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First Year Book 2008 - War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning


War and Governance Research Opportunities

Project Title Laboratory Description
Youth in Governance Maryland Cooperative Extension This project focuses on Youth in Governance (the authentic and meaningful engagement of young people in programs, organizations, and communities, where they have or share voice, influence, and decision-making authority).
Global Terrorism Database START The GTD Team is currently seeking graduate students and exceptional undergraduate students with an interest in terrorism, research, and data collection. In general, tasks include data entry, researching specific terrorist attacks to verify existing data in the GTD, and collecting additional information from various sources to supplement the existing data.
Higher Learning in the Age on Terror English Department Higher Learning in an Age of Terror -combines memoir with analysis of contemporary writers on global politics: Margaret Atwood, Azar Nafisi, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan.
Psychosis and Politics, Social Values Government and Politics Several projects including the relationship of psychoanalytic theories of self to politics; study of psychosis as a political phenomenon; research on the relationship between psychotic states and the creation of social values.
Agenda Change and Party Cohesion in Congress Government and Politics Has a changing policy agenda contributed to the dramatic rise in partisanship in Congress? Political scientists have explained the rise in partisanship primarily as a result of external electoral forces or internal institutional changes. Electoral realignment has sorted liberal and conservative constituencies into different parties (Jacobson, Polsby, Rohde, Fiorina). Internal institutional factors include a revitalized party leadership, whip system, and other procedural changes (Roberts and Smith, Rohde, Sinclair). These electoral and institutional accounts neglect to consider whether the composition of the policy agenda has become more divisive. Are the issues before the Congress more likely to tap into the disputes between liberals and conservatives than the congressional agenda of the past?
Examining Voter Participation of Minority Youth Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement This is a project examining voter participation of young minority youth, with an emphasis on African American, Asian American and Latino youth.