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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"social democracy"”.
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American Feminism and Social Democracy
<p>The concepts of both social democracy and feminism will be discussed in detail in the course of the thesis. By way of introduction, broad definitions for these concepts will be offered here. Before attempting these definitions, however, the "central validity" of which Lippmann speaks and around …
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Russian social-democracy and Iskra, 1900-1904
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1952 J64
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Social democracy and the crime question in Britain : 1945 to 1980.
… an historical narrative of the evolution of social democratic, conservative and liberal approaches to crime in Britain since the war, and (b) (in part through this historical investigation) beginning to reconstruct the social-democratic form of "socialist-criminology", in both its academic …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… boundaries and markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting class realignment of the working-class, understood as the reshuffling of partisan loyalties characterising classes at certain periods and …
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Race and Imperial Democracy on the British Left, c. 1885–1914
… thesis investigates the entanglements between democracy and empire in British progressive thought between c. 1885 and 1914. It focuses on three prominent ‘new liberal’ thinkers who were preoccupied with theorising the relationship between metropolitan democracy and imperial hierarchy: John A. …
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An Afrocentric analysis of social entrepreneurship as a tool for development in Johannesburg, South Africa
This thesis examines the idea of social entrepreneurship (SE) from an Afrocentric and postdevelopment perspective. The thesis argues that the idea of SE is often examined from a Eurocentric perspective which tends to ignore the African context in which development takes place thereby failing to …
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
… first adopters after which this effect declines. Social democracy is a robust positive predictor of ECT, suggesting left-party power represents greater demand for climate change policy. Federalism has a strong negative effect, meaning this type of political decentralization might make …
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Antonio Saura's Monstrifications: The monstrous body, melancholia, and the modern Spanish tradition
… Franco’s dictatorship, political transition, and social democracy. By situating Saura’s works and texts within significant moments of Spanish recent political history, this dissertation aims to open conversations and cultural analyses on ideological appropriations of cultural traditions. As this …
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… which sprang at the intersection of liberalism, social democracy and capitalism. I argue that the unexplored potentialities of kitsch, as a concept, reside in the analysis of the dream-worlds, which have been occupying the social and political imaginaries of Western individuals, communities and …
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Accounting information system in the water industry : The case of cost management.
… economics of water supply (the liberal market, social democracy and democratic socialism), cost management and processes are central to the water sector. The control or governing ideas within which cost management takes place are the two major concerns of this thesis. These two issues were …
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Civil Society's Role in Democratisation: An Assessment of the Central Bolivian Labour Confederation's Role in the Political Economy of post-Neoliberal Bolivia
… of writing Bolivia has experienced political democracy for nearly 30 uninterrupted years. During this period candidates have been voted into various levels of government through free, fair and regular elections. With each successful election it would seem that political democracy has become …
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The Dilemma of Revolution and Stabilisation: Mexico and the European Powers in the Obregón-Calles Era, 1920-28
… and intellectual discussions on modernity, social democracy and national identity were primordial. For their part, German, French and British governments needed to weigh whether to defend their economic and cultural presence with regard to revolutionary Mexico and the disruptions caused by …
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The Role of Institutions and Policy in Knowledge Sector Development: An Assessment of the Danish and Norwegian Information Communication Technology Sectors
… in computing and telecommunications, supportive social democratic institutions, and effective innovation/technology policy, help to explain overall Nordic ICT performance. Cross-country variation persists in sector outcomes, however, and cannot be reduced to differences in institutions and …
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Ready for Experiment: Dwight Perkins and Progressive Architectures in Chicago, 1893-1918
Chicago's turn-of-the-century social settlements, most notably Hull House, have long been considered the mainstay of American progressive reforms. Yet settlement houses were but one aspect of a wide-ranging set of architectural and spatial inventions that used certain kinds of familiar imagery to …
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Multi-Triangulation Using Qualitative and Crossover Methods to Investigate The Role of Media in Fossil Energy Politics
… source of energy or technology, a new form of social dynamics emerges. This study explores the role of media, during the Pennsylvania coal strike of 1902 and the ensuing shifts in political power. Its main hypothesis is – if media helps to shape politics, then its coverage of the 1902 …
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Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity Research in Vienna, 1910-1938
… physicists it housed. The third examines how the social conditions of the Institute influenced the deployment of instrumentation and experimental procedures especially during the Cambridge-Vienna controversy of the 1920s. These threads are unified by their relation to the changing political …
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Understanding the performance of the Left Party (die Linke) in Western Germany : a comparative evaluation of cartel and social cleavage theories as explanatory frameworks
… of two distinct theories, Cartel Theory and Social Cleavage Theory, as explanatory frameworks for the Left Party’s breakthrough. The theories are also appraised in a detailed case study of Bremen. The study examines whether the party displayed the organisational traits, parliamentary focus …
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The theory of state monopoly capitalism
… that the politics of the Comintern vis-a-vis social democracy on the one hand, and fascism on the other, are justified in terms which originate in Lenin's theory of imperialism and its subsequent development in the Third International. It then considers how the continuation of this …
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AUTOCRATIZATION AND PUBLIC OPINION ONDEMOCRACY: INSIGHTS FROM TURKEY
… years, Freedom House (2023) and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute (2023) have documented a significant global surge in autocratization. While much research addresses the drivers of this wave, its consequences—especially for public opinion—remain underexplored. This gap is critical, …
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