Digital Commons Network^™

Beyond The Party-Group Continuum: Massachusetts Interest Groups In The 1980s, John C. Berg

New England Journal of Public Policy

Studies in the 1960s determined that Massachusetts had strong parties and weak interest groups. In the 1970s and 1980s, as the Republican Party shrank, party competition declined, conflict with the Democratic Party grew, and interest groups gained more importance — and probably will remain important despite the Republican gains of 1990. However, group conflict and citizen mobilization, including increased use of the initiative and referendum, create a situation of interest-centered conflict rather than interest-group dominance as traditionally conceived. This article, based on a 1987 survey of state legislators and legislative aides, plus a summary of recent Massachusetts political history, assesses …

American Irish Newsletter - September 1991, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Perestroika In Central Europe, David S. Mason

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Syllabus for Political Science 380, "Perestroika in Central Europe".

The Graduate Student Advocate, September 1991, Vol. 3, No. 1, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Graduate School Administration Threatens Status of Over 1600 Students. Thomas Smith (p. 1)

Meet the President: An interview with Frances Degen Horowitz. Andrew Long, Thomas Smith, Jonathan Lang (p. 1)

Distinguished Psychologist Sylvia Scribner Dies at 67 (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Automated System to Speed Book Checkout. Susan Newman (p. 2)

Commentary. Thomas Smith (p. 2)

Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the DSC. Michael Glassman (p. 3)

An Advocate Announcement: CUNY Grad Students Must Be Given CUNY Adjunct Positions (p. 3)

If You Can’t Strike, Stay Out of the …

American Irish Newsletter - August 1991, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Terrorism On The Evening News: An Analysis Of Coverage Of The Twa Hostage Crisis On "Cbs Evening News", Ann M. Savage

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Terrorism and its news coverage have demonstrated to be a concern of the entire broadcast industry. Previous literature and studies suggest that terrorists rely heavily upon broadcast news response to their actions. Not only has it been suggested that news media actually become players in terroristic incidents, some have gone so far as to accuse networks of terrorism itself. This criticism contends that the networks depict an unbalanced representation of the activities that transpire. The network coverage of an incident that has been most notably criticized has been the TWA flight 847 hijacking and hostage taking in June of 1985. …

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 14, No 3 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

Hungary: Soviet Forces Out, New Policies In, Stephen R. Bowers

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - June 1991, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Cultural Issues And Images In The 1988 Presidential Campaign: Why The Democrats Lost - Again!, Joel A. Lieske

Political Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Political And Ideological Context Of Broadcast News Cbs Nightly News Coverage Of Eastern Europe, Terese A. Thompson

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the influence of United States/Soviet relations on network news coverage of Eastern Europe. It also measures the ideological character of network news reports about Eastern Europe or how television news in the United States is constructed along a particular ideological vision. The specific operational questions researched are: Is network news content influenced by trends in United States/Soviet relations? How is the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union reflected in the ideological presentation of the news? Samples of CBS nightly news programs were analyzed for quantitative and qualitative changes in news content over time. Analysis …

American Irish Newsletter - May 1991, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) An Attempt To Explore The Role Of Khomeiniism In The War, Masoud Bonyanian

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis investigates the impact of Khomeiniism on the Shi'ites of Iraq. Specifically it seeks to determine whether the rise of Khomeiniism in Iran inspired Iraq's Shi'ite majority to rise against the Ba'athist leaders of Iraq with the object of establishing an Islamic Republic. The paper focuses on the political activities of the Iraqi Shi'ites from Ayatollah Khomeini's rise to power in Iran in February 1979 to the beginning of hostilities between Iraq and Iran in September 1980. The evidence indicates mounting anti-Ba'athist political activity by the Shi'ites which included daily rioting, attempted assassinations, and a rise in the number …

Equal To The Best: The Workers' Party Submission To The Second Commission On The Status Of Women, April 1991, Workers' Party Of Ireland

Materials

No abstract provided.

Apathy And The Birth Of Democracy: The Polish Struggle, David S. Mason

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Apathy, from the Greek words meaning "w ithout feeling," is at once a term denoting an individual's impassivity or indifference and a form of collective political behavior. Our concern is the la tter form of apathy in Poland from the Solidarity period of 1980-81 to the present.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 3, James A. Stevenson, Robert Wexelblatt, Steven L. Schweizer, Roger Horne, Ralph Brauer, Allen Ramsey, Daniel Williams, Timothy P. Bellows, Nancy Botkin, Patrick W. Gray, Mark Henke, Kip Knott, Joyce K. Luzzi, Sheryl L. Nelms, Philip Terman, Deborah Woodard, Anne O. Youngs, Sharon E. Neet, Stephen Meats, Donalds W. Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Chiding modern historians for a hidebound rigidity that blinds them to the truths that lie in historical fiction and poetry, JAMES A. STEVENSON argues that Edmund Spenser's history of Elizabethan times revealed less than his magnificent, but outwardly fictional Faerie Queen. Holder of a doctorate in history and a recently completed master's degree in English literature, Stevenson has published articles on history, film, and literature in a variety of academic journals, including an essay on Lincoln's affinity for Macbeth in The Midwest Quarterly. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at East Georgia College.

What did cavepersons do without letters? …

Touched By Fire: Readings In Time Of War, Shaun O'Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

In "Touched by Fire: Readings in Times of War," Shaun O'Connell draws us into the eerie atmosphere that pulled this country into itself in the late fall and early winter, when thoughts of war provoked hard questions and when, for a time, doubt became the stuff of eloquence.

The works discussed in this article include: Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War, by Sidney Blumenthal; Millie's Book, as dictated to Barbara Bush; An American Life, by Ronald Reagan; The Civil War: An Illustrated History, by Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns; …

American Irish Newsletter - March 1991, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Public Opinion In Poland's Transition To Market Democracy, David S. Mason

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Public opinion research has changed dramatically in the last ten years in Poland, in terms of its methodology, scope, and role in political change. During the "first" Solidarity era (1980-81), the genie of public opinion was let out of the bottle, and even martial law could not entirely put it back. Public opinion polling in the 1980s became more sophisticated and more common, and began to tackle increasingly sensitive political issues. Public opinion came to play a role in the political process, and to give the Polish population a sense of its own purpose and values. It also revealed the …

Politics Of Divided Nations: China, Korea, Germany And Vietnam - Unification, Conflict Resolutioion And Political Development, Quansheng Zhao, Robert Sutter

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

No abstract provided.

General Secretary's Report To The Workers' Party Ard Fheis Annual Delegate Conference 1991, Workers' Party Of Ireland

Materials

No abstract provided.

Freedom, Democracy, Equality: The Workers' Party Ard Fheis/Annual Delegate Conference, 1991: Clár, Workers' Party Of Ireland

Materials

No abstract provided.

Integrating Women's Voices Into Public Policy, Mollie Hoben

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Women are Minnesota's greatest untapped resource. Despite significant growth in the visibility of women in public life, the talents and contributions of Minnesota's female citizens are not yet being fully utilized. In this last decade of the century, the state faces policy challenges in human services, the environment, the economy. To most effectively meet these challenges, we need to find ways to integrate women's voices more fully into public policy.

Meeting this challenge is in everyone's interest for several reasons. For one thing, it will make our public endeavors more equitable. Any society that makes decisions for all based on …

U.S. House Journal Of William H. Natcher, Vol. 57, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

U.S. House Journals of William H. Natcher

Journal, 5 June 1991 to 1 May 1992, of U.S. Congressman William Huston Natcher while he was representing Kentucky’s 2^nd District. The journal includes an almost daily account of Natcher’s reflections on current events and transactions with the U.S. House of Representatives. Many of the entries contain typescripted newspaper articles with some editorial comment provided by Natcher, others are more personal in nature.

Until Peace Breaks Out: 50 Reasons Why America Is 'Over There', Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

No abstract provided.

False Hopes: The United States Senate And Campaign Finance Reform 1980-1990, James Heimbach

Honors Theses

The cost of winning a seat in the United States Senate has risen dramatically over the last ten years. It has become the norm rather than the exception to spend over $1 million on a campaign. For example, in the 34 Senate races in the 1988 election, 32 campaigns spent over $1 million. Due to the necessity to raise more and more money, candidates have had to turn to alternative sources of campaign funds. Thus, the rise in campaign costs has been accompanied by a rise in the role of the political action committee (PAC). PACs are special interest groups …

Virginia, The United States And The World : The Effects Of Political, Cultural And Economic Factors On Export Activity, Kimberly Sue Williams

Master's Theses

During the Middle Ages, the "marketplace" may have consisted of one village; products were made and sold locally. From a business person's perspective, there was little need to find out about the preferences of people in another town, let aone on another continent. In the middle of the twentieth century, American made products were sold in America; there was not much incentive to find about the tastes of people in another country. Business in the 1990's is different. Today there is a "global marketplace." Technology has made the planet smaller, facilitating communication and transportation between nations. The world today, in …

The Population Factor: China's Family Planning Policy In The 1990s, Tyrene White

Political Science Faculty Works

Realizing the extent of runaway population growth in China and the associated threat to the realization of overall domestic economic development, China's leadership of 1980 set the goal of holding the country's population within 1.2 billion by the year 2000. With few exceptions, the government called for all couples to have only 1 child. By 1990, different localities and regions had implemented their own policies. The state still held all urban couples with a single female child could have a 2nd child after a 5 year hiatus; a 3rd child was forbidden regardless of the sex of the 2nd child. …

A Tale Of Two Families: Change In North Yemen 1977-1989, Sheila Carapico, Cynthia Myntti

Political Science Faculty Publications

Virtually every aspect of life in North Yemen has changed dramatically since 1977, including those aspects of Yemeni society which represent continuity with the past: tribalism, rural life, and use of qat.¹ The driving force for change has been economic. By 1975, Yemen was caught up in the dramatic developments that affected all Arab countries. Rising international oil prices generated enormous surpluses in the producing countries, enabling them to initiate ambitious development plans and forcing them to import workers.

The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) was in a good position to provide those workers. In the late 1970s, one …

Russian Nationalism And Pamiat, Brian Granger

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

More than seventy years after the October Revolution a crisis in the Soviet Union has caused its citizens to suffer a loss of faith. This disillusionment seemingly stems from the lack of success in economic reform and the chaos of the democratization policy implemented since the rise to power of M.S. Gorbachev in March 1985. The following reaction has not merely condemned Horbachev's "experimentation" with the Pandora's box of perestroika and glasnost'; the first years of the 1990s have also seen the increasing tendency to blacken the whole of Soviet History, to trace the root of all the ills of …