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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"American Democracy"”.
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Walter Lippmann and American Democracy
… Lippmann within the intellectual history of American democracy in the early twentieth century. It argues that he shaped this history more distinctively and more contingently than the existing scholarship allows. Contesting the elitist vision of technocratic government associated with him by …
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Walt Whitman, the exponent of American democracy
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Calls to be counted: Rhetorics of aggregation and numerical representation in 20th century American democracy
… played in mass campaigns in twentieth-century American political culture. Scholarship in political science, history and rhetorical studies tells us that the census and public opinion polling have long been used to tell Americans who they are or to justify political actions in democracy. …
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Decolonizing American Democracy and the Problem of Gerrymandering: Implications of Border Designs from a Communication Ethics Perspective
… relationship to structures and practices of democracy. Following insights of decolonial and communication ethics scholars, this work understands the importance of ethically framing deliberations surrounding physical, metaphorical, and categorical political borders. Five chapters make up this …
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Prudence and decorum and the invention of american democracy: an examination of the ratification debates for the federal constitution in 1787-88
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This dissertation examines the ratification debates for the federal constitution in 1787-88. The goal of this project has been to examine the use of the rhetorical strategies of prudence and decorum as they are employed within the debates in Massachusetts, Virginia and New York. …
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John Dewey in American Thought and Culture, 1950-2000
… John Dewey (1859-1952) as a central theorist of American democracy during the first half of the twentieth century. Yet, while historians have given much attention to Dewey’s philosophy, they have neglected to examine his posthumous influence on American thought and culture. This represents a …
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John Dewey's Theory of Citizenship and Community in the Developing American Democracy as Seen Through the Philosophy of Pragmatism as a Public Administration Model for the Citizen's Role in Public Governance
… was lost. These conditions still exist. The American government is a seemingly, ailing government; but the only thing that is suggested is to have more science and give groups more "participative" access. In essence, virtual gridlock has resulted. One solution is to rediscover and accurately …
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Divine Democracy: Examining the Intersection of Religion and Politics in Civil Religion
… will break into four prominent chapters: Is American Democracy Like a Civil Religion?, Religious Characteristics in the American Government, American Democracy as a Civil Religion, and The Darkness of Civil Religion. Through this analysis, this thesis will definitively answer that the United …
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Political Content And Political Behavior: Using Functional Theory To Test The Ability Of Political Content To Stimulate Political Interest
<p>The health of the American democracy is up for debate. Digital natives will decide the future of this democracy. Fewer digital natives--those who have grown up with Internet access--are engaging in formal political participation, compared to their parents. Digital natives lack the information …
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An Enumeration of Historical Accounts Selected to Facilitate the Teaching of Key Historical Concepts
… of key core values basic to an understanding of American democracy and (2) to enumerate various counts from United States History, which could be used with elementary school pupils to develop an understanding of these core values.</p>
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The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
… that despite their coercion into the “making of Americans” discourses, New Immigrants and American Indians shared structurally connected roles in the drama of Americanization and assimilation. Recovering a genealogy of a combined cultural resistance to regimes of “making Americans” in a variety …
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Invisible Humans, Visible Terrorists: U.S. Neo-Orientalism Post 9/11 and Representations of the Muslim World
… Iraq wars, as well as promoting the mission of American democracy. This study discusses the theoretical frame and features of U.S. neo-Orientalism and tackles its representations in institutionalized neo-Orientalist writings and American literary and war novels.
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Rhetorical Perspectives of American Civil-Military Relations
<p>American political leadership, military commanders, and informed observers have recognized a widening civil-military gap as a potential problem for American democracy. This gap has been characterized by the differing values, knowledge and experiences between the military and wider society. …
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Political Commitment: A Sartrean Civic Virtue
… commitment harmonize with the tradition of American civic republicanism, which holds that civic virtue is the foundation of a well-ordered, democratic society. Political commitment is not out of place in Anglo-American thinking; in fact, the Sartrean virtue should be seen as an important …
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Clearing out: Escape genres and American culture, 1880-1915
… worlds proliferated in turn-of-the-century American literature and culture, including the White City at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Boston in 2000, Mars, Oz, and the West. Focusing on utopian, fantasy, and western writings, this project theorizes the white middle-class desire …
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The External Conflict of Modern War Correspondents: Technology's Inevitable Impact on the Extinction of Nostalgic Combat Reporting
… and their military counterparts. Early American democracy aspired to give total freedom to its people. But the American military, in its quest to uphold the ideas of democracy, has often challenged the freedom of press clause set forth by the United States Constitution. Since the Vietnam …
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The Bully Pulpit on Display: How Presidential Libraries Present Presidential History
… to presidents or highly valuable institutions of American democracy. However, the literature lacks a discussion of the curatorial process for creating the contested exhibits and the choices that were made in that process, leaving out a conversation of curatorial voice and authority in presidential …
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Local Television News, Political Participation and Political Knowledge
… Studies and voting records from the Record of American Democracy project, the study explores the relationships among political information, political participation, and the incumbency advantage. The study demonstrates that individuals living in media markets where the geographical boundaries of …
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American intellectuals and the idea of an 'Atlantic Community' c.1890-1949
… America and Russia and the expectation of American hegemony over Europe. It argues instead that, from its earliest days, the Atlantic community was a much broader worldview, whose aims included the preservation of American democracy in an increasingly interdependent world, the maintenance …
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The Zook Commission:Reassessing World War II Veterans' Influence on Higher Education
… in a report titled, <em>Higher Education for American Democracy, </em>and the influence veterans had on the Presidential Commission’s suggestions to President Truman. Through a major change in higher education ideology, the veterans provided an example for what higher education could be in the …
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