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Americans are not financially prepared for retirement and the World Economic Forum (2019) is forecasting the US retirement savings gap to grow consistently for the next three decades. Addressing this retirement savings gap will almost certainly require individuals to increase their retirement savings rate. Embracing this increased individual accountability for retirement savings is found in this research to lead to a higher retirement savings intention. However, this research also found that perceptions about who is accountable for the retirement savings gap is not uniform, but rather is polarized along political lines. Those who affiliate with the Republican party believe relatively more strongly in individual accountability for retirement saving while those who affiliate with the Democratic party believe more strongly in the accountability of institutions like the government, Wall Street and employers. This research experiments with temporal framing as a novel mechanism for disengaging respondents from these politically affiliated retirement savings accountability beliefs, and by doing so, influencing their retirement saving intentions. Temporal framing was chosen as a mechanism for moderating politically affiliated beliefs about perceived accountability for retirement saving because distal temporal framing has been shown in prior research (Roh, McComas, Rickard & Decker, 2015) to be effective in reducing entrenched resistance. Distal framing in this research was expected to reduce resistance to ‘mismatched’ messages – which are ones that counter existing politically affiliated beliefs ab The results confirm a clear distinction between Republican affiliated respondents, who place high accountability for the retirement saving gap on individuals and low accountability on institutions, and Democrat affiliated respondents, who consider both individuals and institutions as accountable. Furthermore, the research confirms that self-identified political affiliation does not influence the importance that respondents placed on retirement savings. And for both political affiliations, a higher perceived individual accountability for retirement savings is associated with an increased retirement savings priority. However, temporal framing as a mechanism for moderating politically affiliated beliefs about accountability was not effective as applied in this research, possibly because the tested messages were not sufficiently persuasive. The findings from this research can be applied by practitioners to set the tone and content of messages about retirement savings, to target messages to the most receptive audiences, and to advance academic understanding of the influence of proximate and distal message framing. And most importantly, this research makes a small but meaningful contribution towards understanding how to ensure a dignified retirement for all Americans. / Business Administration/Marketing

Deutschland wurde bereits zweimal, 1966–1969 und 2005–2009, von einer großen Koalition regiert. Deskriptive Zeitreihenanalysen wirtschaftspolitischer Kennzahlen zeigen nicht auf, dass es unter diesen großen Koalitionen signifikante Kurswechsel in der Wirtschaftspolitik gab. Qualitative Analysen zeigen jedoch, dass die erste große Koalition 1966–1969 die Staatstätigkeit ausgeweitet hat. Mit der im Dezember 2013 ins Amt gewählten Koalition scheint es ähnlich zu sein: Der Wechsel des Koalitionspartners der CDU/CSU von der FDP zur SPD lässt deutlich expansivere Wirtschaftspolitiken und eine Ausweitung der Staatstätigkeit erwarten.

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This thesis examines how the creators of Croatian Jadran film - especially in the 1960s - portrayed the events bound to known historical reality, how they artistically interpreted this reality, and which historical events in the surveyed period were in the focus of their interest. In my choice of films I followed mainly the production aspect, which is also the main criterion of Croatian film historiography for selection of films in the national cinematography. From the topical perspective, the predominant motives relate to the people's liberation war or the civilian stories taking place in the background of war events. The movie Nevesinjska puška, which treats more ancient historical events, is the only exception. The production can also be characterised by the manner of explicating a historical theme. It features film spectacle, lyrical parable, and film interpretation which can serve as a material for historical research and analysis, or for studying the mimetic period between a generally accepted and understood historical fact, and its artistic rendition. The last mentioned is often featured with pictures from the partizan milieu. Except for some rare cases, the pictures reflecting historical events limited by the end of the World War II are distinguished by a collective, vaguely-specified...

The aim of my diploma thesis is to analyse the posibility of existence of a political cycle in the selected european countries (Ireland and Germany). The work describes the various theories of the political cycle. I try to prove the existence of political cycle by analysing of political and economical data (inflation rate and unemployment rate). The work examines two main theories of the political cycle. These two theories are: opportunistic political cycle theory, which suppose that the main motive of the politicians are being re-elected in the next election. And ideological political cycle theory assume that politicians behavior accord to their parties ideological orientation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Erilene Araujo.pdf: 751585 bytes, checksum: 1cfe6577e507a9844ae716266eb893ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-01 / The magazine Teoria e Debate (TD) is the most traditional communication vehicle of the Worker s Party (PT). It was created in 1987 by the Regional Directorate of the PT in São Paulo and, since 1997 has been published by the Fundação Perseu Abramo, also an organ of the party. The magazine is produced with the voluntary collaboration of intellectuals and organized by a small editorial staff. The objective of the magazine is to go beyond the limits of the partisan media and to be perceived as a space for debate and reflection about Brazilian leftist theories. When the magazine had gained some maturity, TD was faced with a big challenge: how to discuss the political crisis of 2005, which had touched the center of the PT and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva s government. The present dissertation studies these questions: How did the political crisis of 2005 which was known as the mensalão case enter into the contents of Teoria e Debate? What was said and which individuals were chosen to narrate the case? The research was done by analysis of 38 political articles published in the magazine in 2005 and 2006. As it is an analytical publication elaborated by and addressed to intellectuals, the first chapter of the dissertation relates theoretical reflections about the intellectuals and their politics, utilizing ideas from classic authors such as Antonio Gramsci and Daniel Pécaut. The second chapter discusses the genesis of the Worker s Party analyses and the intellectual participation in the process of its creation and then discusses the loss of political influence of the group since the 1990 s, when the electoral campaigning created a new dimension in the PT. The third chapter is dedicated an analysis of party communication and the impact of that communication during the crises of 2005 caused mainly by the magazine. Based on the analysis of the 38 articles, the last chapter discusses the Teoria e Debate coverage in three periods: before, during and after the political crises of 2005 / A revista Teoria e Debate é o veículo de comunicação mais tradicional do Partido dos Trabalhadores. Ela foi criada em 1987 pelo Diretório Regional do PT São Paulo e, desde 1997, é editada pela Fundação Perseu Abramo, também do partido. A publicação é elaborada a partir da colaboração voluntária de intelectuais e organizada por uma pequena redação. Propõe-se a ultrapassar os limites da mídia partidária, para ser percebida como um espaço reservado ao debate e à reflexão teórica da esquerda brasileira. Quando atingiu a maioridade, a revista enfrentou um grande desafio: discutir a crise política de 2005, que atingia o centro do PT e do governo Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Em que medida a crise política de 2005 que ficou conhecida como o caso mensalão entrou na pauta de Teoria e Debate, o que foi dito e que personagens foram escalados para narrar o caso? A investigação foi feita com base na análise de 38 textos com foco em política, publicados na revista entre 2005 e 2006. Por se tratar de uma publicação analítica elaborada por e destinada a intelectuais, o primeiro capítulo da dissertação traz uma reflexão teórica sobre os intelectuais e a política, à luz de autores clássicos como Antonio Gramsci e Daniel Pécaut. O segundo recupera a gênese do Partido dos Trabalhadores, analisa a participação dos intelectuais no processo de criação do partido e discute a perda da influência política do grupo, a partir da década de 1990, quando a disputa eleitoral ganhou uma nova dimensão dentro do PT. O terceiro capítulo é dedicado a análise da comunicação petista e dos impactos que a crise de 2005 provocou sobre ela e, principalmente, para Teoria e Debate. Com base nos 38 artigos, o último capítulo discorre sobre a cobertura da revista em três momentos: antes, durante e depois da crise política de 2005

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Erilene Araujo.pdf: 751585 bytes, checksum: 1cfe6577e507a9844ae716266eb893ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-01 / The magazine Teoria e Debate (TD) is the most traditional communication vehicle of the Worker s Party (PT). It was created in 1987 by the Regional Directorate of the PT in São Paulo and, since 1997 has been published by the Fundação Perseu Abramo, also an organ of the party. The magazine is produced with the voluntary collaboration of intellectuals and organized by a small editorial staff. The objective of the magazine is to go beyond the limits of the partisan media and to be perceived as a space for debate and reflection about Brazilian leftist theories. When the magazine had gained some maturity, TD was faced with a big challenge: how to discuss the political crisis of 2005, which had touched the center of the PT and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva s government. The present dissertation studies these questions: How did the political crisis of 2005 which was known as the mensalão case enter into the contents of Teoria e Debate? What was said and which individuals were chosen to narrate the case? The research was done by analysis of 38 political articles published in the magazine in 2005 and 2006. As it is an analytical publication elaborated by and addressed to intellectuals, the first chapter of the dissertation relates theoretical reflections about the intellectuals and their politics, utilizing ideas from classic authors such as Antonio Gramsci and Daniel Pécaut. The second chapter discusses the genesis of the Worker s Party analyses and the intellectual participation in the process of its creation and then discusses the loss of political influence of the group since the 1990 s, when the electoral campaigning created a new dimension in the PT. The third chapter is dedicated an analysis of party communication and the impact of that communication during the crises of 2005 caused mainly by the magazine. Based on the analysis of the 38 articles, the last chapter discusses the Teoria e Debate coverage in three periods: before, during and after the political crises of 2005 / A revista Teoria e Debate é o veículo de comunicação mais tradicional do Partido dos Trabalhadores. Ela foi criada em 1987 pelo Diretório Regional do PT São Paulo e, desde 1997, é editada pela Fundação Perseu Abramo, também do partido. A publicação é elaborada a partir da colaboração voluntária de intelectuais e organizada por uma pequena redação. Propõe-se a ultrapassar os limites da mídia partidária, para ser percebida como um espaço reservado ao debate e à reflexão teórica da esquerda brasileira. Quando atingiu a maioridade, a revista enfrentou um grande desafio: discutir a crise política de 2005, que atingia o centro do PT e do governo Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Em que medida a crise política de 2005 que ficou conhecida como o caso mensalão entrou na pauta de Teoria e Debate, o que foi dito e que personagens foram escalados para narrar o caso? A investigação foi feita com base na análise de 38 textos com foco em política, publicados na revista entre 2005 e 2006. Por se tratar de uma publicação analítica elaborada por e destinada a intelectuais, o primeiro capítulo da dissertação traz uma reflexão teórica sobre os intelectuais e a política, à luz de autores clássicos como Antonio Gramsci e Daniel Pécaut. O segundo recupera a gênese do Partido dos Trabalhadores, analisa a participação dos intelectuais no processo de criação do partido e discute a perda da influência política do grupo, a partir da década de 1990, quando a disputa eleitoral ganhou uma nova dimensão dentro do PT. O terceiro capítulo é dedicado a análise da comunicação petista e dos impactos que a crise de 2005 provocou sobre ela e, principalmente, para Teoria e Debate. Com base nos 38 artigos, o último capítulo discorre sobre a cobertura da revista em três momentos: antes, durante e depois da crise política de 2005