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Tapping The Potential Of Sports: Incentives In China’S Reformation Of The Sports Industry, Yu Fu

CMC Senior Theses

Since the 2010s, China’s sports industry has undergone comprehensive reforms. This paper attempts to understand this change of direction from the central state’s perspective. By examining the dynamics of the basketball and soccer markets, it discovers that while the deregulation of basketball is a result of persistent bottom-up effort from the private sector, the recentralization of soccer is a state-led policy change. Notwithstanding the different nature and routes between these reforms, in both sectors, the state’s aim is to restore and strengthen its legitimacy within the society. Amidst China’s economic stagnation, the regime hopes to identify sectors that can drive …

Islamic State Online Recruitment: Narratives And Counter-Narratives, Makella Brems

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis looks beyond the sensationalized coverage of Islamic State and instead utilizes Islamic State materials as a window into the remote radicalization and recruitment process of susceptible English-speaking individuals in the West. This thesis considers Islamic State’s mode of operation in conjunction with the appeals made in its online materials to devise a framework for understanding how Islamic State materials interact with susceptible individuals. The framework lends insight into how the body tasked with creating counter-narratives within the U.S. State Department can more effectively disrupt the remote recruitment and radicalization process.

Where Do Women Stand? Attitudes Towards Female Political Participation In India And The Us, Grace Anne Carlson

Audre Lorde Prize

This paper aimed to study attitudes towards gender inequalities in politics, both in the United States and India. Using original survey research and World Values Survey data, American and Indian attitudes towards women in politics were analyzed and compared. Ultimately, the project found that respondents in both countries still hold distinctly unequal views on women in the political sphere.

Salvation Through Community And Protest, Hannah K. Griggs

Audre Lorde Prize

This essay examines the theodicies of Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Kelly Brown Douglas, and Dorothee Soelle to strategize ways for Christians to combat rising threats to marginalized communities. Synthesizing the arguments of these three feminist Christians, I argue that only a theodicy of protest succeeds in accounting for structural injustice caused by kyriarchal relationships. As Christians come to terms with America’s current political situation, I call for a reimagining of Anselm’s salvation narrative. My protest theodicy theorizes a new Christian narrative that strives to alleviate this-worldly suffering in order to produce salvation through radical community, by “signifyin’” to disrupt power, and using …

Does Liberalism Lack Virtue? A Critique Of Alasdair Macintyre’S Reactionary Politics, Jason Blakely

All Faculty Open Access Publications

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การลงทุนต่างประเทศจากประเทศกำลังพัฒนาในรัฐสังคมนิยม : ศึกษากรณีการลงทุนของบรรษัทข้ามชาติไทยในสาธารณรัฐสังคมนิยมเวียดนาม, วิทวัส บูรณะ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้เป็นการศึกษาอิทธิพลของโลกาภิวัตน์ทางเศรษฐกิจที่มีต่อประเทศสังคมนิยม โดยเป็นการศึกษาบรรษัทข้ามชาติจากประเทศกำลังพัฒนาที่ไปลงทุนทางตรง (Foreign Direct Investment, FDI) ในรัฐสังคมนิยมโดยใช้กรณีศึกษาของบรรษัทข้ามชาติจากประเทศไทย ได้แก่ เครือเจริญโภคภัณฑ์ (CP) ปูนซิเมนต์ไทย (SCG) และกลุ่มไทยซัมมิท (Thai Summit) ที่ไปลงทุนในสาธารณรัฐสังคมนิยมเวียดนาม วัตถุประสงค์ต้องการทราบว่าโลกาภิวัตน์ทางเศรษฐกิจที่มีตัวแสดงสำคัญคือบรรษัทข้ามชาติมีอิทธิพลหรือไม่อย่างไรในเวียดนาม และ ต้องการทราบว่าบรรษัทข้ามชาติไทยจะมีอิทธิพลในฐานะตัวแสดงทางการเมืองระหว่างประเทศในกรณีการลงทุนในสาธารณรัฐสังคมนิยมเวียดนามหรือไม่ อย่างไร การศึกษานี้ใช้วิธีการในเชิงคุณภาพโดยการศึกษาสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกผู้ให้ข้อมูลหลัก 49 ท่าน ประกอบกับการศึกษาตำรา บทความ ตลอดจนสื่อสารมวลชนต่างๆ ผลการศึกษาพบว่า เวียดนามไม่สามารถหลีกเลี่ยงจากอิทธิพลของโลกาภิวัตน์ทางเศรษฐกิจได้ แต่มีปัจจัยสำคัญคือ การเป็นรัฐเผด็จการคอมมิวนิสต์ การปลูกฝังค่านิยมตามแนวทางขงจี๊อ และค่านิยมรักชาติ เป็นเครื่องมือตลอดจนเป็นภูมิคุ้มกันสำคัญ ในการสนับสนุนให้เวียดนามเป็นตัวแสดงที่มียุทธศาสตร์ และสามารถอยู่ท่ามกลางโลกาภิวัตน์ทางเศรษฐกิจได้ ในมิติของการเป็นตัวแสดงทางการเมืองของบรรษัทข้ามชาติไทย ผู้วิจัยพบว่าในระยะเริ่มแรกของการเข้าไปลงทุน ซีพีมีฐานะเป็นตัวแสดงทางการเมืองระหว่างประเทศเนื่องจากการครอบครองเทคโนโลยีทางการเกษตร และจะมีส่วนสำคัญในการแก้ปัญหาด้านเศรษฐกิจและการเกษตรที่เวียดนามเผชิญอยู่ เอสซีจีไม่มีฐานะในการเป็นตัวแสดงทางการเมืองระหว่างประเทศจากปรัชญาการทำธุรกิจของบริษัท ขณะที่ไทยซัมมิทไม่มีบทบาทในฐานะตัวแสดงการเมืองระหว่างประเทศโดยการลงทุนของไทยซัมมิทนั้นได้ประโยชน์ในฐานะที่อยู่ในห่วงโซ่การผลิตยานยนต์ที่ได้รับการสนับสนุนเป็นอย่างดีอยู่แล้ว การดำเนินธุรกิจในระยะต่อมาพบว่าซีพีไม่มีฐานะเป็นตัวแสดงทางการเมืองระหว่างประเทศเนื่องจากปัญหาด้านการเกษตรในเวียดนามได้รับการแก้ไข เอสซีจีในเวียดนามไม่มีฐานะเป็นตัวแสดงทางการเมืองระหว่างประเทศด้วยตัวเอง แต่สามารถใช้ความเข้มแข็งในประเทศผลักดันนโยบายผ่านตัวแสดงทางเมืองของไทยได้ ในขณะที่การลงทุนของไทยซัมมิทยังคงเป็นไปในลักษณะเช่นเดิม

Time For Change: Aid, Ngos, And Transitional Justice In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Arnaud Kurze

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This article examines Scandinavian donor practices in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) with regards to post-conflict justice activities. BiH has been a laboratory of reconstruction, peace-building and transitional justice processes since the end of the war in 1995. While issues related to rebuilding and developing war-torn societies and their economies have attracted extensive scholarly attention, the question of international aid practices in transitional justice contexts remains widely understudied. Although the influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in reconciliatory transitional justice work has been growing, the relationship between international donors and local NGOs involved in these projects remains very limited. The objective of this study …

La France Contemporaine Face Au Défi De La Créolisation, Nathalie Etoke

Publications and Research

Inspired by Jane Gordon's book, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon, this article examines the paradoxes of Creolization within the French context. How do post-colonial French identities of Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan African or Caribbean descent Creolize French society? Instead of being an opportunity that must be seized by the Nation, why is creolization perceived as an imminent threat to the Republic? How can one think of Creolizing politics in the former colonial power? How does Creolization compel us to rethink how we live together? And how does it require us to rethink freedom and equality for all? These are …

Judicial Behavior And The Miranda Doctrine: A Question-Level Analysis, Gretchen Edelman

Honors Theses

The attitudinal model of the Supreme Court is now a well accepted and valid way to explain the voting behavior of justices, as judicial prefer- ences dictate the eventual voting that occurs in cases. While many studies have looked at overall judicial ideologies through a variety of different mea- sures, this paper is the first that looks at judicial ideology and determines preferences within a single doctrine through a question level analysis us- ing ideal point estimation. To explore this measure of ideology inside a single-issue area I use the Miranda doctrine and its progeny cases to score judicial votes …

To Donate Is Glorious: The Ccp, Chinese Civil Society, And The Wenchuan Earthquake, James Joseph Demarshall Ii

Honors Theses

Through the examination of charitable contributions in the wake of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, this paper strives to comment on donation tendencies among individuals in Mainland China. The data analysis portion of this paper employs the use of both binary logistic and linear regression models to determine the effects of carefully discerned influential variables on an individual's donation decision and extent of donation respectively. Said variables were chosen by a combination of their frequency in preexisting research and speculative causal theory. In addition to the importance of obvious demographic and economic indicators, findings suggest that political status has a pronounced …

The Effects Of Race, Economics, And Millennials On Voting Patterns In Mississippi, Katelin Davis

Honors Theses

This thesis applies Bill Bishop's Big Sort theory to sixteen Mississippi counties. The goal is to determine whether Bishop's theory is applicable to Southern states like Mississippi. Based on Mississippi's unique political history, background on the Deep South's move from Solid Democrat to Solid Republican is included. Research necessary to understand the implications of the data including education, poverty, population density, religion, and race are also included. The Mississippi county data is sourced from Presidential voting records from 2004 and 2008, the United States Census Bureau, and the Association of Religion Data Archives. Using 16 Mississippi counties as a testing …

A Multi-Causal Approach To The Thirty Years’ War, Ethan Haan

Grand Valley Journal of History

The Thirty Years’ War was arguably the most consequential war of the Wars of Religion and of the wider European conflicts in the 17th century. The historiography on the causes of the war has been present ever since literature on the conflict became available shortly after its cessation. Since 1900, the debate over the underlying motivations has intensified and has become muddied in some areas. This study aims to summarize and clarify the previous positions that historians have taken on what caused the war, from religious urges to socio-economic and political factors. This study also attempts to clearly define where …

When State Systems Fail: A Qualitative Analysis Of Child Protection Services, Mary Catherine Harvey

Honors Theses

The purpose of this research is to conduct a qualitative study examining cases of abuse in the child welfare system and offer policy recommendations to limit cases of abuse. After chronicling several cases of child abuse within the State of Mississippi's foster care system the following recommendations are offered. First, increased awareness and public knowledge on this issue and its causes is vital for the continuation of improvements in both the state and federal foster care systems. Second, proper funding is key to maintaining a functional state child welfare and protection department. This paper concludes with a recommendation of policy …

The Drier The Land, The Higher The Chance?: An Examination Of The Relationship Between Water Availability And Civil Conflict And Its U.S. National Security Implications, Sailer E. Perkins

Honors Theses

This thesis uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the relationship between water availability and civil conflict through an ethnic conflict lens. It further applies the trends observed in this relationship to United States National Security concerns to provide real-world applications of the knowledge gained. Consisting of quantitative and qualitative parts, this thesis uses logit analysis of data to test for significance in the water-conflict relationship then conducts a case study on Israel and Palestine, Darfur, and ISIS in Iraq to examine how water impacts conflict in true situations. This thesis posits that increased measures of ethnic divisiveness, monopolization of …

“What Sort Of Communists Are You?” The Struggle Between Nationalism And Ideology In Poland Between 1944 And 1956, Jan Ryszard Kozdra

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The period between 1944 and 1956, also known as the “Stalinist period”, is one of the most controversial and turbulent in Polish history. The Polish communist party launched the project of restructuring Polish society, whose historically wellestablished national identity seemed incompatible with the communist project. Firstly, the communists effected a demographic change that resulted in a near monoethnic state. Simultaneously, they introduced a centrally planned economy, transformed state symbolism, initiated a national education system, attempted to reshape popular attitudes to religion, and launched a massive propaganda campaign to reinforce and popularize their objectives.

This study seeks to investigate the communists’ …

Distinguishing A Minimalist Role For Grand Theorizing, Stephen G. Brooks

Dartmouth Scholarship

A major theoretical shortcoming in international relations (IR) is the lack of any semblance of a common understanding regarding the role of grand theory. This article argues that explicit theoretical work of this sort is useful, but that a search for a single overarching grand theory to guide inquiry is misguided and that the primary business of IR is to form and evaluate middle-range theories.

Election 2016: Voter Turnout And Results Across Oregon, Kevin Curry

Metroscape

Metroscape went inside the numbers from the 2016 general election. We examined Oregon’s new "motor voter" law to see if it affected turnout and to better understand the new voters added to the rolls in the ‘Beaver State.’ We looked at voter turnout and election results in Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill counties in Oregon and Clark and Skamania counties in Washington to answer several questions about the 2016 General Election.

Voices Of Cully: A Case Study Of The Living Cully Weatherization And Home Repair Project 2.0, Lucy J.T. Cultrera

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

The Cully neighborhood is situated in the Northeast quadrant of Portland, Oregon. It is 2.75 square mile plot of land and home to roughly 13,000 people. In addition to being one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Portland, it is the most densely populated, with the smallest amount of parkland per capita. Over the last two decades, home value has increased 203% in Cully, compared to a 90% citywide increase. Amidst these development trends are stories of incredible resilience, resistance and activism from the affected community. My project is a case study of one anti-displacement initiative, which was developed and …

Listening To The Mattole: Lessons In Bioregionalism, Cannabis, And Capitalism From A Northern California Community, Nicola R. Walters

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

In the United States, from the 1960s through the 1970s, nearly a million Americans left urban areas to establish themselves in rural environments; this exodus is now known as the back-to-the-land movement. Nestled in the mountains of Northern California, along a capricious river, and surrounded by natural beauty, the Mattole Valley became home to many of these back-to-the-land immigrants. Seasoned in the social and cultural movements of Berkeley and San Francisco during the 1960s, the “new settlers” transformed the social and environmental landscape of southern Humboldt County as they integrated into rural communities. The Mattole Valley offers a unique look …

Laws, Norms, And The Institutional Analysis And Development Framework, Daniel H. Cole

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework has been described as ‘one of the most developed and sophisticated attempts to use institutional and stakeholder assessment in order to link theory and practice, analysis and policy’. But not all elements in the framework are sufficiently well developed. This paper focuses on one such element: the ‘rules-in-use’ (a.k.a. ‘rules’ or ‘working rules’). Specifically, it begins a long-overdue conversation about relations between formal legal rules and ‘working rules’ by offering a tentative and very simple typology of relations. Type 1: Some formal legal rules equal or approximate the working rules; Type 2: …