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Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustice, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)Feminist scholars and activists engage in meaningful, contentious debates about the relationships among sex, gender, power, and society. One of the most recent iterations of these arguments reinscribes the pleasure of sex ... -
Islam and power legitimation: instrumentalisation of religion in Central Asian States
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-03)How can Islam play multiple and contradictory roles as a source of violence and peace, and a marker of identity differences and national unity? This study argues that religion, as a system of beliefs, manifests itself ... -
Not a Woman, but a Soldier: Exploring Identity through Translocational Positionality
(Springer Verlag, 2016-08-09)Recent debate over integrating women into U.S. military combat units presents an opportunity to examine the gender identities and experiences of women in the military. Here, we examine the context-dependent prominence of ... -
John Rawls, Barack Obama, and the Pluralist Political Consensus
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-10-01)To counter partisan polarization, political theorists like John Rawls and political leaders like Barack Obama have sought to locate and express consensual elements of American culture that can appeal to or at least be ... -
Talking Politics on Facebook: Network Centrality and Political Discussion Practices in Social Media
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This study examines the relationship between political discussion on Facebook and social network location. It uses a survey name generator to map friendship ties between students at a university and to calculate their ... -
Women's Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides
(University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009-03-19)Women's Activism in South Africa provides the most comprehensive collection of women's experiences within civil society since the 1994 transition. This book captures South African women's stories of collective activism and ... -
Human Trafficking Indentification and Service Provision in the Medical and Social Service Sectors
(Harvard School of Public Health, 2016-06)The medical sector presents a unique opportunity for identification and service to victims of human trafficking. In this article, we describe local and site-specific efforts to develop an intervention tool to be used in ... -
“I Need to Hurt You More”: Namibia’s Fight to End Gender-Based Violence
(University of Chicago Press, 2014-03)The article discusses efforts to combat gender-based violence in Namibia. Particular focus is given to the relationship between legislation and social transformation. Details on parliamentary debates surrounding the Namibian ... -
Thinking about my Generation: The Impact of Large Congressional Cohorts
(Walter de Gruyter, 2014)Large partisan congressional “classes,” once common, have become more the exception than the rule over the past 60 years. Thus, when they come along, as in 1974 and 1994 (and perhaps 2010), they receive a lot of attention. ... -
Fiction, Facts, and Truth: The Personal Lives of Political Figures
(Walter de Gruyter, 2010)In the wealth of research on politics and politicians over the past fifty or so years, little attention has been accorded the relationships between the personal and the public sides of politicians' lives. Given the ... -
On the Importance of Frailty in Social Science Theory (and other lessons of agent-based modeling)
(University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science, 2013-01)This paper is about the theoretical implications of agent-based modeling exercises. Construction of an agent-based model challenges a social scientist to formalize many concepts and relationships that would have remained ... -
Enfranchising Displaced Voters: Lessons from Bosnia-Herzegovina
(Mary ann Liebert, 2007)How can the designers and administrators of election rules balance the need to enfranchise voters with the need to ensure the integrity of the vote? This tension is particularly acute when large numbers of voting-age ... -
The Face of "Grassroots Democracy" in Rural China
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Queering the Support for Trafficked Persons: LGBTQ Communities and Human Trafficking in the Heartland
(Cogitatio, 2015-02-23)Human trafficking justice centers on the “Three Ps” model of prevention, protection, and prosecution. While protection and prosecution efforts have been moderately successful, prevention remains elusive, as “upstream” ... -
The Power of Commitment in Cooperative Social Action (abstract only)
(SimSoc Consortium, 2002-06-30)This paper presents an agent-based simulation model of protest activity. Agents are located in a two dimensional grid and have limited ability to observe the behavior of other agents in the grid. The model is used to explore ... -
Fab! or Drab?: Increasing the Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning in Summer Classes
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-08-08)This article reviews the pitfalls and benefits of teaching and learning in summer school and identifies the lack of student interest as the key factor affecting the effectiveness of learning in the summer. The primary goal ... -
Competing perspectives on democracy and democratization: assessing alternative models of democracy promoted in Central Asian states
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-12)This study examines alternative understandings of democracy and democracy promotion advanced by the US, EU, Russia and China in Central Asia using frame analysis. In the context of this study, ‘frames’ refer to the relatively ... -
On the Importance of Frailty in Social Science Theory (and other lessons of agent-based modeling)
(European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, 2013-01-26)This paper is about the theoretical implications of agent-based modeling exercises. Construction of an agent-based model challenges a social scientist to formalize many concepts and relationships that would have remained ... -
Group Involvements in City Politics and Pluralist Theory
(SAGE Publications, 2013-03)The assessments of 75 councilors and mayors in eight cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area provide global measures of group organization, activity, and influence in community politics and measures of their specific ... -
The Public Assistance Policies of Cities and the Justice Concerns of Elected Officials: The Centrality of the Floors Principle in Addressing Urban Poverty
(Wiley, 2013-02-23)City councils are significant, though seldom central, actors in local policy networks providing public assistance to disadvantaged residents. Mayors and council members in 12 American cities more often support than oppose ...
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