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Browsing Political Science Senior Individualized Projects by Author "Elman, R. Amy, 1961-"
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The Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act in a Broader Context
(2015)Democrats frequently reference the Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act as the latest attack in the "War on Women" that Republicans are waging. It encompasses the wage gap, unfair hiring practices, and restrictive abortion ... -
All Things Reconsidered: "An Introspective Look at the University of Michigan Law School Admission Policies"
(2003)The public outcry at the culmination of the Presidential Election of 2000 targeted virtually all aspects of American democracy including the United States Supreme Court, a branch that has traditionally sought to keep itself ... -
An Analysis of Federal Firearms Possession Laws using Violent Death Data from Wisconsin in the year 2000
(2003)Although more people die every year from firearm suicides than from firearm homicides, firearms possession laws have a crime control strategy that focuses on removing firearms from criminals. This study conducted an analysis ... -
An Analysis of Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs as Studied in Secondary Schools
(1993)Feminists who initially set the goals of the rape crisis movement are particularly skeptical of present programs. Originally, activists within the movement had two goals. They were "to change the society that encourages ... -
Battered Women and the French Criminal Justice System
(1992)This small survey - the first of its kind in the Paris area - focuses on battered women and how they viewed the criminal justice system, and specifically police. Through this survey I was able to demonstrate my hypothesis ... -
A Critical Examination of Lesbian Separatism in the United States from the 1970s-Present
(2008)Through an exploration of the history of lesbian separatism, it is clear that the movement was formed by refusing to be ignored. Lesbian separatism is based upon three main tenets, including the position that sexism is the ... -
A Critical Examination of Same-Sex Marriage
(2002)The debate over same-sex marriage has, for the most part, been between religious conservatives maintaining it is ''unnatural,'' and liberals claiming same-sex marriage as needed for equality. However, there is another ... -
The Danish Opt-out of the Common European Union Immigration Policy
(2007)Immigration has become an issue of growing contention throughout all of Europe. Non-Western immigrants are bringing religions, cultures, and lifestyles different from the western nations, and are challenging European ... -
Decreased Member Participation in Interest Group Politics: The Madison Chapter of the National Organization for Women
(2000)The recent ways interest groups mobilize is the central issue of this paper. More specifically, the Madison Chapter of the National Organization for Women's mobilization during the 2000 election and the community's reaction ... -
Defining Battery: The Struggle for a Battered Women's Movement in the United States and Great Britain
(1994)This essay will initially examine how the issue of battered women was perceived by society in the United States in the nineteenth-century. I will discuss first how battery was used by activists to represent the ... -
Democracy and Political Stability in the United States and the Ancient Roman Republic
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2007)This paper was intended to examine that connection between democracy and political stability, mainly through the comparison of histories and political institutions. The final and full realization of Tocqueville's fears ... -
Deprivation and Destitution in the Province of Limon : the Afro-Carib beans of Costa Rica
(2019)This project presents an analysis of the Limon province in Costa Rica, with special care to the experience of the Afro-Caribbean community who remain a predominant majority in the region. Although many think of Costa Rica ... -
The Deviance of Deviants: A Feminist Comparative Analysis of Women and Men's Crime and Imprisonment in the United States
(2006)This essay will address several overlapping questions: (l) What is the relationship between criminality and citizenship? (2) How has the state constructed criminality differently for men and women, white men and men of ... -
The Dilemma of the Environmentalist
(1994)The problems with environmental legislation run several layers deep. With a system built against people like environmentalists, a powerful adversary like industry is just too difficult to overcome. The same goes for ... -
The Draft Constitution for the European Union: A Structural Rationalist Approach
(2006)Undoubtedly among one of the most remarkable achievements in world politics, the construction of the European Union (EU) has raised unique and often problematic debates, with rare agreement on some of the most puzzling of ... -
"En Meme Temps": the Contradictory Roles and Images of Women in French Media and Culture
(1993)This thesis, based on interviews with eleven French women aged 18 to 54, will explore the interplay of these voices as they struggle with what it means to be a woman in their society. Often the voices contradict each ... -
Escape Valve or Political Tool? Chilean Political Theater in Context, 1973 to the Present
(2019)Throughout the many transformations Chile has undergone in the last 45 years, theater has remained constant as an avenue for expression and activism. In 19731 when artists were being arrested and exiled and theaters were ... -
Europe's Next Problem: The European Union's Need for Reform of the Asylum and Refugee Reception Policy in Light of the Arab Spring Refugees
(2013)The evolution of this project began my sophomore spring-when I took Dr. Amy Elman's European Union class. Throughout the quarter we discussed the various forms of integration throughout the European Union and the various ... -
From Fabian Society to the Big Society: A Comparative Analysis of the Politics of Recession in the United Kingdom
(2011)During the Great Depression of the late nineteenth century, the United Kingdom experienced an upwelling of grassroots political movements that sought to correct the problems of the recession and work towards a more just ... -
From IRA to the Sinn Fein: A Transition in Northern Ireland Politics: A Look at how the Sinn Fein/IRA have worked their way into the political world in Northern Ireland and its effects on the Peace Process
(2000)Northern Ireland, unlike most other countries, negotiates with and includes in government and politics, terrorist organizations that have long struggled with the Irish Question. Historically, the Irish Question encompasses ...
