Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Bibliography: 10 p. at end.

В современном информационном пространстве все чаще мы слышим о значимости такого феномена как волонтёрство для развития городов, отдельных регионов, стран и мирового сообщества в целом. Все больше говорят, пишут о тех масштабах, которые охватывают это явление, о той пользе, которую несет данное общественное движение человеческому обществу. Магистерская диссертация изучает уровень влияния потенциала волонтёрского движения на подготовку конкурентоспособного специалиста. Гипотеза исследования базируется на предположении о том, что потенциал волонтёрского движения оказывает влияние на подготовку конкурентоспособного специалиста путем формирования компетенций и качеств личности. Для подтверждения данной гипотезы было проведено социологическое исследование, проведен анализ динамики развития волонтёрского движения в Свердловской области и Уральском федеральном университете. В практической части диссертации произведен анализ результатов проведенного исследования, предложены организационная структура волонтёрского центра в Уральском федеральном университете, предложены нормативно-правовые и методические рекомендации для создания системы волонтёрского движения в ВУЗе, представлена программа по формированию общекультурных компетенций участников волонтёрского движения. В заключении подведены итоги в соответствии с поставленными задачами. / In the modern information space we more often hear about the significance of such a phenomenon as volunteering for urban development, individual regions, countries and the world community as a whole. More and more they say, write about those scales that cover this phenomenon, the benefits that brings this social movement in human society. Master's thesis examines the potential impact of volunteer movement level in training of competitive expert. The hypothesis of investigations is based on the assumption that the potential volunteer movement has an impact on training the competitive expert by forming of competencies and personality qualities. Sociological research was conducted to confirm this hypothesis, the dynamics of the volunteer movement was analyzed in the Sverdlovsk region and the Ural Federal University. In the practical part of the thesis were analyzed the results of the research, was proposed organizational structure of the volunteer center in the Ural Federal University, were proposed normative and methodical regulations for the creation of volunteer movement in the university, was presented the program for the organization of common cultural competence of volunteer movement’s participants.

This thesis examines the role of national defence in British parliamentary politics between 1794 and 1812. It suggests that previous analyses of the late eighteenth-century political milieu insufficiently explore the impact of war on the structure of the state. Work by J.E. Cookson, Linda Colley, J.C.D. Clark, and Paul Langford depicts a decentralised state that had little direct involvement in developing a popular “British” patriotism. Here I argue that the threat of a potential French invasion during the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France provoked a drive for centralisation. Nearly all the defence measures enacted during the period gave the government a much greater degree of control over British manpower and resources. The readiness of successive governments to involve large sections of the nation in the war effort through military service, financial contributions, and appeals to the British “spirit”, resulted in a much more inclusive sense of citizenship in which questions of national participation and political franchise were unlinked. National identity was also affected, and the focus on military defence of the British Isles influenced political attitudes towards the regular army. By 1810, however, the nation was disillusioned by the lengthy struggle with France. The result of lingering political weakness was that attention shifted from national defence onto domestic corruption and venality. The aftermath of the Irish Act of Union, too, demonstrated the limits of attempts to centralise the policy of the whole United Kingdom. Significantly, however, the debates over the relationship between the centre and the localities in the 1830s and 1840s, and the response to a new French invasion threat in the 1850s and 1860s, revived themes addressed during the 1790s and 1800s. The political reaction to the invasion threats between 1794 and 1812 ultimately had more in common with a Victorian state bureaucracy than an eighteenth-century ancien régime.