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1	The flow of money and interests in policymaking Caliskan, Cantay 27 November 2018 (has links) This dissertation is comprised of three papers that analyze the relationship between political money, elite interests and policies. Individual papers in this work are connected through this overarching theme and the methodology that is used. Each paper employs statistical methods on large-scale datasets with an emphasis on network analysis. The first paper investigates the relationship between the strength of elite connections and the success of renewable energy and emission reduction policies. Based on an original dataset created from social media accounts of the ministers in 34 countries, this analysis uses a stochastic block model and modularity analysis to compare the strength of connections between different types of elites. The quantitative analysis is complemented by in-depth interviews conducted in seven European countries. The second paper explores the relationship between socio-political capital of state-level American politicians and their agenda holding power in legislation. Using a very extensive dataset on campaign contribution records and state-level bill proposals in the United States, this paper employs survival analysis to explore the aforementioned connection. The third paper is a quantitative description of the large datasets on federal- and state-level campaign contribution records and state-level bill proposals. Using visualization, network analysis, and clustering, the last part of the dissertation uncovers some of the connections between big political donors, parties, private sector, and legislation. The last paper in the dissertation also contains a typological identification section for donors and lawmakers. The goal of the dissertation is to expand the literature on elites, to explore what new stories can be told about political money in the United States, and to make use of large-scale datasets for more conclusive arguments in American politics and policy literature. Political science Campaign contribution Data mining Network analysis Renewable energy Social media State legislature
2	The process of becoming : the political construction of Texas’ Lone STAAR system of Accountability and College Readiness López, Patricia Dorene 02 March 2015 (has links) As systems of accountability and efficiency continue to permeate public education institutions it is important that research engage the various factors that embody how these systems come to be, whose knowledge gains access to informing their designs, and whose interests are served. Texas has long been recognized as a testing ground for such policy designs, although researchers’ points of departure on such systems have solely focused on the outcomes of these policies in practice. Research on the political construction and discourses that define the underlying goals of these systems continue to be ignored by researchers. Analyses of Texas-inspired federal policies have also predominantly taken an outcomes-based approach, or at most have had episodic engagements with political processes peering down from the balcony to observe the interaction of the obvious actors. To this end, this three-year ethnographic study conceptually and methodologically engages the various dimensions—such as race, class, history, interest, power, and agency—that embody the political lineage of Texas’ new system of Accountability and College Readiness across various contexts. This study further contributes to the dearth of literature that examines the role of research and university researchers in policy debates, and the limits and possibilities of politically engaged scholars in such processes. / text Education policy Public policy Ethnography Texas state legislature Critical policy analysis Chicana feminist theory
3	Manipulating Fear: The Texas State Government and the Second Red Scare, 1947-1954 Bonewell, Shaffer Allen 05 1900 (has links) Between 1947 and 1954, the Texas State Legislature enacted a series of eight highly restrictive anti-communist laws. Designed to protect political, military, and economic structures in the state from communist infiltration, the laws banned communists from participating the political process, required registration of all communists who entered the state and eventually outlawed the Communist Party. Drawn from perceptions about Cold War events, such as the Truman Doctrine and the Korean War, and an expanding economy inside of Texas, members of the state legislature perceived that communism represented a threat to their state. However, when presented with the opportunity to put the laws into action during the 1953 Port Arthur Labor Strike, the state government failed to bring any charges against those who they labeled as communists. Instead of actually curtailing the limited communist presence inside of the state, members of the state government instead used the laws to leverage political control throughout the state by attacking labor, liberals in education and government, and racial minorities with accusations of communism. Second Red Scare Texas State Legislature Anti-Communism History, United States History, General
4	Faculty Senate Minutes January 22, 2018 University of Arizona Faculty Senate 06 February 2018 (has links) This item contains the agenda, minutes, and attachments for the Faculty Senate meeting on this date. There may be additional materials from the meeting available at the Faculty Center. Governor's budget K-12 education Proposition 301 Committee on Faculty Review four athletics projects Honors College project bonding authority Senior Vice President for Health Affairs State Legislature Strategic Planning Committee Town Hall Nobel Prize recipient Carl Wieman A Festschrift Lynn Nadel Pyschology micro-campuses Quingdao, China Lima, Peru College of Law Eller College of Management College of Engineering Julia Clancy Smith Alison Hawthorne Deming Department of English Hoshin Vijai Gupta Melissa Fitch Department of Spanish and Portuguese Daniel McDonald Pima County Cooperative Extension accreditation site visitis School of Journalism Andrew Comrie Career Track track transfer College of Engineering Dean Jeffrey Goldberg Interim Provost UA Marketing and Brand Management UA brand marketing

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