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Environmental Scarcity and Violent Conflict: The Case of South Africa
- in Journal of Peace Research. Vol
, 1998
"... The causal relationship between environmental scarcities- the scarcity of renewable resources- and the outbreak of violent conflict is complex. Environtnental scarcity emerges within a political, social, economic, and ecological context and interacts with many of these contextual factors to contribu ..."
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conflict in South Africa. Within South Africa, violence arose at precisely the same time that many anticipated a trans-formation to a more peaceful society- upon the release of Nelson Mandela, the end of the ban on pol-itical activity and the official end to apartheid. This article provides a new
Political Activism and the Deaf Adults
"... The paper reports on interviews with three profoundly deaf, college educated young men wn: are moderately to very politically active in the deaf community. Responses are grouped into the following categories: polItical Issues; barriers to political participation; and personal perspectives on the att ..."
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The paper reports on interviews with three profoundly deaf, college educated young men wn: are moderately to very politically active in the deaf community. Responses are grouped into the following categories: polItical Issues; barriers to political participation; and personal perspectives
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"... This article outlines the current development of aspects of social policy in Bosnia-Herzegovina, paying particular attention to the roles of diverse international actors. Bosnia-Herzegovina is seen as an example of a ’new feudalist ’ social formation in which the common citizenship model of ’normal ..."
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’ welfare regimes does not apply as a result of: (a) sepa-ratist ethnicized claims and loyalties and (b) the fragmentation and multiplication of pol-itical authority. The redevelopment of social welfare structures is hampered by the com-peting and inconsistent visions and activities of ethnicized, local
Resources, Social Networks, and Collective Action Frames of College Students Who Join the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement
"... This article explores the reasons why some college students join the gay and lesbian rights movements. After addressing the frequency of students joining this social movement, the article then consid-ers the contexts and motivations behind such actions. To explore the catalysts to gay and lesbian ri ..."
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rights activism, this study utilizes variables from resource, mobilizing, and framing theories of polit-ical participation. Using data from 820 heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual students, we found that economic and educational resources failed to explain participation in gay and lesbian pol-itics
Orthodox political participation in Australia
- Journal of Sociology
, 1989
"... In the study of Australian mass political behaviour, political party preference has been well documented but political par-ticipation has not. Using factor analysis this article establishes that the four modes of orthodox political participation which have been identified in a wide variety of nation ..."
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other factors, interest in pol-itics, strength of partisanship, place of residence and education feature as key determinants of participation. In broad terms, mass political participation is striking for the regularity of its frequency and causal antecedents in many different cultures.
Life Scripts as Sources of Reward for Women Executive Directors
"... Twenty-five female and twelve male executive directors of social service agencies were interviewed about their early childhoods, job histories, the current rewards obtained from their jobs, and their criteria for effective social service leadership. An exploratory analysis of these data revealed a c ..."
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..Interpersonal rewards that are associated with human service ac-tivities are often overshadowed by the less than harmonious pol-itics of managing an agency’s image, fund raising, and consensus
Original Article Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security
"... Debates over America’s heavy reliance on employer-provided private pensions have understated the profound role organized labor played after World War II. Archival evidence from prominent unions and business asso-ciations suggests that the shift in organized labor’s strategy after theNewDeal toward e ..."
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electoral activity helps explain critical interventions by Northern Democrats into the system of private pensioning in the postwar period that laid the foundation for America’s old-age security system. Such a strategy was insufficient, however, to expand social security. This article offers a pol-itical
The Politics of Population
"... This essay evaluates the implications of international political develop-ment on demographic transitions and economic outcomes from 1980 to 2050. Countries with high levels of political capacity experience the sharpest declines in birth and death rates as well as the greatest gains in income. Politi ..."
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assess the consequen-ces of these changes in world politics. The dynamic interaction among population structures and economic and political development is a subject that has been extensively researched by economists, pol-itical demographers, and political scientists (for example, Organski et al. 1984
The Politics of Shame: The Condemnation of Country Human Rights Practices in the UNCHR
"... the primary forum in which governments publicly named and shamed others for abusing their citizens, the practices of the commission have been largely ignored by political scientists. To address that deficiency, this study analyzes the actions of the commission and its members ’ vot-ing records in th ..."
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in the 1977–2001 period. It establishes that targeting and punishment by the commission decreasingly fit the predictions of a realist perspective, in which naming and shaming is an inherently pol-itical exercise, and increasingly fit the predictions of a liberal ‘‘reputa-tion’ ’ perspective, in which
UNDERSTANDING TRADITIONALIST OPPOSITION TO MODERNIZATION: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN A NORWEGIAN MOUNTAIN CONFLICT
"... standing traditionalist opposition to modernization: narrative pro-duction in a Norwegian mountain conflict’, Geogr. Ann. B 90 (1): 49–62. ABSTRACT. In Gausdal, a mountainous community in southern Norway, a conflict involving dogsledding has dominated local pol-itics during the past two decades. In ..."
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standing traditionalist opposition to modernization: narrative pro-duction in a Norwegian mountain conflict’, Geogr. Ann. B 90 (1): 49–62. ABSTRACT. In Gausdal, a mountainous community in southern Norway, a conflict involving dogsledding has dominated local pol-itics during the past two decades
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