Browsing by Subject "democracy"
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(2012-02-14)At the start of the George H.W. Bush administration, American involvement in El Salvador‘s civil war, one of the last Cold War battlegrounds, had disappeared from the foreign policy agenda. However, two events in November ...
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(2013-09-19)My project intends to analyze the education potential of comic heroes for the humanities in the development of a democratic citizenry. Drawing on critiques of certain Enlightenment conceptions of an individual autonomous ...
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(2014-08-01)I studied the potential for community-based planning in the winter habitat of the federally-endangered whooping crane (Grus americana) to better understand the relationships, barriers and opportunities to conservation and ...
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The complicity of the United States in the military coup which led to Augusto Pinochet’s rise of power highlights their subsequent interference in Chile’s economic development. Chile served as a laboratory for the United ...
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(2012-07-16)The current study is aimed at investigating the puzzle of why FPI (Islamic Defenders' Front) has chosen to adopt violent strategies within the democratic context of Indonesia. Much of literature on social movements suggests ...
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(2020-04-08)While linguistics has historically separated language from speech and defined language as a structured system of linguistic signs, psycholinguistics has reclaimed speech acts and their psychological and neurological effects ...
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(2009-05-15)Contemporary activists in the United States find it increasingly difficult to negotiate socio-political constraints to build a social movement. Those looking for relatively safe and effective venues for participation in ...
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(2011-10-21)This dissertation asks the question: How do democracies improve in quality? Building on previous scholarship, the author offers a theoretical framework that traces democratic quality through equality of outcomes. The ...