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A Twist In Houston, John Francis Burke

Political Science Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - December 1997, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

A Not-So-Distant Mirror: The 17th Amendment And Congressional Change, John R. Hibbing, Sara Brandes Crook

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Citizen Evaluation Of The Morial Administration, 1994-1997, Susan E. Howell

Survey Research Center Publications

Mayor Marc Morial remains very popular with a 72% approval rating. This rating is only slightly lower than it was eighteen months ago (April, 1996). The Mayor's popularity is very racially polarized; 85% of blacks approve, while 52% of whites approve. Racial polarization is also basically the same as it was in the spring of 1996, and the slight decline in approval occurred in both racial groups. Racial division is minimal or non-existent on many of the quality of life measures below, yet it is pronounced on mayoral approval. The reasons will be explored later in this report.

American Irish Newsletter - November 1997, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Hispanic Social Needs Survey - New Orleans Metropolitan Area, Susan E. Howell

Survey Research Center Publications

Hispanics in this metro area are not an isolated, marginalized minority group. Their economic status, their fluency in English, and their many years in this country have produced a high level of integration into American society. New Orleans area Hispanics are long-term residents who have come primarily from Central America and the Caribbean. They are generally satisfied with their lives in this country and are quite patriotic. Hispanics are diverse educationally, but over a third have college degrees. There is a "gender gap" in the educational level of Hispanics, with males being significantly better educated. The gap extends to occupation, …

Which Way Is Right?, Jane Leftwich Curry

Political Science

"LEFT, Right, But Always Forward" was this year's election slogan for the Freedom Union, whose leaders went from anti-communist opposition to head the first noncommunist government in Poland in 1989. Today's Polish party leaders show the same lack of concern with traditional political definitions. Back when the Communist Party was voted out, the meaning of the election seemed clear to most voters: the choice was for or against continued communist control. Now, left and right have blurred and compromised. Parties focus on political theory rather than on voters' legitimate concerns about the economy. As a result, last month's elections in …

Yale Political Monthly 1997 October, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - October 1997, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Advocate, September/October 1997, Vol. 9, No. 1, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Higher Education Services Corporation Hires Private Company to Track Student Loan Defaulters. Andrea Zimmerman (p. 1)

Italian-American Group Charges CUNY Discriminates. Mark Petras (p. 1)

Administrators Seek Staff Increase for Computing Service and Library. Mark Petras (p. 1)

Anti-Sweatshop Coalition Fights Corporate Greed. Mark Petras (p. 1)

Pataki to Approve CUNY “Workfare” Legislation for Students on Public Assistance. Andrea Zimmerman (p. 3)

Annals of Administration: CUNY’s Controversial Writing Assessment Test to be Administered at All Community Colleges (p. 4)

Masthead (p. 2)

Editorial Page (p. 2)

ABC Has Insulted Our Intelligence. Mark Petras.

CUNY BOT’s “Committee of …

American Irish Newsletter - September 1997, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Nephite Kingship Reconsidered, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

This paper extends and updates previous efforts to understand the political dynamic of the Book of Mormon by looking at four themes or issues that can be developed from the text itself. The first is an expansion of earlier treatments of the contradictory political ideologies of the Nephites and Lamanites, which informed relations between these two groups across their thousand-year history. The second is an exploration of the historical possibility that Nephi may never, in fact, have been anointed as king of the Nephite people, which raises in turn a possible need to reassess the character of Nephite kingship. The …

Restructuring The Party/State Relations : China's Political Structural Reform In The 1980s, Yiu Chung Wong

Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series

This paper deals with the political structural reform policies introduced or initiated by the reformists within the CCP starting in the late 1970s until the 4 June brutal crackdown in 1989. I shall discuss, first, the evolution of the notion of political structural reform in the first half of the 1980s. Second, I shall delineate the substance of the political reform policies and the implications of these policies. Third, the limitations of these reform measures will be analysed. The reform measures will be categorized into five areas that will become the focus of my study: a) democratizing the Party/state apparatus …

American Irish Newsletter - August 1997, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

A New Role For Transparency, Ann Florini

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Arms control has traditionally dealt with limiting the means of destruction. When the greatest threa to security came from the potential for organized violence inflicted by an external enemy against a state, arms control logically sought to limit that danger. But as the threats to security have become more diffuse, policy-makers will need to draw on a wider repertoire of tools to reduce the potential destructiveness of less organiized threats, and even emerging unintended dangers. The article examines the problems of nuclear proliferation and environmental toxification over the long term, describes why these problems will require a transparency-based approach, and …

Liberty, Rights, And Will In Hobbes: A Response To David Van Mill, John D. Harman

Political Science Faculty/Staff Publications

David Van Mill recently argued in this journal that Hobbes's theory of freedom in Leviathan is fundamentally confused. Van Mill finds that this confusion arises from the supposed inconsistency between Hobbes's initial account of liberty as “the absence of external impediments” in Chapter 14 and subsequent uses of the term in contexts where he must necessarily have held a different concept. (This occurs most notably in Chapter 21, where he discusses the “liberty of subjects.”) According to Van Mill, the consequence of this confusion is nothing less than the disintegration of Hobbes's whole system. Against this account, I argue that …

The Dialectic In Contemporary Egyptian Social Thought: The Scripturalist And Modernist Discourses Of Sayyid Qutb And Hasan Hanafi, Shahrough Akhavi

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Cost Of Nato Expansion For Canada, Erika Simpson

Political Science Publications

No abstract provided.

Dueling Realisms, Stephen Brooks

Dartmouth Scholarship

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - July 1997, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Moldovia: The Transformation Of Post-Soviet Society: Philosophical And Political Considerations, Vasile Nedelciuc, Scott J. Hammond, Stephen R. Bowers

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - June 1997, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

St. Tammany Growth And Development Survey (June, 1997), Susan E. Howell

Survey Research Center Publications

Residents of St. Tammany are negative about recent trends in the quality of life in their parish. Anti-growth sentiment in St. Tammany has doubled in the past five years, and growth is considered by far to be the biggest problem facing the parish. Concern about growth-related problems is increasing. Today a majority of residents is opposed to both new residential and commercial development. Growth-related government services, such as drainage, traffic control, zoning, and preserving wetlands are rated "poor" or "very poor" by at least a third of the residents. Twenty-five percent say they sometimes smell sewage in their neighborhood. Residents …

The System-Change In Europe: Theoretical And Political Consequences For The Future Role Of Nato. A Comprehensive Evaluation Of Theoretical Propositions, Empirical Evidence And Possible Political Guidelines, Alexander Siedschlag

Publications

In its consequences for the future role of the Atlantic Alliance, the system-change in Europe means more than what it is commonly conceived of to be. Much of the political and scholarly debates about NATO's future embrace military conflict management and Alliance enlargement as crucial factors. Yet another set of decisive factors determining NATO's future lies in the intra-Alliance political and military relationships. The immediate challenges in the first place stem from conflicts of internal origin, such as reconciling divergent interests and approaches among its members.

The Future Information Infrastructure In Economics, William L. Goffe, Robert P. Parks

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

(Review) Gender Is Not A Synonym For Women, By Terrell Carver; And (Review) Gender Power, Leadership, And Governance, Ed. Georgia Duerst-Lahti And Rita Mae Kelly., Maryanne Borrelli

Government and International Relations Faculty Publications

Gender Is Not a Synonym for Women. By Carver Terrell. (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996. Pp. 133. $35.00.)

Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance. Edited by Georgia Duerst-Lahti and Rita Mae Kelly. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. 305. $47.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.)

Yale Political Monthly 1997 May, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - May 1997, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by WKU Latin American Studies program 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.

Controlling The Uses Of Our Bodies: A Comparison Of Women In Twenty Countries, Jennifer Pence '97

Honors Projects

Why is it that in countries such as Canada and the United States women are able to prosecute their husbands for rape, yet in countries such as Sudan, females are genitally mutilated with no recourse, in Brazil, violence against women is difficult to prosecute, and in India many woman have no choice concerning their marriage partner? What accounts for this variation? Is the source of this variation rooted in the political participation of women or does the variation stem from socio-economic modernization? Is bodily control determined by the ideological affiliations of parties within the state? This paper seeks to answer …