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new, unexpected partnerships? In a time when technology and political and social divisiveness make it easy to dismiss the other, it is vital that we build pathways to understanding opposing points of ... Influence and Political Communication 1 Bowdoin College 2 Policy Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Interpersonal and Small Group Communication 3 Part of the Civic and Community Engagement Commons
disparities and health inequities that arise and that perpetuate. It is a public health crisis worth resolving. To resolve this crisis will require political will, education, financial resources, and ... research institutions, and county, state, and federal governments. Additionally, we must be aware of the politics and political agenda in our society at all levels. As Daniel Dawes states in his book, The
today’s intense political discord in America can be traced to various economic and cultural trends, but collectively they suggest a more fundamental problem: that our laws and institutions are upheld by an ... the federal government to address problems that President Cleveland would have seen as beyond government’s reach. The FDR paradigm is so deeply embedded in our political culture that it completely
In its 200-year history as a state, Maine has gone through three major political realignments and is now in the midst of a fourth. The Jefferson Democratic Republicans supplanted the Federalists to ... Development officer until 1965, when he was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Their record of political achievement and public service was impressive, and their philosophy of
is environmental. “If we could work together, we could compete against chicken, declared one oyster farmer. “Oysters are a sustainable protein at the right time.” Another critical message is political ... information they gained from the experience. Thus, the messages absorbed by consumers are not overtly environmental or political in nature. When asked to name one thing they remembered about Maine oysters
economic growth. The political leadership of the state, cities, counties, and metro regions must develop new models to achieve greater density for affordable workforce housing and more public transit ... ) : 102 -110, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/ vol29/iss2/14. Part of the Demography; Population; and Ecology Commons; and the Urban Studies and Planning - Commons The Political Geography
adult political attitudes; Older adult conservatism - The gerontology profession is in the business of understanding the lives of older people and devising interventions to make them better. Many of ... roots of this dissonance and begin to grapple with the political and professional questions it raises. Gerontologists should gain a better understanding of white elder conservatism and begin to grapple
receive less attention and, in some respects, have yet to reach the policy agendas of the emerging Latino political empowerment organizations (e.g., Congressional Hispanic Caucus). In this issue of PPAR
testimony. For a full list of the legislation included in this analysis, see Appendix B available online.2 For each proposed bill, we collated basic information including sponsor name and political party ... achieved their desired outcomes for a majority of the bills for which they submitted testimony. These findings suggest some level of political power that often results in desirable policy outcomes. These
This article describes an outreach program called Philosophy Across the Ages (PAA). PAA connects a University of Maine philosophy professor and her undergraduate students with Orono High School ... Across the Ages by Kirsten Jacobson Fand impact of my work as a philosopher at the or the past six years, I have extended the reach University of Maine by creating an outreach program called Philosophy
-making process, among other concerns (Bennett et al. 2021) . Coastal and ocean grabbing is described as a political process grounded in policy choices that permit outside interests to displace local ... concentration of political and economic power within a handful of transnational corporations may result in monopolization, privatization of ocean resources, inequitable distribution of benefits from ocean use
, connected, and persuasive, possessing social and political capital they could use to broker compromise or quell conflict. These boundary spanners were instrumental in helping the Take Reduction Team process ... ://doi.org/10.5670 /oceanog. 2019 .201 Sabatier , Paul, Susan Hunter, and Susan McLaughlin . 1987 . “ The Devil Shift: Perceptions and Misperceptions of Opponents .” The Western Political Quarterly 40 ( 3
denialism among some public officials and frequent political party turnover—in addition to two national institutional contexts— present formidable obstacles to formulating coherent adaptation strategies ... intensity of the commitment to climate action has fluctuated on the federal and subnational levels in both Canada and the United States, due to frequent political party turnover and the tendency for
products like lobster that are already accounted for in the marketplace).2 While economic importance of lobster is unquestioned by our political leaders, who have come out in force against recent ... Maine’s political leaders (Bever 2019; King et al. 2021; Office of Governor 2020) . While our courts have gone back and forth in upholding or denying regulations on the lobster fishery from the National
outlived its usefulness, or if it is more important than ever given the country’s current deep political polarization. This is the first-place essay. ... and dilutes the political power of Black voters because they tend to live mostly in the South. Codrington (2020) argues that “the disempowerment of Black voters … is core to what the Electoral College
policies and tools to guide public officials that include public input in the process. Use consultants to separate town staff from the political turmoil. Review ethics ordinances and economic conflict-of
Baltimore where a smaller percentage of sailors were unionized. Captains were told to “make life miserable” for union members and ensure they were doing “the heaviest kind of hard work.”2 Bath’s political ... appointed Minister of Hawai’i, an influential diplomatic and political post that placed him in a key position to shape the archipelago’s future (Burlin 2008: 233–259). With the outbreak of the Spanish
come by. Even so, due to political transitions and more readily apparent impacts of climate change, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Marine Unit has recently improved its ability
public acceptance and in reducing legal, political, and other risks to bringing projects online. Despite the preferences expressed in Maine’s Offshore Wind Roadmap and incentives included in LD 1895, Maine
approaches for supporting resilience is also needed. Resilience is not just influenced by fishery-specific factors, but also by a broader web of social, economic, and political issues. We need more holistic
