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The Strike Files contain (1972-1985) correspondence, press clippings, legal papers, membership memoranda, organizational papers, and other strike-related materials (1977 - 1982). Also included is extensive material regarding PATCO's strike plans. In addition to the strike preparation materials, this series also includes correspondence between membership and the central office. See Series V: Strike Files finding aid for complete description. In order to protect 3rd party rights, some folders may contain incomplete scans.

Introduction.--The centenary of modern government.--The first century's changes in our state constitutions.--Absolute power, an American institution.--The exemption of the accused from examination in criminal proceedings.--Freedom of incorporation.--American jurisprudence.--The decadence of the legal fiction.--The recognition of habitual criminals as a class to be treated by itself.--The defence by the state of suits attacking testamentary charities.--Salaries for members of the legislature.--Permanent courts for international arbitration.--The Monroe doctrine in 1898. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In recent years, social studies of science have developed a deep interest in the conduct of science in the field. However, studies of controversial field science remain relatively rare. This paper presents an analysis of a controversy about the origin of primate infanticide that began in the 1970s, and discusses the ways in which controversies in the field differ from those in the laboratory. Particularly important here is the inability of researchers to control the behaviour of their research subjects; to an important extent, the conduct of their research is dependent on the agency of their research subjects. Finally, it also points to the rôle played by the sciences of animal behaviour in the constructions of stories about the biological basis of human culture, a rôle that means that the investigation of controversy in these sciences is of paramount public importance.

Introduction : 150 years of climate science -- Studying the climate, from the ice age to the greenhouse -- The twenty-first century : from measurements to predictions -- The world reacts -- Climate change deniers and their playbook -- It's late, but not too late

The border position of geography between the natural and the social sciences is fairly generally recognized. Concerned primarily with differences in the different areas of the world, geography studies both natural and cultural features. In some universities, it is included among the natural sciences, in others among the social sciences. In England and America, geographers have particularly cultivated that portion of their field which leads naturally into economics, i.e., economic geography. Much less attention has been paid to the relations with history, although various geographers and historians have studied what has variously been called historical geography or geographic history. Even less have geographers in the English-speaking countries concerned themselves with that portion of their subject which bears upon the political areas of the world. The territorial problems of the war and postwar period, however, stimulated activity in this field both in England and America, the most notable product of which is Bowman'sThe New World, consisting in large part of the materials gathered for the American Commission to the Peace Conference.

In May 2017, I travelled to Ecuador with a team of MacEwan University reporters to cover the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, a research facility located in the western Amazon rainforest. After spending a week at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito to liaise with academics, and a weekend in the Ecuadorian Amazon to visit the station and its staff, we collected enough material to produce The Tiputini Project, a magazine exploring the economic, political, environmental stakes of natural resource extraction in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Besides serving as the magazine's copy chief, I produced photography and video, as well as a long-form professional profile of the station's founding director, Dr. Kelly Swing. Discipline: Communication Studies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brian Gorman

In 'The law of selection in the public economy as compared to the market economy', Professor Francesco Forte (1982) – contemporary doyen of the Scienza delle finanze tradition – extended an invitation to consider the public economy by means of evolutionary principles of selection. Not many replied to Professor Forte's invitation. This article is a delayed response to the invitation. Through a parallel with a metaphor from Lewis Carroll, it proposes the Political Red Queen hypothesis: politicians work to stay in power by weakening the evolutionary pressure under which they would otherwise naturally operate. A Political Red Queen exerts effort – runs, in the language of Carroll's original Red Queen metaphor – to make policy, promulgate laws, supply public and merit goods, and so on with the prime objective to survive by reducing the uncertainty linked to maintaining a political role. A Political Red Queen thus works to weaken 'natural' political selection. The Political Red Queen hypothesis is shown to hold, mutatis mutandis, for both democratic and non-democratic political environments. It can be viewed as incorporating a positive public choice nexus between politics-as-exchange and politics-as-power.