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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Interest group federalism: Indian gaming and the status of Indian tribes in the American political system.
(1997)
This dissertation seeks to answer the question, "What is the status of Indian tribes in the American political system at the end of the twentieth century" by studying how New Mexico and Oklahoma tribes have attempted to ...