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Dal, BoÌ Ernesto. "Essays on political influence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273153.
Full textMahle, Alexander. "Tax competition and political influence." Diss., lmu, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-150131.
Full textJackson, David Mark. "Measuring political influence on monetary policy." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30521.
Full textOz-Salzberger, Fania. "Scottish political ideas in eighteenth century Germany : the case of Adam Ferguson." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6ef5e5b0-37a4-42b7-a58f-8c1e35cc451c.
Full textVlaseros, Vasileios. "Essays on strategic voting and political influence." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9932.
Full textHalbeisen, Pascal Hans Ruedi. "Electoral economic cycles and the role of political institutions : do political institutions influence the political budget cycle?" Thesis, University of Hull, 2014. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:11313.
Full textHeldens, Gijs, and René Paaß. "Maastricht Aachen Airport – Value creation and political influence." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48626.
Full textDollins, Ramona R. "Parental influence on political development among late adolescents." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10192006-115601/.
Full textNarasimhan, Vishnu. "Military Influence and Political Development in Turkey and Pakistan." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/484.
Full textDubois, Elizabeth. "The strategic opinion leader : personal influence and political networks in a hybrid media system." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:35b1e408-a70a-4ea0-9c41-10d7df024ee9.
Full textHintzen, George Herman. "Imagining political science : the formative influence of political culture in the establishment of the PRC's political science, 1980-1989 /." Leiden, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41006874t.
Full textChalmers, Adam. "Interests, information and influence: a comparative analysis of interest group influence in the European Union." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104705.
Full textDes hypothèses erronées quant à la nature de l'activité des groupes d'intérêt ont induit en erreur plusieurs experts dans leur analyse de l'influence de ces groupes au sein de l'Union européenne (UE). Leur travaux sur l'influence des groupes de pression affirment que les groupes d'intérêt recourent couramment à une pression inutile et à des techniques de vente dans le but de faire changer d'avis les décideurs politiques. Toutefois, cette lecture de l'influence de ces groupes n'a pas su intégrer les conclusions du reste des travaux scientifiques sur les groupes d'intérêt qui affirment depuis longtemps que ces groupes d'intérêt sont bien davantage susceptibles de faire pression sur des décideurs qui partagent déjà leur point de vue (alliés) que d'essayer de faire changer d'avis ceux qui ne le partagent pas (adversaires). De plus, dans le cercle des lobbyistes, les groupes d'intérêt sont davantage perçus comme des bureaux de renseignements, qui fournissent des informations pertinentes d'un point de vue politique aux décideurs en échange d'un accès légitime au processus décisionnel. Ce projet de recherche s'attarde à illustrer les principes qui sous-tendent l'influence des groupes d'intérêt dans l'Union européenne. Je considère l'influence des groupes d'intérêt comme fonction de leur capacité à fournir de manière efficace et fiable des informations pertinentes d'un point de vue politique aux décideurs de l'UE. À cet effet, j'examine la capacité des groupes d'intérêt au sein de l'UE à traiter l'information, à savoir comment ces groupes rassemblent, sélectionnent, analysent, génèrent et transmettent l'information, dans une analyse comparative. J'estime qu'en général, l'influence des groupes d'intérêt de l'UE n'est pas caractérisée par la présence de certains groupes en particulier qui domineraient le processus décisionnel européen au détriment d'autres groupes.
Blackwell, Matthew. "Essays in Political Methodology." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10364.
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Knowles, Joan Nancie. "Power, influence and the political process among Iloitai Maasai." Thesis, Durham University, 1993. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/966/.
Full textAppelblom, Maria. "I want to be like Ellen : The influence of women in decision-making in post-conflict Liberia." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-209254.
Full textGoudge, Sara L. "Central Asian repression and Western influence." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1549556.
Full textRepression, used by dictators as a tool to control the populous of a nation, is a defining feature of authoritarian regimes. Often the most concerning response, the use of coercion is centrally important to a greater understanding of how dictators maintain stability. Emerging theories have proposed that autocracies may be influenced the West toward democratic transition, thus away from repressive autocratic behavior. For both intellectual and ethical reasons, it is important to know when a regime will use repression and how the West may be able to modify these responses. This study explores when the regimes of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan have used violent forms of coercion or restricted the rights and freedoms of their people in order to maintain stability, and if ties to Western nations influenced this behavior. Looking at problems that arise vertically (from the people), horizontally (from elite divisions), or socio-economically (from economic decline or rising inflation), this study explores how these authoritarian regimes respond to a variety of challenges, and how Western linkages alter these responses. Using interaction terms to test the conditional relationship between challenges to regime stability and Western linkages, this study explores how ties with the West may be able to influence coercive responses in these authoritarian regimes. The following analysis finds that these regimes view rising inflation as a greater threat to their stability, resulting in an increased use of violence against their people, but interestingly, when challenged during periods of economic decline these dictators expand freedoms and rights. Additionally, when these regimes increase their ties to the West they utilize more difficult to distinguish forms of repression and are more apt to restrict the rights of their people. Finally, the following analysis shows that whether a challenge is socio-economic or domestic alters the influence of Western linkages, and that in some cases the growth of these ties may be viewed by these regimes as liabilities to their rule.
Elder, Dennis Samuel. "Media Influence in Urban Government." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625399.
Full textLembani, Samson Brown. "The influence of institutional arrangements on intra-party democracy in Malawi." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9358_1182234535.
Full textThis research study seeks to investigate how institutional arrangements impact on intra-party democracy in Malawi. Intra-party democracy is essential as it promotes party unity through reduced fragmentation and factionalism, encourages a culture of democratic debate and deliberation of critical issues within the party and therefore collective ownership of decisions. Further, it creates legitimate internal conflict management systems and finally, reduces opportunistic and arbitrary use of delegated authority. These are fundamental tenets of any functioning democratic entity. These elements of intra-party democracy are attainable if they are formerly stipulated and governed by the party&rsquo
s constitutional rules. Where such rules either do not exist or are not effectively enforced, major operational problems arise. These may include: non-inclusive candidate selection procedures, centralised coalition negotiation processes, unprocedural conflict management mechanisms and unconstitutional or illegitimate party conventions. Consequently, the resulting outcomes include party instability and factionalism stimulated by resignations and expulsions, declining electoral support and weak coalitions. These factors undermine the party&rsquo
s contribution to democracy. The next section gives the context and historical evolution of parties in Malawi.
Fraga, Bernard L. "Race, Party, and the Impact of Electoral Influence on Political Participation." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10788.
Full textEagles, Stuart. "Political Ruskin : The influence of Ruskins's political ideas and social experiments in Britain circa 1870-1920." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503986.
Full textUhm, Seung-Yong. "Political anatomy of internet users in Korea : does the internet influence social capital and political participation?" Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1342.
Full textWoolfalk, Katherine Miya Miya. "Essays on Social Contexts and Individual Politics: The Political Influence of Religious Institutions and Ethno-Racial Neighborhood Contexts." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10832.
Full textAlexander, David Alisdair. "The sources of committee influence in the European Parliament." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8281/.
Full textLiu, Yung-I. "The Influence of Communication Context on Political Cognition in Presidential Campaigns: A Geospatial Analysis." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211994930.
Full textReeh, Thomas W. "The political influence and career of Ernest Rüdiger von Starhemberg /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arr327.pdf.
Full textSloof, Randolph. "Game-theoretic models of the political influence of interest groups /." Boston [u.a.] : Kluwer Academic, 1998. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/245964746.pdf.
Full textMahle, Alexander [Verfasser], and Marco [Akademischer Betreuer] Runkel. "Tax competition and political influence / Alexander Mahle. Betreuer: Marco Runkel." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1028191707/34.
Full textWright, Susan Audrey. "Identities and influence : political organization in Doshman Ziari, Mamasani, Iran." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365853.
Full textGurciullo, S. V. "Influence in economic and political systems : a network scientific approach." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1532877/.
Full textJohnson, Pool Jessica. ""Cultural Worldview, Religious Influence and Interpretation, and American Political Behavior"." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337716583.
Full textSwan, Peter. "Progressive era influence on West Coast political reform, 1937-1942." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48456/.
Full textMadsen, Michael. "The Mormon Influence on the Political Geography of the West." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1999. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,33224.
Full textKlopf, Patricia, and Phillip C. Nell. "How "space" and "place" influence subsidiary host country political embeddedness." Elsevier, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.06.004.
Full textAhmed, H. O. "The Soviet Union and the Gulf countries between 1968 and 1980 : The impact of Soviet economic aid, military assistance and political influence." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378246.
Full textPollack, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Michael). "The influence of Arab culture on Arab military effectiveness." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11219.
Full textNeshkova, Milena Ivanova. "The influence of subnational interests in supranational regulation." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3331261.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 23, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4497. Adviser: Evan J. Ringquist.
Belden, Megan. "Trumping The Norm: Political Influence Of Negative Emotion In The 2016 Election." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1126.
Full textOoh, Che Chang. "Wartime currency stabilisation in China 1937-1941 : economic expediency and political reality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312487.
Full textCale, Grace. "SHIFTING THE ULTIMATUM: POLITICAL ALIENATION AND PARTICIPATION." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/sociology_etds/14.
Full textJohnsen, Kristen Brooke. "The influence of gender on foreign policy beliefs and behavior : a literature review." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53130.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since feminist approaches to international relations (IR) first made their appearance in the late 1980s, efforts to explain the 'gender gap' have proliferated. Gender studies within IR in particular have been focused on foreign policy opinion, seeking to discover whether men and women have different views on foreign policy simply due to the fact that they are of different genders. The correlate of this is that if women believe differently than men, in which way do they believe differently and if this were then taken to its logical end, what would happen if they were more equally responsible for foreign policy decision-making? As an illustration of the varying approaches to feminist IR, this research project undertakes a brief overview of the history of feminist IR, showing how the tools and language of traditional IR do not encompass the needs of feminist IR study. The research article then reviews the literature of gender, feminism and foreign policy beliefs and behavior, examining its research core and evolution to date. Three research questions are covered. Firstly, is gender a relevant variable in foreign policy analysis? Secondly, if yes, does it make a difference to the foreign policy beliefs of women? Thirdly, where women play a significant role in foreign policy decisionmaking, are countries more pacific on the international level? Dealt with separately, foreign policy beliefs are found to have a clear gender-based breakdown. Foreign policy behavior is less simple to approach since the dataset of countries led by women during international disputes is limited. The research project and literature review also looks forward, pointing toward the future, not only of gender and foreign policy studies but also to the implications that future developments in feminist IR may have for the study of IR.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Pogings om die geslagsgaping te verduidelik het vermenigvuldig sedert die feministiese benadering tot Internasionale Verhoudinge die eerste keer in die laat 1980's sy verskyning gemaak het. Geslagstudies binne Internasionale Verhoudinge het veral gefokus op opinies oor buitelandse beleid om sodoende vas te stelof mans en vroue verskillende sienings oor buitelandse beleid huldig bloot as gevolg van die feit dat hulle verskillende geslagte is. Die keersy hiervan is dat indien vroue anders glo as mans, op watter manier hulle anders glo, en - indien dit dan tot 'n logiese uiteinde gevoer word - wat sou gebeur indien daar meer gelyke verantwoordelikheid vir buitelandse beleidsbesluite sou wees. As 'n illustrasie van die verskillende benaderings tot feministiese Internasionale Verhoudinge, onderneem hierdie navorsingsprojek 'n oorsig van die geskiedenis van feministiese Internasionale Verhoudinge om sodoende te toon dat die gereedskap en taal van tradisionele Internasionale Verhoudinge nie aan die behoeftes van feministiese Internasionale Verhoudingstudies voldoen nie. Hierdie navorsingsartikel gee dan 'n oorsig oor geslagsliteratuur, feminisme en buitelandse beleidsopinies en -gedrag deur sy navorsingskern en evolusie tot datum te ondersoek. Drie navorsingsvrae word behandel. Eerstens, is geslag 'n relevante veranderlike in buitelandse beleidsanalise? Tweedends, indien ja, veranderdit die buitelandse beleidsopinies van vroue? Derdens, is lande meer passief op internasionale vlak waar vroue 'n wesentlike rol in buitelandse beleidsbesluitneming speel? Afsonderlik beskou, is daar gevind dat daar 'n duidelike geslagsonderskeid in buitelandse beleidsopinies is. Dis egter minder eenvoudig om buitelandse beleidsgedrag te bestudeer, aangesien slegs beperkte inligting oor lande wat gedurende internasionale dispute deur vroue beheer is beskikbaar is. Die navorsingsprojek en literatuuroorsig kyk ook vorentoe met spesifieke verwysing na die toekoms van nie net geslag en buitelandse beleidstudies nie, maar ook na die implikasies wat toekomstige verwikkelinge In feministiese Internasionale Verhoudinge 'n vir die studie van tradisionele Internasionale Verhoudinge kan hê.
Wan, Napi Wan Kamal. "The Islamization of politics in Malaysia : how religious political opportunities and threats influence religious framing and counterframing /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481660071&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textMero, John C. "Under the influence has MADD's policy agenda limited the Elks' capability to create social capital? /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
Full textCoole, David R. "Expansion and Validation of the Political Skill Inventory (PSI): An Examination of the Link Between Charisma, Political Skill, and Performance." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001882.
Full textFranklin, Aarion Lynn. "Public Sector Employees' Experiences Executing Strategic Management in a Political Environment." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6561.
Full textAngevine, Sara. "Women Parliamentarians perceptions of political influence in the South African Parliament." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5692_1181887516.
Full textIn this study, I examine how women Parliamentarians understand their political influence within the South African Parliament and what environmental factors contribute to this understanding. Currently, South Africa is a global leader for the amount of women in Parliament and has been since the 1994 democratic transition. This study examines the formal and informal factors that South African women parliamentarians discuss as helping and hindering their political effectiveness.
Aside from the work of Hassim (2003) and Pandor (1999), little academic research explores the experiences of women within South Africa&rsquo
s Parliament. Considering this lack of research regarding women&rsquo
s experiences within government, I selected a research method that would allow an open space for communication: semi-structured interviews with a qualitative feminist analysis. This study explores the opportunities and obstacles that the women perceived as affecting their political influence.
The participant&rsquo
s responses indicate that they perceive a high level of political influence, with some reservations. Four themes emerged as the leading environmental factors in contributing to the participant&rsquo
s political efficacy: the 1994 democratic transition, the Parliament structure (formal and informal), the political party, and the role of gender.
The informal structures of Parliament, such as socializing spaces, and gender stereotypes, such as the responsibility of women Parliamentarians for &lsquo
women&rsquo
s issues&rsquo
, were discussed as the primary obstacles that hinder the women Parliamentarian&rsquo
s political influence.
The participants felt that the attitudes of political parties regarding women&rsquo
s role in Parliament was critical in facilitating their influence on the political agenda. The women Parliamentarians credited primarily the African National Congress (ANC) political party for framing and developing an atmosphere that mandated women&rsquo
s strong participation in government and their positive perceptions of political influence.
Böhm, Timo [Verfasser], and Henning [Akademischer Betreuer] Hillmann. "The Social Structure of Political Influence / Timo Böhm. Betreuer: Henning Hillmann." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2015. http://d-nb.info/107312133X/34.
Full textTolentino, Charis Mae A. "Women and political influence : evidence from local elections in the Philippines." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57856.
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Slank, Shanna K. "The Pernicious Influence of the Ideal/Nonideal Distinction in Political Philosophy." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/123.
Full textPettitt, Robin Thomas. "Bending the 'iron law' : membership influence on policy in political parties." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496698.
Full textRICHE, FLAVIO ELIAS. "THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC-NATURAL PARADIGM IN MODERN SOCIO-POLITICAL THOUGHT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4052@1.
Full textA pesquisa em questão tem por objetivo operar uma análise epistemológica da Modernidade. Fazendo uso da terminologia proposta por Thomas Samuel Kuhn, procura demonstrar como o conhecimento oriundo das ciências naturais adquire, no período moderno, caráter hegemônico e paradigmático,determinando mesmo o desenvolvimento dos saberes político e social de então. Cria-se, assim, uma relação de dependência metodológica, razão pela qual a atual crise do paradigma científico-natural moderno torna impostergável uma revisão do próprio estatuto epistêmico das ciências sociais. O desafio, contudo, consiste em superar as deficiências do paradigma obsoleto sem abandonar aquisições fundamentais por ele proporcionadas, exercendo, para tanto, as teorias de Edgar Morin e Boaventura de Souza Santos papel crucial.
The research in subject aims to operate an epistemological analysis of Modernity. Making use of Thomas Samuel Kuhns terminology, it tries to demonstrate how the knowledge resulted from natural sciences acquires, in the modern period, hegemonic and paradigmatic character, determining then even the development of political and social thought. It is established, thus, a relationship of methodological dependence, insomuch that the current crisis of modern scientific-natural paradigm turns non-postponable the revision of the own epistemic statute of social sciences. The challenge, however, consists in overcoming deficiencies of the obsolete paradigm without abandoning fundamental acquisitions provided by it, having, for this purpose, Edgar Morins and Boaventura de Souza Santos theories crucial role.