Since the enactment of the Wilderness Act of 1964, millions of acres of federal land in the Western United States have been designated as wilderness. This change in land status has altered in perpetuity land usage opportunities for the designated areas. Many local political elites cry economic...

In 2004 Logan, Utah, saw the opportunity to place a turbine within the city's culinary water system. The turbine would reduce excess water pressure and would generate clean, low-cost electricity for the city's residents. Federal funding was available, and the city qualified for a grant under the...

Politics makes strange bedfellows, including alliances of profiteers and moralists who lobby for the same regulations, but for vastly different reasons. Whether such coalitions promote alcohol prohibition (as did the bootleggers and Baptists to whom similar “unholy alliances” are likened),...

This paper examines effects that voting systems can have on electoral outcomes in multicandidate elections. Using ballots collected from a county Republican Party special election, we recount the votes using preference based voting systems and compare the results to the special election outcome....

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: an industrial way of life -- Imagining the franchise : structures, social relations, and cultural work -- From ownership to partnership : the institutionalization of franchise relations -- Sharing worlds : difference, deference, and the creative context of...