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The role of argument in civics education: enhancing citizenship in a transcultural society
Title
The role of argument in civics education: enhancing citizenship in a transcultural society.
Creator
McKerrow, Raymie E., Jack Miller Forum, Department of Political Science, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued
2009-01-30
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT186477p
Subject Headings
Democracy -- United States, Rhetoric -- Philosophy, Rhetoric -- United States, Civics -- Study and teaching -- United States
Format
Set of related objects
Beyond culture wars
Title
Beyond culture wars: the role of Christian religiosity in the public support for social safety net policies in contemporary America.
Creator
Alvarado, Emmanuel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
Abstract/Description
This study examines the impact of Christian religiosity on attitudes toward social safety-net policies over the past three decades in the US. The study used data from the General Social Survey on social safety-net policy preferences and levels of Christian religiosity. Simple cross tabulations, correlations and multiple regression analysis were used to assess the data. Contrary to previous related research, the results of this study indicate that Christian religiosity has a very weak...
Show moreThis study examines the impact of Christian religiosity on attitudes toward social safety-net policies over the past three decades in the US. The study used data from the General Social Survey on social safety-net policy preferences and levels of Christian religiosity. Simple cross tabulations, correlations and multiple regression analysis were used to assess the data. Contrary to previous related research, the results of this study indicate that Christian religiosity has a very weak association with opposition to social safety-net policies. At the national level, the relationship between Christian religiosity and attitudes toward social protection policies was largely mediated by other factors such as race, gender, education, family income, and political ideology. These results indicate that Christian religiosity per se does not independently influence social spending preferences. Instead, these results suggest that social divisions in socioeconomic standing and in political ideology, which in turn are closely related to differences in support for social protection policies, permeate American Christianity. The study also examined the relationship between Christian religiosity and social protection policy preferences among Hispanic and Black Americans separately. Although Hispanics and Blacks are generally more supportive of social spending in comparison to White Americans, Christian religiosity was not found to have a strong independent effect on support for social safety-net policies among these two groups. The study did find, however, a markedly different level of support for social safety-net policies among identifiable Christian groups at the national level and in the Hispanic-American population., Those who self-identified as "evangelical" or "fundamentalist" Christians were much less supportive of social safety-net policies in comparison to "mainline" or "liberal" Christians. Among Hispanics, Catholics were more supp in comparison to Evangelical Protestants. Moreover, the results of this study indicate that religious American Christians have had a tendency to give precedence to moral issues over concerns about social safety-net policies thus facilitating an issue-bundling effect in recent electoral competition. Lastly, the present work proposes a broad framework through which to interpret the aforementioned findings grounded on the existence and interaction of two counterpoised cultural narratives on social protection found within American Christianity.
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Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927301
Subject Headings
Social service, Christianity and politics, Urban policy, Democracy, Economic aspects, Social policy
Format
Document (PDF)
Oration, by William H. Seward, at Plymouth : December 21, 1855.
Title
Oration, by William H. Seward, at Plymouth : December 21, 1855.
Creator
Seward, William H. (William Henry) 1801-1872, Buell & Blanchard
Abstract/Description
Oration at Plymouth, December 21, 1855. Notes: Caption title. Imprint from colophon. List of "Documents published by the Republican Association of Washington City."--Page [1] at end. FAU copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb17f18
Subject Headings
Campaign literature -- United States -- 19th century, Campaign speeches -- Massachusetts -- Plymouth -- 19th century, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- Elections, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Puritans, Democracy -- United States, Christianity and culture -- United States, Freedom of religion -- United States -- History -- Sources, Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines, Puritans -- Intellectual life
Format
E-book
consequences of conditioned democracy promotion by the United States in Latin America
Title
The consequences of conditioned democracy promotion by the United States in Latin America.
Creator
Walsh, Kelly., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
Democracy promotion is an important tenet of United States foreign policy. However, U.S. democracy promotion efforts are conditioned by geopolitical concerns, economic goals, and security interests. This thesis analyzes the impact of U.S. foreign policy in Chile, Colombia, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Evidence from these cases suggests that United States foreign policy has contributed to the growth of unhealthy or pseudo-democracies in Latin America because frequently the policy reinforces the...
Show moreDemocracy promotion is an important tenet of United States foreign policy. However, U.S. democracy promotion efforts are conditioned by geopolitical concerns, economic goals, and security interests. This thesis analyzes the impact of U.S. foreign policy in Chile, Colombia, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Evidence from these cases suggests that United States foreign policy has contributed to the growth of unhealthy or pseudo-democracies in Latin America because frequently the policy reinforces the political and economic power of entrenched elites or the military. These groups, whose interests more closely align with U.S interests, are often uncommitted to supporting policy that promotes human rights and equitable distribution of wealth and power or that demands universal political liberties. Democracy is promoted rhetorically rather than in practice, and consequently is unresponsive and illegitimate. Future democracy promotion efforts by the United States, if they are to be successful, must overcome this illegitimacy by compensating for the conflicts that conditioned democracy produces.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/210005
Subject Headings
Democracy, Democratization, Government policy, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Foreign relations
Format
Document (PDF)
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Title
Hillary Rodham Clinton: feminism, success, and the First Ladyship.
Creator
Boyer, Heather J., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
This thesis will investigate the ways in which Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and the Junior United States Senator from New York State, appropriated strategies of liberal feminism in her political career as the first modern, working mother to serve as First Lady. A feminist First Lady, Clinton broke through the social expectations placed upon that role in an unprecedented manner by taking an active part in the political strategy and substance of her husband's...
Show moreThis thesis will investigate the ways in which Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and the Junior United States Senator from New York State, appropriated strategies of liberal feminism in her political career as the first modern, working mother to serve as First Lady. A feminist First Lady, Clinton broke through the social expectations placed upon that role in an unprecedented manner by taking an active part in the political strategy and substance of her husband's administration. Her successful campaign for the United States Senate in 2000 as the first former First Lady to hold such an office proved that she has her own political clout independent of her husband. Hillary Rodham Clinton has all the marks of a liberal feminist success story: a strong political background and educational credentials, unfettered ambition, mastery of public discourse, her own political identity, and a real commitment to tough policymaking and representation in Washington. Yet despite this success, liberal feminism presents problems for the women's movement generally. After mapping the history of Hillary Rodham Clinton as a feminist political figure, I will examine whether liberal feminism is adequate in challenging patriarchal structures and other related forms of domination.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11593
Subject Headings
Presidents' spouses, Feminist theory, Women in public life, Feminism, Liberalism, Women in democracy
Format
Document (PDF)
Piety secures the nation's prosperity : a thanksgiving discourse
Title
Piety secures the nation's prosperity : a thanksgiving discourse.
Creator
Plumley, G. S. (Gardiner Spring) 1827-1894, First Presbyterian Church (Metuchen, N.J.)
Abstract/Description
Thanksgiving discourseNotes: Includes correspondence and verse. "Published by request." FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: pages loose. Has original printed wrappers.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f2
Subject Headings
American Civil War (1861-1865), Thanksgiving sermons -- 1865 Dec. 7., Democracy -- United States -- Sermons, Thanksgiving Day addresses, Presbyterian Church -- Sermons, Bible -- Jeremiah, XVII, 12 -- Sermons, Sermons, American -- 19th century, Poetry, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sermons, United States -- Politics and government -- Religious aspects -- Sermons
Format
E-book
An oration delivered by invitation, before the Albany County Temperance Society, at the Reformed Dutch Church in Bethlehem, July 4, 1838.
Title
An oration delivered by invitation, before the Albany County Temperance Society, at the Reformed Dutch Church in Bethlehem, July 4, 1838.
Creator
Southwick, Solomon, 1773-1839, Southwick, Alfred, 1812-1862
Abstract/Description
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ F². "Corrections."--Page [44]. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: cover missing; edges trimmed to 20 cm.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb12f20
Subject Headings
Fourth of July addresses -- 1838, Fourth of July celebrations -- New York (State) -- Bethlehem, Religion and politics -- United States, Democracy -- United States -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Bible -- Influence -- Modern civilization, Fourth of July orations -- 19th century, Usury, Temperance -- New York (State) -- Societies, etc, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century
Format
E-book