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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"state politics"”.
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The Impact of Blogs on State Politics
… research offers the first comprehensive study of state-focused political bloggers in the United States. Applying original data from the author’s nationwide survey of state-focused bloggers conducted during the summer of 2007, this study addresses three primary research questions: Who are the …
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CREATION OF AN AMERICAN STATE: POLITICS IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1765 - 1789
… a domestic revolution which altered internal politics for the decades following renunciation of British sovereignty. Before 1763 Carolina's colonial government was dominated by "gentlemen," by individuals who had become accustomed to deference from those whose birth or fortunes placed them …
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Cultural policy, state politics, and rural economic development : lessons from Maine
… actors utilize studies of the arts' impact on state economies to boost -the significance of cultural policy within a given political environment. Specifically, this thesis explains how the current Governor of Maine, John Baldacci and the leaders of Maine's cultural policy bureaucracy utilized a …
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Sarah T. Hughes: Her Influence in Texas Politics
Conservative males traditionally dominated Texas politics. In 1930, however, Sarah T. Hughes, a liberal woman from Maryland, began a spectacular career in state politics despite obstacles because of her gender and progressive ideas. First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1930, she remained …
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A Vast and Varied Opposition: The Shifting War Democrat - Peace Democrat Continuum in Civil War Pennsylvania
… segments of the Democratic continuum controlled state politics at different times throughout the war, dependent upon changes in the Democracy's perception of political, military, economic, and social events that the war wrought. Furthermore, this thesis contends that the ideologies along this …
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Culture, constituency, and economic decline: Explaining state development policy choices
This dissertation examines variations in state economic development policies in order to explain how economic and political factors combine to cause such differences. The introductory chapter examines prior research on state economic development (the dependent variable), and on comparative state …
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Hello from the other side; I'll compromise a thousand times : how minority party governors win unlikely elections
… increasing nationalization and polarization in state politics, some blue states continue to elect Republican governors, while some red states continue to elect Democratic governors. These minority party governors are out of step with their state's mass ideology and partisanship when research on …
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Domestic Politics and the International Community: A Case Study of China's SARS Policy in 2003
A distinct feature of contemporary politics is the involvement of international forces in a state's domestic politics, and vice versa. Despite the plethora of literature on the international system and comparative state politics, relatively little addresses the interpenetration of international and …
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Democracy and city life
… that reinforce these inequalities. Municipal and state politics rarely alter the prevailing incentives for home and industry location that perpetuate these patterns,
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The Iowa Education System : Do We Really Have What We Need? Do We Need What We Have?
… between Area Education Agencies, The State Board/State Department of Education, local school boards and their districts, institutions of higher education, and the State Legislature. Knowledgeable informants were also asked for recommendations on how to improve the system. The findings …
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Management Accounting Control and Managerial Bullying: Economic, Social, and Political Dynamics in Bangladesh RMG Sector
… and social status. In fact, by involving in state politics and obtaining legislative power, they also influenced government policies (e.g. labour laws and national minimum wage) to reduce the collective bargaining of workers in a particular sector of the economy. Nevertheless, owners also …
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Poetics Of The Sacred: Divinations Of Identity In The French Avant-Garde
… communitarianism resistant to any form of state politics or group identity. My argument subverts this debate by illustrating how their religiosity is based on a theory of endless self-sacrifice, one that continually wavers between personal identity and an unknown, divine alterity. This …
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Rethinking Urban Risk And Adaptation: The Politics Of Vulnerability In Informal Urban Settlements
… their vulnerability, but the linkages between state governance and vulnerability in this setting remain under-researched. In particular, as more urban governments develop climate risk assessments, questions arise about how risks are defined, the politics behind the processes of risk definition, …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
… Georgians discussed removal as a way for the state to create and maintain order, a cluster of ideas that revolved around a social system that championed white superiority, a political system that adhered to republican thinking, and a legal system that prevented lawlessness. To create a …
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The construction of "hegemony" in selected nuclear nonproliferation "regime" literature
… feedback effect of 'regimes' on domestic state politics and international social movements, these dynamics do not yet occupy their proper place in their work. The extent to which current developments within the regime accord with theoretical expectations is also examined and doubts are …
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The construction of "hegemony" in selected nuclear nonproliferation "regime" literature
… feedback effect of 'regimes' on domestic state politics and international social movements, these dynamics do not yet occupy their proper place in their work. The extent to which current developments within the regime accord with theoretical expectations is also examined and doubts are …
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The individual and the state in China: being a graduate village official in rural southwest China
The topic of this research is the state and the individual. I conducted one year’s fieldwork by working as a graduate village official in a local government office in southwest rural China, which enabled me to observe at close range the workings of political power and official administration. After …
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States Of Inequality: Government Partisanship, Public Policies, And Income Disparity In The American States, 1970-2005
… this familiar story, however, are a variety of state experiences. In this dissertation, I develop and test a new theory to explain why income inequality varies in the states over time. My partisan political-economy theory for state inequality builds on political explanations for national …
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The origins of Prussian conservatism, 1815-56
… presents a religious party within the Prussian state church as the origins of Prussia’s conservative party post-1848. The roots of this church-political party, however, lie within the experiences of the Napoleonic Wars (1806-15) and the social movements dominant at that time. In this way, early …
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