New York’S Inbred Judiciary: Pathologies Of Nomination And Appointment Of Court Of Appeals Judges,
2010
University at Buffalo School of Law
New York’S Inbred Judiciary: Pathologies Of Nomination And Appointment Of Court Of Appeals Judges, James A. Gardner
Journal Articles
The practice of selecting judges by popular election, commonplace among the American states, has recently come in for a good deal of criticism, much of it well-founded. But if popular election of judges is a bad method of judicial selection, what ought to replace it? Opponents of judicial election typically treat gubernatorial appointment as self-evidently better. New York’s experience with gubernatorial appointment to its highest court, the Court of Appeals, suggests that greater caution is in order. Although New York’s current method of selecting Court of Appeals judges was designed to be wide open and based entirely on merit, the …
Anti-Regulatory Absolutism In The Campaign Arena: Citizens United And The Implied Slippery Slope,
2010
University at Buffalo School of Law
Anti-Regulatory Absolutism In The Campaign Arena: Citizens United And The Implied Slippery Slope, James A. Gardner
Journal Articles
Perhaps the most striking feature of the Supreme Court’s constitutional campaign jurisprudence is its longstanding, profound hostility to virtually any government regulation whatsoever of campaign speech and spending. Such an approach is highly unusual in constitutional law, which typically tolerates at least some level of regulatory intervention even with respect to strongly protected rights. The Court’s behavior in this respect is consistent with – and, I argue, is best understood as – the kind of behavior in which a court engages when it fears a slide down a slippery slope. But what lies at the bottom of the slope? And …
The Dignity Of Voters—A Dissent,
2010
University at Buffalo School of Law
The Dignity Of Voters—A Dissent, James A. Gardner
Journal Articles
Since the waning days of the Burger Court, the federal judiciary has developed a generally well-deserved reputation for hostility to constitutional claims of individual right. In the field of democratic process, however, the Supreme Court has not only affirmed and expanded the applications of previously recognized rights, but has also regularly recognized new individual rights and deployed them with considerable vigor. The latest manifestation of this trend appears to be the emergence of a new species of vote dilution claim that recognizes a constitutionally grounded right against having one’s vote “cancelled out” by fraud or error in the casting and …
Probing The Finance Gap Theory: Does Gender Affect Campaign Contributions?,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Probing The Finance Gap Theory: Does Gender Affect Campaign Contributions?, Rhonda Wrzenski
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In our field, scholarly literature contends that women win a similar percentage of the vote and raise a similar amount of money as their male opponents when they campaign (Newman 1994; Burrell 1994; Seltzer et al. 1997; Dolan 2006; Darcy et al. 1994; Wilhite and Theilmann 1986; Burrell 1985; Uhlaner and Schlozman 1986; Welch et al. 1985). However, women are still underrepresented at all levels of government and this may be a function of biases in the campaign finance network that have gone largely undetected. Differences may be more readily apparent at the sub-national level and among particular classes of …
The Impact Of Structural Adjustment Loans On Civil Conflict,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
The Impact Of Structural Adjustment Loans On Civil Conflict, Lue Anda Francis
LSU Master's Theses
This paper examines the impact of structural adjustment loans of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on Civil Conflict. The paper argues that there are three major shortcomings to previous research on this topic. Previous research has focused more on grievances with little focus on the opportunities that may influence rebel behavior. In addition, previous research has placed little focus on the role of state capacity can play in affecting rebel behavior. As such previous research has not fully explained how both opportunities and willingness (Most & Starr 1989) are necessary conditions needed for civil conflict to occur …
Agenda Preference Deliberations,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Agenda Preference Deliberations, David Pulliam
LSU Master's Theses
Currently the public is relegated to the electoral process, surveys and polls, and group participation in order to voice their agenda preferences. Various literatures describe the decreasing influence of the general public within the agenda setting portion of the policymaking process. This thesis assesses the agenda setting and public policy literatures in order to determine how issues become part of the policy agenda, looks to the public opinion literature to determine how capable the public is in being part of the policymaking process, and utilizes the deliberative democracy literature to construct deliberations that make it possible to get the public …
The Role Of Old-Fashioned Racism: Disaggregating Symbolic Racism In The United States,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
The Role Of Old-Fashioned Racism: Disaggregating Symbolic Racism In The United States, Leslie Curtis Cox
LSU Master's Theses
Old-fashioned, biological, or "Jim Crow" racism is viewed by many in the political science and psychology literature to be largely a relic of the past. In the post-segregation era it has been replaced as a political force by symbolic racism, although its residual effect still operates within symbolic racism as negative racial affect. Symbolic racism is thought of as a coherent belief system that describes whites‘ attitudes not only in the United States, but in some European democracies as well. This conceptualization of symbolic racism ignores the differences in the historical legacy of racism across different regional and demographic contexts. …
Domination, Resistance, And Accommodation In China's One-Child Campaign,
2010
Swarthmore College
Domination, Resistance, And Accommodation In China's One-Child Campaign, Tyrene White
Political Science Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Transnational Political Participation Among Diasporic Migrants,
2010
Wayne State University
Transnational Political Participation Among Diasporic Migrants, Amanda Hanlin
Wayne State University Dissertations
Contemporary migrants participate in a variety of dual social, political, and economic processes. Sending and receiving states overtly encourage transnational practices when they allow migrants to maintain homeland citizenship regardless of their citizenship status in their receiving communities. Yet, we know little about migrants' ability to enact their citizenship and their propensity to participate in sending and receiving state networks and structures. We know also that diasporas experience and shape transnational spaces differently than other migrants, but we have much to learn about what influences a diaspora's desire and ability to maintain a political affiliation with their homeland and to …
The Art Of Collaboration: Interlocal Collaboration In The Provision Of Fire Services In The Metropolitan Detroit Area,
2010
Wayne State University
The Art Of Collaboration: Interlocal Collaboration In The Provision Of Fire Services In The Metropolitan Detroit Area, William David Hatley
Wayne State University Dissertations
Metropolitan regions have emerged in the United States as important economic units with numerous small local governments each providing various public services. The movement toward city-county consolidation has frequently been defeated at the polls. Frederickson (1999) argues that metropolitan areas have become so fragmented in their approach to service delivery that they constitute what he describes as a "disarticulated state", characterized by the declining salience of jurisdiction, the fuzziness of borders and an erosion of the capacity of the local jurisdiction to contain and, thereby, manage complex social, economic and political issues. Feiock (2009) contends that much of the urban …
Yitzhak Rabin And The Price Of Peace,
2010
Liberty University
Yitzhak Rabin And The Price Of Peace, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
A society that wishes to remain free and self-governing must learn to recognize that endemic political violence, including the symbolic violence of character assassination, is an invitation to either tyranny from without or conquest from without. As Edmund Burke put it: ‘Men of intemperate minds cannot be free; their passions forge their fetters.” As a general rule, we might conclude that a fixation on the purity of political outcomes at the expense of the integrity of the political process leads people away from politics to the realm of ideology, from civility to fanaticism. This is the way nations and civilizations …
John R. Bolton: How Barack Obama Is Endangering Our National Sovereignty: A Study Guide,
2010
Liberty University
John R. Bolton: How Barack Obama Is Endangering Our National Sovereignty: A Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
E Pluribus Unum? (Geopolitica),
2010
Liberty University
E Pluribus Unum? (Geopolitica), Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Angelo M. Codevilla: A Student’S Guide To International Relations Study Guide,
2010
Liberty University
Angelo M. Codevilla: A Student’S Guide To International Relations Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Brian P. Janiskee And Ken Masugi: Democracy In California Study Guide,
2010
Liberty University
Brian P. Janiskee And Ken Masugi: Democracy In California Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Wilhelm Roepke: Robbing Peter To Pay Paul Study Guide,
2010
Liberty University
Wilhelm Roepke: Robbing Peter To Pay Paul Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Ni De Aquí Ni De Allá: Transnationalism And Political Participation In Latino/A Communities,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
Ni De Aquí Ni De Allá: Transnationalism And Political Participation In Latino/A Communities, Sergio I. Garcia-Rios
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
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Book Review: Bush On The Home Front, By John D. Graham,
2010
Loyola Marymount University
Book Review: Bush On The Home Front, By John D. Graham, Michael A. Genovese
Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Centrist Rhetoric: The Production Of Political Transcendence In The Clinton Presidency, By Antonio De Velasco,
2010
Loyola Marymount University
Book Review: Centrist Rhetoric: The Production Of Political Transcendence In The Clinton Presidency, By Antonio De Velasco, Michael A. Genovese
Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Budgeting In Japan: How Much Do Institutions Matter?,
2010
Loyola Marymount University
The Politics Of Budgeting In Japan: How Much Do Institutions Matter?, Gene Park
Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works
In the past decade, the Japanese government has revamped its budget institutions twice. This paper examines how these changes have changed the configuration of power among the actors in the budget process. It also explores the implications of these changes for the management of the nation's finances.
