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Justice Bork, Or, Be Careful Which Supreme Court Nominees You Choose To Fight, Mikel Norris
Justice Bork, Or, Be Careful Which Supreme Court Nominees You Choose To Fight, Mikel Norris
Political Science
This study uses counterfactual analysis to assess whether a hypothetical Supreme Court with Robert Bork as a member would have decided cases differently than the actual Supreme Court.
I utilize both a qualitative analysis, and a quantitative Bayesian counterfactual model to predict Supreme Court case outcomes from 1988 to 2012.
The results show that several salient cases would have been decided differently, most of the decisions decided over the time frame would have remained unchanged. I also find that a hypothetical Supreme Court with Robert Bork as an associate justice would not have radically shifted rightward. Rather, the results show …
Aligning Tobacco Free Living Agendas In A Community Health Improvement Plan: A Case Study On Democratic Participation And Economic Interests In U.S. Health Policy Development, David B. Tataw
Journal of Public Management & Social Policy
This paper addresses the gap in studies which use democratic policy making frameworks to analyze health policy development in Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIPs). The study describes and analyzes three streams of the tobacco free living policy cycle in a Community Health Improvement Plan implemented in a Mid-Western Region of the United States from 2016 to 2020. The roles of public health interest, economic interests, and democratic participatory rights in Tobacco free health policy making are assessed. The policy making process is assessed within an integrated framework of analysis that weaves pluralist, power elite, critical democratic theories, and participatory governance …
Policy Entrepreneurs And The Advocacy For Vaccination During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Julius A. Nukpezah, Latara M. Arterberry
Policy Entrepreneurs And The Advocacy For Vaccination During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Julius A. Nukpezah, Latara M. Arterberry
Journal of Public Management & Social Policy
The article draws on Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework to examine the policy entrepreneurs that emerged, the windows of opportunity they identified, and the strategies they used to advocate for mass vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article indicates that politicians, public figures, and governmental and non-governmental organizations played the role of policy entrepreneurs. The article asserts that the problems of high morbidity, mortality, and economic challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic have social equity implications. Although COVID-19 vaccines are available, there is low political support for vaccination. The article draws attention to the problems, politics, and challenges of asserting COVID-19 …
Systemic Racism And Covid-19: Vulnerabilities With The U.S. Social Safety Net For Immigrants And People Of Color, Adam M. Butz, Jason E. Kehrberg
Systemic Racism And Covid-19: Vulnerabilities With The U.S. Social Safety Net For Immigrants And People Of Color, Adam M. Butz, Jason E. Kehrberg
Journal of Public Management & Social Policy
America has a mythologized reputation as an accommodative “melting pot” nation that welcomes individuals from all races and countries seeking improved quality of life and reduced material hardship. However, our U.S. social welfare system is more broadly characterized as underdeveloped, restrictive, and exclusionary, especially toward immigrants and people of color. Public health benefits (e.g., Medicaid), food assistance programs (e.g., SNAP), rental assistance (e.g., HCV/Section 8), and cash assistance (e.g., TANF) are oftentimes restricted for immigrants and racial minorities, making them more vulnerable to material hardship and more exposed to pandemic conditions under COVID-19. Moreover, these welfare restrictions are oftentimes rooted …
Gentrification And Nonprofit Activities For Neighborhood Development In Baltimore, Maryland And Houston, Texas, Jesseca E. Lightbourne, Aminata Sillah, Julius A. Nukpezah
Gentrification And Nonprofit Activities For Neighborhood Development In Baltimore, Maryland And Houston, Texas, Jesseca E. Lightbourne, Aminata Sillah, Julius A. Nukpezah
Journal of Public Management & Social Policy
This study examines the role of community-based nonprofit organizations in neighborhood revitalization/community development and their impact on the level of housing services. The neighborhoods in the study represent certain universalities of gentrification in older communities, and therefore selected for the study. By going beyond the profitability of gentrification, this study examines the social costs associated with gentrification through the lens of nonprofit organizations using quantitative data from Baltimore, Maryland and Houston, Texas. Taking into account nonprofit organizations as important actors in the gentrification field, this study contributes to the understanding of the social cost of gentrification and how community-based nonprofit …
From Gentrification, Systematic Racism, Policy Entrepreneurs To The Myth Of Expertise In Academia And Community Health Improvement, Andrew Ewoh
Journal of Public Management & Social Policy
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Jpmsp Introductory Pages, Andrew Ewoh
Jpmsp Introductory Pages, Andrew Ewoh
Journal of Public Management & Social Policy
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Jpmsp Cover Page, Andrew Ewoh
التجاذبات الدولية تجاه الأزمة السورية والدور الروسي فيها للفترة 2010-2022, Naser Khalid Alghofayli
التجاذبات الدولية تجاه الأزمة السورية والدور الروسي فيها للفترة 2010-2022, Naser Khalid Alghofayli
Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي
هدف المقال الكشف عن التجاذبات الدولية تجاه الأزمة السورية والدور الروسي في الأزمة2010/2022، تم استخدام منهج دراسة الحالة، ومنهج الدور، ومنهج صنع القرار السياسي، وقد تم استعراض الأزمة السورية ومواقف الدول المختلفة منها، ومن أبرز النتائج: أن روسيا تدرك أهمية إبقاء النظام في سوريا هو السبيل الأفضل لتحقيق مصالحها الاستراتيجية والحيوية، والعودة بقوة الى الساحة الدولية كعنصر فاعل في إحداث التوازن بين القوى في ظل التراجع الأمريكي في منطقة الشرق الأوسط، وأنه لا يمكن ان يكون هناك أي حل في الازمة السورية الا بوجود الجانب الروسي، اختلفت توجهات الرؤساء في روسيا بين مؤيد لانفتاح روسيا السياسي والاقتصادي في النظام الدولي …
التجربة الأردنية في تطبيق مفهوم الشرطة المجتمعية المعاصرة, Mahmoud Saleh B. Al Sheyyab, Mahmoud Abdul Kareem Muffarrej Alzyod
التجربة الأردنية في تطبيق مفهوم الشرطة المجتمعية المعاصرة, Mahmoud Saleh B. Al Sheyyab, Mahmoud Abdul Kareem Muffarrej Alzyod
Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي
هدف المقال التعرف إلى التجربة الأردنية في تطبيق مفهوم الشرطة المجتمعية المعاصرة. تم استخدام المنهج الوصفي التحليلي لتحقيق أهداف الدراسة، وقد أشارت النتائج إلى أن تجربة الشرطة المجتمعية في مديرية الأمن العام في المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية مبنية على توجيهات ملكية سامية ومتابعة مباشرة ومستمرة من قيادة مديرية الأمن العام بناء على الاطلاع على تجارب دولية وإدراك أهمية الشرطة المجتمعية في نجاح إستراتيجية الأمن العام، كما أثبتت الدراسة أن المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية نجحت في تطبيق معاصر ونموذجي للشرطة المجتمعية ويؤكد ذلك المرتبة المميزة التي حققها الأردن في عدد من التقارير الدولية من مؤسسات عريقة ومحايدة والإحصائيات الرسمية الصادرة بخصوص معدل الجريمة …
أثر الربيع العربي على التحول الديمقراطي في الوطن العربي (2011-2021), Rozana Emad Mukhaimer Farah, Amin Awwad Muhanna Almashqbeh
أثر الربيع العربي على التحول الديمقراطي في الوطن العربي (2011-2021), Rozana Emad Mukhaimer Farah, 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 التعرف على أثر الربيع العربي على التحول الديمقراطي في الوطن العربي (2011-2021). ولتحقيق هذا الهدف، تم استخدام المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، والمنهج المقارن، ومنهج تحليل النظم باعتبارها أكثر مناهج البحث العلمي ملاءمة للدراسة الحالية، وقد تمت صياغة فرضية الدراسة: "هناك علاقة ارتباطية بين الربيع العربي وبين التحول الديمقراطي في الدول العربية"، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن أثر الربيع العربي على التحول الديمقراطي كان إيجابياً تارّة بدليل حالة تونس والمغرب، بينما كان سلبياً تارةً أخرى بدليل حالة العديد من الدول العربية في مؤشر الديمقراطية العالمي وعلى رأسها سوريا واليمن وليبيا، وقد أوصت الدراسة بتعزيز آليات التداول السلمي للسلطة في الدول العربية، …
أزمة سد النهضة الأثيوبي وانعكاساتها السياسية والاقتصادية على الأمن القومي المصري خلال الفترة 2011-2021, Etaf Abdel Qader Mohammad Sa’Afin, Amin Awwad Muhanna Almashqbeh
أزمة سد النهضة الأثيوبي وانعكاساتها السياسية والاقتصادية على الأمن القومي المصري خلال الفترة 2011-2021, Etaf Abdel Qader Mohammad Sa’Afin, 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 تقديم لمحة عن سد النهضة الأثيوبي، وتحليل لتداعيات أزمة سد النهضة في البعد السياسي والاقتصادي عن الأمن القومي المصري، وتعالج الدراسة الفرضية التالية: "يوجد علاقة ارتباطية بين بناء سد النهضة وتعبئته وبين الأمن المائي المصري وانعكاسات ذلك على الأمن القومي المصري"، واعتمدت الدراسة على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي للإجابة عن تساؤلاتها والتحقق من صحة فرضيتها، وخلصت الدراسة الى أن الموقع الذي تم اختياره لإنشاء السد كان لاعتبارات سياسية، وذو أبعاد جيوسياسية كبيرة، إذ أن هذا المكان على النيل الأزرق هو الأكثر توافراً وتدفقاً للمياه، حيث يسهم بنحو (80%) من حجم المياه القادمة لمصر، وان تخزين إثيوبيا لكميات المياه سيجعلها …
النظام البرلماني في الكويت وبريطانيا (دراسة مقارنة), Bandar Nahar F. S. Almutiri, Amin Awwad Muhanna Almashqbeh
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
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
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
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 …
A Constellation Approach To Understanding Extremist White Supremacy, Kathleen Blee, Robert Futrell, Pete Simi
A Constellation Approach To Understanding Extremist White Supremacy, Kathleen Blee, Robert Futrell, Pete Simi
Sociology Faculty Articles and Research
Reflecting on long-term intensive ethnographic fieldwork, we sketch a “constellation” framework for understanding U.S. extremist white supremacy. Rather than tracing fluctuating people and organizations to explain the persistence of white supremacist extremism, we suggest that focusing on a core set of practices, ideas, and emotions offers a more complex, nuanced, and useful interpretation. We contrast our constellation framework with more typical “bucket” approaches that tend to compartmentalize a complex reality into categories that do not sufficiently match extremism’s dynamism.
Tigray Conflict And Political Development In Ethiopia: Assessing Governance, Political Participation And Human Rights., Olileanya Amuche Ezugwu, Moses M. Duruji
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
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
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
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 …
Making Sense Of Chaos: Populism In The United States And The Crisis Of Modernity, Juan David Halberstadt-Velasco
Making Sense Of Chaos: Populism In The United States And The Crisis Of Modernity, Juan David Halberstadt-Velasco
Theses and Dissertations
In 2016, Donald Trump achieved a surprising victory in the general election, despite a series of scandals that would have ended any other politician’s career. In the aftermath of the election, Trump’s base has shown steady support and borderline devotion to the president despite scandals, criminal indictments, and a double impeachment. Why? This research seeks to elucidate the sources of Trump’s apparent political infallibility by using the theoretical framework generated by Eric Voegelin. Voegelin’s perspective allows the identification of two main sources of support for Trumpism: blue collar industrial workers who have seen a decline in their economic prospects due …
Reevaluating Positive Freedom Through The Philosophy Of Amartya Sen With A Focus On Education As A Catalyst For Freedom, Emilie Mathilde Vesten Haakansson
Reevaluating Positive Freedom Through The Philosophy Of Amartya Sen With A Focus On Education As A Catalyst For Freedom, Emilie Mathilde Vesten Haakansson
Theses and Dissertations
Education has since ancient times been used as a societal tool to develop and cultivate society’s individuals into participating members. Education which is considered a fundamental human right also holds potential transformative power to enable and empower individuals to exercise their freedom to create a life that aligns with their own values, ideas and goals. However, how effective an educational system can be, ultimately depends on the accessibility and quality of the education as well as the overall system the educational institutions operate in. This thesis explores how education can function as a catalyst for furthering individuals’ freedom through a …
Poverty And Inequality: A New Deal For America’S Most Disadvantaged Communities, Thomas St. Hilaire
Poverty And Inequality: A New Deal For America’S Most Disadvantaged Communities, Thomas St. Hilaire
Theses and Dissertations
The United States, often hailed as the most affluent nation globally, paradoxically grapples with rates of poverty, disadvantage, and inequality that surpass those of its advanced democratic counterparts. The persistence of poverty and inequality in the United States have often been justified by beliefs of welfare dependency, “free market” thinking and utilitarianism. This master's thesis explores the far-reaching moral, political, and economic consequences of America’s high rates of poverty and inequality. It contends that federal action is urgently needed on more robust social programs that target poverty, such as affordable housing, accessible healthcare, greater worker protections, and deepened social capital …
Reporting Of And Policy On Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Air Travel At Canadian Universities, Derek Hall
Reporting Of And Policy On Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Air Travel At Canadian Universities, Derek Hall
Political Science Faculty Publications
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the extent and characteristics of Canadian university reporting of and policy regarding greenhouse gas emissions from air travel. It identifies current approaches’ details and limits and recommends improvements.
Design/methodology/approach
The study developed questions and considerations for analysing reporting and policy, reviewed university documents and webpages and contacted university staff.
Findings
Roughly 20% of Canadian universities report flight emissions. Figures vary by factors of over 100 even when normalized or expressed as a percentage of institutional emissions. Inter-university differences in data collection and emissions calculation practices shape reporting. Canadian university air travel emissions cannot be …
Worst Practices: Departmental Predictors Of Police-Involved Deaths In Minnesota, 2013–2022, Joseph D. Ramlet
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 …
Democracy And The Unconscious, Ali Aslam, David Mcivor, Joel Alden Schlosser
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.
Theorising Political Legitimisation: From Stasis To Processes, Paddy Dolan, Stephen Vertigans, John Connolly
Theorising Political Legitimisation: From Stasis To Processes, Paddy Dolan, Stephen Vertigans, John Connolly
Articles
Legitimacy remains a key concept in political sociology, and perhaps even more so in lay understandings of political processes and structures, as evidenced by conflict over territories and regimes around the world. However, the concept suffers from a rather static representation, and even when addressed in processual form, in terms of specific moments in the process, such as conditions favouring legitimacy or its effects. Building from an Eliasian perspective, we argue for a more processual concept of legitimisation to encompass the dynamic social networks (figurations) that constitute the more unintentional context for deliberate legitimation claims. As networks expand and intensify, …
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. The Autocratic Academy: Re-Envisioning Rule Within America’S Universities, Joel Alden Schlosser
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. The Autocratic Academy: Re-Envisioning Rule Within America’S Universities, Joel Alden Schlosser
Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship
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Senatus Exesa: Explaining The Abuse Of Procedure In The U.S. Congress, Ian Klenk
Senatus Exesa: Explaining The Abuse Of Procedure In The U.S. Congress, Ian Klenk
Soaring: A Journal of Undergraduate Research
Senatus Exesa: Explaining the Abuse of Procedure in the U.S. Congress
Abstract
On October 3rd, 2023, Rep. Kevin McCarthy became the first Speaker of the House of Representatives to be forcibly removed from his position as Speaker of the lower chamber of Congress. Though dramatic, this episode is indicative of the current state of American politics. At a time when political polarization between the two parties has never been higher, norms that were once considered the nuclear option are now understood as the norm. Cynicism and distrust of Congress is at an all-time high, with many Americans disabused …