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A New Racial Threat In The New South? (A Conditional) Yes, Byron D’Andra Orey
A New Racial Threat In The New South? (A Conditional) Yes, Byron D’Andra Orey
Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications
This paper examines three competing hypotheses: racial threat, social contact and racial resentment. Using individual level and aggregate level data, these three hypotheses are tested by examining white racial attitudes, and a variety of contextual variables, on the prospective vote for a white racially conservative candidate. The evidence provides support for all three of these hypotheses. Racial threat is found to be conditioned by the black population density and the resentment that whites direct toward African Americans. The probability that a white person will support a racially conservative candidate does not depend solely on the black population. Indeed, it is …
The Cultural Role Of The State In Domestic And International Relations, Christopher D. Sommerich
The Cultural Role Of The State In Domestic And International Relations, Christopher D. Sommerich
Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)
The end of the bipolar Cold War era and the increasing globalization of the last decade have resulted in new questions about the domestic and international role of the state.One effect of an uncertain international environment framed by globalization is that traditional military and economic threat considerations are being joined by cultural threat considerations, as a growing number of cultural products cross borders and are interpreted as influences on national identity.Negative reactions to globalization and the spread of a “global culture” are often based on the belief that it is largely American pop culture that is threatening other national identities, …
Process Preference And American Politics: What The People Want Government To Be, John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
Process Preference And American Politics: What The People Want Government To Be, John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications
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The Social Dimensions Of A Networked World: Will The Internet Promote Productivity And Fulfillment Or Result In A More Volatile And Ruthless World?, Ross A. Miller
Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications
Technological change has the potential to have profound effects on politics, the economy, and society. Indeed, the Industrial Revolution provides ample evidence of the significant effect of technology on humankind. Today the Internet has transformed the way we communicate, learn, work, and play. What are the dangers and opportunities presented by this new technology? One hundred years from now, will society look back upon this period of technological change as one that led to a more productive and peaceful world, or will they view it as the beginning of a dark period in human history, one characterized by political instability, …