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Loyalist to liberal: The reform persuasion in New Brunswick politics, 1837-1857.
(1998)
In the British colony of New Brunswick, the period from 1837 to 1857 was one of intense political reform. The reform movement which eventually produced Responsible Government was the creation of a small group of men who ...
Medicaid and the politics of state health care reform.
(1998)
This research draws upon the framework established by Oliver and Paul-Shaheen (1997). They argue that two general types of elements influence health care reform; contextual conditions and dynamic factors. Contextual ...
Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)
The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ...
The determinants of community college faculty attitudes toward unionization.
(1999)
This study examines unionization among faculty in higher education. Specifically, C. Wright Mills' theory of white-collar unionism is used to analyze the factors affecting attitudes toward unionization among community ...
A rhetorical analysis of "The Contract with America".
(1997)
The Contract with America (CWA) was rhetorically analyzed to answer the question of how Ludwig Wittgenstein, Aristotle, and Jean Gebser might have reacted to the document based on their philosophies. Wittgenstein's language ...
The Catholic Church and the rebirth of civil society: Elite convergence, mobilization and democratic transitions in east-central Europe.
(1998)
In addition to these developments at the elite level, the Church also nurtured moral and religious values at the grassroots level, sometimes in difficult conditions such as in Czechoslovakia. The stronger and more visible ...
Activity, certainty, optimism, and realism: The verbal style in televised presidential campaign commercials.
(1997)
Presidential campaign commercials have been analyzed to determine their effectiveness with respect to length and style. However, to this point, no study has attempted to count and categorize the words used in the commercials. ...
Effects of debate viewing and citizen discussion on political malaise.
(1998)
The last Presidential election of the twentieth century is over; and, as the United States quickly approaches the next millennium, it is appropriate to examine the state of political attitudes. This study examines the state ...
Perspectives on the racial threat hypothesis: Testing a theory of southern politics.
(1999)
By studying the phenomenon of racial threat voting in the South, we make discoveries that allow us to understand better the complexities of it. By viewing racial threat on different planes, we gain a better understanding ...
The effects of technological distortion and visual "literacy" in political advertising /
(1997)
This research advances the argument that technology can be used to influence the meaning being drawn by the viewer from the video image. Although using technologically distorted images or not played little significance in ...