This collection features publications by current and former faculty and staff in the Department of Political Science and International Studies.
Faculty and staff may contribute works produced while serving at Georgia Southern by submitting copies to digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu. Please provide the version licensed by the copyright holder (e.g., the publisher) for open access publication following any mandatory embargo period.
Submissions from 2006
Coal Fires in the United States: A Case Study in Government Inattention, Karen M. McCurdy
Earth Sciences Influence in Non-Renewable Resource Policy: An Evolutionary Process, Karen M. McCurdy
The Transition from Progressive to Conservative Politics Wherein Geology Became Part of the Public Policy Problem,, Karen M. McCurdy
Relocation and Internment: Civil Rights Lessons from World War II, Karen M. McCurdy and Todd T. Kunioka
Remedying defective or deficient political agency: Cornel West's uses of the tragic, Robert Pirro
Review of "Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives", Robert Pirro
Submissions from 2005
Book Review of "Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945" by Jerry Dávila, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Book Review of "The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development: Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba" by Bert Hoffmann, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Brazil's Foreign Policy under Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva: An Early Assessment of a Leftist President, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Brazil's International Relations at the Dawn of the 21st Century, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
East African Development Bank (EADB), Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), and Central African Monetary Fund, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
The HIV/AIDS Pandemic Hits Latin America, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
The Politics of AIDS: The Brazilian Case in Perspective, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
The "UnRule" of Law, Violence, and Society in Brazil: Challenges to Brazil's Fragile Democratic Consolidation, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Earth Sciences Changed Influence on the Public Policy Process, or How Congress Stopped Communicating with Geologists, Karen M. McCurdy
Oil and Gas in the Political Environment: Unavoidable Paradox?, Karen M. McCurdy
United States versus Darby Lumber Company, Statesboro, Georgia, 1939-1941, Patrick J. Novotny
Submissions from 2004
Brazil's Foreign Policy Behavior in the Post-Cold War International System, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz and Becky Kohler da Cruz
Judicial Independence or Political Gridlock? The Courts in the American Political System, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz and Becky Kohler da Cruz
Politics, Politicians, and the Media in the 21st Century, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz and Becky Kohler da Cruz
Book Review of Making Patriots, Steven Engel
Police Service of Northern Ireland, Steven Engel
Beyond Clean Coal/Dirty Air: The Complexity of Policy Space Concerning Coal Fires, Karen M. McCurdy
John F. Kennedy, the 1960 Election, and Georgia’s Unpledged Electors in the Electoral College, Patrick J. Novotny
Situating a German Self in Democratic Community: Greek Tragedy and German Identity in Christa Wolf’s Mythic Works, Robert Pirro
Seretse Khama and the Political 'Miracle' of Botswana, Daniel Skidmore-Hess and Cathy Skidmore-Hess
Submissions from 2003
Exploring the African-American Experience, Rebecca Davis
Don’t Bite The Pac That Feeds You: Business Pac Punishment Over the China Vote, David Jackson and Steven Engel
Friends Don't Let Friends Vote for Free Trade: The Dynamics of the Labor PAC Punishment Strategy over PNTR, David J. Jackson and Steven Engel
Bulloch County Homeless Persons and Families Community Needs Assessment Project, final report, Karen M. McCurdy, Elizabeth E. Brown, F. Erik Brooks, Pidi Zhang, and Sally C. Harton
The Danish Party System and the Rise of the Right in the 2001 Parliamentary Election, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Chapter 11: Special Populations in Prisons, Eugene Waters, Steven Engel, Christine Ludowise, and Kimberly Dodson
Submissions from 2002
A Fresh Perspective: A First-Time Attendee’s Thoughts on the 2002 SAPLA Conference, Rebecca Davis
Moore Awarded 2002- 2003 Ruffin Cup, Rebecca Davis
Faculty Profile: Chris Ludowise, Rebecca M. Davis
Statesboro-Bulloch Parks and Recreation Community Needs Assessment Project, preliminary report, Karen M. McCurdy, Elizabeth E. Brown, Larry R. Mutter, and Pidi Zhang
Statesboro-Bulloch Parks and Recreation Community Needs Assessment Project, final report, Karen M. McCurdy, Elizabeth E. Brown, Larry Mutter, and Pidi Zhang
Local Television, the World Wide Web, and the 2000 Presidential Election, Patrick J. Novotny
The Peace and Justice Movement in the South in the 1980s, Patrick J. Novotny
Nelson Mandela and the Ordinary Uses of Tragedy in Private and Political Life, Robert Pirro
Review of "Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative", Robert Pirro
Review of "Our Sense of the Real: Aesthetic Experience and Arendtian Politics", Robert Pirro
Review of "The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt", Robert Pirro
Václav Havel and the Political Uses of Tragedy, Robert Pirro
Review Essay: Global Capitalism and the Political Economy of Transition in South Africa, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Baseball Competitiveness & the Free Agency Era, Daniel Skidmore-Hess and Ronald W. Cox
Submissions from 2001
Body, Mind, and Soul in the Gulf War Debate, Francis A. Beer and Barry J. Balleck
Beer and Quiche in the Fast Lane: Signaler's Dilemma, Democratic Debate, and the Gulf War, Francis A. Beer, Mark I. Lichbach, and Barry J. Balleck
The Institutional Role of Women in Congress 1960-2000, Karen M. McCurdy
A Citizen’s Guide to Development in Coastal Georgia, Karen M. McCurdy and The Center for a Sustainable Coast staff
Submissions from 2000
When the Ends Justify the Means: Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase, Barry J. Balleck
Exclusionary Rule, Rebecca Davis
Chapter 1: Driving Alone? Residential Mobility, Political Mobilization, and the Decline of Social Capital, Patrick J. Novotny
Chapter 5: The World Wide Web and Local Media in the 1996 Presidential Election, Patrick J. Novotny
From Polis to Agora: The Marketing of Political Consultants, Patrick J. Novotny
Review: "IN AFRICA:" INTERPRETATIONS OF RELIGION AND POLITICS, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Submissions from 1999
The good faith exception in a computerized society: State court reactions to U.S. v. Leon and Arizona v. Evans, Rebecca Davis
Barbara Boxer, Karen M. McCurdy
Dianne Feinstein, Karen M. McCurdy
Donna Edna Shalala, Karen M. McCurdy
Joan Kelly Horn, Karen M. McCurdy
Lynne Vincent Cheney, Karen M. McCurdy
Margaret Chase Smith, Karen M. McCurdy
Martha Wright Griffiths, Karen M. McCurdy
Nancy Landon Kassebaum (Baker), Karen M. McCurdy
Olympia Jean Snowe, Karen M. McCurdy
The Post-Cold War Era, the Persian Gulf War, and the Peace and Justice Movement in the 1990s, Patrick J. Novotny
Review of "The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship", Robert Pirro
Submissions from 1998
What I Learned at the CET and How I’m Using It, Rebecca M. Davis
Chapter 5: Popular Epidemiology and the Struggle for Health in the Environmental Justice Movement, Patrick J. Novotny
Chapter 6: No Future! Cyberpunk, Industrial Music, and the Aesthetics of Postmodern Disintegration,, Patrick J. Novotny
Georgia’s Political Landscape is Changing, What Does it Mean for the State’s Future?, Patrick J. Novotny
Runoff Primary a Sorry Political Relic, Patrick J. Novotny
The World Wide Web and Multimedia in the 1996 Presidential Election, Patrick J. Novotny
Submissions from 1997
What Fourth Amendment? H.R. 666 and the Satanic Expansion of the Good Faith Exception, Rebecca Davis
Modified Annexation Plan Analysis for the City of Statesboro, Karen M. McCurdy
Geographic Information Systems and the New Landscape of Political Technologies, Patrick J. Novotny
Review of “The Gospel at Colonus”, Robert Pirro
Bentham, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Conflict Theory, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Natural Law, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Submissions from 1996
Body, Mind, and Soul in the Gulf War Debate, Francis A. Beer and Barry J. Balleck
Committee Assignments in the U. S. Senate, James W. Endersby and Karen M. McCurdy
Alternative perspectives of the movement for environmental justice Popular epidemiology and the fight for a healthy community, Patrick J. Novotny
Business Conflict and Theories of State, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Submissions from 1995
The Politics of the 1993 NAFTA Vote, Ronald W. Cox and Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Where We Live, Work, and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism, Patrick J. Novotny
Submissions from 1994
The Law Enforcement Officer as an Expert Witness, Rebecca Davis and Bobby Jones
Review of "Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts", Robert Pirro
Review of "Liberalism and Modern Society: A Historical Argument", Robert Pirro
Submissions from 1992
The Law Enforcement Officer as an Expert Witness, Rebecca M. Davis and Bobby Jones
