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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, ...
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' ...
Multilateral military intervention analysis in the post-Cold War era.
(2001)
During the Cold War era, U.S. foreign policy goals concentrated on containing Soviet expansion. Containment was a simple, yet powerful, idea that provided a strategic vision of world politics in an essentially stable bipolar ...
Fairness in American politics and culture.
(2001)
Fairness is a term often used in political debate but not often carefully examined. In this dissertation I propose a way of understanding fairness by combining the insights of political theory with an examination of the ...
Unexpected participants in democracy: Refuge, community, and activism in a congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church.
(2001)
The findings indicate that this denomination offers a unique contribution by empowering certain individuals who would otherwise not participate in the gay liberation movement. The ethnographic study suggests that in more ...
Choosing to run: The dynamics of candidate emergence in the state legislature of Oklahoma.
(2001)
This research is a qualitative study on potential candidates who were in the process of deciding to run for the state legislature. From the interviews and observations of potential candidates, a greater understanding ...