Family Ties: Mainstream Environmentalists' Understanding Of Radical Environmentalism In America,
2010
Colby College
Family Ties: Mainstream Environmentalists' Understanding Of Radical Environmentalism In America, Zachary W. Ezor
Honors Theses
Environmentalism in the United States manifests itself in numerous ways. While American environmentalists have been grouped into broad camps over the years, observers have struggled to accurately classify the different components of the movement. Lately, environmentalists have been characterized based on their chosen modus operandi. Environmentalists who employ typical interest group tactics of policy advocacy and accept the notion of political compromise can generally be called 'mainstream.' Alternatively, those environmentalists who employ non-conventional strategies like direct action and take a no-compromise stance on environmental issues are typically described as 'radical.' Despite these distinctions, both radical and mainstream environmentalists are parts …
The “Lunatic Fringe” -- Barry Goldwater And The Conservative Revolution Of The 1960s --,
2010
Colby College
The “Lunatic Fringe” -- Barry Goldwater And The Conservative Revolution Of The 1960s --, Nicholas L. Bromley
Honors Theses
How did conservatives, who had become effectively ostracized by their party following the Great Depression and the societal reforms of the New Deal, regain leverage within the GOP during the 1960s? My hypothesis is two-fold. First, I contend that a small group of conservative activists led by F. Clifton White, in spite of a dearth of resources and manpower, managed to infiltrate Republican infrastructure and “hijack” the delegate- selection process. The distinctly conservative and recalcitrant disposition of the Goldwater delegates demonstrates that these activists succeeded. Second, I argue that in addition to temporarily overpowering the national convention in 1964, conservatives …
The Emerging Civil Society In China And Its Impact On Democratization,
2010
Colby College
The Emerging Civil Society In China And Its Impact On Democratization, Haolu Wang
Honors Theses
Recent years have seen an emerging civil society in an authoritarian China. The authoritarian embrace of civil society challenges the conventional wisdom that civil society is closely linked to democracy. In Beijing, the rhetoric of civil society linked less to democracy than to modernization. However, does civil society development have any impact on democratization in authoritarian regimes? The thesis tries to provide a tentative answer by studying civil society and democratization in post-Mao China. As a result of economic development and political reforms, gradual political liberalization has marked a shift of state-society relations that gives rise to a certain degree …
Lost And Found,
2010
Andrews University
Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative On Congressional Campaign Web Sites, 2002-2006,
2010
Oberlin College
Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative On Congressional Campaign Web Sites, 2002-2006, James N. Druckman, Martin J. Kifer, Michael Parkin
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
In a few short years, the World Wide Web has become a standard part of candidates' campaign tool kits. Virtually all candidates have their own sites, and voters, journalists, and activists visit the sites with increasing frequency. In this article, we study what candidates do on these sites in terms of the information they present by exploring one of the most enduring and widely debated campaign strategies: going negative. Comparing data from over 700 congressional candidate web sites, over three election cycles (2002, 2004, and 2006), with television advertising data, we show that candidates go negative with similar likelihoods across …
What Happens When Uganda Is Sapped! : Have Uganda's Structural Adjustment Policies Increased Women's Poverty?,
2010
University at Albany, State University of New York
What Happens When Uganda Is Sapped! : Have Uganda's Structural Adjustment Policies Increased Women's Poverty?, Talin Saroukhanian
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Have the World Bank's policy-based loans exacerbated or reduced poverty in
Multinational Firm Strategy And The Nationalization Of Copper In Chile And Zambia : The Experience Of Five Companies,
2010
University at Albany, State University of New York
Multinational Firm Strategy And The Nationalization Of Copper In Chile And Zambia : The Experience Of Five Companies, Christopher Sarver
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation critically examines how multinational copper firms formed strategies to bargain with nationalizing host governments.
Continuity And Change In U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy : A Critical Analysis,
2010
University at Albany, State University of New York
Continuity And Change In U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy : A Critical Analysis, Darius Edward Watson
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The study of US nonproliferation policy has traditionally focused on characteristics of the proliferator to explain variations in the preferred US policy outcome: no new nuclear weapons states. Failures in achieving this goal have most often been attributed to the "roguishness" of the proliferating state, its desire for the international prestige normally associated with achieving nuclear weapon status, or intense security concerns which override its desire or ability to adhere to international and US rules governing nuclear proliferation. The argument being forwarded here is that variations within US nonproliferation policy have been the greatest influence on the attainment of US …
The Myth Of Fragmentation : Assessing Political Information Online,
2010
University at Albany, State University of New York
The Myth Of Fragmentation : Assessing Political Information Online, Alexis Marie Wichowski
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Internet technology has provided people with unprecedented abilities to filter the information they encounter, leading many scholars to fear that people will be exposed to less diversity of perspectives and fragment into homogeneous interest groups. Exposure to a wide range of topics and perspectives about political information in particular is considered necessary by many scholars in order for citizens to be informed participants in democratic life. However, fears that the Internet leads to fragmentation rest on three assumptions: 1. online, opportunities for unintended encounters with a diversity of information are limited, 2. people primarily pursue narrow interests when consuming online …
Fairness, Justice And An Individual Basis For Public Policy,
2010
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Fairness, Justice And An Individual Basis For Public Policy, Douglas R. Oxley
Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Prior models of the policy process have examined how human characteristics can affect policy decision-making in such a way that it leads to aggregate effects on policy outcomes as a whole. I develop a model of the policy process which suggests that emotions related to fair and unfair experiences in the same policy domain are utilized by decision-makers as policy criteria. In the lab, I empirically tested this, and find that emotions and experience related to fairness do influence the policy decision to move away from the status quo alternative. Based upon this result, I simulated the evolution of a …
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy,
2010
Chapman University
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy, Peter Mclaren
Education Faculty Articles and Research
"Since the mid-1990s, the focus of my work has shifted discernibly, if not dramatically, from a preoccupation with poststructuralist analyses of popular culture, in which I attempted to deploy contrapuntally critical pedagogy, neo- Marxist critique and cultural analysis, to a revolutionary Marxist humanist perspective. My focus shifted away from the politics of representation and its affiliative liaison with identity production and turned towards the role of finance capital and the social relations of production. Against a utopian theory of entrepreneurial individuality and agency backed by a voluntarism unburdened by history, I came to see the necessity of transforming the very …
Planning For The 2010 Winter Olympics And Paralympics In Vancouver, Whistler, British Columbia: A Case Study On Cross-Border Collaboration,
2010
Western Washington University
Planning For The 2010 Winter Olympics And Paralympics In Vancouver, Whistler, British Columbia: A Case Study On Cross-Border Collaboration, Jasper Macslarrow
WWU Graduate School Collection
On July 2, 2003 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced it had chosen Vancouver/Whistler, British Columbia, Canada as the host city for the 2010 Winter and Paralympic Games. The 2010 Games were Canada's first since the City of Calgary hosted the 1988 Winter Olympic Games and were the first time Vancouver had ever hosted the Olympics. The Games were an opportunity for Vancouver, Whistler, and British Columbia to showcase their cities and their region. With an expected 3 billion people from around the world tuning in to watch the Games, planners and organizers were extremely cognizant of the opportunities and …
Book Review: Bush On The Home Front, By John D. Graham,
2010
Loyola Marymount University
Book Review: Bush On The Home Front, By John D. Graham, Michael A. Genovese
Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Centrist Rhetoric: The Production Of Political Transcendence In The Clinton Presidency, By Antonio De Velasco,
2010
Loyola Marymount University
Book Review: Centrist Rhetoric: The Production Of Political Transcendence In The Clinton Presidency, By Antonio De Velasco, Michael A. Genovese
Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Budgeting In Japan: How Much Do Institutions Matter?,
2010
Loyola Marymount University
The Politics Of Budgeting In Japan: How Much Do Institutions Matter?, Gene Park
Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works
In the past decade, the Japanese government has revamped its budget institutions twice. This paper examines how these changes have changed the configuration of power among the actors in the budget process. It also explores the implications of these changes for the management of the nation's finances.
Democratic Triumph, Scholarly Pessimism,
2010
Portland State University
Democratic Triumph, Scholarly Pessimism, Bruce Gilley
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article discusses how the democratic form of government has gone from an oddity to the most common form of government in the world. The written works on democracy in the past twenty years have dealt primarily with the writers' growing sense of insecurity, the belief that history runs in cycles, and the belief that democracy will run its course and the world will find itself returned to an authoritarian existence. Samuel P. Huntington expressed his pessimism with democracy in his book "The Third Wave." Huntington believes that only countries with a substantial Western influence will be able to sustain …
Dammed And The Damned: Draining The Bucket Dry,
2010
Wright State University
Dammed And The Damned: Draining The Bucket Dry, Carla Steiger
Browse all Theses and Dissertations
This thesis investigates how people displaced from the construction of large dams in seek environmental justice. I studied the importance of regime type, the creation of protest groups and the formation of alliances with national, international organizations, and the media. In a comparison between protest movements against the Three Gorges Dam in China and the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India, displaced populations suffered from loss of community, livelihood, and health and were victimized by corrupt actors that supported the dams. The rapid economic development of these two countries emerged as a major point of comparison between the two. Regime type …
Agenda Preference Deliberations,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Agenda Preference Deliberations, David Pulliam
LSU Master's Theses
Currently the public is relegated to the electoral process, surveys and polls, and group participation in order to voice their agenda preferences. Various literatures describe the decreasing influence of the general public within the agenda setting portion of the policymaking process. This thesis assesses the agenda setting and public policy literatures in order to determine how issues become part of the policy agenda, looks to the public opinion literature to determine how capable the public is in being part of the policymaking process, and utilizes the deliberative democracy literature to construct deliberations that make it possible to get the public …
Arab/American Relations And Human Security, Post-9/11: A Political Narrative Inquiry,
2010
Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and Change
Arab/American Relations And Human Security, Post-9/11: A Political Narrative Inquiry, Charlotte Moats-Gallagher
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
This study explored eighteen women's views and experiences in the arena of Arab/American relations, post-9/11. The study engaged three groups of women: Arab women in Qatar, Arab American women in the U.S., and non-Arab women in the U.S. Qualitative narrative inquiry methodology was used complemented by an innovative use of freewriting to help prepare participants for interviews. Clarke’s (2005a) situational analysis was used to open up and analyze the data. Findings surfaced around the interconnected themes of identity, racism, discrimination and Othering, the role of the media, and how these ultimately influence a collective sense of and experience of human …
The Role Of Old-Fashioned Racism: Disaggregating Symbolic Racism In The United States,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
The Role Of Old-Fashioned Racism: Disaggregating Symbolic Racism In The United States, Leslie Curtis Cox
LSU Master's Theses
Old-fashioned, biological, or "Jim Crow" racism is viewed by many in the political science and psychology literature to be largely a relic of the past. In the post-segregation era it has been replaced as a political force by symbolic racism, although its residual effect still operates within symbolic racism as negative racial affect. Symbolic racism is thought of as a coherent belief system that describes whites‘ attitudes not only in the United States, but in some European democracies as well. This conceptualization of symbolic racism ignores the differences in the historical legacy of racism across different regional and demographic contexts. …
