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Politics, public relations and internal communications: A look at the DNC
Supreme Court decision-making in slavery cases
The new dynamics of bureaucratic autonomy: Courts, litigation, and agencies in the modern American state
Campaign confidantes: Six perspectives on California's 2008 presidential primary
China's fragmented political structure and the effect on environmental policy enforcement---on the water pollution control in the tributaries in the Three Gorges Reservoir area
The underdevelopment of India's Muslim minority: An institutional analysis
"East is Red": A musical barometer for Cultural Revolution politics and culture
Art and cultural diplomacy in the international exhibition: Documenta 1 and Prospect.1
Carte Blanche: Experiments in the art of interactive political satire and contemplative virtual space
East Los Angeles and the primary race of presidential hopeful Barack Obama
Independent diplomacy between North Korea and China following the 20th communist congress of the Soviet Union
The kinesthetic citizen: Dance and critical art practices for Master of Public Art Studies
Different geographical representations of middle America
Bundeswehr in transition: Germany slowly transforms its Cold War defense force into modern expeditionary military
News from Germany between 1985 and 1995---A casualty of the end of the Cold War
Marketing the beard: The use of propaganda in the attempt to Talibanize Pakistan
Italian feminism: From emancipation movements to liberation collectives
The separation of powers and the Supreme Court: A new institutional analysis of inter-branch disputes, 1946--2005
Death and politics in the United States Courts of Appeals
A government of words: The social practice of judging in a rule-of-law system
Racial propositions: "Genteel apartheid" in postwar California
Plato's Magnesia and philosophical polities in Magna Graecia
The other side of authenticity: Authenticity, liberalism, and resistance
Settling trade disputes under the shadow of WTO adjudication
Egalitarianism begins at home and in cohorts: Egalitarianism in United States public opinion, 1952--2000
State restructuring and pathways to local democracy: Idea and politics of decentralization in Japan and Korea
Sacralizing the Right: William F. Buckley Jr., Whittaker Chambers, Will Herberg and the transformation of intellectual conservatism, 1945--1964
In pursuit of liberty: The civic liberalism of Frederick Douglass
Location, location, location: A spatial econometric analysis of place-context effects in Los Angeles mayoral elections
Beyond the limits to planning for equity: The emergence of community benefits agreements as empowerment models in participatory processes
Property and democracy: Authority in four American property-rights regimes
A woman's right to culture: An argument for gendered cultural rights
Foreign-related activities of the Chinese local governments and agents of globalization: A case study of 31 provinces in Mainland China
Hobbes, education and the long run stability of nations: Toward a Hobbesian model for contemporary religious theocratic societies
The political economy of R&D collaboration: Micro- and macro-level implications
Institutional variance of the democratic peace, 1816--2002: Electoral, executive, and federal systems in time and space
The religious educational divide in nineteenth-century Lebanon: Institutional roots of communal educational choices
Compliance and compromise: The jurisprudence of gender pay equity
Assessing the effectiveness of transnational activism: An analysis of the anti-whaling and anti-sealing campaigns
The resiliency of Arab authoritarianism and the Arab-Israeli conflict: The United States' role in the cases of Egypt and Jordan
Reconciling socialism with the market: The "privatization" debates in China (1993--2002)
The life cycle of jurisprudential regimes: The Supreme Court and the constitutional law of civil rights
Environmental ABC's---Acting on behalf of children: Rethinking representation, risk, and responsibility in U.S. environmental policy implementation
An argument for the criminal hoax
Attacking atheists: Doing one's duty to God and country in 21st century America
Assessing the implementation of the reclaim cap-and-trade market for pollution: Measurement issues in counterfactuals, goal attainment, and command-and-control alternatives
French grand strategy in Africa in the Fifth Republic
Argentina's economic crisis in 2001 and the International Monetary Fund
Shaking the foundations of violent civil conflict: Institutions, disasters, and the political economies of state-rebel interaction
Political incorporation and transnationalism: A study of South Asian immigrants in the United States
An alternative model of transition in the Middle East: Bounded consociationalism
The Supreme Court and the governing regime in political time
The politics of the growth of regional disparity in Japan
Phoenix rising: Arizona and the origins of modern conservative politics
Se ve, se siente: Transmedia mobilization in the Los Angeles immigrant rights movement
Multiracial politics or the politics of being multiracial?: Racial theory, civic engagement, and socio-political participation in a contemporary society
Private school choice at the state level: Diversity and success
Environmental policy reforms in a global and regional world: Mimetic, diffusive, and coercive policy adoptions in France and Korea
Structure, agency, and the Kuznets Curve: Observations and implications for sustainability planning in U.S. cities
National identity and the right to self-government
Private partnership for public benefit
Governance and urban design: Omaha By Design
Key individuals of community collective action and their network roles: The case of Neighborhood Council in the City of Los Angeles
The political representation of Kurdish, Kemalist, and conservative Muslim women in Turkey (1990--2010)
Experiential purchasing tendency as a function of approach versus avoidance motivation
The stars and the state: Astronomy, astrology, and the politics of natural knowledge in early medieval Japan
On being bound: Law, authority, and the politics of obligation
Feeling polarized: Emotional partisan polarization and its reinforcement through campaign advertising
Essays on the politics of the American Welfare State
The local politics of education governance: Power and influence among school boards, superintendents, and teachers' unions