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Benfield, Kaylara | Place attachment, climate change, and threat perceptions of Utah Wilderness | Place Attachment is the emotional and functional relationships that tie humans to natural environments. It has been shown to impact a person's ability to perceive threats significantly. This study compares the varying levels of Place Attachment with individual knowledge associated with the negative ... | Place attachment; climate change; wilderness; Utah | 2022 |
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Gappmaier, Andrea | Restorative justice: Refocusing the lens on the American criminal justice system | The traditional punitive justice system has failed American citizens. The United States has over 25 percent of the world's prison population and when released, three in four offenders will be back in prison within five years of their release date. High costs, estranging members of society, and rac... | Criminal justice, Administration of - United States | 2016-05 |
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Richardson, John R. | Religious Liberty, Equal Protection, and the Utah Compromise | The conflict between religious freedom and civil rights for LGBT Americans is often seen as a zero-sum game. Legal battles over wedding cakes and floral arrangements have garnered national attention and result in a court-sanctioned winner and loser. States and local governments across the country ha... | 2018 | |
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Chuaqui, Anna Magdalena | Why the left loses in Mexico | This paper explores the question: Why has the largest left-of-center party in Mexico, the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), failed to win a presidential election since democratization? Through an analysis of the presidential campaigns of 200,2006, and 2012, this paper seeks to explain the fa... | Partido de la Revolución Democrática (Mexico); Mexico -- Politics and government -- 2000- | 2016 |
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Edgette, Ashley | Individual, collective, and neighborhood political capital : relationships of change, power, and love in Salt Lake City | In this study, I examine how three Latina community leaders from the Riverbrook neighborhood of Salt Lake City enact their political capital. My three measures of political capital are perceptions of individual power, community relationships, and influence in the larger school-community setting. Mot... | Community leadership - Utah - Salt Lake City; Hispanic American mothers - Utah - Salt Lake City | 2013-08 |
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McInnis, Tillie | Disruptive power: A comparison of political voice for non-elites after the great depression and the recession of 2008 | This thesis investigates how non-elites influence policymaking in a time of large income and wealth inequality. To do this, I examine the tactics of disruptive power used by two groups following two major economic downturns in the U.S.: the industrial workers after the Great Depression in the 1930s ... | Power (Social sciences); Elite (Social sciences) | 2015-05 |
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Sibbernsen, Colin | Digital activism: Addressing social movements in the digital age | Technological progression in the area of information and communication technology allows for expansion of prior social movement theorizing. The ways in which social movements are organized and carried out today need to be carefully analyzed and discussed to identify new methods of organization and m... | Technology - Sociological aspects | 2012-05 |
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