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| 1 |  | Through the glass ceiling: the quest for executive land a view of women in Salt Lake County Government | Biesele, Susan CLegg | segregate | Women have increasingly become more represented in the workforce. Unfortunately, they have been segregated, or have opted to segregate themselves into certain types of lower paying jobs. | 1992 |
| 2 |  | Planning in Utah local government | Rigby, Kathryn J. | local government; Utah City planning | The first approach to any problem is largely one of definition. | 1950 |
| 3 |  | The ripper clause in State constitutional law | Porter, David Oldham | municipal corporations; United States; local relations | The subordination of the city to the state legislature is a fundamental principle in the law of municipal corporations. | 1965 |
| 4 |  | The Ideology of kingship in the ancient near East | Hanson, Donald Weldon | kings and rulers; religious aspects | It is customary among historians of social and political ideas to confine inquiries into origins to Greek philosophy, though some have taken explicit notice of the impact of Hebrew ideas on the history of Western thought, especially when the development of legal theories is considered. | 1961 |
| 5 |  | Why Iran nationalized its oil industry | Mostofi, Khosrow | Anglo-Iranian oil dispute, 1951-1954; petroleum industry and trade; government ownership | The nationalization of the oil industry in Tran was merely one link in a long chain of events that have shaken the underprivileged parts of the world during the last few decades. From China to Ceylon and from Iran to North Africa the great masses of underfed, poverty stricken and downtrodden people ... | 1956 |
| 6 |  | The Political ideas of Brigham Young | Melville, James Keith | Young, Brigham, 1801-1877; political and social views | Modern Day Revelation In he western regions of the state of New York, the Great Revival took place in the winter of 1799-1800. The quarter of a century Which followed saw recurring and mounting waves of revivalism which prompted critics to name the area the "burned-over district."1 Charles Grandison... | 1959 |
| 7 |  | The entrance of Brazil into the United Nations | Hunt, Jay B. | United Nations | The Charter of the United Nations, signed at San Francisco on June 26, 1945. by' the representatives of fifty nations, included as original members all twenty of the Latin American republics, l The participation en masse of the Latin American stat as in the San Francisco Coherence and their subseque... | 1950 |
| 8 |  | Utah Electoral Politics Kearnes 1932-1938 | Kearnes, John | elections; Utah; politics and government | | 1972 |
| 9 | | Utah electoral politics 1932-1938 | Kearnes, John | gubernatorial; new deal | Utah politics during the elections of 1932 through 1938 have as their dominant characteristic the fact that they were constituent parts of a massive grass-roots change in voting behavior that resulted in a new coalitional patiern for the nation's two major parties. The 1932 election in the state saw... | 1972 |
| 10 |  | Modeling officer perceptions of body-worn cameras: a national survey | Adams, Ian Tyler | body-worn cameras; fairness; organizational justice; police; workplace surveillance | Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are a permanent, though not well understood, feature of modern US policing. As a technological solution to the perception that officers use force too often, BWCs have not fared well. This dissertation sidesteps questions of effectiveness, however, and instead investigates ho... | 2022 |
| 11 |  | The political in Hegel and Dewey | Tuffle, Howard Nelson | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831; political science | Philosophy and science are radiations of mental life-- radiations whose beams tell us of the facts and meanings of the world in which we live. This thesis covers some of the facts and meanings found in political philosophy. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the political thought of two highly... | 1959 |
| 12 |  | The little hoover commission and consequential State Government Reorganization | Foremaster, Harmon Howard | employment | In January of 1965, Calvin L. Rampton, Governor of the state of Utah, called for a study of the state government administrative system. The 36th Utah Legislature passed a bill in line with the Governor's proposal creating a Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government whi... | 1970 |
| 13 |  | United States-Panamanian relations, 1903-1974 | Geddes, Garth Lowe | United States; Panama; foreign relations | In February of 1974, a Joint Statement of Principles was signed between the united States and Panama which may have opened the last chapter in more than seventy years of almost absolute united States rule in the Panama Canal Zone. The Statement, reflecting Current united States-Panamanian policy, ag... | 1974 |
| 14 |  | Normalcy and ableism in international relations: a disability critique of Norms | Christian, Stephen Michael | ableism; critical constructivists; international society | This dissertation explores how disability studies can critique the prevalence of normalcy in international relations. Since the rise of constructivism, IR scholars use the idea of norms to explain how ideas shape identities, which in turn define interests. Critical constructivists and postcolonial t... | 2019 |
| 15 |  | Voice in the informal economy | Newman, Arielle Mercedes Badger | Africa; informal economy; social movements; voice | | 2018 |
| 16 |  | The proposition of improving government: investigating shared services in the State of Utah | Amon, Richard P. Jr. | public administration; shared services; State government; department of technology services | Public and private organizations create shared services, the common allocation of internal business services between units, to reduce costs and improve service quality. While prior U.S. reorganizations and reforms suggest that business practices in the public sector seldom achieve the promised benef... | 2019 |
| 17 | | Vice in the informal economy | Newman, Arielle Mercedes Badger | informal entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial ability; wealth creation | This research combines two theoretical traditions-Hirschman's (1970) theory of exit, voice, and loyalty and the theory of social movements-to understand when and why informal entrepreneurs will attempt to influence formal institutions. The decision about whether or not to attempt influence of formal... | 2018 |
| 18 |  | Patterns of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans | Guta, Perparim | Balkans; ethnic cleansing; ethnic violence | Ethnic cleansing is the policy and practice of systematic removal or elimination of an unwanted ethnic group, identity, and culture from a specific territory. The purpose is to create an ethnically pure space, using various methods including genocide. What explains ethnic cleansing across space and ... | 2019 |
| 19 |  | Goodness and greatness: Abraham Lincoln as a "Beau Ideal" for public managers of conservatorship and Aristotelian phronesis | Chase, Daniel Elliot | Abraham Lincoln; government; leadership; phronesis | Abraham Lincoln is widely considered the greatest President in U.S. history and among the most effective leaders of all time. Given his stature and general popularity, Lincoln has been coopted by varied groups and professions as a model of leadership. In this dissertation, I argue that President Lin... | 2019 |
| 20 |  | Religious and tribal affiliations and their impact on decision making in Iraq under the post-2003 parliamentary regime | Alexander, Hannah | gender and politics in Iraq; Iraqi parliament; Iraqi politics; Iraq post 2003; tribalism in Iraq | In divided communities such as Iraq, many factors contribute to the formation of individual and communal identities. Other factors also affect the politics in divided communities, including gender and political ideology. Iraq, a divided community, serves as a case study to understand the effects of ... | 2018 |
| 21 |  | The views and contributions of Chinese students and intellectuals in the United States | Chang, Shu Yuan Hsieh | Chinese; United States | In order to complete an empirical study on the subject of "The Views and Contributions of Chinese Students and Intellectuals in the United States," initially over one hundred Chinese both in Taiwan and in the United States were personally interviewed. In addition, 1500 copies of a lengthy questionna... | 1971 |
| 22 |  | An approach to the politics of Elbert D. Thomas | Garfield, Rulton Roy | Thomas, Elbert Duncan, 1883-1953; Legislators -- United States | In 1950, the people of the United States learned that the Communist danger meant more than cold words, icy communiques, and precipitous withdrawals from meetings. They were made aware in sentences punctuated by machine gun, mortar, artillery, and small arms fire. For the Communists bent on world dom... | 1956 |
| 23 |  | The politics of genetically modified food aid: Zambia and Malawi in 2002 | Bryce, Marin Nicole | International relations; Public administration | Faced with drought and the prospect of widespread starvation, in August of 2002 the government of Zambia made the decision that they would no longer accept the food aid the United States was offering because it contained grains that were genetically modified. The Zambian government's decision was ba... | 2018 |
| 24 |  | Utah state elections, 1916-1924 | Hainsworth, Brad E. | historical | After months of research in Utah political history during the period covered by this dissertation, the writer is convinced that there is a dearth of historical and political research in this period. | 1968 |
| 25 |  | Political parties and their relationship with economic globalization | Field, Samuel J. | Political science; Economics | Economic globalization is the figurative wave that lifts all boats, i.e., small as well as large economies if it is managed well, if negative side effects are addressed, and if its gains are broadly distributed. Globalization is not inevitable, despite technological progress, because it depends on p... | 2018 |
