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The determinants of community college faculty attitudes toward unionization.
(1999)
This study examines unionization among faculty in higher education. Specifically, C. Wright Mills' theory of white-collar unionism is used to analyze the factors affecting attitudes toward unionization among community ...
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 ...
The Catholic Church and the rebirth of civil society: Elite convergence, mobilization and democratic transitions in east-central Europe.
(1998)
In addition to these developments at the elite level, the Church also nurtured moral and religious values at the grassroots level, sometimes in difficult conditions such as in Czechoslovakia. The stronger and more visible ...
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 ...
Political equality and legislative apportionment in Oklahoma, 1907-1964 /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1964)
Patterns of political modernization in Southwest Asia /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1969)
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 vertical dimension of local public policy :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1975)
The civil rights programs of the Kennedy administration :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1965)
Efficacy of inoculation strategies in promoting resistance to political attack messages: Source credibility perspective.
(2003)
Taken together, the results of this dissertation indicate that inoculation is an effective resistance option for candidates in deflecting the influence of political attack messages delivered in both political advertising ...