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Support For Legislative Term Limitations In California – Group Representation, Partisanship, And Campaign Information, Todd Donovan, Joseph R. Snipp
Support For Legislative Term Limitations In California – Group Representation, Partisanship, And Campaign Information, Todd Donovan, Joseph R. Snipp
Political Science Faculty Publications
This study uses opinion data to assess the basis of public support for California's term limit initiative (Proposition 140). We test if support was higher among members of demographic groups under-represented in the state's legislature, if support displays a partisan bias, and if campaign contacts are associated with opinions. Ethnic and racial characteristics display little association with support; however women and younger voters were more supportive. Partisanship and campaign effects appear to have played an important role in shaping support for the initiative.
Military Culture And Inadvertent Escalation In World War Ii, Jeffrey W. Legro
Military Culture And Inadvertent Escalation In World War Ii, Jeffrey W. Legro
Political Science Faculty Publications
How can the use of "unthinkable" means of warfare be avoided? How can states successfully observe mutually desired limitations on "taboo" forms of combat? These questions are important because of concern that nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and terrorism will spread and be used. The growing number of states--e.g., Israel, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Ukraine--that have such means of inflicting harm increases the likelihood that any future conflict will involve a desire for restrictions. Countries may pursue restraint because popular opinion vilifies certain weapons; because leaders calculate that escalation would damage their domestic and international political support; or because states …
The Speaker And The Budget, Daniel J. Palazzolo
The Speaker And The Budget, Daniel J. Palazzolo
Political Science Faculty Publications
The Speakers of the House, from Carl Albert to Tom Foley, have faced various challenges in the budgetary process since the passage of the Budget Act in 1974. That act required the Congress to fix budget targets in authorizations and outlays in each of thirteen functional categories for each fiscal year and to reconcile annual authorizations and appropriations to those targets. It created separate budget committees in each chamber and altered the legislative process in an attempt to enforce budget discipline. Some challenges have been defined by the individual Speakers themselves; others have emerged from institutional changes in the budget …
Land Contracts And Traditional Tenure, Sandra F. Joireman
Land Contracts And Traditional Tenure, Sandra F. Joireman
Political Science Faculty Publications
The goal of this project is to identify the current day policy implications of a traditional tenure system, rist or risti, with particular reference to the types of contractual agreements that existed under that system. In order to achieve this, the paper will begin with a reference to the importance of understanding the traditional systems of land tenure. Then, a brief description of the data set and available information will be given, followed by the preliminary results of the data and a description of the kinds of contractual arrangements found under the traditional system. This will be followed by …
Yemen: Human Rights In Yemen During And After The 1994 War, Sheila Carapico, Jermera Rone
Yemen: Human Rights In Yemen During And After The 1994 War, Sheila Carapico, Jermera Rone
Political Science Faculty Publications
During seventy days of conventional warfare between the government forces commanded by the Republic of Yemen Council President, General ’Ali ’Abdallah Salih, and the separatist southern army fighting in the name of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), the government army won a military victory over the rebels and presided over the destruction of institutions and property of the former YSP-ruled People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen. The terms of national unity between the two Yemens, never fully resolved in either the May 1990 accord or elections in April 1993, were thus settled on the battlefield in favor of Salih’s northern-dominated military …