Though conceived as a common law evidentiary privilege, for use within a trial, to protect discreet pieces of evidence in the public interest, the primary purpose of the state secrets privilege today is to conceal executive ...

It is little surprise that conservatives were politically disaffected in early 2009, or that highly conservative individuals mobilized as a political movement to protest `big government' and Obama's election. Rather than ...

Identity centrality is important to the study of intergroup conflict because it defines identity priorities for ingroup/outgroup affiliation. A key question in understanding identity centrality, particularly for ethnic ...

This dissertation is a social history of more than 2,000 individual state and federal employees between 1898 and 1917 who were charged with the transformation of the law from enacted ideal to lived reality. The study ...

As the influence of wealthy special interests continues to grow in U.S. politics, nonprofits have the potential to play important roles in public policy advocacy by amplifying the voices of the marginalized. Yet, nonprofits ...

The so called price control policies have traditionally been understood in terms of concerns about (a) the role and size of the bureaucracy implied (Taussig, 1919, Grayson and Neeb, 1974; Clinard, 1969; Rockoff, 1984; ...

This study outlines the ICT impact on the international success of populism, a style of antagonistic and charismatic politics that exploits grassroots concerns. Data driven findings indicate little direct connection ...

With greater democratization and economic globalization throughout the modern world, increasing concern over the prevalence of the corruption has translated into policy action within the international sphere. Thus, ...

Si bien Argentina ha experimentado olas de crecimiento de think tanks desde el retorno de la democracia, lo cierto es que el país no es la excepción respecto de la escasez de think tanks partidarios en la región. Aun cuando ...

A politically interested citizenry is vital to a healthy democracy and an informed society. Political interest is highly correlated with important expressions of political engagement, such as voting or taking part in a ...