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Catholic And Evangelical Religious-Political Narratives About The Contraceptive Coverage Requirement Policy, Leah Marie Silverman

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The intersection of religion and politics results in “wicked” policy problems for which evidence-based solutions are hard to find. An example is the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage requirement (CCR). Evidence suggests that women and society benefit from increased access to contraceptives, but religious freedom objections have been effective in litigation to limit the CCR's reach. The purpose of this study was to explore the narrative elements and strategies used by Catholic and Evangelical stakeholders regarding the CCR, contraceptives, and religious freedom. Social constructionism and the narrative policy framework (NPF) provided the foundation for the study. Data collection included legal …

From Hobbes To Habermas: The Anti-Cultural Turn In Western Political Thought, Ralph Gert Schoellhammer

Theses and Dissertations--Political Science

The theme of this dissertation is the anti-cultural turn of Western Political Thought that has emerged out of Enlightenment thinking and was first turned into a comprehensive political idea by Thomas Hobbes.

Beginning with an overview of psychological research into the phenomenon of culture I put forward the argument that human beings are by nature social and individualistic, but that they oscillate between their ability to put group-interests before individual interests and vice versa. Culture is the main mechanism that influences which interest we give priority. This mechanism work through emotional attachments that create intuitions about what is morally right …

Judicial Elections, Public Opinion, And Their Impact On State Criminal Justice Policy, Travis N. Taylor

Theses and Dissertations--Political Science

This dissertation explores whether and how the re-election prospects faced by trial court judges in many American states influence criminal justice policy, specifically, state levels of incarceration, as well as the disparity in rates of incarceration for Whites and Blacks. Do states where trial court judges must worry about facing reelection tend to encourage judicial behavior that results in higher incarceration rates? And are levels of incarceration and racial disparities in the states influenced by the proportion of the state publics who want more punitive policies? These are clearly important questions because they speak directly to several normative and empirical …

Queer Political Organization In Israel, And Palestine: Shifting Away From Homonationalism, Tristan Blaisdell

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In this project, I present research I have done on the issue of pink washing queer Israeli and Palestinian citizens and homonationalism within Israel and Palestine. I also create an exhibit brief outlining a hypothetical museum exhibit on this topic to be put up at the museum of culture and environment. The first section outlines the history and theory of my exhibit, and a brief personal statement where I talk about my interest in the subject and where I’m coming from before I design this exhibit. My theory is built off concepts of diaspora, home, belonging, queer identity, and intersectionality …

Googly Eyes And Yard Signs: Deconstructing One Professor’S Successful Rebuffing Of A Right-Wing Attack On An Academic Institution, Theresa Catalano, Ari Kohen

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Right-wing populism is on the rise worldwide, and political attacks against universities have increased in the United States since the election of Donald Trump. In 2017, an incident occurred at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln which resulted in accusations of hostility toward conservative students. Just over a year later, political forces again attempted to denigrate the university’s reputation, but this time they did not succeed. This (multimodal) positive discourse analysis/ generative critique combines collaborative auto-ethnography to describe the way these events were represented in the media, deconstructing a professor’s methods of countering a right-wing attack on an academic institution. Findings demonstrate …

Replacing Death With Life? The Rise Of Lwop In The Context Of Abolitionist Campaigns In The United States, Michelle Miao

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

On the basis of fifty-four elite interviews[1] with legislators, judges, attorneys, and civil society advocates as well as a state-by-state data survey, this Article examines the complex linkage between the two major penal trends in American society during the past decades: a declining use of capital punishment across the United States and a growing population of prisoners serving “life without the possibility of parole” or “LWOP” sentences. The main contribution of the research is threefold. First, the research proposes to redefine the boundary between life and death in relation to penal discourses regarding the death penalty and LWOP. LWOP …

Book Review: Routledge Handbook Of Ngos And International Relations, Edited By Thomas Davies, Maria Savva

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Sriram (2020) - White Nationalism.Pdf, Shyam Sriram

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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The Effect Of México’S Transition From Neoliberalism To Populism On Environmental Policy, Christina Marshall

Scripps Senior Theses

This article examines the transformation in Mexican politics from a neoliberal state to a one lead by a left wing populist leader and its impacts on environmental policy in the country. Specifically, looking at the election of AMLO in 2018 and prior neoliberal environmental policies (NAFTA and Pena Nieto's energy reform). This article looks at the motivations and outcomes of these policies to better understand environmental impact.

Institutions-Based Influence: The Vatican's Mediations Of International Conflicts, Mamy Wilson Daniel Randriamanantena

Dissertations

This dissertation examines why the Vatican as a global religious organization and the smallest state in the world is able to successfully mediate some difficult and intractable conflicts while it fails to do so in other cases. Drawing from the New Liberalism theory in International Relations, the mediation theory and the literature on the Vatican as a player in world affairs, it suggests the important role of the Vatican's institutions at both the global and local level, besides its spiritual and moral leverage. The method, which combines a longitudinal analysis, a process tracing procedure and a comparative analysis, is used …

Belmont Presidential Debate Essay, Mary Li

Debate Essay Winners

2nd Place Winner- Middle School Division

Mary Li

Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet School

Aspektet Legjislative Reformuese Të Administratës Publike Në Republikën E Kosovës, Lirie Mehmeti Osmani

Theses and Dissertations

Reformimi i Administratës publike është njëri nga elementet kyçe në aspektin e shtetndërtimit dhe integrimit të Republikës së Kosovës. Kjo reformë ka për synim rritjen e efikasitetit dhe efektivitetit të kësaj administrate, modernizimin e saj dhe përfaqësimin proporcional të popullsisë në organet e shtetit. Kosova ka kaluar një periudhë mjaft të vështirë të themelimit dhe ndërtimit të administratës shtetërore, posaqërisht fillet e para pas luftës së vitit 1999.

Në Kosovë janë duke u zhvilluar reforma në administratën publike nën udhëheqjen e Ministrisë së Administratës Publike dhe Zyrës. Këto veprime janë duke u mirëpritur nga Institucionet e Bashkimit Evropian, sepse kjo …

Sistemi Presidencial- Rasti I Shba-Ve, Qëndrim Sopa

Theses and Dissertations

Sistemi presidencial është një sistem qeverisës demokratik dhe republikan, ku një kryetar i qeverisë drejton një degë ekzekutive që është e ndarë nga dega legjislative. Ky kryetar qeverie në të shumtën e rasteve është edhe kreu i shtetit, i cili quhet president. Në teorinë bashkëkohore politike nuk ekzistojnë rregulla unike të funksionimit të sistemeve parlamentare sepse parlamentarizmi nuk paraqitet si një model i vetëm. Ai sot paraqitet në forma dhe variante të ndryshme, në varësi nga parimet dhe veçoritë e organizimit politik të shteteve të ndryshme.

Bazat e sistemit politik në SHBA janë përcaktuar me kushtetutën e vitit 1787 e …

New Balance Or New Front? Egyptian Foreign Policy In Eastern Mediterranean, 2013-2019, Moatamer Amin, Moatamer Amin

Political Science

Since the beginning of the millennium, all the regional energy players in the East Mediterranean had good cooperation with little intra-state rivalry or tensions. The Arab Gas Pipeline was successfully carrying Egyptian natural gas to Jordon, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Egypt had signed agreements to further connect with the Turkish pipeline network, carrying natural gas to the European markets. However, the Egyptian government was facing an internal challenge concerning the normalization of economic relations with Israel. Public opinion was completely against the deal, yet the rest of the Arab Gas Pipeline destinations represented aspiration for further Arab cooperation.

In 2010, …

United States Department Of Defense Acquisition Of Leading-Edge Information Technology Services And The Impact Of Public Market Research On Efficiency And Effectiveness, Thomas Denning

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

This dissertation examines the acquisition of leading-edge IT services (LEITS), like those associated with cyber, agile software development, and cloud migration. In an effort to build on previous research, the purpose of this dissertation is twofold: to examine how Public Market Research impacts the LEITS acquisition process in the DoD and to discover strengths and value-added components that exist in the current government acquisition process leading to greater efficiency and effectiveness. Through a mixed methods approach, this dissertation provides recommendations for how to conduct the most efficient and effective LEITS acquisitions, striving to maximize a constrained budget, minimize time to …

International Law, Steven R. Ratner

Book Chapters

International law is central to both the discourse and practice of global justice. It offers a critical institutional site for transforming theories about global justice into binding rules with institutional enforcement; many of its rules have strong claims to morality; and it can offer insights into the nature of just arrangements at the international level. This chapter first introduces the key participants and fundamental norms of international law that respond to the various claims of those participants. Second, it elaborates on the range of engagement by international legal scholarship with questions of global justice. Legal scholars have incorporated concepts of …

Stepping Into The Shoes Of The Department Of Justice: The Unusual, Necessary, And Hopeful Path The Illinois Attorney General Took To Require Police Reform In Chicago, Lisa Madigan, Cara Hendrickson, Karyn L. Bass Ehler

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

Chinese Nationalism And The South China Sea, Jordan M. Sandy

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

What role do domestic audiences play in authoritarian policy making? This study examines the relationship between newspapers and assertive foreign policy. Specifically, this study conducts content analyses of state-published newspapers during periods of unprecedented assertiveness in the South China Sea. Borrowing from Galtung’s theory of peace journalism, this study analyzes valence patterns used in 99 separate articles published in Xinhua, China Daily, People’s Daily, and Global Times. Additionally, this study examines the visibility of these articles, to better understand their prominence in national coverage. This study discusses nationalism in the case of China, as well as the overwhelming control that …

บทบาทของเทคโนโลยีต่อความสัมพันธ์ทางชนชั้นในสังคมไทย: กรณีศึกษาแกร็บแท็กซี่ พ.ศ. 2555 - 2564, ธนวิชย์ ถาวร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ในการศึกษาสองประเด็นด้วยกันคือ 1. เพื่อศึกษาเทคโนโลยีที่ส่งผลต่อชนชั้นทางสังคม 2. เพื่อศึกษาลักษณะชนชั้นทางสังคมของแกร็บแท็กซี่ ซึ่งเป็นการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ (Qualitative Research) ในลักษณะที่เป็นกรณีศึกษา (Case Study) ผู้เขียนรวบรวมข้อมูลจากเอกสารและการสังเกตแบบมีส่วนร่วม (Participant Observation) มาวิเคราะห์ข้อมูล โดยนำข้อมูลที่ได้จากการค้นคว้าวิจัยมาเชื่อมโยงและหาความสัมพันธ์ของข้อมูล เพื่อที่จะนำไปสู่การตีความ (Hermeneutics) ผลการศึกษาชี้ให้เห็นว่า เทคโนโลยีเป็นปัจจัยสำคัญในการพัฒนาของระบบทุนนิยมแพลตฟอร์มในปัจจุบัน และเป็นปัจจัยที่ทำให้ความสัมพันธ์ทางชนชั้นเปลี่ยนไปจากเดิม เป็นความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างผู้มีและไม่มีอำนาจในการควบคุมแพลตฟอร์ม(ปัจจัยในการผลิต) การแสวงหากำไรจากแพลตฟอร์ม และทำให้แพลตฟอร์มนั้นเสมือนเป็นของสาธารณะ แกร็บแท็กซี่เป็นหนึ่งในอาชีพที่ต้องพึ่งพาแพลตฟอร์มในการทำงาน ส่งผลให้ลักษณะการทำงานของแกร็บแท็กซี่มีลักษณะคล้ายคลึงกับชนชั้นกลาง กล่าวคือเป็นเจ้าของปัจจัยในการผลิตเอง เลือกเวลาในการทำงานเองได้ แบกรับความเสี่ยงที่เกิดขึ้นเสมือนเป็นเจ้าของธุรกิจส่วนตัว และสามารถเลือกทำงานแกร็บแท็กซี่ในเวลาว่างหลังเสร็จสิ้นจากงานประจำได้ เป็นอิสระในการตัดสินใจที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการทำงาน และในขณะเดียวกันนั้นแกร็บแท็กซี่ก็มีลักษณะคล้ายคลึงกับชนชั้นแรงงานที่ถูกแพลตฟอร์มของบรรษัทข้ามชาติขูดรีดมูลค่าส่วนเกินด้วย ดังนั้นอาชีพแกร็บแท็กซี่จึงมีความเป็นชนชั้นกลางและชนชั้นแรงงานในบางเวลา สอดคล้องกับทฤษฏีตำแหน่งของชนชั้นที่ขัดแย้งกันเองภายใน (Contradictory Class Location theory)

Political Centrism, Perspective Taking, And Outgroup Derogation: An Integrated Model, David Kesler

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

The relationship between perspective taking abilities, political centrism, and outgroup derogation is not defined at this time. While previous research has demonstrated a negative relationship between political centrism and outgroup derogation (Van Prooijen, Krouwel, Boiten, & Eendebak, 2015), the relationship between the other variables is unclear. Therefore, the current study sought to measure the relationship between (1) perspective taking abilities and political centrism, (2) perspective taking and outgroup derogation, (3) political centrism and outgroup derogation and lastly, (4) whether the relationship between perspective taking abilities and political outgroup derogation would be mediated by an individual's level of political centrism.