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2003

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African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison Dec 2002

African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

This study focuses on 26 African American athletes and explores their perceptions of athletic career transition. Participants consisted of student athletes from a United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division IIA institution in the Southeastern region. Participants completed the Life After Sports Scale (LASS), a 58-item inventory utilized to qualitatively and quantitatively examine seven different domains which influence perceptions of the career transition process. The scope of this inquiry examines the qualitative domain of the LASS in which participants were visually primed with a narrative description of a student athlete that has made transition out of sport successfully. Five …

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La Neutralite Désengagée De La Science Politique Américaine, Vanessa Ruget Dec 2002

La Neutralite Désengagée De La Science Politique Américaine, Vanessa Ruget

Vanessa Ruget

La question de la neutralité de la recherche se pose de façon assez complexe pour les politistes américains.Animés par l’idée d’un progrès au niveau des méthodes, des savoirs et de la théorie, la majorité d’entre eux estiment que leur discipline a acquis le stade de la maturité scientifique. Cette neutralité affichée, qui est en réalité largement discutable, a favorisé l’hermétisme de la discipline face à un public plus vaste. Pour contraster la situation américaine avec l’attitude prônée par Nathalie Heinich, l’auteur propose de parler de « neutralité désengagée » pour qualifier la majeure partie des travaux produits par la politologie …

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State Laws And The Independent Judiciary: An Analysis Of The Effects Of The Seventeenth Amendment On The Number Of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2002

State Laws And The Independent Judiciary: An Analysis Of The Effects Of The Seventeenth Amendment On The Number Of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

In recent years, the Seventeenth Amendment has been the subject of legal scholarship, congressional hearings and debate, Supreme Court opinions, popular press articles and commentary, state legislative efforts aimed at repeal, and activist repeal movements. To date, the literature on the effects of the Seventeenth Amendment has focused almost exclusively on the effects on the political production of legislation and competition between legislative bodies. Very little attention has been given to the potential adverse effects of the Seventeenth Amendment on the relationship between state legislatures and the federal courts. This Article seeks to fill part of that literature gap, applying …

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