Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010. / Thesis Advisor(s): Simons, Anna ; Second Reader: Sepp, Kalev. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 14, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: failed states, under-governed spaces, Security Force Assistance, sovereignty, Africa, Special Operations Command--Africa, oil-spot, counterinsurgency, Special Operations Forces, whole-of-government, Building Partner Capacity. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-72). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Northwestern University, 1935. / "Publication no. 29m-1." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-112).

Thesis (doctoral)--Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2008. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232).

Issued also as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. / Bibliography: p. 245-250.

Thesis--University of London. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [1]-x).

Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown State College. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2913. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-149).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Thomas M. Carsey, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of Political Science. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 14, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 167 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

<p>My dissertation seeks to clarify the stakes of recent calls to increase civic friendship in our communities by initiating a conversation between contemporary and historical theoretical work about the requirements and consequences of using friendship as a model for social and political relationships between citizens. Friends’ lives are bound together by shared activity and by mutual concern and support; in what ways do relations between citizens, who often begin as strangers, take up these attitudes and behaviors? What kinds of civic friendship are possible in our contemporary democratic communities? How are they cultivated? And what are their political advantages and disadvantages? These questions guide the project as a whole. </p><p>I begin by canvassing some recent and popular work by Robert Bellah et al., Robert Putnam, and Danielle Allen in order to clarify the claims they make about different forms of civic friendship. The chapters that follow focus on the work of Aristotle, Tocqueville, and Adam Smith respectively in order to respond to various gaps I find in the contemporary accounts. I assess what each thinker, contemporary and canonical, can offer us today as we continue to think about the most sustainable and fair ways in which citizens can relate to one another in vast and diverse contemporary democracies. Along the way I address several important over-arching issues: the relationship between self-interest and care for others; the relationship between different sorts of equality and civic friendship; and the different roles that reason, emotions, habits, and institutions play in the cultivation of various kinds of civic friendship. I conclude that equality and justice ought to be both prerequisites and consequences of civic friendship, that self-interest is not a sufficient source for robust civic friendship and that instead some kind of imaginative and emotional motivation is needed, and that civic friendship must be understood as both a moral and a political phenomenon.</p> / Dissertation

Orientador: Roseana Costa Leite / Banca: José Marcelino de Rezende Pinto / Banca: Ângela Viana Machado Fernandes / Resumo: A formação do Conselho Regional Sudoeste em Ribeirão Preto, no ano de 2004, institucionalizado pela Promotoria de Justiça da Infância e Juventude de Ribeirão Preto, buscou estabelecer um novo padrão na gestão da escola pública a partir da unificação dos Conselhos de Escola de uma mesma região. A prioridade assumida pela Promotoria de Justiça na área educacional, neste período, foi com a implantação de uma gestão centrada na democracia escolar por meio do fortalecimento e aparelhamento dos Conselhos de Escola. Os objetivos principais deste trabalho foi apresentar, discutir e analisar as ações e metas propostas pelo Conselho Regional Sudoeste, que previam resolver os cinco problemas diagnosticados como mais graves nessa região na área educacional. Dessa forma verificamos de que maneira esses problemas foram trabalhados pelo colegiado, bem como as suas ações e as metas atingidas, sempre em respeito ao atendimento da comunidade que representavam. A experiência aqui relatada procura mostrar que a Promotoria de Justiça da Infância e Juventude pode se tornar uma importante instituição na defesa e garantia dos direitos à educação e, que os Conselhos Regionais oferecem uma alternativa concreta na gestão democrática do ensino público por meio de uma participação menos fragmentada da comunidade e mais contextualizada, direcionadas para a melhoria do atendimento educacional para todos. / Abstract: La formation du Conseil Régional sud-ouest à Ribeirão Preto, en 2004, institutionnalisé par le Service dþAide à lþEnfance et à la Jeunesse du Ministère Public de Ribeirão Preto, a cherché à établir une nouvelle norme pour la gestion de lþécole publique à partir de lþunification des Conseils dþÉcole dþune même région. Pendant cette période, le Ministère Public sþest engagé prioritairement, concernant le domaine scolaire, à lþimplantation dþune gestion centrée sur la démocratie scolaire en rendant les Conseils dþÉcole plus forts et équipés. Les principaux objectifs de ce travail ont été de présenter, de discuter et dþanalyser les actions et les buts proposés par le Conseil Régional sud-ouest, qui envisageaient de résoudre les cinq problèmes diagnostiqués comme étant les plus graves dans cette région dans le domaine éducationnel. De cette façon, on a vérifié comment ces problèmes ont été traités par la direction collégiale ainsi que ses actions et les objectifs atteints, en respectant toujours lþaccueil à la communauté quþils représentaient. Lþexpérience ici relatée cherche à démontrer que le Service dþAide à lþEnfance et à la Jeunesse du Ministère Public peut devenir une importante institution dans la défense et dans la garantie des droits à lþéducation et que les Conseils Régionaux offrent une alternative concrète dans la gestion démocratique de lþenseignement public à travers une participation moins fragmentée et plus engagée de la communauté, afin dþatteindre lþamélioration de lþaccueil éducationnel pour tous. / Mestre

In 1997 the journalist and author Maciej Zaremba published an article in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The article drew associations between racial biology, eugenics and the Swedish social democratic governance. Zaremba’s article presented records from a period of forty years when over 60 000 people of the Swedish population were sterilized. The records showed that many of them were executed under questionable circumstances. Zaremba woke a debate within the Swedish mass media with the intended goal to foil the general view of the Swedish state of welfare. In this study the debate that led to the laws of sterilization will be investigated to provide answers if the motives behind the law were based on eugenic motives. Furthermore, any disagreements between the different parties in the parliament are analyzed. Previous published research in the field evolves around the origin and the consequences of the Swedish sterilization laws however, the analysis of the argumentation that led to the creation of the regulations seems to be missing. The empirical data is gathered through qualitative research of parliament protocols and newspapers followed by an analysis based on Foucaults concept of bio power. The model for a power analysis by Axelsson and Qvarsebos have been used to concretize the concept of bio power. The analysis shows that the arguments were often rooted in eugenic thoughts and beliefs. The overall purpose was to improve the human race through the fabrication of sterilizations.