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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.
Systematic evaluation for nonprofit organizations: Problems, prospects, and recommendations.
(2005)
Evaluation is essential to every organization. Nonprofit organizations typically devote little time to program evaluation but concentrate their efforts on service delivery. Even less time is devoted to a systematic approach ...
When politics is personal: The role of personal policy interests in legislative activity.
(2006)
Mainstream literature on congressional behavior continues to concentrate on reelection as members' primary motivator, rather than exploring the other reasons for the legislative activities in which members engage. Although ...
Work requirements and welfare participation: Analyzing the effects of the JOBS program.
(2000)
The 1996 welfare reform relies heavily on work as an antidote to "dependency." But have we any reason to expect work requirements to spur people to leave welfare? Recent experience provides an opportunity to analyze the ...
The making of legislative agents: Interest group influence in congressional policymaking.
(2001)
These findings emphasize the importance of interest groups and their lobbyists in congressional policymaking. They make strategic decisions to use their resources to target members in key places along the paths of policymaking, ...
Neo-Populist Party emergence in advanced industrial democracies: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
(2006)
This dissertation develops an explanatory model of neo-populist party emergence in advanced industrial democracies, specifically the founding of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Australia, the New Zealand First Party ...
Covenant and international ethics: A deconstruction and reconstruction of liberal international relations theory.
(2000)
Covenantal thought integrates ethics and interests in a manner similar to that found in social capital theory. In addition, this paradigm retains all the benefits of liberal theory, such as a means of discerning progress ...
Peasant unrest, community warriors and state power in India: The case of private caste senas (armies) in Bihar.
(2003)
Using the case study of private caste armies in Bihar, a state in eastern part of India, this dissertation attempts to describe and explain the dynamics of caste, class and state power in post-independence India. This study ...
Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in small and medium-sized municipalities.
(2000)
The theoretical perspective taken in this research combines the incremental and the boundedly rational approach to decision-making. It suggests that the level of compliance is based on the fact that municipal decision-makers ...
Democratic stabilizing strategies: Public and private sector elites in Spanish regime politics.
(2002)
The dissertation examines the neglected role of regional elites in the process of democratic consolidation in Spain. Spain represents a case (or cases) of the successful consolidation of democracy, despite serious impediments ...