Existing scholarship suggests terrorism is an ineffective method of political contestation; groups rarely achieve their political objectives and are often disrupted by the security services. These findings invite us to look again at the dominant rational choice paradigm, which suggests that terrorism is selected as the best strategy to achieve predetermined goals. Unpicking the assumptions underpinning this model using historical case studies, comparative analysis and typology development, this thesis broadens our interpretation of what those who use terrorism seek to achieve. It does so via a tripartite framework. First, employing a new reading of American pragmatist thought, interpreting militant group goals as culturally and socially mediated problems opens up a new vista of outcomes, in particular examining the way terrorism seeks to change relations between people. Second, using Social Movement Theory as its organising framework, an empirically derived typology of militant groups sets out the background political conditions and organisational characteristics of 28 dormant groups. Using existing models of interpreting outcomes to assess these historical cases demonstrates the unmet challenges of providing robust explanations for why terrorism ends and what it achieves. Third, the thesis explores the promise of a mechanism and process-led approach to explaining outcomes. It does so through in-depth examination of two historical case studies: Kach and the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army. Despite being classified as failures, using largely neglected primary sources, the case studies reveal a range of fascinating and important outcomes that still resonate in Israel and Yemen today. Most of these methodological and conceptual tools are being applied to the question of terrorism's outcomes for only the first or second time. In doing so, this thesis offers greater depth than existing scholarship on how terrorism ends, by looking beyond measures such as success and failure in interpreting outcomes, whilst affording greater breadth through its ability to make comparative assessments at the level of mechanisms and processes. The result is a more detailed and robust set of explanations as to how terrorism ends and what it achieves, illustrated through detailed historical case studies of two interesting, yet often neglected, groups.

This thesis compares the electoral programmes of green political parties in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Austria, and the Czech Republic in the years 1990- 2014, namely the German party Alliance '90/The Greens, the Austrian party The Greens - The Green Alternative, and the Czech Green Party. The beginning of the work provides an explanation of the concepts related to green politics, such as ecology, environmentalism, environment and sustainable development, whose knowledge is essential for understanding the major themes of the electoral programmes. Subsequently, the origin and history of all three political parties are outlined. The actual comparison is performed in a twofold manner. The first one compares the content of a specific programme with the previous ones and the second one compares the programmes of all three green parties for the same or the close electoral period. Furthermore, the format of individual programmes is characterized. Attention is focused on the major thematic areas, similarities and differences, and on the position of these parties before and after a particular parliamentary election being held.

The presented thesis deals with political parties and especially with their legal regulation. However, the thesis does not only use the legal statutes and theirs provisions, but it also aspire to set the existence and the action of political parties into a wider context, which is provided the political science. The subject of the thesis is restricted to the Czech Republic (respectively to its contemporary national territory and to political parties, which existed or are existing within this territory). That's why the statutory regulation of political parties' position is set into the context of czech constitutional law order as well. Concurrently, only selected aspects of existence and action of political parties are carefully analysed. In spite of that, the thesis provides a basic overview of general legal regulation of political parties in the Czech Republic. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter pursues historical development of political parties' phenomenon in territory of contemporary Czech Republic It does so by characterizing of political parties themselves (including the enumeration of the most important ones of them), and further by regarding to their legal regulation in specific historical periods, which preceded the enactment of contemporary valid legal regulation of...

The goal of this diploma thesis is to define the European political parties. The thesis has been divided into five chapters, which are further subdivided. The reason why I have chosen this topic is quite simple - to analyse the current status of the European political parties and introduce them to wider audience not to be confused anymore with political groups in the European Parliament. In the first chapter the thesis brings a brief definition of the legal constitution of political groups in the European Parliament. For many years there has been confusion between the concept of a European political party and political group, so the thesis defines the political groups and its position in the European Parliament in order to create a basis for their differentiation from the European political parties. The second chapter is devoted to create a definition of the European political party and to bring the legal regulation of the European political parties. The thesis focuses also on the variability of their legal base in the treaties of the European Union (legal base before the Treaty of Lisbon, legal base in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe and legal base in the Treaty of Lisbon). The third chapter is dedicated to legal issues of the European political parties. Emphasis was put on...

La thèse retrace les nombreuses positions des responsables politiques français vis à vis de la notion de cohabitation au cours des années 1958-2017 et met en évidence leurs contradictions institutionnelles qui se révèlent en fonction de situations et de circonstances politiques données. Elle souligne ainsi les nombreuses divergences institutionnelles de la droite sur le sujet : le refus cohabitationniste du régime Gaullien et Pompidolien, le consentement Giscardien de 1978, la division au sein-même de la droite au cours des années Mitterrand entre 1981 et 1995, l'union dans la dénonciation au cours du premier mandat de Jacques Chirac entre 1995 et 2002 et enfin une succession de contradictions au cours des années 2002-2017. La thèse relève aussi certaines divergences institutionnelles du côté de la gauche socialiste : une volonté cohabitationniste au cours des années 1958-1981, une sérieuse réserve au cours des années 1981-1986 puis 1988-1993, une satisfaction cohabitationniste au cours des années 1997-2002 et également une succession de contradictions au cours des années 2002-2017. La thèse montre donc la manière dont les responsables politiques ont fait évoluer leurs doctrines institutionnelles en fonction de situations et de circonstances politiques données et cherche aussi à expliquer leurs nombreuses stratégies personnelles et leurs réflexions institutionnelles vis à vis de la cohabitation. / The thesis recalls the many positions of the French political officials with respect to the concept of cohabitation during years 1958-2017 and highlights their institutional contradictions which appear according to situations and political circumstances given. It thus emphasizes the many institutional divergences of the right-hand side on the subject : the cohabitationnist refusal of the Gaullist and Pompidolian regims, the Giscardian assent of 1978, the division within the right during Mitterrand years between 1981 and 1995, the union in the denunciation during the first mandate of Jacques Chirac between 1995 and 2002 and finally a succession of contradictions during years 2002-2017. The thesis also records certain institutional divergences on the side of the socialist left : a cohabitationnist will during years 1958-1981, a serious reserve during years 1981-1986 then 1988-1993, a cohabitationnist satisfaction during years 1997-2002 and also a succession of contradictions during years 2002-2017. The thesis shows so the way in which the political leaders have evolved their institutional doctrines according to situations and political circumstances given and also tries to explain their numerous personal strategies and their institutional reflections with respect to the cohabitation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio Silveira Marques.pdf: 1334501 bytes, checksum: 1a24eb64df639e6d58c52c0740c0fa1a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The present work addresses the subject of the Constitutional Jurisdiction and People s Sovereignty and examines the apparent incompatibility between judicial review, namely review made by the Supreme Court in its current form, and the principle of the people s sovereignty, stressing the process of judicialization of politics . The author initially seeks to reconstruct the history of constitutionalism and judicial review in the 20th century, starting with the discussions of Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt about who had legitimacy to be the guardian of the German Reich s Constitution and examining the core points of these two thinkers. The second chapter reviews the discussions and conclusions of the first chapter and then begins a dialogue with the thoughts of contemporary authors such as Jürgen Habermas and Ronald Dworkin. These authors examined the growth of judicial functions, especially after Second World War, reaching conclusions on the necessity of imposing limits to judicial review in its current form. In the third and final chapter this question is addressed by examining the paradigmatic decision of the Brazilian Supreme Court concerning political party fidelity that created a new constitutional precedent by establishing a punitive norm an action not explicit in Article 55 of the Brazilian Constitution applicable to those considered unfaithful to their political parties. This research examines the limits of Brazilian rule of law, discussing the consequences of the unprecedented increase in judicial functions, especially by the Supreme Federal Tribunal, and the necessity of harmonizing governmental power in Brazil specifically, how to reconcile the current trend towards a stronger judiciary with the principle of the people s sovereignty, especially when laws pass through the control of the judiciary branch / Trata-se de pesquisa sobre o tema Jurisdição Constitucional e Soberania do Povo . Aborda a aparente incompatibilidade entre o controle de constitucionalidade das leis exercido pelo judiciário, leia-se o tribunal constitucional, nos moldes atuais, e o princípio da soberania do povo, dando-se ênfase à análise do processo de judicialização da política . Para tanto, procura o autor, inicialmente, fazer uma reconstrução da história do constitucionalismo e do controle de constitucionalidade no século XX. Parte-se da discussão entre Hans Kelsen e Carl Schmitt sobre quem teria a legitimidade para ser o guardião da constituição do Reich alemão. Entrementes, examina-se o cerne do pensamento desses dois importantes pensadores. No segundo capítulo, retoma-se a discussão e as conclusões obtidas no primeiro capítulo. Passa-se, então, a dialogar com pensamento de autores contemporâneos, tais como, Jürgen Habermas e Ronald Dworkin que examinam o incremento das funções do judiciário, sobretudo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, constatando-se a necessidade de imposição de limites ao controle das leis na sua configuração atual. No terceiro e último capítulo, a questão é enfrentada levando-se em consideração a decisão paradigmática do Supremo Tribunal Federal brasileiro sobre fidelidade partidária que inovou o texto constitucional ao estabelecer norma punitiva não prevista no artigo 55 da Constituição Federal para casos de infidelidade partidária. Delimita-se, assim, o debate ao âmbito do Estado Democrático brasileiro, discutindo-se as implicações do aumento desmedido das funções do judiciário, especialmente do STF, e a necessidade de harmonização entre os poderes no Brasil. Isto é, como conciliar a tendência atual de um poder judiciário cada vez mais forte e atuante com o princípio da soberania do povo, especialmente quando as leis emanadas do legislativo devem passar pelo controle exercido por um tribunal

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Terezinha.pdf: 1411618 bytes, checksum: c982a627318489bd33df3afb8c13fe3a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-22 / The discussion about the low female partaking in the public sphere, especially in the legislative - a privileged locus for discussing and legislating about the destinies of a nation - has lately frequently arisen. This worry is due to the fact that the woman is considered, according to the law, equal to man in the political sphere. In practice, this equity does not take place. She continues, in spite of the legal equality, badly represented in the Executive as well as in the Legislative. This verification made the legislators create a rule that obliges the parties to present at least 30 % of women candidates in their rolls. The objectives of this thesis are: to go through the political process aiming at the inclusion of women, by obliging the establishment of quotas for women candidates to positions in the Legislative in São Paulo; to discuss the paradoxes (setting up of a system of quotas and the effective participation of women in the decision-making process) faced by the political parties PT, PSDB and PFL and to try to see if it is possible to state that the quotas applied to the election for positions in the legislative, in São Paulo, can be considered an autonomous movement. The focus was on the actors performing parliamentary mandate in the Assembly of São Paulo - parliamentarians elected in the elections of 2002 - and party representatives occupying some type of position in the direction of the PT, PSDB and PFL parties. The results indicate a paradoxical movement: internally, some parties have broadened the discussion and created agencies to foster the number of women candidates, but the majority has not been elected. Another paradox verified is that, in spite of the fact that some parliamentary women present projects concerned with the social change, many of them still continue to make part of the current social and sectarian politics. The small resistance movements, the imperceptible conquests and changes can be considered an autonomous movement because they have an important revolutionary element: they start to change the social relations in the micropolitics in order to, later, reach the social exclusion pattern in the macropolitics / A discussão sobre a baixa participação feminina no espaço público, especialmente no legislativo - locus privilegiado para discutir e legislar sobre os destinos de uma nação - tem aparecido, com freqüência, nos últimos tempos. Essa preocupação decorre do fato de que a mulher é considerada, pela lei, igual ao homem no campo político. Na prática, essa equidade não acontece. Ela continua, apesar da igualdade legal, sub-representada tanto no Executivo, como no Legislativo e no Judiciário. Essa constatação levou os legisladores a criarem uma norma que obriga os partidos a lançarem, pelo menos, 30% de candidatas em suas listas. Os objetivos dessa tese são: percorrer o processo político para inclusão das mulheres, por meio da obrigatoriedade do estabelecimento de cotas para candidatas a cargos no legislativo em São Paulo; discutir os paradoxos (implantação do sistema de cotas e a participação efetiva das mulheres no processo decisório) enfrentados pelos partidos políticos PT, PSDB e PFL e tentar verificar se é possível afirmar que as cotas aplicadas à eleição para cargos no legislativo, em São Paulo, podem ser consideradas um movimento autônomo. Foram enfocados os atores que estão exercendo mandato parlamentar na Assembléia Legislativa de São Paulo parlamentares eleitos no pleito de 2002 - e representantes partidários que ocupam algum tipo de cargo na direção dos partidos PT, PSDB e PFL. Os resultados apontam para um movimento paradoxal: internamente, alguns partidos ampliaram a discussão e criaram instâncias para fomentar o número de candidatas, mas a maioria não se elegeu. Outro paradoxo verificado é que, apesar de algumas parlamentares apresentarem projetos preocupados com a transformação social, muitas ainda continuam fazendo parte da política social vigente e sectária. Os pequenos movimentos de resistência, as imperceptíveis conquistas e transformações podem ser considerados um movimento autônomo porque contêm um elemento revolucionário importante: começam a transformar as relações sociais na micropolítica para, mais tarde, atingir o modelo de exclusão social na macropolítica

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:56:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Terezinha.pdf: 1411618 bytes, checksum: c982a627318489bd33df3afb8c13fe3a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-22 / The discussion about the low female partaking in the public sphere, especially in the legislative - a privileged locus for discussing and legislating about the destinies of a nation - has lately frequently arisen. This worry is due to the fact that the woman is considered, according to the law, equal to man in the political sphere. In practice, this equity does not take place. She continues, in spite of the legal equality, badly represented in the Executive as well as in the Legislative. This verification made the legislators create a rule that obliges the parties to present at least 30 % of women candidates in their rolls. The objectives of this thesis are: to go through the political process aiming at the inclusion of women, by obliging the establishment of quotas for women candidates to positions in the Legislative in São Paulo; to discuss the paradoxes (setting up of a system of quotas and the effective participation of women in the decision-making process) faced by the political parties PT, PSDB and PFL and to try to see if it is possible to state that the quotas applied to the election for positions in the legislative, in São Paulo, can be considered an autonomous movement. The focus was on the actors performing parliamentary mandate in the Assembly of São Paulo - parliamentarians elected in the elections of 2002 - and party representatives occupying some type of position in the direction of the PT, PSDB and PFL parties. The results indicate a paradoxical movement: internally, some parties have broadened the discussion and created agencies to foster the number of women candidates, but the majority has not been elected. Another paradox verified is that, in spite of the fact that some parliamentary women present projects concerned with the social change, many of them still continue to make part of the current social and sectarian politics. The small resistance movements, the imperceptible conquests and changes can be considered an autonomous movement because they have an important revolutionary element: they start to change the social relations in the micropolitics in order to, later, reach the social exclusion pattern in the macropolitics / A discussão sobre a baixa participação feminina no espaço público, especialmente no legislativo - locus privilegiado para discutir e legislar sobre os destinos de uma nação - tem aparecido, com freqüência, nos últimos tempos. Essa preocupação decorre do fato de que a mulher é considerada, pela lei, igual ao homem no campo político. Na prática, essa equidade não acontece. Ela continua, apesar da igualdade legal, sub-representada tanto no Executivo, como no Legislativo e no Judiciário. Essa constatação levou os legisladores a criarem uma norma que obriga os partidos a lançarem, pelo menos, 30% de candidatas em suas listas. Os objetivos dessa tese são: percorrer o processo político para inclusão das mulheres, por meio da obrigatoriedade do estabelecimento de cotas para candidatas a cargos no legislativo em São Paulo; discutir os paradoxos (implantação do sistema de cotas e a participação efetiva das mulheres no processo decisório) enfrentados pelos partidos políticos PT, PSDB e PFL e tentar verificar se é possível afirmar que as cotas aplicadas à eleição para cargos no legislativo, em São Paulo, podem ser consideradas um movimento autônomo. Foram enfocados os atores que estão exercendo mandato parlamentar na Assembléia Legislativa de São Paulo parlamentares eleitos no pleito de 2002 - e representantes partidários que ocupam algum tipo de cargo na direção dos partidos PT, PSDB e PFL. Os resultados apontam para um movimento paradoxal: internamente, alguns partidos ampliaram a discussão e criaram instâncias para fomentar o número de candidatas, mas a maioria não se elegeu. Outro paradoxo verificado é que, apesar de algumas parlamentares apresentarem projetos preocupados com a transformação social, muitas ainda continuam fazendo parte da política social vigente e sectária. Os pequenos movimentos de resistência, as imperceptíveis conquistas e transformações podem ser considerados um movimento autônomo porque contêm um elemento revolucionário importante: começam a transformar as relações sociais na micropolítica para, mais tarde, atingir o modelo de exclusão social na macropolítica

Au Liban, les identités politiques jouent un rôle important et sont souvent liées aux identités religieuses. Le pays a été le lieu d’un brassage d’une multitude de civilisations et de cultures, et est aussi un espace de tensions politiques et religieuses. D’un point de vue méthodologique, cette thèse se fonde sur la lecture et l’analyse de la presse et des médias, de la littérature d’autres expressions artistiques. Dans une première partie, la thèse se concentre sur le cadre et la problématique de la thèse. On présente les différents partis politiques libanais, leurs idéologies, leur relation au pouvoir et leur histoire, en particulier à la suite des accords de Taëf (1989). Les institutions politiques et les pratiques politiques libanaises, ainsi que les formes d’engagement, sont aussi étudiées. De même, dans cette partie, la thèse étudie le rôle politique important des grandes familles libanaises, et elle s’attache au charisme des acteurs politiques libanais. La deuxième partie concerne le lien entre les identités politiques et les identités religieuses dans l’espace public libanais. Elle étudie les rapports entre la religion et la politique au Liban, ainsi que les implications religieuses des guerres. Enfin, cette partie analyse la répartition géographique de l’ancrage des identités religieuses et politiques dans le pays. Dans un troisième temps, la thèse fait porter l’analyse sur les expressions des identités politiques. Elle propose une approche de la représentation des identités politiques dans les médias, dans la fiction (cinéma, littérature, etc), dans la chanson et dans les arts plastiques.Enfin, la dernière partie se concentre sur la censure, importante au Liban, compte tenu de la multiplicité des pouvoirs, aussi bien politiques que religieux, qui s’exercent sur la communication. D’une part, il s’agit des différents types de censure et des formes qu’elle peut prendre (censure politique, censure religieuse, censure des programmes d’enseignement, censure des pratiques sociales quotidiennes, et autocensure), et d’autre part, il s’agit des processus de décision qui conduisent à la censure. Cette partie présente aussi les formes de résistance à la censure. / The Lebanese political identities have often been linked to the existing religious identities. Lebanon has known in fact a number of civilizations and cultures, and has continuously been a place of political and religious tensions.From a methodological point of view, this thesis is based on readings and analysis of the press and the media, in addition to the literature of different artistic expressions. In the first section, the thesis focuses on the problematic. We present the multiple Lebanese political parties, their ideologies, their relationship with power and their history, especially after the Taef agreement (1989). We also study the political institutions and the political practices in Lebanon, as well as the multiple forms of political engagement. The thesis also tackles the important role of the traditional Lebanese families and the charisma of politicians. In the second section, we study the link between the political identities and the religious identities in the Lebanese public space. It focuses on the different kinds of relations that bound those two identities, in addition to the religious implications of wars. Also, this section analyses the geographical distribution of the political and religious identities in the country.In section number three, the thesis highlights the expressions of the political identities. It suggests an approach to the representation of these political identities in the media, in the fiction (literature, cinema, etc), in the songs and in fine arts. Finally, the last section focuses on the censorship, important concept in Lebanon, in the presence of a number of political and religious powers that influence the process of communication. We will define censorship, and focus on different kinds of censorship (political censorship, religious censorship, invisible censorship). We will also highlight the procedures and laws that lead to censorship, and the different ways followed by journalists and artists to face it.

The reconstruction of a central area in Stockholm named Slussen (The sluice) has frequently been portrayed and debated in media over the last few years, escalating around December 2011 when the major decision regarding Slussen was to be made by the city council. The area serves as a traffic node connecting the areas of Södermalm and Gamla Stan (Old town) together. The last major change of Slussen was completed in 1935, best described as a modernistic traffic and architectural piece of work. It is indisputably an area of importance for the city of Stockholm, its citizens and visitors. How has media reported the development of the New Slussen project? The analysis, and the conclusions drawn from it, will be based upon and performed with a quantitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis. Articles from four of the largest daily newspapers in Sweden have been selected based upon the release date of Stockholm City’s official newsletters regarding the reconstruction project. The quantitative content analysis showed that words within the field and discourses of traffic were most common. That quantitative result shows interesting similarities with the result of the critical discourse analysis, most visible in the case of subject and discourse representation. Variations in use of language, subject representation and discourse recontextualization, between those who are campaigning for the new sluice and those who are against it were noticeable. In some cases it was more evident than in others.