Dissertations / Theses: 'Politics of reservation policy'

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Dutta, Debasis. "Politics of reservation policy and its impact on the political process in India." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/198.

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Lewis, David G. "Termination of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon : politics, community, identity /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10067.

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Majumdar, Shibalee. "Essays on Inequality and Development." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291054538.

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Raychaudhury, Nairanjana. "Backward class and politics of reservation in India 1919-1947." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1208.

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McNeil, Julie Tricia. "Order assignment and resource reservation an optimization model and policy analysis /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2668.

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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Thesis research directed by: Systems Engineering. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Hernandez, Nanishka. "Restaurant Revenue Management: Examining Reservation Policy Implications at Fine Dining Restaurants." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1283.

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In the restaurant industry, some patrons do not honor their reservations, especially on holidays. Grounded in postpositivism and system theories, the purpose of this comparative study was to examine the impact of implementing a credit card payment policy for fine dining restaurants reservations and no shows after implementation of a credit card guarantee policy at a high-end hotel located in the southeast United States. Data were collected from archival records provided by the hotel executives. According to the results of a Wilcoxon Signed Rank test, there was a statistically significant decrease in the number of no shows, p < .001, after the implementation of the credit card guarantee policy. In a paired sample t-test, there was a statistically significant decrease in the number of reservations, p < .001, after implementation of the credit card guarantee policy. The implications for positive social change include the potential to increase understanding of payment policies as they relate to the restaurant industry. Service industry managers can benefit from implementing payment policies that can vary from specific dates, seasons, and type of services. Customers will also benefit by being able to make reservations not originally possible due to demand. The current study adds to service industry knowledge, increasing the understanding of payment policies as they relate to restaurant industry. Conducting a similar study in other service industries in the future may lead to a better understanding of the nature of policies and customers' traits and behaviors.

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May, Tim Peter. "Probation : politics, policy and practice." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2785.

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The aim of this study is to understand changes in the criminal justice system and their effects on policy and practice within the probation service In England and Wales. Towards this aim it utilises the techniques of participant observation, interviews, documentary research and an extensive self-completion questionnaire. The study proceeds by examining the history and politics of the Service and the relationship of these to changes in internal policy and occupational practice. More specifically, it then considers the responses of one probation area. Therefore, the study does not separate the issue of environmental effects on an organisation and how that has consequences for policy and practice within the Service. Within the Treen policy process, an 'implementation gap' is found to exist between probation management (ACPO and above) and the front-line (probation officers and ancillaries). However, the study goes further by examining the issues of autonomy and accountability of probation staff in relation to the organisation itself , as well as other groups and agencies. Further, alterations in the roles of personnel are examined in relation to the changes which policy implies. Again, significant differences are found to exist between the two groups of staff mentioned above. In order to further understand these differences, the study then examines ‘everyday work’ and finds that discretion is a necessary feature for managing and controlling a probation work setting . In the process, the issue of the compatability of policy and practice is raised and found to be wanting. Utilising a model developed in chapter 2, the study then seeks to understand these tensions as stemming from the 'politics' of the ‘alternatives to custody industry’ with its emphasis on central control and punishment; a philosophy at odds with the Service's traditional humanitarian concerns. The study finds in the nature of policy, a need for both both uniformity and predictability in probation work. However, the working environment is found to be neither uniform nor predictable, with front-line personnel also firmly believing that they need discretion in order to exercise their duties effectively. Finally, from a further understanding of this 'politics of probation', the study finishes with beliefs on the future development of the Service.

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Groves, Leroy. "The politics of cultural policy." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3504/.

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Over the past twenty years the arts and culture have become a popular vehicle through which local economic development can be pursued. Whilst this relatively new local economic development tool has generated much interest amongst academics, many have been content to simply provide descriptive accounts of its development. Where theoretical frameworks for analysis have been applied, they have failed to adequately examine and assess those local factors which have contributed to the development of these strategies. Interestingly, the evolution of arts policy as a vehicle through which to pursue economic development, has been mirrored by proliferation In coalitions as preferred vehicles through which governing decisions, at the local level are effected. Current debates surrounding the New Urban Politics have focused on the degree to which current modes of governance reflect: widened representation; increased community empowerment; and increased local autonomy. By employing regime theory as a framework for analysis, this thesis will examine how those local political factors in two cities have influenced the development of cultural strategy. Such an exercise will enable a comment to be made on the degree to which cultural strategies reflect more co - operative forms of decision making, increased access to new forms of expertise and community empowerment.

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Lisko, Chelsie Lee. "Politics, Policy, and Some Emotion." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291238299.

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Baggott, I. R. "The politics of public health : Alcohol, politics and social policy." Thesis, University of Hull, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384641.

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Matthews, Rachel. "When Politics Rule Policy: The Role of Discursive Politics in Wisconsin's Photo Identification Law." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1211.

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Few policies carry more controversy than voter photo identification requirements. First passed in 2003, these laws require voters to present government-issued ID’s, such as a driver’s license, state identification card, military ID, or qualifying student ID. This paper examines the discursive politics in Wisconsin’s photo ID, seeking to understand how state policymakers justified the law against accusations of voter suppression. Put broadly, this paper seeks to understand the intersection of politics and policy, exploring how irrational policies are formed, implemented, and evaluated.

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Ganser, Tim. "Politics and Policy: Essays in Economics." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10407.

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This dissertation consists of three essays investigating questions of politics and policy. The first essay proposes an index that assigns probabilities to all majority coalitions. This index takes as inputs the seat shares and policy positions of the parties represented in parliament. In addition to providing coalition probabilities, it has some desirable properties lacking from the commonly used concept of the minimum-connected winning coalition. In an empirical test, the proposed index slightly outperforms the predictions generated by this standard concept. Furthermore, the probabilities generated by the index are shown to be empirically meaningful. The second essay proposes a model of voter decision-making in proportional representation systems: ultra-rational strategic voters construct expectations of coalitions and policy outcomes based on expected seat distributions and attributed policy positions and vote to maximize their expected utility. The predictions of the model are examined using data from the Netherlands and successfully predict the voting behavior of significant numbers of voters. Nevertheless, other factors matter more than the strategic prediction. Three main take-aways follow: (1) At least to some extent, voters seem to take complex coalition considerations into account. (2) There is a need for large-scale qualitative studies about voter decision-making in proportional representation systems. (3) Narrowly deﬁned strategic voting might matter less in proportional representation systems than in plurality systems. The third essay presents new data on effective corporate income tax rates in 85 countries in 2004. The data come from a survey, conducted jointly with the World Bank’s Doing Business unit and PricewaterhouseCoopers, of all taxes imposed on "the same" standardized mid-size domestic ﬁrm. In a cross-section of countries, the estimates of the effective corporate tax rate have a large adverse impact on aggregate investment, FDI, and entrepreneurial activity. Corporate tax rates are correlated with investment in manufacturing but not services, as well as with the size of the informal economy. The results are robust to the inclusion of many controls.

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Murphy, Evan. "The Politics of U.S. Food Policy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1989.

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Throughout the 20th century, American farmlands, agricultural policy, and diets have seen dramatic transformations. The number of farms in America has decreased, but the average size of farms has increased. These larger farms are increasingly more industrialized and produce a short list of profitable, subsidized commodity crops. Similarly, changes in the American diet throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have reflected these shifts in the landscape of American farmland. Simultaneous to the evolution of American farms was an increase in federal involvement in American agriculture through policy that seems to encourage these trends. Although separating out the causes from the effects can be difficult, this paper attempts to understand the role that policy has played in a changing American farmland, the players behind American food and agricultural policy, and the implications these changes have had on the American diet.

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Boyne, George A. "The politics of local policy variation." Thesis, University of Bath, 1989. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234636.

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Raman, Nithya Varsha. "The politics and anti-politics of shelter policy in Chennai, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45367.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-87).
Many scholars argue that global forces, such as increased economic integration into the global economy or interventions from international aid agencies, are directly affecting the governance of municipalities. This paper explores the process by which international influences affect local governance by using the history of a single institution, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board in Chennai, India, and examining the evolution of the Board's policies towards slums and slum clearance from 1970 to the present. In its early years, state level political party incentives determined the shelter policies of the Board. The World Bank donated significant amounts of money to the Board for projects in low- income shelter provision between 1975 and 1996, and attempted to significantly change shelter sector policies in the city. However, the Bank faced a great deal of resistance in imposing reforms on the Board. It was not until they radically changed institutional structures within the Board to cut ties with local political parties that they were able to successfully implement policy reform. The history of the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board suggests that institutional structures are of great importance when trying to understand the way in which international influences affect local governance.
by Nithya V. Raman.
M.C.P.

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Lamb, C. "Training policy and the state : Power and politics in policy management." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371961.

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Gray, Clive. "The politics of arts and cultural policy." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4234.

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The Thesisd rawso n the argumentst,h emesa nd issuest hat haveb eend evelopedth rough a number of publications concerning the politics of arts and cultural policy. The Thesis contains a development of the commodification thesis and the policy attachmenat rgument Thesen ew approachetso the analysiso f public policy haveb een specifically applied to arts and cultural policy. The major focus of this application has beeno n Britain over the last 50 years,a nd has incorporatedn ational,r egionala nd local levelso f analysis.I n additiond evelopmentisn Europeh aveb eenc onsidered. A major theme concerns the necessity for methodological pragmatism in undertaking research within these policy areas. Such an approach allows for the development of appropriate analytical tools for complex policy systems. The validity and utility of the commodificationth esisa ndp olicy attachmenat rgumenat s tools for policy analysis are discussed. December 2003

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Dabbah, Maher. "Building global antitrust policy : law and politics." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/building-global-antitrust-policy--law-and-politics(d5c2ecd1-9495-49f4-89d9-340b2c83e39f).html.

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Heller, Michael. "The politics of telecommunications policy in Mexico." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1991. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761970.

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Del, Percio Matteo. "Politics and Policy : A Historical Institutionalist Approach." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74952.

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Background: Government institutions develop a country’s policies. One of the policies is that of taxation. The aim of these policies should be to address public issues. However, there are instances where the desired outcome to address these issues cannot be achieved. Institutions such as key governing figures, the media and other interest groups have been found to be a major agent of policy change. They can be the reason why countries follow different policy paths. Historical institutionalism, as a framework, is needed to consider the different social, economic and political influences that these institutions have on a country’s policies. Main purpose of study: This study aims to analyse the relationship between a country’s political developments and its policy changes through the use of historical institutionalism. Furthermore, this study also seeks to uncover why similar countries follow differing policies. Method: This study follows an interpretivist approach, with a systematic review strategy. This study is exploratory as it aims to uncover facts relevant to policy changes. As policy changes are analysed at a specific point in time, this is a longitudinal study. The study’s unit of analysis are the different articles reviewed which are analysed through inductive reasoning. Results: Path dependency and critical junctures are the most common features of historical institutionalism. This reveals that past key events and decisions made by institutions generally cause a country to take a specific policy path. Developing countries’ policies are influenced by government's self-interest motives while developed countries’ policies are influenced by democratic motives. Historical institutionalism may explain why similar countries follow different policy paths. The study finds that different institutions have diverse influences on each country’s policies. Conclusions: South Africa’s policies, specifically its taxation policies, are subjects of uncertainty. This study finds that the use of historical institutionalism can be applied in studying South African taxation policies. Furthermore, this framework may also be used to understand why South Africa follows different policies to similar countries.
Mini Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
Taxation
MCom
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Liu, Kuo-hsing. "The United Front policy in context : Vietnam : a case study in Chinese foreign policy." Thesis, University of Hull, 1999. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16535.

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[From the Introduction]: The People's Republic of China (PRC) has a communist and revolutionary government. The declaration of the PRC in October 1949, represented the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), established in 1921, in its struggle against the Chinese Nationalists, the Kuo Min Tang (KMT). This victory seemed to prove that the CCP's strategy, based on a United Front policy, worked. The United Front policy was a manoeuvre by which the CCP united with lesser antagonists against a greater mutual enemy. During the period 1921 to 1949 a relatively weak CCP applied the United Front idea to form, when required, a temporary union even with its fundamental enemy, the KMT. This occurred during the early and mid 1920s and the Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, and was even attempted in the talks with the KMT after World War 11. The experience with the KMT gave the PRC more confidence in dealing with the outside world. The Korean War made the PRC realise the importance of the safety of its own border. After the Korean War, not surprisingly, the PRC began to use its experience of the United Front strategy in its dealings with international affairs. The selective application of United Front tactics led to PRC foreign policy successes in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The PRC avoided the formidable hostility of the Soviet Union (SU) and played a significant role in the US-SU-PRC triangular relationship. Both domestically and internationally, the United Front strategy has been at the root of much of CCP-PRC policy. It is the contention of this dissertation that the PRC has consistently employed a United Front strategy in its relations with the United States. It takes as its focus the period 1954 to 1973, with particular reference to the conflict in Vietnam. During this period, the comparatively weak PRC sought to accommodate itself to shifts in US Vietnam policy within the limits of its United Front strategy. The period of the US-North Vietnamese peace talks serves as a particularly useful "miniature," as it were, of this process and will be given special attention.

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Suffian, Firdausi. "The politics of industrial policy : the case of Malaysia's national automotive policy." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/d8a27e7a-95e5-4908-a8f7-01405f2ace18.

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This thesis explores the politics of the industrial policy-making process in Malaysia, specifically in the national automotive policy (NAP). The automotive sector is one of the sectional interests under the heavy industrialisation programme introduced by the long-serving ruling coalition, the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) led by Barisan Nasional (1963-present). Often in Malaysia’s policy-making process, the government manages the need for modernising the country through industrial development. It also responds to the domestic political economy including to political pressure, domestic enterprise interest and ethno-economic development. This highlights the need to understand the dynamics of the politics behind its policy-making process. To uncover the politics of the national automotive policy, this study seeks to explore what institutional arrangements evolve around the national automotive policy and how the state elite (politicians and bureaucrats) and ‘selected’ business groups mobilise, coordinate, and prioritise resources and economic preferences in the policy-making institutions. This research utilises the theory of institutionalism along with a developmental state approach to develop a theoretical framework to explore and make sense of the politics in Malaysia’s policy-making process. This study employs a qualitative, interpretivist method. Primary data were collected by means of interviews with elite policy actors. Secondary data were also used as part of empirical evidence. The findings show that the political elite have a paternalistic role in policy decisions. As a consequence, the political elite can assert policy preferences along with the interest of the Bumiputra industrialist class. The empirical findings also suggest that though the formation of the NAP was part of an effort to liberalise the domestic automotive sector to create a level playing field environment, various institutional arrangements are in fact made to protect the domestic enterprises’ interests. The terms of policy have limited pro-market reforms. The reciprocal relationship between policy actors and ‘selected’ business enterprises enable them to configure and interpret policy in a way that favours their interests. Domestic automotive enterprises have benefitted from various state resources through beyond arm’s length relationships. Furthermore, the ethno-economic consideration (i.e. Bumiputra interest) is ‘packaged’ in the policy as part of protecting the domestic automotive sectors. This study shows how political influences in the automotive sector are crucial to facilitate the growth of Proton, the country’s flagship national car manufacturer, though they have a constraining effect on the direction of the national carmaker. Political consideration and ethno-nationalist interest have generally limited the growth of Proton. Overall, this study shows that existing institutional structures influenced by historical events, political factors, power relations and norms have enabled a ‘triangular arrangement’ between state elites (politicians and bureaucrats) and ‘selected’ enterprises to formulate policy. Institutional arrangements made by these actors reveal the complex relationships and interactions among elite policy actors to influence the policy-making process. Often, political consideration precedes economic rationale. This has implications on policy-making institutions, which in turn affects their developmental strategy.

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Tsinisizelis, M. "The politics of the Common Agricultural Policy : A study of interest group politics." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379144.

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Jha, Dipendra Sriprapha Petcharamesree. "Analyzing the impacts of reservation policy on Dalits in India from Rawls' perspective of justice /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd394/4837421.pdf.

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Sherry, John William. "Systems of arrogance: Technology and the work of Navajo resistance." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187442.

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This dissertation adopts the perspective of Cognitive Ethnography to examine the work of a grassroots, Navajo environmental organization called Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment. Specifically, I will examine the work and the challenges facing the members of this organization in order to evaluate how new communications and information technologies may be of use to them. This analysis begins, as Cognitive Ethnography mandates, with a general description of the tasks which constitute the work of Diné CARE. As will be discussed, these consist primarily in attempts to reassert what the organization's members consider to be traditional Navajo perspectives on economic development and the human relationship with the natural environment. Subsequently, I analyze the representations, measurements of work, and forms of organization required to accomplish Diné CARE's tasks. In all aspects of the work, members were constantly required to manage a dialogue between their preferred means of organizing or representing work, and the means required by the operating environment in which they found themselves, characterized primarily by relationships with various outside sources of legal, technical or financial support. The work of Diné CARE is thus extensively "dialogic." While members continually drew on Navajo traditions for viewing the relationship of human beings to the natural environment, for representing their work, and for building cooperative access to resources for resistance, they were nonetheless required at the same time to position these "traditional" approaches against approaches whose history of development have political, social and cultural roots in Western Europe and modem America. Often, this dialogue brought with it tension and even morally charged conflict for the members of Diné CARE. This tension extended to emerging technologies as well. In spite of many claims to the contrary, new communications and information technologies did little to alleviate the mismatch between "local" and "foreign" ways of doing work. Instead of "empowering" local communities by providing them access to information or the chance to be heard on their own terms, new technologies complicated the scenario of local resistance by requiring practices for representing work which were both difficult to master and often inappropriate.

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Kelly, Jon Edward. "Social policy in Ontario : the politics of accommodation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24035.

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Jackson, Dale L. "Politics and power : petroleum policy in British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28242.

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This thesis examines the determinants of petroleum policy in British Columbia. The vast financial stakes in the petroleum sector, and the upheaval the sector has undergone in the past twenty years, ensure the participation of the most powerful actors in attempting to influence policy in their favor. The thesis examines two specific case studies: (1) the long running dispute over ownership and jurisdiction of Canada's western offshore region, and (2) the radical shifts in natural gas pricing in British Columbia. Four theoretical explanations of policy formation are utilized: party and ideology, Marxism, state autonomy, and internationalism. Party and ideology involves the belief that the political party in power is able to affect the policy process, and that parties have policy preferences based on ideological differences between the parties' members or electoral supporters. The Marxist analysis of capitalist society sees the owners of the means of production as the dominant class, and thus government policy is designed to favor this class. State autonomy focuses on the ability of state actors and/or institutions to affect the policy process in ways that entrench and expand the interests of government actors. Finally, internationalism holds that forces and conditions outside of the polity being studied influence, and may even dominate, domestic policy formation. It is concluded that all four variables play some role in determining policy, but that two of these are paramount. Both the statist impulses generated by the unique variant of federalism found in Canada, and the ability of the petroleum industry to influence the provincial and federal governments, are indispensable in understanding petroleum policy in British Columbia. There is a balance of power between these three sets of actors, each able to put its stamp on policy, but none able to dominate completely.
Arts, Faculty of
Political Science, Department of
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Laver, Patrick. "Quantitative international politics and the foreign policy maker." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/21528.

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Yang, Xiaomeng. "Bureaucratic politics and Japan's foreign aid policy-making." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30834.pdf.

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McMahon, Patricia I. "The politics of Canada's nuclear policy, 1957-1963." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0019/NQ45716.pdf.

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Adams, Paul Derrick. "Education, education policy and the politics of pedagogy." Thesis, University of Hull, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550506.

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Portugese, Jacqueline. "The gendered politics of fertility policy in Israel." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337681.

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Painmanakul, Arissara. "The politics of macroeconomic policy making in Thailand." Thesis, University of Bath, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527143.

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This thesis investigates and analyses the changing configuration of the Thai macroeconomic policy making in Thailand, before, during and after the 1997 financial crisis, in order to understand the dynamics of the interaction among different actors within a country and between a country and the dominant ‘neo-liberal’ perspective of the international financial institutions and other institutions of global governance that have impacts on Thai economic policy. Traditionally, Thai policy making is referred as ‘a bureaucratic polity’ and being ‘bifurcated’ between clientalistic sectoral policy situated in line ministries and autonomous macroeconomic policy located around the Bank of Thailand, Ministry of Finance, National Economic and Social Development Board, and the Bureau of Budget. This thesis argues that these prevailing conceptual frameworks, although having contributed important knowledge in the Thai case, are not adequate in explaining the change in the policy configuration over the period in question due to their inability to capture the dynamic and complex interplay within macroeconomic policy making. To overcome these shortcomings, this thesis builds on Rangsun’s framework by introducing a more dynamic framework and integrating three main theoretical strands on the nature of policy making, namely the state-centred, society-centred, and international perspectives to explain the complex relationship among all actors involved in the Thai policy-making arena. This thesis finds that as Thailand has experienced fundamental changes that have occurred in the domestic politics and socioeconomic landscape since the late 1980s, the roles of new actors in the realm of policy making, including political parties, elected politicians, businessmen, and international actors have been significantly enhanced. As a result, the nature of the economic policy-making process has emerged as being influenced by different forces, both domestic and international, as well as being constrained by the superstructure and institutions such as constitution, political regime, pattern of the world economy and social relations. More importantly, the process of policy making is not static, but dynamic, and is also highly complex, varying according to time and context. Furthermore, this thesis contends that the political economy of policy making is a dialectic process in which the meaning and interpretation of policy are themselves important sites of contestation over the policy-making process between contending power blocs.

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Goodwin, Mark. "Education governance, politics and policy under New Labour." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1771/.

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This thesis investigates the political management of state schooling under New Labour from 1997-2010. The thesis considers and rejects two mainstream approaches to the analysis of New Labour‟s education strategy which characterise the New Labour education project as either a process of marketisation or as a symptom of a shift to a new governance through networks of diffused power. Instead, the thesis argues that the best general characterisation of New Labour‟s education strategy is as a centralising project which has increased the power and discretion of the core of the core executive over the education sector at the expense of alternative centres of power. The thesis proposes that the trajectory of education policy under New Labour is congruent with a broader strategy for the modification of the British state which sought to enhance administrative efficiency and governing competence. Changes to education strategies can then be explained as the result of changing social and economic contexts filtered through the governing projects of strategic political actors. The thesis argues that New Labour‟s education strategy was largely successful in terms of securing governing competence and altering power relations and behaviour in the sector despite continuing controversy over the programmatic and political performance of its education policies.

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Wilson, Paige C. "The Policy and Politics of Second Language Teaching." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1556284044333655.

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Jessee, Stephen A. "Policy, party and perceptual bias in American politics /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Phumpiu, Patricia. "Water Governance : Policy, Politics and Regulation in Honduras." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4868.

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Foyou, Viviane E. "The politics of disaster relief policy (1947-2005)." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10497.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2009.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 95 p. : col. ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-93).

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Bonagura, Antonio <1958&gt. "WELFARE MUNICIPALE “Politica Locale, tra politics e Policy”." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7231.

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La dimensione delle politiche pubbliche locali e con esse le politiche sociali sono state sempre oggetto di particolare attenzione per la qualità dei servizi erogati a favore dei cittadini. Certamente in un clima di "austerità permanente " coniugare risorse erogate e qualità dei servizi non è certo facile per i decisori politici locali che si trovano ad affrontare problemi connessi con la gestione delle scuole, sostegno alle famiglie, accesso ai servizi socio-sanitari, politiche abitative di sostegno ai cittadini in difficoltà economiche. In quest'ottica il ruolo strategico delle politiche locali sono fondamentali per delineare come le ideologie e l'appartenenza partitica dei decisori politici locali incidono nella effettiva pratica delle costruzione del welfare locale. Questo lavoro cercherà di mostrare come le politiche pubbliche locali possono essere influenzate dall'appartenenza politica dei decisori politici. Le complessità delle congiunture economiche attuali non permettono politiche pubbliche espansive e di conseguenza le politiche sociali pongono seri problemi ai politici sul territorio. Partendo da questi assunti, in questo lavoro, cercherò di far emergere le dinamiche che sottintendono il rapporto tra il livello politico e la comunità locale e se il colore politico e l'ideologia di appartenenza hanno influenzato nel corso degli anni le politiche pubbliche locali nel loro complesso e in particolare le politiche sociali sul territorio.

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Li, Kin-man Ronald. "Green politics of planning in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : The University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42574791.

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Dyson, Philip Thomas Adrian. "The politics of German defence policy : policy leadership, Bundeswehr reform and European defence and security policy." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1778/.

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This thesis is a study of the role of policy leadership in German defence and security policy between 1990 and 2002, with particular reference to reform of the Bundeswehr. It situates this case study in the framework of a set of analytical perspectives about policy change derived from public policy theory, arguing that public policy theory has either underestimated policy leadership or failed to discriminate different leadership roles, styles and strategies. The author rejects the dominant contextualist and culturalist approach to leadership in studies of German defence and security policy in favour of an interactionist approach that stresses the dialectical interaction between policy skills and strategic context. The case study also shifts the focus in studies of policy leadership in Germany away from a preoccupation with the Chancellor to the role of ministerial and administrative leadership within the core executive. The thesis illustrates the strongly self-referential nature of Bundeswehr reform, despite adaptational pressures from Europeanisation and 'NATO-isation', and the domestic politics of base closures. It also shows how domestic macro-political arrangements predispose leadership roles in German defence and security policy towards brokerage and veto playing rather than towards entrepreneurship.

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Webster, Rebecca M. "Common Boundaries| Moving Toward Coordinated and Sustainable Planning on the Oneida Reservation." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633862.

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Comprehensive planning can help communities engage in purposeful and sustainable land use development. Previous research has indicated that Indian reservations in the United States often face unique roadblocks to these planning efforts: checkerboard patterns of tribal and nontribal ownership, and the presence of both tribal and local governments exercising land use authority within the same shared space. These roadblocks can lead to uncooperative, uncoordinated, or unsustainable development. Despite these noted problems, there remains an important gap in the current literature regarding solutions to overcome these roadblocks. The purpose of this study was to address that gap. Guided by Forester's critical planning theory to critically examine the social and historical roots of planning within a particular community, this qualitative case study examined government records and conducted 18 interviews of tribal and local government officials. Data analysis consisted of coding data to reveal emergent themes relating to cooperative land use planning in the future. These themes included: (a) approaching planning with a regional philosophy in mind, (b) strengthening interpersonal relationships, (c) finding ways to fairly compensate each other for government services, (d) continuing to acknowledge each government's ability to govern within this shared space, and (e) refraining from asserting authority over a neighboring government. This research is an important contribution to the existing literature and enhances social change initiatives by providing guidance for tribal and local government officials to increase cooperative land use planning.

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Chen, Kaihe, and 陳開和. "Nationalizing society, identity politics, and foreign policy strategies: Taiwan's mainland policy, 1988-2000." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245201.

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Rosenow, Jan. "Politics of change : energy efficiency policy in Britain and Germany." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:de70f2d9-9507-49b4-bca2-e16a2e6635f9.

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Britain and Germany are two countries that are internationally recognised for their energy efficiency policies in the area of domestic buildings. Although pursuing similar objectives, the two countries have quite different flagship policies: Germany put in place a large loan and grant scheme to finance residential energy efficiency measures in 2001, the CO2-Building Rehabilitation Programme. The UK was the first country in Europe that introduced Energy savings obligations in 1994. Since then the policy instruments in both countries experienced significant change. This thesis explores the politics of the changes that occurred, and investigates the policy processes that led to the modifications. Mainstream theories of policy change emphasise short-term crisis-like events when it comes to explaining why policies change significantly. However, more recent theoretical approaches suggest that gradual mechanisms, including accumulating external pressures and slowly developing consequences of the policies themselves, play an important role as well. In order to approach the two cases theoretically, this thesis draws on the concept of friction developed in Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and the policy feedback literature. This thesis investigates how long-term pressures, for example the perceived impact of climate change and rising energy prices, affected the evolution of the key home energy efficiency policies in Britain and Germany. Combined with assessing the impact of institutional changes and policy feedback, a comprehensive analysis of long-term policy change is carried out. A set of different methods is employed to undertake the investigation including qualitative and quantitative research methods such as semi-structured interviews with more than 25 experts followed by qualitative content analysis, complementary document analysis, and the review of data sets. The analysis provides a detailed historical case study of the key home energy efficiency policy instruments in Germany and the UK with a focus on the causal mechanisms of gradual pressures. Wider conclusions are drawn for the theories of policy change and how gradual pressures might be accounted for in those theories in a more meaningful way.

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Lu, Ling-Ying. "Mixed-ability grouping policy in Taiwan : influences on policy and practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5704.

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This research aims to explore the attempted implementation of mixed ability grouping in junior high schools in Taiwan and the challenges generated by individuals and groups to this policy. The mixed-ability grouping policy in Taiwan has been disputed for nearly thirty years, but the disputes have never been examined from a wider perspective that considers the evolution of the policy and the contexts the policy process resides in. This study thus attempts to understand the process of the mixed-ability grouping policy from a contextualised, politicised, long-term perspective within which not only the ideological and practical debates, but the contexts that shape the conflicts over time, are taken into consideration. The study is grounded in an analytical framework that allows for the exploration of the politically-driven mainstream educational ideologies, the power relationships between policy actors, and the cyclical policy process. The research methods adopted consider the timeframe, the contexts, the multiple policy actors and the interactions among policy actors and between contexts and policy actors within the policy. Documentary analysis is adopted to trace the policy process, the conflicts within, and the political, cultural, economic and societal contexts of the policy from its inception to today whilst a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews are utilized to understand the attitudes and actions of educational authorities and school educators. Case studies are conducted in two junior high schools in order to learn about the dynamics, the conflicts, and the considerations of grouping practice within individual schools. The key findings of this thesis are as follows. First, the mixed-ability grouping policy in Taiwan has existed through two different political regimes, within which the different mainstream educational ideologies and power distribution among policy actors contribute to the distinctive policy process, interpretations of disputes and patterns of conflicts. Second, although the first-line educators recognise the advantages of mixed-ability grouping regarding discipline and resource distribution, their perceptions of pupils’ ability and teaching are in line with the assumptions of streaming, which contribute to educators’ conflicting attitudes and actions towards the mixed-ability grouping policy. Third, the senior high school entry system and the actions of parents and junior high schools together shape a hidden educational market within which the ‘disguised forms’ of streaming, such as the establishment of special classes, are valued by market players. The senior high school entry examination also profoundly influences educators who internalise the values embodied in the examination and perceive pupils’ ability and their own teaching mainly in terms of examination results.

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Silke, Daniel. "The broadcasting of politics in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18271.

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Bibliography: pages 240-265.
This dissertation studies the broadcasting of politics in South Africa from 1920 to the end of the P. W. Botha era in 1989; that is, the reaction of radio and television to the changing political environment. Since 1948 South Africa's broadcasting system has increasingly been influenced by the ruling National Party as they strengthened their authority. This follows the Lasswell communications model which emphasizes the role of the controller in the communications flow as well as Fagen's and Siebert's description of authoritarianism as a national political system. A study of the historical legacy of broadcasting in South Africa clearly shows an authoritarian orientation. This is accomplished through an investigation utilizing historical material including Tomaselli as well as press reports and Hansard. The advent of television has seen this maintained in a variety of forms. The key question confronting the reader is whether or not there exists change away from the authoritarian model to a more liberalistic trend. The author details a number of visible inconsistencies and anomalies that are present both within radio and television. These are shown to markedly contradict with the control model of the past and highlight fundamental shifts in the media orientation. These contradictions are a reflection of the socio-political pressures that have recently emerged to influence the National Party. This is a function of the reforming of their past ideology as well as of internal economic advances and political upheavals which increase the influence of non-State elements upon the electronic media as depicted in the De Fleur model. The broadcasting system is increasingly shown to reflect an inclusive picture adapting to the political and economic realities in which it operates. The emerging trend moves away from authoritarianism in a more liberal and pluralistic direction.

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Hewitt, Martin. "Social policy and human nature." Thesis, University of Essex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242258.

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Stredder, K. N. M. "The politics of educational racism : A case study of educational policy and politics in Wolverhampton." Thesis, Open University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382917.

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Emmenegger, Patrick. "Regulatory social policy : the politics of job security regulations /." Bern : Haupt, 2009. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.

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Heywood, Jacqualine, and n/a. "'Talking' and 'doing' gene technology politics: a policy analysis." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20041029.100010.

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This thesis explores the environmental politics surrounding agricultural biotechnology innovations and diffusion. Recent developments in agricultural biotechnology are accompanied by growing social concerns that such innovations pose risks to the environment and to human health. Biosafety is a term used to discuss the possibility of such risks. Currently, the regulation of agricultural gene-technology and biosafety are contentious environmental issues for national and international policy communities. However, detailed studies of the conflicts and complexities generated by biotechnology for environmental governance are scarce. In particular, little is understood of the ways in which biotechnology issues emerge on regulatory agendas, and research gaps remain on how differing perspectives of biotechnological risks impact on policy outcomes. This thesis makes a significant contribution to these outstanding research issues. My contribution is a new analytical framework that unearths the discursive role biotechnology plays in constructing international environmental policy regimes. I develop this framework on the understanding that the use of language resources like storylines, metaphors and other rhetorical devices are critical in shaping environmental policy in general and biotechnology governance in particular. This analytical framework couples a language analysis to an investigation of the practices of institutional power. The result is a discourse analysis that provides important and useful insights into the theory and practice of biosafety policy. In other words, my thesis explores both the talking and the doing of policymaking and thereby provides new insights into the contested and uncertain environmental policy area of international gene-technology regulation. Specifically, I undertake a discourse analysis of international biosafety politics within the Convention on Biological Diversity. I apply my discourse analysis to a case study: the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2000. My research provides a different reading of international gene-technology politics, one that questions the constructed nature of biotechnology as a policy problem and reveals the power relations involved in producing particular policy options and outcomes on biosafety. There are a number of key research findings that emerged from the application of my discursive analytical framework to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. I find that biosafety is a highly fluid concept. It can enlarge or contract depending on the way in which language resources are mobilised by policy actors and interest groups to secure definitions and generate consensus around their preferred understandings of biosafety. Moreover, my research indicates that the more radical texts for biosafety can be recast by dominant interest groups into scripts for shallow reform agendas. Institutionalised policy practices also effect policy outcomes. My research finds that the use of Expert Panels, for example, is important in shaping international policy communities understanding of the policy problems posed by biotechnology risks. In the light of these findings, my thesis argues that the ability of interest groups and policy actors to win language games within institutional settings also enables them to secure their preferred policy outcomes. I import the concept of authorship as a new policy concept to discuss the ways in which such groups exercise social power to secure their understanding of biosafety, which thereby effect the writing of the dominant accounts of what constitutes an acceptable international biosafety standard within the Cartagena Protocol. In short, my thesis is a new account of biosafety politics that fills some of the current knowledge gaps about how biotechnology is emerging onto regulatory agendas. It also demonstrates the mechanisms of power and the language struggles that determine biosafety policy outcomes within multi-lateral environmental agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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