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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"voting rights"”.
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Determinants of College Students' Opinions Towards Felon Voting Rights: An Exploratory Study
… granting the most coveted democratic tradition - voting. As a collateral "civil" consequence to criminal conviction that is legally deemed as non-penal, felon voting prohibitions have been used as an exclusionary tool for certain otherwise eligible voting populations. Current research finds that …
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Voting rights for non-U.S. citizens in the City of Los Angeles
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1994
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the number of African- Americans competing for and holding state legislative offices has increased significantly. Their growth is most notable in southern state legislatures. A growing number of studies have been devoted to African-Americans …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the number of African- Americans competing for and holding state legislative offices has increased significantly. Their growth is most notable in southern state legislatures. A growing number of studies have been devoted to African-Americans …
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Dueling shares: comparative EU-US corporate governance practices
… that related specifically to shareholder voting rights as well as a formal case study. The case study aimed to consider how companies within the EU and US across different industries have used dual-class shares and approached the one share-one vote principle. Twenty-four firms were …
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Essays in Financial and Theoretical Economics
… Investor may offer a share price to acquire voting rights over a corporate motion. The selling and voting decisions of each initial shareholder (with imperfect, private information about the firm’s value of the motion) depend on the private information held, but the selling decision also …
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If Selma Were Heaven: Economic Transformation and Black Freedom Struggles in the Alabama Black Belt, 1901 - 2000
… local African Americans partnered with civil rights organizations to stage a movement for voting rights. The beating of peaceful black marchers by white state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that March catapulted the city and black demands for the ballot into the national spotlight. When …
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A study of the attitudes of selected campus leaders toward the role of student trustees at New Jersey state colleges and universities
… trustees. The major areas of interest included voting rights, compensation, roles, training, and conflicts of interest. Seventeen campus leaders from NJASCU institutions participated in the study. The subjects were mailed a survey to complete to document their attitudes toward the roles of …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
… that built grassroots movements during the civil rights era of the United States. These movements were produced by Christian women leaders, and they influenced a crucial transition in the leadership of the civil rights movement. Through their training and mobilizing tactics, women civil rights …
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Benjamin E. Mays: The Role of Character in the Prolonged Struggle for African American Civil Rights
… end of segregation in public venues, ushering in voting rights for all disenfranchised Americans, and his use of the church and academia to recruit champions for equality in worship and life. Mays undertook an 88 year journey toward equality, a journey that spanned second slavery, passage of the …
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Inequality in Political Representation
… Why, after decades of near-universal voting rights, are only five percent of MPs in the UK House of Commons from the working class, and only one in four legislators in the United States are women?
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Legal Dodges and Subterfuges: Measuring Impact of New Obstacles on Minority Voter Registration
… over Blacks ended with the passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965. The federal regulation of voter and election law sought to end retrogressions in representation by intentional or effectual laws. In the VRA's wake, race based politics and policy rooted in White supremacy were …
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Land Rights & Village Membership - A Comparative Study of Land Rights in Rural China
… The study has policy implications for the voting rights in village elections of rural-to-rural migrants in contemporary China and suggests an agenda for future research.
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Founders Without Limits: Dual-Class Stock and the Premium-Tier of the London Stock Exchange
… in the use of ‘dual-class stock’ or ‘weighted voting rights’ (WVR) by publicly-listed companies in the technology sphere. Google, Facebook and Snap, amongst others, have adopted WVR-structure where the founders own unlisted shares to which enhanced voting rights are attached, while public …
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Relocation & Realignment: How the Great Migration Changed the Face of the Democratic Party
… of the 1960s to change its position on civil rights? My dissertation examines one of the most significant developments in American political history--the shift of the U.S. political parties on racial issues. In Relocation and Realignment: How the Great Migration changed the face of the …
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An Analysis of the Impact of UK Stewardship Code on UK Asset Managers: Financial Performance and Quality of Engagement
… between stewardship activities (e.g. exercising voting rights, monitoring the investee corporates) and the financial performance of asset managers. Interviews with UK asset managers explored the non-financial benefits observed from applying the Code. The quantitative and qualitative results …
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Fight the Power: Protest, Showdown and Civil Rights Activity in Three Southern Cities, 1960-1965.
… describes the significant events of the Civil Rights Movement from 1960 to 1965, examining the campaigns of Albany, Georgia in 1962, Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and Selma, Alabama in 1965. In the wake of the freedom rides of 1960-61, Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership …
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Nurses, Politics And Policy: Moving A Critical Initiative Forward Through Education, Inspiration And Motivation For Political Activity
… legislation & regulation, election law, voting rights, campaign finance, and administrative law. </p>
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Fighting for liberty in an unequal society: African American military service in the American Revolution and the path towards citizenship
… opportunities to gain freedom and additional rights, only a select few received such chances. Blacks that did serve were still considered to be inferior and of a lower social status than their white counterparts. With the arrival of American Revolution, a new found importance was given to the …
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The Voter ID: The New Black Codes
… laws were overturned by the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The intent of these legislative acts were to guarantee all individuals of voting age the right to participate in the political process of this nation and to affect change in the social fabric of …
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