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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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
Primordial violence in India in the 1990s. A challenge to the democratic process: A study of primordial violence on the Indian subcontinent focusing on a case-study of the Maratha Group, the Shiv Sena.
(1997)
Major changes have taken place on the Indian subcontinent in the 1990s. The Nehru-Gandhi family is no longer in power and the Congress party, the premier political party, has been forced into forming coalitions in order ...