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Title: Political Knowledge and Political Engagement in the United States.
Creator: Shaul, Brittany, Knuckey, Jonathan, Fine, Terri, Seigler, Daniel, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This thesis examined the impact of political knowledge on forms of political engagement in the United States. Prior literature has established a relationship between political knowledge and political engagement, where those with higher political knowledge were more likely to engage politically through acts such as voting. This study distinguished between the various forms of political engagement and political knowledge, and seeks to provide relevant data on who is more likely to have...
Show moreThis thesis examined the impact of political knowledge on forms of political engagement in the United States. Prior literature has established a relationship between political knowledge and political engagement, where those with higher political knowledge were more likely to engage politically through acts such as voting. This study distinguished between the various forms of political engagement and political knowledge, and seeks to provide relevant data on who is more likely to have political knowledge, and what impact having political knowledge has. This served to reexamine trends found in past literature, in order to see if these trends have persisted or changed over time. This study analyzed data from the American National Election Studies (ANES) from 1988-2016 to explore the relationships between political knowledge and political engagement utilizing various regression models. Consistent with past literature, this study found demographic gaps in the distribution of political knowledge, although these gaps appear to be closing. While political knowledge had a strong and significant relationship with voting, the effects of political knowledge did not hold across all forms of engagement.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: CFE0007530, ucf:52590
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007530

Title: Hitler or Stalin?.
Creator: Zhitlowsky, Chaim
Date Issued: 1938
Identifier: 671401, CFDT671401, ucf:5568
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671401

Title: POLITICAL SOCIALIZTION: CHANGE AND STABILITY IN POLITICAL ATTITUDES AMONG AND WITHIN AGE COHORTS.
Creator: Hale, Michael, Pollock, Philip, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: For as long as people have held opinions in the political realm, there has been research trying to decipher exactly what people think and believe as well as when they begin to hold these beliefs. This present study sorts the respondents studied into age cohorts and then follows them throughout the data. All of the data used in this study are from the National Election Study Data from 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. This study is a repeated cross-sectional study since different...
Show moreFor as long as people have held opinions in the political realm, there has been research trying to decipher exactly what people think and believe as well as when they begin to hold these beliefs. This present study sorts the respondents studied into age cohorts and then follows them throughout the data. All of the data used in this study are from the National Election Study Data from 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. This study is a repeated cross-sectional study since different individuals are used throughout the study, and this study measures opinions only on the aggregate level. Sorting the respondents into age cohorts allows this study to track people of similar age as they respond to different life experiences as well as world events as they age. When appropriate, the data are compared to the main models of political socialization to determine how accurate these generally accepted models are. The items analyzed in this study vary greatly in subject as well as how specific they are. Everything from United States Presidential vote choices, opinions on affirmative action and federal welfare spending to political knowledge is analyzed to ascertain if these things interact with age, and if they do interact with age, to what extent. Besides observing opinions on these issues, certain issues will have their saliency measured throughout the years using the Somers' D statistic. This will help determine what issues people are thinking of when they are forming their ideology. The results from this paper show that some issues and beliefs, such as self-described ideology and political knowledge, are very strongly related to age. Other issues and beliefs in the political realm, such as strength of United States Presidential vote choice and opinions on federal welfare spending, seem to not be related to age or influenced heavily by period effects and other things besides age.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: CFH0003713, ucf:44746
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0003713

Title: THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS ON MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS.
Creator: Bencaz, Nicholas, Jentsch, Kimberly, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Mentoring in the workplace has become an increasingly popular trend because of its touted success at addressing the career and social related needs of employees. While the majority of the research on mentoring has examined protégé benefits, far fewer studies have examined the potential negative effects of mentoring. Moreover, little is known about the antecedents of negative mentoring experiences. A primary objective of the present study was to investigate relations between...
Show moreMentoring in the workplace has become an increasingly popular trend because of its touted success at addressing the career and social related needs of employees. While the majority of the research on mentoring has examined protégé benefits, far fewer studies have examined the potential negative effects of mentoring. Moreover, little is known about the antecedents of negative mentoring experiences. A primary objective of the present study was to investigate relations between mentor and protégé perceptions of organizational politics and reports of functional and dysfunctional mentoring. In addition, I examined the joint contribution of functional and dysfunctional mentoring to a number of protégé outcomes. Data were collected from 93 mentor-protégé dyads employed across the United States by a marketing communications business. Results indicated that mentors who perceived their climate to be more political expressed greater motivation to mentor for their own self-enhancement and lesser motivation to mentor for their own intrinsic satisfaction. Protégés who perceived their climate to be more political reported a greater incidence of dysfunctional mentoring. Protégé reports of the functional mentoring they received accounted for unique variance in predicting supervisor ratings of their performance, whereas dysfunctional mentoring accounted for unique variance in predicting turnover intentions, stress, and job satisfaction. The results of this study broaden our understanding of the manner in which mentoring relationships can go awry.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: CFE0002195, ucf:47923
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002195

Title: Christians in the class struggle.
Creator: Cope, Gilbert
Date Issued: 1942
Identifier: 2700014, CFDT2700014, ucf:5146
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2700014

Title: Revolutionary crisis, fascism and war: Speech.
Creator: Manuil'skiĭ, Dmitriĭ Zakhar'evich
Date Issued: 1934
Identifier: 369343, CFDT369343, ucf:5426
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369343

Title: REGIONAL POLITICAL POWER IN FLORIDA.
Creator: Caouette, Bradley J., Jewett, Aubrey, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: According to well-known political science professors in Florida universities, the only constitutional mandate to which the Florida Legislature must adhere is to pass a balanced budget (MacManus, Jewett, Bonanza, & Dye, 2015, p. 184). The process begins with each of Florida's state agencies crafting their individual budgets almost as soon as the new budget year takes effect (July 1). These budgets are submitted to the Governor's office where they are reviewed by staff and then ultimately...
Show moreAccording to well-known political science professors in Florida universities, the only constitutional mandate to which the Florida Legislature must adhere is to pass a balanced budget (MacManus, Jewett, Bonanza, & Dye, 2015, p. 184). The process begins with each of Florida's state agencies crafting their individual budgets almost as soon as the new budget year takes effect (July 1). These budgets are submitted to the Governor's office where they are reviewed by staff and then ultimately submitted to the legislature (p. 243). During the budget process, legislators are careful to ensure that they procure state dollars, oftentimes referred to as "pork," for the constituents who elected them (p. 209). The premise of this paper is to explore the possibility that political influence or power has a direct effect on the amount of tax dollars appropriated to Florida's 67 counties, 10 media markets, and in turn to Florida's three geographic regions. First, a legislative power index is developed. We then analyze county by county allocations of budget year 2016/2017 and the legislative power index to determine if there is a relationship between the amount of money distributed by county and the legislative influence that exists in that county. The research finds that the legislative power of a county as measured by the legislative power index had no statistically significant effect on per capita allocation. The presence of a state university and miles of roadway in a county did have an influence.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: CFH2000144, ucf:45944
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000144

Title: THE INTERNET AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM.
Creator: Gaar, Noah David, 7., , Pollock, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The past eight years have seen a great increase in Internet usage in American culture and politics. It would seem that, in our digital age, the Internet has exercised strong effects on political behavior and even on legislators. This thesis explores the variety and intensity of these effects, finding them to be substantial and growing, although not yet robust.The main influences the net has exerted on American politics take place predominantly within two areas: political campaigns and online...
Show moreThe past eight years have seen a great increase in Internet usage in American culture and politics. It would seem that, in our digital age, the Internet has exercised strong effects on political behavior and even on legislators. This thesis explores the variety and intensity of these effects, finding them to be substantial and growing, although not yet robust.The main influences the net has exerted on American politics take place predominantly within two areas: political campaigns and online political interest groups. Activists are certainly using the Internet for political causes, but this sort of Internet usage is really just an extension of previous activism. The Internet does not create new habits; it simply offers a more convenient method of reading the news, communicating to others, or performing other activities we have already been inclined to perform. Even those Internet users who access political web sites are shown preeminently to be those who have otherwise accessed political information in other ways such as newspapers or televised news.So far the Internet has made campaign donations easier for people who are comfortable surfing the World Wide Web. But there is little evidence to show that these people would not have otherwise donated to the campaign by more traditional methods. The Internet has made political activism easier, but people who are not politically active will not suddenly change simply because the Internet offers itself as an expedient, inexpensive tool. We have seen, however, with groups like MoveOn.org, that activists are rallying, communicating, and demonstrating more efficiently than ever before. The political parties or groups that can most effectively use the Internet to mobilize voters and affect public opinion will greatly benefit themselves.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: CFE0000140, ucf:46156
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000140

Title: Non-state Actors in Jamaican Economic Policy.
Creator: Jarrett, Matthew, Young, Kurt, Wilson, Bruce, Gibbs, Warmoth, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The relevance in understanding local dynamics or political culture is that as Neuman has pointed out, many traditional theories have not taken them into account and have thus failed in explaining political occurrences in the lesser developed world. For example as she has stated, (")domestic factors(") have not been considered into (")systems theories("). (Neuman, 1995, p.16) On this basis, it is necessary to point out these local factors, and furthermore, the role of non-state actors within...
Show moreThe relevance in understanding local dynamics or political culture is that as Neuman has pointed out, many traditional theories have not taken them into account and have thus failed in explaining political occurrences in the lesser developed world. For example as she has stated, (")domestic factors(") have not been considered into (")systems theories("). (Neuman, 1995, p.16) On this basis, it is necessary to point out these local factors, and furthermore, the role of non-state actors within the realm of internal dynamics, since international relations theory also aims to understand the formation and motivation behind economic policy. Therefore, to produce a proper understanding of Jamaican economic policy, specific areas are examined: the political culture of Jamaican politics and the role of non-state actors as they function within the Jamaican state. The two sets of non-state actors are defined as internal and external. The internal consists of two political parties: the People's National Party and the Jamaica Labour Party; and also one social class group: the urban poor. And also, the external consists of: the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The relationships between these groups and their relationships with the state are examined in order to identify how they affect economic policy. The constructivist theory due to its flexibility in its units of analysis, and its emphasis on (")culture("), and (")worldview(") helps to provide a useful framework for the discussion.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: CFE0004476, ucf:49307
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004476

Title: DEGREES OF CAUSALITY: AN ASSESSMENT OF ENDOGENOUS CONTRIBUTORS TO INSTABILITY IN JORDAN, SYRIA, & TURKEY.
Creator: Willman, Gabriel, Sadri, Houman, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The political instability of the Middle East is often perceived to be derived primarily from the interaction of Middle Eastern nations with external forces; with significant emphasis placed upon the disruptive effects of modern colonialism and Westernization. While this study does not seek to directly contest the catalytic primacy of exogenous factors, it does seek to establish the necessary causality of pre-existing internal factors. Rather than approaching the situation from a linear causal...
Show moreThe political instability of the Middle East is often perceived to be derived primarily from the interaction of Middle Eastern nations with external forces; with significant emphasis placed upon the disruptive effects of modern colonialism and Westernization. While this study does not seek to directly contest the catalytic primacy of exogenous factors, it does seek to establish the necessary causality of pre-existing internal factors. Rather than approaching the situation from a linear causal perspective, this assessment is oriented around an interdisciplinary examination of confluent factors. By examining the political history, ethno sociology, and economy of the region, the analysis investigates the underlying variables which have contributed to the instability of the Jordan, Syria, and Turkey. The primary conclusion of this analysis is that the interactions of multiple endogenous variables provide a basis of necessary causality which may be of equal causal import to that of modern colonialism and Westernization.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: CFH0004228, ucf:44965
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004228

Title: The split in the capitalist world, socialist world.
Creator: Monthly review: an independent socialist magazine, Huberman, Leo, Sweezy, Paul M. (Paul Marlor)
Date Issued: 1963
Identifier: 1927046, CFDT1927046, ucf:4799
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927046

Title: Labor's stake in Peace.
Creator: American Friends Service Committee
Date Issued: 1960
Identifier: 1927058, CFDT1927058, ucf:4811
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927058

Title: Community of fear.
Creator: Brown, Harrison Scott, Real, James
Date Issued: 1960
Identifier: 2659973, CFDT2659973, ucf:4965
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2659973

Title: Our heritage from 1776: A working class view of the first American revolution.
Creator: Wolfe, Bertram David, Dunne, William F., Lovestone, Jay
Date Issued: c1926
Identifier: 367712, CFDT367712, ucf:5337
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367712

Title: American workers need a labor party.
Creator: Hansen, Joseph
Date Issued: 1944
Identifier: 363251, CFDT363251, ucf:5278
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363251

Title: Public enemies in public office.
Creator: Hirsch, Carl
Date Issued: 1951
Identifier: 2700026, CFDT2700026, ucf:5152
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2700026

Title: RETURNING HOME: UNHCR'S STRATEGIES FOR REPATRIATION FOR AND REINTEGRATION.
Creator: Domenech, Tania, Sadri, Houman, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Under what conditions is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) able to successfully repatriate and reintegrate refugees to their country of origin? This work aims to evaluate the success of UNHCR's initiative to sponsor the repatriation and reintegration of political refugees who voluntarily chose to return to their homeland. The study of political refugees is essential in International Relations, since it entails the failure of preventing ethnic violence and civil unrest....
Show moreUnder what conditions is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) able to successfully repatriate and reintegrate refugees to their country of origin? This work aims to evaluate the success of UNHCR's initiative to sponsor the repatriation and reintegration of political refugees who voluntarily chose to return to their homeland. The study of political refugees is essential in International Relations, since it entails the failure of preventing ethnic violence and civil unrest. Overall, the emergence of refugees is the product of the inability of conflict prevention. Voluntary repatriation and reintegration of these refugees provides a message of mending relations, state re-building and hope. Successful repatriation is the return of refugees with the expectation of a safe return to society. Successful reintegration however ensures their inclusion in society. Therefore, both terms may be related, but must be discussed separately. This inclusion is essential to reconciliation, and the formation of a peaceful, stable society. Hence, this research will bring a better understanding of victims of conflict, the inability of the state to protect its citizens, and possible patterns of repatriation, reintegration and conflict resolution. To answer the question of the success of UNHCR's policies of repatriation and reintegration, I will use two cross-regional case studies: Guatemala and Afghanistan. I will address the hardship undergone by political refugees, the policies they have encountered from UNHCR, and the scenario of voluntary repatriation patterns. I will then evaluate the conditions on the ground to which refugees are returning. Clearly, if these have a high violence rate, a sustainable life and successful reintegration is very unlikely.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: CFE0000650, ucf:46523
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000650

Title: Zionism and the Israeli state.
Creator: Hochman, Larry
Date Issued: c1960
Identifier: 1927049, CFDT1927049, ucf:4802
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927049

Title: On condemning the preparation of a new war and concluding a five- power pact for the strengthening peace: Speeches at the fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, November, 1949..
Creator: Vyshinskiy, Andrey Anaurevich
Date Issued: c1949
Identifier: 2100346, CFDT2100346, ucf:4914
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100346

Title: For peaceful coexistence: Postwar interviews.
Creator: Stalin, Joseph
Date Issued: 1951
Identifier: 2683408, CFDT2683408, ucf:5081
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683408

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