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Can Voters Tame the Information Tide? How the Lack of Party Information Affects Voter Information Searches

Seib, Drew - 2010

efficient cue for making decisions and have to search for other information if they are to make a reasoned decision … partisan elections, but the effects are less pronounced. Yet, we still do not know where voters obtain partisan information in … examines how voters search for information when they cannot rely on party labels. To test this relationship, I use a dynamic …

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Does God Have a History?

Martin, Jerry L. - 2010

The human encounter with the Divine Reality is often with a personal God. Using Eric Voegelin's hermeneutic, the symbol “Person” is rich in implications, some of which are evident in religious texts, some of which is explicated by John Macmurray and Emmanuel Mournier. These implications...

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Alexis de Tocqueville’s Ancient Modern Liberty

Forde, Steven - 2010

Tocqueville's discovery of a muscular, participatory citizenship in the United States is well known, as is his argument that such citizenship is vital to the success of democracy. This has been a source of both self-congratulation and anxiety among Americans, the anxiety stemming from worries...

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Thucydides in Times of War : Holding the History Up as a Mirror

Lee, Christine M. - 2010

In 2005, Joseph Lane Jr. remarked: “Whenever we get a new war, we get a new Thucydides.” The fact that scholars and policymakers have turned to the History in response to the two world wars, the Cold War, the Gulf War, the more recent Iraq War and the “war on terror” demonstrates the...

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Revolutions and the Order of History

Leutzsch, Andreas - 2010

This paper deals with the concepts of disorder within the theoretical framework of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Eric Voegelin. I will try to give a very brief and un-finished insight into the use of a comparative approach concerning both theories and it is therefore just a first step into two...

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Revising the History of the Early American State

Ericson, David - 2010

Several recent works, such as Brian Balogh's Government Out of Sight and Sheldon Pollack's War, Revenues, and State Building, have attacked the “weak state” trope in the American political development literature. My paper intends to assess this revisionist literature. The argument is the...

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Historical Influences on Regional Democracy Variations in Russia : The Forgotten Legacies of Western Engagement

Lankina, Tomila - 2010

Historical legacies, particularly imperial tutelage and religion, have featured prominently in recent scholarship on political regime variations in post-communist settings, challenging earlier temporally proximate explanations. The overlap between tutelage, geography, and religion has...

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Hard Times, Bad Policy : Executive Suspension of Civil Rights of Ethnic Minorities

Bromsen, Amy - 2010

Two modern presidents have faced attacks on US territory in the twentieth century. Each responded by using executive powers which had developed over the centuries since the framing of the Constitution. While the circumstances were different, the similar use of presidential authority compels a...

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