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The Office Of Attorney General In New Mexico, James Michael Mcadams

Political Science ETDs

The office of Attorney General in New Mexico is a very powerful office but also a very restricted one. This study examines the various roles available to the Attorney general and the degree to which they are compatible or in conflict. The interplay of these roles is viewed as the basis for the influence exercised by the office and also the difficulties which it encounters. The history of the office offers some insight into its present operation. The territorial Period from 1848 50 1912 was characterized by active competition for the office and by numerous attempts to make it a …

The Thomistic Influence In Colombian Political Ideology, Jimmie Michael Dodson

Political Science ETDs

This thesis examines Colombian political ideology, as expressed through a body of political literature, in an effort to ascertain the presence of a Thomistic-Neo-Thomistic influence. That Thomistic influence is considered, for the purposes of this paper, to have a conservative effect on the political ideology of the nation.

This objective is undertaken first by the establishment of a model of Thomistic-Neo-Thomistic thought. The model draws together and explicates the basic elements of a medieval Catholic world view with respect to persistent political issues. It is hypothesized that this theoretical framework will be evident in the rhetoric and orientation of the …

The Republican Party And Economic Development In The South., Kennedy L. Charles

Political Science ETDs

The purpose of this study is to examine the relation between the growth of the Republican party and the degree of economic development in three Southern states from 1950-1962. Basically, the approach consists of accumulating and comparing the data on a county by county basis to determine if a meaningful relation exists between the two variables. The South is introduced and the boundaries of this geographical entity for the purpose of this paper are established. The need for selecting certain states as indicators is explained and the method by which the here particular states were selected is explained. The pivotal …

Interest Group Lobbying In The 1967 New Mexico State Legislature, Richard Gordon Frederick

Political Science ETDs

This thesis is an investigation of interest group lobbying 1n the 1967 New Mexico State Legislature. Although the study principally describes interest group activity, a theoretical background of group study is its point of departure.

From a consideration of the group approach to politics, the research design of the investigation, which emphasizes personal 1nterv1ews, is developed. This design is then related to the geographical and political setting of the study, which includes social, political, and economic factors which affect lobbying. After this formal background, the thesis commences to describe New Mexico lobbies and their principal method of operation.

In this …