle for a Free Stage in London 1802–32
… Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden). These held privileged access to the traditional canon of serious, literary drama, including Shakespeare. The monopoly regime’s power, re-affirmed in The Theatre Licensing Act 1737, prevented all other playhouses, labelled ‘minor’, from producing the national …
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Planting improvement : the rhetoric and practice of scientific agriculture in northern British America, 1670-1820
… the rhetoric of science and flaunting their privileged access to transatlantic, European, and imperial networks, northern elites who formed agricultural societies, supported natural history professorships, and private, academic, or colonial botanical gardens, distinguished their land …
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An Investigation of CSR as a Source of Corporate Political Power
… on CPP were three-fold: CSR strengthened the privileged structural position of companies; helped them gain easier access to policy-makers; and this privileged access gave companies more opportunities to influence regulatory outcomes. The key theoretical contribution of the thesis is a …
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An Instruction Profiling Based Framework to Promote Software Portability
… Intel CPUs to ARM. Unfortunately, in order to access the interesting features of a new platform, developers will be required to rebuild or port their existing software. Porting software can uncover unexpected behavior and produce uncertain results in code that was previously considered stable. …
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Empirically Evaluating the Security and Privacy Implications of Persistent Network Identifiers
… are being implemented in practice without privileged access to network data from a commercial third party. This is due, in part, to the difficulty of obtaining the quantities of addresses needed to draw any conclusions. Obtaining client IPv6 addresses is challenging without running a …
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The mediating role of entrepreneurial leadership: an investigation of the competitiveness of SMEs in the UK South-West food and drink manufacturing
… small and medium enterprises, as a means to access those resources, for example gaining privileged access to strategic information that could secure financial resources. In reality, and because of the inherent characteristics of Social Capital, entrepreneurs or business owner/managers who …
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The production of environmental news: a study of source-media relations
… pressure groups experienced greater access to television and the press. This thesis highlights a number of weaknesses with the structuralist model of source-dependency which maintains that official sources such as government or the courts, co=and privileged access to the media by …
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Governance, informality and agency in the making of cross-border mopane worm livelihoods in Southern Africa
… of governance that continue to regulate resource access and use. The effectiveness of such interactions is important for the success or failure of different governance arrangements and resource-based livelihoods. Using the cross-border trade of mopane worms as a lens, this research examines the …
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“Reckoning the nation: 19th century statistics, probability theory and nation-building.”
… of 19th century nation-states boasting “privileged access to ontological truth[s]” (Anderson, 2006, 36). I argue that this vernacular promoted a very literal form of methodological nationalism through the epistemology used to justify the application of probabilistic techniques to the …
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Automatic recovery for request oriented systems
… and available systems. Operating systems have privileged access to all aspects of system operation, thus a fault related to them is able to affect the entire system. Existing approaches to operating system recovery either do not protect the entire system or require a completely new operating …
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