Whereas a behavioralist might locate issue divides in regards to the Patriot Act, my theory is that Americans share multiple core values, continuously, by which individuals accept or reject public policy along multiple value systems—even if unaware of these complex decisions. The results of my culture inquiry, for instance, might demonstrate that Americans support the…
35-400 JSS: American Political Thought: Junior Scholar Symposium Date: Friday, April 17 9:45 am Paper(s): U.S. Democratic Theory Integrates Republicanism via Multiple Core Values John Renard Girdwood, Wayne State University MPSA 2015 Program Overview Wednesday, April 15 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Registration 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm …
Last year, I presented a paper at the Midwest Political Science Association regarding the “Right to Instruct” as an informal and formal American institution during the antebellum era. Informally, republican core values governed the hearts of the salient Founders. Formally, we witness “how” the Founders formally institutionalized republicanism during the antebellum era (paper here). There are…
I contend that Americans subscribe to multiple core values as participants in the American culture. My method for discovering an individual’s commitment to an ideology is based on two proofs. I must show that (1) republican, liberal, and authoritarian value systems do allow the practices of said core values to ebb and flow in American…
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Using R for Nonparametric Statistics: The Kruskal-Wallis Test, Part Two A Tutorial by Douglas M. Wiig Before we can run the Kruskal-Wallis test we need to define which column contains the factors (independent variables) and which contains the authoritarianism scores (dependent variable). Once we define the factor column…
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Using the Kruskal-Wallis Test, Part Three: Post Hoc Pairwise Multiple Comparison Analysis of Ranked Means A tutorial by Douglas M. Wiig In previous tutorials I discussed an example of entering data into a data frame and performing a nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test to determine if there were differences in…
NOTES: Kyle G. Volk. The Perils of “Pure Democracy”: Minority Rights, Liquor Politics, and Popular Sovereignty in Antebellum America. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Winter, 2009), pp. 641-679 Quotes: “With local option, reformers and supportive legislators implicitly weighed in on two broad and interrelated questions that had been confronting the Anglo–American…
NOTES: Halberstam, Daniel. Of Power and Responsibility: The Political Morality of Federal Systems. Virginia Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (May, 2004), pp. 731-834. Quotes: “Should all else fail, the federal government may, with the consent of the Bundesrat, “take the necessary measures to hold the Land to the fulfillment of its duties by way…
In case you are wondering why I firmly believe that Americans have a “Right to Instruct” national representatives in order to influence American politics on “republican” grounds. PATRIOT ACT in a REPUBLIC: Conference Presentation #citcon15 NOT A LONG READ: CONFERENCE PAPER: Center for the Study of Citizenship ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: # Z: Right to Instruct [Volk]…
NOTES: Pope, James Gray. Republican Moments: The Role of Direct Popular Power in the American Constitutional Order. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 139, No. 2 (Dec., 1990), pp. 287-368 Quotes: Footnote 257: “See H. STORING, WHAT THE ANTI-FEDERALISTS WERE FOR 65 (1981); see also L. LEVY, EMERGENCE OF A FREE PRESS 221-22 (1985) (arguing…
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