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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"self-governance"”.
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The Kurds of Syria: Towards Self-Governance
Comprehensive examinations of the self-styled Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or AANES, are scarce not only due to the opacity of the entity's history and governance structures, but also the recency and context of its emergence as a significant actor in the Syrian civil war. This …
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Constructing conscience: freedom and self-governance in colonial New England
… law, like other liberal democracies, couches itself in the protection of the free individual, one who possesses both “beliefs” and the unalienable right to those “beliefs.” The “freedom of religion” guaranteed to U.S. citizens in the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment …
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A specification method for the scalable self-governance of complex autonomic systems
… have sought to endow computer systems with selfmanagement capabilities by delegating vital functions to the software itself and proposed the Autonomic Computing model. Hence inducing the so-called self-* properties including the system's ability to be self-configuring, self-optimising, …
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Moral messages, ethical responses: Punishment and self-governance among men serving life sentences for murder
This PhD uses theoretical and conceptual resources from the anthropology of morality and ethics to explore moral communication in the contemporary life sentence, as seen through the ethical lives of men serving life sentences for murder. Empirically, it describes three things. First, moral …
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Models of self governance and workplace democracy: a comparison of select orchestras in Germany, the U.S. and U.K
… long-term interest in the inner workings of self-governing and other "high involvement" orchestra organizations. This interest was "sparked" by her work in the general survey of professional symphony orchestras in East and West Germany, the U.S., and U.K. conducted with Allmendinger and …
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The Story of Rubina: Lessons on Self-governance in Peruvian informal settlements and Considerations for Community Land Trusts
… I conduct interviews to gather evidence on the self-governance of an informal settlement in Lima and compare it with the core components of different global CLT theories and models. Finally, I intersect both sections to learn about the potential and challenges of establishing a CLT such informal …
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A spark for collective action: Challenges and opportunities for self-governance in temporary fisher-designed Fish Refuges in Mexico
<p>Despite decades of study, the question of how to achieve sustainable small-scale fisheries is unresolved. Because small-scale fishing is diverse and hard to control, one management approach places fishers at the center of decision-making. Common-pool resource theory has assembled a large body of …
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The government of themselves: Indigenous peoples' internal self-determination, effective self-governance and authentic representation - Waikato-Tainui, Ngāi Tahu and Nisga'a
… right of Indigenous Peoples to exercise internal self-determination through effective self-governance within the nation-states of Canada and New Zealand. The following areas are reviewed in depth: first, internal self-determination which is, inter alia, about international fora and national …
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A collective self-governance framework for urban facilities management settings: application at public transport interchanges in economically depressed areas in Cape Town
… suggests that equivalent investments in governance and management of public transport interchanges must accompany the infrastructure investment to avoid physical and functional obsolescence. This study examined the willingness of the users of public transport interchanges, such as minibus …
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Tamed village “democracy”: elections, governance and clientelism in a contemporary Chinese village
The thesis is an exploration of the elections and governance in a contemporary Chinese village. It is a qualitative case study of one village in Shandong Province, China, using in-depth interviews with villagers, village candidates, township officials as well as national, provincial, township and …
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Community and the Habits of Democratic Citizenship: An Investigation into Civic Engagement, Social Capital and Democratic Capacity-Building in U.S. Cohousing Neighborhoods
… of social contact design with democratic self-governance and intentional social practices designed to build trust and cohesion among neighbors. In addition to investigating civic engagement in cohousing, this study investigates the degree to which U.S. cohousing neighborhoods build social …
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Making Sense of Environmental Governance: A Study of E-waste in Malaysia
… roles of state and non-state actors in e-waste governance in Malaysia. This is undertaken through analysis of e-waste governance, particularly focusing on the locally generated industrial and household e-waste, from the perspective of multiple actors, levels and modes of governance. From the …
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Caring for star-children : autism, families, and ethics in contemporary China
… how social stratification and the turn towards self-governance not only made autism as an epistemic object, but has intersected with that category to create new forms of inequality. In the absence of thorough and consistent state initiatives, moral economies around the child's potential have …
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Iowa Educators' Perceptions of the Functions and Purposes of the Iowa Professional Teaching Practices Commission
… and the educators' concept of professional self-governance. A random sample of lowa educators was administered a survey instrument that included thirty questions designed to measure their knowledge and awareness of the IPTPC and its functions. The sample included 200 classroom teachers, 100 …
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Governing Domestic Violence: The Power, Practice, and Efficacy of Presumptive Arrest and Prosecution Against the Violent Subjectivities of Intimate Abusers
… is also accompanied by individual projects of self-governance designed to steer the self away from future encounters with the law. These programs of self-governance carry different implications for abusers' careers in intimate abuse. While some evidence deterred batterer subjectivities, others …
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A "Living Political Dialect": The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse
… presented a new understanding of language as a self-enclosed, evolutionary system. This autonomy of language, in turn, mirrored Victorian Britain's emerging liberal society, with its emphasis on self-governance and laissez-faire economics. While previous scholars have characterized Victorian …
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Factors Driving Recreational Disturbance of Waterbirds on the Texas Coast
… island conservation and placement. The focus on self-governance identified trust in other recreationists was positively related to the perceived stated compliance of others. Thus, our research suggests the need to stimulate self-governance among Texas coastal recreationists. To do so will require …
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