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This book grows out of the authors' conviction that as public
policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical
content, they become difficult for the democratic citizens to
understand. It attempts to determine mass public capacity and their
motivation to respond to the challenges.
This book grows out of the authors' conviction that as public
policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical
content, they become difficult for the democratic citizens to
understand. It attempts to determine mass public capacity and their
motivation to respond to the challenges.
This book poses the question of whether identifiable
individual-level attributes (e.g., values, interests, knowledge,
demographic characteristics) lead to support for or opposition to
the development and implementation of alternative energy
technologies. In recent years, attempts to site alternative energy
technologies (e.g., wind, solar, wave) have been met by intense
opposition from a variety of sources, including many
environmentalists from whom one might expect support for non-carbon
based renewable energy initiatives. This volume argues that there
are indeed such discernible attributes, and moreover that the
identification and exploration are important for the development of
support strategies for the well-informed and achievable siting of
such technologies.
This book poses the question of whether identifiable
individual-level attributes (e.g., values, interests, knowledge,
demographic characteristics) lead to support for or opposition to
the development and implementation of alternative energy
technologies. In recent years, attempts to site alternative energy
technologies (e.g., wind, solar, wave) have been met by intense
opposition from a variety of sources, including many
environmentalists from whom one might expect support for non-carbon
based renewable energy initiatives. This volume argues that there
are indeed such discernible attributes, and moreover that the
identification and exploration are important for the development of
support strategies for the well-informed and achievable siting of
such technologies.
Thomas S. Foley, a Democratic representative from the traditionally
Republican region of eastern Washington, served in Congress from
1964 to 1994. In 1989 he became the first Speaker of the US House
of Representatives from a district west of Texas. His thirty years
of experience as a Democrat representing a Republican-leaning
district contributed to his strong commitment to bipartisanship and
institution building. His speakership came to an end when the Newt
Gingrich-led “Republican Revolution” ushered in an era of
ideological polarization and fierce partisanship. Tom Foley: The
Man in the Middle is a political biography of this important but
often overlooked figure in modern congressional history. While
examining the story of Foley’s service as Speaker of the House,
R. Kenton Bird and John C. Pierce place his career in the context
of both his own life story and congressional politics in the late
twentieth century. What emerges is the story of a leader whose
strongly held political values motivated him to sustain a vibrant
and responsive House of Representatives as an institution, with a
stance that proved incompatible with the polarized and strident
political environment that emerged in the early 1990s. Bird and
Pierce offer the first major study of Tom Foley’s political
career in this penetrating look at a unique and transformative
congressional leader who focused on making Congress work by
bringing politicians from both sides of the aisle together.
Foley’s tenure spanned the crucial years of transition between
this bipartisan ideology of governance and the politics of the
twenty-first century, between the leadership styles of Democrats
Jim Wright and Tip O’Neil and that of Republican Gingrich.
Foley’s defeat in 1994 ended this remarkable career of leading
from the middle and marked a seismic transition in the landscape of
American politics.
The book examines contemporary immigration policy and immigrant
assimilation with a focus on the adoption of sanctuary ordinances
in US local governments in connection with Latino in-migration. It
also investigates the adoption of anti-immigrant settlement local
ordinances in many local governments with particular focus on local
law enforcement positions taken on enforcement of federal
immigration laws. The book investigates a wide range of
county-level characteristics of 3,000+ U.S. counties (e.g.,
socio-economic and demographic traits, political culture, social
capital, religious denominations present, etc.) to identify
correlates of pro- and anti-immigrant settlement. The book also
features the analysis of a national survey and three targeted
surveys in pro-immigration (San Francisco), divided (Maricopa), and
anti-immigration (Tulsa) counties to explore the individual-level
factors associated with sentiments on immigration policy. Finally,
the book presents findings from two case studies where active
encouragement of Latino settlement (Twin Falls, ID) and active
opposition (Hazleton, PA) characterize local reaction to Latino
in-migration. The mixed methods study leads the authors to conclude
that a funnel of causality concept, path dependency, pro-social
attitudes, and the concepts of moral panic and moral dialogue
collectively lead to great insight into the question of why some
communities are open and accepting while others are exclusionary.
The book examines contemporary immigration policy and immigrant
assimilation with a focus on the adoption of sanctuary ordinances
in US local governments in connection with Latino in-migration. It
also investigates the adoption of anti-immigrant settlement local
ordinances in many local governments with particular focus on local
law enforcement positions taken on enforcement of federal
immigration laws. The book investigates a wide range of
county-level characteristics of 3,000+ U.S. counties (e.g.,
socio-economic and demographic traits, political culture, social
capital, religious denominations present, etc.) to identify
correlates of pro- and anti-immigrant settlement. The book also
features the analysis of a national survey and three targeted
surveys in pro-immigration (San Francisco), divided (Maricopa), and
anti-immigration (Tulsa) counties to explore the individual-level
factors associated with sentiments on immigration policy. Finally,
the book presents findings from two case studies where active
encouragement of Latino settlement (Twin Falls, ID) and active
opposition (Hazleton, PD) characterize local reaction to Latino
in-migration. The mixed methods study leads the authors to conclude
that a funnel of causality concept, path dependency, pro-social
attitudes, and the concepts of moral panic and moral dialogue
collectively lead to great insight into the question of why some
communities are open and accepting while others are exclusionary.
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