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Exploring the relationship between United States governmental secrecy and democracy: Classification, cultures of secrecy, and the public sphere.
(2005)
For the past 60 years government secrecy in the form of officially classified documents has increased dramatically. According to the Information Security Oversight Office there were slightly fewer than 16 million classification ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do Words Really Mean Things? Habitual Voters and the Framing Effects of Ballot Language
(2017-05)
The alleged dangers of direct democracy have been debated since the founding of the United States, and this discussion carries on into the current time whenever the subject of referendum elections is raised. While much ...
Liberation and liberal freedom: A critique of Rawls's "Law of Peoples" in light of positive freedom.
(2006)
1T.H. Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 2000.
Late night political comedy, candidate image, and inoculation: A unique test of inoculation theory.
(2004)
Additionally, this study assessed the viability of using inoculation treatments to protect against late night political ridicule (monologues and parodies). Previous research beginning in the late 1980s has revealed inoculation ...
Late-night television talk shows and political comedy programs: A study of young voters' political experiences.
(2006)
The information processing strategy active reflection was also examined to determine the mediation relationship between exposure and attention to late night television talk shows and political comedy programs and the outcome ...