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Title: 1948 and the Bounding of Thought: Zionist Discourse, The New Historians, and American Jewish Public Intellectuals, 1950-2020
Author: Mefferd, Zebulon
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Political science, History
Description: The following thesis analyzes American Jewish public intellectuals and their use of the Zionist narrative, the New Historian scholarship, or a mixture of the two in their writing. The political leanings of the public intellectuals, authors, schola...

Title: A Brief Glimpse of Blue: Examining the Participation and Political Effects of 21st-Century Election Reform in North Carolina
Author: Holder, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science
Description: This study examines registration, voting and election results in the presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. During this period, North Carolina introduced a series of election reforms which were designed to increase political participation by ma...

Title: A Woman in a Man's World: The Political Attitudes of Women and the Role of Representation
Author: Wemlinger, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Sex role
Description: Gender plays an important role in shaping attitudes, constraining roles, and perpetuating values. Historically women have been removed from the public and political environment, not allowed to vote, to freely work, and to attend educational instit...

Title: BCRA: BEFORE CAMPAIGNING RETAIN AN ATTORNEY. AN INSTITUTIONAL STUDY OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE CONTRIBUTION LIMITS ON CANDIDATE EMERGENCE IN THE 50 UNITED STATES
Author: Shepherd, Mary Jo
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science
Description: This study looks at campaign finance statutes and their effect on candidate decisions in a novel way. Using institutional theory as a backdrop, this study uses the language of the campaign finance statutes as measured with plain language utilities...

Title: Drones and support for the use of force
Author: Walsh, James Igoe, Schulzke, Marcus
Subjects--Topical: Political science, International relations
Description: Combat drones are transforming attitudes about the use of military force. Military casualties and the costs of conflict sap public support for war and for political and military leaders. Combat drones offer an unprecedented ability to reduce these...

Title: Habermas, The Religious Side of a Postmetaphysical Thinker
Author: Molina, Luciano
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Political science, Religion, Philosophy
Description: The goal of this paper is to show Jürgen Habermas’s recent work on religion as a well-intended effort to deal with religious conflicts in the world that yet presents two serious and related flaws: on one hand, Habermas claims his ideas on religion...

Title: Information Technology and Criminal Investigations: Does IT Matter?
Author: Hekim, Hakan
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Political science
Description: As an important police activity, criminal investigation heavily relies on recovery, analysis and interpretation of information. Since information technologies facilitate creation, storage, retrieval, process and dissemination of information, polic...

Title: Jackboots, White Hoods, and the White Bible: The Fusion of the KKK, American Nazis, and Christian Identity
Author: Wood, Joseph
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Political science, History
Description: During the tumultuous twentieth century, three visually and dogmatically distinct white supremacist movements came together to bring forth a mostly unified front against their common enemies—integration, miscegenation, and various elaborate fictio...

Title: Local Public Sector Allocation of Scarce Emergency Assets: An Evaluation of the Fire Service
Author: Boyd, Jr., Robert
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Political science, Public administration
Description: The methodology utilized by public sector managers to allocate scarce resources determines the level, efficiency, and effectiveness of service delivery. These decisions are influenced by a myriad of factors, not the least of which is the ideal goa...

Title: Modeling and Analyzing the United States Courts of Last Resort’s Legal Citation System as a Complex System
Author: Mohammed, Louai
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Political science, Law
Description: Courts of last resort in the United States are becoming increasingly important in American politics as the number of cases, influential decisions, and controversial issues continue to rise in the states. In discussions of federalism in the United ...

Title: PREPARATION OF UNITED STATES’ STATE COURT CASES DATASET AND DERIVING AN EFFICIENT EMBEDDING FOR CASES
Author: Ravi, Karthik
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Political science
Description: Data mining techniques gained acceptance as a clear means of finding information in data. In the past, these techniques have been effectively applied to discover patterns, find correlations, extract information from unstructured data. Often overlo...

Title: Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
Author: Culletto, Gordon
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Rhetoric
Description: President Barack Obama described December 14, 2012 saying, "it continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency." That morning, a gunman stormed through the doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and began opening fire on childr...

Title: Slogans we can believe in: An examination of what makes for an effective presidential campaign slogan
Author: Brooks, Erik
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science
Description: Presidential campaign slogans have been a constant aspect of American presidential campaigning since 1800. However, despite slogans’ continual use, very few scholarly inquiries have been made regarding what actually makes for an effective presiden...

Title: THE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INITIATIVE: A THREE-ARTICLE STUDY ON THE DECISION TO JOIN AND THE IMPACTS OF A CAP AND TRADE MARKET
Author: Jones, Brian
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Environmental economics
Description: This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary view of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon dioxide cap and trade market. Specifically, I analyze both the factors contributing to state participation within the Initiative and the mult...

Title: The effect of shall-issue policy on crime rates
Author: White, John
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Political science
Description: ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of shall-issue policy on crime rates at the state level in the United States. A formal analysis of the effect on crime rates is useful in supporting or refuting the claim that crime rates increase or dec...

Title: They said what? How to communicate effectively with advocates
Author: Strompolis, Melissa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Psychology
Description: With effective communication, nonprofit organizations engaged in policy and advocacy work can have a positive impact on the constituents served by the organization, on the advocates working with the organization, and on social issues in general. E...

Title: Three Essays on Conflict and Displacement: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
Author: Thompson, Peter
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Political science, International relations, Area studies
Description: Establishing peaceful post-conflict communities requires returning and reintegrating those who left during the violence. With the United Nations and other institutions investing substantial resources to rebuild communities that have experienced vi...

Title: Where are privatization's cost savings? Private contracting, transaction costs, and prison operation efficiency
Author: Duscha, Melissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Public administration
Description: This dissertation examines the question: Where are privatization’s cost savings? Current literature finds that government privatization does not result in overall cost savings. This is contrary to widely accepted business practices and market theo...

Title: Why nations succeed? Distribution and reach of the state power
Author: Cekic, Nejra
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Political science, Economics
Description: What explains the difference in the performance of the world’s nations? Why do some succeed, and others fail? I argue that the primary determinants of development are two dimensions of a country’s institutional setting. The purpose of this study i...