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Working in the 'gray' area of a "permanent campaign": The routine, political and campaign activities of congressional district staff.
(2001)
The district staff members of incumbents in the United States House of Representatives perform vital representational and electoral functions. Nearly half of all personal staff in the United States Congress work 'back home' ...
Crisis institutions and the law in France /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1964)
Perspectives on the racial threat hypothesis: Testing a theory of southern politics.
(1999)
By studying the phenomenon of racial threat voting in the South, we make discoveries that allow us to understand better the complexities of it. By viewing racial threat on different planes, we gain a better understanding ...
PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE
(2018-07-18)
This dissertation examines the diffusion of performance-based funding policy in higher education based on the conceptual framework of policy innovation and diffusion. After examining the two waves of state adoption of ...
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' ...
Senator Robert S. Kerr and the Arkansas River Navigation Project :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1972)
The decision whether to invoke the criminal process;
(The University of Oklahoma., 1977)