Digital Commons Network^™

Trends. Sex And The Totemic Presidency, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the dynamics of the Lewinksky-Clinton relationship to the United States Presidency.

Popular Culture And The Mass Media In The Service Of Politics: The Wounds Of Gender Representation, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies and analyzes the phenomenon of gender representation as it impacts on the political application of popular culture and the mass media. Political authorities' social control and political leaders' and candidates' attractiveness are of special concern. For explanatory support, the article employs a "star" of popular music--viz., rock n' roll music from the United States--from the interlude 1956-1957.

Trends. A Stain On The Red, White, And Blue: Sex And United States (U.S.) Foreign Policy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the impact of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal on Bill Clinton's foreign policy

School Desegregation From Brown To Fordice, 1954-1992: A Case Study In American Individualism, Albert Leon Samuels

Department of Political Science and Geography Faculty Publications

In United States v. Fordice (1992), the Supreme Court declared that racially nondiscriminatory admissions and hiring policies alone failed to satisfy the state of Mississippi's "affirmative duty" to dismantle a previously de jure system of segregated higher education. However, the justices declined to define precisely what the state must do to satisfy its constitutional obligations, leaving in its wake a host of unresolved questions. Of particular concern to many African Americans is the fact that the future status of public black universities was left in the balance.

Using a case study approach, this dissertation argues that higher education desegregation cannot …

From The Movies To Malacañang: The Rise To Power Of Philippine President Joseph Estrada, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article was written by Ma. Elizabeth J. Macapagal of Ateneo de Manila University, Republic of the Philippines. She brings at least three sources of expertise to her topic: formal training in the social sciences, a political intuition for the telling detail, and experiential/observational acumen and tradition as the granddaughter of former Philippine president, Diosdado Macapagal. (The article has undergone minor editing by IBPP).

The Taliban Touch: Is Smashing Tv Sets A Smashing Idea?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article contains a commentary on a new public policy announced by the Taliban movement in Afghanistan that will proscribe televisions, videocassette recorders, videotapes, and satellite dishes among the people under its control. The commentary focuses on the potential political consequences of this policy based on psychological research on the effects of television.

The Political Personality Of U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of an indirect psychodiagnostic assessment of the political personality of U.S. vice president Al Gore, Democratic nominee in the 2000 presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon.

Information concerning Al Gore was collected from published biographical and autobiographical accounts and political reports in the print media, and synthesized into personality profiles using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM-IV.

The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines …

Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. Xv, No. 1, Wku Latin American Studies

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Latin American Studies committee regarding science, politics and economic advances in Latin America as well as cooperative projects between WKU and universities across Latin America. The newsletter is written in both English and Spanish.

The Embodiment Of Responsibility: “Confession” And “Compensation” In Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart

Pacific Studies

We discuss two contexts of responsibility for action in Mount Hagen, confession and compensation. Verbal confessions of either wrongdoing or resentment against wrongdoing are important signs of the exercise of agency, but if they are not made, it is expected that sickness will result. “Substance” thus takes over where “agency” fails, and the two are intimately linked. Compensation payments can be seen as nonverbal equivalents of confession or the logical result of it, and if they are not paid, sickness or a failure of wounds to heal is thought to be likely as a result. In contemporary times both confession …

Title Index, Robert S. Means, Russell T. Clement

Pacific Studies

Title Index compiled by Robert S. Means and Russell T. Clement. Includes two issues per volume, Vols. 1–8; three issues per volume, Vols. 9–13; and four issues per volume, Vols. 14–20.

Vol. 21 No. 1-2 (1998): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

Cumulative Index, Volumes 1–20, Robert S. Means, Russell T. Clement

Pacific Studies

Cumulative Index compiled by Robert S. Means and Russell T. Clement. Includes two issues per volume, Vols. 1–8; three issues per volume, Vols. 9–13; and four issues per volume, Vols. 14–20.

Citizen Evaluation Of The Louisiana Courts, Susan E. Howell

Survey Research Center Publications

The Louisiana survey consisted of two phases, a general survey of the public and an oversample of people who had used the court system within the past five years. This emphasis on the users of the courts (1307 were interviewed) is a unique aspect of the Louisiana study. Various types of court users, i.e., jurors, witnesses, civil litigants, defendants, etc., have significantly different evaluations of the court system. Predictably, people who have the most at stake in the outcome, such as victims, criminal defendants, and people in domestic disputes, are the most negative toward the courts. Jurors, court employees, and …

Continue With The Old Or Start Anew? An Examination Of Congressional Election Theories In The Context Of The 1946, 1948, 1994 And 1996 Elections, Elizabeth Ivry

Honors Theses

The differences in these election results raise several questions about the role and purpose of congressional elections in our democratic society. What factors could explain why two such similar elections, those of 1946 and 1994, were followed by two such different elections, those of 1948 and 1996? Has the relationship between congressional elections and congressional behaviors changed in the past 50 years? Are congressional elections still a referendum of the previous Congress and the incumbent presidency, or are other factors influencing the electorate's voting patterns? Were the midterm elections of 1946 and 1994 just extreme examples of what political scientists …

Technology And Terrorism: The New Threat For The Millennium, Stephen R. Bowers, Kimberley R. Keys

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

U.S. Involvement In The Overthrow Of Salvador Allende: 1970-1973, Ross Elliott Poulsen

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

"In a subsystem such as Latin America, internal changes cannot be fully explained without assessing the role played by the region's preeminent power [the United States of America]" (Kaufman, 1988: 3). The overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens by the Chilean military cannot be fully examined without taking into account the involvement of the United States government. From 1969 to 1973, actions, both overt and covert, taken by U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. military promoted economic chaos, strikes, and subsequently the military coup that overthrew the Allende regime.

Managing The Mass Media Through Murder: Primary Prevention In Perception Management, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a common and simple approach to managing a political entity's international image.

Problems In Historical Explanation: The Case Of The Khmer Rouge, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights some problems with developing causal explanations for historical phenomena.

Registration Laws And Their Impact On Voter Retention, Tom Lenard

Honors Theses

The literature on voting participation suggests a number of factors that should affect voter turnout differences including the legal incentives or hindrances acting directly on individual citizens. In this study I examine registration laws and how they may play a role in the stability over voter turnout between presidential and midterm elections. Specifically, this research concentrates on classifying each individual state into groups with easier and those with more strict registration requirements. With this done, I compared the voter turnout for the 1990-1996 elections between the two groups. Also, I looked at the drop-off rates in percentage of turnout for …

The Canvas Of The Other: Fanon And Recognition, Anthony Peter Spanakos

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

(Re) Presenting Power. Disclosure Interviews Jane Flax, Susan Mains, Meredith Redlin

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

The Canvas Of The Other: Fanon And Recognition, Anthony Peter Spanakos

Department of Political Science and Law Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

A Psychology Of Democracy In Africa: From The Heart Of Darkness?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychological phenomena affecting quests for international democratization.

The Media's Role In Public Negativity Toward Congress: Distinguishing Emotional Reactions And Cognative Evaluations, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, John R. Hibbing

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Relative Gains Problem And Case Studies Of Economic Cooperation In East Asia, Ping Deng

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Relative gains problem basically means unequal cooperative payoffs disproportionately favoring partners. With the relative gains problem widely accepted as a serious impediment to international cooperation, some scholars have theoretically argued or modeled several conditions that are most likely to foster a state's sensitivity to relative gains and thus substantially affect the prospects for cooperation. But little empirical work has been done to date. The central objective of this dissertation is to test whether those theoretical propositions can be supported by empirical evidence. For this purpose, we have deducted three hypotheses: (1) If a state faces military threat and zero-sum political …

Trends. Injustice Through Justice Within The Ins And The Fbi: Fertile Territory For Information, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the quest for justice, in which policymakers, legislators, and those who seek to influence them sometimes seek to effect mandatory sequences of adjudicative procedure upon allegations of misbehavior.

Mlgpa News (March 1998), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Bombing Iraq As Therapeutic Intervention: Symptom Substitution As Consequence, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents the construct of symptom substitution as a heuristic to delineate the likely, problematic consequences of bombing Iraq.

Trends. The Phallic Presidency, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the illicit behavior of many of America's presidents.

Mlgpa News (February 1998), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.