Political Science Department
| Title | Authored on | Link to edit Content | |
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| From Window magazine: 'Presidential Wordsmith' | 2014-06-25 | ||
| Managing Conflicts in India: Policies of Coercion and Accommodation | In managing violent rebellions, democracies must often choose between coercion and accommodation. As the world’s largest democracy, India is no stranger to this trade-off: it has struggled over the past several decades to address several domestic insurgencies. A new book by Bidisha Biswas… |
2014-06-06 | |
| Tea Leaf Nation: There were many Tiananmens | Twenty-five years ago in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, a group of small-town high school students listening to shortwave radio heard news of a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators nearly 1,000 miles away in the capital of Beijing. Although it was late at night and pouring… |
2014-06-04 | |
| Put a Label On It: It’s Oregon’s turn (again) to debate the labeling of GMO foods | There’s much to talk about in Ashland—a southern Oregon winter so dry that, for the first time in 50 years, the local ski mountain failed to open, or the fare at this year’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival. |
2014-04-16 | |
| Redistricting: Some states tried to leave out partisanship | A few states have turned to independent or arms-length commissions to limit political influences when redrawing congressional and legislative districts. |
2014-04-14 | |
| Results From Independent Redistricting Are Mixed | A few states have turned to independent or arms-length commissions to limit political influences when redrawing congressional and legislative districts. The results have varied, but supporters point to more competitive contests and new faces replacing incumbents as evidence of reduced… |
2014-03-31 | |
| Split influence in Washington’s congressional map | After winning full or partial control of many state legislatures around the country in 2010, the Republican Party has a built an advantage in the upcoming midterm elections because of its influence redrawing congressional districts, an Associated Press analysis found. |
2014-03-31 | |
| Dueling gun control measures likely to appear on fall ballot | Campaigns for dueling gun initiatives on this year’s ballot could bring national attention to Washington state, and contribute to an ongoing debate about gun laws across the United States. |
2014-03-06 | |
| Dueling gun initiatives on path to divisive campaigns | Campaigns for dueling gun initiatives on this year’s ballot could bring national attention to Washington state, and contribute to an ongoing debate about gun laws across the U.S. |
2014-02-26 | |
| State legislators older, richer, less diverse than population | State Rep. Hans Dunshee drives a 14-year-old Toyota Echo, lives in a modest home he partly rents out and otherwise survives off the income of being a state legislator — $42,106 a year. |
2014-02-18 |