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Being Otherworldly In The World: Michael Oakeshott On Religion, Aesthetics And Politics, Elizabeth Campbell Corey

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation is a study of the thought of Michael Oakeshott with particular emphasis on his writings about the character of religion and aesthetics. The dissertation as a whole makes the case that a certain moral vision-one informed by religious and aesthetic considerations-lies at the center of Oakeshott's thought and informs his political philosophy. The dissertation begins as an examination of Oakeshott's debts to St. Augustine and to British Idealist thinkers such as F. H. Bradley, and moves to a study of Oakeshott's own views on religion and aesthetics. It turns next to a consideration of Oakeshott's two essays entitled …

Negotiation [Please Pronounce It In French], Rosalva Contreras

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is divided into 4 parts. The first section introduces Negotiation as a theory as well as the background of its origin before describing what can be considered negotiable. This section also includes time and circumstances, a negotiation table as well as the social, political, and economic conditions surrounding negotiation. Part Two includes the human interactions which surround the role of the Third Party, the good qualities of a negotiator and the overall process. Part Three surrounds the culture of which includes time, intonation, language and translations. The fourth and final sections includes detail of the NATO case in …

An Exploratory Study On The Relationships Among Electorate's Voting Behavior, Party Identification, Personal Values, And Demographic Characteristics, Kuan-Shun Chiu

Doctoral Dissertations

This study was proposed to examine if there existed significant differences in voters' party identification and voting behavior due to gender, race, age, income, education and personal values.

The sample was chosen from eligible voters in Florida. Of the 1500 questionnaires managed, 161 were identified as useable. The sample was representative of the results of 2000 presidential election in Florida with respect to voters' gender, race, income, and voting choice by party identification. Statistical techniques used were ANOVAs, Chi-square statistics, factor analysis, and logistic regression.

This study demonstrates how personal values may be associated with demographic characteristics to create a …

Thick And Thin: Interdisciplinary Conversations On Populism, Law, Political Science, And Constitutional Change, Mark A. Graber

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Abdication Or Delegation? Congress, The Bureaucracy, And The Delegation Dilemma, Mathew D. Mccubbins

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Service Learning: What's A Political Scientist Doing In Yonkers?, Glenn Beamer

Service Learning, General

As an urban politics teacher, I discerned a disconnect between what I said about urban politics and what my students understood. Although I offered a variety of perspectives, I nonetheless felt that students were coming to class, and leaving class, with their opinions -- liberal, conservative, and in-between -- formed. Because of the constraints on dialogue about urban politics, I decided to develop a service learning project focusing on urban homelessness and housing. The project would combine elements of a typical undergraduate course and a participant observation project. I wanted a setting in which the students and I would learn …

Security Assistance To South Korea: Assessment Of Political, Military, And Economic Issues From 1947 To 1989, Myung R. Bae

Theses and Dissertations

South Korea is one of the most important allies of the United States. Because of its location in East Asia between China, Japan, and Russia, South Korea is a strategically important partner of the United States. Since the Korean War, the United States and South Korea have tried to maintain the regional stability, and South Korea has played a significant role for the East Asian power balance between those countries. The relationship between the United States and South Korea changed through time from the Korean War to the rebuilding phase of South Korea's economy, and finally a progression towards a …

As A Matter Of Factions: The Budgetary Implications Of Shifting Factional Control In Japan’S Ldp, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Michael F. Thies

Faculty Scholarship

For 38 years, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) maintained single-party control over the Japanese government. This lack of partisan turnover in government has frustrated attempts to explain Japanese government policy changes using political variables. In this paper, we look for intraparty changes that may have led to changes in Japanese budgetary policy. Using a simple model of agenda-setting, we hypothesize that changes in which intraparty factions “control” the LDP affect the party’s decisions over spending priorities systematically. This runs contrary to the received wisdom in the voluminous literature on LDP factions, which asserts that factions, whatever their raison d’être, do …

Research Methods, Daniel J. Palazzolo

Political Science Faculty Publications

An undergraduate course on research methods and analysis is fertile ground for service-learning in political science. Research methods courses teach students a variety of data-collection and analysis methods, and many community service agencies and nonprofit organizations typically benefit from research on how their services are provided and how such services can be improved. This essay illustrates how undergraduate students can use survey design techniques to help community service organizations collect data on program effectiveness and program development.

Sabbatical Leave Proposal, Allen Hartter

Sabbaticals

I wish to study the teaching of participatory democracy in entry level political science courses - Introduction to Political Science and American National Government. I believe that many Americans are distrustful of their elected leaders and cynical toward their governmental institutions. Signs of this malaise are declining voter turnouts, the success of negative campaigning ads, and the low level of discourse on talk radio shows. These conditions, if lasting, undermine democratic government's reliance on citizen participation.

Faculty who teach political science in the most democratic of higher learning institutions, the community colleges, should, I feel, analyze these factors to determine …

Rationality And The Foundations Of Positive Political Theory, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Michael F. Thies

Faculty Scholarship

In this paper, we discuss and debunk the four most common critiques of the rational choice research program (which we prefer to call Positive Political Theory) by explaining and advocating its foundations: the rationality assumption, component analysis (abstraction), strategic behavior, and theory building, in turn. We argue that the rationality assumption and component analysis, properly understood, can be seen to underlie all social science, despite the protestations of critics. We then discuss the two ways that PPT most clearly contributes to political science (i.e., what distinguishes it from other research programs), namely the introduction of strategic behavior (people do not …

Warring Political Factions During George Washington's Administration, Eric J. Aitken

Whittier Scholars Program

This project details "how American foreign policy actions during the 1790's contributed to the development of political parties from their faction status". This project includes research that encompasses War in Europe during 1792, Political Factions and the Neutrality Proclamation, the British Test of American Neutrality in 1793, Anglo-American Alliance background, the Jay Treaty during 1794-1795 and its ratification along with factional warfare as a response. This project also includes more historical research on Washington's Farewell Address in 1796, Factions to Parties, and America's first transfer of power in 1796. Overall, this project is a chronological timeline with explanation as to …

Bidayat Al-Mujtama' Al-Madani Fi Al-Yaman, Sheila Carapico

Political Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Abortion In The American Political Process, Christine Blaisdell

Whittier Scholars Program

The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of the abortion issue in the United States, more directly, how the three branches of federal government have used their constitutional powers to effect change in abortion policy. This is a topic of interest for a variety of reasons; abortion is a highly volatile and controversial issue that has sparked the interest of the American people to become politically active. In addition, it is a concern that has demanded the attention of our leaders and simply cannot be laid to rest due to the millions of vocal and politically active …

The Changing Jurisprudence Of The 1st Amendment :Lower Standards Of Scrutiny For All Speech, Christopher E. Martin

Whittier Scholars Program

This senior project is a research paper analyzing the change in jurisprudence with regards to the 1st amendment. Within this paper I will examine several issues involving freedom of expression. Firstly, I will give a brief overview of why freedom of speech is so very important to the American political system. Secondly, I will examine how the jurisprudence of the court has developed in regard to the first amendment. Thirdly, how in the past has the court developed its jurisprudence to deal with expression: i.e. United States v. O’Brien (1968). Fifthly, do these recent decisions by the supreme court signal …

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

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Perestroika In Central Europe, David S. Mason

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Syllabus for Political Science 380, "Perestroika in Central Europe".

Opportunity, Willingness, And The Diffusion Of War, Randolph M. Siverson, Harvey Starr

Faculty Publications

Using borders and alliances as indicators of opportunity and willingness, respectively, we test the relationship between the sea and the diffusion of war during the 1816-1965 period. The impact of borders and alliances, individually and in combination, on the growth of ongoing war through "infectious" diffusion is shown through the comparison of baseline cases to cases where states at peace were exposed to various "treatments" comprised of warring border nations or warring alliance partners. The findings indicate that the probability of war diffusion is substantially increased as opportunities and willingness increase, particularly when such geographic and political factors are combined. …

Renton V. Playtime Theaters: Why Rhonda No Longer Does Renton On Third Street, Kevin C. Osborn

Whittier Scholars Program

This project details Roger Forber’s fight to show X-rated films in two theaters in Renton, Washington Renton had an anti-pronography ordinance which prohibited the showing of adult motion picture theaters within 1000 feet of any residential zone, church or public park, or within one mile of any public or private school. Prior to this, Forbes had already built a business showing sexually-explicit films in Seattle. Due to the fact that Renton was a suburb, many residents were not thrilled with this and began a citizen activist campaign to stop Forbes. Forbes argued that the First Amendment guaranteed him free speech. …

International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy Substitutability, And "Nice" Laws, Benjamin A. Most, Harvey Starr

Faculty Publications

Two logical problems appear to have impeded the development of an integrative understanding of international and foreign policy phenomena. The first has to do with the potential for foreign policy substitutability: through time and across space, similar factors could plausibly be expected to trigger different foreign policy acts. The second concerns the potential existence of “sometimes true,” domain-specific laws. It is the logical opposite of the substitution problem, suggesting that different processes could plausibly be expected to lead to similar results. Neither problem appears to be well understood in the current literature; if anything, both are ignored. Nevertheless, they are …

Nonviolent Protest And Third Party Public Opinion: A Study Of The June 1978, Seabrook, New Hampshire, Antinuclear Power Protest, Neil H. Katz, John P. Hunt

Conflict Resolution Studies Faculty Book and Book Chapters

Political protest and nonviolent struggle have had a long history in the United States, dating back to colonial times. During the nineteenth century, nonviolence was associated with such causes as abolition, temperance, antimilitarism, and women's suffrage. More recently, the nonviolent tactics and strategies used in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 1960s spawned similar activity on a diverse array of issues, including urban poverty, Native American rights, welfare reform, homosexuality, women's rights, and environmental pollution. Although many of these movements have been chronicled and protest has been recognized as an effective method for influencing political and …

Diffusion, Reinforcement, Geopolitics, And The Spread Of War, Benjamin A. Most, Harvey Starr

Faculty Publications

The discussion reports the results of an examination of the possible diffusion of new war participations during the 1946-65 era. A theoretical argument is developed to yield more precise expectations about when, where, why, and how diffusion processs might operate. Four diffusion-related processes (positive spatial diffusion, positive reinforcement, negative spatial diffusion, and negative reinforcement) are discussed and analyzed. A series of simple turnover tables and a focus on nations' borders are used to go beyond the authors' previous stochastic modeling efforts. The results provide strong evidence that is consistent with both the authors' theoretical argument and the general war diffusion …

Election Law And Election Reform: Strategy For The Long Run, Stephen E. Gottlieb

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Challenge, Gerald Christenson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Minnesota Government In The Future Society, Arthur Naftalin, Frances Naftalin

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of The Utah State Legislature, James Larry Earl

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A study of the 1965 and 1967 sessions of the Utah State Legislature was conducted upon completion and publication of the 1967 journals. The objective of this study was to evaluate on a qualitative and quantitative basis the different institutional variables that influence the outcome of the legislature.

The selection of these variables was made by the author and Dr. Emenhiser after surveying the method to be used and the limitation of the data . In all, nineteen were picked. They are as follows:

Political Consequences Of Reapportionment On The Tenth Legislative District Of Washington State, Robert W. Snelson

All Master's Theses

The political consequences of redistricting the Tenth Legislative District. which comprises four geographically separated areas, is the subject of this thesis. This area was chosen because of its unique characteristics. Previous to redistricting these areas comprised not only three different counties and legislative districts, but three different congressional districts as well. Each section, Whidbey Island, Camano Island, Bainbridge Island and the Northern part of the Kitsap Peninsula, can be observed both as a separate unit and as a member of an entire district. Each area is described as it existed prior to redistricting, and a short resume of the events …

The Science Of Politics And The Politics Of Science, G. Theodore Mitau

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Administrative Agencies As Formulators Of Legislative Policy In Minnesota, James A. Seitz

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT - An investigation to determine the significant influence of administrators on the formulation of legislative policy, in the State of Minnesota, during the 1963 Session of the Minnesota Legislature. While it is claimed that not all bills were developed by admnistrators, the hierarchical process of those bills formulated by the bureaucracy ·of slate government deserved special attention. Once personnel developing legislation were identified within each department as being part of the informal process, some selected attitudes of ~dministrators toward their bills and the legislative process were examined through the use of a questionnaire.

The Status Of Political Theory In The Study Of Politics, Jooinn Lee

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT - A general consensus among political scientists during the last decade seems to indicate that political science as a discipline will have a brighter future if it is guided by an approach that is behaviorally relevant; political theory is the least significant field of political science because it is least relevant to a behavioral treatment of the discipline. In this study, the author challenges such behavioral contempt for political theory by presenting his vindications of the importance and value of political theory. Furthermore, he attempts to locate political theory in a proper and legitimate place in the study of …