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Algerian national popular assembly election of December 1991

Representation, 1993
Algeria has been in the news recently. The following article explains the background to the unrest there which is being caused by a struggle for political power between the government, which fears the rise of Moslem fundamentalism, and the opposition whose right of political expression through the ballot box, whether fundamentalist or not, has been ...
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Birth of a National-Popular Cinema in France

Nottingham French Studies, 1999
L'A. etudie les raisons du succes du cinema national populaire francais. Le cinema muet, en France, ne parvenait a attirer qu'un public tres restreint. Le cinema parlant suscita spontanement un grand engouement populaire. L'A. estime que les spectateurs pouvaient aisement s'identifier aux personnages mis en scene dans les films «parlants» produits dans
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Can the National Popular Vote plan succeed?

2012
The idea of reforming the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular election of a President, which has long existed in the United States, recurs each time a presidential election nears. All the polls show that an overwhelming majority of respondents support this idea.
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Rhythm, Diasporas, and the National Popular State

2019
Ideas regarding sound and place shaped the work of Mario de Andrade and Alejo Carpentier in the 1930s. Central to their respective approaches to race and nationalism is the tension between Afro-diasporic traditions and their relevance as the foundations of a national, popular culture. This chapter examines their differing approaches to this tension and
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Antonio Gramsci: Sport, Hegemony and the National-Popular

2004
The interest of the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) in sport was, apparently, ‘close to nil’ (Guttmann, 1994, p. 6). Yet his ideas have been highly influential in the social analysis of sport. This chapter briefly introduces the man and his work, and explains the appeal of a Gramscian framework to social science scholarship in ...
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National Popular Culture in an Interconnected World: The Case of Pop Charts

2015
Music charts have long been a potent symbol of the relationship between the music industry, artists and consumers (Hakanen 1998). Since the first appearance of the Billboard’s ‘Music Popularity Chart’ in July 1940 (Sassoon 2006), many radio stations and magazines across the world have rapidly followed suit. Our study takes pop charts as a vantage point
Verboord, M., Brandellero, A.
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Body Culture and Democratic Nationalism: ‘Popular Gymnastics’ in Nineteenth-Century Denmark

The International Journal of the History of Sport, 1995
(1995). Body culture and democratic nationalism: ‘popular gymnastics’ in nineteenth‐century Denmark. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 12, Tribal Identities Nationalism, Europe and Sport, pp. 108-124.
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Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema

Film Quarterly, 2004
Abstract This paper posits that the formula for India's popular cinema (a.k.a. “Bollywood”—the Hollywood of Bombay) has been fundamentally contoured by the psychodynamics of orality, i.e., by the thought processes and personality structures that distinguish a non-writerly mindset and its narrative creations.
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The Compact Clause and the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 2007
Despite previous historical failed attempts to abolish the Electoral College at the federal level, in the months following the 2000 election, several lawyers, politicians, and academics concocted a novel plan to abolish the College at the State level. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would be enacted State by State and require each enacting
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The Relative Visibility of Rape Cases in National Popular Magazines

Violence Against Women, 1998
This content analysis examines the nature of rape cases selected for coverage by magazines and the types of characteristics that differentiate high- from low-publicity cases between 1980 and 1996. Concerns pivot around whether articles on rape continue the historic focus on stereotypical stranger, gang rape committed by lower-class minority men ...
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