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Elemental Challenges: Environmental Troubles Beyond The Limits Of Democracy, Brad Mapes-Martins
Elemental Challenges: Environmental Troubles Beyond The Limits Of Democracy, Brad Mapes-Martins
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From an examination of how environmental issues reshape politics, this inquiry focuses on the theoretical grounds of deliberative democratic theory to ask whether such a vision offers the best means of resolving environmental problems. Arguing that the very terms in which environmental politics have been defined retain features better suited to previous historical circumstances, the analysis proceeds from features typical of environmental problems to a more context-specific assessment of the role for democratic participation. Engaging the works of Jürgen Habermas, the author details the way in which deliberative democratic theory is indebted to a concept of communicative action that defines …
The Exclusion Of Non-Native Voters From A Final Plebiscite In Puerto Rico: Law And Policy, Ramon Antonio Rodriguez
The Exclusion Of Non-Native Voters From A Final Plebiscite In Puerto Rico: Law And Policy, Ramon Antonio Rodriguez
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U.S. Puerto Rico relations have always been mystifying to countless U.S. citizens, due to inconsistent policies and judicial decisions from the United States. Puerto Ricans have no control over immigration, yet they can decide the future of the island nation. Puerto Rico is a nation under colonial rule. Paul R. Bras sistains the possibility of corporate recognition for the ethnic group as a separate nationality within an existing state evocative of the United States. The United States has treated Puerto Rico as foreign country nevertheless at times as domestic. Under U.S. law and jurisprudence Puerto Rico is not part of …
Engineering Of Artificial Cellular Circuits Based On The Luxi-Luxr Quorum-Sensing System, Daniel Jon Sayut
Engineering Of Artificial Cellular Circuits Based On The Luxi-Luxr Quorum-Sensing System, Daniel Jon Sayut
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Natural cellular networks are very good at processing diverse inputs, generating complicated responses, and confounding researchers with their complexities. As an alternative to traditional cellular engineering approaches, the field of synthetic biology attempts to avoid the complexities of natural systems by focusing on the bottom-up construction of artificial cellular circuits. By rationally building up circuit complexity, synthetic biologists hope to both create novel systems capable of programming unique cellular responses, and gain insights into the design principles of natural systems. Circuits that allow for the programming of intercellular responses are of particular interest, and researchers have focused on the use …
Ideological Endzones: Nfl Films And The Countersubversive Tradition In American Politics, Nicholas R. Archer
Ideological Endzones: Nfl Films And The Countersubversive Tradition In American Politics, Nicholas R. Archer
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This study examines the role of propaganda and popular culture in constituting the American political tradition through the study of NFL films by employing a decidedly overlooked theoretical conception of the American political tradition—the countersubversive tradition thesis. Originally put forth by Michael Rogin, the countersubversive tradition is defined as “the creation of monsters as a continuing feature of American politics by the inflation, stigmatization, and dehumanization of political foes.” It is my belief that in looking at what constitutes the individual characteristics of the countersubversive tradition in a text like a sports film it is easier to see how it …
The Business Community And The Forging Of Political Consensus Against The Clinton Healthcare Security Act Of 1994, Michael Lenz
The Business Community And The Forging Of Political Consensus Against The Clinton Healthcare Security Act Of 1994, Michael Lenz
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My research provides an insider's view of how political consensus is formed within the business community. More specifically, my research sheds light on the sociological processes of political mobilization within the business community against the Clinton Health Security Act of 1994. In this study, I build off Jill Quadagno's stakeholder thesis which largely attributes the defeat of the healthcare reform effort to the political mobilization of anti-healthcare business forces. I probe Quadagno's thesis a bit deeper in this study by exploring how conflicting business forces resolved policy disagreements on the merits of healthcare reform in order to arrive at the …