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Published: 14 May 2013
... century international relations friendship political agendas ideological agendas eighteenth century ideals democracy The friendship between Gertrude Stein and Bernard Faÿ emerged at a moment when “friendship” was suddenly an au courant term, especially in political circles. In the decade...
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Published: 09 July 2020
...This chapter is an overview of the regulation of healthcare in Europe. It demonstrates that regulatory mechanisms in Europe are not straightforward given the complexity of healthcare systems, the balancing of interests involved, the need to avoid political agendas taking priority over the public...
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Familiar Stranger: The Figure of “The Jew”
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Carolyn J. Eichner
Published: 15 June 2022
.... The chapter expounds on how Olympe Audouard, Hubertine Auclert, and Louis Michel employed antisemitism and Jewish difference to support their conflicting political agendas. Feminists' imperial entanglements simultaneously utilized the figuration of Jews as a useful and comprehensible political tool...
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The Consequences of Diploma Democracy
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Mark Bovens and Anchrit Wille
Published: 29 June 2017
.... Moreover, educational background is not politically neutral. Different levels of education may lead to diverging preferences and standards, particularly with regard to cultural issues. Because the higher educated are over-represented among political participants and politicians, the political agenda tends...
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The Political Activism of Clergy
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Corwin E. Smidt
Published: 24 March 2016
...This chapter examines the political activism of clergy outside the context of congregational life. It first analyzes the political topics that clergy report they address publicly with regularity, the resulting particular political agendas advanced by clergy, and the changing relative emphasis given...
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Published: 12 November 2012
... dailies and weekly newspapers. It also shows how the new cosmology was drawn into the service of news values to support political agendas and editorial policies and help consolidate each publication's relationship with its readers. Einstein Albert fourth dimension occult King’s College London London...
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Islam and Politics in the Middle East
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Moataz A. Fattah
Published: 16 December 2013
... politics political agendas Islamist agendas Muslims This article is set to provide a panoramic view of the landscape of Islam and politics in the Middle East. To be more specific, this article is an attempt to answer the following questions: Who speaks for Islam? And how do they situate...
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Truth in Advertising
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James R. Fichter
Published: 15 December 2023
... between merchants and politics since, while newspapers could be reliable sources of information, they could also serve the political agendas of editors, contributors, and committees. Newspapers printed parallel political and commercial discourses because newspapers had political and commercial appeal...
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Published: 10 June 1999
... representation is then no longer indicated by the congruence of policy preferences between party elites and party voters, but by the congruence of political agendas of representatives and represented. 1 In the case of European parties, these efforts in selective issue emphasis originate...
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Military Struggle and Identity Formation in LatinAmerica: Race, Nation, and Community During the Liberal Period
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Nicola Foot (ed.) and René D. Harder Horst (ed.)
Published online: 14 September 2011
Published in print: 01 November 2010
... to advance their own political agendas. The book offers new interpretations and explanations of this key period in Latin American history....
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Published: 23 September 2021
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“The Best Type of Chinese” Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals and Symbolic Refugee Relief, 1952–1960
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Madeline Y. Hsu
Published: 27 April 2015
...This chapter looks at the enactment of political agendas under the guise of humanitarian outreach through the operations of the CIA-funded Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (ARCI). This ostensibly nongovernmental agency targeted intellectual Chinese for assistance and migration, first to aid...
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Fort St. Joseph Revealed Then and Now
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Michael S. Nassaney
Published: 27 August 2019
...A retrospective examination of the changing interpretations of Fort St. Joseph suggest that the history and archaeology of the Fort have supported various narratives that have served different audiences and political agendas. This concluding chapter emphasizes that the social and political...
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Why and How Place Matters
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Göran Therborn
Published: 02 September 2009
... their life chances, and provide them with identities and traditions of social and political action. Places are strategic sites of action and the creation, development, or destruction of places form an important part in political agendas. Aristotle Casey E C Morison B Greece place polis Roman Empire...
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Why and How Place Matters
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Göran Therborn
Published: 05 September 2013
... their life chances, and provide them with identities and traditions of social and political action. Places are strategic sites of action and the creation, development, or destruction of places form an important part in political agendas. Aristotle Casey E C Morison B city state civitas Greece ancient...
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Published: 01 August 2004
... movements, but has now moved beyond straightforward opposition towards the articulation of new global political agendas; imperial globalization, which is a US‐led form of globalization that seeks not the creation of a genuinely multinational neoliberal global economy but rather the extension of American...
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Comparing social policies: Exploring new perspectives in Britain and Japan
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Misa Izuhara (ed.)
Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 26 February 2003
..., socio-economic systems, cultural values and political agendas, is at an interesting turning point. This book examines topical issues with up-to-date information; compares and contrasts selected policy areas between the two societies; and presents original material written by leading scholars in each...
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