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Showing 1 to 20 of 224 for “"American politics"”.
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Underrepresentation of Women in American Politics
<p>In this project I studied why women are underrepresented in state legislatures. I conducted a data set ranging from 2000 to 2018 for forty-three US states, analyzing the percentage of women who won and the number of women who ran in the elections. Using this data, I found evidence that personal …
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Impact: The Supreme Court in American Politics
… the Supreme Court make or influence policy and politics in the United States? In working to answer this question, I demonstrate that the Supreme Court has significantly more power and influence than scholars have typically given it credit for. I argue that the nature of the Court’s power is …
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Campaign songs as a factor in American politics
In the days when the United States of America was struggling to establish itself as a nation, the prevailing type of popular song was naturally patriotic. Walt Whitman in his article “Slang in America” observes that folk songs, like language, are not an abstract construction of the learned, bu …
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The role of money in local American politics
Issues related to money in American politics have long received widespread national attention, particularly among those fearing the outsized role of political spending on elections. Campaign finance regulations have evolved as a patchwork of legislation and court precedent speaking to these …
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Holy Books Or Pocket Books? Class And Values In American Politics
… the political effect that "moral values" have on Americans and much research has shown inconclusive results as far as the effect of class. This paper aims to study how class and values, including moral values and postmaterialist values, interact with politics in the United States. The analyses …
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State Political Parties in American Politics: Innovation and Integration in the Party System
… party organizations play in twenty-first century American politics? What is the nature of the relationship between the state and national party organizations in contemporary elections? These questions frame the three studies presented in this dissertation. More specifically, I examine the …
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The Presbyterian Church in American Politics: A Study in Contemporary Church - State Relations
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"""Twisting the lion's tail"": The persistence of anglophobia in American politics, 1921-1948"
… United States, made a stunning reappearance in American political discourse. Anti-British invective, whether directed against the empire, the monarchy, the aristocracy, or even against Americans suspected of harboring pro-English sympathies, would remain an important determinant of U.S. foreign …
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The investigation of scandal from Watergate to Monicagate: the special prosecutor in late twentieth century American politics
… the role of the Special Prosecutor in recent US politics and to assess the rise and relative decline of the reputation of the office in the period from the Watergate scandal of the mid 1970s to the Lewinsky scandal of the late 1990s. The project will evaluate the role of the Special Prosecutor in …
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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
… or disrupting them, have been part of American life since the early days of the republic. Equally American, and closely connected with them, are the ideas that our public institutions and elected officials are appropriate targets for both journalistic scrutiny and comedic satire. Press …
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Mistaking the Forest for the Trees: The Mistreatment of Group-level Treatments in the Study of American Politics
Over the past few decades, the field of political science has become increasingly sophisticated in its use of empirical tests for theoretical claims. One particularly productive strain of this development has been the identification of the limitations of and challenges in using observational data. …
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Reconcile the Indian, reconcile the nation: Transnational Indian reform in the era of inter-American politics, 1930-1960
… the unique, hemispheric institution, the Inter-American Indian Institute (IAII), and the lead historical actors from the U.S. and Mexico, this dissertation illuminates both national and transnational anxieties that arose as the United States, Mexico, and other American nations responded to what …
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Realignments of Doxa in U.S. American Politics: Tracing the Rhetorical Histories of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama
This dissertation is a study of political realignment from a rhetorical perspective. Specifically, I use the lens of doxa to rhetorically explore how basic assumptions regarding the role of government shift over time, and how crisis narratives are used to usher in these doxastic transformations. I …
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The Predominance of Race in American Mass Political Thinking: Racial Belief System Centrality and the Racialization of American Politics
… the role of race in the transformation of the American political system. In the mid-1960s, the electorate became, and has remained, polarized around the race issue. Scholars have also discovered that race provides a core structuring principle for a substantial portion of the public. In …
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The Predominance of Race in American Mass Political Thinking: Racial Belief System Centrality and the Racialization of American Politics
… the role of race in the transformation of the American political system. In the mid-1960s, the electorate became, and has remained, polarized around the race issue. Scholars have also discovered that race provides a core structuring principle for a substantial portion of the public. In …
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Republican Motherhood and the Early Road to Women's Rights: 1765-1848
… the development and participation of women in American politics from pre-American Revolution through the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Women's involvement in education, industrialization, and westward expansion are also discussed.
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John W. E. Thomas: A Political Biography of Illinois' First African American State Legislator
… was elected as Illinois' first African American state legislator in 1877 and served three terms in the Illinois General Assembly. This dissertation serves as the first full length biography of Thomas and seeks to discuss African American politics and society in post Civil War Chicago.
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Contested Majority: The Representation Of The White Working Class In Us Politics From The 1930s To The 1990s
… representation of the white working class in US politics from the 1930s to the 1990s: how politicians, journalists, pollsters, pundits, political commentators, social movement groups, and others have studied, written about, and claimed to speak for white working class people and how this work has …
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Conjecture and Evidence: Discovering the Costs of Contemporary American Political Ideals
… capacity (RPC) research framework to domestic American politics, enabling a quantitative examination of the relative performance of state governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Theoretically, I examine the notion that more politically capable states will be more effective in their efforts to …
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Can You Believe What You See? - Controversial Representation of Government Agencies in Martin Gero's Blindspot
This thesis explores the relationship between American politics and the media, the phenomenon of distrust in the government and how these phenomena are represented in television. In my thesis I argue that the government, more importantly government agencies are exposed to controversial …
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