Regarding MPSA 2020, I coauthor a piece with Anthony Daniels titled, “The Russians Didn’t Make Americans Racist: Comparing Economic and Racial Attitudes and their Impact on the 2016 Election” Working Abstract The 2008 and 2012 election of Barack Obama allowed for many political pundits and some social scientists to claim that America’s racial issues were…
From President Donald Trump, President of the United States, here is the official letter to Speaker Pelosi of the House of Representatives, compliments of @jennifernvictor My Response to Paragraph 1: Your impeachment as passed by the Democrats tomorrow, given the evidence of wrongdoing by multiple sources during the inquiry hearings, beckons my formal request for…
Hello, my dissertation is available for a free download here. Thank you for your support over the years and I hope you enjoy my work! Kindest regards, John
Almost this entire poem was a rewording [with rights] of Kyla Stepp’s, J.D., [and fellow Ph.D. student] propositional inventory paper on the Models of the Supreme Court. That [excellent] essay can be found HERE. Align Left: Professor Center: Students Right: Gadfly The professor looked forward, To this lecture all year. To her, it appeared; Research moves slumbered, For daring…
Afterwards Ronald Formisano’s article (2001), “The Concept of Political Culture” as published in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History explores the descriptions and definitions of political culture between historians [holistic and evolutionary] and political scientists [is political culture causal and is there a behavioral component?] (p. 396). As culture studies originated with Herder, de Tocqueville, and…
Here’s what I think is –has been for decades– happening in American politics: People generally adhere to one (1) element of the American political culture. WHO and WHERE you are in “political space” INFORMS your politics and policy. Trump is an Authoritarian, ergo…. big problems with people who are Liberals and especially those, such as…
Below, pertaining to the role of Resolutions of Instruction during the antebellum era, borrowed from my home-stretching dissertation (Work in Progress): During 2009, in the Journal of the Early Republic, “The Perils of ‘Pure Democracy’: Minority Rights, Liquor Politics, and Popular Sovereignty in Antebellum America, “Kyle Volk, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Montana, examines why representatives were reluctant to end liquor licensing once “reformers…
This is an email I received that is indicative of an individual enjoining with others through grassroots to participate in achieving what one earnestly believes to be a stake in the common good. So long as grassroots movements apply to attain more equality, virtue, and freedom, they are “republican” and not “liberal” and certainly not…
President Trump is making me a million times more concerned than W. Bush, and I penned N. Awakening because of W! Right after self-publishing that piece of energy output, I entered a political science Ph.D. program. Today, my dissertation on American republicanism looks at the Founders’ generation from 1775 – 1819. For fun, I’m going to…
Main Idea: The Founding Fathers of America decisively engaged in self-government during the Founders’ generation to engage in politics and produce political power. Today, I think perchance our representatives have lost “our way” a little? From my dissertation (work in progress), I provide you with a few Reflections of Republicanism that occurred before the times of…
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