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The Value Of Your Life By The Numbers Crowdfunded Medical Debt, Grayson Highsmith
The Value Of Your Life By The Numbers Crowdfunded Medical Debt, Grayson Highsmith
The Commons: Puget Sound Journal of Politics
For centuries, components of culture from Pacific Island States have been commodified in various forms of media within the cultural tourism industry. In recent years, though these media representations have shifted away from encouraging direct colonial exploitation, cultural tourism efforts still pose complicated questions about the amount of agency Polynesian individuals have how they are represented. While tourism is a significant sector of the economy in Pacific Islands Countries (PICs), it’s important to consider whether or not Polynesian people have the economic and social freedoms to influence how they share their culture rather than having it be offered up for …
Tourism And Cultural Commodification In The Polynesian Island-State Economies, Sowmya Kannan
Tourism And Cultural Commodification In The Polynesian Island-State Economies, Sowmya Kannan
The Commons: Puget Sound Journal of Politics
For centuries, components of culture from Pacific Island States have been commodified in various forms of media within the cultural tourism industry. In recent years, though these media representations have shifted away from encouraging direct colonial exploitation, cultural tourism efforts still pose complicated questions about the amount of agency Polynesian individuals have how they are represented. While tourism is a significant sector of the economy in Pacific Islands Countries (PICs), it’s important to consider whether or not Polynesian people have the economic and social freedoms to influence how they share their culture rather than having it be offered up for …
Political Bias In Large Language Models, Lucas Gover
Political Bias In Large Language Models, Lucas Gover
The Commons: Puget Sound Journal of Politics
Recent research has found that large language models consistently capture and replicate undesirable societal biases relating to race, religion, and gender. However, political bias is not well explored. This study investigates the political bias present in the state-of-the-art large language model GPT-3. To investigate political bias, I apply Natural Language Processing techniques to develop a political sentiment analysis model. Using this model, I analyze the ideological bias present in political essays written by GPT-3, finding that GPT-3 has a moderate left-leaning bias and tends to replicate the ideological bias of prompt text.
The Panamanian Puzzle Successful Democratization And Foreign-Imposed Regime Change, Paige Saller
The Panamanian Puzzle Successful Democratization And Foreign-Imposed Regime Change, Paige Saller
The Commons: Puget Sound Journal of Politics
Panama represents one of the only modern success stories of foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) following Operation Just Cause, a military intervention led by the United States to remove Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. Literature on foreign military interventions as a whole traditionally suggests that FIRC is not effective long-term in countries trying to democratize. Panama’s democratization therefore represents a puzzle in why it has succeeded where so many others failed. This puzzle is compounded by the fact that Panama’s transition has not received much attention from political scientists despite Latin America generally being of interest to FIRC scholars. This paper posits …