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Election '06 links Election '06 Results: Maps and Charts | Analysis | Deval Patrick (D-MA) & Sen. Obama at Rally Map of Alabama's Federal Districts, and List of Delegates to the Congress AL in NJ Almanac of American Politics Vote-Smart.org: AL legislature's Key Votes | AL Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R), HC alumna. "Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get a Raw Deal?" CBS, 60 minutes, shown 24 Feb. '08 NEW "Birmingham Settles federal suit: will no longer automatically jail indigents," B'ham News, 25 Feb. '08 NEW Green, "Karl Rove in a Corner," excerpt from Atlantic Monthly about Rove's strategy for Perry Hooper, '94, in AL. Key, Alabama | Murray, "AL Tax Code" (WSJ) Alabama Politics & Government research links AL Administration in Governing report Walters, "Raising Alabama," Governing Oct 2000. George Wallace, Settin' Woods on Fire, video, description and Index | V.O. Key's chapter outline, "Alabama". Hubbert, "Unearmarking Proposal Dangerously Unsound". Jubera, "Nightmare Alabama bias suit [Reynolds]...". Murray, "Morality of AL Tax-Code" (WSJ) Permaloff & Grafton, Political Power in AL (1995): Ch.1: "Lags and Gaps in Recent AL History." Ch.11: "... The More They Stay the Same." PBS Video, "Conscience of a Congressman" (Carl Elliott) Green, "Karl Rove in a Corner". Articles on Tax Reform, 2003. SLIDES. Articles on Ten Commandments monument, 2003. Daily digest of Alabama's political news, list. Disputed voting data, 2002, Baldwin County, table. Economist, Obituary of Judge Frank Johnson. Parties' recognition threshold bill, 2003. Constitution of 1901, "It's a Thick Book." Humorous documentary, seek on Google video. Trailer for Davis Guggenheim /Al Gore, Global warming documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth Sources: Almanac of Amer. Politics, "AL", 2006. AL Legislature: search by your Zip code. AL House. AL Senate. Legislature: Visitor's Guide. Map (East is up). PSC 212 AL Politics in Course Timetable. Robin's Children's page. Voting info: Sec. of State of Alabama. Voter turnout records. Voter ID requirements. www.allpolitics.com.
Election 2008 Blog | Primary election Blog | discussion and debate '08 notes NEW
Parties and Elections Resources:
CNN, AL Gore, (2000). PBS, The Choice series, 2004 (homework, resource) PBS, Chicago Democratic Convention '68 (protesters) PBS, The Candidates series (homework, term paper resource) PBS, The Challengers series (homework, term paper resource) documentaries and campaign footage, as time permits. Recommended Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11, humorous (and outrageous) polemic.
NY Times videos index about Washington Politics NY Times videos index of TV spots in 2006 elections Video ads by Democrats, New York Times Politics on YouTube, 2007
BBC world service, radio podcasts index -- includes US candidates' profiles NEW John McCain profile Barack Obama profile
Deval Patrick (D-MA) & Sen. Obama at Rally, 2007 (indicates rock star status of Obama months before the 2008 primaries)
Laurie Goodstein, "Fewer see GOP as `friendly to religion'", Birmingham News, 5 Sep. '06, New York Times News Service, via AL.com Robert Pear, "The Ad Campaign: Is the Incumbent Too Close to Bush?", NY Times, 17 Sep. '06, with video of Nancy Johnson's CT 5th race [print] [page] Campaigns & Elections magazine, "Filling the War Chest." [brief fundraising manual] Green, "Karl Rove in a Corner," excerpt from Atlantic Monthly about Rove's strategy for Perry Hooper, '94, in AL.
Online TX Redistricting Simulation (Wadsworth) Online Political Quotes Game (Wadsworth) Match your policy choices to a (surprising) candidate for president in 2008NEW
Hillary Clinton for President '08, animated cartoon, '06 (in JibJab style) JibJab election 'Toons. Web fun: Drag images '04: Kerry; Edwards; Bush; Cheney. The Four Parachutes joke [PPS] (no comment intended!)
2006 Election Notes.
Election '06 Results: Maps and Charts | Analysis | Deval Patrick (D-MA) & Sen. Obama at Rally New York Times Interactive Exit Poll graphs, HR voting by party and by demographic groups. New York Times Results Maps. AL interactive map of results by county, AP via Mgmy Advertiser. Thomson's midterm election guide (includes analysis plus state by state maps of close races) Vote-Smart.org:AL legislature's Key Votes | AL Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R), HC alumna. HC Democrats '06 Facebook Group
2006 NY Times Election Guide: (may need to register)
Senate Races map, NY Times [Also click Governors, then Alabama] Gov. Riley, Profile, NY Times | BobRileyforGovernor.com, Lucy Baxley, Profile, NY Times | www.lucybaxley.com, NY Times Politics Navigator, an excellent source by Rich Meislin, of sites for paper research. (may need to register) New York Times Poll Watch index
Gallup Poll, 8 Sep. '06, on salient issues [after commercial] Thomson's midterm election '06 guide (analysis & state maps of close races) Election 'toons and humor, '06 JibJab 'Toons. Alabama '06 home pages and videos Bob Riley for Governor Gov. Riley, Profile, NY Times Lucy Baxley for Governor (includes TV spot) Lucy Baxley, Profile, NY Times Luther Strange for Lt. Governor Campaign '06 videos NY Times videos index of Washington Politics [Online video] NY Times videos index of TV spots in 2006 elections [Online video] Campaign '06 articles Howard Fineman and Holly Bailey, "The Democratic Entourage: Can Rahm Emanuel deliver the House? Newsweek, 17 Sep. '06. Robert Pear, "The Ad Campaign: Is the Incumbent Too Close to Bush?", NY Times, 17 Sep. '06, with video of Nancy Johnson's CT 5th race [print] [page] Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Chris Cillizza, "'Mortgage Moms' May Star in Midterm Vote: With Wages Stagnant and Debt Growing, Democrats See an Opportunity,"Washington Post Dan Balz and David S. Broder, "More GOP Districts Counted as Vulnerable: Number Doubled Over the Summer," Washington Post Paul Bedard, "'Security moms' still on board, Republicans say," David E. Kaplan, "Iraqi public opinion: bad news and good," US News Election '04: Results summary | Analysis by Cindy Barnes Hayden '99 | Kerry and Bush States by income, and by IQ (!) Results and polls: ABC News, YouGov and Pew Center tables, Sep. '04 Polls Summaries, Sep. | June '04 Polls | Election '04 Quotes | Drag images '04: Kerry; Edwards; Bush; Cheney. Greenblatt's NYT Op-Ed piece, 2004, on Shakespeare's Brutus and Mark Anthony, and the Bush-Kerry debate. NEW Pew global attitudes survey, 2005, on Islamist terrorism. [Chart and summary by Dr. Lewis]
JibJab 'Toons. NY Times Calendar '04 | NY Times Campaign Index, '04 | HMCo. links http://www.electoral-vote.com/US map by poll data, updated frequently during 2004 campaign. http://www.electoral-vote.com/states/alabama.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/results.htm '04 US map by States. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm '04 US map by Counties. 2000 County Map: over-representation of rural conservatism, and hence Bush voters. ABC News, YouGov and Pew Center tables, Sep. '04 Online Political Quotes Game (Wadsworth) Online TX Redistricting Simulation (Wadsworth) Avi Rubin, "Perils of Electronic Voting", San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2004. (Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute) or: http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/jhupdate/vote.html The Four Parachutes joke [PPS] (from internet -- no endorsement intended!)
Structure and Process of American Government [Local] Understanding Institutions: The Median Voter Theorem [Local] (Features Iowa political stockmarket data on 2000 election.) Agenda Setting: The Committee Model [Local] (PDF 2) [Local] Rules theory + charts contrast AL and MA delegations' legislative scores. Making Legislation: Veto Players [Local] Theory + stock market graph of policy candidates Making Legislation: Ideas and Policy Entrepreneurs [Local]Theory + stock market graph of policy candidates Campaigns and Elections [Local] (PDF 2) [Local] increases in PAC spending deflated by dollar and by GDP. The Measure and Meaning of Public Opinion [Local] correlation of attitudes with support for decisions The Structure of Public Opinion [Local] Has charts of opinion & intensity on abortion, social issues. Understanding Public Opinion and American Politics: War and Race [Local] Graphs show opinion on war diverges among most aware partisans. Mobilization of Interests [Local] Has data on top donor PACs. Participation and the Political System [Local] Conclusions [Local]
Pew global attitudes survey, 2005, on Islamist terrorism. [Chart and summary by Dr. Lewis] Web sites: Rourke, Powerweb | AWAC | Great Decisions | Foreign Policy Assoc World Affairs Councils of America | Model UN index | Victor Bulmer-Thomas, "Blair's Foreign Policy and Its Successor(s)," Briefing Paper, Chatham House, Dec '06 (PDF) [Local] BBC world service, radio podcasts index -- many on international topics. NEW History of world religions (animated timeline) NEW Empires of the middle east (animated timeline) NEW History of US wars and leadership (animated timeline) NEW Review of anti-Nazi film , V for Vendetta (2006) based on anarchistic graphic novel Rwanda Genocide lecture: Maps | Links | Video Documentary notes, on Terrorism Speeches: Speakers: International topics | Fall '04 | Spr. '05 | '06-07 | NEW Speakers in PSC 302 Middle Eastern Governments [PPT, large] [PPT, fewer images] [Html pages, fewer images] Speaker with class, [Low-Res images] [Hi-Res] | SAUDI Speakers Mar '04 | Images | Lewis extensively quoted 8 July '05 in newspaper article about the London bombings. Notes for AL World Affairs Council speakers, 11 Apr. 2006. AUM's Public Affairs Day on China and India Trade, notes. ACSC National Security Workshop on Ecological Security, notes. Doug Marlette, the award winning cartoonist, spoke 22 Feb. '07 & showed his international political cartoons. State of Union messages: Bush '07 | 2003 | Sec. Colin Powell, on Iraq, to UN, 5 Feb. 2003 Lewis, Speech on China & Taiwan to Model United Nations, April 2004 Visiting speaker events, 27-28 January '05: Dr. Sudha Mohan, on Indian Politics [Notes] [Maps] [Images of Mumbai]. Lewis extensively quoted 8 July '05 in newspaper article about the London bombings. Reports: Summary of 9/11 Commission Report, 2004. NY Times summary of Final Report on Iraqi WMD. Humor: Humor: the polar bear indicates global warming Rumsfeld's hand gestures video De Niro video, SNL Homeland Security sketch Comparative Cow Policy: a rendition of the venerable two cows jokes
Syllabus | Agenda for Lewis sessions | Lewis Lectures | Maps of Germany and Switzerland | Images from the trip, poster image | list of Low-res images | list of High-res images l
Homework page (print out and fill in) Student Budget calculator NEW Final exam holds 32 multiple choice questions based on Lecture notes. Additional lecture notes & links: Trimble: Fairytales PPT | Lewis: Failures of Weimar Republic, Table | Sightseeing ideas (not all will be included): Munich, is rich in history and is a crossroads of cultures with neighboring Austria, Italy and Switzerland described as an Italianate city in Germany, Munich has lovely architecture, museums and scenery Architecture includes town hall, Frauenkirche (church), decorative palaces, art galleries Bier Keller (tavern) location, where Hitler's group began putsch (coup attempt) in 1924 Dachau death camp museum (4 subway stops and a 15 minute walk) Hitler's Eagle's Nest (lair) at Berchtesgarten (travel up to mountains) Salzburg (gorgeous, musical city -- yes, with Sound of Music film location -- about 90 minutes south by train) You may recognize some street scenes from the 1972 film, Cabaret. thanks to Frau Hyman for some suggestions. My recommended reading and listening: Instant Immersion German, $20; a bunch of CDs with language drills. phrase book & CD: Essential German Travel Pack; (Dorling Kindersley, about $16) guide book, with maps, descriptions and images: Eyewitness Series, Top Ten, Munich. (Dorling Kindersley, $10) background book: David Conradt, The German Polity (Norton). YouTube & MySpace's Germany related videos -- selected, not as dreadful as most Home made parody of German TV shows by US German 3 class, MySpace, 6 mins German Engineering vs Arab Technology, 40 secs (mock commercial for VW) Monty Python's soccer match: German Philosophers v Greeks, YouTube, 4 mins MontyPython's Hitler in Minehead parody, YouTube, 6 mins World Cup 2006 Germany videos list: comments in German World Cup 2006 Germany - Argentina goals plus Penalty shootout, YouTube, 2mins World cup 2006 Germany - Argentina Penalty shootout, after Klose equalized in 80th min, YouTube, 4 mins World Cup 2006: German fans exhuberance after Goalie saves penalty, YouTube, 36 secs, "Deutschland Argentinien - Cambiasso schießt - Lehmann hält!" World Cup 2006: Germany 2 - Sweden 0, highlights, in Munich World Cup 2006: Germany 3 - Portugal 1 Travel Tips for Germany from Expert Village: 1, YouTube, 2 mins (dull) Direction tips for Germany from Expert Village, YouTube, 2 mins (dull) Travelogue across Europe, mostly France, Dr. Chuck's series, YouTube, 9 mins Notes on documentary or fiction films on German subjects Professional German films database German films at Amazon German films at Target Film and musical stage show, Cabaret (with location shots of street scenes in Munich) PBS, The Berlin Airlift Film, Das Boot (the U-boat) Film, The Lives of Others (showing at Capri in March '07) on the surveillance of artists by the Stasi, East German State Security Police. Film and classic book, All Quiet on the Western Front BBC series, Fawlty Towers: Don't Talk About the War Recommended travelogues, APTV documentaries, listed for this term: Smart Traveller TV series (mostly on High Def channel only) with serious presenter. Globe Trekker series (mostly on High Def channel only) with young, hippie style presenter. Rick Steves' series and guide /phrase books. (In academic baby boomer style, but not programmed for APTV in spring '07. Get 'em on DVD.) Images of Munich: Carsten Clasohm's images: FrauenKirche & Olympic Tower | architecture | Aviation Museum | Botanical Gardens | Castle Nymphenburg Munich International Airport (Nasa images), 20 mi NE Munich Subway Platform (Wiki) Spielberg's poster of Munich film Whole album of Sandy travel's images of Munich
Parties and Press:
Our House of Commons tour was again graciously hosted by Sandra Gidley, MP for Romsey, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for women and the elderly -- and the only pharmacist in the House. In Jan. '04 she also secured us Question Time tickets and held a seminar in the committee rooms. Gidley's official web pages (SandraGidley.org) Proxy Gidleywatch blog about Sandra Gidley Gidley's own blog in response to Gidleywatch: RomseyRedHeadBlog Gidley's profile at They Work for You Constituency & (marginal seat) electoral record at Guardian (& see Legalize cannabis vote) Liberal Democrats party website Andrew Turner, MP (Con- Isle of Wight); graciously offered to speak to us on the afternoon of Mon 10 May, '06. involved in education and research for the Conservative Party, elected 2001. City councillor for 17 years, taking an especial interest in housing and highways. Former Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party; and Shadow Minister for Charities. (Also classmate of Dr. Lewis's at Keble College, Oxford.) His official web site at http://www.islandmp.org/ Conservatives' profile at http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=people.person.page&personID=4847 Profile at They Work for You Tony Wright, MP, author (Lab.- Cannock Chase). | Biogaphy | Publications. Dr. Wright, a former university lecturer, and active author, also kindly conducted a seminar with us in the committee rooms of the House of Commons in Jan. '04. Tony Wright's profile at They Work For You | speech on reform of Honours system, March '06 Tony Wright's electoral record at the Guardian (& see Loony party vote) House of Commons Constituency Locator.
FYex 101: First Year Experience seminar. Syllabus | Timetable | Agenda | Introduction | Who's Who | Time management | Survival tips | Honor Code | Professorese | Study Skills | Careers | Catalog | Prof. Meeting Form | Diversity | Dr. Rohlig | Rohlig lecture questions | Attitudes | Money | Compound interest calculator | Student budget calculator | Relationships | Consumer Reports | Timetable, Fall 06 | FOCUS careers (discontinued) | discontinued material, Fall '05 Sophia Bracy Harris on Civil Rights, 30 Oct '06 Tutoring Help Slide: [PPT] [HTML] Pew global attitudes survey, 2005, on Islamist terrorism. [Chart and summary by Dr. Lewis] Roster, '06 | Roster '05 | Roster '04 | Images '04 | Hi-Res images '04 | Table '04 | Jan Term 2000 Coed Rugby, Index Jan Term 1998 State Politics, Syllabus Jan Term ideas page
Pearson's PoliSim, online simulation of lobbying. (slow for phone lines) Online Political Quotes Game (Wadsworth) Idealog (Java) [test your ideological position] (This version may hang up.) Idealog (Web) [are you liberal, conservative?] (this version runs well.) Political Compass: plots your ideological position from a quiz; explanation of the two dimensions of political thinking [local file]. (More sophisticated than Idealog). The Four Parachutes joke [PPS] (from internet -- no comment intended!)
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Jan Crawford Greenburg (ABC News) will be the Stallworth lecturer, 7:30 pm on 23 Sep. 2008. Her lively new book, Supreme Conflict, (2007) argues that W. Bush has been more successful than other recent Republican presidents, in casting the Supreme Court in a conservative direction. Speaker notes. New York Times review (favorable, with some gaps such as hard data and topics such as presidential power) Amazon.com: best customer reviews: Favorable | Critical Suggestions of books on criminal law: Israel & LaFave, Criminal Procedure in a Nutshell [Amazon page] Israel & LaFave, Criminal Procedure & the Constitution, American Casebook series [Amazon page] Russell & Weaver, Principles of Criminal Procedure [Amazon page] Some suggestions for your preparation for law school. These brief, inexpensive, introductory law textbooks are very well reviewed: Lief Carter and Thomas Burke's Reason in Law (7th edition), [Amazon reviews] Moliterno & Lederer, An Introduction to Law, Law Study, and the Lawyer's Role (Very readable) [Carolina Academic publisher's page], [Amazon reviews] More suggestions for pre-law candidates. The following texts also have excellent reviews, and may be valuable if you desire a preview of law school material. Jay Feinman, Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System [Oxford UP, US, publisher's page], [Amazon reviews] M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Keeley, Asking the Right Questions, A Guide to Critical Thinking, 8th Ed., Prentice Hall publisher (available from Barnes and Noble; and Amazon) Bahrych and Rombauer, Legal writing in A Nutshell, Third Ed., West Publishing, and west.thomson.com The Blue Book, a Uniform System of Citation, 18th Ed., Harvard Law Review Association (publisher) and at www.legalbluebook.com. Edward H. Levi, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning, phoenix books, pb, [Amazon Reviews]. Other resources: The textbooks will likely be supplemented by briefs, judicial decisions, and real world examples such as search warrants. Most judicial decisions can be found online in databases at findlaw.com; leading constitutional law cases at oyez.nwu.edu; or at cornell.edu. The library audiovisual collection includes "May it Please the Court", a collection of audiotapes of oral argument before the US Supreme Court. These can also be heard online at Oyez.nwu.edu. Additional legal research may be conducted via the AL Supreme Court library (both in hardcopy and via LegalTrak database) on Dexter Ave (9 mins'. drive) and the Lexis database (at ASU, 2 mins'. drive.)
Definitions of Terrorism, in my Quotes page NEW Country Briefings from Economist Pew global attitudes survey, July 2005, on Islamist terrorism. [Chart & summary by Dr. Lewis] | House Report 2006 on BioTerrorism | Counter Insurgency, Army Field 2006, manual Notes | Databases on Terrorism: NEW APSA collection of syllabi and resources <http://www.apsanet.org/section_571.cfm>. MIPT database, allows data searches: <http://www.tkb.org/>. University of MD data collection, in progress <http://www.start.umd.edu/data/gtd/>. Alleged Terrorist groups' web sites:NEW Animal Liberation Front (ALF): <http://www.animalliberationfront.com/>. Earth Liberation Front (ELF): <http://www.earthliberationfront.com/>. Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph: <http://english.aleph.to/>. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE): <http://www.eelamweb.com/>. Videos: Documentary notes, on Terrorism | Notes on Frontline video, Beslan massacre. Videos of Developing World Rwanda Genocide lecture: Maps | Links Humor: polar bear indicates global warming [WMV] palestinian passport control [WMV] Speaker notes: Ms. Bernadette Lorenzo, "The Peace Corps experience in Paraguay." Mr. Craig Baab, "Terrorism as a Regional Force: Palestine and the Congo." | Notes of World Affairs Council speaker, Gen. Russell Howard, on modern terrorism, 8 Nov. '05. Maps of War site: History of world religions (animated timeline) NEW Empires of the middle east (animated timeline) NEW History of US wars and leadership (animated timeline) NEW CIA secret prison in Eastern Europe (animated satellite image) NEW Iraq as pressure vault (animated map) NEW Baghdad's Shia vs Sunni neighborhoods, Sep. '06 (colored satellite image) NEW Saddam's palace under US occupation (colored satellite image) NEW Podcasts at iTunes U. (samples; search for more) Peter Bergen, Rise of Religious Terrorism, Arizona State U. (Free, Podcast at iTunes Store, 35 minutes) Peter Bergen, A World At Risk: Successes and Failures of the War on Terrorism, Stanford U. (Free, Podcast at iTunes Store, 67 minutes) Christopher Hitchens, The War on Terror Revisited, Stanford U (Free, Podcast at iTunes U., 90 mins) Noam Chomsky, The New War on Terrorism, Fact & Fiction. (Podcast Album, $10 at iTunes U. Well, Chomsky is an 'academic rock star' for leftists!) Good Sources on Terrorism (from authors active pre-2001): Conway, Maura. 2002. “Reality Bytes: Cyberterrorism and Terrorist ‘Use’ of the Internet.” First
Monday 7 (November).Crenshaw, Martha. 1987. “Theories of Terrorism: Instrumental and Organizational Approaches.” Journal of Strategic Studies 10 (December): 13-31. -----. 1990. “The Logic of Terrorism: Terrorism as the Product of Strategic Choice.” In Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind, ed. Walter Reich. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Cambridge University Press, 7-24. Hoffman, Brian. 1998. Inside Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, 7. Jenkins, Brian. 1975. “International Terrorism: A New Mode of Conflict.” In International Terrorism and World Security, eds. David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf. London: Croom Helm, 16. Pape, Robert. 2003. “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.” American Political Science Review 97 (August): 343-361. Rapoport, David. 1984. “Fear and Trembling: Terrorism in Three Religious Traditions.” American Political Science Review 78 (September): 658-677.
