Browsing by Supervisor "Barrett, Patrick"
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Cycling on the Verge? Exploring the Place of Utility Cycling in Contemporary New Zealand Transport Policy
(University of Waikato, 2014)Efforts to increase cycling as a mode of transport (utility cycling) occur at central, regional and local levels of government through a range of supportive strategies, research, and guidelines. Despite these efforts, ... -
Decentralisation and Policy Implementation: Thai Development Plans and Subdistrict Administrative Organisation (SAO) in Chiang Rai
(University of Waikato, 2011)Moves to decentralise the government‘s administrative system has been one of the most important development issues in Thailand over the past two decades. These moves are seen most clearly in the establishment of the ... -
Effective, accountable and inclusive institutions? An analysis of the Chevron v. Ecuador (II) investment arbitration and the Lago Agrio environmental justice movement
(University of Waikato, 2017)The international investment agreement regime, one of the more obscure global institutions, has a significant impact upon how states, local governments and communities develop. Many investment agreements include investor-state ... -
Marriage Policy in the Philippines: A Case Study in Agenda Setting
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This thesis asks why there is no legal provision for divorce in the Philippines despite obvious public interest in change in this area of policy. It draws on the public policy theories of Sabatier (1988), Kingdon (1995) ... -
Sustainability Vs Profitable Dependable Supply: A Case Study of Institutional Constraints on the Adoption of New Sustainable Technology
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis examines policy tensions arising from the emergence of sustainable technologies and the institutional barriers to their adoption. Its starting point is an analysis of conflict over electricity pricing between ... -
Talking with Their Mouths Half Full: food insecurity in the Hamilton community
(University of Waikato, 2011)While the sociology of food has attended to what symbolisms of presence can tell us about society, the same attention has not been attributed to symbolisms of absence. Within the context of affluent post-industrial societies, ... -
"The Land Belongs To Those Who Work It": A Critical Evaluation of Land Redistribution Policy in South Africa, 1994-2012
(University of Waikato, 2015)Land ownership in post-apartheid South Africa carries a powerful symbolic charge for both black and white citizens. Under apartheid, state legislation denied black South Africans access to landownership rights, and confined ... -
The politics of local government and development in Sri Lanka: An analysis of the contribution of non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
(University of Waikato, 2014)Sri Lanka has inherited a unitary state structure and a highly centralised approach to government administration. Since independence in 1948, various proposals to restructure government, including decentralising powers to ... -
The Politics of Sport Funding: An Analysis of Discourses in New Zealand Golf
(University of Waikato, 2015)In recent decades, the level of government intervention in sport has increased, involving greater resource allocations to community sport development, high performance sport and business capability initiatives. Within ... -
The politics of sustainability in New Zealand: A critical evaluation of environmental policy, practice and prospects through a case study of the dairy industry
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis examines the politics of sustainability in New Zealand through a case study of the dairy industry. New Zealand’s ‘clean and green’ image was bolstered by the passing of the Resource Management Act (RMA) (1991) ... -
The role of the mayor in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2003)This study is about local leadership and the contemporary role of mayors in New Zealand. In particular, the focus is the implications of the legally undefined role of the mayor for the exercise of local leadership, ... -
The wellbeing and social connectedness of older people in the Small Island Developing State (SIDS) of Maldives
(University of Waikato, 2016)Older people in small island developing states (SIDS) live within the context of a distinctive set of circumstances in terms of the unique geo-spatial characteristics of island nations, the typically small size and dispersed ... -
Translating MDG 3: Gender, Empowerment and the Adolescent Girl in Maharashtra, India
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis is an exploration of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3, tracing its path from a global aspiration to its translation into a developing world context. Adopted in 2001 by the United Nations, the eight MDGs ... -
Transnational education and education sovereignty the Indonesia-US education relationship case study
(University of Waikato, 2014)This thesis examines the extent to which the educational sovereignty of a less developed state can be sustained when it considerably expands its involvement with transnational education. The thesis focuses on the case of ...
