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Silvestrini, Giovanni <1997>. "John Keene's Counternarratives: An Act of Narrative Power." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20560.
Анотація:
This thesis analyzes the contemporary African-American author John Keene's collection of short stories "Counternarratives".
among the many themes keene's represents, this dissertation focuses on the issues of personal/group identity, self determination, and personal freedom and how these issues are shaped by the concept of "Narrative".
Following the author's division of the book into three sections, I analyze the two interrelated concepts of Counternarratives, and Encounternarratives.
The analysis mostly rely on the theoretical works of the American psychologist Jerome Bruner on the nature of Narratives and their role in the narration of the self (Autobiography).
By reflectiong on the fundamental dichotomy between Personal history and Official history at the center of many of these narrations, the analyses show Keene's tackling important themes such as self-affirmation, authority, and emancipation: each depends on crucial acts of authoriality.
The concept of "Emancipation", specifically, is analyzed in its meta-narrative implications: the emancipation of "Black Literature" from the classic canons of literary genres which are still too embedded in their European standards; I call this generic emancipation "Decolonization of Literature".
I employed Bruner's ideas on Narratives and their construction, and Henry Louis gates Jr's considerations on Blak Literature as a support to this particular aspect of my project.
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James, Helen. "State power : a case study of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 (U.K.) /." Title page and contents only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arj277.pdf.
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Cripps, Sandra Florence. "The influence of language as a tool for policy implementation : further education after the 1988 Education Reform Act." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2217/.
Анотація:
The task of this work is to show that the use of language can be an important tool in any attempt to use power. In view of the complexity of the subject the span of investigation has specifically focused on the changes brought about by the Conservative Government expressed in the Education Acts in 1988 and 1992 during the period 1991-1996, tracing their effect on three further education colleges in the public sector and one in the private sector. In order to test the hypothesis, that there has been a significant change in the value system within which further education policy has been expressed, a selection of all direct guidance given to further education colleges for the period 1944-1997 is analysed. By exploring the panoramic of the narrative it is argued that policy failure for the average student is found not to be uncommon and at odds with the vision which drove the Education Act 1944. In order to offer some explanation of these outcomes the narrative is analysed. This reveals several themes representing a journey towards modernising democracy and underlying themes which consistently tempers attempts towards radical change. Further it reveals a paradigm shift from the pursuit of educational effectiveness, based on equality and the notion of social responsibility, to the pursuit of educational efficiency did take place. It is argued that the Government's language themes challenged and altered the professional's language thus their right to decide but rendered the newly incorporated colleges less able to manage the high risk environment in which it was placed by them. In contrast, it is suggested that the private college which operates with professional autonomy as key to its success demonstrates that professional autonomy and commercial success are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, this approach has much in common with new trends in management discourse.
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Corey, Kristen Marie. "The Endangered Species Act, local power and contested issues on the rural-urban interface." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
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Lange, Ian. "Investigating the effects of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments on inputs to coal-fired power plants /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7421.
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Kardell, Amy Louise. "Modeling the determinants of industry political power: industry winners in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/327.
Анотація:
This study uses qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to examine the basis of industry political power by assessing conditions of economic interdependence and political action associated with the passage of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (ERTA), and the significant reduction in effective tax rates for eight of eighteen U.S. industries. Past research has focused on the simple passage of "pro-business" legislation, failing to provide adequate evidence as to who benefits or how they benefit from the legislation. The Boolean analysis used in this study indicates that a distinct combination of both political action and economic factors present a clear pattern of causal conditions associated with both tax winners and losers. Using three separate analyses, the theoretically exclusive explanations offered by both class dominance and structural theories fail to provide any clear explanations. Tax policy is associated with a set of conditions that are conjunctural in nature, supporting a combined model. Strong PAC contributions, number of registered lobbyists, and outside lobby firms in association with a strong federal relationship, and either total economic strength or strong inter-industry relations produced the specific conjunctural patterns associated with "winning' industries. Lack of significant PAC contributions to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees insured an industries failure to benefit from the legislative change. The results from this study indicate that a new theoretical model is needed that incorporates the complexity of the interdependent-relationships of political and economic conditions. Evolving from the mutually exclusive theoretical explanations of the past, class segmentation, political dominance, and structural economic explanations are brought back together in a manner that exposes the complexity of the relationships resulted in tangible benefits from the passage of ERTA.
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Ross-Mulkey, Mikhelle Lynn. ""Baby Veronica" & The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): A Public's Perception." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556951.
Анотація:
What has become known to the world as the Baby Veronica case (2009-2013) involves several parties including the biological father, Dusten Brown, who is a Cherokee citizen, the Non-Native adoptive parents, the Capobiancos, the Cherokee Nation, and most importantly the baby who is now a child getting ready to start school, Veronica. It is a complex child custody case, but one that is well supported in Federal Indian Law and Policy with the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 and Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfields (1989). In the beginning of the Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl et al case (or famously known simply as the Baby Veronica case), the South Carolina Family Court and Supreme Court used the legalese of the ICWA to uphold the biological father's parental right to stop the adoption of his child. However, in an interesting turn of events the case was then taken up by the United States (U.S.) Supreme Court where it was ruled that the biological father was not an Indian parent as defined by ICWA (before the child was placed with the prospective adoptive couple there was no preexisting custody of the newborn child by the father) and stating that state law applied and not ICWA in this case and since the father was not married to the birth mother and had not paid child support he was not deemed a parent by South Carolina’s definition of the word. The most recent decision came from the South Carolina court stating that Baby Veronica, after two years of living with her father, must be returned to the prospective adoptive parents. Most everyone out there felt sadness for the prospective adoptive couple who had loved and provided for this child for two years, but all adoptive/foster parents know there is always a chance for the natural parents to object to the placement (it is called legal risk in child welfare). Each state sets their own laws on how long the natural parents have to change their mind, but in this case the biological father was not even aware that the biological mother was planning on giving the child up for adoption. Once he discovered the adoption, four months after the child was born and had been living with the Capobiancos since birth, he filed a petition to stop it and regain custody. This action would lead to a four year long custody battle. While it is important to look at all the facts and the history of the ICWA (and now the future of the ICWA) this dissertation focuses mostly on the public perception of the case. This case has received a fair amount of media coverage throughout the United States including a one-hour episode on Dr. Phil which aired on CBS. It is not often that something happening in Indian County makes it to mainstream media/attention, but when it does there is usually a great deal of misunderstanding on the issue. This is also true for most of the coverage and public responses from the media. This time around it was also true of the U.S. Supreme Court who focused too much attention on Dusten Brown’s blood quantum and not his cultural upbringing. Further the majority of the Supreme Court Justices held that the problems that existed pre-ICWA are not really a problem anymore which is reverberated through the public's perception. It is the intention of this dissertation to follow and analyze the media and the public of this particular case and the ICWA in general through the theories of framing and Red Power. In the social sciences framing is the social construction of a social phenomenon (the Baby Veronica case) by mass media sources (newspapers and television shows), political or social movements, political leaders (Chief John Baker of the Cherokee Nation), or other actors and organizations (National Indian Child Welfare Association). The individual's perception of the facts and meaning attributed to words or phrases will be influenced by some or all of these entities. A frame creates rhetoric in a way that can either encourage or discourage certain interpretations. Stereotypes are one example of framing and are seen in the Baby Veronica case especially as people try to define what it means to be Cherokee. Red Power can be seen as a frame, but is also an American Indian theory that links ethnic pride and political activism to a resurgence of Indian identity. There was a lot of ethnic pride and political activism that took place in favor of Dusten Brown retaining custody of his daughter which no doubt heightened the Cherokee Indian identity, but unfortunately in this case this resurgence would not be enough to keep Veronica, now at the age of four, living with her biological father. However, this dissertation will conclude with some possible recommendations for the Indian Child Welfare Act and the future of American Indian child custody cases.
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Ashbridge, Pauline Mary. "The power and the purse : aspects of the genesis and implementation of the Metropolitan Poor Act 1867." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1998. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1399.
Анотація:
This thesis examines the genesis and implementation of two provisions of the Metropolitan Poor Act 1867: rate equalisation and the appointment of central government nominees to local poor law bodies. It is contended that while the Act pointed towards the twentieth-century state in that it led to a growth in government and to redistribution of the public spending burden, a new type of gentlemanly safeguard against elected power underpinned these developments. A radical call for redistribution of wealth in the metropolis, coming largely not from the East End but from the west, the south and the City, played a significant part in the genesis of the Act's innovatory restraining step of appointing Poor Law Board nominees to metropolitan bodies. The aim, it is argued, was to dilute the representative base of these bodies as some of their poor law spending came within the compass of the new metropolitan common purse: a step taken in the same year that the representative base for parliament was widened by the passing of the Second Reform Act. The thesis examines the manuscript records of the major metropolitan movement for rate equalisation,analyses decision-making on the Act's largest and longest-running poor law body, the Metropolitan Asylums Board, in its first four years, and presents a census-based socio-economic comparative study of this board's elected and elite nominated managers. The role of central government (ministers and officials) in the state growth that arose out of the Act is also considered. The conclusion reached is that in the metropolis in the 1860s the conscious, planned and more centralised growth of poor law services, and the accompanying partial redistribution of wealth from richer to poorer areas, both arising largely as a result of insistent reformist and radical pressure, took place within a context of gentlemanly ingenuity in finding new ways of retaining influence and power.
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Bell, Margaret Rose. "Social policing or social welfare? : a study of justice, power and partnership within the initial child protection conference." Thesis, University of York, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2510/.
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Tasie, Oyinkansola. "Expanding access to electricity for sustainable development in Nigeria : an analysis of the Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=210754.
Анотація:
The importance of modern energy services to development is well established and it extends to deploying renewable energy for electricity to address current global challenges such as lack of access to electricity, poverty, environmental degradation and climate change. No doubt, electricity from renewable energy has negative impacts, but it also has benefits over other energy sources, particularly coal, oil and gas. These benefits have included that it is generally environmentally benign, it is vast, free, and supports standalone technologies. Thus avoiding costs associated with expanding the grid network. Hence, the idea that enhanced deployment of renewable energy for electricity can drive sustainable development in countries such as Nigeria, where amidst global concerns about climate change, modern access to electricity is low and energy supply for basic tasks such as cooking and cooling are from energy sources harnessed unsustainably or is itself not sustainable. In addition, other problems in Nigeria include high poverty and unemployment rates, environment degradation, destruction of biodiversity and natural ecosystem, corruption, lack of infrastructure, and dwindling government revenue profiles. Yet, the country has significant energy resources, renewables and non-renewables through which it can presumably meet all its energy needs. Nigeria enacted the Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) in March 2005 to give statutory support to its National Electric Power Policy, (NEPP) which, inter alia, sought to promote expanded access to electricity, with minimum adverse impact on the environment. Given the benefits of renewable electricity, and the policy objectives on electricity development in Nigeria, this thesis examines the ability of Nigeria's Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) 2005 to enhance the deployment of renewable energy for electricity and thereby foster sustainable development in the country.
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Thiery, Sylvain. "Les actes délégués en droit de l'Union Européenne." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN1G005.
Анотація:
Les actes délégués ont été introduits en droit de l’Union européenne à la suite de l’adoption du traité de Lisbonne. Définis à l’article 290 TFUE comme des « actes non législatifs de portée générale qui complètent ou modifient certains éléments non essentiels de l'acte législatif », les actes délégués apparaissent prima facie comme un instrument d’exécution du droit de l’Union, dans la continuité de la comitologie préexistante au traité de Lisbonne. Ils se distinguent pourtant des actes d’exécution de l’article 291 TFUE, qui sont adoptés « lorsque des conditions uniformes d'exécution des actes juridiquement contraignants de l'Union sont nécessaires ». Les actes délégués semblent ainsi formellement exclus de la fonction d’exécution. Par déduction, ils devraient alors participer à l’exercice de la fonction législative. Cette conclusion n’a cependant rien d’évident dès lors que les actes délégués sont qualifiés « d’actes non législatifs ». L’étude des actes délégués a pour objectif de clarifier cette apparente contradiction et démontrer que l’objet de la procédure de délégation de pouvoir induite par l’article 290 TFUE est de transférer des compétences de nature législative entre le Parlement européen et le Conseil d’une part, et la Commission d’autre part. Cette étude conduit à observer les incidences institutionnelles et substantielles des actes délégués pour évaluer leurs effets sur la production normative de l’UnionDelegated acts have been introduced into European Union law following the adoption of the Lisbon treaty. Defined by article 290 TFEU as “non-legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of the legislative act”, delegated acts appear prima facie as an instrument of implementation of EU law, in continuity with the comitology that existed before the Lisbon treaty. However, delegated acts differ from the implementing acts as defined by article 291 TFEU which are adopted “where uniform conditions for implementing legally binding Union acts are needed”. Delegated acts thereby seem to be excluded from executive function. Instead, they should by deduction take part in the exercise of legislative function. This hypothesis is however not evident since delegated acts are referred to as “non-legislative acts”. The purpose of this thesis is to clarify this apparent contradiction and demonstrate that the aim of the delegation procedure under article 290 TFEU is to transfer a legislative power from the European Parliament and the Council to the Commission. This thesis assesses the institutional and substantive implications of delegated acts and their effects on the normative production of the Union
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Lingo, Sarah Katherine. "They Blush Because They Understand: The Performative Power of Women's Humor and Embarrassment in Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81276.
Анотація:
In this project, I analyze women's humor in three of Jane Austen's novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Using speech-act theory, I specifically examine Elizabeth's, Emma's, and Mary's utterances to demonstrate that in order for humorous utterances to be subversive, they must challenge societal or patriarchal constructs (religion, misogynist men, marriage, the feminine ideal) and do so artfully. An indirect speech act--a play on words, an insult, even a laugh--is often far more effective than a more direct one, especially when wielded by characters for whom a direct antagonistic speech act would have severe social consequences. When those socially-sanctioned and highly-regulated speech acts--marriages, wills, introductions, invitations, letters, titles--are less accessible or less beneficial to women, only indirect speech acts remain a viable option.Master of Arts
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Phiri, Chidongo. "The social act of exchange in power relations: A study of Nichekeleko phenomenon at the Weighbridges in Zambia." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6197.
Анотація:
Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Anthropology/Sociology)This study examined the widely practiced phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the Weighbridges (WBs) in Zambia. The commonly held understanding of Nichekeleko by the Zambian people is that; it is corruption, ranging from bribery, theft, embezzlement, money laundering, and gratification to favouritism. Sociologically, this phenomenon can be referred to as the Social act of exchange perpetuated in the context of power relations by the actors who engage in the phenomenon. The study used a local concept to examine the reasons for its persistence. The focus of the study was based on cultural-specific words implied in Nichekeleko reflecting the actor"s experiences of doing and thinking about things in a certain way perpetuating the phenomenon. The subject was approached through an observation of how public discourses of corruption are reported in a negative sense in print and electronic media ignoring the localization of the phenomenon. This is because; when a culture linguistic analysis is used at the WB to examine the reasons for its persistence; it has revealed psychological dimensions of self-esteem to helping one another by drivers and operators in the form of gifts and other favours distinct from monetary value. This reflects a Chewa cultural practice for sharing material gifts and offering moral support to one another.
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Grover, Barbara L. "The Antiquities Act of 1906 : The Public Response to the Use of Presidential Power in Managing Public Lands." PDXScholar, 1998. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2427.
Анотація:
President Clinton created Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on September 17, 1996. The Antiquities Act of 1906 gives the president power to establish national monuments on public lands through presidential proclamation. The Act has been used to create national monuments in places such as Muir Woods, Grand Canyon, Mount Olympus, Jackson Hole, and the 1978 Alaskan d-2 lands. Its use has also produced negative public response, manifested as demonstrations, lawsuits, and congressional bills.
In spite of significant legal and legislative challenges, the Antiquities Act and most of the monuments established through its use remain. The negative public response to the Act and the monuments has not been able to dissuade presidents from using executive authority. In each of the controversial cases the scope of the Antiquities Act was expanded in regards to the values being protected, monument size, or land use. The public had little influence in reversing that expansion.
The Antiquities Act was designed as a tool to provide protection to threatened lands. It has protected federal lands, and in many cases the national interest. The historic and scientific values of once controversial monuments such as the Grand Canyon, Muir Woods Mount Olympus, Jackson Hole, and the d-2 lands, are now indisputable. These monuments have evolved to represent part of our natural national heritage. Only time will tell if the same can be said for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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Melo, Pamella Beserra de. "PrecarizaÃÃo do trabalho e saÃde dos trabalhadores terceirizados." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2017. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=19523.
Анотація:
nÃo hÃA investigaÃÃo aqui apresentada analisou como o trabalho repercute na saÃde dos profissionais com vÃnculo terceirizado que atuam na Universidade Federal do Cearà (UFC). A pesquisa fundamenta-se na ClÃnica da Atividade e situa-se no campo da SaÃde do Trabalhador; baseia-se na epistemologia qualitativa e desenvolveu-se como um estudo de caso derivado de intervenÃÃo efetivada no Almoxarifado Central da UFC. Todo o material produzido na intervenÃÃo foi utilizado para a construÃÃo do corpus pertinente ao caso analisado. Tal delineamento corrobora a perspectiva teÃrica mencionada para a qual, primeiro, realiza-se a intervenÃÃo para, em seguida, dar-se inÃcio à pesquisa. Assume-se que cada um desses momentos tem temporalidades e objetos diferentes, guardando uma relaÃÃo de mÃtua independÃncia. A intervenÃÃo compreendeu trÃs etapas: 1) formaÃÃo do grupo de anÃlise, no qual foram realizadas observaÃÃes, entrevistas, anÃlises documentais e filmagens; 2) autoconfrontaÃÃes simples e/ou cruzadas, durante as quais os trabalhadores foram confrontados com o registro audiovisual de suas atividades; e 3) retorno ao grupo inicial. A metodologia da pesquisa se deu a partir da videografia. Para anÃlise dos dados, utilizou-se a anÃlise de conteÃdo construtiva-interpretativa de GonzÃlez Rey. Adotou-se como unidade de anÃlise a atividade triplamente dirigida (para o objeto, pelo sujeito e para o outro). Considera-se a pertinÃncia do estudo, uma vez que nos encontramos num contexto marcado por retrocessos no mundo laboral, em que prÃticas arcaicas de gestÃo e controle da mÃo de obra e da produÃÃo coexistem com tendÃncias âinovadorasâ que vulnerabilizam a classe trabalhadora, representando uma ameaÃa ao trabalho em seu carÃter ontolÃgico e aos direitos dos trabalhadores. Objetiva-se que a pesquisa contribua para formulaÃÃo de aÃÃes voltadas à saÃde do trabalhador e ao desenvolvimento do seu poder de agir, bem como desnude as vulnerabilidades a que estÃo submetidos os trabalhadores que possuem vÃnculos laborais precÃrios. Desta forma, em relaÃÃo Ãs condiÃÃes de trabalho, percebeu-se que os trabalhadores com vÃnculo terceirizado estÃo mais sujeitos a situaÃÃes de vulnerabilidade, e seu universo de trabalho à permeado por situaÃÃes de risco à saÃde e à seguranÃa. Constatou-se ainda estarem eles mais suscetÃveis a situaÃÃes de assÃdio, ameaÃa, desrespeito, preconceito, autoritarismo devido à instabilidade do vÃnculo; estavam subordinados tambÃm a condiÃÃes inadequadas ao desenvolvimento de suas atividades, como ambiente empoeirado, mal iluminado e sem ventilaÃÃo, com estrutura precÃria e antiga, alÃm da carÃncia de materiais em boas condiÃÃes e/ou da utilizaÃÃo de equipamentos inapropriados para tal. Assim, pÃde-se perceber que na atividade dos sujeitos pesquisados vÃrios empecilhos sÃo impostos a sua aÃÃo, porÃm, atravÃs de um modelo de gestÃo participativo, eles encontraram as possibilidades de desenvolvimento do poder de agir e da construÃÃo da saÃde, fortalecendo o coletivo profissional, que passou a reconhecer-se enquanto grupo, ao discutir e debater as dificuldades e sugestÃes possÃveis para realizaÃÃo de um trabalho bem feito. Observou-se, ainda, atravÃs da participaÃÃo ativa dos trabalhadores nas mudanÃas empreendidas no setor investigado, melhorias tais como redefiniÃÃo das atribuiÃÃes e tarefas de cada trabalhador, dinamizaÃÃo e maior fluidez dos processos de trabalho, realizaÃÃo de reuniÃes sistemÃticas com a participaÃÃo e envolvimento de todos os profissionais do setor, ouvindo-se as sugestÃes e questionando-se coletivamente as problemÃticas em pauta.
The research presented here analyzed how the work affects the health of outsourced professionals working at the Federal University of Cearà (UFC). The research, based on the Clinic of Activity and located in the field of Workerâs Health, is based on qualitative epistemology and developed as a case study derived from intervention carried out in the UFC Central Warehouse. All the material produced in the intervention was used for the construction of the corpus pertaining to the case analyzed. Such a design corroborates the theoretical perspective mentioned for which the intervention is first performed, and then the research is started. It is acknowledged that each of these moments has different temporalities and objects, keeping a relation of mutual independence. The intervention comprised three stages: 1) formation of the analysis group, in which observations, interviews, documentary analyzes and filming were performed; 2) simple and/or cross self-confrontations, during which the workers were confronted with the audiovisual record of their activities; and 3) return to the initial group. The research methodology came from the videography method. To analyze the data, we used the constructive-interpretative content analysis of GonzÃlez Rey. The triple-directed activity (for the object, for the subject and for the other) was adopted as the unit of analysis. The relevance of the study is considered, since we are in a context marked by setbacks in the world of work, where archaic practices of management and control of labor and production coexist with âinnovativeâ tendencies that weaken the working class, representing a threat to work on its ontological character and to workersâ rights. It is intended that the research contributes to the formulation of actions aimed at workersâ health and development of their power to act, as well as undressing the vulnerabilities to which workers with precarious employment ties are subjected. Thus, regarding the working conditions, it was perceived that workers with outsourced links are more subject to situations of vulnerability, and their work surrounding is permeated by situations of risk to their health and safety. It was noted that these professionals were more susceptible to situations of harassment, threat, disrespect, prejudice, authoritarianism due to the instability of the work bond; moreover they underwent inadequate conditions for the development of their activities, such as dusty, poorly lit and unventilated environment, with a precarious and old structure, as well as the lack of materials in good conditions and/or the use of inappropriate ones. Thus, it was observed that in the activity of the subjects studied several obstacles are imposed on their action, but through a model of participatory management they found the possibilities of developing their power to act and build health, strengthening the professional group that could recognize themselves as a group when discussing and debating the difficulties and possible suggestions for doing a job well done. It was also observed through the active participation of workers in the changes undertaken in the researched sector improvements such as redefining the duties and tasks of each worker, improvements in work processes to become more fluid and dynamic, holding systematic meetings with the participation and involvement of all professionals in the sector, listening to the suggestions and collectively questioning the issues at hand.
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Chapin, Daniel. "The Antiquities Act of 1906 and Theodore Roosevelt's 'Interpretation of Executive Power' from the Grand Canyon through the Grand Staircase." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/594.
Анотація:
Thesis advisor: Dennis HaleAfter a six year legislative drafting process President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law on June 8, 1906. The bill protected archeological sites, but also allowed the President to declare national monuments of federal lands covering "objects of historic and scientific interest" Roosevelt interpreted the act broadly and made it into one of the most important pieces of conservation legislation in the history of the UInited States. The paper discusses how and why Roosevelt interpreted the act in this way and what impact it had on future presidents, notably Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Kim, Tae-Kyung. "Dynamic analysis of sulfur dioxide monthly emissions in U.S. power plants." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1086195964.
Анотація:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xviii, 218 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Jean Michael Guldmann, City and Regional Planning Graduate Program. Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-133).
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Yang, Victor. "Unleashing power : pathways to inclusion and representation in U.S. AIDS activist organisations : a comparative case study of political representation in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5b51086e-cd00-4d92-b39a-2865219ea5a1.
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The thesis proposes a theory for the development of substantive representation among social movement organisations (SMOs). Substantive representation (SR) is the extent to which political institutions advance the policy interests of their constituents, in particular the most disenfranchised. Despite their noble proclamations, institutions of representative democracy often fail to advance the interests of groups who have been ignored and absent at the proverbial table. The thesis establishes a causal process to explain the divergence in SR outcomes among informal SMOs, or all-volunteer groups that disavow formal hierarchy in favour of egalitarian modes of decision-making. It utilises a case study of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), an umbrella organisation dedicated to ending the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United States and worldwide. It explains an anomalous story of SR attainment through the ACT UP Philadelphia chapter, compared to sister groups in New York City and Boston. The analysis draws from 92 semi-structured interviews, 13 months of participant observation, periodical review, and archival databases. ACT UP Philadelphia translated common SMO intentions of inclusivity into the uncommon rituals of practice. It forged a deliberate pipeline to invest not only in the presence but also the power of disenfranchised people with HIV, people too dark and poor to interest counterpart groups in other cities. Through an analytic retelling of ACT UP's history, the thesis argues that the fulfilment of SR depends on the ability of SMOs to appeal to member self-interest. Critically, SMOs can offer material incentives and nurture feelings of debt and obligation: causal steps to recruitment and sustainability of a heterogeneous membership. In building a crucial if contentious core of dissimilar people and partnerships, SMOs can unleash an oft-unrealised power for collective action and SR, by and for disenfranchised peoples who had thought change to be impossible.
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Shaffer, Marcus. "Rise Tectonic Machines!: The Revitalization of the Relationship Between Architects and Machines as a Means of Restoring Intimacy, Immediacy, and Delight to the Act of Building." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34283.
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Architectural form is both an expression of human desire and built edifice directly related to construction methods. It follows that the responsibilities of the architect seeking new form must extend to the instrumentation of tectonic machines and devices, which are also appropriately new. This thesis proposes a revitalization of the relationship between the architect and machines as a means of restoring intimacy, immediacy, and delight to the act of building. What follows is a presentation of images, photographs, and models related to the design and development of an architecture machine, and related constructions.Master of Architecture
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Thindwa, Priscilla. "An Analysis of the Political Dynamics that Influenced the Process of Adopting the 2016 National Land Laws in Malawi: A Gender Perspective." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31256.
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The thesis interrogates how the political dynamics that emerged in the formulation of the 2016 land legislation in Malawi influenced the gendered outcomes. It highlights the complexity of the policymaking process that was shaped by divergent interests and power dynamics of the stakeholders. It argues that although the interests and agenda complicated the process, their discourses were framed and justified their positions within the development and gender equality framework. It highlights the progressive nature of the socio-legal provisions in the legislation by significantly recognising and promoting women’s land rights. It contends that advances in legal institutions are essential; however, for inclusive transformation to be sustainable, changes in social and cultural practices and norms are imperative. This is because Malawian women continue to face exclusion in owning, controlling and accessing land albeit being the major agricultural producers. This is owed to the persistence of patriarchal attitudes in institutions that perpetuate contestation in the public and private spheres of women’s rights to access, own and control over land. Such is persistent particularly within customary laws which remain sites of struggle between traditional leaders’ claims and women’s societal positions. Hence, creating enabling environments for women will allow them to articulate their political voices and agenda and as such influence policy and legal formulation. Through a multi-faceted approach encompassing of legal pluralism, feminist perspectives on gender and development, and the theory of change, the paper discusses the complexity of policymaking that has been shaped by interests and power. For instance, most chiefs contested against their limited powers and the inclusion of women in land administration issues as stipulated in the new Land Laws, while CSOs advocated for the laws to be people-centred, gender-sensitive and responsive to women’s needs. Also, International organisations were interested in ensuring that there is improved land governance framework and its implementation is in line with VGGT. Thus, apparent realities emerge from the analysis of these political dynamics within the adoption of the 2016 Land Laws: the differing stakeholders’ agenda and how they all pressed on advancing their agenda. Nonetheless, gender equality and development discourse was an aspect that was apparent in the debates.
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Væver, Kronborg Katja. "The Stockholm Terror Attack 2017 : How Domestic and International Online News Media Framed the Act and Empowered Involved Actors." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40859.
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The aim of this comparative study has been to identify similarities and differences in Swedish and British media’s framing and empowerment of actors in relation to the 2017 Stockholm terror attack. Theories on the risk society, framing, power and CDA have been used to create a framework that gives a deeper understanding of media’s role in framing actors and events, and how this can potentially affect the public. Moreover, to determine how media use their power to dis- tribute power among the actors and objects that are part of such an attack. A critical discourse analysis has been carried out on excerpts from a total of 15 articles, seven and six from Sweden and Britain respectively. In this analysis, both framing and power issues were identified, which was used to conduct a discussion on the findings in relation to the the- oretical framework used. It was found that while Sweden and Britain are part of the same culture and therefore largely covered the terror attack the same way, there was a significant difference in the portrayal of the perpetrator. Swedish media had a tendency to use othering and describe the perpetrator as one of “them” as opposed to the “we”. British media, on the other hand, made use of other- ing as well, but would also offer descriptions that could make the “we” relate to him. This difference can potentially be due to the fact that Swedes have been more emotional about the attack, as it happened in their own country. The distribution of power between actors were done similarly in both countries. Two power- plays were identified: the police vs. the perpetrator, and the act (the truck) vs. the public. In order to avoid giving the perpetrator credit for the act, when the act was portrayed, the truck would be described as the powerful actor. Thus, even though it is common sense that the truck did not drive into people on itself, the perpetrator’s actions has not been acknowledged in the media. Instead, when describing the perpetrator, it has been done in relation to the police, who were described as the powerful actors – they caught the perpetrator, i.e. he did not have the power to avoid them or escape. Thus, while Swedish and British media largely have covered the act the same way and with the same means, the Swedish media have used emotional means to further othering.
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Banda, Tafadzwa Jairos Alfred. "The Court’s power to condone a document in terms of section 2(3) and section 2A of the Wills Act 7 of 1953 : a comparative analysis and recommendations." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26582.
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Sections 2(3) and 2A of the Wills Act of 1953 were incorporated into the Wills Act in 1992. The purpose of the two sections was to give the court power to condone a document that did not comply with the formalities for making a will and to empower a court to condone a legally ineffective attempt by a testator to revoke his or her will. By introducing section 2(3) and 2A of the Wills Act, the Legislature intended to eliminate the injustice and inequities which frequently resulted from non-compliance with legal requirements. However, after the implementation of the two sections, problems arose with regard to the interpretation and application thereof. This dissertation identifies and analyses the sections to show the current issues which have been discussed in case law and writings by scholars. They are as follows: - (a) Meaning of the word “document” in section 2(3). (b) Meaning of “drafted” by a person who has died since the……drafting thereof. (c) Meaning of “executed” by a person who has died since the….. execution thereof. (d) Should there already be partial compliance with some of the formalities? (e) How does the court conclude that the deceased intended the document to be his will? (f) When must the intention be present? (g) Is a subsequent change in intention (even though it was present at time of making a document) relevant? (h) Interpretation of section 2A. (i) Interaction between section 2(3) and 2A.
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Melo, Pamella Beserra de. "Precarização do trabalho e saúde dos trabalhadores terceirizados." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/22956.
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MELO, Pamella Beserra de. Precarização do trabalho e saúde dos trabalhadores terceirizados. 2016. 122f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2016.Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-31T15:09:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_ pbmelo.pdf: 1093941 bytes, checksum: 6ab384ff90ea90983866611b091a4535 (MD5)
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The research presented here analyzed how the work affects the health of outsourced professionals working at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). The research, based on the Clinic of Activity and located in the field of Worker’s Health, is based on qualitative epistemology and developed as a case study derived from intervention carried out in the UFC Central Warehouse. All the material produced in the intervention was used for the construction of the corpus pertaining to the case analyzed. Such a design corroborates the theoretical perspective mentioned for which the intervention is first performed, and then the research is started. It is acknowledged that each of these moments has different temporalities and objects, keeping a relation of mutual independence. The intervention comprised three stages: 1) formation of the analysis group, in which observations, interviews, documentary analyzes and filming were performed; 2) simple and/or cross self-confrontations, during which the workers were confronted with the audiovisual record of their activities; and 3) return to the initial group. The research methodology came from the videography method. To analyze the data, we used the constructive-interpretative content analysis of González Rey. The triple-directed activity (for the object, for the subject and for the other) was adopted as the unit of analysis. The relevance of the study is considered, since we are in a context marked by setbacks in the world of work, where archaic practices of management and control of labor and production coexist with “innovative” tendencies that weaken the working class, representing a threat to work on its ontological character and to workers’ rights. It is intended that the research contributes to the formulation of actions aimed at workers’ health and development of their power to act, as well as undressing the vulnerabilities to which workers with precarious employment ties are subjected. Thus, regarding the working conditions, it was perceived that workers with outsourced links are more subject to situations of vulnerability, and their work surrounding is permeated by situations of risk to their health and safety. It was noted that these professionals were more susceptible to situations of harassment, threat, disrespect, prejudice, authoritarianism due to the instability of the work bond; moreover they underwent inadequate conditions for the development of their activities, such as dusty, poorly lit and unventilated environment, with a precarious and old structure, as well as the lack of materials in good conditions and/or the use of inappropriate ones. Thus, it was observed that in the activity of the subjects studied several obstacles are imposed on their action, but through a model of participatory management they found the possibilities of developing their power to act and build health, strengthening the professional group that could recognize themselves as a group when discussing and debating the difficulties and possible suggestions for doing a job well done. It was also observed through the active participation of workers in the changes undertaken in the researched sector improvements such as redefining the duties and tasks of each worker, improvements in work processes to become more fluid and dynamic, holding systematic meetings with the participation and involvement of all professionals in the sector, listening to the suggestions and collectively questioning the issues at hand.
A investigação aqui apresentada analisou como o trabalho repercute na saúde dos profissionais com vínculo terceirizado que atuam na Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). A pesquisa fundamenta-se na Clínica da Atividade e situa-se no campo da Saúde do Trabalhador; baseia-se na epistemologia qualitativa e desenvolveu-se como um estudo de caso derivado de intervenção efetivada no Almoxarifado Central da UFC. Todo o material produzido na intervenção foi utilizado para a construção do corpus pertinente ao caso analisado. Tal delineamento corrobora a perspectiva teórica mencionada para a qual, primeiro, realiza-se a intervenção para, em seguida, dar-se início à pesquisa. Assume-se que cada um desses momentos tem temporalidades e objetos diferentes, guardando uma relação de mútua independência. A intervenção compreendeu três etapas: 1) formação do grupo de análise, no qual foram realizadas observações, entrevistas, análises documentais e filmagens; 2) autoconfrontações simples e/ou cruzadas, durante as quais os trabalhadores foram confrontados com o registro audiovisual de suas atividades; e 3) retorno ao grupo inicial. A metodologia da pesquisa se deu a partir da videografia. Para análise dos dados, utilizou-se a análise de conteúdo construtiva-interpretativa de González Rey. Adotou-se como unidade de análise a atividade triplamente dirigida (para o objeto, pelo sujeito e para o outro). Considera-se a pertinência do estudo, uma vez que nos encontramos num contexto marcado por retrocessos no mundo laboral, em que práticas arcaicas de gestão e controle da mão de obra e da produção coexistem com tendências “inovadoras” que vulnerabilizam a classe trabalhadora, representando uma ameaça ao trabalho em seu caráter ontológico e aos direitos dos trabalhadores. Objetiva-se que a pesquisa contribua para formulação de ações voltadas à saúde do trabalhador e ao desenvolvimento do seu poder de agir, bem como desnude as vulnerabilidades a que estão submetidos os trabalhadores que possuem vínculos laborais precários. Desta forma, em relação às condições de trabalho, percebeu-se que os trabalhadores com vínculo terceirizado estão mais sujeitos a situações de vulnerabilidade, e seu universo de trabalho é permeado por situações de risco à saúde e à segurança. Constatou-se ainda estarem eles mais suscetíveis a situações de assédio, ameaça, desrespeito, preconceito, autoritarismo devido à instabilidade do vínculo; estavam subordinados também a condições inadequadas ao desenvolvimento de suas atividades, como ambiente empoeirado, mal iluminado e sem ventilação, com estrutura precária e antiga, além da carência de materiais em boas condições e/ou da utilização de equipamentos inapropriados para tal. Assim, pôde-se perceber que na atividade dos sujeitos pesquisados vários empecilhos são impostos a sua ação, porém, através de um modelo de gestão participativo, eles encontraram as possibilidades de desenvolvimento do poder de agir e da construção da saúde, fortalecendo o coletivo profissional, que passou a reconhecer-se enquanto grupo, ao discutir e debater as dificuldades e sugestões possíveis para realização de um trabalho bem feito. Observou-se, ainda, através da participação ativa dos trabalhadores nas mudanças empreendidas no setor investigado, melhorias tais como redefinição das atribuições e tarefas de cada trabalhador, dinamização e maior fluidez dos processos de trabalho, realização de reuniões sistemáticas com a participação e envolvimento de todos os profissionais do setor, ouvindo-se as sugestões e questionando-se coletivamente as problemáticas em pauta.
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Clark, Elaine. "Learning to listen, learning to act listening to the learning Using action learning to shift the balance of power within the NHS." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506258.
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My PhD thesis arose as an attempt to develop "the science of praxiology" (Revans. 1982:493) through a study and development. of my practice. as manager.of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service. This practice was located within a context of crisis within the NHS, articulated within the NHS Plan and Kennedy Report (DOH 2000. 2001) as the need for a change of culture to a culture of partnership in which patients/carers and professionals could learn with and from each other. The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) was a new service introduced in 2001 to operationalise this change within the NHS. My questions revolved around how to act to facilitate partnership between patients/carers and professionals. In particular. how could I enable a group of patients who were traditionally excluded from having input within their own care. patients with learning disabilities, to 'teach' professionals and to have influence on a personal, inter-relational and organisational dimension? My chosen approach is Action Learning, supplemented by the use of story as a mode of enquiry and of change management. I have suggested within the course of my thesis that action learning. through its core features of enabling learning through doing. partnership between programmed knowledge and questioning insight and an empowerment of the learner provides a metaphorical analogy for the aims and values of my practice. Within this PhD. I have developed Revans' learning equation (1982) through exploring in practice. how to amplify the questioning insight of patients with learning disabilities. so that learning might occur on individual, inter-relational and organizational, dimensions. I have suggested that action learning provides "a sociology of freedom" able to transcend methodological and epistemological paradigms. facilit<;lting synthesis and partnership between expert/everyday knowledge. learnerl'learned' and levels of hierarchy. I thereby propose an expansion of the learning equation to include pragmatic. subjective and programmed knowledge in partnership and critiqued through questioning insight. Key to the development of questioning insight becomes the creation of a culture for dialogue, which enables stories to be heard and utilized for learning. This requires a model of communication as a continuum facilitative of reflective learning and a minimization of negative influences upon learning. and the use of story as a lever for change and empowerment. Throughout the course of my PhD I have been guided by the aim to create a culture for partnership. seeking to facilitate a shared discourse as a pre-requisite for partnership working. This discourse was created within practice through the development of an integrated care pathway. developed between patients. carers and staff. My major contribution to practice has been in enabling the voices of a seldom heard group to be amplified sufficiently to facilitate learning within an organization not used to hearing.
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Letteau, Gabrielle Tracey. "A court without resort? comparative aspects of the "Act of State" doctrine : traditional limitations on the judiciary's power of review, and its implications for Hong Kong's court of final appeals /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38627826.
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Gholamzadeh, Caroline, and Karolina Jakobsson. "Viral Marketing : A Quantitative Study about how Viral Marketing affects the Consumers Buying Act." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-16192.
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Valiergue, Julien. "Les conflits d'intérêts en droit privé : contribution à la théorie juridique du pouvoir." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0259.
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Le conflit d'intérêts désigne une opposition entre deux ou plusieurs intérêts distincts, relevant de personnes ou groupes de personnes eux-mêmes distincts. Il se peut que le conflit oppose l’intérêt d’une personne – ou l’intérêt d’une autre personne à laquelle elle est liée – à l’intérêt d’un tiers dont elle a par ailleurs la charge. Il est alors un risque que le conflit en cause ne soit réglé de manière illégitime, au préjudice de l’intérêt pris en charge. C’est à l’étude de ce type de conflit d’intérêts que la thèse se consacre. Elle propose de le rattacher à la théorie juridique du pouvoir. Le pouvoir y est défini comme la prérogative par laquelle son titulaire est habilité à participer à la création d’actes juridiques pour le compte d’autrui, par l’expression d’un ou plusieurs intérêts distincts du sien.Les pouvoirs peuvent faire l’objet d’une double différenciation. La première consiste à différencier les pouvoirs en fonction du rôle joué par leurs titulaires dans la détermination du contenu de l’acte juridique à créer. Elle aboutit à distinguer les pouvoirs intellectuels et les pouvoirs décisionnels. La seconde consiste à différencier les pouvoirs en fonction des devoirs pesant sur leurs titulaires. Elle aboutit à distinguer les pouvoirs-loyauté et les pouvoirs-impartialité. Ce rattachement du conflit d'intérêts à la théorie juridique du pouvoir a deux conséquences. Il permet tout d’abord d’en délimiter le domaine. Il permet ensuite de le définir. Le conflit d'intérêts correspond en effet à une situation de détournement potentiel de pouvoir. Il manifeste le risque que le titulaire du pouvoir n’agisse contrairement à son devoir. Il en découle une typologie des conflits d’intérêts. Celle-ci repose sur une distinction principale entre les conflits de loyauté et les conflits d’impartialité et sur deux distinctions secondaires : d’une part, la distinction des conflits directs et des conflits indirects ; d’autre part, la distinction des conflits d’intérêt et de devoir et des conflits entre devoirs. Cette différenciation des conflits justifie une différenciation de leurs traitements. En effet, les différents types de conflits ne présentent pas le même risque d’aboutir à un détournement effectif de pouvoir, ce dont leurs traitements devraient tenir compte. La typologie dressée se veut ainsi une typologie hiérarchisée pouvant servir à déterminer le traitement adapté à chaque type de conflitA conflict of interests refers to the opposition of two or several separate interests, concerning separate persons or groups of persons. It may occur that a conflict opposes the interest of one person – or the interest of a person to whom the first person is acquainted – to the interest of a third party of which the first person is responsible. Such situation could result in the conflict being illegitimately solved to the detriment of the third party’s interest. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to study this type of conflict of interests by linking it to the legal theory of power. Here, the power is defined as the prerogative enabling the entitled person to be involved in the creation of legal acts on behalf of another party, by defending one or several interests separate from their own interests.These powers can be subject to a double distinction. The first distinction aims at differentiating powers depending on the role played by those who are entitled to such powers in the determination of the content of the legal act to be created. This distinction results in the separation between intellectual powers and decision making powers. The second distinction aims at differentiating powers depending on the duties of the entitled persons. It results in the separation between loyalty-powers and impartiality-powers.Linking the conflict of interests to the legal theory of power has two consequences. First, it helps delimiting the field of such conflicts. And it also helps defining them. Indeed, a conflict of interests corresponds to a situation where a misuse of power may occur. In such types of conflicts, the risk that the person in power might act contrary to their duty arises. It then results in a typology of conflicts of interests. This typology is based on the main distinction between loyalty conflicts and impartiality conflicts and on two secondary distinctions: the distinction between direct and indirect conflicts on the one hand, and the distinction betweenthe conflicts of interests and duty and the conflicts between duties on the other. This distinction between conflicts justifies a distinction in the way they are treated. Indeed, these various types of conflicts do not have the same risk of resulting in an actual misuse of power, which should be taken into account when treating such conflicts. The resulting typology is therefore a tiered typology that could be used to identify the corresponding treatment for each type of conflict
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Jean-Jacques, Gérard. "Power relations and good governance : a social network analysis of the evolution of the integrity in public office act in the Commonwealth of Dominica." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26874.
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La Banque mondiale propose la bonne gouvernance comme la stratégie visant à corriger les maux de la mauvaise gouvernance et de faciliter le développement dans les pays en développement (Carayannis, Pirzadeh, Popescu & 2012; & Hilyard Wilks 1998; Leftwich 1993; Banque mondiale, 1989). Dans cette perspective, la réforme institutionnelle et une arène de la politique publique plus inclusive sont deux stratégies critiques qui visent à établir la bonne gouvernance, selon la Banque et d'autres institutions de Bretton Woods. Le problème, c’est que beaucoup de ces pays en voie de développement ne possèdent pas l'architecture institutionnelle préalable à ces nouvelles mesures. Cette thèse étudie et explique comment un état en voie de développement, le Commonwealth de la Dominique, s’est lancé dans un projet de loi visant l'intégrité dans la fonction publique. Cette loi, la Loi sur l'intégrité dans la fonction publique (IPO) a été adoptée en 2003 et mis en œuvre en 2008. Cette thèse analyse les relations de pouvoir entre les acteurs dominants autour de évolution de la loi et donc, elle emploie une combinaison de technique de l'analyse des réseaux sociaux et de la recherche qualitative pour répondre à la question principale: Pourquoi l'État a-t-il développé et mis en œuvre la conception actuelle de la IPO (2003)? Cette question est d'autant plus significative quand nous considérons que contrairement à la recherche existante sur le sujet, l'IPO dominiquaise diverge considérablement dans la structure du l'IPO type idéal. Nous affirmons que les acteurs "rationnels, " conscients de leur position structurelle dans un réseau d'acteurs, ont utilisé leurs ressources de pouvoir pour façonner l'institution afin qu'elle serve leurs intérêts et ceux et leurs alliés. De plus, nous émettons l'hypothèse que: d'abord, le choix d'une agence spécialisée contre la corruption et la conception ultérieure de cette institution reflètent les préférences des acteurs dominants qui ont participé à la création de ladite institution et la seconde, notre hypothèse rivale, les caractéristiques des modèles alternatifs d'institutions de l'intégrité publique sont celles des acteurs non dominants. Nos résultats sont mitigés. Le jeu de pouvoir a été limité à un petit groupe d’acteurs dominants qui ont cherché à utiliser la création de la loi pour assurer leur légitimité et la survie politique. Sans surprise, aucun acteur n’a avancé un modèle alternatif. Nous avons conclu donc que la loi est la conséquence d’un jeu de pouvoir partisan. Cette recherche répond à la pénurie de recherche sur la conception des institutions de l'intégrité publique, qui semblent privilégier en grande partie un biais organisationnel et structurel. De plus, en étudiant le sujet du point de vue des relations de pouvoir (le pouvoir, lui-même, vu sous l’angle actanciel et structurel), la thèse apporte de la rigueur conceptuelle, méthodologique, et analytique au discours sur la création de ces institutions par l’étude de leur genèse des perspectives tant actancielles que structurelles. En outre, les résultats renforcent notre capacité de prédire quand et avec quelle intensité un acteur déploierait ses ressources de pouvoir.The World Bank proposes good governance as the strategy to correcting the evils of bad governance and to facilitate development in developing states (Carayannis, Pirzadeh, & Popescu 2012; Hilyard & Wilks 1998; Leftwich 1993; World Bank 1989). From this perspective, institutional reform and a more inclusive public policy arena are two critical strategies that will likely lead to good governance, according to the Bank and other Bretton Woods institutions. The problem is that many of these states do not have the pre-requisite institutional architecture to accommodate such measures. This thesis studies and discusses how one developing state, the Commonwealth of Dominica, approached the development of an institution to oversee integrity in public office. This Act, the Integrity in Public Office Act (IPO) was passed in 2003 and implemented in 2008. The focus in the thesis is on power relations among dominant actors surrounding the IPO consequently, it employs a combination of social network analysis and qualitative research techniques to answer the principal question: Why did the state develop and implement the current design of the IPO (2003)? This question is all the more significant when we consider that contrary to existing research on the subject, the Dominican IPO diverges considerably in structure from the ideal-type IPO. We argue that “rational” actors, cognizant of their structural position in a network of actors, have used their power resources to shape the institution so that it serves them and their allies. We hypothesized that: First, the choice of a specialised anti-corruption agency and the subsequent design of that agency reflect the preferences of the dominant actors who were involved in the creation of the IPO and second, our rival hypothesis, the characteristics of alternative options and models of public integrity institutions are those of the non-dominant actors. Our results are mixed. Power play was limited among a small group of dominant actors who sought to use the creation of the Act as an opportunity for political legitimacy and survival. Not surprisingly, there was no alternative model advanced. We concluded therefore that the Act resulted from a purely partisan agenda. This research responds to the paucity of studies on the design of institutions of public integrity, which largely seem to have an organisational and structural bias. In addition, by embracing the topic from the perspective of power relations, the thesis adds conceptual, methodological, and analytical rigour to discourses on the creation of such institutions by studying their evolution from both agential and structural perspectives. Finally, the results offer us an opportunity to predict when and in what intensity actors will deploy their power resources.
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Wendle, Claire. "Rights to the River: Implementing A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis in the United States Hydropower Relicensing Process." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1395.
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Private hydropower operations across the United States are utilizing a public resource, rivers, for power production benefits. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates river use through a relicensing procedure that occurs every thirty or fifty years through a cost-benefit analysis framework to determine the best public use of the river. This thesis explores the structure of the current cost-benefit analysis and the effects of timing, public participation and valuation of ecosystem services in the final relicensing decision, and recommends the use of a social cost-benefit framework to distribute the natural resource benefits rivers provide more equally and give fair weight to ecosystem benefits in a market-driven process.
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Letteau, Gabrielle Tracey. "A court without resort?: comparative aspects of the "Act of State" doctrine : traditional limitations on thejudiciary's power of review, and its implications for Hong Kong'scourt of final appeals." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38627826.
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Tom, Sandile Alfred. "A critical analysis of individual liability of councillors in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5191_1369144273.
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Fischer, Felix Friedrich. "The regulation of Section 17 (2a) of the German Energy Economy Act against the background of current developments of the German and European offshore wind industry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5750.
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Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the introduction of Section 17 of the EnWG (German Energy Economy Act), the legislator created a new situation for the complex relationships in the German offshore wind industry. The transmission system operators are now obliged not only to provide the connection for offshore wind farms, but also to reimburse the developers of such plants for the costs they incurred in the course of planning the cable connection between the wind farm and the onshore grid. Forecasts had predicted that by 2007 numerous offshore wind farms would be operational. But no development company in the entire sector had moved beyond the planning phase. However, the rapid development of the offshore wind industry is important in order to achieve the German goal to generate 20% of all energy from renewable energy sources by 2020 and thus contribute to the prevention of grave climate changes. It is also important for the domestic labour market and the initiation of further exports of energy technologies. Early domestic growth will eventually payoff as offshore wind energy is implemented by more countries, which will then rely on the experience of German companies. Under these circumstances, Section 17 (2a) S.3 of the EnWG induces a positive impulse for offshore development. Under the financial constraints that dampened the expectations of developers of offshore wind farms, the suggested reimbursement will offer welcome relief. However a broad interpretation of Section 17 (2a) S.3 of the EnWG must be applied in order to reach the goal of actually enhancing offshore development, as is the legislator's intent. Such a broad interpretation of the reimbursement claim will lead to rapid implementation of the new law, as this will be in the interest of the developers and transmission system operators. The developers will have a large interest in beginning with the actual construction of the wind farm, and the transmission system operators will need to proceed with the planning of the cable connection. Even though improvements remain necessary the introduction of Section 17 (2a) S.3 EnWG can be considered a success.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Met die inwerkingstelling van afdeling 17 van die EnGW (Duitse Energie Ekonomie Wet), het die regering 'n nuwe situasie geskep vir die komplekse verhouding in die Duitse see-gebonde wind-energie industrie. Die transmissie stelsel operateurs word nou verplig om nie net die verbinding met die wind-plaas te verskaf nie, maar moet ook die ontwikkelaar van die aanleg vergoed vir enige kostes wat hulle aangegaan het met die beplanning van die verbinding tussen die windplaas en die elektrisiteits-netwerk. Vooruitskattings het voorspel dat verskeie see-gebonde windplase operasioneel sou wees teen 2007. Geen ontwikkelingsmaatskappy het egter al tot dusver verder as die beplanningstadium gevorder nie. Desnieteenstaande, die spoedige ontwikkeling van die see-gebonde wind industrie is onontbeerlik in die Duitse mikpunt om 20% van energiebehoeftes op te wek vanuit hernubare bronne teen 2020 en om dus klimaatsverandering teen te werk. Dit is ook belangrik vir werkskepping in Duitsland en vir die uitvoer van energie tegnologie. Spoedige groei in die industrie sal uiteindelik dividende lewer soos seegebonde wind-energie deur ander lande ontwikkel word en gevolglik op Duitse ervaring moet staatmaak. Onder hierdie omstandighede het afdeling 17 (2a) 5.3 van die EnGW 'n positiewe effek op seegebonde ontwikkeling. As gevolg van die dempende effek wat finansiele beperkinge het op die verwagtinge van ontwikkelaars sal die terugbetalings welkome verligting bied. Dit is egter nodig om 'n bree interpretasie van afdeling 17 (2a) 5.3 van die EnGW te gebruik om die mikpunt van werklike bevordering van seegebonde ontwikkeling te bewerkstellig soos die wetgewer beoog. So 'n bree interpretasie sal lei tot spoedige implimentasie van die nuwe wet omdat dit in die belang van ontwikkelaars en transmissie-netwerk eienaars sal wees. Die ontwikkelaars sal baat daarby om spoedig met ontwikkeling te begin, terwyl die netwerk operateurs vordering sal moet maak met die beplanning van die kabel-verbinding. Ten spyte daarvan dat verdere verbeteringe nodig is kan die inwerkingstelling van afdeling 17 (2a) 5.3 van die EnGW as 'n sukses gereken word.
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Ras, Anna. "Analysis of the quantity and cost of modelled nitrate deposition to the Vaal River from power station emissions with insights for cost-benefit analysis and policy recommendations." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30869.
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Anthropogenic processes have led to high levels of reactive nitrogen entering freshwater ecosystems. This increase in reactive nitrogen levels has caused several adverse environmental and health effects and has resulted in higher deposition rates of nitrates to freshwater ecosystems. The costs and benefits associated with nitrate deposition have been analysed by the European Nitrogen Assessment (ENA) for European countries. However, no studies similar to this have been done for the South African context. The aim of the study was to present a cost analysis of nitrate deposition originating from power station NOx emissions. The objectives were: to examine the changes in nitrate deposition for the years 1980, 2005, 2006 and 2014; to determine the costs associated with nitrate deposition to freshwater ecosystems for the South African context; to calculate the costs of power station emissions to the Vaal River; to consider how European costs differ from South African costs; to consider the impact of the NEMAQA of 2004 and finally, to evaluate the likelihood of these costs being incurred. The years that were selected for this study were chosen due to availability of data, which were supplied by EScience Associates. Three scenarios were considered for each of these years: Scenario 1 was a case in which Eskom operated as usual without any retrofits of power stations, Scenario 2 considered the implementation of the Eskom air quality management strategy and Scenario 3 considered full compliance with the minimum emissions standards set out in the NEMAQA of 2004. The costing method followed the ENA approach, whilst considering the South African context by consulting the relevant literature. The monetized annual costs for the South African context were: mitigation options for improving water quality; increased coal consumption due to power station interventions; agricultural costs; water purification and waste treatment; health impacts and loss of biodiversity as a result of acidification and eutrophication. Power station interventions were found to be the only capital expenditure. The nitrate deposition per unit of electricity generated was expected to decrease, due to changes within the electricity mix of Eskom during this period. Furthermore, the least costly option was expected to be a scenario in which no intervention was made by Eskom to reduce emissions, due to the high capital cost associated with retrofitting low NOx burners in the older power stations. The final expected outcome was that the National Environment Management: Air Quality Act (NEMAQA) of 2004 would have led to a significant decrease in the emissions and, therefore, nitrate deposition to the Vaal River. The costs that were calculated for the South African context differed greatly from the costs in the ENA, indicating that the European costs could not be used directly for the South African context. Furthermore, the results showed that the costs of nitrate deposition increased between 1980 and 2005, decreased between 2005 and 2006 and increased again between 2006 and 2014. Between 1980, 2005 and 2006, a clear link is seen between electricity generated and nitrate deposition. Even though electricity generation increased from 2006 to 2014, the 2014 emissions data show that emissions decreased over the same period. The cost of a fine for non-compliance to emission limits is R10 million. The lowest cost calculated for each year and scenario was found to be Scenario 1 for 1980, and was approximately R 70 million of costs arising from nitrate deposition from power station emissions. The R 70 million, therefore, does not include mitigation options for water quality, increased coal consumption and power station interventions. Therefore, the fines associated with non-compliance, which occur in Scenario 1 and Scenario 2, should be increased to force compliance. The total cost associated with Eskom’s air quality strategy, calculated as part of scenario two, was the lowest cost option for 1980, 2006 and 2014. In 2005, the lowest cost option was scenario 1, where no retrofits were done by Eskom. This indicated that there was a trade-off between capital expenditure for low NOx burners and the annual costs, listed previously. This study concluded that when air quality policies, such as the NEMAQA of 2004 are implemented without stringent enforcement, the desired result is not achieved. The findings in this study show that no significant decrease in nitrate deposition occurred between 2005, when the NEMAQA of 2004 was released, and 2014, which was almost 10 years after the policy was implemented. This study makes a valuable contribution to informing policy makers on the impact of reactive nitrogen addition to the environment. Future research should be done on the cost of agricultural nitrate deposition to the Vaal River, considering that these inputs to the Vaal River are several times larger than those of deposition from power station emissions and could, therefore, have costs of a larger scale associated with them.
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Strangfeld, Jennifer Ann. "Corporate unity as a power dynamic : a study of corporate cohesion in the formation of the 1979 National Energy Policy and the 1992 Energy Policy Act /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1288651941&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-183). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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SADLER, HEIDI D. "DISASTER'S WAKE: THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE IN TRAUMA RECOVERY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1082909131.
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Cotton, Deborah Helen. "The Power of the Weak State: Domestic Determinants Concerning Africa's Response to U.S. Article 98." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07222005-233020/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005.Title from title screen. Carrie Manning, committee chair; Allison Calhoun-Brown, Henry F. Carey, committee members. Description based on contents viewed June 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-78).
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Bailey, Kenneth D. "Report of an internship with the Bureau of Land Management for the Falcon to Gonder construction project." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1098144755.
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Adamson, Ben. "IP in the corridors of power : a study of lobbying, its impact on the development of intellectual property law, and the implications for the meaning of democracy." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ip-in-the-corridors-of-power-a-study-of-lobbying-its-impact-on-the-development-of-intellectual-property-law-and-the-implications-for-the-meaning-of-democracy(7d70a931-02da-4ebd-bd9c-dca2805c005c).html.
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This thesis demonstrates that, while generally seen as a non-democratic activity, lobbying should in fact be viewed as an important part of democratic policymaking, providing valuable input into law and policy, particularly in areas where expertise is at a premium. Constructing a theoretical model of democracy and using the field of intellectual property as a focal point, the role of private actors is examined across a series of case studies: the 2011 Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth, the 2010 Digital Economy Act, and the proposed 2002 EU Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. Each case study is based upon a combination of secondary sources and the first-hand experiences of certain actors involved and in each case the lobbying activity is critically evaluated in light of the features and normative conditions of the democratic model. This study ultimately shows both the positive aspects and negative aspects of lobbying from a democratic viewpoint, noting that the importance of stakeholder input into the law and policy that will affect those stakeholders is essential. It also shows, however, that equality of access to, and influence over, policymakers is far from satisfactory and that until such inequalities can be resolved, lobbying cannot be fully justified under my model of democracy.
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Jarvis, David Seiler. "Accountability Models in Policy Design: Understanding the Explanatory Power of the Four Major Accountability Models in Policy Tool Choices." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1798.
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In the study of government accountability, there have long been arguments about which model is superior. These arguments, which are largely made by those in the performance and political accountability camps, state that their particular model is the best, and indeed only legitimate approach to ensuring accountable government. At the same time, there is growing research in policy tools but little in how accountability models and policy tools are linked in policy design.
This study makes use of the context provided by the critical cases of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). With such large sums of money in play at a time of serious economic downturn and mounting federal deficits, government clearly has a responsibility to ensure accountability so that the public can be assured not only that its funds are being spent properly but also more generally, that accountability as well as policy tool choice is in the minds of officials as they formulate, adopt and implement public policy.
The intent of this study is to present an argument in two main areas using the critical case studies of TARP and ARRA. First, that no one accountability model fully explains most policy tool choices in TARP or ARRA and that the use of multiple models is superior. Second, that we can link policy tool choices and accountability models in policy design. The standards used to establish what models explain what tool choices are in the models themselves. Each policy is explored individually in a chapter, and the lessons and results of this study are then presented in the final chapter.
The data presented in this study indicate that a single-model approach may explain a few, but not most and certainly not all, policy tool choices in TARP and ARRA. Indeed, a multiple model approach proves superior to a single-model approach in all but a few instances. As for the connections between policy tools and accountability models, the data presented in this study show that they were strongly impacted by the policy formulation process itself, specifically the way in which the policy problem was framed and the speed with which it was undertaken.
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Deutschmann, Mats. "Apologising in British English." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Modern Languages, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43.
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The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. More than 3000 examples of apologising are included in the analysis.
Primarily, the form and function of the apologies are examined in relation to the type of offence leading up to the speech act. Aspects such as the sincerity of the apologies and the use of additional remedial strategies other than explicit apologising are also considered. Variations in the distributions of the different types of apologies found are subsequently investigated for the two independent variables speaker social identity (gender, social class and age) and conversational setting (genre, formality and group size). The effect of the speaker-addressee relationship on the apology rate and the types of apologies produced is also examined.
In this study, the prototypical apology, a speech act used to remedy a real or perceived offence, is only one of a number of uses of the apology form in the corpus. Other common functions of the form include discourse-managing devices such as request cues for repetition and markers of hesitation, as well as disarming devices uttered before expressing disagreement and controversial opinions.
Among the speaker social variables investigated, age and social class are particularly important in affecting apologetic behaviour. Young and middle-class speakers favour the use of the apology form. No substantial gender differences in apologising are apparent in the corpus. I have also been able to show that large conversational groups result in frequent use of the form. Finally, analysis of the effects of the speaker-addressee relationship on the use of the speech act shows that, contrary to expectations based on Brown & Levinson’s theory of politeness, it is the powerful who tend to apologise to the powerless rather than vice versa.
The study implies that formulaic politeness is an important linguistic marker of social class and that its use often involves control of the addressee.
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Medling, Nicholas. "The Individual Mandate, Commerce Clause, and Supreme Court: Predicting the Court's Ruling in HHS v. Florida." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/345.
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An analysis of the evolution of the Commerce Clause, the Justices on the Supreme Court, and the arguments presented in this case indicate that the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be struck down. Although the Court will likely be split 5 to 4 along ideological lines, each of the justices will have a unique rationale behind their decision. Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Scalia, and Justice Kennedy were heavily targeted by both parties’ oral and written arguments because there was speculation that any one of these traditionally conservative justices could be the fifth vote to uphold the individual mandate. However, it does not appear likely that the federal government supported their claims well enough to yield such a result. Instead, the Court will respond in the negative to the issue of "Whether Congress had the power under Article I of the Constitution to enact the minimum coverage provision." The Court’s interpretation of the Congress' commerce power has undergone two major expansions since the Constitution was ratified, and both of these expansions were met with a contractionary response to prevent the commerce clause’s growth into an unchecked power. This Court will not open a new frontier of power for the Congress, but rather it will respect the limits on Congressional power established by the Rehnquist Court.
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Mugisho, Ntarheba Théophile. "L'Intersubjectivité et les nouvelles rationalités sociopolitiques : une relecture contemporaine de la liberté et de la puissance d'agir chez Spinoza." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Amiens, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022AMIE0023.
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Cette thèse est intitulée "L'intersubjectivité et les nouvelles rationalités sociopolitiques : une relecture contemporaine de la liberté et de la puissance d'agir chez Spinoza". Il s'agit de revenir sur l'importance que recouvre le concept d'intersubjectivité à travers ses principales approches au sein de la pensée sociopolitique contemporaine où il est envisagé comme le paradigme d'une socialité adéquate. Cette étude se penche sur le défi majeur d'intersubjectivité au sein des approches sociopolitiques contemporaines, qui peinent à penser l'intersubjectivité en termes d'une interrelation véritable des sujets en politique qui ne se réduit ni au sujet lui-même, ni à la fusion indifférenciée des sujets dans un ensemble, ni même à la norme comme principe d'unité des sujets. C'est un tel constat d'échec de l'intersubjectivité dans la philosophie sociale et politique contemporaine qui se dégage principalement de l'analyse des paradigmes husserlien et habermassien ; le premier ayant marqué cette dynamique de la pensée contemporaine orientée vers la rupture avec le modèle classique du sujet issu notamment de Descartes, et le second étant le paradigme intersubjectif prédominant de la philosophie politique contemporaine. C'est l'échec de l'approche normative et délibérative du modèle habermassien de l'intersubjectivité à penser le politique en termes de ce qui unit les sujets qui, de notre point de vue, explique la pertinence de la relecture de l'anthropologie politique de Spinoza telle qu'exposée dans l'Éthique et dans les deux Traités politiques. Il s'agit d'une approche anthropologique de l'interrelation fondée sur une conception "transindividuelle" de l'individualité ; l'individu spinoziste étant envisagé non pas en termes d'ego, mais de composition de différentes parties constitutives rendue possible par la communication des affects. Ainsi, contrairement aux approches contemporaines de la socialité intersubjective, au paradigme habermassien en particulier, le fondement ultime du commun ou de la politique chez Spinoza ne réside ni dans la norme ni dans une fusion qui fait de la société un agrégat d'individus déterminés par la seule recherche d'intérêts particuliers ; mais essentiellement dans un partage des affects qui rend possible l'union des individus et détermine leurs relations. Cette approche spinoziste de la nature interrelationnelle des individus permet dès lors d'envisager une perspective de dépassement du dualisme individu/société, liberté individuelle/souveraineté de l'État ; d'autant plus qu'elle conçoit la société en termes d'individu composé d'une multiplicité d'individus à la fois autonomes et ontologiquement en relation. La perspective spinoziste de la politique conduit ainsi à interroger à nouveaux frais le juridisme qui caractérise la démocratie constitutionnelle actuelleThis thesis is entitled "Intersubjectivity and the new socio-political rationalities : A contemporary rereading of freedom and the power to act in Spinoza". The aim is to revisit the importance of the concept of intersubjectivity through its main approaches within contemporary socio-political thought, where it is considered as the paradigm of an adequate sociality. This study examines the major challenge of intersubjectivity within contemporary socio-political approaches, which struggle to think of intersubjectivity in terms of a true interrelation of subjects in politics that is neither reduced to the subject itself, nor to the undifferentiated fusion of subjects into a whole, nor even to the norm as a principle of unity of subjects. It is such a failure of intersubjectivity in contemporary social and political philosophy that emerges mainly from the analysis of the Husserlian and Habermasian paradigms; the former having marked this dynamic of contemporary thought oriented towards the break with the classical model of the subject stemming notably from Descartes, and the latter being the predominant intersubjective paradigm of contemporary political philosophy. It is the failure of the normative and deliberative approach of the Habermasian model of intersubjectivity to think of politics in terms of what unites subjects that, in our view, explains the relevance of the re-reading of Spinoza's political anthropology as set out in the Ethics and the two Political Treatises. It is an anthropological approach to interrelationship based on a "transindividual" conception of individuality; the Spinozist individual being considered not in terms of ego, but as a composition of different constituent parts made possible by the communication of affects. Thus, contrary to contemporary approaches to intersubjective sociality, the Habermasian paradigm in particular, the ultimate foundation of the common or the political in Spinoza lies neither in the norm nor in a fusion that makes society an aggregate of individuals determined by the mere pursuit of particular interests; but essentially in a sharing of affects that makes possible the union of individuals and determines their relations. This Spinozist approach to the interrelational nature of individuals therefore allows for a perspective of overcoming the dualism of individual/society, individual freedom/state sovereignty; all the more so as it conceives society in terms of an individual composed of a multiplicity of individuals who are both autonomous and ontologically related. The Spinozist perspective on politics thus leads to a fresh questioning of the legalism that characterises today's constitutional democracy
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Mokrejšová, Veronika. "Regulace dodavatelsko-odběratelských vztahů v potravinářském řetězci." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162823.
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This thesis deals with retailer-supplier relationships within the food chain, and with possibilities of their regulation. The aim is to assess the effect of regulation of retailer-supplier relationship, through "Act on Significant Market Power and Abuse thereof" on particular food chain members, and eventually to propose an alternative solution of their regulation. The thesis states the following hypothesis: The Act on Significant Market Power does not change bargaining power between suppliers and retailers. The thesis is divided into five parts. The first of those defines the issue of retailer-supplier relationship, especially the so called "unfair practices". The mind-set of the European Commission which judges the unfairness of a practice, according to its impact on consumer, investment and competition is stressed. When comparing market shares and profit abilities, it is obvious that supplier sector is not disadvantaged in relation to retailing, however, there are cases of small and medium enterprises over which retailers can impose their bargaining power. Retroactive changes and excessive risk transfer on a business partner are then indicated as unfair, which is confirmed by microeconomic analysis. The second part maps means of regulation, through hard and soft law in the EU and its member states with focus on the Czech Republic, where the Act No. 395/2009 Coll., on Significant Market Power in the Sale of Agricultural and Food Products and Abuse thereof is applied. It is found that regulation within the EU is heterogeneous and the results of different regulatory mechanism in different countries differ. The third part talks about self-regulatory possibilities constituted by corporate social responsibility. The main solution of retailer-supplier relationships is represented by stakeholder dialogue, in which contractual parties look for the basis of their antagonistic positions (which are hidden in their interests and needs), and try to identify mutual needs and to create shared value. This approach increases the created value, which is advantageous for both partners, instead of redistributing the value to the benefit of the stronger partner. The fourth part presents the results of a survey conducted among retailers, retailer suppliers and farmers, their opinions about the Act on Significant Market Power, about changes caused by this Act and about particular unfair practices. It was realised that the Act does not help the suppliers very much, in that the bargaining position was improved only with a tiny part of the respondents, and the Act even did not fulfil the role of small and medium sized enterprises protection. The everyday practice of retailer-supplier relationships remains (after changing few legal formulations in the contracts) almost the same as it was before the Act came into force. The only considerable change is shortening the payment period to 30 days; however, there are suppliers that are not content about this provision. The farmers do not feel any consequences of the Act; retailers regard it as business barrier and excessive regulation. Thus, this part confirms the hypothesis. The final part of the thesis proposes a solution to this issue by engaging many stakeholders: the business partners (self-regulation), the State (regulation through general universal act), consumers, non-governmental organisations and media (generating demand for responsible behaviour of firms).
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Miriyoga, Langton. "Information without power? Exploring the challenges and opportunities in the usage of the Promotion of Access to Information Act no 50 of 2000 (PAIA) as a potent tool for advancing socio-economic justice in South Africa Langton Miriyoga." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4720.
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Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.
That there is power in information is not disputable. Information empowers marginalised and impoverished citizens to engage with the state thus ensuring their inclusion in the governance and policy processes culminating in the realisation of their socio economic rights. Conversely, in spite of the opportunities for the usage of ATI law as a tool for advancing social justice, the state often retains the power to defy requests for access to information hence power to deny access thereto. This phenomenon is attributable to deeply entrenched socio political and systemic barriers resulting in the disempowerment of the poor from using ATI law as a tool for the realisation of social justice.
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Pandya, Dishant D. "A Study on the Effect of the Mandated Change in Board Composition on Firm Performance & CEO Compensation." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1624556598421205.
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Gomes, Kátia Diolina. "Perspectivas e estilos do professor experiente e iniciante na formação inicial: questões teórico-metodológicas." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13525.
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This study aims to verify if doubling instruction procedure can bring contribution on the training of a future teacher. Doubling instruction procedure (CLOT, 2006, 2010) consists of two writing phases: instructions and comments. On the first, a fictitious situation is created for a teacher s substitution by a researcher who needs accurate information on how to behave in order to minimize the substitution act. From this interaction, teacher and researcher produce an oral text and later transcript it as co-writers. On the second, the teacher reads the instruction transcription and writes personal remarks about this reading. Since those two writings are about the teacher s work, our main goal is to learn which representations, perspectives and styles from teaching as work can be identified in those texts as well as the implications of it on the training of future teachers. To achieve that, we undertake the theoretical and methodological framework from the Social Discursive Interacionism - SDI, (BRONCKART, 1999, 2006, 2008; GROUPE LAF - Language-Action-Formation, 2004), along with the conceptions developed by ERGAPE group - Ergonomie de l Activité Personnels de l Education - (AMIGUES, 2004; SAUJAT, 2004) and by the Activity Clinic (CLOT, 2006, 2010; FAÏTA, 2005; ROGER, 2007), as it has been done by the research ALTER group(ABREU-TARDELLI, 2006; BRONCKART & MACHADO, 2004; BUENO, 2009; CORREIA, 2007; LEITE, 2009; LOUSADA, 2006; MACHADO, 2009, 2010; MAZZILLO, 2006; TOGNATO, 2009;) on teaching as work. We also conceive the studies from Functional Systemic Linguistics (HALLIDAY, 1994) as well as from Discourse Analysis (MAINGUENEAU, 2005) all of which constitutes a theoretical and methodological framework based on social, historical and cultural perspective along with philosophical, social, ideological and discursive approach of the language studies from Volochinov (1929/1999). All these theories enables an in depth representation study on the teaching work in order to bring a broad understanding about the usage possibilities and implications of the investigated procedure for the training of future teachers. Our corpora is originated from the doubling instruction procedure generated from the participation of two Portuguese language teachers: a senior teacher with twenty years of teaching experience and a junior teacher with one year of experience who is also a student majoring in language teaching attending the last year of an undergraduate program. Both of them work for elementary public schools in Jundiaí located in São Paulo countryside. Text analysis signals to general characteristics of the doubling instruction procedure, as well as the teaching representation, perspective and styles from each participant s behavior. We consider the procedure effectual since it is dialectic enabling identification and discussion about different representations of the same work which also guides us to summarize ideas and ideals on teaching as work. We also conclude that with this procedure it is possible to establish a promising dialogue in which the worker or future worker is able to contribute for the collectivity and vice-versa, strengthening generic activity basis whereas the experienced or inexperienced teachers recognize themselves in their practice enhancing their participation
O objetivo desta pesquisa é o de verificar se o procedimento de instrução ao sósia pode ou não vir a contribuir com a formação de futuros professores. A instrução ao sósia (CLOT, 2006, 2010) é um procedimento constituído por duas etapas de produção dos textos: de instruções e de comentário. Na primeira, uma situação fictícia é criada para a substituição de um professor por um pesquisador que precisa de informações precisas sobre como se comportar para minimizar o ato dessa substituição. Dessa interação, pesquisador e professor produzem, em co-autoria, um texto oral (posteriormente transcrito). Na segunda etapa, o professor, após ler o texto de instrução transcrito, escreve um comentário a respeito de suas impressões sobre o que leu. Como esses textos se configuram sobre o trabalho do professor, nosso objetivo principal é o de levantar que representações, perspectivas e estilos do ensino como trabalho podem ser identificados nesses textos e que implicações isso acarretaria na formação de futuros professores. Para isso, assumimos o quadro teórico-metodológico do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo - ISD (BRONCKART, 1999, 2006, 2008; GROUPE LAF - Langage-Action- Formation, 2004), unindo-o às concepções desenvolvidas pelo grupo ERGAPE - Ergonomie de l Activité Personnels de l Education (AMIGUES, 2004; SAUJAT, 2004) e pela Clínica da Atividade (CLOT, 2006, 2010; FAÏTA, 2005; ROGER, 2007), conforme já vem sendo feito pelas pesquisas sobre o ensino como trabalho do Grupo ALTER (ABREU-TARDELLI, 2006; BRONCKART & MACHADO, 2004; BUENO, 2009; CORREIA, 2007; LEITE, 2009; LOUSADA, 2006; MACHADO, 2009, 2010; MAZZILLO, 2006; TOGNATO, 2009;). Também adotamos os estudos desenvolvidos pela Linguística Sistêmico-funcional (HALLIDAY, 1994) e pela Análise de Discurso (MAINGUENEAU, 2005). Apoiamo-nos, assim, em um referencial teórico-metodológico com base na perspectiva sócio-histórica e cultural, juntamente com uma abordagem filosófica, social, discursiva e ideológica da linguagem de Volochinov (1929/1999). Todas essas teorias possibilitam um estudo aprofundado sobre a representação do trabalho docente, a fim de trazer uma ampla compreensão sobre as possibilidades de uso e as implicações do procedimento investigado na formação de futuros professores. Nosso corpus é proveniente do uso do procedimento de instrução ao sósia, com a participação de duas professoras de Língua Portuguesa: uma experiente com mais de 20 anos de carreira e, a outra, iniciante, atuando na profissão há um ano e, também, graduanda do último ano do Curso de Licenciatura em Letras. Ambas trabalham em escolas públicas municipais e estaduais do ensino fundamental (EF-II) do interior paulista, mais especificamente, da região de Jundiaí. Os resultados de análise dos textos apontaram para as características gerais do procedimento de instrução, bem como as representações, perspectivas e estilos sobre o agir do professor de cada participante. Consideramos, então, o procedimento válido, já que se trata de um procedimento dialético que nos permite identificar e debater diferentes representações sobre um mesmo trabalho, levando-nos a uma síntese de ideias e ideais acerca do ensino como trabalho. Constatamos, também, que, com o procedimento, podemos estabelecer um diálogo promissor, em que trabalhador ou futuro trabalhador contribuía com seu coletivo e vice-versa, fortalecendo as bases genéricas da atividade, em que professor experiente e iniciante reconheçam-se nelas e as reconheçam ao exercerem seu ofício, aumentando, assim, seu poder de agir
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Galbiatti, Fabiano. "O poder de agir de trabalhadoras da assist?ncia social no contexto neoliberal." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2015. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/347.
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Previous issue date: 2015-05-26Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas
This dissertation, situated in the line of Research and Prevention Psychological Intervention from the Graduate Program stricto sensu of the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, intends to investigate the ?power to act? in workers of the Social Assistance Specialized Reference Center (CREAS). For this purpose, a brief historical review of social assistance policies was produced in order to understand the current scenario, marked by neoliberal reforms. The study, from an ethnographic inspiration, there was basically through three stages. At first, the researcher followed meetings with the CREAS team. For each meeting it was developed a Field Diary. In the second, the researcher conducted reflexive interviews with four workers. The third and last, was developed the interpretation, analysis and discussion of the collected material in the previous steps. This process revealed the constant changes that the work in public service suffers according to Social Assistance policies in the municipality and its relationship with neoliberal processes in the broadest sense. If, on the one hand, despite this context, the workers have the capacity to also turn on and organize their activities, giving new meanings, collectively, on the other, it was observed that the mental strain is present in their daily lives. It seems to be associated to the numerous impediments to the realization of the work activity raised by management, as well as the workload related to the nature of services to families who have suffered violations of their rights. To handle these situations, the workers take more individual tactics rather than a collective organization.
A presente disserta??o, situada na linha de Pesquisa Preven??o e Interven??o Psicol?gica do Programa de P?s-gradua??o Stricto Sensu da Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, busca investigar o poder de agir de trabalhadoras do Centro de Refer?ncia Especializado de Assist?ncia Social (CREAS) de um munic?pio do interior do estado de S?o Paulo. Para tanto, realizou-se um breve resgate hist?rico das pol?ticas de assist?ncia social, a fim de entender o atual cen?rio, marcado pelas reformas neoliberais. O estudo, de inspira??o etnogr?fica, deu-se, basicamente, atrav?s de tr?s etapas. Na primeira, o pesquisador acompanhou reuni?es junto ? equipe do CREAS. Para cada reuni?o foi desenvolvido um Di?rio de Campo. Na segunda, o pesquisador realizou entrevistas reflexivas com quatro trabalhadoras. Na terceira e ?ltima, realizou-se a interpreta??o, an?lise e discuss?o do material levantado nas etapas anteriores. Este processo revelou as constantes mudan?as que o trabalho nesse servi?o p?blico sofre de acordo com as pol?ticas de Assist?ncia Social no munic?pio e sua rela??o com processos neoliberais mais amplos. Se, por um lado, apesar desse contexto, as trabalhadoras possuem relativa capacidade de tamb?m transformar e organizar suas atividades, atribuindo novos sentidos, coletivamente, por outro, observou-se que o desgaste mental est? presente no seu cotidiano. Ele parece estar associado aos in?meros impedimentos para a realiza??o da atividade de trabalho colocados pela gest?o, bem como pela carga de trabalho relacionada ? natureza do atendimento a fam?lias que sofreram viola??es de seus direitos. Para lidar com essas situa??es, as trabalhadoras se valem mais de t?ticas individuais do que de uma organiza??o coletiva.
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Couillaud, Sarah. "Développement du pouvoir d’agir des acteurs en co-innovation par les usages : l’exemple d’accompagnement du projet d’habitat évolutif pour seniors." Thesis, Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080083.
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Cette recherche-intervention porte sur l’innovation dans les entreprises et propose des dispositifs pour conduire des projets en co-innovation par les usages. Dans cette thèse en ergonomie, nous l’envisageons en tant que processus de développement conjoint des activités humaines et de la performance des entreprises.Construire des voies pour accompagner des projets d’innovation à visée développementale en constitue la ligne directrice. Nous proposons de développer le pouvoir d’agir des parties prenantes – usagers et concepteurs - en structurant et outillant progressivement la compréhension partagée des usages actuels et la conception collective de situations d’usage futures possibles. Notre terrain concerne l’accompagnement pendant trois dans d’un consortium d’entreprises du secteur de l’habitat (promoteur immobilier, architecte, industries) constitué par l’Institut technologique Forêt, Cellulose, Bois-Construction et Ameublement (FCBA). Dans une démarche commune, quatorze entreprises françaises cherchent à s’adapter au marché des seniors par la conception de solutions évolutives pour l’habitat pour laquelle il s’est agi de créer et de mettre en place une démarche de conduite de projet.Par ce travail, nous définissons et mettons à l’épreuve des dispositifs de co-innovation par les usages – outillages et formation-action – pour que les concepteurs et les usagers récoltent des usages actuels, se les approprient et les projettent dans un futur possible pour lequel des solutions sont conçues. Nous caractérisons des capacités en Maîtrise d’Usage que les acteurs ont construites et mobilisées à partir d’une analyse de leurs échanges et productions. Les résultats de ce travail nous invitent à interroger la manière dont sont accompagnés les projets d’innovation, ainsi qu’à questionner le rôle de l’ergonome intervenant au pilotage de ces démarchesThis research-intervention focuses on innovation in companies and proposes methods to lead projects in co-innovation by uses. We consider innovation as much as a process of development of human activities and organizational performance.The guideline of this thesis is to build approach to support development-oriented innovation projects. We suggest increasing the power to act of stakeholders - users and designers – by helping them to share current uses and produce together many of possible future use situations.Our field concerns a three-years accompaniment of a consortium of companies from the private housing sector (real estate developer, architects, housing industries). This consortium of fourteen French companies is established by the FCBA, the French Institute of Technology for Forest-based and Furniture Sectors. By this project we manage, these companies design a scalable housing for the seniors’ market.Through this thesis, we define and test methods of co-innovation by uses - tools and training-action - for designers and users. We help them to explore current uses, appropriate them and project them into a possible future for which solutions are designed. We highlight actors’ capacities of uses ability, based on an analysis of their exchanges and productions. The results of this work invite us to question the way in which innovation projects are accompanied, as well as to question the role of the ergonomist in managing these approaches
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Diala, Anthony Chima. "Judicial activism in South Afica's Constitutional Court : minority protection or judicial illegitimacy?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/5322.
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This study examines the effect of judicial protection of minority rights on the
Constitutional Court’s legitimacy. The framing of the Marriage Act shows that
Parliament intended marriage to be between a man and a woman. By nullifying section 30(1) of the Act and making the order above, the Court fulfilled its constitutional mandate of upholding fundamental human rights. At the same time, it negated the intention of Parliament which represents majoritarian interests. The Constitutional Court is, in contra-distinction with Parliament, unelected. By voiding section 30(1) of the Marriage Act and arousing public opposition to legal recognition of same-sex unions, it raised a ‘countermajoritarian difficulty.’ This ‘countermajoritarian difficulty’ has elicited intense scholarly debate.17 The study examines how the Court’s negation of majoritarian interests in order to protect minority rights affects its legitimacy.Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2007.
A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of Associate Prof. Tamale Sylvia of the Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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Carr, Anna J. "A detailed performance comparison of PV modules of different technologies and the implications for PV system design methods /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050830.94641.