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Title: What is socialism?: Three lectures for workers.
Creator: Goldman, Albert
Date Issued: 1938
Identifier: 2180041, CFDT2180041, ucf:4940
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2180041

Title: The Socialist Workers Party: What it is, what it stands for.
Creator: Hansen, Joseph, Socialist Workers Party
Date Issued: 1948
Identifier: 2700042, CFDT2700042, ucf:5160
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2700042

Title: Capitalism defends itself through the Socialist Labor Party.
Creator: Olgin, Moissaye J. (Moissaye Joseph)
Date Issued: 1932
Identifier: 361646, CFDT361646, ucf:5265
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/361646

Title: THE VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF PERSONALIST REGIMES COMPARED TO THE PEACEFUL COLLAPSE OF SINGE PARTY REGIMES: CASE STUDIES OF LIBYA UNDER QADDAFI AND THE USSR UNDER GORBACHEV.
Creator: Austin, Victoria, Dolan, Thomas, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Personalist regimes tend to be violently overthrown while single party states tend to non-violently collapse from within. This paper analyzes Libya under Qaddafi as a personalist regime, and USSR under Gorbachev as a single party state, and seeks to ascertain through case studies and process tracing the reasons for the violent overthrow of personalist regimes compared to the peaceful collapse of single party regimes. Both regime types create the problems that result in their downfall, and...
Show morePersonalist regimes tend to be violently overthrown while single party states tend to non-violently collapse from within. This paper analyzes Libya under Qaddafi as a personalist regime, and USSR under Gorbachev as a single party state, and seeks to ascertain through case studies and process tracing the reasons for the violent overthrow of personalist regimes compared to the peaceful collapse of single party regimes. Both regime types create the problems that result in their downfall, and both kinds of downfall are accelerated by the public appearance of weakness.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: CFH0004536, ucf:45198
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004536

Title: Towards a militant program for the Socialist Party of America.
Creator: Socialist Party (U.S.) New York
Date Issued: 1934
Identifier: 2683077, CFDT2683077, ucf:5023
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683077

Title: Going left: The Left wing formulates a draft for a program for the Socialist party of the United States.
Creator: Bittelman, Alexander
Date Issued: 1936
Identifier: 367839, CFDT367839, ucf:5346
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367839

Title: Socialist industrial unionism, the worker's power.
Creator: Hass, Eric
Date Issued: 1946
Identifier: 2683208, CFDT2683208, ucf:5035
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683208

Title: British labor bids for power: The historic Scarboro Conference of the Trades Union Congress.
Creator: Nearing, Scott
Date Issued: 1926
Identifier: 369421, CFDT369421, ucf:5444
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369421

Title: LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: INTRA-PARTY DEMOCRACY AND PARTY POLITICS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
Creator: Ryan, Ty, Young, Kurt, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Political parties serve as a link between the state and society. Being so, they have a fundamental role in the consolidation of democratic values. It then becomes important to understand their internal functions and character. The purpose of this thesis is to measure the levels of intra-party democracy within three opposition political parties in Southern Africa. Also, this thesis seeks to show whether authoritarian political culture has an affect on a democratic party's behavior. This thesis...
Show morePolitical parties serve as a link between the state and society. Being so, they have a fundamental role in the consolidation of democratic values. It then becomes important to understand their internal functions and character. The purpose of this thesis is to measure the levels of intra-party democracy within three opposition political parties in Southern Africa. Also, this thesis seeks to show whether authoritarian political culture has an affect on a democratic party's behavior. This thesis will strive to show that as party levels of intra-party democracy decrease, fracturing in the party increases. A qualitative case study was conducted on UNITA in Angola, the ANC in South Africa, and the MDC in Zimbabwe. A content analysis was performed on the parties' respective constitutions and official party documents, as well as other scholarly writings. This was paired with an historical analysis of the case states and parties. The parties were assessed along a determined framework for intra-party democracy: political environment, legal framework of the state and party, the inclusiveness of the party, and party economics. Inclusiveness of the party gauges membership participation, leadership competition, gender parity, and oversight. The ANC exhibited the highest levels of intra-party democracy, and has shown the most stability. The MDC was found to have the lowest levels, and has split multiple times in recent years. All the parties demonstrated a need to open leadership participation and create better oversight mechanisms. Political parties proved to be a critical element in a state's potential democratic development, and though there exists deficiencies, the political parties of this study seem committed in many of their functions to this goal.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: CFH0004464, ucf:45102
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004464

Title: The Advance of the United Front: A documentary account.
Creator: Bittelman, Alex, Communist Party of the United States of America Central Committee
Date Issued: 1934
Identifier: 363358, CFDT363358, ucf:5302
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363358

Title: The truth about socialism.
Creator: Thomas, Norman
Date Issued: 1943
Identifier: 2683232, CFDT2683232, ucf:5047
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683232

Title: The struggle for Negro equality.
Creator: Saunders, John, Parker, Albert, Jackson, Charles
Date Issued: 1945
Identifier: 360071, CFDT360071, ucf:5229
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/360071

Title: The crisis in the Socialist party.
Creator: Foster, William Z.
Date Issued: 1936
Identifier: 671402, CFDT671402, ucf:5569
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671402

Title: FROM LIBERAL TO RESTRICTIVE: THE 1992 ASYLUM POLICY CHANGE IN GERMANY.
Creator: Ramos, Natalie, Kinsey, Barbara, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: As the most popular destination country for migrants and refugees in the EU since the end of World War II (MPI, 2004), Germany has a history of refugee inflows. In this thesis I focus on the different factors that led to asylum policy change in reunified Germany, from liberal since 1945 to restrictive, after the end of the Cold War in 1992, with the 1992 amendment of Article 16 of the German Basic Law. The study of the factors that account for German asylum policy change is important to...
Show moreAs the most popular destination country for migrants and refugees in the EU since the end of World War II (MPI, 2004), Germany has a history of refugee inflows. In this thesis I focus on the different factors that led to asylum policy change in reunified Germany, from liberal since 1945 to restrictive, after the end of the Cold War in 1992, with the 1992 amendment of Article 16 of the German Basic Law. The study of the factors that account for German asylum policy change is important to understand the future of German asylum policy, and potentially provide a model of asylum policy change in other countries. In this study, I analyze German public opinion that seems to have been affected by large migrant inflows and the declining state of the economy. I argue that electoral pressures by the German public contributed to political party platform changes and asylum policy change. I use data from Eurobaromeer surveys, the World Bank, and the Migration Policy Institute to describe the refugee inflows and the state of the German economy, and how these may have contributed to public opinion, as reflected in Eurobarometer survey results. I examine German political party platforms and campaign tactics based on secondary literature, such as scholarly articles and studies, as well as political speeches and statements. I also consider Germany's membership in the EU as a factor that may have affected the change in German asylum policy. Germany's membership in the EU may have been used as a form of leverage by the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), to pressure the Social Democratic Party (SPD), to compromise on asylum policy restrictions, as Germany's constitutional right to asylum impeded the implementation of EU asylum policy provisions. The findings of my research suggest that German public sentiments may have affected Germany's political party platforms. Evidently, the SPD, aligned its political platform and policy agenda to align with the changes in the German electoral context and gain electoral support. Also, Germany's position as a founding member of the EU, may have contributed to the compromise on German asylum policy change, because the right to asylum as explained in Article 16 of the constitution, withheld Germany from utilizing the EU's asylum procedures and policies, until Article 16 was amended in 1992.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: CFH2000113, ucf:46059
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000113

Title: Environmentalism and Environmental Constitutional Ballot Initiatives in Florida: The Elements of Support for Amendment One in 2014 in the Context of Current Environmental Attitudes.
Creator: Jones, Michael, Jacques, Peter, Knuckey, Jonathan, Jewett, Aubrey, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Americans express support for (")the environment(") with environmental support cutting across political and demographic differences and cleavages. In the past 15 years, however, period effects, political sorting, and the emergence of a powerful anti-environmental movement have lessened the generalized levels of environmental support. Using the 2012 CCES survey, the expressed attitudes regarding multiple environmental issues found significant differences in levels of environmental support...
Show moreAmericans express support for (")the environment(") with environmental support cutting across political and demographic differences and cleavages. In the past 15 years, however, period effects, political sorting, and the emergence of a powerful anti-environmental movement have lessened the generalized levels of environmental support. Using the 2012 CCES survey, the expressed attitudes regarding multiple environmental issues found significant differences in levels of environmental support nationally by party, Tea Party attitudes, ideology, and certain demographic characteristics. For Floridians, the differences between the most pro-environmental respondents and the most anti-environmental are narrower; partisan identification itself is not significant in environmental attitudes; but ideology, Tea party support, and to a lesser degree, gender and race are associated in explaining variances in environmental attitudes. Voting decision behavior previously observed only for certain environmental issues appears to be influenced by multiple environmental positions. The significance of age on environmental attitudes remains perplexing with evidence for both younger and older respondents' support for environmentalism, as compared to the support expressed by persons aged 40-59. Support and opposition for a specific Florida constitutional ballot proposition on environmental land conservative acquisition reflect partisan and gender divides, and the impact of attitudes regarding an unpopular elected national official. Environmentalism appears to be further evidence of the (")Big Sort(") in American politics, increasingly likely to be used as an interparty wedge issue and for intraparty base mobilizations. The need for further research and the implications for environmental activists conclude this thesis.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: CFE0005960, ucf:50795
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005960

Title: In defense of Negro rights.
Creator: Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), U. S. District Court. New York (Southern District)
Date Issued: 1950
Identifier: 1927464, CFDT1927464, ucf:4847
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927464

Title: The American socialists and the war: A documentary history of the attitude of the Socialist Party toward war and militarism since the outbreak of the Great War.
Creator: Hillquit, Morris, Rand School of Social Science, Trachtenberg, Alexander
Date Issued: 1917
Identifier: 2100236, CFDT2100236, ucf:4897
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100236

Title: Woman's place in the fight for a better world.
Creator: Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
Date Issued: 1947
Identifier: DP0000298.PDF, 1927409, CFDT1927409, ucf:4828
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927409

Title: Stages in the history of the Communist Party: A political review.
Creator: Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued: 1943
Identifier: 2178732, CFDT2178732, ucf:4930
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2178732

Title: The development of socialism in Great Britain.
Creator: Socialist Labour Party of Great Britain National Executive Committee
Date Issued: 1907
Identifier: 2180957, CFDT2180957, ucf:4949
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2180957

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