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Predicting War, Predicting Peace
(2009)
This dissertation examines how the structure of a given situation and the way in which decision makers mentally process information interact to determine decisions. Decision are affected by the surrounding ecology, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reassessing Representative Bureaucracy: An Exploratory Analysis Using Role Perception
(2009)
Despite theoretical and empirical advances in the field of representative bureaucracy, scholars have yet to come to consensus on how to best define and measure the term. Many contemporary studies of representative bureaucracy ...
Sacred Ground: The Use of Religious Rhetoric in Inaugural Addresses and State of the Union Messages
(2009)
The examination of presidential rhetoric by scholars has provided valuable insight into the nature of presidents and the presidency. This dissertation provides the first systematic analysis of the use of religious rhetoric ...