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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"United States -- Politics and government"”.
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Freemasons in government in the United States, 1776-1840.
Mason and non-Mason labored side-by-side in their effort to carve out a government of, by, and for, the people from an almost uninhabited wilderness. In a spirit of independence, the American colonists overthrew the rule of the "Mother Country" and established the new American nation. Many of the …
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Party attitudes and American foreign policy 1840 to 1860
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Neoliberal social policy in the United States before Reagan
… work examines the role of trade agreements and the Carter administration in promoting neoliberal policy in the United States. Policy-planning groups, with extensive connections to the U.S. government and transnational corporations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral …
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A rhetorical analysis : to be or not to be a viable vice-presidential candidate that is the question, J. Danforth Quayle.
… were raised in regard to Quayle's qualifications and competence as a viable vice-presidential candidate. The study investigates the links between the man, his self-image and three of his rhetorical artifacts. In addition, it analyzes Quayle's strategies to improve his political image, his …
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The Iranian hostage crisis decision-makers : victims of groupthink?
… process which occurs at the highest level of government during a time of political crisis. What makes it different from other studies into small-group decision-making is the use of first-person accounts from the decision-makers, themselves. Eight officials who served under President Jimmy …
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Changing Ideological Boots: Adaptive Legislator Behavior in Changing Districts
… interest group scores from the ADA, NFU, and COPE. This exploits the bias in the selection of the issues that interest groups utilize to rate U.S. representatives, by using them to reflect changes in response to significant demographic fluctuations in the constituency population. The …
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The presidential campaign of 1948
… of being re-elected to the presidency of the United States seemed very dubious. It was uncertain that he would even secure the Democratic nomination for that office.</p><p>Truman's pre-convention Western trip. In the early summer of 1948 President Truman left the Capitol on a supposedly …
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The origin and implementation of the Truman doctrine
… the background of the rift between the Soviet and Western allies by selecting several of the more critical points of controvercy involved with the formulation of the Truman Doctrine.</p>
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Partisanship and Judicial Decision Making in U.S. Courts of Appeal
Partisanship is found in voter and Congressional behavior. Members of the federal judiciary should behave similarly. I utilize cases involving the Republican and Democratic parties from 1966 to 1997 and examine the voting behavior of federal Courts of Appeal judges. I utilize both cross tabulations …
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Charles Mason and the Civil War : the Story of a Jacksonian in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
… the war, their reactions to the growing tensions and war itself become of interest in exploring the development of American political thought. This thesis examines these reactions as encountered in the personality of Charles Mason, a Jacksonian Democrat born in New York and later a resident of …
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A historical analysis of the nomination of Wendell Lewis Willkie for the presidency of the United States of America
… two important characteristics of the man stand out: his personal traits and energy and his strength of conviction in fighting for the principles in which he believed. Willkie cannot be regarded a politician in the usual sense; he was a businessman who, because of his convictions, waged a …
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Political Misuse of Domestic Intelligence: A Case Study on the FBI
… in preventing disorder while ensuring unity and security during a time of national crisis. However, if uncontrolled, domestic intelligence can be subject to political misuse, which causes serious damage both to individuals and to democratic institutions. There are various theoretical …
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