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A Field Study of Consociationalism in the Northern Ireland Assembly: A Moderating Influence or Threat to Democracy?

policymaking, party platforms and voter choice to determine if it strengthens and enlarges the middle ground or bifurcates the political community into two extreme and conflicting political agendas. Data was ... orthern Influence Ellen Noble 0 1 0 ory Commons, and the Politics and Social Change Commons 1 Part of the Political The Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu

Seeking Stability in an Oily World: The Gulf War and American Imperialism

Oil has profoundly shaped the political, economic, and social structures of the twentieth century and it continues to shape the global order today. As both a source and a medium of power, oil binds ... American Imperialism Kate Keleher From beauty products to political revolutions; from a schoolteacher’s daily commute to a diplomat’s agenda; from the local to the global and in between, one key agent

Locating Rousseau's Legislator in the Social Contract

philosophy…sees in them no more than lucky impostures, the true 10 Ibid., 20. 11 Colm Kiernan, “ Rousseau and Music in the French Enlightenment, ” French Studies Journal 26(1972):156. political theorist ... Unlike other noteworthy political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes or John Locke, - Jean Jacques Rousseau is the only political philosopher to include a legislator in his fundamental doctrine

The Kolla of Argentina: Neoliberal Trends and the Promise of Law in the Process of Reframing, Claiming and Maintaining Land Rights

the legacy of the colonial period and the remnants of historical exclusion still haunt indigenous groups in Argentina, outwardly Argentinean’s indigenous groups fight political exclusion, larger ... expropriation of haciendas. He officially targeted Patrón Costas, a conservative and influential politician from Salta who owned San Martín del Tabacal, an indigenous sugar factory. Patrón Costas was a political

Revolution is No Longer a One State Affair

provided the biggest impetus for revolution in Algeria in the first place. Revolutions are domestic in that they seek to alter the internal political, social, and economic structures of a territory and are ... Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origin of the Post-Cold War Era, (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002), Print, 74 2 A state here will refer simply to the political organization of

Why won’t it Stick? Positive Psychology and Positive Education

Escamilla Santana, Sir Anthony Seldon, Professor Martin Seligman and Professor Kaiping Peng and during the Summit. 3. Specific virtues or values and character-based education lessons based in philosophy or ... -being has severe competition in the political arena. For example, in the Australia, schools are called on to engage with and implement The National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN

The Steady-State Economy As A Solution to The World’s Problems: A Theoretical Examination of The Greatest Environmental Problem Facing Human Society

largest world problem; it is the backdrop to major global systems and ways of life, and as such the cause of many economic, social, political and particularly environmental problems. Creating a steadystate ... it is a holistic solution. Instead of addressing a single problem, the steady-state economy creates a system that takes into account social, political and ecological needs, one that promotes equity and

Are Volatile Coffee Prices Important to Economic Inequality?

a measure of good governance will be a better measure than the level of government expenditure to analyze how policies and the political environment affect income inequality. Successful policies used ... . Gylfason , T. ( 2001 ). Nature, Power, and Growth . Scottish Journal of Political Economy . Jacks , D. S. , O 'Rourke , K. H. , & Williamson , J. G. ( 2011 ). Commodity Price Volatility and World Market

The Geographic Value of Patient-Carried Medical Records in Improving Healthcare in the US

the effectiveness of PCMRs through of lens of the geography of health. According to Dummer, health geography examines the “social, cultural, and political contexts for health within a framework of

Editorial for “Positive Computing: A New Partnership Between Psychology, Social Sciences and Technologists”

the creation and blossoming of partnerships between many disciplines including linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and what was then the newly-formed field of “cognitive sciences

Freedom and happiness in nations: why the Finns are happier than the French

fits that wider pattern. 2. Concepts and measures The terms happiness and freedom are often used in political rhetoric, but are in that context seldom properly defined. Greater precision is required ... available information on choice restrictions in the domains of economic life, political life and private life of citizens (or individuals within that nation). Economic freedom is measured by absence of

The Kolla of Argentina: Neoliberal Trends and the Promise of Law in the Process of Reframing, Claiming and Maintaining Land Rights

Patrón Costas, a conservative and influential politician from Salta who owned San Martín del Tabacal, an indigenous sugar factory. Patrón Costas was a political figurehead who served as governor and ... rights, manifested in an end to labor subjugation and some form of political participation (Schwittay 2003) . The Estatuto del Peón of 1944, for instance, improved agricultural labor conditions: it had a

Fourth Time's the Charm?: Modeling a Psychologically-Based PEACE IV Program in Northern Ireland

Policy Commons 1 Methods Commons, Other Political Science Commons, Peace and Conflict Studies Commons Part of the Community Psychology Commons, Education Policy Commons, Models and the Social Psychology ... Ireland rarely makes international news these days, the country remains in a violent political stalemate. The levels of violence in Northern Ireland remain well below the most heated period of conflict

Modeling Metamorphic Rocks Using Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Internally Consistent Databases: Past Achievements, Problems and Perspectives

. The usage of type 2 pseudo-DQF (⁠ΔGimod⁠) is, however, not compatible with the philosophy of an internally consistent dataset. The thermodynamic properties of single end-members cannot be changed ... solid solutions, this approach contradicts the philosophy of Darken: a single regular activity model is used over the entire compositional range, instead of splitting the compositional range into terminal

Does Brazil Have the Right to Truth?

constitutional and a political question that could be repealed only in Parliament, while the IACHR condemned the Amnesty Law as inconsistent with the American Convention of Human Rights. Third, the politically ... Ernesto Geisel became president in 1974 and introduced reforms that further limited political activity and elections (BBC 2012) . It is during these periods that the regime became openly dictatorial. In

A Brief Research on 1936 Soviet Constitution under Joseph Stalin

Stalin's personal influence, as well as the contemporary political structure created by him, profoundly influenced the draft, passage and publicizing of this document. In this paper, I will examine this ... Constitution's contents that demonstrate the efforts of Stalin’s Government to redistribute political resources, pacify social disorder and regulate different relationship among this huge multinational state; and

Social Movements and Free Riders: Examining resource mobilization theory through the Bolivian Water War

://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macreview Part of the Political The ory Commons Recommended Citation individuals which are responsible for social movement emergence; instead, they consider the key factor in emergence to be ... resources to their organizations and Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua was antagonistic with political and economic elites. Given that resource mobilization theory took Olson’s free-rider issue as the basic

Carving Out a Niche for Humanitarianism within the Responsibility to Protect

strict application of humanitarian principles. Indeed, humanitarian ideals have been stretched in ways relief workers never expected. Today’s humanitarian agenda—spanning long-term political, economic ... , many lives might have been saved in Bosnia if humanitarianism had not been a pretext for political inaction. The profound sense of disillusionment and revulsion at the failure of the international

Carving Out a Niche for Humanitarianism within the Responsibility to Protect

strict application of humanitarian principles. Indeed, humanitarian ideals have been stretched in ways relief workers never expected. Today?s humanitarian agenda?spanning long-term political, economic ... , many lives might have been saved in Bosnia if humanitarianism had not been a pretext for political inaction. The profound sense of disillusionment and revulsion at the failure of the international

On Chinese Foreign Policy: A Big Stick, An Equally Big Carrot

inevitable. Indeed, this paper will not debate claims on whether China is or isn’t rising—there are too many political, economic, and social measures that clearly favor the rising China argument to regress ... recommendations for the future. In order to understand the implications of China’s rise and the potential impact these might have on the political landscape, it is necessary to answer three questions: what does