Search
Now showing items 71-80 of 139
The sectional and seniority basis of the standing committee chairmanships of the United States House of Representatives, 1889-1954 /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1956)
Multilateral military intervention analysis in the post-Cold War era.
(2001)
During the Cold War era, U.S. foreign policy goals concentrated on containing Soviet expansion. Containment was a simple, yet powerful, idea that provided a strategic vision of world politics in an essentially stable bipolar ...
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Supreme Court :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1963)
Primordial violence in India in the 1990s. A challenge to the democratic process: A study of primordial violence on the Indian subcontinent focusing on a case-study of the Maratha Group, the Shiv Sena.
(1997)
Major changes have taken place on the Indian subcontinent in the 1990s. The Nehru-Gandhi family is no longer in power and the Congress party, the premier political party, has been forced into forming coalitions in order ...
Through which channel, with what effect :
(2002)
Researchers have long studied the effects of media messages on individuals. The emergence of a new medium, the Internet, demands that we make closer study of the effects from exposure to messages through this channel. This ...
Democracy and Emergency rule in India :
(1980)
An analysis of the actions of the Emergency reveals a systematic perversion of the fundamental concepts of constitutionalism and a corresponding attempt at the institutionalization of an authoritarian political system in ...
Health care reform at the subnational level: An analysis of the diffusion of health policy innovations among American states.
(1997)
This dissertation uses the framework of Walker's (1969) seminal study on the diffusion of policy reforms to identify independent variables which help explain why some states are more likely than others to be innovative in ...
Women, politics, and power: The media's construction of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(1999)
From the beginning, their open political partnership was hotly discussed and debated in the media. Media attention and concern centered on Rodham Clinton's political power and influence. With her appointment to head the ...
Do As I Say Not As I Do: A Study of Representation in Congress
(2013-08-26)
This dissertation examines the behavior of members of the House of Representatives on economic issues in order to ascertain how economic characteristics of their constituencies affect their actions. Specifically, this ...
State government responsiveness to urban problems :
(1983)
The purpose of this dissertation was to assess the importance of city needs in the allocation of state aid to city governments. While the responsiveness of federal aid to cities has received some attention in the literature, ...