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Watergate Revisited, Fred Smoller

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

This article focuses on the Watergate Scandal of 1972.

[Introduction To] The Speaker And The Budget: Leadership In The Post-Reform House Of Representatives, Daniel Palazzolo

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One of the most important changes in Congress in decades was the extensive congressional reforms of the 1970s, which moved the congressional budget process into the focus of congressional policy-making and shifted decision-making away from committees. This overwhelming attention to the federal budget allowed party leaders to emerge as central decision makers. Palazzolo traces the changing nature of the Speaker of the House's role in the congressional budget process from the passage of the Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to the 100th Congress in 1988. In the early 1970s, the Speaker attended to primarily supportive and managerial tasks …

The Socialist Legacy Of Jean Jaures And Leon Blum, Benjamin T. Tolosa Jr

Political Science Department Faculty Publications

The tradition of socialist theory and practice associated with the Frenchmen Jean Jaures and Leon Blum is virtually unheard of in the Philippines. In a way, this is not surprising in a polity where ideological distinctions are not fully understood and appreciated, and where "socialism" is often equated with the "communism" espoused by the underground Communist Party of the Philippines and its allies. But such a gap in knowledge, while understandable, is most unfortunate. The aim of this note is to help fill this intellectual void in Philippine political-economic literature. The note also intends to show that this particular French …

From Decentralization To Centralization: Members' Changing Expectations For House Leaders, Daniel J. Palazzolo

Political Science Faculty Publications

Before the reforms of the 1970s, at least since the revolt against Speaker Joseph G. Cannon in 1910, party leaders of the House of Representatives performed tasks designed to mediate party interests both within and outside of the House. Within the House, their most important functions included organizing the party, scheduling bills, building coalitions, distributing and collecting information, and maintaining party harmony (Ripley 1967). Meanwhile, committee chairs exercised the most discretion over specific policy issues. Outside of the House, the Speaker acted as a mediator between the majority party and the, president, especially if the president was of the same …

List: Primaries And Key Dates For Presidential Races – 1992

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A list of dates for caucuses and primaries for the 1992 presidential campaigns

List: Local And National Contacts For Presidential Campaigns

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A list of national and local contacts for 1992 presidential candidates.

List: 1992 Presidential Candidates

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A list of contacts for 1992 Presidential candidates.

Official Convention Hotel List

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A hotel list for the Democratic National Convention.

Brochure: “Someone Does Have A Plan” Bill Clinton For President.

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Campaign brochure for Bill Clinton. 1992.

San Antonio Agd 1992 Daily Program At -A-Glance.

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Includes room assignments for all participation courses, scientific sessions, special seminars, AGD business meetings, Convocation, Fellowship exam, exhibits and social events.

Democratic National Convention 1992 Master Delegation List.

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List of Delegates and others at the Democratic National Convention.

Madison Square Garden Seating Allocation Level 8 Democratic National Convention, 92.

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National Rainbow Coalition, Inc.: Planks That They Would Like To See Adopted By The Democratic Party Platform Committee

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Suggestions for Democratic National Convention, 1992. Box 11, Folder 8

Compassion Campaign '92. The Case For Animals.

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Box 11, Folder 8

Make Election Day Earth Day. League Of Conservation Voters. 1992.

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Box 11, Folder 8

Elect Julie Mcclure State Representative, District 68, Democrat.

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Circa 1992. Box 11, Folder 8

Love And Power: The Rule Of Religion And Morality In American Politics, Gerard V. Bradley

Journal Articles

Perry, Michael J. Love and Power: The Rule of Religion and Morality in American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. viii + 218 pp. $29.95

The author's introduces this sequel to his Morality, Politics, and Law as an extended gloss on John Noonan's statement that the "central problem of the legal enterprise is the relation of love to power." The renown of its author ensures that Love and Power will become a focal point in legal academic discussion of its central concern: the proper relation between morality, particularly religious morality, political choice, and public deliberation "in a morally …

The Case For Self-Determination, Guyora Binder

Journal Articles

This lecture offers an analysis and defense of the right of self-determination of peoples. The argument begins by analyzing self-determination into its universalist and nationalist components. The universalist component of self-determination is satisfied wherever institutions of government are majoritarian. The nationalist component of self-determination is satisfied to the extent that institutions of government are identified with particular communities. The universalist compoent is now widely recognized as an authoritative principle of international law. The nationalist component remains controversial, particularly outside of the particular context of the dismantling of European colonial empires. The lecture proceeds to defend the nationalist component by attacking …

Reform In The International Food Aid Regime: The Role Of Consensual Knowledge, Raymond F. Hopkins

Political Science Faculty Works

The principles and norms adopted by the regime governing food aid in the 1950s have changed substantially during the subsequent three decades. Explaining the changes necessarily includes analyzing the efforts of an international epistemic community consisting of economic development specialists, agricultural economists, and administrators of food aid. According to the initial regime principles, food aid should be provided from donors' own surplus stocks, should supplement the usual commercial food imports in recipient countries, should be given under short-term commitments sensitive to the political and economic goals of donors, and should directly feed hungry people. As a result of following these …

Improving American Foreign Financial And Food Assistance Policies To Enhance Food Security, Raymond F. Hopkins

Political Science Faculty Works

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The Transitions To "Electoral" And Democratic Politics In Central America: Assessing The Role Of Political Parties, M. J. Blachman, Kenneth Evan Sharpe

Political Science Faculty Works

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The Philosopher Outside The City: The Apolitical Socrates Of The Crito, John Patrick Coby

Government: Faculty Publications

Of all the Platonic dialogues, the Crito best depicts the citizenship of Socrates. This is a well-known and widely accepted fact. What has gone largely unnoticed, however, is the counter evidence suggesting that Socrates is no citizen at all. It is here argued that beneath the surface of the dialogue lies an account of Socrates as a wholly autonomous man, one who minimizes or denies his obligations to the city. Socrates is apolitical, or outside the city, not in consequence of a libertarian interpretation of the law, as is sometimes thought, but because of his special status as a philosopher.

Characteristics Of Indian Culture, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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American History 1010: Lecture Outline, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Politics Of Memorialization: Creating A Holocaust Memorial Museum In New York City, Rochelle G. Saidel

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study of how government intervention affects the implementation of a project of an interest group analyzes the political processes of the 45 year impasse in completing a major Holocaust memorial in New York City. Using as a case study the 1981-1991 effort to create such a project, the study develops a new concept for analyzing long-term public-private projects. This study develops and uses a so-called Mutagon to analyze the complicated and changing political coalition that has endeavored for ten years to create a Holocaust museum.

The Mutagon concept augments existing interest group theories, (e.g., iron triangle and issue network …

Positive Canons: The Role Of Legislative Bargains In Statutory Interpretation, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Roger G. Noll, Barry R. Weingast

Faculty Scholarship

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The Limits Of Natural Law: Thomas Rutherforth And The American Legal Tradition, Gary L. Mcdowell

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

The history of American constitutional jurisprudence has been marked by a persistent fascination with the idea of natural law. This springs first and foremost from the fact that we understand as our constitutional foundation those “laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” to which Thomas Jefferson made such eloquent appeal in the Declaration of Independence. Further, American politics since the founding of the republic has been characterized by a commitment, with more or less success, to the simple truth James Madison posited in The Federalist. “Justice,” Madison declared, “is the end of government. It is the end of civil …

Review Of Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism In Politics And Other Essays, And Paul Franco, The Political Philosophy Of Michael Oakeshott, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) was a political philosopher associated for most of his academic career with Caius and Gonville College as Official Fellow and Lecturer in History and later with the London School of Econom- ics as Professor of Political Science. His name is sometimes mentioned with those of two other famous thinkers associated with the LSE-Karl Popper and F. A. Hayek-and like them he has had a notable influence on contem- porary political thought. Yet whereas Hayek and Popper wrote a great deal on a variety of topics and were often at the center of academic controversy, Oakeshott wrote little, …

John Locke On The Naturalness Of Rights, Peter C. Myers

Dissertations

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John Locke On The Naturalness Of Rights, Peter C. Myers

Dissertations

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