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An examination of international crises: The effect of decision maker stress on crisis management, attributes, and outcomes in non-protracted conflict and protracted conflict crises.
(2007)
In the field of foreign policy analysis, there is a long history of research examining factors that impact decision making in conflicts, wars, and crises. The following research project is an attempt to add to this body ...
The destruction of the Trinity River, California (1848--1964).
(2007)
Abstract not available.
Ella Baker and the SNCC: Grassroots leadership and political activism in a nonhierarchical organization.
(2007)
In SNCC, both men and women worked side by side in rural America. Some of SNCC's successes were due to the work of the large number of Black and White women in the organization. The study describes how SNCC promoted the ...
Frustrated fortunes: Francis E. Warren and the search for a grazing policy, 1890--1929.
(2007)
Abstract not available.
The spirit of the Patriot Act: A hermeneutic analysis of patriotism as argument during House Judiciary Committee debate .
(2007)
The purpose of this project is to explore the symbolic meaning of ''patriot'' by bracketing the way in which it is negotiated during the policymaking process utilized to authorize, oversight, and reauthorize the Patriot ...
Mediated citizens: Mass media depictions of citizens and the influence of those depictions on individual perceptions of what it means to be a democratic citizen.
(2007)
The survey portion of this study found that overall media use had a weak impact on perceptions of what it means to be a democratic citizen. However, while media use did not strongly influence individual perceptions of what ...
Perceptions of people, process, and policy on political trust.
(2007)
The qualities of the people serving in government, the processes used, and the policies that result have been put forth in the literature as possible determinants of political trust (Miller and Borrelli 1991; Ulbig 2002; ...
Essays on economic development in Latin America.
(2007)
Chapter Three empirically analyzes the effect of inequality on economic growth in Latin American countries. I use the area of family farms as a percentage of total agricultural holdings as a measure of inequality. In a ...