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On Power And Equity: Toward A Working-Class Rhetoric, Omar Schwartz

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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The working-class in the United States has been, and continues to be, systematically excluded from normative political representation and is allowed little opportunity to contribute to the terms and conditions of its social existence (Henwood, 1987; Moberg, 1992). While few workers today resist such marginalization, this has not been always the case. During the formative period of U.S. labor consciousness (from the end of the Civil War until the First World War), the political alienation of labor was routinely challenged by workers who relied extensively (and illegally) on collective self-help in their pursuit of economic justice. With this …

Different Regions, Similar Views, Gregory A. Petrow

Political Science Faculty Publications

U.S. regions have had radically different political histories. The South long has been seen as the nation’s most conservative region, while New England has been perceived as the most liberal.

An examination of 40 years of survey data generated by the American National Election Study, however, suggests that differences between the South and New England on social issues tend to be small, are getting smaller, and in some instances have disappeared.

Ashok Kumar Malhotra. Instant Nirvana: Americanization Of Mysticism And Meditation., Michael Andregg

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Politic 2004 Spring, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

The Failed-State In The Great Lakes Region, Bassem Nabil Hafez

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Review Of Jennifer Government, By Berry Max, David Banash

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

Getting People To Tolerate Bad Outcomes:, John R. Hibbing

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

State Efforts To Expand Health Coverage: One Bite At A Time, Christopher Stream

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Research

For more than twenty years, health scholars and advocates have warned us about the lack of adequate health coverage among a growing number of Americans. Health insurance premiums are rising. Many employers, especially small employers who employ over half of the country’s workforce, and individuals are seeing premium increases of 30, 40, and even 50 percent. Not surprisingly, America’s uninsured population is rising— to more than 41 million people. States are feeling the budget crunch as the economy sags and more and more people turn to state Medicaid and other public health care systems. This all means that state policy …

A Double-Edged Sword: Globalization And Biosecurity, Stephen G. Brooks, Kendall Hoyt

Dartmouth Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Behind Closed Doors: Governmental Transparency Gives Way To Secrecy, Ann Florini

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

A few years ago, I sat at a table in a Washington think-tank with a group of mid-level Japanese officials. They were spending several weeks in the United States on a study tour, and I was meeting with them to give a talk on governance and access to information. Japan had recently passed, but not yet implemented, a sweeping freedom of information law, and the bureaucrats were puzzled about how they were to implement it. Or even whether they should implement it. After all, as one earnest young woman asked, if the government starts giving people information, they might want …

Contextualism Reconsidered: Some Skeptical Reflections, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

A number of theorists have touted the merits of the contextual approach to political theory, arguing that a close examination of real-world cases is more likely to yield both theoretical insight and practical solutions to pressing problems. This is particularly evident, it is argued, in the field of multiculturalism in political theory. The present paper offers some skeptical reflections on this view, arguing the merits of a view of political theory which sees the contextual approach as less distinctive than its proponents imagine, and less useful than many would suggest. It maintains that there are serious limits to what political …

Church In Democractic Transition Between The State And The Civil Society, Vedran Horvat

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The War Powers Resolution: Asserting Congress's Role Over The Use Of Military Force, Catherine M. Banks

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Immediately following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, Vice President Richard Cheney identified the moment as a turning point in the relationship between the executive and legislative branches. As the representative leaders of the nation responded to the crisis that confirmed the new enemy, they granted the President substantial authority to shape the nation's policies towards the new threat. The nature of the threat called for this milestone in the executive-legislative relationship, which provided near unanimous support for the Commander-in-Chief to secure America and its interests. Yet, this moment has been relatively short-lived and the history of the tenuous …

Naccs 31st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

El Pueblo Unido…:Strength in Unity
March 31-April 4, 2004
The University of New Mexico

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss honor code, Buy-a-Book program, bookmarks, faculty evaluations and broadband expansion fee.

Decisions Tools Manual, Cisr

CISR Studies and Reports

This decision tools manual outlines methods through which nations and organizations with limited resources can accurately prioritize humanitarian mine action projects and clearance efforts. This methods include a cost-benefit analysis of the socio-economic effect of mine clearance with field examples from Thailand and Ethiopia.

Resolution 04-03-S - Broadband Expansion Fee, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution against broadband expansion fee.

Bill #04-07-S - Buy-A-Book Program Promotion, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to conduct publicity campaign for the Buy-A-Book Program.

Coming To Set Terms For Dci, Porcher L. Taylor Iii

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

Senator and presidential contender John Kerry has loudly and critically clanged the intelligence-reform bell in President Bush's ears. Recently, Mr. Kerry proposed great expansion of the director of central intelligence's (DCI) authority over the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. But true reform must first come with the DCI's emancipation from the White House through providing a 10-year term as a presidential appointee.

Ua12/2/1 Decision 2004, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special Student Government Association election edition of the College Heights Herald, includes articles:

• Hardin, Adriane. President Candidate Jessica Martin
• Clark, Ashlee. President Candidate Nick Todd
• Hoang, Mai. Senate Candidates – Alicia Bachicha, Sarah Cecil
• Reed, Lindsey. Senate Candidate Brittany Fausey
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Senate Candidate Christina Kayrouz
• Baker, Joanie & Ashlee Clark. Senate Candidate John Law
• Wilberding, Beth. Executive Vice President Candidate Anna Bisig
• Clark, Ashlee. Executive Vice President Candidate Katie Dawson
• Hoang, Mai. Senate Candidate Abby Lovan
• Gries, Emily. Senate Candidate Cheryl Norris
• Baker, Joanie. Senate Candidates Melissa Paris, Katharine Pettit
• Hoang, Mai. Senate Candidate Morgan Phelps
• Hardin, Adriane. …

Plebiscites And The Public Purse: U.S. Experience With Direct Democracy, Arthur A. Goldsmith

College of Management Working Papers and Reports

The United States is a distinctive case for studying the way extensive direct democracy can affect fiscal policy. Every state in the Union allows voters to decide certain ballot questions about how to raise and spend public revenue. The U.S. record shows that large‐scale plebiscites fail to produce reliably “pro‐poor” government finance. Direct citizen involvement in fiscal policy has not led to uniformly equitable or financially sustainable state budgets. Nor has it mobilized low‐income groups to express and defend their economic interests. When called upon to make decisions about the amounts and purposes of statewide government spending, the electorate is …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss January Academic Term, sweatshirts, elections, budget, website, Freshman Seminar and stepping stones.

Bill #04-05-S - Plastic Holders, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to buy plastic card holders for suggestion boxes.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss election, hall of distinguished seniors, signs, plus/minus grading, benches, Compass Pizza and January Academic Term.

Mapping The Small Arms Trade: Insights From Social Network Analysis, David Todd Kinsella

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

In recent years, researchers have increasingly turned their attention to the proliferation of small arms, a transnational trade amounting to over $7 billion in value during 2002. Small arms are difficult to track and are not the stuff of military parades, but they are immensely destructive. The trade in small arms should be understood not as a market but as a network, one that shares some important properties with networked forms of organization studied by sociologists. I make this argument and then employ quantitative methods developed for the study of social networks in an effort to show the basic structure …

The Organisation For Economic Cooperation And Development, Richard Woodward

Articles

This article reviews the role of the OECD, a much cited but little studied institution, in global governance.

Scientific Blind Spots: Did Philosophy Of Science And Religious Belief Cause Canada's Debt?, John Hiemstra

Pro Rege

Acknowledgments: "I am grateful to The King’s University College and to Citizens for Public Justice for helping fund this unorthodox economic research project. Thanks also to Elsabe Kloppers for her careful and always cheerful assistance with the research."

Defining "Public Justice" In A Pluralistic Society: Probing A Key Neo-Calvinist Insight, Jonathan Chaplin

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Review Of Marching On Washington: The Forging Of An American Political Tradition., Robert Kleidman

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

Reviews the book "Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition," by Lucy G. Barber.

Is Global Civil Society A Good Thing?, Ann Florini

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Washingtons — Tanks in the streets of Seattle in 1999. Molotov cocktails in Prague in 2000. Gunfire in Genoa in 2001. A hundred thousand people gathering every winter in a World Social Forum to talk about how to improve the world. Global agreements on everything from human rights protections to banning weapons systems. Fifteen million people on the streets in cities around the world on a single day in 2003 to protest the Iraq war. These headlines reflect the rise of a force now so potent in world affairs that the New York Times has referred to it as “the …