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Al-Dekhayel, Abdullkarim Hamoud. "The state and political legitimation in an oil-rentier economy : Kuwait as a case study." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276502.

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Scholz, Ronny. "Die diskursive Legitimation der Europäischen Union : eine lexikometrische Analyse zur Verwendung des sprachlichen Zeichens „Europa/Europe“ in deutschen, französischen und britischen Wahlprogrammen zu den Europawahlen zwischen 1979 und 2004." Thesis, Paris Est, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PEST0021.

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Ma thèse présente une analyse du signifiant Europe dans trois corpus allemand, français, britannique. Chaque corpus contient les programmes électoraux européens des partis politiques nationaux qui ont obtenu au moins une fois un siège au Parlement Européen. La période commence aux premières élections européennes en 1979 et se termine avec les élections européennes de 2004.Une analyse lexicométrique du signifiant Europe dans les trois langues révèle de nouvelles perspectives pour la compréhension linguistique de la notion d'Europe dans ces champs politico-discursifs. Elle permet de tirer des co

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Berger, Christopher Dan. "Method in Legitimation: Exploring Lonergan’s Political Thought." Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109087.

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Thesis advisor: Patrick Byrne<br>This dissertation proposes to give an expanded reading and interpretation of the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ, in political theory around the question of political legitimation: What does it mean for a governing entity to exercise coercive power legitimately? To answer this question from Lonergan’s thought requires that we do several things: understand the historical context in which we find ourselves (Chapters 1-2), understand what Lonergan means by authenticity (Chapter 3), and how that relates to legitimate authority, which is an authentically operating matr

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Leibrecht, Harald. "Außenpolitik und Legitimation." Universität Potsdam, 2005. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/texte_eingeschraenkt_welttrends/2010/4756/.

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Welsh, Ian. "British nuclear power : protest and legitimation 1945-1980." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328534.

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Dodworth, Catherine Jane. "NGO legitimation as practice : crafting political space in Tanzania." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31233.

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The traditional monopoly of politics and international relations on theorizing power, authority and legitimacy has eroded in the late modern era. The complexity of these domains has been compounded in a strongly interconnected, post-Westphalian world, where sovereignty and statehood are increasingly negotiated, where centres of power and authority have shifted and where new configurations of governance have come to the fore. The conventional conceptual toolbox of inter-national relations has been slow to adapt, and so the need to embrace insights from other disciplines never greater. The study

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Openshaw, Karen. "Reorienting the odious debt doctrine: international law or political legitimation?" Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594202.

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This thesis is concerned to interrogate the Standing of the so~called 'odious debt doctrine' in international law and its relevance for states of the South wishing to disclaim odious-type debt. To this end, the history of the doctrine and its definition is e."{amined, as is its relevance to wee cases of sovereign-debe contention (South Africa/Zimbabwe, Iraq and Ecuador) where the doctrine's applicability has been considered. The conclusion reached, and the argument made in this thesis, is that the doctrine has yet to crystallize into a legal norm and that its starus in interoationallaw remains

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Yakura, Elaine K. (Elaine Kazuko). "Practices of power : meaning and legitimation in information technology consulting." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12548.

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Darr, Benjamin Joseph. "Nationalism and state legitimation in contemporary China." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2690.

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This dissertation examines the process of through which the government of the People's Republic of China ostensibly produces popular legitimacy by inculcating an attachment to Chinese national identity among the public. It seeks to understand the theoretical connections between national identity and support for the state and to learn which groups of people are most affected by the state's influences in this regard. A basic two-step process is theorized, in which the first step is the state's attempt to shape the public's concept of Chinese national identity and the public's attachment to the n

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Sowa, Aleksandra. "Trust, e-voting and political legitimacy studies in their interactions." Bochum Freiburg [Breisgau] Projektverl, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2898650&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Lusk, Adam. "Arguing Security: Rhetoric, Media Environment, and Threat Legitimation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/65998.

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Political Science<br>Ph.D.<br>In this dissertation, I study the process of gaining public consent about a security threat, or threat legitimation. Threats require legitimation because they are social facts and not objective truths or subjective perceptions. I argue rhetorical resources and strategies affect threat legitimation. Political actors deploy rhetorical resources and strategies in order to generate consent. The rhetorical resources connect together the rhetorical resources to construct a threat narrative used in the public debates. Moreover, I argue that the media environment influenc

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Sithole, Kundai Mudiva. "The council of Europe : Political legitimation and European human rights protection." Thesis, University of Reading, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529992.

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Stacey, Peter James Frayn. "Imperial Rome and the legitimation of political authority in Renaissance Naples." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621814.

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Ennasri, Nabil. "Yûsuf al-Qaradhâwî et la politique étrangère du Qatar : une diplomatie "religieuse" ? : 2003-2013." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0421.

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Indépendant depuis 1971, le Qatar a longtemps fait partie des micro-États. Le pays a ensuite vécu une forme de révolution avec l’accession au pouvoir de Hamad ben Khalîfa al-Thânî en juin 1995. Le nouvel émir a alors entrepris une politique volontariste de reconnaissance internationale. Le périmètre de son action diplomatique s'est renforcés dans un contexte où l’augmentation de la rente pétrolière a permis à la famille royale de satisfaire les demandes sociales des nationaux. Comme de nombreux États du monde arabe, le régime qatarien devait se doter d’une légitimité prenant en partie appui su

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Chen, Li-yi [Verfasser]. "The Political Participation of Taiwan's Labor : Public Perception and Legitimation / Li-yi Chen." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1235399052/34.

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SZANIECKI, BARBARA PECCEI. "POLITICAL POSTER: POWER AND POTENTIAL POWER." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=7141@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>A iconografia de Luís XIV foi um exemplo de representação da soberania onde a separação espacial e o acabamento perfeito das figuras refletia a organização social e política que a produzia. Contudo, fora da Igreja e do Estado, desenvolveram-se ao longo da modernidade, expressões estéticas opostas à representação do poder transcendental. Ao final do reinado de Luís XIV, surgiu um discurso histórico-político que, após revelar as múltiplas nações que lutam sob o Estado, autodialetizou-se quando, ao reivindicar uma função totalizadora, o

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Rabaza, Jiménez Ramir. "The Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Catalonia, 2017: strategies of legitimation in political discourses." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21589.

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The relation between the Catalan nationalist forces as well as the other sub-nationalisms and the Spanish Government has been a matter discussed throughout all the Spanish democracy. In recent years the challenge to the Spanish state set by the Catalan government when taking a unilateral approach on Independence has resulted in the imprisonment and exile of political leaders. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the events that occurred in Catalonia after the Catalan elections of 2015 and the unilateral approach on self-determination taken by the Catalan Autonomous Government with the promise

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Palmer, Maxwell Benjamin. "Time and Political Power." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11342.

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Limited time is an important constraint and resource that is fundamental to governing. This dissertation studies the connection between limited time and political power in three different contexts.<br>Government

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Yu, Jung-Min. "Political economy of power liberalization and power transformation." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 270 p, 2010. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997524051&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2009.<br>Principal faculty advisors: Young-Doo Wang, School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy; and John Byrne, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. Includes bibliographical references.

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Cubias, Gustavo Adolfo II. "Latino Political Power in California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/175.

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California has now become a majority-minority state. Latinos, currently the largest minority group in the Golden State, have made remarkable political gains in the past two decades, more recently since the the approval of Proposition 187 in 1994. How have Latinos used this new political power? This thesis provides an in-depth look into the dynamics of the Latino political entity in California, along with a quantifiable analysis of voting trends. Discussion of policy implictions since the Latino wave into the state Legislature is also provided, along with interviews with notable Latino figures,

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Criger, David W. "Systemic preservation and political legitimation a critical examination of the Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890 /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6078.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 19, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

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Granlund, Robert. "Russan Power Projection and Power Ministries : A Study in Russian Power Ministry Influence." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-3975.

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Stanley, Liam. "The everyday politics of the age of austerity : crisis and the legitimation of fiscal consolidation in the UK." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5510/.

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In 2010, the British Coalition government came to power explicitly promising spending cuts as part of a wider fiscal consolidation programme to resolve a debt crisis. Despite this promise to reduce public services, the British public seemed to reluctantly accept as necessary the imperatives of this debt crisis. Why? Through the analysis of data from focus groups conducted around Birmingham, this thesis tackles this puzzle of austerity acquiescence by answering a double-edged central research question: how do everyday actors make sense of austerity, and what do these processes tell us about the

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Glen, Fiona Ann. "Political participation in the age of the internet : an analysis of the online forum as legitimation mechanism." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/225.

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MacKay, Rowan Rachel. "Legitimation by multimodal means : a theoretical and analytical enquiry with specific reference to American political spot advertisements." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9716.

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What is ‘legitimacy’? Is legitimation possible through non-linguistic modes? These are the key theoretical questions with which this study is concerned. It explores them in conjunction with an analysis of American political spot advertisements. These ads are situated at the nexus between legitimation and multimodality, and their relevance to contemporary politics on the world stage is reflected in the immense financial and skilled resources which have been — and continue to be — devoted to them. A historical perspective into legitimation, multimodality and the attendant concepts of rationality

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Walker, Graham. "UK power networks : the political discourse of British nuclear power." Thesis, University of Essex, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654585.

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The 2003 energy white paper was widely considered to have signalled the end of new nuclear power stations in the UK. Yet only three years later, new nuclear power seemed so inevitable that Greenpeace took the British government to court over its !,; consultation process. Using political discourse theory, this thesis explores how such an apparent reversal of policy could take place by examining the discourses surrounding policy decisions over electricity generation generally and nuclear power in particular. After first setting out political discourse theory and justifying its use over other app

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Schampel, James Howard. "Dyadic power theory." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185279.

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Dyadic power theory proposes that the speed of power-ratio change between two nations predicts to both the onset of war and alliance formation. The speed of power-ratio change is measured utilizing the concepts of velocity and acceleration. It is posited that decision-makers perceive high velocity change and/or high acceleration of change in the power-ratio between them and a potential adversary as threatening. The lack of reaction time encourages the decision-makers to act in non-traditional ways. Thus, they opt for hostilities or alliance partners rather than utilize traditional diplomatic m

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Mantell, Emily. "Political Art Censorship: A Productive Power." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1492785190400738.

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Al-Tuwaijri, Hamad Ibrahim Abdul Rahman. "Political power and rule in Kuwait." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1996. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1687/.

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Kailitz, Steffen, and Daniel Stockemer. "Regime legitimation, elite cohesion and the durability of autocratic regime types." Sage, 2017. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35555.

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We present a theory that addresses the question of why autocracies with a regime legitimation which ties the destiny of the members of the ruling elite, namely the nobility or ideocratic elite, to the survival of the autocracy, namely (ruling) monarchies and communist ideocracies, are more durable than other kinds of autocracies. Using logistic regression analysis and event history analysis on a dataset on autocratic regimes in the period 1946 to 2009, we are able to show that ruling monarchies and communist ideocracies are indeed the most durable autocratic regime types.

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Rothkegel, Lisa. "The power of power : regime dynamics and the Southern African power pool." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79984.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Electricity is the key to economic growth and numerous aspects of human development. Africa’s installed generation capacity is dire, alongside it being the biggest funding backlog the power sector. There is however hope with the projection that to date, only 7% of this power potential has been harnessed. The increased acknowledgement of the importance of electricity for states to improve along with the knowledge that the capacity is there, has driven states within Southern Africa, to engage in increased and committed cooperation

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Fouirnaies, Alexander. "Essays on campaign finance and political power." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3298/.

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This thesis is concerned with the influence of campaign finance on the interplay between political power and electoral competition in the United States and the United Kingdom. The thesis considers both the donation and expenditure sides of campaign finance: In the context of U.S. state and federal legislative elections (1980-2014), I study how political power affects the allocation of campaign contributions, and in the context of U.K. House of Commons elections (1885-2010), I examine how campaign spending restrictions affect political power via electoral behavior. The three papers which make u

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Davies, Thomas Adam. "Black power in the American political tradition." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5859/.

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Shedding new light on the relationship between Black Power and mainstream American politics and society, this thesis explores the ways in which white politicians, institutions, and organizations engaged with, and responded to, African Americans‘ demands for economic and political empowerment during the mid-to-late 1960s through the mid-1970s. At the same time, it considers how these demands themselves reflected urban African American communities‘ own responses to, and engagement with, Black Power ideology. The final and broadest concern of this study is how these two processes – along with the

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Uležić, Sanjin. "'Making the most of it': the emergence, maintenance, and legitimation of the contemporary Northern Irish republican armed struggle." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/459252.

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La tesi es centra en l'actual interació de la lluita armada republicana a Irlanda del Nord, activa des de l'època del procés de pau a finals dels anys noranta. Tot i caracteritzar-se per una intensitat menor que la del conflicte armat que es va produir entre 1969 i 1998, l'actual campanya de violència política continua sent letal, amb episodis periòdics de violència dirigits contra ambdues entitats estatals i contra aquells entesos com a amenaces per a les comunitats nacionalistes. La tesi doctoral aquí presentada assumeix la tasca d'estudiar aquesta lluita armada des d'una triple perspectiva

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Harper, Jo. "Continuity within chaos : the role of political discourse in the rebuilding of Communist Party legitimation in Poland, 1988-90." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1543/.

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This thesis deals with the ways in which the Polish United Workers' Party's (PZPR) political discourse and its modes of political legitimation changed during the period of the transformation of the political system in Poland between 1988 and 1990. The central hypothesis is that the PZPR retained a strong series of discursive continuities during this period, although partially reconstructed its discourses along three main axes: Civil -Public/Private, Geopolitical - West/East and Historical - Past/Present. Each element emerged out of the PZPR's existing discourses and simultaneously transformed

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Clarence, Sherran. "Enabling cumulative knowledge-building through teaching: a legitimation code theory analysis of pedagogic practice in law and political science." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011763.

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Much current research and practice in teaching and learning in higher education tends to overfocus on social aspects of education; on how rather than what students are learning. Much of this research and practice is influenced by constructivism, which has a relativist stance on knowledge, generally arguing, contra positivism, that knowledge is constructed in socio-historical contexts and largely inseparable from those who construct it and from issues of power. This leads to a confusion of knowledge with knowing, and knowledge is thus obscured as an object of study because it is only seen or un

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McLoughlin, Claire Louise. "When does service provision support or undermine state legitimacy? : higher education and processes of state (de-) legitimation in Sri Lanka." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7716/.

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This thesis examines the received wisdom in state-building debates that service provision can improve state legitimacy. It presents an in-depth, historical study of the relationship between university education and processes of state (de-)legitimation in Sri Lanka. The analysis focuses on three critical junctures when the social contract around higher education was being made, broken and defended. The major finding is that service provision can matter for state legitimacy, but not in the instrumental sense depicted in state-building models. Service provision needs to satisfy certain shared val

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Parks, Ryan William. "Rhetorical strategies of legitimation : the 9/11 Commission's public inquiry process." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2470.

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This research project seeks to explore aspects of the post-reporting phase of the public inquiry process. Central to the public inquiry process is the concept of legitimacy and the idea that a public inquiry provides and opportunity to re-legitimate the credibility of failed public institutions. The current literature asserts that public inquiries re-legitimise through the production of authoritative narratives. As such, most of this scholarship has focused on the production of inquiry reports and, more recently, the reports themselves. However, in an era of accountability, and in the aftermat

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Prato, Giuliana Beatrice. "Political representation and new forms of political action in Italy : the case of the Brindisi." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365862.

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Zima, Amanda H. "Young Voters and the Power of Political Internet Culture: An Exploration of Political Websites and Political Engagement." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1243606048.

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Thesis (M. Ap. C.T. & M.)--Cleveland State University, 2009.<br>Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 17, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-76). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center. Also available in print.

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Alsaif, Tawfiq M. "Religion and the legitimation of the state : the development of political thought in contemporary Shi’ism (Case study Iran 1979-2004)." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2005. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/92qvq/religion-and-the-legitimation-of-the-state-the-development-of-political-thought-in-contemporary-shi-ism-case-study-iran-1979-2004.

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Since the early 1990s, the Middle East has witnessed a renewed interest in the debate over the role of religion in the process of democratization. This study aims to examine the possibility of developing a democratic discourse within the Islamic context. It focuses on the evolution of the political thought in Shi'i Islam in the context of Iran after the Islamic revolution of 1979. The reconciliation between religion and democracy is argued to be a two-phase process: in the first phase, religion is integrated into the state in order to bring about a consensual political system and engage the pe

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Pronger, Brian. "Political power in the science of physical fitness." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq28041.pdf.

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Rye, Daniel James. "Political parties and power : a multi-dimensional analysis." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2012. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/40/.

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Political parties are ideal subjects for the study of power because they are specific sites in which it is produced and organised, fought over, captured and lost. However, the literature on political parties largely lacks an explicit and systematic theorisation of power as it is exercised and operates in them. As a result, the study of parties has not kept up with developments in theoretical approaches to power and power relations. For example, the failure to recognise how power works through constituting subjects who are empowered as effective agents with appropriate skills and capacities is

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McKee, Dan. "Critical examination of ethical justifications for political power." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2008. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54732/.

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In this thesis I argue that formal political power is a human-created artificiality, erected over previously unfettered lives for a specific purpose. As such, the act of establishing and maintaining political power can be assessed like any other person-affecting act, ethically, and must always be justified if it is to be considered legitimate. I show that underlying all such attempted justifications for political power is an implicit, but necessary, ethical contract: that political power X is justified only because it makes life 'better' for 'people' than it would be without it. Utilizing a fo

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Thorpe, Ann. "Design and Political Resistance : Tactics, Power, and Transformation." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524786.

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Alhumami, Amich. "Political power, corruption, and witchcraft in modern Indonesia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39273/.

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This thesis examines the relationships between political power, corruption, and witchcraft in modern Indonesia through an analysis of the discursive construction of these concepts in Indonesian society. The subject is approached through an observation of how public discourses of corruption and sorcery are used by people in an instrumental way to talk about and understand political processes in the country. The central argument of the thesis is that Indonesian society experiences contemporary politics in a context that combines values and practices of political modernity and secular rationality

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Potari, Despoina. "Power in political thought : a comparative conceptual morphology." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:383dc200-e915-4c80-bedb-b98cf16ed3db.

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The aim of this thesis is to resurrect interest in the concept of power in political theory by shedding light on some of its relatively unexplored discursive dimensions and developing a fresh approach to its understanding. Particularly, it studies an under-examined theme in the current literature, which, however, forms a crucial aspect determining different definitions of power: in what manner do different ways of thinking about power underpin variable conceptual formulations and theoretical interpretations of this key political concept? What types of cognitive, ideational and conceptual 'micr

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Idema, Timo. "Brain power : the political economy of higher education." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1f92e1b3-ddfa-4467-a36e-8ea3273b7e7e.

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This dissertation disputes conventional interpretations of the comparative political economy literature on higher education. In particular, I challenge the common assumption that access to higher education is structured by income. Instead, based on insights from the relevant psychology, sociology and economics literature, I argue that a child's probability of entering higher education is predominantly a function of her abilities, and that her abilities are strongly related to her parents' level of education. I develop a theory of the distributive politics of higher education solidly grounded i

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Souza, Vilmar Ferreira de. "Power relations in Padre Cícero's epistolary political discourse." Florianópolis, SC, 2011. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/95058.

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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-25T20:09:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 299821.pdf: 1348939 bytes, checksum: b9f9a6a82914a2020f00e8f7481a9152 (MD5)<br>The "Phenomenon of Juazeiro" has fascinated the academic world as Braga (2008) in anthropology, Araujo (2007) in economics, and della Cava (1970) in history attest. Nevertheless, research from a linguistic and discourse perspective has lagged far behind. To tap this gap, the

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Araujo-Quintero, Carolina. "Barack Obama's rise to power : reinventing political campaigns." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11897.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>This research paper uses content analysis to analyse the subtext of Obama's campaign messages and virtual ethnography to analyse the way that information technology was used to further his campaign's goals. The findings suggest that while historic forces, such as economic turbulence and the unpopularity of outgoing President George W Bush, helped propel Obama to power, his campaign was nonetheless revolutionary. It will be argued that it contained several elements of trail blazing innovation that are likely to redefine political com

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