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Liessem, Verena. "Incentive contracts for politicians." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=968807429.
Full textГавриленко, Анна Володимирівна, Анна Владимировна Гавриленко, and Anna Volodymyrivna Gavrylenko. "Modern Slang and Politicians." Thesis, Научно-издательский центр «Социосфера», 2012. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/30029.
Full textGwilliam, Melody K. "Politicians and the Internet." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=702.
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Brown, Adam Robert. "Strategic politicians in gubernatorial elections." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3311418.
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Higgins, Andy. "Music, politics and liquid modernity : how rock-stars became politicians and why politicians became rock-stars." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578068.
Full textZhang, Jun. "Spider Manchu Duanfang as networker and spindoctor of the late Qing new policies, 1901-1911 /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3320191.
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Gavoille, Nicolas. "Individuals matter : three essays on French politicians." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REN1G011/document.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to explicitly introduce the decision-maker into the empirical analysis of different political processes in the French context. Three cases are successively analyzed,each raising a specific problematic. The first chapter focuses on French municipalities. A new original dataset, covering mayors of municipalities of more than 10,000 inhabitants over the period 2000-2012, underpins the study. The objective is to investigate to what extentthe mayor’s personal influence on the investment policy affects his/her reelection probability. Results show that this information plays a significant role only in small municipalities. Chapter twostudies the French legislative production, exploiting another original dataset. A dual cycle of the production of laws emerges, connected to both the presidential and the legislative elections. A link between government members’ personal characteristics and legislative output is established. Finally, chapter three investigates the relationship between electoral competition and political selection. A third important dataset providing data about the individual parliamentary work of the deputies over the period 1958-2012 allows such an analysis. Resultsindicate that deputies elected in contested districts have a higher overall productivity. The intensity of the relationship reached its peak in the 1980’s, but is continuously decreasing since then
CARIA, ANDREA. "Essays in political selection and politicians' behavior." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/313255.
Full textDureska, Ryan. "Scandals, politicians, and the decay of government trust." Connect to resource, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/29465.
Full textDahlberg, Matz, Eva Mörk, and Navarro Pilar Sorribas. "Do Politicians’ Preferences Matter for Voters’ Voting Decisions?" Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-154645.
Full textJohnson, Melvin. "The national politics and politicians of Primitive Methodism." Thesis, University of Hull, 2016. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:15456.
Full textDonkor, L. C. S. "Mediating gendered politics : Ghanaian politicians and news discourse." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2016. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3003900/.
Full textQUARESIMA, FEDERICO. "The economics of politics: politicians, firms and patronage." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/245478.
Full textThis PhD Thesis, entitled "The Economics of politics: Politicians, Firms and Patronage", examines parliamentarians exit options, in a majoritarian electoral system, where the elected member of parliament decides his future career considering how much it would be valuable his loyalty to the party, which has selected him as a candidate, or to his electoral district, which has effectively elected him, in terms of possible available exit strategies in case of not reelection. These exit strategies include also an appointment to a private-public enterprise board of directors. This opportunity is what in political science literature is defined as resource patronage. The thesis includes three chapters, the first of which is a review of three related fields of literature.The first area of interest concerns the phenomenon of the privatization of the public companies in a political economy perspective, that is where the process of downsizing the state sector is analyzed considering the electoral consensus and the possible rents deriving from the enduring political control of partly privatized companies. The first literature branch, where it is stressed the relevance of the parties appointment authority as one of the main channels through which parties influence private-public firms administration, provides the starting point for the analysis of the second one, which describes the results, currently available in literature, in terms of resource patronage. Here it is examined in depth the role of political appointments to private-public enterprises (and public firms) management and boards of directors. The main purpose of political appointments is facilitating parties controlling and rewarding opportunities towards their own members of parliament. The last paragraph of the chapter reports articles regarding the political selection in a strict sense and it has been inserted considering how patronage dynamics could influence the entire candidates selection process made by parties. In the second chapter I estimate an empirical probabilistic model regarding italian members of parliament opportunities about being appointed to private-public enterprises boards of governors. The datasets used are two: the first, kindly provided by the Rodolfo De Benedetti Foundation, the second, personally compiled thanks to the online archive of the italian Chamber of Commerce. The model includes, in addition to the main available individual political variables, some individual socioeconomic control variables. The empirical results , based on linear and non linear econometric specifications, show how rewarding and controlling dynamics could be at stake through resource patronage: in particular, it is worth emphasizing the statistical significance of the parliamentarians’ electoral result at next elections and their party loyalty rate. Indeed, the members of parliament awarded with an appointment are those who lose the next electoral race or who retire from the political arena, and who show a greater party loyalty when voting acts in parliament. In the third chapter it is described a related theoretical model where three players are involved: the party, the member of parliament and the district (voters). Once players’ utility functions are laid down, the model describes how their optimization process could influence the political selection, also considering a patronage opportunity, both for the party and the parliamentarian. In a first version of the model it is assumed a strong incumbency advantage hypothesis according to which the party always grants his incumbent the candidacy for the next term election, and then the assumption is relaxed.
Heywood, Shari A. "Elizabeth Kee a clarion voice of and for the people of southern West Virginia 1951-1964 /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2006. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=652.
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Sow, Amadou Beidy. "An Understanding of the Leadership Characteristics of Malian Teacher-politicians 1992-2007." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1242652165.
Full textPayne, Sandra J. (Sandra June). "Public Image." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278863/.
Full textHabel, Philip D. "The dynamics of democracy : politicians, people, and the press /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. 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:3242858.
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Murphy, James. "Apologies in the discourse of politicians : a pragmatic approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/apologies-in-the-discourse-of-politicians-a-pragmatic-approach(5fb331c1-526b-4539-8efd-650eb5b1234f).html.
Full textMohamed, Kamal Kassab Dina. "Three essays on corporate social responsibility, business politicians and corruption." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010021/document.
Full textWhat is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and can it be demand-driven ? Is there a business case for corporates providing the public good or should it be solely provided by the government ? Are green products over-priced and should they be taxed ? If they are, who are the beneficiaries and who are the actual tax payers ? Will results differ whether the CSR investments in question complement or substitute for the government provision of public goods ? Chapter 1 of this Ph.D. dissertation will address these questions and create a conceptual framework for further analysis in subsequent chapters of CSR as a desirable activity whereby firms provide a public good alongside the private good they produce. One of the main issues that emerge from this analysis is the need to identify and explore a new kind of dichotomy, i.e. the trade-off between market provision of public goods via CSR and its public counterpart via the government. This question gains particular importance in the context of developing countries, as well as in some developed ones, where firms have strong political ties. In Chapter 2, it is shown that politically connected firms - or, at extreme, the business politicians - may try to influence the government to reduce its provision of the public good to maximize the reputational return on their CSR investments. The mechanism goes as follows. An underprovided public good offers the opportunity for large political benefits to firms stepping in the areas where the government fails to deliver through their CSR activities. Consumers are suspicious about the true motives for which firms engage in CSR, it may be out of benevolence or political greed, however, since all firms, including the greediest and the most prosocial ones participate, politics interfering with business does not spoil firms' image since those political benefits are so large that everyone does it. We refer to this phenomenon as corruption becoming a social norm. Chapter 3 provides a strategic explanation for this phenomenon of corruption being epidemic in the economy. It explains why corruption, in the form of bribetaking, may become widespread among government agencies, for the mere reason that their efforts are interdependent
Conyne, George Richard. "Politicians and diplomats : British perspectives on Woodrow Wilson, 1912-1921." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315742.
Full textAlvarez, Fuentes Mario Antonio. "The role of politicians' personal performance in fostering political representation." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22510/.
Full textSmith, Donna Louise. "The changing representation of gay politicians in the UK Press." Thesis, Open University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503622.
Full textBjerhem, Elin. "Knowledge is Power -About Swedish Politicians' Knowledge Concerning Migration Policy." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21123.
Full textSilva, João Miguel Moniz Laranjeira da. "Framing politicians: the effects of exposure to fictional political dramas." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17582.
Full textUm dos desenvolvimentos mais interessantes no panorama político contemporâneo é a articulação entre a política e o entretenimento. Utilizando uma metodologia experimental, esta dissertação pretende estudar os efeitos que exposição a dramas de ficção política tem na audiência, quer no seu nível de eficácia política, nas atitudes para com os partidos e na confiança em instituições políticas. Foi possível confirmar parcialmente quatro das seis hipóteses. Estabeleceu-se uma relação entre a exposição a dramas de ficção política e mudança de atitudes políticas, sendo que a exposição a este tipo de entretenimento sortiu maiores efeitos ao nível da eficácia externa dos participantes da experiência.
One of the most interesting developments in the contemporary political landscape is the articulation between entertainment and politics. Through experimental methodology, this dissertation aims to analyse the effects of exposure to political fictional dramas on attitudes such as political efficacy, attitudes towards political parties and trust in political institutions. Four of our six hypotheses were partially confirmed by our experiment. We established a relationship between exposure to political fictional dramas and changes in political attitudes, being that the impact of this type of politically themed entertainment was most strongly felt at the level of the external political efficacy of the participants in our experiment.
Woo, Ka-hei Michelle. "An analysis of gender and discourse with reference to data from the Hong Kong International Corpus of English." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161641.
Full textKramer, Alejandra Letelier. "When the political is personal /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
Full textAnderson, Rodney Harold. "Serving in affairs of state in a distinctively Christian manner foundational principles /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGreen, Sean Douglas. "History at Play in the Portrayal of Politicians in Canadian Drama." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34602.
Full textSuveren, Yasar. "The Right Wing Conservative Politicians In Turkey: Ideological And Political Imaginations." Phd thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615763/index.pdf.
Full textDickerson, Paul. "Activity orientation in the talk of politicians, news journalists and audiences." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322704.
Full textBaird, Julia Woodlands. "Housewife superstars : female politicians and the Australian print media, 1970-1990." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18048.
Full textMacKenzie, Scott Alan. "Strategy, choice and the pathways to power sequence analysis of political careers /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3356447.
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Oppelland, Torsten. "Gerhard Schröder (1910-1989) : Politik zwischen Staat, Partei und Konfession /." Düsseldorf : Droste, 2002. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d5p5-aa.
Full textCope, Robert G. "Becoming a politician: A biography of James Cope." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36554/1/36554_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
Full textWalker, Lorna. "What factors influence whether politicians' tweets are retweeted? : using CHAID to build an explanatory model of the retweeting of politicians' tweets during the 2015 UK General Election campaign." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2016. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11156.
Full textDewi, Kurniawati Hastuti. "The Emergence of Female Politicians in Local Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/157869.
Full textMankler, Anders. "Professors, papers and parliaments : How the media affects politicians’ references to research." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-264945.
Full textZahar, Marie-Joëlle. "Fanatics, mercenaries, brigands-- and politicians, militia decision-making and civil conflict resolution." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ64704.pdf.
Full textKroh, Martin. "Parties, politicians, and policies orientations of vote choice across voters and contexts /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2003. http://dare.uva.nl/document/69831.
Full textZahar, Marie-Joëlle. "Fanatics, mercenaries, brigands ... and politicians : militia decision-making and civil conflict resolution." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36742.
Full textMilitia institutions affect the strategic choice of decision-makers. They create financial and organizational interests that modify the preferences of the militia leadership. The modified preferences increase the win-set of militia leaders at the negotiating table. Militia institutions also change the decision-making context. Institutions unleash three dynamics that decrease a militia's ability to withstand fluctuations in the military balance of forces. Institutions can lead to factionalism, increased visibility (and hence vulnerability to attack), and strains in relations with patrons.
Using the logic of two-level games, I argue that leaders evaluate peace settlements with an eye on two boards. Externally, they evaluate their position vis-a-vis other protagonists in the conflict. Internally, leaders are concerned with their positions in power. Institutionalization results in a tension between "raison de la revolution" (ideological motivations) and "raison d'institution" (institutional preservation). Embattled leaders who increasingly find it difficult to withstand changes in the balance of forces find that their institutional interests are better preserved by peace. They agree to compromise on their ideological preferences thus opening a window of opportunity for the attainment of sustainable peace settlements.
Employing the comparative case-study method, the dissertation examines the attitudes of the Lebanese Forces and the Bosnian Serbs respectively toward conflict-resolution schemes that sought to bring the Lebanese and Bosnian civil wars to an end.
By focusing on leaders' incentives to settle, the research allows us to predict a priori which settlements are more sustainable. Theoretically, it refines the concept of "ripeness" for negotiations by specifying both its intra-communal and its extra-communal dimensions. In terms of practical policy implications, the research argues that militias are prime candidates for the role of spoilers. Thus, it is important not only to understand their incentives to settle but also to craft peace agreements that give even such radical factions a vested interest in peace.
Roumanias, Costas. "Selfish politicians, rational voters and dissemination of information in games of elections." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397235.
Full textSatloff, Robert Barry. "The King and his men : politics and politicians in Jordan, 1951-1957." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315693.
Full textLindahl, Per. "Acceptance of travel demand management measures. : Differences between households, politicians, and bureaucrats." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-99953.
Full textRogers, Helen. "Poetesses and politicians : gender, knowledge and power in radical culture, 1830-1870." Thesis, University of York, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2449/.
Full textHall, Richard. "Political persuasion : politicians and the electorate in Yorkshire County elections, 1708-42." Thesis, Coventry University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361664.
Full textUvuza, Justine. "Hidden inequalities : Rwandan female politicians' experiences of balancing family and political responsibilities." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2475.
Full textVyborny, Katherine Helen Anne. "Politicians, patrons, and the people : influences on targeted government redistribution in Pakistan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02cc7e41-f2dd-4fb3-8758-96f61db92801.
Full textNothhaft, Camilla. "Moments of lobbying : an ethnographic study of meetings between lobbyists and politicians." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-54253.
Full textFitzpatrick, Anne Claire. "Civil defense under the Truman administration : the impact of politicians and scientists /." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01122010-020150/.
Full textGroeling, Tim. "When politicians attack : the causes, contours, and consequences of partisan political communication /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3027048.
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