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Prata, Adriana. "Government domination, consensus or chaos? a study of party discipline and agenda control in national legislatures /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3237560.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed December 12, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-143).
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Taylor, Dominic Alexander. "David Hume and the Search for Social Consensus." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625817.
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Brubaker, Dale M. "Predicting strength of consensus in small groups." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222009-040244/.
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Ng, Isabel Wing-chun. "A cross cultural study of power and power motivation in China and the United States." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3253369.
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Polk, John W. "The effects of an expert on the small-group consensus process." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10222009-125127/.
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Morrow, Jeffrey A. "Tracking consensus in product development teams /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10694.
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Bassin, Genevieve School of Politics & International Relations UNSW. "The agony of human rights a discussion and eveluation of the illusive consensus." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Politics and International Relations, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/30516.
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How can a normative consensus on human rights develop out of a plurality of different and conflicting ethico-cultural discourses? It is frequently assumed that any agreement on universal human rights must necessarily occur in spite of pluralism from which conflict might arise. Consequently, various images of consensus have been proposed wherein pluralism is viewed as something to be mitigated or overcome. However, such images of consensus fail to offer a satisfactory response to the original question since they fail to fully recognise the political and contestational nature of human rights discourse. This thesis aims to address questions as to how conflict and contingency, both commonly associated with pluralism, can be mediated in a way that is constructive of a particular political community, and constitutive of a vital and innovative discourse on human rights. Hence, theories on agonistic pluralism are discussed and evaluated since they address this very issue ??? the potential for struggle to act as a constructive force. Also in this thesis, a historical analysis of key milestones in the development of a human rights discourse is presented wherein it is argued that human rights have indeed been contingent upon particular instances of struggle and have found expression in a plurality of distinct ethico-cultural discourses. Finally, in order to further illustrate the adaptability of human rights to more than one ethical discourse, examples are presented in which various Muslim scholar-activists justify human rights norms according to Islamic doctrinal principles. Overall, it is the argument of this thesis that it is possible to imagine a human rights consensus, not as a ???world consensus???, but in terms of a sectional political association whose membership is culturally pluralist. In saying this, it must be acknowledged that this construction is necessarily always precarious, precisely because of the contestational, contingent and transformative nature of the discourse of human rights. Also, although only sectional in terms of its support base, the ???consensus??? I describe necessarily strives to become a universal consensus. While universal respect for human rights is ultimately illusive, in view of the universalism of human rights as a discourse, to strive for anything less is unacceptable. In the end, the constant struggle to establish a universal consensus on human rights is precisely that which effects positive, practical change.
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Verlhiac, Jean-François. "L'effet de faux consensus et jugement social : une contribution expérimentale." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995CLF20085.
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L'auteur entreprend une revue de questions de la littérature concernant l'effet de faux consensus (F. C. E), qui est l'a priori des sujets selon lequel leurs goûts ou leurs comportements sont appropriés, tandis qu'ils jugent déviantes les réponses qui divergent des leurs. Il montre que les processus cognitifs relativement généraux oeuvrent pour l'apparition du FCE. Mais, il plaide pour une large prise en compte de ce phénomène comme stratégie d'adaptation sociale du sujet aux propriétés changeantes du milieu dans lequel il est placé. C'est dans ce cadre que l'auteur montre l'importance du contexte qui conditionne l'actualisation et le renforcement ou l'affaiblissement du FCE. Plus précisément, il montre que l'ajustement des jugements de consensus aux propriétés du milieu dépend du contexte de présentation des informations à propos du consensus que les sujets croient avoir en leur possession. Enfin, l'auteur montre dans quelle mesure le contexte social génère des dynamiques de raisonnement spécifiques aux configurations qu'il prend<br>The author undertakes a review of questions of the literature concerning the false consensus effect (f. C. E. ), that is the tendency of a subject to think that his opinions are appropriated, while he judges opinions of others rather abnormal when they differ from its point of view. He shows that relatively general cognitive processes entail the presence of the f. C. E. But he pleads for a large taken into account of this phenomenon as social adaptation strategy of the subject to changing properties of the context in which he is placed. In this framework, the author shows the importance of the context that determines the strengthening or the weakening of the f. C. E. . More precisely, he notes that the adjustment of consensus judgements to properties of the environment depends on the context of presentation of information to purpose of the consensus that subjets believe to have in their possession. Finally, the author shows how the social context generates specific reasoning dynamics to configurations that it takes
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Lai, Wing-pang. "Consensus building in planning in Hong Kong : a case study of Southeast Kowloon development /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25248388.
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Finkle, Clea T. "State, power, and police in colonial North India /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10697.
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Grosso, Laura Margaret. "Computing collaboration : a study of the potential of model building to facilitate urban water supply planning in selected cities of Zimbabwe, Estonia, and Sweden /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10804.
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Keeling, John F. "The effects of meeting participation and outcome expectations on strength of consensus." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02132009-171316/.
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Howard, Peter R. "Redemptive power a theological framework for using social power /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Walsh, Christine M. "The effects of group members' personality traits and influence on individual consensus." Thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07212009-040325/.
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Desai, Amar Dasrath Jayant. "Politics and religion : the need for an overlapping consensus (an exemplar from the Hindu tradition)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021968/.
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This Thesis examines the consensus Hinduism in India shares with the ideology of liberal pluralism, and applies these reflections to religious education in the English context. The Rawlsian theory of justice models the political structure of a liberal plural society. Insights from communitarianism, relativism and Alasdair Maclntyre, are critically assessed and used to enlarge this model. Further, Carol Gilligan and Tom Kitwood emphasise that moral citizens in a plural society need, and must provide, a caring and open environment. The overlapping consensus across liberal pluralism and the Hindu tradition is assessed at the (i) theological and (ii) empirical levels. (i) Vedantic concepts are formulated to highlight a potentially strong consensus across Vedantic and liberal viewpoints. The presentation of God as a caring and egalitarian mother is emphasised. (ii) A landscape survey (sample size 550) was conducted to help focus the case-study investigations. Case-studies of four Indian young Hindus studied attitudes towards pluralism through discussions on Ayodhya 1992. The minute sample size of the casestudy meant that this data could not, in itself, justify inductive generalisation. Nevertheless, the case-studies did highlight some important and disconcerting voices, and did not contradict the conclusions from the larger landscape survey. The data warns that contemporary sentiment may be incongruent with the potentially strong consensus across liberal pluralism and Vedantic theology. The conditions responsible for this are explored. It is suggested that a combination of secularism and the exclusion of religious education from State education has contributed to ignorance of liberal theological imperatives and reinforced the communal isolation between the Hindu and Muslim communities. Amongst Hindus, this has caused suspicion and illiberal attitudes. The lessons from India are applied to the English plural situation. Juxtaposing Rawlsian theory aside recent pragmatic initiatives, a model for religious education suitable for the perpetuation of a liberal pluralism is proposed. This Interface Approach Towards a Liberal Indigenous Charter (IATaLIC) model respects liberal justice but recognises the classroom educator's limitations in motivating young persons with a strong religious identity towards a liberal disposition. Equally problematically, traditional religious leaders and scholars within the community may not care for justice. Hence the classroom religious educator, sympathetic towards both the liberal and traditional agendas, must work with the community leaders and scholars. Educators must encourage these personnel to excavate liberal principles from their religious texts, and then evangelise these principles throughout their community. Then, justice will be met and communal integrity maintained. Communal tension in India may be due to a liberal State prohibiting such an approach. In England, opportunities do exist for education to establish a consensus across religious and liberal viewpoints. Such opportunities should not be neglected.
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Cook, Jonathan E. "Social stigma and subjective power in naturalistic social interaction /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1400960581&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-107). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Wright, Michele E. "Power suits her : an arts-based portrayal of women and power." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79813.
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This arts-based study examines how three women, who hold senior positions in development organizations, perceive of power. Emphasis is placed not only on how the participants describe their power identities, but also on how those identities can be portrayed. Based on data collected in interviews and drawing on the metaphors of portraiture, the power suit and the feminist conception of "voice", the women's power identities are represented in three ways: textually (in the form of "power identity profiles"), visually (in the form of "power suit" costume designs) and aurally (in the form of dramatic monologues). Through notes, descriptions, outlines and explanations the entire process of this aesthetic/interpretive inquiry is documented.<br>While not being offered as a generalizable or even representative sample, the three women in this study illustrate the importance of diverse, individualized inquiry approaches in order to appreciate and represent the nuance and contradiction inherent to women's thoughts and feelings about power.
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Watkins, Dawn Adele. "Consensus decision-making at Guilford College : a case study analysis /." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07112009-040429/.
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Cobb, Shane Kent. "Consociational democracy : the model and its relevance to conflict regulation in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15831.
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Bibliography: pages 180-190.<br>The purpose of this paper is to survey the literature of consociational theory, assess its validity as a conceptual model, and to analyse both its relevance and utility as a potential framework of conflict regulation in South Africa. The paper is divided into five chapters: an overview of consociational theory as it is presented by its leading exponents; a critique of the theory's methodology and major suppositions; a modified model of consociational democracy in light of the theoretical criticisms; an application and evaluation of the modified model to South Africa; and, finally, some observations about consociational democracy's possible viability as a transitory mechanism between the present system and black majority-rule in a unitary system. The objective is to illustrate that consociational government is, normatively, an inadequate constitutional system for South Africa and, more broadly, for polities characterised by extreme ethnic or economic conflict.
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Lavoie, Carmen. "Race, power and social action in neighbourhood community organizing: a case study." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92272.
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This thesis asks the following question: "how does race and ethnicity emerge in the daily practice of community organizers who work in low-income, multi-racial, multi-ethnic neighbourhoods?" Given that the concepts of race and ethnicity are understood to be social constructs, community organizing practice is analysed in this thesis in terms of its' constitutive role. By examining community organizing practice in one neighbourhood in Québec, Canada, I argue that issues of race and ethnicity are largely constructed in community organizing practice as distinct from relations of power. I demonstrate this construction of race and ethnicity using data gathered from 16 community organizers through interviews, textual analysis and observations. I analyse the data from three angles: first, actions regarding issues of race and ethnicity that are normalized (i.e. "possible"); second, actions regarding issues of race and ethnicity that are constrained (i.e. "not possible"); and, lastly, actions that are resistant to normalized and/or constrained practices, and that link race and ethnicity to power relations. In this way, I delineate Foucault's "field of action" (1982, p. 221) regarding race and ethnicity in neighbourhood community organizing and demonstrate how the structure of power in community organizing functions to render the connection between race and power largely invisible.<br>Cette thèse pose la question suivante : «Comment la race et l'ethnicité émergent dans la pratique quotidienne des organisateurs communautaires qui oeuvrent dans des quartiers à faible revenu, multiraciaux et multiethniques ?» Étant donné que les concepts de race et d'appartenance ethnique sont compris pour être des constructs sociaux, la pratique d'organisation des communautés est analysée dans cette thèse en termes de son rôle constitutif.En examinant la pratique d'organisation des communauté dans un quartier de Québec au Canada, je soutiens que les questions de race et d'appartenance ethnique sont en grande partie construites dans la pratique d'organisation de communauté par opposition aux relations de pouvoir. Je démontre cette construction de race et d'appartenance ethnique utilisant des données rassemblées auprès de 16 organisateurs communautaires par des interviews, l'analyse de textes et des observations. J'analyse les données de trois angles : d'abord, les actions quant aux questions de race et d'appartenance ethnique qui sont normalisées (c'est-à-dire «possible»); deuxièmement, des actions quant aux questions de race et d'appartenance ethnique qui sont contraintes (c'est-à-dire «non possible»); et, finalement, les actions qui sont résistantes aux pratiques normalisées et/ou contraintes et qui relie race et appartenance ethnique pour faire fonctionner des relations. De cette façon, je définis «le champ d'action» de Foucault (1982, p. 221) quant à la race et l'appartenance ethnique dans les organisations communautaires de quartier et démontrent comment la structure de pouvoir dans la communauté organisant des fonctions pour rendre la connexion entre la race et le pouvoir en grande partie invisible.
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Kiernan, Annabel K. "Power and policymaking." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4222/.
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This thesis is concerned with approaches to policymaking analysis. It argues that dominant neo-pluralist theories of policymaking have limited explanatory force. This arises from the method of inquiry, which necessarily limits the scope of analysis. The emphasis on inductive methods, coupled with a narrow focus on nonformalised sub-state networks, produces a model which is a useful way of identifying non-state policy actors, but which has no explanatory capacity outside such networks. In particular two weaknesses in network analysis are highlighted as significant. The first is that neo-pluralism does not account for the possible constraint on meso-level activity by the state. The state's ability to constrain individual agency may arise either from its position as a distinct social actor, or from it being an aspect of structural constraint. As this latter point implies, the second key weakness with neo-pluralist network analysis is owing to its structural indeterminism. The thesis argues that an adequate account of the policymaking process must recognise the possibility of limits to actor autonomy which arise from individual interaction with structure. Although the argument is made for a structural dimension to policymaking analysis, it concedes the dangers of functionalism and determinism which can arise from the application of structural frameworks. Consequently, the thesis argues for a duality of structure and agency as the core of political analysis. This argument is made on theoretical grounds, and via discussion of an empirical case study of the EU Task Force Environment: Water. The argument then is for a dual approach to policymaking which utilises both inductive and deductive methods. It is argued (a) that a Marxist analysis of the state and the structural constraints of capitalism can be combined (although not integrated) with networks analysis in a dual approach, and (b) that this combination provides the best model of policymaking.
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Eftychiou, Evi. "Power and tourism : negotiating identity in rural Cyprus." Thesis, University of Hull, 2013. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:10420.
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This thesis focuses on the disputed identity of rural Cyprus. It is an ethnographic study on tourism that argues that the power of western hegemony, not only defines but also reverses the definition of ‘modern’ identity in the cultural setting of Cyprus in a way that its authority is maintained and legitimized. By focusing on identity politics and tourism in the Troodos mountainous region, this study examines the conflict between native elites and locals over the definition of modernity. In the postcolonial setting of the 1960s, native elites reproduced the western vision of ‘development’, ‘progress’ and ‘modernity’, as expressed in Europe after the Second World War. The invented concept of ‘modernity’ was introduced by native elites and was translated into policies and strategies towards the achievement of rapid ‘progress’ and the development of mass tourism in the coastal zones of Cyprus. As a result, the Cypriot authorities neglected Troodos mountainous region as a low--‐priority area and its residents were exposed as underdeveloped, backward peasants. The economic boom of the 1970s and 1980s, provided to rural residents the opportunity to, finally achieve ‘progress’, by reproducing the mass tourism model. In the meantime though, the native elites reversed the definition of modernity, which reproduced the western principles of sustainable development, environmental and cultural heritage protection. The ‘underdeveloped’ region of Troodos, was now identified as ideal for the implementation of environment and heritage conservation projects, with the ultimate goal of developing small scale, cultural tourism in the area. In this context, native elites appropriate material tradition, in other words elements that were once classified as evidence of backwardness, in order to achieve ‘modernity’. The denial of locals to reproduce the new paradigm of development and their persistence to strive for material modernity left them once again exposed as ‘backward’, ‘ignorant’ and ‘parvenus’ peasants.
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Jacobz, Melville. "Objectivity, power and interests : a sociological analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52376.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Discourse about the human world has, since Socrates, been structured around the
assumption that one view of a given matter is better than competing views, and that
argumentation, if carried out correctly and systematically, will favour the view which
has the preponderance of reasons and evidence on its side. If this supposition were
dropped, the nature of social scientific inquiry would change significantly.
For many commentators in the social sciences the ineliminable interpretative
dimension of social inquiry and the standpoint-bound character of interpretation lead
to the conclusion that we have to abandon any notion of objective truth in the social
sciences. The central question raised in this thesis is whether this abandonment is
inevitable or even plausible. Is it plausible to conflate objectivity and truth? Is
objectivity a possible characteristic of the individual researcher or a characteristic of
the scientific research process? Does the cultural environment of the researcher
impact on the validity of research findings? If science is a social phenomenon, are
scientific beliefs different from other beliefs? How do the interests of the individual
researcher or the formal organisation of scientific practice impact on the validity of
findings? What role does power play in the shaping of knowledge? These are the
questions that will be addressed in the following thesis.
The methodology of Max Weber serves as a point of departure and divergences
and similarities to the work of Weber are explored in the writings of Kuhn, the
Edinburgh School, Latour, Foucault, Habermas, as well as contemporary
postmodernist and feminist writers. The analysis of these various concepts and
approaches is not presented chronologically, but rather as an exposition of the
contributors of various commentators in the fields of both the sociology of science
and knowledge, and the philosophy of science.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Diskoers oor die menslike wêreld is, sedert Socrates, gestuktureer rondom die
aanname dat een siening van 'n gegewe saak beter is as mededingende sienings,
en dat argumentasie, indien korrek en sistematies uitgevoer, ten voordeel sal wees
van die siening wat gesteun word deur die oormaat van redes en bewyse. As ons
hierdie aanname sou laat vaar, sal die stand van sosiaal wetenskaplike ondersoek
ingrypend verander.
Vir menige kommentator in die sosiale wetenskappe lei die onafwendbare
interpretatiewe dimensie van maatskaplike ondersoek, en die standpunt-gebonde
aard van interpretasie, tot die gevolgtrekking dat ons enige opvatting van
objektiwiteit in die sosiale wetenskappe moet laat vaar. Die kernvraag in hierdie
tesis is of hierdie verskuiwing onvermydelik of selfs aanneemlik is. Is dit geldig om
objektiwiteit en waarheid saam te snoer? Is objektiwiteit 'n moontlike eienskap van
die individuele navorser, of 'n eienskap van die navorsingsproses? Watter impak het
die kulturele omgewing van die navorser op die geldigheid van die
navorsingsbevindinge? As wetenskap 'n sosiale fenomeen is, is wetenskaplike
oortuigings enigsins anders as ander oortuigings? Watter impak het die belange van
'n individuele navorser, of die formele organsiasie van wetenskaplike praktyk, op die
geldigheid van bevindings? Watter rol speel mag in die vorming en skepping van
kennis? Hierdie is die vrae wat aangespreek word in dié tesis.
Die metodologie van Max Weber dien as vertrekpunt, en ooreenkomste tot en
afwykings van die sienings van Weber word ondersoek in die werk van Kuhn, die
"Edinburgh School", Latour, Foucault, Habermas, sowel as kontemporêre
postmoderne en feministiese skrywers. Die analise van hierdie verskeie konsepte
en benaderings word nie kronologies aangebied nie, maar eerder as 'n uiteensetting
van die bydraes van verskeie kommentators op die gebied van die sosiologie van
die wetenskap en van kennis, sowel as die filosofie van wetenskap.
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Law, Chun-nam, and 羅振南. "Civilianization of disciplined services of the HKSAR Government: authentic consensus through communicativeaction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36450935.
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Frantz, Erica Emily. "Tying the dictator's hands elite coalitions in authoritarian regimes /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1579964161&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Sanche, Andrea. "Toronto the Good: devolution and the transformative power of municipal regulation." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92407.
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This paper outlines how the devolution of power from federal and provincial governments to municipalities has expanded and the role of municipal law. This shift in power to municipalities was supported by courts and buttressed by a shift in political philosophy. This paper demonstrates that although many critics have argued that municipal regulation has been used to marginalize already marginalized groups, it may also have a transformative effect on cities and their residents. Using the case study of municipal regulation passed in the City of Toronto, this paper argues that while this transformation may result in marginalization, it may also allow for the inclusion of more and more diverse voices in municipal decision-making.<br>Ce document décrit la façon dont la décentralisation du pouvoir des gouvernements fédéral et provincial aux municipalités s'est élargie et le rôle du droit municipal. Ce transfert de pouvoir aux municipalités a été appuyée par les tribunaux et étayée par un changement de philosophie politique. Le présent document démontre que, bien que de nombreux critiques ont fait valoir que le règlement municipal a été utilisé pour marginaliser les groupes déjà marginalisés, elle mai également avoir un effet transformateur sur les villes et leurs habitants. Utilisation de l'étude de cas du règlement municipal adopté dans la ville de Toronto, ce document fait valoir que, si cette transformation mai fait à l'exclusion, elle mai également permettre l'inclusion des voix de plus en plus diverses dans le processus décisionnel municipal.
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Barnard, Susan Smith. "Interior design creativity : the development and testing of a methodology for the consensual assessment of projects /." Diss., This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-134734/.
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Charlton, Kelly. "Attempting to gain access into a high power group : the effects of boundary permeability and outcome /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901224.
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Antshuka, Ngonga Lokengo. "Le consensus politique, une voie pour (re)construire la démocratie en Afrique: essai d'analyse du processus de démocratisation en Afrique subsaharienne." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211714.
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Pun, Sing-mei. "Controlling women : sexuality, imperialism and power /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20059887.
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Yamamoto, Takashi. "Issues of Consensus and Concern: Family Relationships of the Elderly in the United States and Japan." DigitalCommons@USU, 1995. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2400.
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The purpose of this study was to explore cultural differences between America and Japan concerning four domains: past family relationships, current family relationships, the support network, and well-being.
Concern and consensus in the family are the principal background issues in this study. In America there has been a change from consensus (sharing basic similarity of values or attitudes and interests) to concern (an intense emotional involvement and affectional closeness). In contrasting the American and Japanese societies, consensus and concern constitute different orders from a more traditional context to the current societal context. This cultural difference impacts the relationship between the dynamics of the family in the early formative years, and how the individual responds within the current family. Ramifications are apparent in the quality of the current relationships, use of informal and formal support networks, and individual well-being.
The Family of Origin Scale was used to measure past family relationships. The Positive Affect Index and Interaction Index were used to measure current family relationships. The support network was measured by questions selected from the Older Americans Resources and Services Program. The revised version of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Moral Scale, the Life Satisfaction Index A, and the LSI-K (1990) constituted the measurement devices for personal well-being. The sample consisted of elderly individuals 70 to 79 years of age, 77 from America and 42 from Japan.
The major finding in America was that this society has changed from a consensus to a concern orientation. For example, autonomy is positively related to personal well-being. The relationship holds true in terms of past family experiences as well as current family relationships.
The data also show the impact of rapid social change in the nation of Japan. Japanese culture reflects an orientation change from traditional family concern to more of a consensus perspective. Family and personal well-being are related to perceived family intimacy in the past. A positive perception of current family relations was related to solidarity. It was concluded that rapid social change and modernization in Japan have brought about these major changes in terms of consensus and concern. Shifts on these two dimensions have implications for the adjustment and well-being of the elderly in a family context.
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Law, Chun-nam. "Civilianization of disciplined services of the HKSAR Government authentic consensus through communicative action /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36450935.
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Doucet, Denise. "The power of sweet words: local counselling and other forms of help among women in rual post-conflict Sierra Leone." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106232.
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Thousands of women were affected by the civil war in Sierra Leone, which took place between 1991 and 2002. Using a postcolonial framework, the study explores the wartime experiences of women, and examines the ways in which women provided assistance to one another in the early post-conflict period. Qualitative interviews were conducted with two distinct sets of participants in rural Sierra Leone: 1) women who suffered various forms of abuse during the war, and 2) female leaders who were active participants in the healing process of others. Results reveal discrepancies between the model of intervention used by international agencies and local helping mechanisms. Overall, help provided by local female leaders was shown to be more significant to war-affected women than international interventions. Based on these findings, recommendations for improved social work practices in post-conflict settings are presented. Implications of these findings for the field of international social work are also discussed.<br>Des milliers de femmes ont été touchées par la guerre civile en Sierra Leone qui a eu lieu entre 1991 et 2002. À l'aide d'un cadre théorique postcolonial, l'étude explore les expériences de guerre des femmes et examine les différentes manières dont les femmes se sont entraidées dans la période d'après-guerre. Des entrevues qualitatives ont été menées en région rurale en Sierra Leone avec deux groupes de participantes distincts : 1) des femmes ayant subies différentes formes d'abus durant la guerre, et 2) des femmes qui sont intervenues auprès d'autres femmes dans le besoin. Les résultats démontrent des écarts importants entre le modèle actuel d'intervention utilisé par les agences internationales et les interventions utilisées par les instances locales. De manière générale, les interventions locales ont eu un effet plus significatif sur le processus de guérison des femmes que les interventions internationales. Les données de cette recherche sont utilisées pour développer des recommandations afin d'améliorer les pratiques de travail social en période d'après-guerre. Les répercussions de ces résultats sur le domaine du travail social international sont également discutées.
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Pritchard, Matthew. "Land, power and peace: Land tenure systems and the formalization agenda in Rwanda." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96716.
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Land tenure and agricultural reform are essential components of postwar development. This is especially true in Rwanda, where eighty percent of the population depends on subsistence agriculture in a rural system plagued by declining production and increasing population pressure. Given these challenges, in 2005 the Government of Rwanda introduced an ambitious set of tenure and agriculture reforms designed to replace subsistence farmers with a highly commercialized and professional agricultural sector. While introduced as a 'pro-poor' policy, field data demonstrate that the Government has shifted away from tenure reform as a means to physically consolidate land, and is currently striving to realize economies of scale through mandatory crop specialization. Furthermore, data demonstrate that the Government's desire to consolidate land holdings through tenure and agricultural policies has decreased food and tenure security, restricted farmers' rights and undermined subsistence livelihoods. While decreasing production and increasing conflict over land validate the need to reorganize rural Rwanda, the goals of Government tenure policies, forceful implementation of large-scale changes, and continued marginalization of the most vulnerable groups present a significant challenge to rural reform, and undermine the state's long-term strategy for macro-economic growth.<br>La réforme du régime foncier et du secteur agricole sont des éléments essentiels du développement en situation d'après-guerre. Ceci est particulièrement vrai au Rwanda, où quatre-vingt pourcent de la population Rwandaise dépend de l'agriculture de subsistance dans un système rural envahi et débordé par une production déclinante et une grande croissance de population. Prenant compte de ces obstacles, en 2005 le Gouvernement Rwandais introduit une série ambitieuse de réformes foncières et agricoles, créés pour remplacer les fermiers de subsistance avec un secteur agricole hautement commercialisé et professionnel. Même si cette nouvelle politique a été introduite supposément «pour les pauvres », des résultats de recherche démontrent que le Gouvernement s'est éloigné de la réforme foncière comme moyen de consolider leurs propriétés, se déplaçant vers la création d'économies d'échelle en imposant des politiques de spécialisation d'espèces partout au Rwanda. De plus, les résultats de travail de terrain démontrent que le désire du Gouvernement de consolider leur territoire foncier à travers de telles politiques fait diminuer la sécurité alimentaire et foncière, limite les droits des fermiers, et décime les moyens de vies de subsistance des Rwandais. Même si une production qui diminue et un conflit de territoire foncier qui s'augmente fait valider la nécessité de réorganiser le Rwanda rural, les buts des politiques foncières du Gouvernement du Rwanda, l'implémentation d'énormes changements par force, et la marginalisation continue des groupes les plus vulnérables présente un grand défi à la réforme rurale, et présente un obstacle à la stratégie à long terme pour une croissance au niveau macro-économique.
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Hossain, Adnan. "Beyond emasculation : pleasure, power and masculinity in the making of hijrahood in Bangladesh." Thesis, University of Hull, 2013. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7989.
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Wilhelmová, Veronika. "Data Biopolitics for Peace? ‘Peace’ as a Technique of Power for Social Control." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22578.
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In light of Sweden’s increased reliance on surveillance for ensuring security within its own borders, as well as the promotion of big data use for the purposes of predictive analyses in support of peacebuilding, these developments warrant critical assessment. This thesis engages in an explanatory critique of the discursive (re-)definitions of peace in 16 officially released online documents of the Government Offices of Sweden against the backdrop of the increasing use of data technology. The study follows a qualitative design and utilises critical discourse analysis as its methodology while employing data biopolitics as a theoretical lens. The thesis argues that the understanding of and focus on peace establishes peace as a violent means of ordering society, whilst constructing and reproducing social relations marked by asymmetric power and knowledge dynamics and epistemic violence. The analysis suggests that the texts’ discursive and social practices indicate an increasingly reproduced focus on peace and security for development by means of social control enabled by various forms of data technology. Finally, the study reflects on the wider socio-cultural implications of the social relations, identities, and the social world envisioned by the texts and suggests potential paths for future research.
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Brodin, Nils, and Johan Hanberg. "Efficient Power : A discourse analysis of energy efficiency policies from Finland and Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Globala studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-36429.
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Rosenberg, Rae. "Trans* individuals in the U.S. prison industrial complex: carceral power, hypermasculinity and transgender subversions." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119754.
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The conditions of incarceration for transgender individuals in the United States have become a concern of activists and scholars. The multiple forms of mistreatment that target transgender prisoners have been noted to include humiliation, harassment, assault, and the denial of various rights. Due to the small scale of the current body of research surrounding incarcerated trans* individuals, my research explores more detailed accounts of incarcerated trans* feminine prisoners across the United States to gather the variety of physical and psychological trauma they endure, as well as other aspects of their lives such as gender embodiment and ways in which they resist carceral impositions of gender expression and transphobia. Through qualitative research methods, my data presents subjective and comprehensive accounts of incarceration by trans* feminine prisoners and the numerous material and corporeal consequences they face in prison. I argue that my research suggests the ways in which carceral institutions and hegemonic masculinity impose power through corporeal and psychological domination over transgender prisoners. Additionally, my data displays how carceral and hypermasculine supremacy can be resisted and challenged by the ways in which transgender prisoners engage in bodily sovereignty and assert their gender identities. My research provides new information regarding incarcerated transgender populations through a larger-scale analysis that teases apart the intricacies of how incarceration impacts transgender prisoners, as well as points to strategies for how advocates can support transgender prisoners.<br>Les conditions dans lesquelles les individus transgenres sont incarcérés aux États-Unis sont devenues inquiétantes pour certains activistes et experts. Plusieurs formes d'abus à l'égard des prisonniers transgenres sont identifiables, dont l'humiliation, le harcèlement, les agressions, et le déni de droits variés. Vue la petite échelle du corps d'étude qui existe à présent sur les conditions d'incarcération des personnes trans*, mon projet explore des comptes rendus détaillés de prisonniers trans* féminines à travers les États-Unis afin de recueillir des données sur les traumatismes physiques et psychologiques qu'elles/ils subissent, ainsi que d'autres aspects de leur(e)s vies tel que la réalisation des sexes, les moyens par lesquels ells/ils résistent l'imposition carcérale de l'expression des sexes, et la transphobie. Suite à une analyse basée sur des méthodes de recherche qualitatives, les résultats présentent un compte rendu subjectifs et compréhensifs de l'incarcération de prisonniers trans* féminines, y compris les nombreuses conséquences matérielles et corporelles auxquelles ells/ils font face en prison. Les résultats démontrent les moyens par lesquelles les institutions carcérales et la masculinité hégémonique imposent du pouvoir à travers la domination corporelle et psychologique des prisonniers transgenres. De plus, les données exposent les moyens par lesquels la suprématie carcérale et l'hypermasculinité peut être résistée et contestée par les prisonniers transgenres à travers la souveraineté corporelle et l'affirmation de leur identité de genre. Ma recherche fournit de la nouvelle information concernant l'incarcération de populations transgenre à travers une analyse à grande échelle qui sert à démêler les moyens par lesquels l'incarcération impacte les prisonniers transgenres et donne quelques pistes pour les intervenants sur des potentielles stratégies de support pour les prisonniers transgenres.
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Harris, Victor W., and Brian Visconti. "Southern Romance: Relationship Quality, Consensus, and Context Among Cohabiting Couples in the Gulf States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2018/schedule/8.
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Relationship quality, satisfaction and stability have been topics of interest for some time, as marriage and family structure have undergone significant changes since the 1970s. Researchers have observed a continuing decline in marital quality and satisfaction among first-time married couples (Amato, Johnson, Booth, & Rogers, 2003; Schramm & Harris, 2010). This interest in dyadic couple relationship quality was likely driven by the expanding awareness that quality of marital relationships influences a broad range of positive and negative outcomes; healthy, satisfying marriages provide numerous benefits important to individuals and society, while marital dissolution has a profoundly negative effect (Amato, 2010; Cowan & Cowan, 2005; Harris, Schramm, Marshall, & Lee, 2012; Schramm & Harris, 2010). Furthermore, subjective levels of marital quality and satisfaction are predictive of both marital stability and marital dissolution (Gottman, 1994; Gottman & Notarius, 2000). Furthermore, subjective levels of marital quality and satisfaction are predictive of both marital stability and marital dissolution (Gottman, 1994; Gottman & Notarius, 2000).
This study represents a continuing line of research into correlations between relationship quality and satisfaction, intimate partner consensus, and relevant contextual factors among married and unmarried cohabiting couples in a sample of residents in the Gulf States region, which encompasses the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas and included 1,360 respondents. The current study proceeds from an initial baseline study of dyadic couple trends in this region and is part of an ongoing line of research scheduled to continue over the next four years through a federal healthy marriages and relationships grant.
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Vidal, Michel. "L'Institution sportive comme monde domestique? : Consensus et compromis au sein d'un comité sportif régional." Montpellier 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON14001.
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Alors que le sport moderne se trouve traversé d'enjeux financiers, d'adversité politique, d'intérêts locaux, alors qu'il prône la performance en même temps que la simple participation, alors que ses idoles s'enrichissent ouvertement et que ,des chômeurs et des bénévoles les soutiennent, on peut s'interroger sUr le phénomène sportif et plus précisément sur la ,façon dont il parvient à se développer et s'instituer dans la durée au-delà des paradoxes essentiels qui l'habitent. Si, à travers les retransmissions des grandes compétitions, l'exposition du fait sportif est manifeste, son organisation, elle, reste un espace moins éclairé. L'institution sportive constitue donc l'objet de ce travail d'analyse sociologique, afin de comprendre comment celle-ci se tient, comment elle « fait» corps ? Plutôt que faire reposer l'analyse de 'l'institution sportivè sur un ordre unique, qu'il soit marchand, industriel, ou politique, nous avons choisi d'appréhender la complexité de l'unité apparente du sport comme condition initiale de sa réalité. En conséquence, l'apport des Economies de la Grandeur est· venu soutenir de manière pragmatique, une vision organisationnelle mais aussi anthropologique de l'institution sportive, afm de traduire la pluralité des ordres de justification qu'elle recèle. Cette thèse met en évidence l'importance de la référence au monde domestique au sein de l'institution sportive, qui permet de lier la pluralité de ses acteurs en permettant la construction d'accords et de compromis durables<br>While modern sport is through financial, issues of political adversity to local interests, even though it advocates the performance as simple p,hicipation, while its idols enrich openly and unemployed people and volunteers support, can question the sports phenomenon and how it is able to develop and introduce in duration beyond basic paradoxes that inhabit more precisely. If, through major competitions, the sports fact exposure is patent, his organization remains less informed space. The sporting institufion thetefore constitutes the object of this sociological analysis, in order to understand how it is being held, how it "done" corpse? Rather than to base the analysis of the sporting institution on a single order, whether commercial, industrial or political, we chose to understand the complexity of the apparent unit y of sport as initial condition of its reality. Accordingly, the contribution of the sociology of critics came support pragmatically, an organizational and anthropological vision of sporting institution, to translate the plurality of justification Jhat it orders. This thesis emphasizes the importance of the reference to the domestic world princip les of the sporting institution, which allows binding the plurality of its players to build agreements and durable compromise
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Liu, Kam-keung Dennis. "The school consensus and the perceived school effectiveness a study of secondary schools in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37376299.
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Harvey, Blane Leslie. "Speaking to power: the discursive shaping of Southern communities and institutions in international development cooperation." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86684.
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This study examines the work and partnerships of a Senegal-based environmental non-governmental organisation (NGO) to understand the ways that power is exercised and coordinates peoples' activities within multilateral networks of international, national/regional, and local development institutions and actors. Looking specifically at the discursive relations within these networks, the study sought to reveal the complex and multi-layered culture of discipline, power and control that exists within development; outline strategies to help re-situate notions of authority, accountability and power in development management and evaluation; and suggest ways that learning and reflective practice might be used to uncover, critically engage with, and transform power relations within the development apparatus.<br>The study is structured around a theoretical examination of development and the discursive practices that constitute and sustain it, followed by three case studies drawing upon different dimensions of engagement and struggle within one organisation. The first case takes as a point of focus the internal struggles around action within the organisation, the second considers engagement between the organisation and one of its funding partners, while the third considers relations of power and authority between the organisation and a community based Federation it aims to support. Methodologically, all three of these cases involved the use of extended semi-structured interviews, on-site observation, and discourse (textual and oral) analysis. The final two cases involved an action-oriented approach to the research where lines of questioning and points of struggle arising from the community (or institution) over time formed the basis of the investigation and helped to shape the direction it took.<br>The study concludes by exploring the limits and possibilities of engaging with power at these particular sites, and considers how critical, reflexive and dialogical approaches to informal learning can serve as vehicles for this engagement. Drawing upon an examination of the three case studies, it suggests specific conditions needed to for actors to engage in the forms of collective learning which might strengthen collective voice and agency and expand the limits of what is deemed possible at the specific sites and instances of struggle.<br>La présente étude examine le travail et les partenariats d'une organisation non gouvernementale environnementale située au Sénégal afin de comprendre les façons dont le pouvoir est exercé et son impact sur les activités des gens au sein des réseaux multilatéraux des institutions de développement et des intervenants à l'échelle internationale, nationale, régionale et locale. Portant particulièrement sur les relations discursives au sein de ces réseaux, l'étude vise à dévoiler les cultures de discipline, de pouvoir et de contrôle complexes et à paliers multiples au sein du développement; à décrire sommairement les stratégies conçues pour aider à resituer les notions d'autorité, de reddition de comptes et de pouvoir dans le cadre de la gestion et de l'évaluation du développement; et à suggérer des façons dont l'apprentissage et la pratique réflexive pourraient être utilisés pour révéler les relations de pouvoir au sein de l'appareil de développement, s'engager dans celles-ci et les transformer.<br>L'étude s'articule autour d'un examen théorique du développement et des pratiques discursives qui le constituent et le soutiennent. Elle est suivie de trois études de cas portant sur différentes dimensions de l'engagement et des enjeux au sein d'une organisation. La première étude de cas met l'accent sur les enjeux internes relatives aux mesures prises au sein de l'organisation, la deuxième étude de cas est axée sur l'engagement entre l'organisation et l'un de ses partenaires financiers, tandis que la troisième étude de cas porte sur les relations de pouvoir et d'autorité entre l'organisation et une fédération communautaire qu'elle vise à appuyer. Sur le plan méthodologique, les trois études de cas comportaient des entrevues en profondeur semi-structurées, des observations sur place et des analyses du discours (écrit et oral). Les deux dernières études de cas comprenaient une approche en matière de recherche centrée sur l'action au sein de laquelle les questions et les enjeux soulevés au fil du temps par la communauté (ou l'institution) ont jeté les bases de l'enquête et ont permis de façonner son orientation.<br>L'étude se termine par un examen des limites et des possibilités liées à la prise de pouvoir dans ces sites particuliers, et tient compte de la façon dont des approches en matière d'apprentissage informel critiques, réflexives et dialogiques peuvent agir à titre de véhicules pour cet engagement. Fondée sur l'examen des trois études de cas, l'étude propose des conditions précises requises pour que les intervenants participent aux méthodes d'apprentissage collectif susceptibles de donner voix et vie et d'étendre les limites de ce qui est jugé possible dans ces sites particuliers et dans les cas d'enjeux.
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Alhadar, Ibrahim. "'Moral discipline', state power and surveillance : the rise and operation of CCTV surveillance in Riyadh." Thesis, University of Hull, 2010. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8978.
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The employment of CCTV in contemporary control policy has produced various perspectives and debates in an attempt to understand this phenomenon. In non-western countries, however, there has to date been no academic writing on the topic of CCTV. This thesis aims to make a contribution to these debates by exploring this trend in Saudi Arabia (S.A.) by asking how the rise and use of CCTV cameras fits in with the existing theoretical literature. Moreover, this research seeks to identify and define the structure and operational practices within CCTV sites. With the introduction of CCTV in the process of social control, the research explores its mechanisms by outlining how operators and surveillance technology are organized to meet the requirements and the criteria of those parties who implement surveillance, and thereby to contribute to a better understanding of the employment of CCTV cameras in the Saudi context. It is argued that the employment of CCTV and its rise are attributable mainly to the aspiration of central political control, which has been shaped and formed by cultural values that are dominant in the Saudi society. Triangulation of research methods was adopted by using three instruments: documentary sources, observation and semi-structured interview. The findings show the dominance of the central structure of gaze in the current surveillance practices. Although the contemporary surveillance is carried out by various actors, the decentralized surveillance structure is reassembled by state authority for the purpose of strengthening the political control of the state. Moreover, due to the social and cultural characteristics of the Saudi society, the operation of CCTV and the process of targeting are shaped by moral principles and cultural values. Significantly, the present study emphasizes the persistence of 'moral surveillance' in both the operators‟ attitudes towards targeting and the operational process of CCTV cameras in public settings.
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Gray, Ellen M. "Gender and negotiating power among separating couples testing a process theory of power /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56229.pdf.
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To, Siu Ming. "Exploring empowering practices among school social workers in Hong Kong a discourse analysis study /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3254617.
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Bal, Ravtosh. "Public participation in science and technology policy: consensus conferences and social inclusion." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44773.
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This study looks at the National Citizens' Technology Forum (NCTF), a modified version of the consensus conference, which took place in March, 2008 in six cities across the U.S. to understand how inclusive these methods of public participation are in practice. The research focused on two of these sites. Inclusion of participants was defined in terms of presence, voice and being heard. Transcripts of the audio-visual recordings of the proceedings were the main data of analysis. By focusing on the talk within these deliberative forums, the study looked at how the rules of engagement and status (ascribed and achieved) differences between participants can affect inclusion. The analysis did not reveal any substantial effects of ascribed characteristics on deliberation. Facilitation and the presence of expertise among the participants were found to influence inclusion and equality among participants. These findings suggest that organizers and facilitators of deliberative exercises have to be reflexive of their role as well as aware of the group dynamics. The results also address the larger questions within science and technology policy like the role of expertise and the public in decision making, the institutional design of participatory exercises, and their relation to the political culture and the policy process.
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Cho, Sooyoung. "The power of public relations." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2005. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3204594.
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Criqui, Joseph E. "A confirmatory factor analysis of two competing social power measurement systems." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4168.
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The main purpose of this study is to analyze a measurement instrument developed by Frost & Stahelski (1988) to measure French & Raven's (1959) bases of social power. The measurement instrument of a competing typology of social influence tactics (Kipnis, Schmidt, & Wilkinson, 1980) was also administered to the same managerial population (N=108). Confirmatory factor analyses using LISREL (Joreskog & Sorbom, 1986) were performed on each scale. Possible relationships between the two typologies were explored. Results include confirming a modified Frost & Stahelski scale and no confirmation of the Kipnis et al. scale. Canonical correlation yielded two dimensions where Coercive Power and Expert Power relate to Assertiveness and Rationality respectively. Exploratory factor analysis of the composite scores from both typologies yielded two factors called Positive Power and Negative Power. Implications and future research are briefly discussed.
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Bailey, Wayne Derrick. "Social deprivation and widening participation : the continuing power of local culture." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2015. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/24267/.
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This thesis explores why a group of young people with level 3 qualifications, living within traditionally working-class communities, choose not to participate in HE. It discusses their expectations, motivations and aspirations and the social, cultural and personal factors that contribute to their decision making. The findings are drawn from a set of semi-structured interviews with 36 sixth form students. The research adapts a Bourdieuian framework and utilises a three-level methodology. Though the analysis considers the subjective points of view of the participants, with respect to their non-participation, it also pays attention to factors which appeared to have shaped and moulded decisions. Participants’ decisions appeared to be shaped by their place of study, their friends and family and, most importantly, by their parent(s) and this impacted on their aspirations and how motivated they were to participate in HE. The importance of academic-related support is evidenced throughout. It seemed to instil a sense of belonging and solidarity and was motivational. Without a guarantee of similar support, participants were not prepared to participate in HE. A particularly complex attitude to debt was also highlighted. Not incurring debt appeared to be a cultural rule, particularly when there was no guaranteed financial and employment related benefit to participation. This thesis argues that similar outlooks, backgrounds, interests, lifestyles and opportunities resulted in the adoption of shared practices, common patterns of reactions and accepted ways of doing things when it came to HE participation. This thesis helps us to understand why a particular group of young people has not been influenced in the same way as some others by the change in attitude towards HE. More specifically, it enhances our understanding of the complex, yet subtle influences that can lead young people to choose not to participate in HE.
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Farrar, Margaret Ellen. "Power and resistance in the age of informationalization." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11242009-020310/.
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