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Students Disinterested In Voting Need To Smarten Up, Alexandra Pittman Sep 2012

Students Disinterested In Voting Need To Smarten Up, Alexandra Pittman

UCF Forum

My fellow college students have been abuzz with political stands and commentaries on Facebook and other social media – but I’m concerned that many of those same students will not show up to vote on Nov. 6.


Faith, Politics, And Power: The Politics Of Faith-Based Initiatives, Rebecca Sager Sep 2012

Faith, Politics, And Power: The Politics Of Faith-Based Initiatives, Rebecca Sager

Faculty Pub Night

No abstract provided.


Libya Delivers An Early ‘October Surprise’, Nicholas Hayes Sep 2012

Libya Delivers An Early ‘October Surprise’, Nicholas Hayes

University Chair in Critical Thinking Publications

No abstract provided.


Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 717. Letter written to Margaret Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Beverly Mills Vincent, Washington, D.C. Vincent, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, thanks her for her letter in which she expressed her choice for the postmaster appointment to be filled in Bowling Green.


Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 720. Letter written by Thomas Elliott Bramlette, Louisville, Kentucky, to President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., concerning recommendation that Bramlette had made for a state political appointment which he wants disregarded as he has learned that the man recommended “is a radical of the negro suffrage and impeachment school.”


Romney Fights Cold War, Obama Fights Not To Overreach, Nicholas Hayes Sep 2012

Romney Fights Cold War, Obama Fights Not To Overreach, Nicholas Hayes

University Chair in Critical Thinking Publications

No abstract provided.


Editor’S Introduction, Filomeno V. Aguilar Sep 2012

Editor’S Introduction, Filomeno V. Aguilar

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


The Public Face Of The 'Litigation State:' Federal Empowerment Of Litigation By State Governments, Paul Nolette Sep 2012

The Public Face Of The 'Litigation State:' Federal Empowerment Of Litigation By State Governments, Paul Nolette

Political Science Faculty Research and Publications

Scholars have recently begun exploring the construction of what Sean Farhang has termed the “litigation state” – namely, the distinctly American way in which contemporary federal programs are enforced by means of litigation. The attention in this literature to date has focused on why Congress has encouraged private litigation to enforce various statutory programs. This paper examines the emergence of a related and no less important development – the federal government’s encouragement of state government litigators to help enforce federal regulatory programs, especially state attorneys general ("AGs"). Examining several decades’ worth of congressional actions, court decisions, and federal administrative initiatives …


Nichter On Mahan, 'Foreign Relations Of The United States, 1969-1976, Vol. 32, Salt I, 1969-1972', Luke A. Nichter Sep 2012

Nichter On Mahan, 'Foreign Relations Of The United States, 1969-1976, Vol. 32, Salt I, 1969-1972', Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, vol. 32, SALT I, 1969-1972 edited by Erin R. Mahan.


Politics Or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters To Presidential Leadership Of Congress, José Villalobos, Justin Vaughn, Julia Azari Sep 2012

Politics Or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters To Presidential Leadership Of Congress, José Villalobos, Justin Vaughn, Julia Azari

Selected Works Temporary Series

In this study, we examine the linkage between presidential policy proposal messages and legislative success. Employing a dataset on presidential legislative proposals that covers the years 1949-2010, we find that politics matters less than policy. Purely political messages that reference the electoral logic of mandates or appeal to a sense of bipartisanship appear to have no impact on presidential legislative success, nor does policy signaling, though highlighting the role of agency-based policy experts in crafting legislation does. From these results, we conclude that although the way presidents communicate their messages to Congress represents an important component of presidential-legislative relations, it …


The Policy Czar Debate, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos Sep 2012

The Policy Czar Debate, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos

Selected Works Temporary Series

Presidential policy czars have been an important and powerful component of President Barack Obama’s approach to management and leadership in the first part of his time in office. By using czars, the President has been able to demonstrate the importance of policy issues, both to his own agenda and to the broader political system. In this chapter, we find that performance outcomes for these czars have been a mixed bag, with as many stories of success to report as tales of frustration and failure. As such, we posit that the cost of czars, in political and organizational terms, has outweighed …


Assessing Devolution In The Canadian North: A Case Study Of The Yukon Territory, Christopher Alcantara, Kirk Cameron, Steven Kennedy Sep 2012

Assessing Devolution In The Canadian North: A Case Study Of The Yukon Territory, Christopher Alcantara, Kirk Cameron, Steven Kennedy

Political Science Faculty Publications

Despite a rich literature on the political and constitutional development of the Canadian territorial North, few scholars have examined the post-devolution environment in Yukon. This lacuna is surprising since devolution is frequently cited as being crucial to the well-being of Northerners, leading both the Government of Nunavut and the Government of the Northwest Territories to lobby the federal government to devolve lands and resources to them. This paper provides an updated historical account of devolution in Yukon and assesses its impact on the territory since 2003. Relying mainly on written resources and 16 interviews with Aboriginal, government, and industry officials …


Politics Or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters To Presidential Leadership Of Congress, José Villalobos, Justin Vaughn, Julia Azari Sep 2012

Politics Or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters To Presidential Leadership Of Congress, José Villalobos, Justin Vaughn, Julia Azari

Departmental Papers (PS)

In this study, we examine the linkage between presidential policy proposal messages and legislative success. Employing a dataset on presidential legislative proposals that covers the years 1949-2010, we find that politics matters less than policy. Purely political messages that reference the electoral logic of mandates or appeal to a sense of bipartisanship appear to have no impact on presidential legislative success, nor does policy signaling, though highlighting the role of agency-based policy experts in crafting legislation does. From these results, we conclude that although the way presidents communicate their messages to Congress represents an important component of presidential-legislative relations, it …


Weakest-Link Attacker-Defender Games With Multiple Attack Technologies, Daniel G. Arce, Dan Kovenock, Brian Roberson Sep 2012

Weakest-Link Attacker-Defender Games With Multiple Attack Technologies, Daniel G. Arce, Dan Kovenock, Brian Roberson

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

In this article, we examine a model of terrorism that focuses on the tradeoffs facing a terrorist organization that has two qualitatively different attack modes at its disposal. The terrorist organization's objective is to successfully attack at least one target. Success for the target government is defined as defending all targets from any and all attacks. In this context, we examine how terrorist entities strategically utilize an efficient but discrete attack technology e.g., suicide attacks when a more conventional mode of attack is available, and the optimal anti-terrorism measures.


A Bakerian Response To Weinstein's Free Speech Theory, Anne Marie Lofaso Sep 2012

A Bakerian Response To Weinstein's Free Speech Theory, Anne Marie Lofaso

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Women’S Political Leadership In Massachusetts, Paige Ransford, Meryl Thomson, Sarah Healey Sep 2012

Women’S Political Leadership In Massachusetts, Paige Ransford, Meryl Thomson, Sarah Healey

Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy (CWPPP) at UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies has been tracking the election of women at the municipal level in Massachusetts since 1996. In 2003, the Project expanded to include all New England states. CWPPP remains the only research center in the United States that regularly tracks women’s political representation at the local level.


The Policy Czar Debate, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos Sep 2012

The Policy Czar Debate, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos

Departmental Papers (PS)

Presidential policy czars have been an important and powerful component of President Barack Obama’s approach to management and leadership in the first part of his time in office. By using czars, the President has been able to demonstrate the importance of policy issues, both to his own agenda and to the broader political system. In this chapter, we find that performance outcomes for these czars have been a mixed bag, with as many stories of success to report as tales of frustration and failure. As such, we posit that the cost of czars, in political and organizational terms, has outweighed …


Ghosts Of Ballots Past, Richard M. Valelly Sep 2012

Ghosts Of Ballots Past, Richard M. Valelly

Political Science Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


From Plyler V. Doe To Trayvon Martin: Toward Closing The Open Society, Lyle Dennison Sep 2012

From Plyler V. Doe To Trayvon Martin: Toward Closing The Open Society, Lyle Dennison

Washington and Lee Law Review

Lyle Denniston, the longest serving and most experienced journalist covering the United States Supreme Court, takes his theme of an inclusive and open society from the constitutional and cultural vision of the late Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and then offers a detailed argument that America is forfeiting—or at least compromising—that vision in favor of a safer, more secure and more cramped society, at home and abroad. The Article, taken from a memorial lecture in Justice Powell’s honor at Washington and Lee University in April 2012, draws upon a variety of very different societal and legal developments that are found …


Formal Equality, Formal Autonomy, And Political Legitimacy: A Response To Ed Baker, James Weinstein Sep 2012

Formal Equality, Formal Autonomy, And Political Legitimacy: A Response To Ed Baker, James Weinstein

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Hiring And Firing Public Officials: Rethinking The Purpose Of Elections" By J. Buchler, Ben Berger Sep 2012

Review Of "Hiring And Firing Public Officials: Rethinking The Purpose Of Elections" By J. Buchler, Ben Berger

Political Science Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Periclean Diamond: Linking College Classrooms, Campuses, Communities, And Colleagues Via Social And Civic High Engagement Learning, Ben Berger Sep 2012

The Periclean Diamond: Linking College Classrooms, Campuses, Communities, And Colleagues Via Social And Civic High Engagement Learning, Ben Berger

Political Science Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


United Front For Reforms In Myanmar, Bridget Welsh Sep 2012

United Front For Reforms In Myanmar, Bridget Welsh

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.


How To Scale Coded Text Units Without Bias: A Response To Gemenis, Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver, Will Lowe, Slava Mikhaylov Sep 2012

How To Scale Coded Text Units Without Bias: A Response To Gemenis, Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver, Will Lowe, Slava Mikhaylov

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Coding non-manifesto documents as if they were genuine policy platforms produced at election time clearly raises serious issues with error when these codings are used in the standard manner to estimate left-right policy positions. In addition to the long term solution of improving the document base of the Manifesto Project identified by Gemenis (2012), we argue that immediate gains in manifesto-based estimates of policy positions can be realised by using the confrontational logit scales from Lowe et al. (2011), which addresses the problems of scale content and scale construction that are exacerbated by but not unique to the problems found …


Without Compromise, Fixing Deficit Is A Fairy Tale, Nathan B. Oman Aug 2012

Without Compromise, Fixing Deficit Is A Fairy Tale, Nathan B. Oman

Popular Media

No abstract provided.


Study On Optimal Dwell Time At Jakarta International Container Terminal, Siti Nurrochmah Badrudin Aug 2012

Study On Optimal Dwell Time At Jakarta International Container Terminal, Siti Nurrochmah Badrudin

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Freight Forecasting Of Dry Bulk Market Based On The Bp Neural Network, Qianran Huang Aug 2012

Freight Forecasting Of Dry Bulk Market Based On The Bp Neural Network, Qianran Huang

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Container-Handling Operation Optimization At Koja Container Terminal, Moh Taufik Hidayat Aug 2012

Container-Handling Operation Optimization At Koja Container Terminal, Moh Taufik Hidayat

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Northern Sea Route On China’S Shipping Industry, Minyu Tang Aug 2012

The Impact Of Northern Sea Route On China’S Shipping Industry, Minyu Tang

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Research On Risk Management Of Ship Financial Leasing In Cimc Financial Leasing Company, Zhangcheng Shi Aug 2012

Research On Risk Management Of Ship Financial Leasing In Cimc Financial Leasing Company, Zhangcheng Shi

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.