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To Defeat A Maverick: Foreign Policy, Barry Goldwater And The 1964 Presidential Election, Jeffreys J Matthews
To Defeat A Maverick: Foreign Policy, Barry Goldwater And The 1964 Presidential Election, Jeffreys J Matthews
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This paper examines Cold War influences on early post-World War II presidential elections, Barry M. Goldwater's rise to Republican presidential nominee, and the contribution of foreign policy issues to the Arizonan's defeat in the 1964 presidential election. World War II and the Cold War increased the importance of foreign policy considerations in presidential elections, and from 1948 through 1964, every major party nominee advocated the militant containment of communism. Goldwater was an ardent Cold Warrior, who had developed staunch convictions on domestic and foreign matters. As a senator, his unwavering conservatism cast him as a "maverick" among other Republicans; however, …
Risky Business: Moral Arguments Againts The Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments Of 1987 Can Consent Be Engineered?, Mary Manning Whitaker
Risky Business: Moral Arguments Againts The Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments Of 1987 Can Consent Be Engineered?, Mary Manning Whitaker
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Risky Business: Moral Arguments Against the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987, Can Consent Be Engineered? asks the moral and ethical questions of assigning risk. In a democracy a fundamental principle for imposing risk is obtaining the consent of the governed. In the case of a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Congress has ignored this basic principle. An unwilling population in a politically weak state has been forced to bear the burden from highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear power reactors operating in the majority of states. The State of Nevada does not reap the …
Quality Judgment: Toward The "Essentially Human" In Ethics And Policy, Kenneth Wayne Johnson
Quality Judgment: Toward The "Essentially Human" In Ethics And Policy, Kenneth Wayne Johnson
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This thesis describes a framework, a component of a larger paradigm, designed to improve the thinking, planning, and acting of individuals within society. It is based upon factors of human existence that most can agree are fundamental to pursuing matters of importance, however disparately we may see them. Assuming that human choice is a function of consciousness and compassion--it argues that insight from ethics and policy studies can be improved if founded upon an understanding of the implications of the full development and use of the essential human capacities that underlie consciousness and compassion: critical and creative thinking; communicating in …
Interest Group Influence On Sex Education Policy In Utah: A Cultural Perspective, Thomas H Terry
Interest Group Influence On Sex Education Policy In Utah: A Cultural Perspective, Thomas H Terry
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
A case study of Utah's sex education debate of the late 1980s and early 1990s is the vehicle used to study the education and social policy process of Utah. Interest group influence is tested, and Utah history and Mormon sexual culture are discussed. The influence of historical and cultural forces on policy, through the medium of interest groups, is explored. Strong indications of group influence are revealed and groups are found to be representative of dissimilar, competing cultures in Utah. Migration is found to play a key role in social conflict in Utah.
Striking A Balance: The Centrality Of The Hamiltonian/Jeffersonian Debate In American Foreign Policy Development, John Anthony Zeuli
Striking A Balance: The Centrality Of The Hamiltonian/Jeffersonian Debate In American Foreign Policy Development, John Anthony Zeuli
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
"Foreign policy is the face a nation wears to the world. The aim is the same for all states--the protection of national integrity and interest. But the manner in which a state conceives and conducts its foreign policy is greatly affected by national peculiarities."{dollar}\sp1{dollar} The focus of this thesis is to illuminate the national peculiarities that have put a unique face on American foreign policy. I will examine the two basic tenets, or impulses, that have characterized U.S. foreign policy development: the Jeffersonian, or idealist, impulse and the Hamiltonian, or realist, impulse. My purpose is to show that each impulse …
The Dilemma Of Development Policy In The Third World And Some Ramifications For Women, Pamela Jones Brown
The Dilemma Of Development Policy In The Third World And Some Ramifications For Women, Pamela Jones Brown
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The first part of this thesis deals with the theoretical approaches to development and a discussion of the dilemma facing the policy makers in choosing the best approach to the Third World. I then offer examples from South Africa and India which support the premise of economic prosperity versus ethical concerns; Lastly, the ramifications for women affected by Third World Development are presented with an emphasis upon the disruptive influences of advanced capitalist countries in their attempt to modernize technology and promote industrialization. The complexity of societal implications is explored from economic and political to social and cultural concerns.