Browsing Politics URC Student Scholarship by Title
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Shouldering the Burden: Shedding America's Failed Welfare State through National Service
(2009-01-01)Forty-eight years after President Kennedy challenged the nation to act for the greater good, looking beyond individual needs, an unprecedented opportunity to institute a universal service program might finally fulfill this ... -
Strauss and the Crisis of the West
(2006-01-01)During this summer I attempted to better understand the political philosophy of the historian Leo Strauss. To do this, I broke my research into three distinct sections. First, I focused on Strauss?s political philosophy ... -
Sustainable Energy Technology Exchange Between China and the United Sates: Competition or Collaboration
(2009-01-01)The current global energy crises and the intermestic issue of pollution have intertwined the political and environmental fates of the United States and China. This research project will introduce international measures ... -
Taiwanese Democratization and its Effect on the Sino-Taiwan Sovereignty Dispute.
(1998-01-01)In 1986 the government of Taiwan began a process of democratization that fundamentally altered the nation's political system. An authoritarian government was no longer exercising supreme control over the development of the ... -
The British Media: Ideal in Theory, Flawed in Practice Emelia Haiken and Casey Weiss
(2006-01-01)This project examined the role of objectivity in coverage of politics in the British print media. We were interested in exploring another democratic media system in light of criticism in America that by striving for a ... -
The City of Compton: The Causes and Effects that Brought on Racial Demographic Change.
(1998-01-01)Since the 1940's, the city of Compton has experienced rapid demographic change and related shifts in power. Between the early 1940's and the late 1960's, the racial composition of Compton changed from being predominately ... -
The Conflation of Legal and Illegal Immigration and its Effects on Welfare and Immigration Reform.
(2003-01-01)This study examines the origins of conflating views of legal and illegal immigration and the effects of such onwelfare reform and immigration reform. My research question is then: How hasthe conflation of legal and illegal ... -
The Economy?s Influence onVoters? Gubernatorial Choice
(2004-01-01)This study looks specifically at the 1994 and 1998 gubernatorial elections and tries to break down the components that voters consider when choosing a governor. First, the governor?s role in state and national politics is ... -
The Fission of One-Dimensionality: An Existential Investigation into the Work of Herbert Marcuse and the Potential for a Restorative Future
(2006-01-01)In this project, I assess the social and individual implications of the work of Herbert Marcuse, from his youth as a philosophy student and critical theorist of the Frankfurt School, to his later assault on advanced ... -
The Iconography of Barack Obama: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Pictorial Articulations and Implications of Images
(2009-01-01)If the phrase ?a picture has a thousand words,? holds truths, what then can be said about an icon, let alone one that crosscuts politics, culture, race, and domestic divides? The power of icons has both implicit and explicit ... -
The Nature and Future of European Security Integration
(2000-01-01)The European Union (EU) has a complex and somewhat overlapping structure, largely as a result of the evolutionary process of the last fifty years. While each of its bodies shares responsibility for a number of policy areas, ... -
The Revolution before the Revolution.
(1999-01-01)In 1776, America became the first nation in the modern world to declare its independence from the mother country. In doing so, it also created a new political ideology that was later interwoven into the American identity. ... -
The Tension of Kierkegaard: A Delicate Recipe for Meaningful Action
(2011-01-01)It is hard to read Kierkegaard's work academically and not feel in some part as if you are letting him down, as if you are forsaking the very purpose of his writing and camouflaging yourself among the myriad academics who ... -
The United Nations? Involvement in Somalia and Rwanda: Transitioning Roles of U.N. Peacekeeping and the Concept of Sovereignty
(2006-01-01)In The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Weiss, Forsythe and Coate suggest that ?A Conceptual and operational leap must be made, striking a new balance between state sovereignty and the need for effective UN ... -
The Values and Ideals thatMotivate Candidates for Public Office
(2004-01-01)There is magnificent potential in the power of public office in the United States. Candidates often run for election because they hope to tap this potential by lowering taxes, further protecting the environment, repaving ... -
The Variation of African-American Communication in Printed Media: A Study of African-American Coverage of War in the United States
(2003-01-01)When compared to mainstream print media, the black print media has been improperly criticized, which leads to the question, how can and should the quality of the African American newspaper be measured? This subject has ... -
TheDynamicNatureofStateCourtsinEducationRightsLitigation
(2011-01-01)Little known to most Americans, there is currently no fundamental right to education under the United States Constitution. This was made clear in the 1973 Supreme Court decision in San Antonio Independent School District ... -
Today?s Boundaries of Blackness: Is Secondary Marginalization Still Applicable to the AIDS Crisis in 2008?
(2008-01-01)Ten years ago, Cathy Cohen published the book "Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics", examining the black community's response to the AIDS crisis. Cohen posited that secondary marginalization ... -
Towards Worker's Rights: A Restructured NAFTA
(2008-01-01)Since it was enacted in 1994 the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been an economic success, but a disaster for the average worker. The safety net promised by President Clinton disappeared. Many workers who ... -
Turkey's Political Identity: East vs. West?
(2007-01-01)As a secular Islamic nation, Turkey has not only been an ally of the West but also the bridge to relations with the East. Turkey's secular nature is attributed to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's political, economic, and cultural ...