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The utilization of scientific knowledge :
(1981)
The dissertation then examines S&PP's utilization strategy to foster these concepts. The stratgy fostered awareness and interest, trust and credibility, and new information; and influenced organizational interests and timing.
The Christian Right and congressional elections in Oklahoma: Can a social movement impact candidate-centered elections?
(1999)
The research indicates a flaw in McAdam's model, the need to develop continuing leadership if a social movement is to avoid decline. The surge and decline nature that McAdam builds into his political process model of social ...
Coping with limits: Responding to reform in Oklahoma.
(1998)
The model of legislative reform posited here include internal factors like: members' characteristics, professionalism, and internal political culture. It also include external influences like: the constitution, the states' ...
WORLDS APART: THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL WORLDVIEW ON THE POLICY PREFERENCES OF THE RICH AND POOR
(2018-05-11)
In March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law amid mixed reviews from the public. The primary research question for this dissertation is: what explains the public’s level of support ...
The ideological foundations of Pakistan.
(1980)
In 1947 Pakistan was created with the avowed purpose of establishing a state on the "ideal principles of Islam." This dissertation is primarily a study of an ideology, a system of thought in terms of the political-philosophical ...
Lyndon Baines Johnson and the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission) :
(1980)
The acquisition and use of information is a major source of political power. American presidents have been particularly adept information entrepreneurs, acquiring, investigating and monopolizing the information necessary ...
Framing the Faith-Based Initiative: Black Church Elites and the Black Policy Agenda
(2009)
The Faith-Based and Community Initiative represents a puzzle for black politics. In an academic realm where black faces in Congress are widely hailed as integral to black representation (e.g. Tate 2003), it behooves ...
The Europeanization of Industrial Relations in Ireland and Italy
(2012)
How is European integration affecting patterns of capital-labour interaction? More specifically, how is the inclusion of interest associations at the European level affecting the behavior of domestic interest associations? ...
Framing the Faith-Based Initiative: Black Church Elites and the Black Policy Agenda
(2009)
The Faith-Based and Community Initiative represents a puzzle for black politics. In an academic realm where black faces in Congress are widely hailed as integral to black representation (e.g. Tate 2003), it behooves ...