Title of Dissertation: SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN WOMEN’S PREGNANCY DECISIONMAKING: POLITICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC IMPLICATIONS Laura Selena Hussey, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor James G. Gimpel, Department of Government and Politics This dissertation empirically evaluates the argument that welfare state expansion will reduce abortion. Its central question concerns the...

the aim of this paper is investigating and studying of geopolitical dimensions of russia in the caspian sea. russian post-soviet geopolitics invokes euroasianism as its inner rationale and meaning, as a greater good that imbues pragmatic, interest based politics with a sense of mission. eurasianism as a particular tradition of theorizing russia’s identity and place in the world has a momentum o...

Doi: 10.2990/32_2_2 , published by Association for Politics and the Life Sciences at Texas Tech University and the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, October 2013.

The latest ACPE survey explores physician executive participation in politics, and the need for doctors to make an impact on health care policy.

Every year at the United Nations, member states deliver statements during the General Debate discussing major issues in world politics. These speeches provide invaluable information on governments’ perspectives and preferences on a wide range of issues, but have largely been overlooked in the study of international politics. This paper introduces a new dataset consisting of over 7,300 country s...