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In: German politics, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 184-190
ISSN: 1743-8993
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In: German politics, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 184-190
ISSN: 1743-8993
In: New left review: NLR, Heft 44, S. 121-133
ISSN: 0028-6060
In: Security dialogue, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 197-214
ISSN: 1460-3640
This article examines themes of terrorism and counter-terrorism in US popular culture, focusing on eight cinematic or televisual works from the pre- and post-9/11 environment. Each of these works explores the dilemmas posed by terrorism, counter-terrorist mobilization, and occupation and resistance in fictional spaces. Three of the works — 24, The Agency, and The Grid — are narratives that attempt to simulate the activities of counter-terrorist operations in, respectively, a wholly fictional Counter Terrorist Unit; the Central Intelligence Agency; and ad hoc intelligence and tactical groups combing CIA, FBI, NSC, and MI5 agents. The other five works are more removed from an explicit attempt to mimic `reality': The X-Files, The Matrix Trilogy, Alias, The 4400, and Battlestar Galactica. In all of these works, the dangers to human rights posed by both overt and covert security operations lie at the core of their narrative structures.
In: The Middle East journal, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 627-640
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft: IPG = International politics and society, Heft 3, S. 36-52
ISSN: 0945-2419
World Affairs Online
In: International relations of the Asia-Pacific: a journal of the Japan Association of International Relations, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 129-153
ISSN: 1470-4838
In: State politics & policy quarterly: the official journal of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 394-415
ISSN: 1532-4400
Recent studies (Brace and Hall 1990, 1995, 1997; Hall 1987, 1992; Hall and Brace 1989) have demonstrated that state supreme court judges' decisionmaking is influenced by the type of selection mechanism that put them into office. In particular, judges are found to respond to the interests of those who have placed them on the bench. We extend this line of inquiry further by testing the effect of rules governing the retention of these judges in merit systems. Do these judges respond to the subtle differences in constituency that these rules establish? We address this question with a larger dataset than that used in previous studies of decisionmaking (Brace and Hall 1995, 1997; Hall 1987, 1992), and we find overwhelming evidence of the effects of these retention rules. In fact, we also conclude that judicial decisions are more influenced by the actor charged with retaining them than the actor who placed them on the bench in the first place. Adapted from the source document.
In: Review of international political economy, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 276-305
ISSN: 1466-4526
In: Refugee survey quarterly, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 198-206
ISSN: 1471-695X
In: Integration: Vierteljahreszeitschrift des Instituts für Europäische Politik in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 150-165
ISSN: 0720-5120
World Affairs Online
In: Studies in American political development, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 203-229
ISSN: 0898-588X
Challenges previous interpretations of the development, reform, & retrenchment of federal antipoverty policy in the US, highlighting the rise of modern "workfarism" & the decline of New Deal "welfarism" Focusing on three key pieces of legislation passed 1971-1975 -- the Talmadge Work Incentive Initiative (WINN II), Supplemental Social Security Income (SSI), & the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) -- the role of Republican & Democratic legislators in the redesign of public assistance is reassessed; congressional voting data are presented for each measure. It is shown that, contrary to popular belief, the shift from a welfarist to a workfarist model was initiated by Southern Congressional democrats, not the New Deal or Great Society liberals, beginning in the late 1960s. Tables. K. Hyatt Stewart
In: International journal of public administration, Band 30, Heft 6-7, S. 671-682
ISSN: 1532-4265
In: Diplomacy and statecraft, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 663-687
ISSN: 1557-301X
In: Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 31-46
ISSN: 1467-8675
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 645-654
ISSN: 1938-274X
In the struggle to control the federal bureaucracy, presidents have an overlooked but powerful tool: the recess appointment. By making recess appointments, presidents can fill vacancies without the advice and consent of the Senate. The authors delineate three conditions that define presidential unilateral powers and demonstrate how recess appointments fit within that paradigm. Presidents, the authors argue, should be more likely to make recess appointments to important policy-making positions, namely, major independent agencies. The authors compile a data set of every civilian nomination and recess appointment between 1987 and 2004. After controlling for other factors, the authors find strong support for their theory.