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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"progressives"”.
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Reformers Revealed: American Indian Progressives at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, 1884-1909
… and comprised another, overlooked example of Progressives in action. Through attendance records, administrative and curricular changes, personal letters and reminiscences, development of a more native-centered school newspaper, elimination (or tempering) of the most egregious aspects of …
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More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
The year had opened with bright expectations, but 1914 quickly tumbled into disillusionment and violence. For John Purroy Mitchel, New York City's new "boy mayor," the trouble started in January, when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow and dozens of the city's homeless froze to …
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Evidence of absence : the progressives and strategic non-voting in the house, 1907-1925
… missingness can help resolve the puzzle of the Progressives, and inform historical study of Congress.
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How progressives took advantage of moderate discontent: political opportunity, framing and mobilization at the local level
This paper asks why a progressive social movement formed in a conservative place. The People for a Progressive University City (PPUC) formed as a Political Action Committee (PAC) in a mid-sized community in order to influence the city commission and school board election of 2005. Resource …
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Are We Out of the Woods Yet? How Democrats and Progressives Need to Rethink their Message Framework
… to win elections. What do Democrats and progressives need to fix so they can deliver better messages? To better understand the dynamics that impact the Democratic Party’s capacity to create messaging I believe one must look at the relationship between the Democratic Party as an …
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Coupe progressive et exploitation forestière à l'échelle du paysage: influence relative sur la productivité de deux passereaux forestiers
… et un ou deux quadrats de 25 ha dans des coupes progressives récentes (< 5 ans). Ceci m’a permis d'examiner simultanément les effets de l’exploitation forestière à l'échelle du paysage et des coupes progressives à l’échelle locale. Pour chacune des espèces cibles, j’ai noté les signes …
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Development of California municipal recall law
… the direct democracy campaign of the California progressives in the early twentieth century, it remains as an evolving legal process and dynamic political issue within the context of California political history.</p>
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Distorted Security Discourses. The ROK’s Securitisation of the Korean Nuclear Crisis, 2003–2013
… within the political spectrum between the progressives and conservatives. By drawing upon Securitisation Theory (ST), this study challenges the current security discourse in South Korea, which has divided and misled the public as well as securitising actors. This study examines the security …
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Uphill All the Way: The Fortunes of Progressivism, 1919-1929
… And yet, as this dissertation explores, progressives, while knocked back on their heels by these experiences, nonetheless continued to fight for change even during the unfavorable political climate of the Twenties. The Era of Normalcy itself was a much more chaotic and contested political …
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Characteristics of Contemporary U.S. Progressive Middle Schools
… progressive education: 1) administrative progressives supporting standardization as a means of efficiency and 2) pedagogical progressives supporting child-centered learning based upon a well-rounded education. This study looks at 82 contemporary pedagogical progressive schools to identify …
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A correspondence theory of musical representation
… War of the Romantics, which pitted the Weimar progressives (Liszt, Wagner, &co.) against the Leipzig conservatives (the Schumanns, Brahms, &co.) in an intellectual struggle for what each side took to be the very future of music as an art. I side with the progressives, and argue that music can …
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La Diputación provincial de Alicante (1812-1874)
… can see how the struggle between moderates and progressives to implement their own territorial model reflects the conflict between the centralizing and decentralizing tendencies that were present throughout the entire 19th century. Then the research descends upon the praxis, investigating the …
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Booze, Boomtowns, and Burning Crosses: The Turbulent Governorship of Pat M. Neff of Texas, 1921-1925
… conflict between rural conservatives and urban progressives. Neff, a progressive, found himself in the middle of this conflict. Neff supported prohibition, declared martial law in the oil boomtown of Mexia, and faced the rise of the Ku Klux Klan as a political force in Texas. Though often …
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Framing Alberta’s NDP: How is the AbNDP, a Vehicle for Leftist Politics, Framed in a Conservative Canadian Province?
… election campaigns by conservative parties, how progressives are represented by conservatives, and the implications this may have for progressive politics. This paper points to the overall need for more research attention on social media frames in academic literature, while further demonstrating …
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POLITICS OF EDUCATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE AGE OF BOLSONARISMO IN BRAZIL
… of national identity to identify enemies (the progressives) and to present Bolsonarists (Bolsonaro supporters) as the “good nationals”, the “good citizens”. Bolsonarismo used its narrative, the one it has created around the curriculum, the education system and structures as a central pillar for …
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Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
… in the wake of industrial modernity. For some progressives, the popularization of syncopated pop music signaled the dangerous public incursion of black and working-class cultures, and immigrant groups. For others, ragtime and jazz threatened to dismantle the aesthetic hierarchies to which the …
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An International Reformer: Jessie Ackermann and American Progressivism.
… Movement. Ackermann's experiences reveal that progressives not only sought to change society in America, but that some carried progressivism abroad to transform foreign societies. This study contributes to the understanding of Ackermann's work as a reformer and the international nature of …
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NORTH KOREA, THE LEFT, AND THE RIGHT: FREEDOMS RESTRICTIONS IN SOUTH KOREA
… as justification for freedoms curtailment, while progressives restrict freedoms in order to foster an environment conducive to positive engagement with the North.
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Madness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics
… were adopted by Redeemer Democrats and Southern Progressives. Yet, it was the scalawags' propensity to compromise in a polemical era that marginalized them in popular memory.</p>
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More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
… and Francis Griffith Newlands revealed how progressives looked to nature as a tool of social reform. Each of these men understood the American environment in multiple contexts. Nostalgia and romanticized Missouri River history activated themes of empire, race, and manhood in Neihardt’s work. …
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