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Money, Leo N. Tolstol

The Open Court

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The International Congresses Of The World's Exposition At Paris, In 1900

The Open Court

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Expansion, But Not Imperialism, Paul Carus

The Open Court

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Book Reviews And Notes

The Open Court

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The New Year In China, Arthur H. Smith

The Open Court

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The Principles Of The Open Court, Charles Carroll Bonney

The Open Court

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Examining The Effects Of The Daubert Trilogy On Expert Evidence Practices In Federal Civil Court: An Empirical Analysis, David M. Flores, James T. Richardson, Mara L. Merlino

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

As the title suggests, this article examines the effects of the Daubert trilogy, a series of cases on expert evidence practices within the federal court system. The authors believe Daubert has placed judges in a “gatekeeper” function, requiring them to determine the scientific validity and admissibility of expert testimony. The other two cases within the trilogy further defined this new function of federal judges. The authors first discuss the background of their research project and the legal history and other studies done in this area. In the next section the authors go into great detail as to the methods of …

The Daily Egyptian, February 24, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2010

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The Daily Egyptian, February 19, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2010

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The Daily Egyptian, February 12, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2010

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Social Capital In Coordination Experiments: Risk, Trust And Position, Meredith A. Whiteman, John T. Scholz

Working Papers

Social capital theory is exemplary in attempting to integrate both individual and institutional perspectives in the study of governance, but interactions between the individual and institutional components remain underexplored and unspecified in many situations. We extend the theory from its focal attention on prisoners dilemma games to an important and understudied class of collective action problems of critical concern for governance— coordination tasks ranging from simple matching games to more complex tasks involving conflict (battle of the sexes) and assurance problems (stag hunt). Laboratory experiments provide a means of observing the impact of institutional influences (bridging and bonding network capital), …

The "Unfriending" Problem: The Consequences Of Homophily In Friendship Retention For Causal Estimates Of Social Influence, Hans Noel, Brendan Nyhan

2010

Christakis, Fowler, and their colleagues have recently published numerous articles estimating "contagion" effects in social networks (Christakis and Fowler 2007, 2008; Fowler and Christakis 2008a; Cacioppo, Fowler and Christakis 2009; Rosenquist et al. 2010; Rosenquist, Fowler and Christakis 2010; Mednick, Christakis and Fowler 2010). In response to concerns that their results are driven by homophily, Christakis and Fowler describe Monte Carlo results showing no evidence of homophily-induced bias in their statistical model's estimates of peer effects (Fowler and Christakis 2008b, N.d.; Fowler et al. N.d.). However, their simulations do not address the role of homophily in friendship retention, which may …

The Relational Determinants Of Legislative Success: Strong And Weak Ties Between Legislators, Justin H. Kirkland

2010

In the repeated interactions of a legislative session, legislators develop working relationships that can be used in the pursuit of legislative goals. I develop a theory of influence diffusion across a legislative network of relations based on strategic actors building relationships in order to increase legislative success. Building on sociological theory initially developed by Granovetter, my research indicates that it is the weak ties between legislators that are the most useful in increasing legislative success. I test my theory using state legislative data from eight state legislatures, along with a second analysis of the US House of Representatives. Empirical analysis …

The Voter Is Only A Tweet Away Micro Blogging During The 2009 European Parliament Election Campaign In The Netherlands, Maurice Vergeer, Liesbeth Hermans, Steven Sams

2010

In many western countries politics increasingly suffers from declining interest and declining participation in the political processes (Flickinger & Studlar, 2007). This not only applies to national politics but also, or even more so, to European politics. The European Union in particular is said to suffer from a severe democratic deficit (cf. van Os, Jankowski, & Vergeer, 2007). In general, support for the European Union is low: only a small majority (52%) supports its country’s EU membership (European Commission, 2009). This is reflected in the low voter turnout (43%) for the EP elections. The Netherlands, although its population supports the …

Bootstrapping A Terrorist Network, Robert D. Duval, Kyle Christensen, Arian Spahiu

2010

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Wherein Lies The Power? Lobbyists And Lobbying Organizations In North Carolina, John C. Scott, Jeff Summerlin-Long

2010

Using multilevel social network and standard statistical analysis, this paper compares three levels of a state-level lobbying network - the network of individual lobbyists, the network of lobbying organizations, and the client or principal network - in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of the structure and dynamics of state-level interest groups. North Carolina is unusual in that it provides public longitudinal data since 1993 covering all three levels of relations. By engaging in this comparison, we hope to further parse the key characteristics of the network in order to understand its evolving structure. Specifically, how do different levels …

The Emergence Of Local Elite Networks: Structure Or Preference? - An Econometric Approach -, Christian Assmann, Christian H.C.A. Henning

2010

This paper analyzes the determinants and causes of communication in local elite networks. The database comprises four rural county elite networks from Poland and Slovakia. Socio spatial processes allowing a flexible incorporation of individual specific information are embedded within a logit framework. Empirical analysis focuses on the assessment of the hypotheses, whether preferences measured by socio demographic factors and political ideology or institutional settings (structure) influence individual communication in local elite networks. The results suggest that while in high performing communities institutional settings, i.e. a common membership in local organizations, are the most important factors determining communication, in low performing …

The Factors Of Interest Group Networks And Success: Organization, Issues And Resources, Dino P. Christenson, Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier

2010

While interest groups use a variety of techniques to exert influence, coalition strategies are the dominant lobbying technique. However, many questions remain about such coalitions. This paper is the second in a series of social network analyses of purposive and coordinated interest group relationships. We utilize a network measure based on cosigner status to United States Supreme Court amicus curiae, or friend of the court briefs. The illuminated structures lend insight into the central players and overall formation of the network over the first several years of the 21st century. The factions are tied together by various central players, who …

The Death Of State Sovereignty? An Empirical Exploration, Dawn L. Rothe, Christopher W. Mullins

Articles

As academics have become increasingly interested in globalization, scholars in many fields have turned their attention to theorizations of the state and state power. Admittedly, most criminologists have paid relatively attention to theories of the state, its function, role, or issues of sovereignty (save for Barak, 1991; Chambliss and Zatz, 1993; Friedrichs, 1992; Michalowski and Kramer, 1987; Mullins and Rothe, 2008; Rothe and Mullins, 2006, 2007, 2008). With the growing criminological interest in and focus on transnational crimes (Friedrichs, 2007), crimes of globalization (Friedrichs and Friedrichs, 2002; Rothe, Mullins, and Muzzatti, 2006; Rothe, Mullins and Sandstrom, 2008), and crime of …

Beyond The Juristic Orientation Of International Criminal Justice: The Relevance Of Criminological Insight To International Criminal Law And Its Control, Dawn L. Rothe, Christopher W. Mullins

Articles

This article draws attention to the relevance of criminological insight on issues of international criminal law and criminal justice. In particular, the ideology and theory of deterrence, legitimacy, and international criminal law are drawn from. After all, the deterrent effect has been touted as a solid empirical fact with the progression and development of 'international criminal justice', the international tribunals since the mid 1990s, and the International Criminal Court. Yet, the current rather blind belief in the deterrent impact of international criminal justice remains, regretfully, a bit premature. Additionally, beyond the concepts of deterrence and legitimacy, criminologists have much to …

Politics, Influence, And The Small Scale Organization Of Political Communication Networks, Robert Huckfeldt, Paul Johnson

2010

This paper addresses the factors that give rise to both heterogeneous and homogeneous opinion distributions within political communication networks. We argue that the factors sustaining homogeneity and heterogeneity are not entirely symmetrical – heterogeneity is not necessarily explained by treating it as the flip side of homogeneity. Two primary questions guide the effort. If influence within a dyad depends on the distribution of opinions beyond the dyad, is dyadic influence contingent on the construction of the network within which the dyad is located? In particular, how does the micro-structure of the larger network affect the persuasiveness of communication within the …

Managing Impressions And Gaining Control: Performances Of Emotion Work In Financial Organizations, Dina Nekrassova

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

This study explores the performative aspects of emotion work in financial organizations. The analysis of the interview discourse shows that financial analysts manage the immediate affective reactions to different work situations not only to remove subjective factors threatening to contaminate the preferred rationality of the financial research, but they strategically communicate their emotions to produce impressions of “knowledgeable,” “rational,” “nice,” “needed,” and “trusted experts.” Through strategically orchestrated practices of impression management, the interviewees seek to communicate “expert power” which helps them validate their research as logical, objective, and correct. The study also discusses performances of emotion work as a form …

Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2010

Cornerstone

No abstract provided.

2010-2011 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

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Do The Effects Of Corruption Upon Growth Differ Across Political Regimes?, Andreas Assiotis, Kevin Sylwester

Economics Discussion Papers

Many studies find that corruption lowers economic growth. However, most of these studies do not consider whether the effects of corruption upon growth differ across countries. This paper investigates whether the association between corruption and economic growth differs between democracies and authoritarian regimes. Consider illegal corruption and legal lobbying, both forms of rent seeking, as imperfect substitutes. Suppose lobbying is easier to do in democracies. Then, lowering corruption in authoritarian regimes could have greater growth benefits because of the lower substitutability between corruption and lobbying in these countries. Using cross-country, annual data from 1984 to 2007, we regress economic growth …

The Party Edge: Consultant-Candidate Networks In American Political Parties, Jacob Montgomery, Brendan Nyhan

2010

From David Axelrod to Karl Rove, political consultants have come to play a crucial role in American elections, and yet we know little about how they influence the political process. In particular, consultants serve as an important part of the web of informal relationships that play an important role in contemporary parties. Using data from Politics magazine (formerly Campaigns & Elections), we present the first systematic analysis of the networks of Republican and Democratic consultants and their House and Senate general election clients from 1992-2008. After introducing the characteristics of these networks, we estimate a spatial lag model demonstrating that …

An Experimental Study Of Persuasive Social Communication, John B. Ryan

2010

Studies of contextual effects on political behavior are plagued by concerns about internal validity. Perhaps of greatest concern are possible selection mechanisms that appear to present statistical support for contextual influence when social communication has no real effect. This paper presents an experimental framework for testing contextual effects that ameliorates these concerns through exogenous assignment to communication networks. This experiment allows for an analysis of the factors that make discussion partners influential. These factors can be divided into two categories: (1) characteristics of the dyad and its members; (2) characteristics of the residual discussion network. The most robust findings suggest …

Building And Managing Political Consensus Through The Internet: A Projectual Model, Marco Artusi, Andrea Maurizzi

2010

This paper focuses on the digital applications in political communication and for building consensus, assuming that we need to overcome the idea of the Internet as a simple means of mass communication, and instead analyse it as a social medium for acquiring, activating, and involving people in a specific political idea or movement. The social developments under way in Internet networks are leading to an integration between reality and virtual reality, thus making the Internet an increasingly faithful representation of the real world and of different subjects’ social networks. This makes Internet a great opportunity for building consensus.

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“Don’T Let Government Touch My Medicare”: How Media Framing Shapes Public Support For Health Care Reform, Stacey L. Pelika, Jennifer Hayes Clark, Elizabeth Rigby

2010

When covering the policymaking process, the media typically cover both substantive aspects of the issue at hand and the political wrangling that occurs as lawmakers attempt to agree on a course of action. In this paper, we use the recent health care debate to investigate the effects of what we call ‘policy’ and ‘process’ frames on the citizens’ perceptions that reform would benefit the nation. First, we apply social network analysis to articles from 144 daily U.S. newspapers in order to track the changing centrality of each type of frame in media coverage. We then combine the results of this …

Language Skills And Social Integration: Ethnic Disparities In Bilingual Economy, Ott S. Toomet, Jaanika Meriküll

2010

We analyze the relationship between the local language skills and immigrant income in a largely bilingual economy, Estonia. We show that the official language matters little in the private sector, and at the upper end of the income distribution. This is in a striking contrast to what has been found in the literature for single-language dominated economies. Our results point toward importance of co-worker discrimination, possibly through the more subtle aspects of language, or through access to the social networks. This outcome stresses the need of social integration of minorities, and suggest that this does not necessarily happen through the …