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Description:: The policies of secular governments in constitutionally secular countries are at times marked by the influence of religious politics. Religious politics is specifically defined here as a politics of extending the norms of religion into the public sphere through religious legislation. Thus, some governments lend the state’s coercive capacity to...
Keyword:: state religion policies, coercion, secular state, legitimacy, and religious politics
Subject:: Political science
Creator:: Metera, Gde Dwitya Arief
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15482 and etdadmin_upload_797581

Description:: After the Second World War, two states claimed to represent the same nation: “China.” This work examines how the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) competed to represent China and the international consequences of that competition. The CPC’s victory in the Chinese Civil War (1946-1949) led to...
Keyword:: Taipei, Kuomintang, United Nations, Beijing, legitimacy, and Communist Party of China
Subject:: History, Asian history, and International relations
Creator:: Clark, Keith Allan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_763206 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15238

Description:: Why do the institutional outcomes of armed separatist conflicts vary? Separatist conflicts have diverse institutional effects. Though many separatists hope to create sovereign states, few achieve their aims. More often, their conflicts lead to forms of intra-state autonomy, independent but unrecognized de facto states, or territories under foreign occupation. These...
Keyword:: separatism, secession, recognition, self-determination, legitimacy, and civil wars
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Lee Seymour
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/02/2018
Date Modified:: 10/02/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Legitimation is a fundamental social process that describes the solidification of disparate practices, meanings, and material structures into a coherent, stable institution. In this dissertation, I study the legitimation of casino gambling as it expanded from 1976 to 2006. While scholars have tended to approach the legitimation process from one...
Keyword:: content analysis, institutions, diffusion, consumer culture, legitimacy, and casinos
Subject:: Marketing
Creator:: Ashlee Humphreys
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/02/2018
Date Modified:: 10/02/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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