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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"ruling elite"”.
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Mi naqui: Birth and infancy in late medieval and Renaissance Florence
… account books of the Florentine merchant and ruling elite, letters, humanists' and moralists' tracts on the family, and contemporary literature, this dissertation examines Florentine attitudes and behavior regarding birth and infancy from 1300-1600. Most Florentines of the merchant and ruling …
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Local government and society in early modern England: Hertfordshire and Essex, C. 1590-- 1630
… faction drive the successes or failures of the ruling elite? Was there any underlying social connection among the gentry of the two contiguous counties that influenced local administration? Finally, how did local government function? What role did it play on the lives of the people? The study …
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Drivers and obstacles of agriculture development in Libya : Case study : Marine aquaculture.
… revenue and the corruption associated with the ruling elite has had a negative role in agricultural development process, in terms of high dependency of on oil, and government ignoring of improving productivity led to emergence of the Dutch disease symptoms in agriculture sector; the continued …
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Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social and Political History (200-49 B.C.)
… the creation of a profitable empire allowed the ruling elite to end their reliance on domestic taxation to fund state activity, and that Rome's untaxed citizens were effectively disenfranchised as a result. They therefore lacked the bargaining power to prevent aristocrats from enriching …
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Neo-colonial elitism and its influence in Kenya: A case study of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's petals of blood, Devil on the cross and Matigari
… the colonisers, the British, and the Kenyan elite in the new government. The Marxist literary theory postulates that emancipation of the masses from exploitation, oppression, discrimination and inevitable linkage between the privileged people and the miserable ones can only come from the …
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Opozicinių koalicijų sėkmės konkurencinio autoritarizmo rinkimuose priežastys /
… incumbent's party is less cohesive, i.e., the ruling elite displays more internal disagreements. A quantitative regression analysis of elections in competitive authoritarian regimes that featured an opposition coalition between 1990 and 2020 found a predicted impact of this variable on the …
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Revolution, military personnel and the War of Liberation in Bangladesh
… subjected to the discriminatory policies of the ruling elite in Pakistan which led to the wholesale alienation of the Bengalis. The 1970 general election worked as a catalyst to sharpen the east-west confrontation still further. The post-election negotiation between the political leaders of East …
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Criticism and censorship in the South African "alternative" Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro (1985-1990)
… and directed at specific interest groups (eg. a ruling elite) frequently evokes censorship, whilst censorship and repression in turn breed criticism and resistance.
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The Post Office in Ireland 1638-1840
… and dedicated to serving the needs of the ruling elite within the top echelons of the Tudor state (the monarch, Privy Council, parliament, the judiciary and senior ranking army personnel) through conveyance of official correspondence and interception of intelligence to become, by 1840, …
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Fighting for the spoils : Cape burgerschap and faction disputes in Cape Town in the 1770s
… Republic. One of these was that at the Cape a ruling elite consisting of higher VOC officials and prominent burghers had developed with close familial and entrepreneurial links between them.
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Between Passive and Active: The Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy Towards Israel
… domestic and external constraints. The Saudi ruling elite have also communicated their willingness of having active cooperation, if certain conditions are met. Although they have communicated the potentiality of active cooperation, they have not done this in an explicit way, rather, in a …
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The Duke of Wellington and the people, 1819-1832
… on events. Writing a letter to a member of the ruling elite could make a difference.
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The experience of coercion and forced education in a labour market activation context.
… about economic exploitation. The ideas of the ruling elite are crucial in supporting this ideology and they depend on consent to maintain their power, which is achieved by controlling influential institutions such as the police, armed forces and the media. In relation to this research, it is …
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Leaves and Flowers of Paulownia: Aristocratic Legitimacy of the Ashikaga Warrior Leaders
… non-verbal communication between members of the ruling elite. By giving special attention to ritual interactions between the Ashikaga and the holders of sovereign power, such as the imperial family in Japan and foreign monarchs in East Asia, it refutes the notion of usurpation of the imperial …
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Understanding strategy in Russian businesses
… oligarchs and members of the powerful political ruling elite. However, aspects of Russian national culture also predispose managers to adopt manipulative strategies, and may well account for the prevalence of corruption which is seen by many as endemic in Russia. The document concludes by …
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Tourism integration in Southern Africa
… development, lack of political will among the ruling elite ; limited resources and lack of widespread stakeholder participation in policy processes. From this, the research develops a framework for examining the process of tourism in general and concludes that although SADC has been highly …
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Artists Under Reform: An Analysis of Professional Chinese Guohua Painters' Relation to the State in the Post-Mao Era
… changes in the ideology and policies of the ruling elite, the commercialization of art, and an emerging need to preserve guohua that is more instrumental to promote China’s cultural heritage and national soft power. It argues that the sustainability of such a partnership has been reinforced …
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Heroes of Peace:The Royal Humane Society and the Award of Medals in Britain,1774-1914
… and warriors drawn from the echelons of the ruling elite. Until the outbreak of the Great War, the majority of bravery medals awarded each year were given by private societies in recognition of civilian bravery. This dominance ended in 1914, when conscription and wholesale slaughter altered …
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Arabic-speakers in Norman Sicily
… Romance dialects were spoken by many among the ruling elite but most of the indigenous population continued to communicate in Arabic except in the north-eastern corner of the island where Greek was still used. The conventional wisdom is that, under Norman rule, Sicily became a social and …
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