Browsing by Subject "politics"
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Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
(2010)This dissertation examines the relationship between architecture and democratic politics in late-modernity. It identifies the refusal of architects to consider the political dimensions of their work following the failures ... -
Clean Elections: How has public election funding in Maine and Arizona influenced the behavior of non-candidate political actors?
(2012-12-07)Maine and Arizona implemented public funding systems for state elections in 2000 with the aim of increasing competition and voter choice, curbing election costs, and reducing the influence of special interest money in elections. ... -
Guilt and the War within: the Theater of Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Giraudoux
(2008-12-12)The moral and ethical choices made during the Nazi Occupation of France would echo for generations: they served as a source of pain and pride when the French sought to rebuild their national identity after the ignominy of ... -
Historical Influences in Contemporary Discourse
(2010-04)This thesis is a comparative analysis and discussion on affirmative action for blacks in Ecuador and Brazil. I use history to understand the different approaches to and the different arguments for and against affirmative ... -
Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
(2011)What happens when the dominant binary categories used to describe American race relations--either "black and white," or "Anglo and Mexican"--are examined contemporaneously, not comparatively, but in relation to one another? ... -
Metrics & Democratization: Law, Technology & Democratic Expertise in Postwar El Salvador
(2014)The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the role of monitoring standards on democratic governance reform in El Salvador since the 1992 end of a 12-year civil war. The study looks at the development and implementation ... -
On Compassion: Sustaining the E Pluribus Unum
(2012)Contemporary political events reveal a serious partisanship divide in which serious, non-bombastic political conversation appears limited. The theatrical effect is to make Americans appear as enemies of each other. And, ... -
Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter
(2010)The basic question of "Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter" is whether or not it is possible to think a concept of political cinema while affirming the autonomous capacities of both cinema as an art and politics ... -
Show Me What Democracy Looks Like: Articulating political possibility in Durham, North Carolina
(2018-04-27)As in most U.S. cities, municipal voter turnout in Durham, North Carolina is stratified by race and income level. Local politicians win elections by catering to the predominately white and middle-class bloc categorized as ... -
The Inadvertent Opposition: The São Paulo Political Class and the Demise of Brazil's Military Regime, 1968-1985
(2013)This dissertation argues that the civilian "political class" played an understudied yet decisive role in toppling Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship. In contrast with existing explanations for the regime's fall, which ... -
The Relentless, Outside Push: Why the Minnesota Legislature Defied Economics and Public Opinion to Fund Target Field
(2015-06-12)Publicly financed stadium deals have soared to total over 100 instances on more than $30 billion over the past 20 years. Each year the American government spends half as much money on these PPP’s as it does on potential ... -
Transnational Blogospheres: Virtual Politics, Death, and Lurking in France and the U.S.
(2009)What are the meanings of "here" and "there" in a digital age? This dissertation explores how blogs reveal new meanings of being "here" in a political space, how blogs reveal new meanings of being (or not being) "here" in ... -
Truth to Power: The Politics of Theological Free Speech in the Cappadocian Fathers and Augustine of Hippo
(2018)This dissertation investigates the political grammars of truth-telling employed by two sets of early Christian authors, the Cappadocian Fathers (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa), who wrote in ...
