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النظام البرلماني في الكويت وبريطانيا (دراسة مقارنة), Bandar Nahar F. S. Almutiri, Amin Awwad Muhanna Almashqbeh

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال المقارنة بين النموذجين البرلمانيين البريطاني والكويتي، وباستخدام منهجية علمية شاملة معتمدةً على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، والمنهج المقارن، اتضح نجاح التجربة البرلمانية البريطانية التي ترسخت عبر مئات السنين، وتطورت من سلطة مطلقة للحاكم مستمدة من نظرية الحق الإلهي، وصولاً إلى ترسيخ الحريات والحقوق العامة بفعل القوانين التي صدرت تباعاً، والتي نجم عنها القول أن البرلمان البريطاني يمثل بحق كافة فئات الشعب البريطاني كونه منبثقاً عنه، وكون السلطة التنفيذية ممثلةً بالملك الدستوري الذي يملك ولا يحكم، والوزارة المنبثقة من حزب الأغلبية في البرلمان، أما بالنسبة للتجربة البرلمانية الكويتية، فيمكن القول، أنه وعلى الرغم من حداثة هذه التجربة التي لم تتجاوز …

الدلالات السيميائية للبصريات المصاحبة للاحتجاجات الشعبية دراسة سيميائية لغرافيتي تظاهرات 25 تشرين الأول 2019 في العراق, Najm A. Kh. Aleessawi Alhatimi

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال الوقوف على أبرز الدلالات السيميائية للبصريات والمرفقات الفنية التي صاحبت الاحتجاجات الشعبية التي حدثت في العراق نهاية عام 2019، وكيف وظف المحتجون كتاباتهم وفنونهم في تجسيد الحالة الاحتجاجية سيميائياً من خلال الغرافيتي. وقد اعتمد الباحث المنهج النوعي النقدي لمعالجة إشكالية المقال. عالج الباحث أكثر من 20 صورة ورسمة فنية وجدراية رسمها فنانو الاحتجاجات، وقد توصل الباحث إلى مجموعة من الاستنتاجات أهمها: إن فناني الاحتجاج وظفوا قدراتهم الفنية في تقديم رسائل واضحة بصورة فنية عالية المستوى عبروا فيها عن أهداف المحتجين، ومطالبهم. كما تبين من نتائج المقال أن بعض سيميائيات الغرافيني كانت مدعمة برسائل لغوية، ووطنية، وأخلاقية، وكلها تشير …

المشاركة السياسية وعلاقتها في عملية التحول الديمقراطي في المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية للفترة (2010-2021), Ehda’A Khaled Abdul Razzaq Al Zoubi

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال إلى تقديم إطار نظري عن علاقة المشاركة السياسية بالتحول الديمقراطي وتحليل لواقع واسباب اشكالية المشاركة السياسية في المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة تم الاعتماد على المنهج الوصفي/ التحليلي، وإطار تحليل النظم. وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن هناك فجوة كبيرة بين الاتجاهات العلمية الاساسية التي ترتكز عليها المشاركة السياسية، وبين واقع عملية المشاركة في المجتمع الأردني حيث تبيّن من خلال الدراسة وجود تدنٍ في مستوى المشاركة السياسية في مختلف أشكالها سواء على مستوى المشاركة في الانتخابات البرلمانية أو المشاركة الحزبية، وتوجد إشكاليات مؤثرة في إنجاح عملية المشاركة السياسية، الأمر الذي يتطلب من النظام السياسي الأردني مواجهتها، والحد منها بإرادة …

الموقع الجغرافي كمحدّد للسياسة الخارجية (دراسة حالة الأردن), Eqbal Mefleh Marzouk

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال التعرف إلى أثر الموقع الجغرافي على السياسة الخارجية الأردنية من خلال مناقشة محور القضية الفلسطينية ومحوريْ اللجوء والإرهاب اللذيْن نتجا عن الربيع العربي، وقد استخدمت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي التحليلي ومنهج دراسة الحالة للتحقق من صحة فرضيتها القائلة بوجود علاقة ارتباطية بين موقع الأردن الجغرافي، وبين سياسته الخارجية. وقد تبيّن للدراسة بأن الموقع الجغرافي للأردن قد حكمه بتوجه سياسي معين، فبخصوص قرب الأردن من فلسطين، توجّه الأردن نحو الموازنة بين القوى العربية السياسية المجاورة وإدامة العلاقات الجيدة معها، واتّباع سياسة خارجية بعيدة عن إثارة الحساسيات مع دول الجوار الجغرافي، أما بخصوص أزمة اللجوء التي نتجت عن الربيع العربي وأبرزها …

Tigray Conflict And Political Development In Ethiopia: Assessing Governance, Political Participation And Human Rights., Olileanya Amuche Ezugwu, Moses M. Duruji

Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies

The escalation of intra-state conflicts in Africa has assumed an endemic nature, posing a challenge to regional stability. Conflicts have the capacity to not only cause physical destruction to individuals and property, but also impede the establishment and maintenance of the rule of law, undermine the legitimacy of states, and pose a threat to institutional structures. This paper examines the effect of the Tigray conflict on the political development of Ethiopia: election, political participation and human rights. The objectives of the study include examining the extent the Tigray conflict affected the political development of Ethiopia and efforts made to resolve …

Decentralizing The Nigerian Police Force: A Plausible Approach To Hinterland Securities, Amobi P. Chiamogu, Uchechukwu P. Chiamogu

Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies

The structure of the Nigerian police has overtime depicted a centralized composition that negate principles of power sharing in a federal system of government. The complexities and diverse nature of policing in Nigeria remains the bane to effective and virile administration and management of the organization. The office of the Commissioner of Police vis-à-vis those of State Governors spell contradictions in power configuration from both the Constitution and the Police Act. The enactment of vigilante services and neighbourhood watches by state governments are indicative of a failing security system especially at the component units of the Nigerian federation. The hinterlands …

Police And Civilians Fractured Relationship In The Northern Region Of Ghana: A Search For A Common Ground For Internal Security, Mohammed Gadafi Ibrahim

Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies

This study investigates the fractured relationship between Police and Civilians in Ghana's Northern Region, leading to a breakdown of trust and cooperation in maintaining internal security. The theoretical basis for this study rests on the Social Dominance Theory (SDT) and the Contact Theory (CT). Through a qualitative approach involving purposive sampling, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions, the study examines the structural factors contributing to this fractured relationship. Analysis using the constant comparative technique revealed that the legitimacy of the Ghana Police Service, public perceptions, police conduct, youth indiscipline, and low level of knowledge on the Rule of Law are …

The Last Colony: Theoretical Explanations On The Protractedness Of The Western Sahara Conflict, Elisabeth H. Austrheim

Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies

“There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited” (Tzu 1963: 73).

The forty-eight yearlong Western Sahara conflict over the former Spanish colony between Polisario and the Kingdom of Morocco continues its low prospects of resolution. The future of the territory, with both strategic geopolitical and financial relevance, remains uncertain in which the reasons for the continued prolongation appear to be many. Different conflict theories emphasise various factors causing protractedness, suggesting that many different causes, together, have engendered the current lack of settlement. Whilst the theory of protracted social conflicts emphasises developed high-tensioned, hostile relations between …

A Political Theory Of Engineered Systems And A Study Of Engineering And Justice Workshops, Dominic David Carrese

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

Since there are good reasons to think that some engineered systems are socially undesirable—for example, internal combustion engines that cause climate change, algorithms that are racist, and nuclear weapons that can destroy all life—there is a well-established literature that attempts to identify best practices for designing and regulating engineered systems in order to prevent harm and promote justice. Most of this literature, especially the design theory and engineering justice literature meant to help guide engineers, focuses on environmental, physical, social, and mental harms such as ecosystem and bodily poisoning, racial and gender discrimination, and urban alienation. However, the literature that …

Democracy And The Unconscious, Ali Aslam, David Mcivor, Joel Alden Schlosser

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

This essay examines the relationship between democracy and the unconscious. It does so by understanding democracy through the repressed desire for shared power by a collective actor that has episodically realized itself, in ways that haunt political languages, practices, and aspirations. Democratic flourishing rests upon erotic practices through which the demos transgressively transforms politics by embracing what we refer to as democratic narcissism. Democratic decline and impasse are symptomatic of repressed desires for power that have required the people’s abjection rather than coalescing into a self-affirming narcissism of the demos.

Inflation Expectations And Political Polarization: Evidence From The Cooperative Election Study, Ethan Struby, Christina Farhart

Department of Economics Working Paper Series

Using a unique, nationally representative survey from the 2022 midterm elections, we investigate the partisan divide in beliefs about inflation and monetary policy. We find that party identity is predictive of inflation forecasts even after conditioning on beliefs about both past inflation and the Federal Reserve’s long-run inflation target. Partisan forecast differences are driven by respondents who express low generalized trust in others and have a high degree of political knowledge; high-trust and low- knowledge partisans make similar forecasts all else equal. This finding is consistent with the literature in political psychology that examines the endorsement of conspiracy theories and …

The Estonian And Latvian Orthodox Churches Of The Moscow Patriarchate Before And After The Russian War In Ukraine, Priit Rohtmets, Valdis Teraudkalns

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

From the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine the Baltic Orthodox churches subordinated to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have gone through considerable changes in their canonical status, but have also stood out with controversial public statements about the war.

In this article we analyse how the Orthodox churches of the Moscow Patriarchate have reacted to the Russian war in Ukraine and what have been the major canonical changes in Latvia and Lithuania. Additionally, we describe the most important narratives, which the churches have used when speaking about the ongoing war and pay attention to the reaction, which these …

Automated Update Tools To Augment The Wisdom Of Crowds In Geopolitical Forecasting, Amy Summerville, Cara Widmer, Brandon Minnery, Ion Juvina, Subashini Ganapathy

Psychology Faculty Publications

Despite the importance of predictive judgments, individual human forecasts are frequently less accurate than those of even simple prediction algorithms. At the same time, not all forecasts are amenable to algorithmic prediction. Here, we describe the evaluation of an automated prediction tool that enabled participants to create simple rules that monitored relevant indicators (e.g., commodity prices) to automatically update forecasts. We examined these rules in both a pool of previous participants in a geopolitical forecasting tournament (Study 1) and a naïve sample recruited from Mechanical Turk (Study 2). Across the two studies, we found that automated updates tended to improve …

Ua94/6/18 Stephen Flora Student / Alumni Papers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Stephen Flora during his years as a student at Western Kentucky University.

Worst Practices: Departmental Predictors Of Police-Involved Deaths In Minnesota, 2013–2022, Joseph D. Ramlet

Capstone Projects

For decades, police departments in every part of the United States have been scrutinized for incidents of excessive and unjustified force. Some departments kill more of the citizenry than others, both with and without justification. Attention is drawn to Minnesota in the decade since the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement, through and after the murder of George Floyd and subsequent racial reckoning. Existing scholarship categorizes factors as individual and contextual, both of which are included in partial least squares regression performed on crowdsourced data and responses to Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics surveys from 29 departments in …

Expanding Medication-Assisted Treatment In Drug Courts: A Comprehensive Examination And Proposed Solution To Expand Maud And Moud Programs In The United States, Katelin Carter

Research Awards

This article examines the relationships between substance abuse, criminal justice, and public health in the United States, with a specific focus on Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) within drug treatment courts. The analysis uncovers the limitations of punitive measures, particularly within the framework of President Richard Nixon's "War on Drugs," revealing the need for evidence-based solutions like MAT in criminal justice. The pivotal role of MAT in addressing opioid addiction within drug courts is explored in detail, and data is presented supporting its effectiveness. Despite this efficacy, persistent barriers to its implementation are identified, including stigma, policy constraints, and healthcare disparities. Legal …

Community-Centric Approaches To Coastal Hazard Assessment And Management In Southside Norfolk, Virginia, Usa, Dalya Ismael, Nicole Hutton, Mujde Erten-Unal, Carol Considine, Tancy Vandecar-Burdin, Christopher Davis, Yin-Hsuen Chen

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Urban communities in environmentally sensitive areas face escalating challenges due to climate change and inadequate infrastructural support, particularly in underserved regions like southside Norfolk, Virginia. This area, characterized by its vulnerability to flooding and a predominantly low-income population, lacks equitable inclusion in broader urban flood protection plans. This research focuses on the development of community-centered resilience strategies through active engagement and collaboration with local residents. The methodology centered around building trust and understanding within the community through a series of interactions and events. This approach facilitated a two-way exchange of information, enabling the research team to gather crucial insights on …

She Speaks For Millions: The Emergence Of Female Diplomatic Voices In The Russo-Ukrainian War, Amber Brittain-Hale, Amber Brittain-Hale

Education Division Scholarship

This research critically investigates the public diplomacy strategies deployed by a cohort of influential female European leaders on Twitter during the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022-2023. The study comprises eight leaders - Kallas (Estonia), Marin (Finland), von der Leyen (President of the European Commission), Metsola (President of the European Parliament), Sandu (Moldova), Simonyte (Lithuania), Zourabichvili (Georgia), and Meloni (Italy) - representing millions of constituents. By mirroring the analytical attention given to Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, this study scrutinizes the distinct approaches and dif erences in emotional, cognitive, and structural language use between these influential female figures and President Zelenskyy in their …

Boiling Behind Bars: Exploring The Hidden Toll Of Extreme Heat On Mental Health In Texas Prisons, Sandra K. Miller

Social Work Theses

The State of Texas supports the largest prison system in the US and held 132,859 people in 100 units scattered across the state as of December 2023. Approximately 70% of Texas prison beds are not air conditioned, despite the state’s reputation for dangerously hot, humid summers. The State has officially recorded temperatures inside Texas prison facilities as high as 120 degrees with heat index values of over 150. Although there is a growing body of research on the negative physiological and psychological consequences of extreme heat among the general public, little is known about the physical and emotional toll of …

Ai Use On Campus, Paul Djupe

Faculty Publications

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Cover Art, Aidan Michniewicz

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Editors' Introduction, Chase Beitz, Melinda Burgin

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Author Biographies

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Narco Service Provisions In Tierra Caliente: La Familia Michoacana, Los Caballeros Templarios, And Los Zetas, Itzel Mendoza

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

This article analyzes the mutual relationship of dependency between civil society and narco cartels in Tierra Caliente, focusing on civilian experiences in Michoacan, Guerrero and el Estado de México. This paper will examine the functions of La Familia Michoacana, Los Caballeros Templarios and Los Zetas through community service provisions and cartels’ governance. Additionally, socioeconomic factors of Tierra Caliente will be examined to determine which types of communities lend themselves to cartels to provide community provisions as I argue that socioeconomic factors drive cartels’ operations and behaviors.

American Political Engagement: Does Food Assistance Affect Political Participation?, Maya Patterson

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

This research paper examines the role of how program participation in food access programs influences political participation in the US, specifically “Does program participation in food access programs, such as receiving benefits from SNAP or WIC, influence political participation?” Using a self-reported, weighted 2017 survey of Rural America, this study demonstrates how people receiving food benefits within the last year affect their political participation, specifically how they voted in the 2016 presidential election. This survey was collected by the Roper Center's iPOLL databank, after searching for questions about receiving food assistance. By focusing on the last decade, this research paper …

The Effects Of Sat And Act Scores On State Education Spending: A Study Of Scores And Per-Pupil Spending Over Time 2005-2020, Cade Herrmann

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

State education spending for K-12 students is an essential component of the state and local government fiscal budget, and in the United States, education spending varies by state, with some states spending much more than others. The SAT and ACT standardized tests have been in use since the early to mid twentieth century and have long been the standard testing metric for college admissions. In the past twenty years, many states have begun requiring their students to take one of these tests as a graduation requirement. With half of states now requiring one of these standardized tests, it seems that …

Letter From The Chair Of Political Science, William Munro

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Cubans In The Political Arena: Engagement And Influence Of Expatriates In The United States, Zoe Hovde

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

For decades, the United States government has imposed travel and trade restrictions on Cuba. However, it is possible that representatives support these policies as they are meeting the demands of the Cuban-American expatriates (ex-pats). The Cuban expatriate community has become a politically organized group that has been able to persuade U.S. policy for years. How did this come to be? This essay recognizes not only the political influence of the community but also their ways of political mobilization. Additionally, this essay acknowledges how the younger generations stray away from the hardline perspective of their Cuban elders. To conduct this research, …