The Economy, Elections, and Public Opinion

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-470
Author(s):  
Seymour M. Lipset
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
State Of The Economy ◽  
Left And Right

Both practitioners and students of politics increasingly recognize that electorally determined shifts in government in Western countries, particularly in the United States, are heavily determined by changing economic conditions Seemingly voters are disposed to credit or blame incumbent administrations for the state of the economy. Recent alternations between the Left and Right, therefore, generally do not reflect ideological changes in the views of the electorate.

Public Opinion on Nonwhite Underrepresentation and Racial Identity Politics in Brazil

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley R. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Political Preferences

AbstractBrazil has an “African-origin” population that is proportionally more than four times larger that of African Americans in the United States, but white Brazilians mostly dominate electoral politics. How do ordinary citizens explain this phenomenon? Drawing on a large-sample survey of public opinion in the state of Rio de Janeiro, this article explores perceived explanations for nonwhite underrepresentation in the political arena. It also examines attitudes toward a particular black candidate, Benedita da Silva, to discern the state ofnegroidentity politics. Most Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro cite racial prejudice to explain nonwhite exclusion, although whites do this less than nonwhites. Indicators of a racial undercurrent in political preferences suggest the importance of allegiances based on perceived common racial origins. Class is robustly associated with voting preferences, suggesting that, in contrast to the United States, class differences among nonwhites in Brazil could attenuate the success ofnegroidentity politics.

English and Neoliberalism in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-57
Author(s):  
Joseph Sung-Yul Park
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Korea ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
English Fever ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter provides an in-depth picture of the book’s ethnographic context, presenting a historical account of neoliberalism in South Korea and the role the English fever played within it. Through its review of Korea’s neoliberalization process that began in the 1990s, the chapter focuses on several actors that were critical in this process, including the United States, major Korean conglomerates known as jaebeol, and the state. The chapter then reviews key phenomena that constituted the Korean English fever, clarifying why they should be seen as a manifestation of neoliberalism. Finally, the chapter explains how a range of intense feelings and affects pervaded Koreans’ experience of English throughout the country’s modern history, using it to argue that aspects of subjectivity that characterize the Korean English fever should be understood in terms of the specific historical and political economic conditions of Korean society, rather than a Korean cultural essence.

scholarly journals La Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción de Kansas City (Missouri). Un recurso patrimonial en un escenario de diversidad religiosa

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-160
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Urban Background ◽  
Western Countries

En Estados Unidos no hay religión oficial, ni confesionalismo, ni Iglesia de Estado, pero la religión tiene un peso superior a otros países occidentales. La ciudad más poblada de Missouri, Kansas City, es un ejemplo de diversidad religiosa, en cuyo escenario destaca una catedral católica. Estudiamos la evolución del edificio y modelo de gestión patrimonial a partir de una metodología cualitativa y de la realización de entrevistas a religiosos y gestores culturales. Un modelo que puede transformarse como consecuencia de los procesos de recentralización y gentrificación que están afectando al Power and Light District, el barrio donde ésta se localiza. In the United States, there is no official religion, no confessionalism and no Church representative of the State. Nonetheless, religion plays a more influential role than in other Western countries. The most populous city of Missouri is Kansas City, and it is an example of religious diversity, with a Catholic cathedral standing out against its urban background. This article examines the building’s evolution and model of heritage management, based on a qualitative methodology and interviews with religious figures and cultural managers. It is a model that might see changes as a result of the process of recentralization and gentrification currently undergone by the Power and Light District, the neighbourhood where the Cathedral is located.

scholarly journals La Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción de Kansas City (Missouri). Un recurso patrimonial en un escenario de diversidad religiosa

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-160
Author(s):  
Margarita Novo Malvárez ◽  
Joseph R. Hartman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Urban Background ◽  
Western Countries

En Estados Unidos no hay religión oficial, ni confesionalismo, ni Iglesia de Estado, pero la religión tiene un peso superior a otros países occidentales. La ciudad más poblada de Missouri, Kansas City, es un ejemplo de diversidad religiosa, en cuyo escenario destaca una catedral católica. Estudiamos la evolución del edificio y modelo de gestión patrimonial a partir de una metodología cualitativa y de la realización de entrevistas a religiosos y gestores culturales. Un modelo que puede transformarse como consecuencia de los procesos de recentralización y gentrificación que están afectando al Power and Light District, el barrio donde ésta se localiza. In the United States, there is no official religion, no confessionalism and no Church representative of the State. Nonetheless, religion plays a more influential role than in other Western countries. The most populous city of Missouri is Kansas City, and it is an example of religious diversity, with a Catholic cathedral standing out against its urban background. This article examines the building’s evolution and model of heritage management, based on a qualitative methodology and interviews with religious figures and cultural managers. It is a model that might see changes as a result of the process of recentralization and gentrification currently undergone by the Power and Light District, the neighbourhood where the Cathedral is located.

Is This the Care We Need?: An Examination of Childcare Policy in Pennsylvania

Commonwealth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie Sweet-Cushman ◽  
Ashley Harden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Current System ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Women And Politics ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Childcare Policy

For many families across Pennsylvania, child care is an ever-present concern. Since the 1970s, when Richard Nixon vetoed a national childcare program, child care has received little time in the policy spotlight. Instead, funding for child care in the United States now comes from a mixture of federal, state, and local programs that do not help all families. This article explores childcare options available to families in the state of Pennsylvania and highlights gaps in the current system. Specifically, we examine the state of child care available to families in the Commonwealth in terms of quality, accessibility, flexibility, and affordability. We also incorporate survey data from a nonrepresentative sample of registered Pennsylvania voters conducted by the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics. As these results support the need for improvements in the current childcare system, we discuss recommendations for the future.

Development of the Concepts for Providing Close Air Support

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Hristov Manush
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Combat Experience ◽  
Second World

AbstractThe main objective of the study is to trace the perceptions of the task of an aviation component to provide direct aviation support to both ground and naval forces. Part of the study is devoted to tracing the combat experience gained during the assignment by the Bulgarian Air Force in the final combat operations against the Wehrmacht during the Second World War 1944-1945. The state of the conceptions at the present stage regarding the accomplishment of the task in conducting defensive and offensive battles and operations is also considered. Emphasis is also placed on the development of the perceptions of the task in the armies of the United States and Russia.

Studies of Islam, Economics, and Governance

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-70
Author(s):  
Florence Eid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Islamic Values

IntroductionThis paper is a report on the state of research in two areas of Islamicstudies: Islam and economics and Islam and governance. I researched andwrote it as part of my internship at the Ford Foundation during the summerof 1992. On Discourse. The study of Islam in the United States has moved far beyondthe traditional historical and philological methods. This is perhapsbest explained by the development of analytically rigorous social sciencemethods that have contributed to a better balance between the humanisticconcerns of the more traditional approaches and efforts at systematizingthe study of Islam and classifying it across boundaries of communities,religions, even epochs. This is said to have s t a d with the developmentof irenic attitudes towards Islam, which changed the direction of westemorientalist writings from indifference (at best) and often open hostility toand contempt of Islamic values (however they were understood) to phenomenologicalworks by scholars who saw the study of Islam as somethingto be taken seriously and for its own sake, which is best exemplifiedby Clifford Geertz's Islam Observed.The work of Edward Said contested this evolution, and the publicationof his Orientalism has been described as "a stick of dynamite"' that,despite its impact in mobilizing a reevaluation of the field, was unwarrantedin its pessimism. In any case, the field has continued to evolve,with the most powerful force moving it being the subject itself. Thephenomenological/orientalist approach, if we can point to one today, ...

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