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Does Size Matter? Student Outcomes, School Size, The State Of Mississippi And Its Delta Region: Implications For Socioeconomic Well-Being, Leslie Taylor-Grover

All Dissertations

The positive link between educational attainment and improved socioeconomic outcomes under the auspices of the current economic environment is essential to the survival of rural states like Mississippi, which has some of the nation's lowest educational attainment and income levels. One of the most promising education policies for Mississippi is related to research on school size, district size, and positive educational outcomes among students. Smaller schools and districts are increasingly being touted as the basis for rural school reform, renewed economic development efforts in rural communities, and cost effective means to overcoming barriers poor students face in graduating high school …

Buy-A-Book Form Letter, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Form letter used to award Buy-a-Book scholarships.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding Astra class scheduling software, retreat and budget.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for December 5, 2006 meeting.

Buy-A-Book Press Release, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Press release announcing winners of Buy-a-Book scholarships in 2006.

Buy-A-Book Scholarship Broadside, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Broadside advertising Buy-a-Book Scholarships.

Building Leaders For The Future: Women In The Middle East, Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Editor's Notebook: Super Coach - Superbowl, Michael Kryzanek

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Indeterminacy And Society By Russell Hardin, Daniel R. Sabia

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Corruption And Democratic Performance, Levente Littvay

Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This dissertation introduces new quantitative methods to comparative politics. These include an approximately unbiased missing data treatment, a first order autoregressive multilevel model for the analysis of cross-sectional longitudinal data, approaches for the separation of cross-sectional and longitudinal predictor effects to identify aggregation bias and a model for the empirical analysis of causal direction. Methods are demonstrated on a model replicating past research on the causes of corruption adding democratic performance as a predictor, than a new model of democratic performance is developed to test Warren’s theoretical propositions that corruption is by nature undemocratic, and finally the causal direction between …

Pre-Tipping Point Operations As A Strategy For Maritime Security In The Global War On Terror, John W. Snedeker Jr.

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis proposes US maritime forces adopt a new strategy of pre-tipping point operations that involve proactive measures to enhance maritime security. At its core is the premise that since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the propensity of efforts in GWOT have focused on defeating terrorist organizations and denying sanctuaries on land, leaving the maritime operating environment open to the next wave of terror attacks.1 With the preponderance of commercial goods shipped through the maritime commons, this critical nexus remains valuable and vulnerable. Fragile states and ungoverned regions have become safe havens for a host of criminal elements including …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss resignation of SGA president Robert Watkins, elections, banquet, buy-a-book program, Keen Hall renovations, budget and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 28, 2006 meeting.

Crush The Sunnis, James Kurth

Political Science Faculty Works

The article argues that Iraq's Sunni population must be made to pay for the murderous years of the Baathist regime and should be left stateless and bereft of power. The author proposes giving the Shiites southern Iraq in its entirety and Kurds Kurdistan. He acknowledges that Shiites may become puppets of Iran, but not for long. This arrangement would have the added benefit of preserving America's oil supplies in the Middle East.

Deracialization Or Racialization: The Making Of A Black Mayor In Jackson, Mississippi, Byron D. Orey

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

In 1997, Harvey Johnson made history by becoming the first black to be elected as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Four years prior, Johnson failed to make the Democratic primary runoffs. The following research question is addressed: what explains Johnson’s victory in 1997, when compared to his defeat in 1993? In answering this question, I rely heavily on elite-level interviewing and newspaper accounts. I also examine the black and white vote for Johnson, using aggregate-level election and census data. Gary King’s Ecological Inference technique is used to examine these data. Based on the findings, I conclude that Johnson ran a deracialized …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding Charles Keown dedication, professor accountability, special event parking, budget and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 14, 2006 meeting.

Historical Background: Evolution Of The International Criminal Law, Individual Criminal Accountability And The Idea Of A Permanent International Court, Cenap Cakmak

Human Rights & Human Welfare

© Cenap Cakmak. All rights reserved.

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding elections, football conference, John Carpenter, Dialogue Day, provide-a-ride and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 4, 2006 meeting.

Latino Voting In The 2004 Election: The Case Of New York, José Cruz, Cecilia Ferradino, Sally Friedman

Policy Documents

This paper examines the participation of Latinos in the electoral process in New York State. It describes key features of the demographic and political context in which Latino participation takes place and provides an analysis of the Latino presence and role during the 2004 campaign. The paper also includes an analysis of Latino registration and turn-out patterns in the presidential race. Most of the literature on Latinos in New York quite sensibly focuses on activities in New York City. This paper for the first time analyses Latino registration, turnout, and voting patterns in the state as a whole. The patterns …

Limits To Power: Some Friendly Reminders (Book Review), Ron Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

No abstract provided.

From Opposition To Accommodation: How Rockefeller Foundation Grants Redefined Relations Between Political Theory And Social Science In The 1950s, Emily Hauptmann

Political Science Faculty Publications

I n this essay, I rely primarily on unpublished documents from the Rockefeller Foundation Archives as well as the annual reports of the Ford Foundation and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to show that rather than being in a torpor, political theory in the 1950s was a large and eclectic field, marked by contest and rapid change. I focus on the Rockefeller Foundation’s policy making for its program in Legal and Political Philosophy (LAPP), the largest grant program for political theory in the 1950s, both to see how the Foundation justified the creation of the program and how it …

Advocate, November 2006, Vol. [18], No. [3], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Hunter, City Fight to Grab Beloved School. Chad Turner (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: “What are We Gonna Do Now?” (p. 2)

GC Technology: GC Paper Use Getting Out of Control. (p. 2)

Academic Repression in the First Person: Lies, Damn Lies, and David Horowitz. Grover Furr (p. 4)

Dispatches from the Front: Writing to the Test: A Cautionary Tale. Ethan Campbell (p. 6)

Fixing the Academic Labor Crisis: Lessons from History. Carl Lindskoog (p. 7)

A GC Refugee Finds Respect — in Canada. Tony Monchinski (p. 8)

Make a Diff: Volunteer for the Holidays. Advocate …

"Keeping People" - The 2006 Quality Of Life Survey In Orleans And Jefferson Parishes, Susan Howell

Survey Research Center Publications

No abstract provided.

A Republic, If We Can Build It, Richard M. Valelly

Political Science Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Duty To Obey The Law, David Lefkowitz

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Under what conditions, if any, do those the law addresses have a moral duty or obligation to obey it simply because it is the law? In this essay, I identify five general approaches to carrying out this task, and offer a somewhat detailed discussion of one or two examples of each approach. The approaches studied are: relational-role approaches that appeal to the fact that an agent occupies the role of member in the political community; attempts to ground the duty to obey the law in individual consent or fair play; natural duty approaches; instrumental approaches; and philosophical anarchism, an approach …

The Cartel Party And The Rise Of The New Extreme Right, Riccardo Pelizzo

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, And Nationhood, Jedediah Purdy

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Party, Policy, Or Duty: Why Does The Supreme Court Invalidate Federal Statutes?, Thomas Keck

Political Science - All Scholarship

This paper explores three competing accounts of judicial review by comparing the enacting and invalidating coalitions for each of the fifty-three federal statutes struck down by the Supreme Court during its 1981 through 2005 terms. When a Republican judicial coalition invalidates a Democratic statute, the Court’s decision is consistent with a partisan account, and when a conservative judicial coalition invalidates a liberal statute, the decision is explicable on policy grounds. But when an ideologically mixed coalition invalidates a bipartisan statute, the decision may have reflected an institutional divide between judges and legislators rather than a partisan or policy conflict. Finding …