Dissertations / Theses: 'Union County'

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Spiro, Valerie Sue. "Strategic marketing plan for Norton Community Credit Union." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2042.

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Murphy, Michael B. "The Kimberlins Go To War: A Union Family in Copperhead Country." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2230.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.
Title from screen (viewed on July 29, 2010). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): John R. Kaufman-McKivigan, Robert G. Barrows, Kevin C. Robbins. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-151).

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Leeds, Christine Fisher. "Perceptions of Union County 4-H members about the 4-H program." Connect to resource, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261060848.

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Zhu, Ni M. Eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Geochemical modeling of an aquifer storage and recovery project in Union County, Arkansas." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82830.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-76).
The Sparta aquifer in Union County, Arkansas has served as an important potable water supply to the public and industrial sectors in the area. However, increasing water demand and sustained heavy pumping from the aquifer has resulted in the formation of major cones of depression in the area. Union County has been declared as one of the five "critical groundwater areas" in Arkansas due to rapid water level declines, salt water intrusion and overall withdrawals exceeding the rate of natural recharge. To mitigate the adverse impacts of a depleted aquifer, Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) by well injection at the center of the cone of depression is evaluated to address the issue. ASR is the injection of potable water into an aquifer for storage and recovery for use when needed. One important aspect in successful design and operation of ASR systems is to assess the potential geochemical reactions between the injected water and the local aquifer water, which are typically of very distinctive compositions and environmental conditions. The goal of this paper is to use the geochemical modeling software PHREEQC to simulate the scenario of injecting partially treated surface water from Ouachita River into the Sparta aquifer at the city of El Dorado. Key reactions modeled include the initial mixing of the two waters in the proximal zone, surface exchange reactions of the major cations, iron precipitation/ dissolution reactions and the oxidizing potential of the injection water. Results from the modeling indicate that reducing the oxygen content of the injection water to enhance geochemical compatibility with the anoxic aquifer water would be beneficial. Arsenic dissolution or attenuation could occur depending on the mixing ratio of injection water to groundwater. Oxidation of ferrous ions is modeled to illustrate the oxidizing potential of the mixed water in the aquifer and the potential of iron precipitation is assessed.
by Ni Zhu.
M.Eng.

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Lucas, Joanne Harris. "The History of Princess Anne County Training School and Union Kempsville High School Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach, Virginia 1925-1969." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19367.

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The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the history of Princess Anne County Training School and Union Kempsville High School in Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach, Virginia. The method of inquiry was qualitative, historical research that relied on oral histories to provide a cultural understanding of the school from the perspectives of its students, administrators, teachers, and staff. The school\'s history was reconstructed through direct engagement with individuals whose interviews recounted the establishment, growth, operation, and demise of Princess Anne County Training School/Union Kempsville High School. In order to minimize the nostalgic influence and bring greater validity to the oral histories, data were also collected from historical accounts, school board and community organization minutes, local periodicals, and school artifacts.
Segregation cultivated legally separate-but-equal schools for Blacks and Whites, with little or no attention given to actual equality. In 1925, the Black community in Princess Anne County, Virginia, mobilized to build a high school for their children who were denied an education beyond seventh grade. Princess Anne County Training School opened for Black students in 1938 and initially utilized a curriculum based on industrial education. It was the first and only Black high school in Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach, Virginia. As Princess Anne County Training School progressed, the Black community eventually repudiated the term, training school. The school\'s name was changed to Union Kempsville High School in the fall of 1961. Gradual desegregation inaugurated by the Brown v. Board of Education decisions led to a decline in student enrollment, and Union Kempsville High School closed in 1969.

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Collinson, Paul Scott. "Development, local politics and the 'new Europe' in County Donegal : an ethnographic study." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1999. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/21be9626-e952-4d34-a2cb-e6f97ff4d0e1/1/.

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This study is based upon ethnographic research conducted in County Donegal, the most northerly county in the Republic of Ireland, between January 1997 and January 1998. It is focused upon three "development communities" in the county: development professionals, voluntary activists working for area based community groups, and elected members of Donegal County Council. The primary aim of the study is to examine the social basis for the fragmentary nature of development activity in Donegal, in view of the new European Union-sponsored local development initiatives which have been implemented in Ireland during the past decade. It is argued that the way in which each of the three groups experience, talk about, understand and reify development elements which together provide the framework for their respective development discourses- can be interpreted most profitably in light of social factors. An extended case-study approach is used throughout, in order to provide a detailed exploration of the contrasting social environments in which the development process occurs in the county. In chapter one, a theoretical framework is established which takes as its cue the ideas of a number of development anthropologists working in non-European contexts, and, in drawing from this literature, the concept of II discourses of development" is introduced as an overall paradigm in which the empirical data are interpreted. Chapter two introduces Donegal as a place, concentrating on some of the historical events which have given rise to contemporary patterns of social organisation. Chapter three outlines the history of EU-sponsored development activity in Ireland, highlighting the distinctive nature of the EU's "bottom-up" model and providing the background for the principal empirical chapters which follow. In chapters four to seven, the contrasting social environments within which each "development community" operates are examined in detail. Particular attention is paid to the role of discourse in providing criteria for inclusion/ exclusion, and in disrupting the processes of communication within the development sector of the county as a whole. The study also has a number of secondary aims. Most notably, it seeks to extend the theoretical scope of Irish anthropology and the anthropology of the European Union by exploring the changing relationship between the locale and wider structures and influences in terms of the application of the EU's model of development in Donegal. Additionally, the final chapter includes a tentative assessment of the relevance of the data for policy prescription, in light of the recent government initiative to reform the local government system and the future of local development in Ireland.

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Sowby, Robert B. "Hydrologic and hydraulic assessment of artificial recharge in the Sparta Aquifer of Union County, Arkansas." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82826.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-46).
Groundwater pumping from the Sparta aquifer in Union County, Arkansas, has long exceeded natural recharge, threatening the regional water supply. An alternative water-supply project, completed in 2004, now provides treated surfacewater to local industries. This conjunctive use of surface- and groundwater has allowed the Sparta aquifer to recover somewhat. Exploring further possibilities for Union County, the author has evaluated the potential of artificial recharge by well injection. A MODFLOW groundwater model was modified to simulate the aquifer's response. to artificial recharge. Results indicate that artificial recharge in this context is impractical. Injection increases hydraulic heads only locally, with the most improvement occurring where the injection is located in an existing cone of depression in El Dorado, Arkansas. Since groundwater withdrawals are already concentrated in this area, injection only reduces the net withdrawal rate. The same result could be achieved by reducing or substituting groundwater withdrawals directly, as has been observed since the completion of the alternative-supply project. The modeling results, along with analyses of surfacewater resources, suggest that continued and expanded conjunctive use is the most viable water-management strategy in Union County.
by Robert B. Sowby.
M.Eng.

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Grafsky, Ann. "Branch alternatives model." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1635.

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Black, William R. "Went off to the Shakers: The First Converts of South Union." TopSCHOLAR®, 2013. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1243.

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In 1807 the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Shakers)established a society near the Gasper River in Logan County, Kentucky. The society was soon named South Union, and it lasted until 1922, the longest-lasting Shaker community west of the Appalachians. Most of the first Shaker converts in Logan County had only a few years beforehand participated in a series of evangelical Presbyterian camp meetings known collectively as the Kentucky Revival, the Revival of 1800, or the Great Revival.Though Presbyterian revivalism and Shakerism shared certain characteristics (particularl millennialism and enthusiastic forms of worship), there were many differences between them as well; Shakerism was not necessarily a logical continuation of the Great Revival. So why did so many Scots-Irish Presbyterians in south-central Kentucky convert to Shakerism? How did conversion make sense to them? And how was Shaker conversion understood by those who did not convert? Through a close reading of primary sources, this thesis attempts to answer these questions. Shaker conversion is better understood as an interaction within a community rather than as a transaction between an individual and God. The decade or so preceding the establishment of South Union—the disestablishment of state churches, the mass migration to the trans-Appalachian west, the burgeoning market economy—was, for many Scots-Irish Presbyterians, a period of social disorder. This was especially true in south-central Kentucky, where the local Presbyterian establishment was riven by schism. The Great Revival was a brief but ultimately disappointing creation of an alternate community, a way of escape from the surrounding chaos. Shakerism offered the apotheosis of that alternate community. South Union was a camp meeting that never ended. However, the denizens of south-central Kentucky who did not convert to Shakerism were quite hostile to the new sect. They understood conversion as a form of betrayal, a renunciation of a community which they still identified with. This understanding became especially clear during a divorce case involving William and Sally Boler, in which William Boler’s rights as a man and a citizen became circumspect because of his conversion to Shakerism. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Shaker conversion has become less threatening to the outside world. Indeed, the popular imagination has co-opted South Union as quintessentially American. By reclaiming the Shakers from the margins of society, popular memory has effectively erased conversion from the Shaker story. After all, Shaker conversion was never as much about belief or even practice as it was about a distinct and separate community.

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Quillen, Patrick D. "Buffalo Canyon| An Oligocene Greisen-Like Intrusion-Related Gold Deposit in the Union Mining District, Nye County, Nevada." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10282418.

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Reduced intrusion-related gold (RIRG) deposits have been documented around the globe, and have been best studied in Alaska and Yukon, but few examples have been documented in Nevada. One occurrence in Nevada is the Jurassic Bald Mountain deposit in eastern Nevada; however, for most Nevada occurrences there has been insufficient work that establishes a genetic connection to intrusions or determines their age.

Buffalo Canyon is a gold prospect located near the historic Berlin mining area in northern Nye County, Nevada, where gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc were mined in the past from mesothermal quartz veins. Buffalo Canyon contains the more recently discovered Everson prospect, a poorly defined gold deposit, which has characteristics of RIRG deposits. The district includes a series of intrusions emplaced into Triassic metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks. These previously undated intrusions vary in composition from diorite to granodiorite and granite. U-Pb dating of zircons by LA-ICPMS has revealed distinct intrusive events in the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Oligocene. Metaluminous, biotite-pyroxene diorite stocks to porphyritic granodiorite dikes have been dated at 162.03 + 0.91 Ma and 158.72 + 0.94 Ma, respectively. Peraluminous, ilmenite-bearing leucogranite plugs and dikes have been dated at 81.96 + 0.43 Ma and 82.9 + 0.30 Ma, respectively. A variety of Oligocene dikes and small plugs that include quartz-monzodiorite, quartz monzonite, dacite and granite are metaluminous to peraluminous and locally ilmenite-bearing. Four dates of Oligocene intrusions fall within error of each other. They yielded dates of 25.13 + 0.29, 24.9 + 0.30, 24.8 + 0.40 Ma and 24.6 + 0.30 Ma.

Country rocks at Buffalo Canyon, particularly those near Jurassic intrusions, are metamorphosed to biotite hornfels. Biotite hornfels is overprinted by sodic-calcic alteration that is likely related to Jurassic intrusive activity, and consists primarily of actinolite + albite in veins and disseminated patchworks. Mesothermal quartz veins have a Au-Ag-(Sb-Pb-As-Cu) geochemical signature, are composed predominantly of moderately deformed, recrystallized quartz and contain liquid CO₂-bearing fluid inclusions. Mesothermal quartz veins are hosted within Jurassic intrusions and are post-Luning-Fencemaker thrust (mid-Jurassic) deformation. Small volumes of Oligocene intrusive rocks are variably altered to muscovite-tourmaline or propylitic assemblages. Base-metal sulfide mineralization occurs as veins and replacements, both of which are associated with tourmaline as a dominant gangue mineral. Base-metal sulfide mineralization has a Ag-Pb-Zn-Sb-As-(Au-Bi-Cu-Mo) signature.

Free gold within low sulfide, 1-10cm thick, sheeted, crack-seal quartz veins with locally developed sericite-tourmaline envelopes define the bulk of the Everson gold mineralization. Other gangue minerals in these veins include muscovite, tourmaline and fluorite. The veins have a Au-Te-(Mo-Bi-Sn) signature and high Au:Ag ratios (>1:1). The quartz in these gold-bearing veins contain common hypersaline brine and coexisting vapor-rich fluid inclusions, indicative of trapping within the two-phase brine + vapor field. Combined with estimated thicknesses of older and coeval Oligocene volcanic rocks, the fluid inclusions suggest the deposit formed at <~3 km paleodepth. The Everson-related quartz veins also cross-cut mapped Jurassic intrusive rocks, sodic-calcic veins, base-metal sulfide mineralization, and Oligocene granitic intrusions. Muscovite and tourmaline + fluorite associated with alteration and mineralization suggest a greisen-like style of alteration and mineralization. The preponderance of evidence suggests that most gold mineralization at Buffalo Canyon is Oligocene in age, related to a felsic intrusion that only crops outs locally, but is likely extensive in the subsurface. Buffalo Canyon bears strong similarities to typical RIRG systems, and there are likely additional unknown examples within Nevada. A significant outcome of this study is that Buffalo Canyon formed in the Oligocene, related to volcanism during slab rollback that led to the ignimbrite flare-up in the central Nevada. Though most RIRG systems in Nevada could indeed be Mesozoic, the research on Buffalo Canyon opens the possibility that similar deposits may also be related to much younger intrusions that may be largely covered by coeval Tertiary volcanic rocks.

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Hao, Feng. "SOCIAL CAPITAL, SOLIDARITY, AND COHORT EFFECT —AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRODUCTION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AMONG UNION MINERS IN HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/117.

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The coal industry exercises a pervasive influence on mining communities in Appalachia, even though it exerts enormous damages on the environment and makes limited contributions to employment and the advancement of the communities. One explanation for this paradox offered by Bell is a depletion of social capital among coalfield residents in Central Appalachia (2009). Her data suggests that the “ripping away” of the region’s strong union identity lead to a resocialization, “from a ‘we’ mentality to an ‘I’ mentality, thus demising the store of social capital” (2009:655). My research aims to interpret how social capital resources among union miners was translated to solidarity in the mining community, and how the union generated social capital and fostered solidarity among miners and their families. This research finds that the union was both a creator and a preserver of social capital. The coalfield residents demonstrated a high degree of social capital and solidarity in terms of a sense of reliability, dedication to collective activities, and intimate extended networks. Furthermore, the union’s strategies of holding regular meetings, organizing large-scale strikes, promoting collective identity, securing public benefits, and electing charismatic leaders were of great significance for the production of both social capital and solidarity.

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Renouf, Jonathan. "A striking change : political transformation in the Murton miners' and mechanics' branches of the National Union of Mineworkers, County Durham, 1978-1988." Thesis, Durham University, 1989. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6470/.

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This thesis examines processes of political change in the Murton miners' and mechanics' branches of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) between 1978 and 1988. During this period both branches swung from the right of the NUM's political spectrum to the left. Recent debates in human geography - and the social sciences more generally - have drawn attention to the importance of place in analysing social developments. However, a review of the literature reveals a surprising lack of detailed studies undertaken at the local level. In order to understand the constraints under which events at a local level take place, it is necessary to place them in context. The coal industry is therefore located at the centre of a complex set of institutionalised relationships between capital, labour and the state known as the "post war settlement" (PWS). As economic crisis deepened in the 1970's, the PWS came under attack. In the coal industry this led to the progressive destabilisation of a characteristic "indulgency pattern" which had built up in the post war years. At Murton, this destabilisation created the room for left wing activists to build support in miners' and mechanics' branches. However, their impact was unevenly distributed among the workforce because miners from different backgrounds were affected in different ways by the crisis in the industry. Cleavages of age and residence led to significant differences in miners' and mechanics' understanding of the crisis facing the industry. This thesis examines the interaction between local union branch leadership, the changing situation in the coal industry, and divisions within the workforce during three distinct periods: from 1978 until the eve of the 1984/5 strike; the strike itself; and the period since the strike until the end of 1988.

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Romano, Anthony John. "Spatial distribution of non-native invasive plants following large-scale wind damage at LaRue Pine Hills - Otter Pond Research Natural Area, Union County, Illinois." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/819.

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The objective of this study was to determine if a large-scale wind disturbance facilitated the invasion of forest interiors by non-native invasive plant species. The northern portion of LaRue Pine Hills - Otter Pond Research Natural Area in the Shawnee National Forest, of southern Illinois, was severely damaged by high winds during a derecho event on May 8th 2009. In the summer of 2011, 53 permanent research plots, as well as 20 additional plots located along roads that form the boundaries of the study site, were surveyed for the presence of 20 non-native invasive plant species. Only three of 53 interior plots (5.6%) contained invasive plant species (Rosa multiflora, Lonicera japonica, and Lonicera maackii). Sixteen of 20 road plots contained a non-native invasive species (80%), and six species were identified (Dioscorea oppositifolia, Lactuca serriola, Lonicera maackii, Microstegium vimineum, Rosa multiflora, and Sorghum halepense). These findings indicate that wind damage does not appear to have facilitated invasion of forest interiors in the first two years following the storm. The spatial distribution of non-native invasive plants in the study area fits the pattern of other studies conducted in southern Illinois with non-native invasive plants associated primarily with forest edges and diminishing in the forest interior despite the opportunity for establishment following the wind disturbance.

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Fahler, Joshua D. ""Holding Up the Light of Heaven": Presbyterian and Congregational Reform Movements in Lorain County, Ohio, 1824-1859." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1500555102981787.

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Monaco, Jason T. "Oceans apart : the United States, the European Union, and the International Criminal Court." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03sep%5FMonaco.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003.
Thesis advisor(s): Daniel Moran, David S. Yost. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-102). Also available online.

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KAYITESI, Aline. "TRADE UNIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT : ASSESSMENT OF THE CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104581.

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The aim of this thesis is to examine the relationship between union’s indicators namely union density rate and collective bargaining coverage rate, and the unemployment rate. I have conducted an empirical analysis on 34 OECD countries grouped into three groups based on their bargaining systems. The results indicate that there is no linear relationship between union density and collective bargaining coverage, and the unemployment rate in countries which have centralized co-ordinated, organized decentralized but co-ordinated bargaining systems and that those systems do not have influence on the way unions affect unemployment rate. However, the predominatly centralized but weakly co-ordinated system indicates to have a positive effect on the way unions affect unemployment rate and union density /collective bargaining coverage are positively related with the unemployment rate in this group. I try to argue for possible reasons for these findings.

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Alouini, Olfa. "Country size, growth and the economic and monetary union." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16609.

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Der Zweck dieser Arbeit ist es, die Beziehung zwischen die Größe des Landes und das Wachstum auf internationaler Ebene und vergleichsweise in der Wirtschafts-und Währungsunion zu untersuchen und erarbeiten ihre Folgen für das Verhalten der wachstumsorientierte Finanzpolitik. Um ein globales Verständnis des Zusammenhangs zwischen Größe des Landes und das Wachstum in der EWU weiter verfolgen wir einen interdisziplinären Ansatz, einschließlich der makroökonomischen Modellierung (DSGE), Ökonometrie und Analyse der politischen Ökonomie. Die Kombination dieser Untersuchungen schließen wir, dass die Größe des Landes einen Einfluss auf die wirtschaftlichen Strukturen der Nationen, die Auswirkungen ihrer Politik und damit auf ihre Wachstumsdynamik hat. Aus diesem Grund ist es notwendig, die Bedeutung der Größe des Landes und ihre Folgen für die WWU wieder.
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between country size and growth at the international level and comparatively in the Economic and Monetary Union, and to draw up its consequences for the conduct of growth-orientated fiscal policies. To further a global understanding of the link between country size and growth in the EMU, we follow an interdisciplinary approach, including macro-economic modelling (DSGE), econometrics and political economy analysis. Combining these analyses, we conclude that country size has an incidence on the economic structures of nations, the effects of their policies and therefore on their pace of growth. For this reason there is a need to reinstate the importance of country size and its consequences for the EMU.

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Cram, Richard. "MODELS OF INFRINGEMENT:THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITHEUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3780.

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This thesis is designed to explore the complex question of compliance within the European Union. The European Union relies on the voluntary submission of it members to rules that the organization sets up. Other international organizations operate through this dynamic as well. As such, it is highly important to shed light, through research, on why states comply with the rules set forth by the organizations they belong to. Why do states comply in the European Union? There are many channels of research currently looking at this question. This thesis seeks to examine the European Commission's role in ensuring compliance in the European Union. The Commission is the chief enforcer and monitor within the European Union; as such, it is a critical component in the examination of state's compliance behavior. In order to examine the question of compliance within the European Union a researcher is forced to look at an alternative variable. Compliance is not measurable in a direct fashion and thus some proxy measure must be constructed in order to research it. The conduct of the Commission with regards to suspected and actual Member State violations of treaty obligations offers such a variable. Using data drawn from a variety of sources including the European Commission itself and a framework of research drawn from Mbaye's Why National States Comply with Supranational Law (2001) this thesis finds that no single explanatory variable is responsible for Member State compliance with the rules and laws of the European Union. Rather several factors are at work and must be looked at. This thesis finds moderate support for several hypotheses sourced from the extant literature on the subject of compliance through the models proposed herein. Other hypotheses do not hold up as well under scrutiny.
M.A.
Department of Political Science
Arts and Sciences
Political Science

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Romano, Taban. "Evaluating the legal framework of the hybrid court for South Sudan." University of the Western Cape, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7088.

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Magister Legum - LLM
The Republic of South Sudan became independent from the Republic of Sudan on 9 July 2011. South Sudan has an area of 644, 329 km2 and a total estimated population of around 12, 6 million.1The original state of Sudan was intensely divided along ethnic, religious and ideological lines. The general population of the Republic of Sudan is mainly Sunni Muslim whereas the South Sudanese are mostly Christian, with small populations that still practice African indigenous religions.2While the Republic of Sudan is predominantly Arabic-speaking, English and over sixty local languages are spoken in South Sudan.3 The new Republic of South Sudan was born after one of the longest and most ruthless wars fought in Africa. The war between the government of Sudan and the Southerners had its roots in 1955 as resistance to “Sudanisation” began in the run-up to Sudanese independence. Provincial administration4favouring the better-educated northerners over southerners and further conflict fuelled by "Islamisation" strategies and the inability to actualise a government framework that would ensure self-governance for the South led to a protracted civil war between the north and south.5 The Addis Ababa Agreement that ended the first civil war in 1972 did not resolve political pressures and when Sharia law was introduced in 1983, it reignited the north-south conflict.6 The Second Sudanese Civil War ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005. The CPA ended a period of constant war between 1955 and 2005 barring an eleven-year truce that isolates two savage stages.7

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Ball, Richard Charles Edward. "Rationality of European Union law : the case of third country nationals." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/14748/.

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Third country nationals have an important effect on, and play an important part in, the economy of the European Union, a trend that is likely to increase over time. This importance could be expected to be reflected in the rights, in particular freedom of movement, granted to them under Community law. Political expediency is however shaped by world, regional and domestic influences that in turn determine the policy towards third country nationals and their legal rights to freedom of movement. These political policies, given practical effect through the law, do not necessarily display legitimacy. Political legitimacy, grounded within legal doctrine, can be analysed through the principles of legal rationality. For Community legal doctrine to be rational it must display the requirements of formal, instrumental and substantive rationality, each mutually exclusive and essential. Analysis of free movement rights for third country nationals is provided in three discrete doctrinal areas before a critical evaluation of them through the lens of legal rationality and set within the matrix of factors that make up policy formation. It is concluded that Community law towards third country nationals is defective, lacks legitimacy and suggestions are made to correct the problems identified.

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Olamide, Ibrahim Nurudeen. "Paved with good intention? The African Union counter terrorism agenda." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/36787.

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Africa has for a long time been embattled by differing acts of terrorism, with divergent manifestations such as suicide bombing, killings and hijacking. Accordingly, the Organisation of African Unity and subsequently the African Union took up the responsibility of developing strategies to counter the menacing trend of terrorism on the continent. To this end, several counter terrorism interventions were created. The first of Africa's interventions was developed as early as 1992, when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) member states adopted a Resolution to strengthen cooperation and coordination among African states against different manifestations of extremism. Although, there is abundance of scholarly literature on the subject of understanding of terrorism and its human rights implications and also on the impact of terrorism on political pluralism, there is a dearth of scholarly writings on the activities of the African Union in relation to terrorism in Africa, particularly on whether the Union is responding positively to its counter terrorism agenda. Yet, the role of the African Union in this regard on the continent cannot be over emphasised. This study is therefore carried out to scrutinise the counter terrorism agenda of the African Union and explore its counter terrorism activities from inception till date. In ascertaining the necessity for the African Union to develop ways to adequately implement its counter terrorism agenda, the study carries out an assessment of the agenda and established its link with the United Nations counter terrorism framework. Recommendations about how best the agenda can be realised concludes the study. Specifically, the research explores the activities of the African Union with the aim of determining whether the agenda was merely paved with good intentions. While many weaknesses of the agenda were discovered and discussed in depth, the research concludes, that despite the gap that exists between the agenda and its implementation and the problem of resources bedevilling the implementation of the agenda, it will be unfair to describe the African Union counter terrorism agenda as merely paved with good intentions in the lights of numerous positive steps that have been taken towards translating the agenda into full implementation.
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Centre for Human Rights
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Stedman, Alison. "The imaginary country: The Soviet Union in British public discourse, 1929-1943." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5507.

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For historians of twentieth-century British affairs, the decade of the 1930s is very significant. It was marked not only by a devastating economic crisis at the outset, but also by the rise of fascism in Europe and the onset of the Second World War at its close. These issues were problematic in themselves, but Britain’s response to them was complicated still further by the deep divisions between the Left and the Right over socialism and over the Soviet Union. The presence of the USSR in the East and its influence in Britain loomed over the internal debates that took place, affecting British responses to difficult situations in drastic and far-reaching ways. People of both anti-Soviet and pro-Soviet persuasions were forced to account for events that did not tally with their most strongly held beliefs, hopes or fears. This dissertation explores the ways in which British people of a variety of political leanings publicly processed and coped with the role of the Soviet Union in these debates. Using a range of sources including contemporary newspapers, books and pamphlets, I will trace the evolution of attitudes to the Soviet Union from 1929, the first year of the economic crisis, up until 1943, the high point of the Anglo-Soviet wartime alliance. My analysis will show how people with fundamentally different belief systems mirrored each other in their responses to intellectual challenges, and how interactions between different groups sustained or exaggerated each group’s response to the Soviet Union. I will also critique the analyses of some historians who have limited the parameters of their studies to take in only single groups or single events, and in so doing have become unfairly critical of individuals who struggled to process a large number of difficult and confusing events.

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Mather, Sandra. "Monetary union in Africa : using trade patterns to create interim country groupings." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8327.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The ultimate goal of the African Union is full political and economic integration, which includes a monetary union with a common currency for all member states of the African Union. This monetary integration is proposed to take place in two stages: firstly, through five regions, and secondly, through complete integration. This report examines current trade data for member states of the African Union using k means duster analysis to group countries according to trade patterns. Analysis was performed for the actual US dollar value of trade, as well as considering only the presence or absence of trade. There are limitations to the data collected: firstly, they are annual data, which masks fluctuations in trade due to economic conditions or political developments. Secondly, they are subject to missing or under-reported values. The focus of this research report was to consider trade figures for the first time, and the limitations were considered acceptable in view of the aim of achieving a first approximation of results. When considering all solutions, there are overlaps between clusters, but no definite patterns emerge that are common to all analyses. Considering the F and Euclidean distances of all solutions, the best appears to be that for clusters derived from analysing trade figures between Africa and its trading partners outside Africa. Further analysis of this solution failed to demonstrate viable clusters. The final conclusion to be made from this analysis is that k means clustering of trade figures for member states of the African Union does not generate viable clusters that could be used as steps towards full monetary integration in Africa. Given this conclusion it is recommended that the stepwise progression towards full monetary integration be considered by utilising existing economic arrangements, i.e. by using the five Regional Economic Communities proposed by the African Union.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die uiteindelike doel van die Afrika-unie is volledige politieke en ekonomiese integrasie, wat 'n monetere unie met 'n gemeenskaplike geldeenheid vir al die lidstate van die Afrika-unie insluit. Hierdie monetere integrasie word in twee stadiums beoog: eers deur vyf streke, en daarna deur volledige integrasie. Hierdie verslag ondersoek die huidige handelsdata vir lidstate van die Afrika-unie deur k gemiddelde trosanalise te gebruik om lande volgens handelspatrone te groepeer. 'n Analise is ook gedoen van die werklike VS-dollarwaarde van handel, en deur die aanwesigheid of afwesigheid van handel in aanmerking te neem. Daar is beperkings op die data wat ingesamel is: eerstens is dit jaarlikse data, wat skommelings in handel as gevolg van ekonomiese toestande of politieke ontwikkelings verberg. Tweedens is hulle onderworpe aan ontbrekende of ondergerapporteerde waardes. Die fokus van hierdie navorsingsverslag was dus om handelsyfers vir die eerste keer te oorweeg, en die beperkings is aanvaarbaar beskou in die lig van die doel om 'n eerste benadering van resultate te verkry. Wanneer aile oplossings oorweeg word, is daar oorvleueling tussen trosse, maar geen definitiewe patrone ontstaan wat vir alle analises geld nie. Wanneer die F- en Euklidiese afstande van alle oplossings oorweeg word, lyk dit asof die beste die trosse is wat verkry is uit die analise van handelsyfers tussen Afrika en sy handelsvennote buite Afrika. Verdere analise van hierdie oplossing het nie lewensvatbare trosse aangedui nie. Die finale gevolgtrekking wat uit hierdie analise gemaak kan word, is dat k gemidderde trosvorming van handelsyfers vir lidstate van die Afrika-unie nie lewensvatbare trosse genereer wat gebruik kan word as stappe in die rigting van volledige monetere integrasie in Afrika nie. Met die oog op hierdie gevolgtrekking word daar aanbeveel dat die stapsgewyse vordering na volledige monetere integrasie oorweeg moet word deur bestaande ekonomiese reelings te gebruik, d.w.s. deur die vyf Streeksekonomiese Gemeenskappe te gebruik wat deur die Afrika-unie voorgestel is.

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Bourne, Angela Kathleen. "The Basque Country and the politics of territory in the European Union." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369511.

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Egelstig, Sandra. "EG-domstolen:roll och funktion i en utvidgad europeisk union." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-715.

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The European Court of Justice, the ECJ, has the governing function in the Union as a guardian of law and justice. Even today, with a Union of 15 memberstates, statistics show that the ECJ and the Court of First Instance have increasing difficulties in fulfilling their tasks. This situation is chiefly a cause of an increasing number of cases raised. Due to this, profound changes have to be made in order to preserve common lawagreements in a future expansion of the Union. The purpose of this paper is to exam which changes the Courts have to make in order to meet an increased amount of cases that an enlarged Union would mean.

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Kirkwood, Lea T. "The European Union counter-terrorism strategy origins, problems, and prospects." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil.uhtbin/hyperion/%5FKirkwood.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2006.
Thesis Advisor(s): Maria Rasmussen, Rafael Biermann. "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p.85-98). Also available in print.

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Morash, Brett. "The rise and fall of the Union of Islamic Courts." Thesis, Salve Regina University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3725275.

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This dissertation examines the reasons behind the rise and fall of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) in Somalia. The UIC was born out of the chaos of the Warlord Era in Southern Somalia from within the fabric of Somali Society. The peace and stability that the UIC brought to the region had not been seen since before the fall of Said Barre's regime. However, the rapid martial expansion of the UIC and the perceived threat caused by their success resulted in Ethiopia invading Somalia thereby destroying the UIC and spawning the al-Shabaab movement. .

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Machado, Celsa Maria Carvalho. "Monetary and Fiscal Policies Interactions in a Monetary Union With Country-size Asymmetry." Tese, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/7566.

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Economia
Doctoral Programme in Economics
As interacções entre as políticas monetária e orçamental numa união monetária podem ser condicionadas, de forma crucial, pela existência de países com diferentes dimensões. Pequenos E grandes países geram desiguais externalidades e podem possuir distintos poderes de negociação no jogo político da estabilização macroeconómica. As interacções estratégicas resultantes de diferentes objectivos de política e de comportamentos não cooperativos podem desempenhar um papel fundamental na política económica levada a cabo numa união monetária com países de dimensão assimétrica. Neste contexto, analisamos as políticas de estabilização óptimas, cooperativas e não cooperativas, através de um modelo Novo-Keynesiano com fundamentos microeconómicos e que modeliza uma união monetária constituída por dois países, sob dois cenários de política diferentes. Um cenário em que os instrumentos de política orçamental e monetária exercem ambos o seu papel de estabilização exclusivamente através do lado da procura, sem qualquer consequência na acumulação de dívida pública; e um outro cenário onde a política orçamental afecta a procura e a oferta mas em que os impostos lump sum são insuficientes para assegurar o equilíbrio orçamental. Em cada um dos cenários, deriva-se a combinação óptima de políticas estratégicas avaliando, igualmente, os efeitos de alguns arranjos institucionais (cooperação, regras orçamentais e a opção por um banco central conservador) e do nível de endividamento público sobre a eficácia das políticas de estabilização. Constata-se que a dimensão assimétrica dos países qualifica significativamente as interacções estratégicas da política orçamental e monetária. Um pequeno país, suportando maiores externalidades e beneficiando menos da estabilização promovida pela política monetária comum, terá de realizar uma política orçamental mais activa e, como seria de esperar, enfrenta maiores custos de estabilização do que um grande país. Além do mais, a avaliação do bem-estar social obtido sob jogos de política alternativos releva que um país grande obtém uma melhor estabilização quando a política orçamental lidera e que, portanto, pode oferecer resistência à cooperação. Também se verifica que grandes e pequenos níveis de endividamento público determinam especializações diferentes dos instrumentos de política na realização da estabilização económica. Tendo em conta apenas os custos de estabilização macroeconómica, observa-se que, numa união monetária com elevado nível de dívida pública, o país grande tem incentivos a aumentar o seu endividamento enquanto o pequeno pode desejar ser mais disciplinado. Numa união monetária em que o nível médio de dívida pública é pequeno, podem ocorrer incentivos contrários: o pequeno país pode sentir-se estimulado a aumentar a dívida pública permanentemente.
Country-size asymmetry may crucially shape the monetary and fiscal policy interactions in a monetary union. Small and large countries cause different cross-border effects and may have different bargaining power in a stabilization policy game. Strategic interactions arising from different policy objectives and non-cooperative policies might play a significant role in the actual policymaking of a country-size asymmetric monetary union. We analyze cooperative and non cooperative optimizing stabilization policies in a micro-founded New-Keynesian two-country monetary union model, under two policy scenarios. One, where monetary and fiscal policy instruments exert their stabilization roles exclusively through the demand channel without any consequence on debt sustainability; other, where fiscal policy has both demand and supply-side effects but where lump-sum taxes are not enough to ensure fiscal policy solvency. We derive optimal strategic policy mix within an asymmetric country-size monetary union, and assess the effects of some institutional arrangements (cooperation, fiscal constraints, weight-conservative central bank) and of public debt on the effectiveness of policy stabilization. We found that country-size asymmetry within a monetary union qualifies meaningfully monetary and fiscal policy strategic interactions. A small country, suffering larger externality effects and benefiting less from a common monetary policy for stabilization purposes, has to optimally rely on a more active fiscal policy and, as expected, it experiences more welfare costs than a larger country. Furthermore, welfare evaluation of the alternative policy games shows that a large country achieves a better stabilization performance under fiscal leadership and that it may resist to a policy cooperation arrangement. We also found out that large and small debt levels condition the stabilization assignments of the different policy instruments. Moreover, in a large-debt monetary union, and focusing exclusively on stabilization costs, the large country may face incentives to raise public debt while the small country may prefer to be more disciplined. In a small-debt monetary union, reverse incentives can occur: a small country may face incentives to raise debt permanently.

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Machado, Celsa Maria Carvalho. "Monetary and Fiscal Policies Interactions in a Monetary Union With Country-size Asymmetry." Doctoral thesis, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/7566.

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Economia
Doctoral Programme in Economics
As interacções entre as políticas monetária e orçamental numa união monetária podem ser condicionadas, de forma crucial, pela existência de países com diferentes dimensões. Pequenos E grandes países geram desiguais externalidades e podem possuir distintos poderes de negociação no jogo político da estabilização macroeconómica. As interacções estratégicas resultantes de diferentes objectivos de política e de comportamentos não cooperativos podem desempenhar um papel fundamental na política económica levada a cabo numa união monetária com países de dimensão assimétrica. Neste contexto, analisamos as políticas de estabilização óptimas, cooperativas e não cooperativas, através de um modelo Novo-Keynesiano com fundamentos microeconómicos e que modeliza uma união monetária constituída por dois países, sob dois cenários de política diferentes. Um cenário em que os instrumentos de política orçamental e monetária exercem ambos o seu papel de estabilização exclusivamente através do lado da procura, sem qualquer consequência na acumulação de dívida pública; e um outro cenário onde a política orçamental afecta a procura e a oferta mas em que os impostos lump sum são insuficientes para assegurar o equilíbrio orçamental. Em cada um dos cenários, deriva-se a combinação óptima de políticas estratégicas avaliando, igualmente, os efeitos de alguns arranjos institucionais (cooperação, regras orçamentais e a opção por um banco central conservador) e do nível de endividamento público sobre a eficácia das políticas de estabilização. Constata-se que a dimensão assimétrica dos países qualifica significativamente as interacções estratégicas da política orçamental e monetária. Um pequeno país, suportando maiores externalidades e beneficiando menos da estabilização promovida pela política monetária comum, terá de realizar uma política orçamental mais activa e, como seria de esperar, enfrenta maiores custos de estabilização do que um grande país. Além do mais, a avaliação do bem-estar social obtido sob jogos de política alternativos releva que um país grande obtém uma melhor estabilização quando a política orçamental lidera e que, portanto, pode oferecer resistência à cooperação. Também se verifica que grandes e pequenos níveis de endividamento público determinam especializações diferentes dos instrumentos de política na realização da estabilização económica. Tendo em conta apenas os custos de estabilização macroeconómica, observa-se que, numa união monetária com elevado nível de dívida pública, o país grande tem incentivos a aumentar o seu endividamento enquanto o pequeno pode desejar ser mais disciplinado. Numa união monetária em que o nível médio de dívida pública é pequeno, podem ocorrer incentivos contrários: o pequeno país pode sentir-se estimulado a aumentar a dívida pública permanentemente.
Country-size asymmetry may crucially shape the monetary and fiscal policy interactions in a monetary union. Small and large countries cause different cross-border effects and may have different bargaining power in a stabilization policy game. Strategic interactions arising from different policy objectives and non-cooperative policies might play a significant role in the actual policymaking of a country-size asymmetric monetary union. We analyze cooperative and non cooperative optimizing stabilization policies in a micro-founded New-Keynesian two-country monetary union model, under two policy scenarios. One, where monetary and fiscal policy instruments exert their stabilization roles exclusively through the demand channel without any consequence on debt sustainability; other, where fiscal policy has both demand and supply-side effects but where lump-sum taxes are not enough to ensure fiscal policy solvency. We derive optimal strategic policy mix within an asymmetric country-size monetary union, and assess the effects of some institutional arrangements (cooperation, fiscal constraints, weight-conservative central bank) and of public debt on the effectiveness of policy stabilization. We found that country-size asymmetry within a monetary union qualifies meaningfully monetary and fiscal policy strategic interactions. A small country, suffering larger externality effects and benefiting less from a common monetary policy for stabilization purposes, has to optimally rely on a more active fiscal policy and, as expected, it experiences more welfare costs than a larger country. Furthermore, welfare evaluation of the alternative policy games shows that a large country achieves a better stabilization performance under fiscal leadership and that it may resist to a policy cooperation arrangement. We also found out that large and small debt levels condition the stabilization assignments of the different policy instruments. Moreover, in a large-debt monetary union, and focusing exclusively on stabilization costs, the large country may face incentives to raise public debt while the small country may prefer to be more disciplined. In a small-debt monetary union, reverse incentives can occur: a small country may face incentives to raise debt permanently.

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Machado, Celsa Maria Carvalho. "Monetary and Fiscal Policies Interactions in a Monetary Union With Country-size Asymmetry." Doctoral thesis, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, 2007. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/112885.

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As interacções entre as políticas monetária e orçamental numa união monetária podem ser condicionadas, de forma crucial, pela existência de países com diferentes dimensões.Pequenos E grandes países geram desiguais externalidades e podem possuir distintos poderes de negociação no jogo político da estabilização macroeconómica. As interacções estratégicas resultantes de diferentes objectivos de política e de comportamentos não cooperativos podem desempenhar um papel fundamental na política económica levada a cabo numa união monetária com países de dimensão assimétrica.Neste contexto, analisamos as políticas de estabilização óptimas, cooperativas e não cooperativas, através de um modelo Novo-Keynesiano com fundamentos microeconómicos e que modeliza uma união monetária constituída por dois países, sob dois cenários de política diferentes. Um cenário em que os instrumentos de política orçamental e monetária exercem ambos o seu papel de estabilização exclusivamente através do lado da procura, sem qualquer consequência na acumulação de dívida pública; e um outro cenário onde a política orçamental afecta a procura e a oferta mas em que os impostos lump sum são insuficientes para assegurar o equilíbrio orçamental. Em cada um dos cenários, deriva-se a combinação óptima de políticas estratégicas avaliando, igualmente, os efeitos de alguns arranjos institucionais (cooperação, regras orçamentais e a opção por um banco central conservador) e do nível de endividamento público sobre a eficácia das políticas de estabilização.Constata-se que a dimensão assimétrica dos países qualifica significativamente as interacções estratégicas da política orçamental e monetária. Um pequeno país, suportando maiores externalidades e beneficiando menos da estabilização promovida pela política monetária comum, terá de realizar uma política orçamental mais activa e, como seria de esperar, enfrenta maiores custos de estabilização do que um grande país. Além do mais, a avaliação do bem-estar social obtido sob jogos de política alternativos releva que um país grande obtém uma melhor estabilização quando a política orçamental lidera e que, portanto, pode oferecer resistência à cooperação. Também se verifica que grandes e pequenos níveis de endividamento público determinam especializações diferentes dos instrumentos de política na realização da estabilização económica. Tendo em conta apenas os custos de estabilização macroeconómica, observa-se que, numa união monetária com elevado nível de dívida pública, o país grande tem incentivos a aumentar o seu endividamento enquanto o pequeno pode desejar ser mais disciplinado. Numa união monetária em que o nível médio de dívida pública é pequeno, podem ocorrer incentivos contrários: o pequeno país pode sentir-se estimulado a aumentar a dívida pública permanentemente.

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Guvenc, Muge Hayriye. "The Budget Of The European Union: Need For A Reform." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608505/index.pdf.

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This thesis assesses the underlying political and financial reasons of the recent budgetary crisis of the European Union. It aims to discuss the possible reform alternatives for the European Union budget in order to improve it to better serve for the objectives of the enlarged Union and to enable the Member States to share the budget burden more fairly. To this purpose, the thesis first analyzes the budget of the European Union in terms of its aims, evolution and structure of revenue and expenditure items and than presents a general overview of the shortcomings of the present own resources system. In general, the thesis discusses possible reform areas, in which the reform process could take place. The thesis also shows how the Union overcame the policy challenges, and particularly the budgetary implications brought out with the inclusion of Central and Eastern European countries and how its financial perspectives covering the 2000-06 and 2007-2013 periods were finalized.

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Woolgar, Chris. "European Union Dairy Policy and the Least Developed Countries : Case Study - Africa." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1113.

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Agricultural policy within the European Union (EU) is but one of the founding pillars upon which unification was developed. Negotiated out of a post-war Europe, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) emphasized the protection of the domestic market, through government subsidies and payment programmes, artificially raising the price of domestic products while restricting access for the foreign agricultural producers. The objective of this paper is to explore the link between the agricultural decisions made by the EU and the effects on citizens in the Least Developed Countries (LDC). To develop a comprehensive understanding of the issue at hand a review of the existing literature will be necessary, as well as an analysis of the available quantitative data. The findings revealed that the CAP is but one factor that impacts development of agriculture in LDC’s, many other factors, such as international and bi-lateral trade agreements, government institutions, and political lobbying also influence the outcome.

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Ozmen, Zelal. "The Process Of Reform Of The Structural Funds In European Union." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12605755/index.pdf.

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The Structural Funds, (namely the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Guidance Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund and lastly the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance) being the most important instruments of European Community Regional Policy have gone through a process of reform since their establishment as a consequence of European Union integration. This thesis aims to analyze the process of reform of the Structural Funds taking processes of widening and deepening of European Union as the main triggering factors. The thesis also traces the historical evolution of the Structural Funds and results of each main refom movement in a descriptive manner.

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Kolsuz, Neval. "European Union Citizenship And Its Impacts On The Formation Of European Political Identity." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612509/index.pdf.

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This thesis aims at evaluating the impacts of European Union Citizenship on the development process of European political identity. With the introduction of European Union citizenship upon the ratification of the Treaty of Maastricht, a breath of fresh air has been brought to the ongoing debates and a new form of citizenship has taken its place in the literature. The &ldquo
workers&rsquo
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which was the core of the push for European citizenship, has played a pioneering role for the rights engendered thereunder. In due course, new rights have been entitled to the citizens and the scope of these rights has been broadened. From the 1950s to the present, EU citizenship has continued its evolution and, rather than being referred to as a common market citizenship, it became a highly political concept during this period. In the context of these developments, this thesis view the historical background and the legal framework of the concept and, in light of these insights, analyze the impacts of European Union citizenship upon the formation of European political identity. In this study, European citizenship has been defined as a form of political identity, whose emergence , in turn , was a consequence of citizens&rsquo
relationships with the political entity-European Union- . On account of the inadequacy of the elements that constitutes the identity under normal conditions , the existence of the political identity has been emphasized as a the key concept in order to attach the citizens to the political entity and the role of the citizenship has been stated as comprising a common basis within the EU in order to constitute a political identity.

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Neighbors, Sean. "Monetary Policy in the Euro Area: A Country by Country Look at the Effectiveness of the Taylor Rule." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1628.

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This paper aims to use different Taylor rules in analyzing the interest rate for the Euro Area. The Euro Area was chosen because it consists of all the countries that use the Euro. The European Central Bank also behaves with the national banks in much the same as manner as the US Federal Reserve Bank system. The Taylor rule is used because the main objective of the Euro Area is price stability. Two different Taylor rules are used in this paper: simple Taylor rule, and dynamic Taylor rule. Each Taylor rule is also broken down to include the individual country coefficients. This allows for the effect each country has on the Euro Area's monetary policy to be determined.

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Kokkinou, Aikaterini. "An industry and country analysis of technical efficiency in the European Union, 1980-2005." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3660/.

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The research aim of this research is to identify and examine key resources, a conceptual framework drawing on the application of stochastic frontier models in obtaining measures of efficiency that enable a comparison of performance across industries and countries, explaining why, in the same country, some industries achieve superior efficiency performance. The important task is to relate efficiency to a number of factors that are likely to be determinants, and measure the extent to which they contribute to the presence of inefficiency. More specifically, the first step of this thesis is to review the literature concerned with techniques of efficiency estimation. This will facilitate an understanding of both the theoretical and application part of the research. The second step of this thesis is to highlight the pitfalls of the different relevant models and methodologies. The third and most important goal and contribution of this thesis is to suggest a concrete method to estimate industrial efficiency, avoiding the inherent problems. This thesis considers a European Union perspective efficiency analysis to increase the information base and derive broader conclusions about European Union productive performance within selected countries. This issue is of particular research relevance because empirical evidence shows that even though European Union industries are widely analyzed with respect to performance, yet little attention has been paid to the estimation of technical efficiency. Within this sample, it is of great importance to examine which determinants are significant, however, it is also important, to examine whether the interactions between technical progress, ICT investment, ICT investment share, R&D stock and economy openness, namely the process of the integration into the world economy, has any implications for technical efficiency. Special emphasis is given to the review of two of the main heterogeneity determining factors, namely innovation investments (as a proxy of knowledge creation) and economy openness (as a proxy of knowledge dissemination). In particular, this thesis explores whether the interactions between these factors have any implications for efficiency growth, and whether there are any complementarities between them and fostering technical efficiency growth. More specifically, this thesis aims to distinguish between the two main factors which affect total factor productivity, namely technical progress and technical efficiency, as well as what determines the production frontier itself and what determines the inefficiency term (both theoretically and empirically).

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Weber, Olaf. "WTO-Streitbeilegung und EuGH im Vergleich : zur gerichtsförmigen Konfliktlösung in Handelspräferenzzonen /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016138038&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Schneider, Kimberly Ann. "Counter-Terrorism Cooperation in the European Union: A Hybrid Case of Integration." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1178151333.

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Sørensen, Catharina. "Euroscepticism : a conceptual analysis and a longitudinal, cross-country examination of public scepticism towards the European Union." København Københavns Universitet, Institut for Statskundskab, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&docl̲ibrary=BVB01&docn̲umber=016597680&linen̲umber=0001&funcc̲ode=DBR̲ECORDS&servicet̲ype=MEDIA.

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Svobodová, Lucie. "The Introduction of the Euro and Inflation: Cross-country Differences in Perceived Inflation." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-135909.

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This dissertation thesis examines the divergence of perceived inflation, measured by the EU Consumer Surveys, and officially measured inflation after the introduction of cash euro in several eurozone countries. Two groups of countries are tested in the thesis -- countries accepting the euro in 2002 and countries providing the changeover in later years. The main goal of the thesis is to test cross-country differences between officially measured and perceived inflation with respect to economic, social and cultural specifics of the countries in the eurozone, while main focus is given to examining the differences between the above-mentioned two groups of countries. The results obtained could help to derive policy conclusions for the other EU countries which have not yet accepted the common currency.

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Küller, Albert. "How the size of a Country Affects its Performance when joining the European Monetary Union." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Economics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-8066.

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The purpose of the thesis is to evaluate if smaller countries that have joined the ‘European Monetary Union’ outperform their larger partners in terms of higher growth and lower inflation. This is something suggested by the theory of Optimum Currency Areas (OCA). Three smaller countries, Austria, Finland and Ireland, were selected for analysis. Their growth and inflation were compared to the weighted growth and inflation of France, Germany and Italy and against a control-group of advanced countries.

A simple form of regression analysis along with some graphical analysis was used and the results to some extent support that the small countries have outperformed their larger partners in term of growth. On the other hand they seem to experience a relatively higher inflation, which is contradicting the OCA theory. Perhaps this can be explained by the fact that higher growth is often associated with higher inflation in more advanced countries.

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Allen, Rachel Michele Jackson John D. "Third country effects of the European Union on the monetary model of exchange rate news." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Spring/master's/ALLEN_RACHEL_9.pdf.

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Castro, Henrique Moreira da Silva Oliveira. "Effects of a monetary union on a small peripheral country: stabilization and competitiveness in Portugal." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10347.

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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
The first decade of the 21st century introduced the euro in Portugal. This step towards European integration implied that Portuguese economic authorities lose monetary independence. We investigate the impact of that loss in Portuguese competitiveness through the construction of competitiveness indicators, and on current account dynamics trough a decomposition of the current account. Despite the continuous loss of competitiveness after 1999, empirically we don’t find evidence that the euro is contributing to it. We do find evidence that current account adjustment pattern changed after 1999.

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Dorn, Elizabeth A. ""For God, home, and country": The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and reform efforts in Meiji Japan." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3053.

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This dissertation focuses on the organizational development of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Meiji Japan and on the activities its middle-class members undertook to achieve moral and social reform. It argues that the women who joined the society felt a great sense of duty as Japanese to promote national progress and that they considered widespread acceptance of their reform agenda and the Christian faith essential to Japan's advancement. These mutually reinforcing motivations informed their activism and led them to assume a dynamic role in trying to define social problems and guide public and private behavior. In developing this argument, this dissertation reveals that the members of the WCTU did not compromise their beliefs and principles to accommodate the government's imperialistic ambitions and program to mold a loyal and patriotic citizenry. Instead, they attempted to harness the power of the state and the imperial institution to further their aims. This dissertation makes extensive use of WCTU publications and writings by members to support this argument. It first proceeds chronologically with a three-chapter history of the WCTU's establishment and growth during the Meiji period. Particular foci in this overview include the impact of World WCTU missionaries on the formation of an organizational structure, conflicts among Japanese women over the agenda to be pursued, and activities members undertook to expand the union and arouse interest in their reform principles. The remaining three chapters follow topical lines of analysis. Chapters four and five provide, respectively, detailed discussions of select components of the WCTU's anti-prostitution and temperance campaigns. Chapter six addresses the nature of members' reverence for the imperial institution and outreach during the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars. Blending description of specific activities with analysis, these chapters illustrate how intertwined members' patriotism and sense of national duty were with their religious and reform fervor.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-251).
Electronic reproduction.
Also available by subscription via World Wide Web
viii, 251 leaves, bound 29 cm

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Oikelome, Franklin Omobhude. "The antecedents and consequence of trade union commitment in a developing country : the case of Nigeria." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2003. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2893/.

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This thesis examined the antecedents and consequence of trade union commitment in Nigerian trade unions. Data obtained from 512 unionised employees in Nigeria was analysed using mainly correlation and regression analysis. From the results, the significant predictors of union commitment were factors associated with union characteristics and perception namely union instrumentality perception, satisfaction with union leadership and early union socialisation experience. Sector was a significant moderator in the model: union commitment was greater in the public sector while union participation was greater in the private sector. Males participated significantly more in union activities than females although there was no significant gender difference in union commitment. Factors associated with union attitudes were found to moderate the relationship between union commitment and union participation. Union commitment was also found to predict union participation in the overall model as hypothesised. The qualitative study involved personal interviews as well as content analysis of relevant union materials including logbooks. The results confirmed the relevance of the unions' settings and specific individual experiences to the quantitative findings. The overall findings provided limited support for the view that antecedents of union commitment differ across countries or contexts. Because some of the findings were partially consistent with those from the western literature, it cautions against generalising a notion that western models are dysfunctional in developing countries. The applications, implications and limitations of the findings were discussed.

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Khoja, Sara. "The European Union: an area of freedom, justice and security - but for whom? : an examination of the legal status and rights of third country nationals within the European Union and their possible acquisition of European Union citizenship /." Berlin : Mensch & Buch Verl, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/501093729.pdf.

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Dalby, Andrew K. "European integrationist influences on member states' counter-terrorist co-operation and co-ordination." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14394.

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Under the competences of the European Union's intergovernmentally controlled Justice and Home Affairs policy, counter-terrorist co-operation and co-ordination of efforts have progressed at a rapid pace following the 11 September attacks on the USA. Given, however, that Europe has experienced entrenched terrorist campaigns for the past three decades, one could be forgiven for questioning, in light of the unique co-operative position of Western Europe, why it has taken so long for the membership of the EU to reach a common definition of terrorism. Also why is it that even now, the EU has failed to develop a common policy against terrorism? Political explanations are traditional responses to such questions, but there is a risk of underestimating the complexities of the European Project, and the effect which this has had on so many areas of transnational co-operation. By focusing therefore on the often-overlooked role played by European integration on counter-terrorist co-operation, in addition to empirical analysis of the efficiency of the co-operative structures, we place ourselves in a more beneficial position to understand the current situation. Intergovernmentalism, the controlling force of JHA co-operation, we find is not mutually exclusive to law-enforcement co-operation. Two theories tested for supranational influences - neo-functionalism and federalism - have also played their part, from the early 1960s onwards, in facilitating co-operation. The historical emphasis is important, because co-operation prior to the regulation of much of this area within the EU, following the Treaties of Economic Union, provides us with ample material for analysis and greater insight into the JHA process and counter-terrorism. Intergovernmentalism has helped push counter-terrorist co-operation along, but equally we find that it now serves as a hindrance in completing its development because of its in-built tendency to retain subsidiarity. Counter terrorist co-operation, we conclude, need not be restricted to intergovernmental control any longer.

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Casey, Joseph. "LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PERFORMANCE AND COST IN COLLECTIVE AND NON-COLLCTIVE BARGAINING WORKFORCES." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3247.

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High performance organizations desire to provide services in an effective and efficient manner with positive outcomes; therefore measures of performance and cost can be utilized to gauge such success. Through comparative research and analysis of local governments that have and do not have collective bargaining for law enforcement, findings and results can determine if there is any correlation between employee workforce classification (in collective or non-collective bargaining workplaces), high performance traits, costs and high performance return on costs (HPRC) for law enforcement. A HPRC composite measure was developed and utilized to compare and contrast all of the local governments to determine relationships between performance and costs. Based upon the research, the following findings were discovered for the null hypothesis which compared two forms of collective bargaining - arbitration and mediation - separately to non-collective bargaining localities: 1) Correlation between workforce classification and high performance attributes – mediation (negative – perform at a lower performance level); 2) Correlation between workforce classification and law enforcement costs - arbitration (negative – costs are at a lower level); and 3) No correlation between workforce classification and HPRC. In the preceding three areas, only the model on high performance attributes had a high r square and low variance with adjusted r square; both indicators of a parsimonious model. While correlations arose, further research in this area is warranted in developing a more enhanced and publicly accepted comparable metric of performance, costs and HPRC for law enforcement. In addition, certain control variables illustrated a correlation with the dependent variables as follows: 1) Performance - High median household incomes, density, age, survey quality of life, and city; 2) Law Enforcement Costs per Capita - Non-right-to-work state and county; and 3) HPRC - Median household income and county. A rational choice theory was utilized as the lens of framework in assessing an employee’s motivational behavior in a collective and non-collective bargaining work environment that could contribute to differentials in performance.

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Lu, Yun. "The preliminary ruling : jurisdictional mechanism of cooperation between the Court of Justice of the European Union and national courts." Thesis, University of Macau, 2010. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2182114.

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Munoz, Marcia. "Youth and trade unions - case study in a post-conflict country as Colombia." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22414.

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This paper aims to explain how interpretations and perception of unionsdiffer depending on the age of the audience as well as identifying what kind of development ideas and visions are detectable in union communication and practices. The paper also examines to which extent unionstriesto rejuvenate themselves and how they relate with gender issues. The case of the Colombian central union organization, CUT, is used as an example of a trade union. Within the framework of theories related to intergenerational value changes, rejuvenationand gender discourse two different analysis are made. The first one being a textualanalysis ofthe unionscommunication and the second one being a qualitative surveyanalysis of perceptions of unionsby youth. These two analyses are made separately to subsequently proceed to merge the twoand discuss how they interactwith each other. The results of this research show that the perceptions of unionsamong youth is more negative in comparison to the perception of an older generation even though the respondents did feel represented by the unionswork and shared many of the development-related issues mentioned by the unionscommunication. Intergenerational value change is a theory applied in this research that could be an answer to youth low affiliation to unionsbecause of their hierarchical structures but was however an explanation notable when it comes to differences in value priorities, where the priorities between the target groups were not radically different

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