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- A paper containing a statement and vindication of certain political opinions ; read before the Democratic Association, Chestnut Hill, Nov. 1862.
- Creator
- Reed, William B. (William Bradford) 1806-1876, Campbell, John 1810-1874
- Abstract/Description
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Statement and vindication of certain political opinions Notes: Ascribed to William Bradford Reed. Cf. Cushing, Sabin. Signed: W.B. Reed, page 28. Another issue without the statement on title page beginning "Read before ..." Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb20f24
- Subject Headings
- American Civil War (1861-1865), History, Personal narratives, Politics and government, Reed, William B. -- (William Bradford) -- 1806-1876, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
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- E-book
- Title
- Address of his excellency John A. Andrew, to the two branches of the legislature of Massachusetts, January 5, 1861.
- Creator
- Massachusetts Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew), Andrew, John A. (John Albion) 1818-1867
- Abstract/Description
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Senate (Series) (Massachusetts. General Court. Senate) ; 1861, no. 2. Cover title. Alternate title: Running title: Governor's address. "The provisions of the statutes concerning personal liberty", pages 26-35. FAU copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f30
- Subject Headings
- Legislative addresses -- Massachusetts -- 1861, Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, Personal liberty laws, Politics and government, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
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- E-book
- Title
- An oration; delivered March sixth, 1775 At the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston; to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. By Dr. Joseph Warren. [Two lines of quotations in Latin].
- Creator
- Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.
- Abstract/Description
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Speech by Dr. Joseph Warren commemorating the bloody tragedy of March 5, 1770. The date of the Boston Massacre.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb3f17
- Subject Headings
- New York (Colony) -- Provincial Congress -- Anecdotes, United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Anecdotes, New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Anecdotes, Politics and government, Satires, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800
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- E-book
- Title
- An aristocratic revolution?: the British reaction to the Decembrist Revolt of 1825.
- Creator
- Posner, Kenneth., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis argues that in the wake of the Decembrist Revolt in Russia in 1825, the British Foreign Office was forced to address the tension between two conceptions of stability-one domestic and one international. It contends that the aristocratic ethos of the British diplomatic corps both magnified the fragile social condition of the Russian Empire and organized the political response which subordinated this concern to the international equilibrium of Europe. Ambassadors such as Lord...
Show moreThis thesis argues that in the wake of the Decembrist Revolt in Russia in 1825, the British Foreign Office was forced to address the tension between two conceptions of stability-one domestic and one international. It contends that the aristocratic ethos of the British diplomatic corps both magnified the fragile social condition of the Russian Empire and organized the political response which subordinated this concern to the international equilibrium of Europe. Ambassadors such as Lord Strangford and Edward Cromwell Disbrowe helped interpret the events of the Decembrist conspiracy while stationed in St. Petersburg and reported back to their Foreign Secretary, George Canning, who used the revolt as an attempt to realign British interests with Russia. In the end, elite Britons chose to protect the international balance of power in post-Napoleonic Europe instead of the traditional social hierarchies believed to be under siege in Russia.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2705079
- Subject Headings
- Secret societies, Decembrists, Aristocracy (Social class), History, History, Influence, Politics and government, Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
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- Chavez and the media: a framework for analyzing the 2012 presidential election news coverage in Venezuela.
- Creator
- Viller, Adrian J., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The media has a significant influence on any political process. In Venezuela, particularly, the media plays an important rold in defining the electorate's political opinion and attitude toward the political process. This thesis analyzed how the media's preference for conflict and individual personalities exacerbated overall societal tensions and polarization in Venezuela since 1999. I suggest a framework for a future content analysis of news coverage of the 2012 presidential election in order...
Show moreThe media has a significant influence on any political process. In Venezuela, particularly, the media plays an important rold in defining the electorate's political opinion and attitude toward the political process. This thesis analyzed how the media's preference for conflict and individual personalities exacerbated overall societal tensions and polarization in Venezuela since 1999. I suggest a framework for a future content analysis of news coverage of the 2012 presidential election in order to quantify and qualify the evolution of bias and balance in Venezuela's mass media.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359323
- Subject Headings
- Political culture, Political parties, Mass media, Political aspects, Press and politics, Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Cooperation in the midst of chaos: an examination of Colombia's civil-military relationship and its effect in combating socio-political destabilization.
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- Schoonover, Harvey A., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
- Abstract/Description
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Internal strife has plagued the South American country of Colombia for well over forty years. In an effort to combat the different subversive elements within its borders, the Government of Colombia developed an interagency counterinsurgency strategy that takes a whole-of-government approach. This approach takes many governmental functions and institutions and places them under one counterinsurgency "umbrella". The cornerstone of this interagency model is strong civil-military cooperation....
Show moreInternal strife has plagued the South American country of Colombia for well over forty years. In an effort to combat the different subversive elements within its borders, the Government of Colombia developed an interagency counterinsurgency strategy that takes a whole-of-government approach. This approach takes many governmental functions and institutions and places them under one counterinsurgency "umbrella". The cornerstone of this interagency model is strong civil-military cooperation. What this research project seeks to accomplish is to first apply the Concordance Theory of Civil-Military Relations to Colombia's unique civil-military relationship. Secondly, this research project seeks to understand how the Colombian interagency counterinsurgency model has balanced the country's security and socio-political development and sustainability. Specifically, this research project attempts to answer the question of how this interagency model of counterinsurgency influences socio-political and security sustainability since the implementation of Plan Colombia. The methodology for this research project will include a combination of primary source reviews, comparative case study examination and simple trend analysis of significant security and socio-political variables. This methodological approach will best describe the unique political, military and social dynamics taking place within Colombia. This analysis of Colombia's interagency counterinsurgency strategy is relevant not only to Colombia but to many other countries facing similar challenges in Latin America and around the world. The applicability of this model to other insurgency scenarios will also be briefly examined.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683538
- Subject Headings
- Counterinsurgency, History, Civil supremacy over the military, Civil-military relations, Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Democracy and economic growth in Argentina.
- Creator
- Lotarynski, Uriel., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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By now, a vast literature has attempted to answer the question of whether democracy is conducive to economic growth. The empirical side of the literature has not come to any consensus on this issue. My thesis examines Argentina's economic and political history from 1960 to the present, including particularly volatile episodes with many military regimes. Specifically, I attempt to contribute to the democracy-growth literature by examining whether Argentina's level of democracy affected its...
Show moreBy now, a vast literature has attempted to answer the question of whether democracy is conducive to economic growth. The empirical side of the literature has not come to any consensus on this issue. My thesis examines Argentina's economic and political history from 1960 to the present, including particularly volatile episodes with many military regimes. Specifically, I attempt to contribute to the democracy-growth literature by examining whether Argentina's level of democracy affected its economic growth. Controlling for a number of factors, I construct an econometric model that focuses on GDP as the dependent variable and democracy as the independent variable of interest. I claim that there is no correlation between Argentina's economic growth and its level of democracy.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335104
- Subject Headings
- Democracy, Economic development, Politics and government, Economic conditions
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Democratization and exogenous cultural influence: Western mass media and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe.
- Creator
- Batey, John R., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
- Abstract/Description
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Democratic forms of government are either consolidating democratic institutions or unraveling into authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union. Among the possible causes of each success or failure to consolidate democracy is the character of civil society and its cultural proximity to long-standing, modern state-based, consolidated democracies of the West. What impact does Western or Westernized media have upon the indigenous civil societies of Eastern Europe, and is this impact sufficient to...
Show moreDemocratic forms of government are either consolidating democratic institutions or unraveling into authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union. Among the possible causes of each success or failure to consolidate democracy is the character of civil society and its cultural proximity to long-standing, modern state-based, consolidated democracies of the West. What impact does Western or Westernized media have upon the indigenous civil societies of Eastern Europe, and is this impact sufficient to consolidate democracy among the states of the former Soviet Union? As case studies, Eastern Europe contains two states, Estonia and Russia, where democracy has either succeeded or failed alongside the presence of exogenous cultural influence in the form of Western or Westernized television broadcast media. To what extent does the presence of Western broadcast media and associated cultural memes predict the iv consolidation of democratic political values, and how ought any impact of these memes be interpreted in the light of modernity, Eurocentricity and cultural hegemony? To account for the impact of exogenous cultural influence, foreign policy prescriptions that encourage the growth of indigenous, mimetic, democratic civic culture would appear to be an effective means of supporting democracy in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3360741
- Subject Headings
- Post-communism, Post-communism, Social aspects, Democratization, Mass media policy, Mass media, Political aspects, Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Florida Across the Threshold: The Administration of Governor LeRoy Collins, January 4, 1955-January 3, 1961.
- Date Issued
- 1961
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000263.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Politics and government
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Great speech of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson to the democracy, in mass meeting assembled at Wyoming County, Pa., August 19, 1861, on The existing rebellion.
- Creator
- Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens) 1800-1866, Cauldwell, Southworth & Whitney
- Abstract/Description
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Series note: The mercury union tracts for loyal men, no. 1. Caption title: Our country above party : patriotic war speech of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson. Great speech of Honorable Daniel S. Dickinson to the democracy. On the existing rebellion. Notes: Cover title. Series statement at head of title. Text printed in two columns.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f9
- Subject Headings
- Constitutional history -- United States, Fugitive slaves -- United States, Politics and government, Secession -- Southern States, Slavery -- United States, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, States' rights (American politics), United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
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- E-book
- Title
- Join NEST's work-a-day with the people of El Salvador!.
- Creator
- New El Salvador Today
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1986
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002810
- Subject Headings
- New El Salvador Today (Organization), Human rights -- El Salvador., El Salvador -- Politics and government., Human rights., Politics and government, El Salvador.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Liberty Billings, Florida's forgotten radical Republican.
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- Asarch, Rhonda V., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
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Unitarian preacher and Union Army officer Liberty Billings arrived in Florida in 1863 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. Billings settled in Fernandina and became active in Florida Reconstruction politics as a Radical Republican. Most ot the rhetoric regarding Billings focuses on his participation in the 1868 Florida Constitution Convention even though he went on to be State Senator and an influential citizen in Fernandina. This thesis examines the life of Liberty Billings...
Show moreUnitarian preacher and Union Army officer Liberty Billings arrived in Florida in 1863 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. Billings settled in Fernandina and became active in Florida Reconstruction politics as a Radical Republican. Most ot the rhetoric regarding Billings focuses on his participation in the 1868 Florida Constitution Convention even though he went on to be State Senator and an influential citizen in Fernandina. This thesis examines the life of Liberty Billings focusing on events preceding and following the Convention. In doing so, it argues that Billings' participation in Reconstruction politics derived from his experiences prior to the Civil War as did his transition from emancipationist to reconciliationist. By examining the earlier years of Billings' life as well as the evidence of his campaigns during 1867, his term as State Senator and Supreme Court cases, it will be demonstrated that Billings abandoned racial equality for class supremacy.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3356895
- Subject Headings
- Influence, History, Political parties, History, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Long live Arab authoritarianism?: a cross-case anaylsis [sic] of regime survivability in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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- Leisinger, John., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this paper is to bypass the generalizations surrounding the Arab democracy deficit in order to gain a better understanding of the variables that interact to produce the unusual stability and duration of Arab authoritarian regimes. A critical cross-case analysis is used to examine the Middle East's two most enduring regimes: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Republic of Egypt. The survival of these regimes is comprehensible in terms of manipulation of Islamic precepts,...
Show moreThe purpose of this paper is to bypass the generalizations surrounding the Arab democracy deficit in order to gain a better understanding of the variables that interact to produce the unusual stability and duration of Arab authoritarian regimes. A critical cross-case analysis is used to examine the Middle East's two most enduring regimes: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Republic of Egypt. The survival of these regimes is comprehensible in terms of manipulation of Islamic precepts, control of economic development, and external support, chiefly from the United States.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/41002
- Subject Headings
- Authoritarianism, Civil society, Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
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- Message of his Excellency William A. Buckingham, Governor of Connecticut, to the legislature of the state, May session, 1862.
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- Connecticut Governor (1858-1866 : Buckingham), Buckingham, William A. (William Alfred) 1804-1875
- Abstract/Description
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"Printed by order of the legislature." "New Haven, May 7th, 1862"--Page 24. FAU Libraries' copy has original green printed wrappers, side stitched wit cord.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb20f4
- Subject Headings
- Connecticut -- Militia, Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, Draft -- Connecticut, Legislative addresses -- Connecticut -- 19th century, Politics and government, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
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- E-book
- Title
- The miseducation of Hugo Chavez: political learning and populism in Latin America.
- Creator
- Fertitta, David., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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This project examines the role of political learning in predicting the recent rise of left-of-center governments in Latin America, ranging from moderate center-left coalition governments to one-party populist regimes. Studies of populism consistently point to the role of natural resources and economic crises in predicting the rise of populist regimes. This study adds the concept of political learning by using measures of moderation in the current regime as a dependent variable and measures of...
Show moreThis project examines the role of political learning in predicting the recent rise of left-of-center governments in Latin America, ranging from moderate center-left coalition governments to one-party populist regimes. Studies of populism consistently point to the role of natural resources and economic crises in predicting the rise of populist regimes. This study adds the concept of political learning by using measures of moderation in the current regime as a dependent variable and measures of oppression in earlier regimes as independent variables. Utilizing case studies of Venezuela and Chile as ideal types and plotting ten further cases on indicators of repression, military spending, corporate tax rates, government spending, the percent of votes going to moderates, and economic freedom scores from Freedom House, I argue that the likelihood of the rise of populist regimes is greater in countries that have not experienced the sort of intense political repression that generates political learning.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335021
- Subject Headings
- Power (Social sciences), Populism, Politics and government, Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- NATO and the West - the discursive myths of salvation and conspiracy: a post-communist analysis of the Romanian case.
- Creator
- Popescu, Daniela., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis provides a critical cultural analysis of the discursive myths of salvation and conspiracy, using as a case study the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during the transition period in Romania, from 1989 to 2007. The study offers an answer to the questions: how do NATO myths change? Why and with what discursive implications for the Romanian audience? The thesis uses a combination of methodological tools from three different disciplines - history, mythology, and rhetoric -...
Show moreThis thesis provides a critical cultural analysis of the discursive myths of salvation and conspiracy, using as a case study the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during the transition period in Romania, from 1989 to 2007. The study offers an answer to the questions: how do NATO myths change? Why and with what discursive implications for the Romanian audience? The thesis uses a combination of methodological tools from three different disciplines - history, mythology, and rhetoric - with the intent of showing how the Romanians' public attitudes toward NATO change in four different political contexts: during the integration period until Romania's admission into the alliance, during the Kosovo war, after 9/11 events and during the installation of NATO troops on Romanian territory. This study demonstrates that NATO myths are effective operational strategies that offer Romanians a sense of identity in the critical period of transition. The thesis also explains how NATO, as a carrier of Western values, helps the democratization of the Romanian public sphere and the reconstruction of a national identity based on democratic principles.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172694
- Subject Headings
- Post-communism, Peaceful change (International relations), Politics and government, Politics and government
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Opposition politics and populism: a comparative analysis of South American populist governments.
- Creator
- Weiss, Morgan Alissa., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis examines the relationship between the political opposition and populism. The goal is to identify when, how, and under what circumstances an opposition to a populist leader affects change to the political system. A comparative historical analysis is employed as five case studies from South America are examined. The evidence presented in these case studies demonstrates that the political oppositions in each country were unsuccessful in affecting change to their respective political...
Show moreThis thesis examines the relationship between the political opposition and populism. The goal is to identify when, how, and under what circumstances an opposition to a populist leader affects change to the political system. A comparative historical analysis is employed as five case studies from South America are examined. The evidence presented in these case studies demonstrates that the political oppositions in each country were unsuccessful in affecting change to their respective political systems. They were unable to demobilize the support base that the populist leaders had created. Change came to the political systems in four out of the five case studies only when the populist leader's actions demobilized his support and not from the actions of the opposition.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/192993
- Subject Headings
- Opposition (Political science), Political culture, Political leadership, Populism, Politics and government
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Pentecostalism, development and democracy in Latin America.
- Creator
- Louis, Pierre A., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The recent explosive growth of Protestantism in Latin America has led a number of scholars to predict that the region may be on its way to reaching a significantly higher levels of socioeconomic development and democracy. These are important claims for a region that has struggled with both economic development and democratic consolidation. This thesis argues that Protestantism in Latin America does not follow the classical Weberian pattern of development. Because the majority of Protestant...
Show moreThe recent explosive growth of Protestantism in Latin America has led a number of scholars to predict that the region may be on its way to reaching a significantly higher levels of socioeconomic development and democracy. These are important claims for a region that has struggled with both economic development and democratic consolidation. This thesis argues that Protestantism in Latin America does not follow the classical Weberian pattern of development. Because the majority of Protestant growth in the region is Pentecostal, the causal assumptions of the--culture and development school do not hold. Furthermore, a context of neoliberalism, a significant colonial legacy, and wide income disparities continue to hinder the potential for development. Based on a review of secondary sources and specific data from the case of Guatemala, this thesis argues that while individual Protestants may experience some upward social mobility, the growth of Protestantism has done little to advance the socioeconomic and political development of the region.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77674
- Subject Headings
- Democratization, Neoliberalism, Christianity and politics, Politics and government, Cultural policy
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Personal dictatorships and the breakdown of authoritarianism: Cuba and the third wave of democratization.
- Creator
- Velez, Jared., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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From 1974-1990, more than thirty of the world's authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracy in what Samuel Huntington terms the third wave. Sixteen years following the conclusion of the third wave of democratization, the Castro regime remains the official government of the Cuban state. I examine what factors led to the continued existence of the Castro administration. Several factors account for the prolonged tenure of the Castro administration. Fidel was able to increase his political...
Show moreFrom 1974-1990, more than thirty of the world's authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracy in what Samuel Huntington terms the third wave. Sixteen years following the conclusion of the third wave of democratization, the Castro regime remains the official government of the Cuban state. I examine what factors led to the continued existence of the Castro administration. Several factors account for the prolonged tenure of the Castro administration. Fidel was able to increase his political power through the monopolization of information. The ability of the Castro regime to maintain authority was further exacerbated as a result of the country's dependence on Soviet financing, the repositioning of a weakened Catholic Church, contradictory foreign policies of external actors such as the United States, and a powerless civil society.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11576
- Subject Headings
- Democracy, History, Democratization, Castro, Fidel, 1926-, Politics and government
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The representation paradox.
- Creator
- Adams, Robert T., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/209983
- Subject Headings
- Politics, Practical, Representative government and representation, Political participation, Politics and government
- Format
- Document (PDF)