Caging Democracy: A 50-Year History of Partisan Challenges to Minority Voters [PDF]
Voter caging is a term that drew public attention as a result of testimony provided by Monica Goodling, former White House liaison to the Department of Justice, to a 2007 House Judiciary Committee hearing on the firings of eight US Attorneys.
Teresa James
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The Value of “Unlimited Spending” in Presidential Elections: Super PAC Influence in the 2012 Republican Primaries [PDF]
In their inaugural presidential cycle, Super PACs spent heavily in an attempt to sway voters. Though this spending was widely publicized and served as a major source of controversy, very little evidence has been presented to suggest that their efforts ...
Dalia, Joseph, Jr.
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Democratic Republicanism in the Early Modern Period
This chapter aims to recover a specific intellectual tradition, a tradition that I describe as ‘democratic republicanism’. I do so by focusing on four different early modern thinkers: Johan and Pieter de la Court, Baruch Spinoza and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Politics in forgotten governments: the partisan composition of county legislatures and county fiscal policies [PDF]
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the policy effects of the partisan composition of county governments.
De Benedictis-Kessner, Justin +1 more
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Modern Republicanism and the History of Republics [PDF]
It is argued that modern characterizations of republican liberty as adhering to a "non-domination" model of liberty are inaccurate for the period of the Italian Renaissance, and that the humanists of the period, aside from Machiavelli, did not see ...
Hankins, James
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Turkish Athletes in Olympics from The Republican Period
We examined the Turkish athletes who participated in theOlympics since the Republican era of Turkey, with relationto the factors such as period, branch and gender, and toprovide determinations and suggestions in line with allthese. Firstly, the number of medals, periods and branchesof Turkish Athletes who participated in the Olympicsbetween 1924 and ...
Aydın, Gökhan +3 more
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Rational Speculative Bubbles in the US Stock Market and Political Cycles [PDF]
This paper tests the existence of rational speculative bubbles during Democratic and Republican presidential terms, which has not been systematically researched in existing studies.
Wang, Miao Grace, Wong, Sunny
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DISCUSSIONS ON HUMANISM IN THE EARLY REPUBLICAN PERIOD
Hümanizm genel olarak, akıllı insan varlığını tek ve en yüksek değer kaynağı olarak gören, bireyin yaratıcılığının ve ahlaki gelişiminin rasyonel ve anlamlı bir biçimde doğaüstü alana başvurmadan, doğal yoldan gerçekleştirilebileceğini belirten, insanın doğallığını, özgürlüğünü ve etkinliğini ön plana çıkartan felsefi bir ...
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Heart of Darkness: New Hampshire Campaign Finance Law Since Citizens United [PDF]
[Excerpt] “Perhaps one of the greatest election law paradoxes in the United States is that New Hampshire—the First in the Nation Presidential Primary State—a State whose citizenry famously prides itself on political engagement—is also a State with some ...
Surdowski, Jay
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Gender representations in adaptations of foreign literature in the Republican period
Chinese film The Heroine in the Besieged City 孤城烈女 (Gucheng lienü, 1936) is based on 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant’s (1850−93) story “Boule de Soif.” The Chinese version of Boule de Soif, like her French counterpart, is caught in a moral ...
QIN, Liyan
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