The College of Humanities and Public Affairs (CHPA) helps students to understand social, political and legal structures, ethical principles, religious systems, and economic institutions and practices within a global, historical, and contemporary context. CHPA presents the concepts contained in the university’s Public Affairs mission and applies them to real-world problems and situations so that our students will be better prepared to become citizens and leaders.

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Submissions from 2009

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The Evolution of Community Corrections, Eric J. Wodahl and Brett Garland

Submissions from 2008

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Dearly departed: How often do congregations close?, Shawna Anderson, Jessica Hamar Martinez, Catherine Hoegeman, Gary Adler, and Mark Chaves

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Power Law Versus Exponential Law in Characterizing Stock Market Returns, Mahua Barari and Saibal Mitra

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Reassessing Co-movements among G7 Equity Markets: Evidence from iShares, M. Barari, Brian Lucey, and S. Voronkova

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Resisting the Global in Buddhist Nationalism: Venerable Soma's Discourse of Decline and Reform, Stephen C. Berkwitz

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The Impact of Team Revenues on MLB Salaries, Kenneth H. Brown and Lisa K. Jepsen

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Racial Differences in Public Support for the Death Penalty: Can Racist sentiment and Core Values Explain the Racial Divide?, Kevin Buckler, Mario Davila, and Patti Ross Salinas

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Christianity and the Common Good: Generating Benevolence and Pursuing the Decent Equilibrium in International Fieldwork, B. R. Calfano

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Determining Democracy in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Brian Robert Calfano and Emile Sahliyeh

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Transmitting Reform: Assessing New Media Influence on Political Rights in the Middle East, Brian Robert Calfano and Emile Sahliyeh

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It's My Body and None of Your Business: Developmental Changes in Adolescents' Perceptions of Rights Concerning Health, Constance A. Flanagan, Michael D. Stout, and Leslie S. Gallay

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Current Issues Involving Lethal Injection, Andrew Fulkerson and Michael Suttmoeller

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Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Prisons: An Examination of Psychological Staff, Teachers, and Unit Management Personnel, Brett E. Garland, William McCarty, and Ruohui Zhao

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Rhetoric and Reality: The Political Influence of British Brewers, 1832-1914, David W. Gutzke

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Runcorn brewery: The unofficial history of a corporate disaster, David W. Gutzke

Frictions between friends: U.S. policy and Taiwan's United Nations campaign, Dennis V. Hickey

Personal Tax Exemption and Fertility in the United States: An Empirical Study by Age Groups, Mackenzie C. Morris and Mahua Barari

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Up and down with the agrarian question: Issue attention and land reform in contemporary Brazil, Gabriel Ondetti

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Fascism of the skin: Symptoms of alienation in the body of consumptive capitalism, Marvin T. Prosono

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American Scholars Return to Studying Religion, John Schmalzbauer and Kathleen Mahoney

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Developing Countries and Fertility: Role of Agricultural Technology, Sharmistha Self

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Examining the Link Between Japan's Development and Education of Females, Sharmistha Self and Richard Grabowski

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Bias against Daughters in Health-Care Provision: A Theoretical Analysis, Sharmistha Self and Sajal Lahiri

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Mao and China's relations with the superpowers in the 1950s: A new look at the Taiwan strait crises and the Sino-Soviet split, Michael M. Sheng

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Bison exploitation in the Wyoming Basin at the Middle/Late Holocene transition: A view from the Graham Ranch site, Craig S. Smith, David A. Byers, and Cynthia D. Craven

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The Status of Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East: Does Regime Type Make a Difference?, Todd B. Spinks, Emile Sahliyeh, and Brian Calfano

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Shattering the image of God: A response to Theodore Hiebert's interpretation of the story of The Tower of Babel, John T. Strong

Russia goes ballistic, Bradley A. Thayer and Thomas M. Skypek

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Racial Desegregation in Prisons, Chad R. Trulson, James W. Marquart, Craig Hemmens, and Leo Carroll

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A global perspective on the spatiotemporal pattern of the Late Pleistocene human and woolly mammoth radiocarbon record, Andrew Ugan and David A. Byers

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Measuring Influence in a Southern State Legislature, Donald E. Whistler and Mark C. Elickson

Submissions from 2007

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Western education's impact on Northern Igbo gender roles in Nsukka, Nigeria, Jamaine M. Abidogun

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Who Let the Dogs Out? Drug Dogs in Court, Jennifer Ashley, Simon Billinge, and Craig Hemmens

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Rural Settlement and Soil Erosion from the Late Roman Period through the Medieval Islamic Period in the Lower Alentejo of Portugal, James L. Boone and F. Scott Worman

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Reply to "the measurement and stability of state citizen ideology", Paul Brace, Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson, and Stacy G. Ulbig

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Ecosystem controls and the archaeofaunal record: an example from the Wyoming Basin, USA, David A. Byers and Craig S. Smith

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Assistance of a Different Kind: Chinese Political Warfare in Ghana, 1958–1966, Donovan C. Chau

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The sins of the fathers: Franciscan friars, parish priests, and the sexual conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545-1808, John F. Chuchiak IV

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Management of supply chain: An alternative modelling technique for forecasting, S. Datta, C. W.J. Granger, M. Barari, and T. Gibbs

Native Crops at Early Cahokia: Comparing Domestic and Ceremonial Contexts, Gayle J. Fritz and Neal H. Lopinot

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Rural women's stories of recovery from addiction, Judith Grant

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Development Economics, Developing Migration: Targeted Economic Development Initiatives as Drivers in International Migration, Gregory S. Gullette

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Migration and Tourism Development in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Gregory S. Gullette

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Geoarchaeology of stratified paleoindian deposits at the Big Eddy site, Southwest Missouri, U.S.A, Edwin R. Hajic, Rolfe D. Mandel, Jack H. Ray, and Neal H. Lopinot

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Neoliberalism and Social Imbalance: Higher Education in Missouri, John B. Harms

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Realism in Western narrative and the Gospel of Mark: A prolegomenon, Charles Hedrick

All We Gotta Do Is Hold Up Our End: Bruce Springsteen and Strain Theory, Craig Hemmens and Mary K. Stohr

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Family Resemblances, Relationalism, and the Meaning of 'Art', Daniel A. Kaufman

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Gifting Mecca: Importing Spiritual Capital to West Africa, Erin Kenny

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Gender Bias in Education: the Role of Inter‐household Externality, Dowry and other Social Institutions, Sajal Lahiri and Sharmistha Self

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CSI Ozarks: Practicing Forensic Anthropology, Lester Lakey and Suzanne E. Walker

A New Approach at Missouri State - Part II: Blended Learning, Andrew P. Lokie Jr. and Karl Kunkel

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Trampling experiments in the search for the earliest Americans, Neal H. Lopinot and Jack H. Ray

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Occupational stress and burnout between male and female police officers: Are there any gender differences?, William P. McCarty, Jihong Solomon Zhao, and Brett E. Garland

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The Kiowa Drawings of Gotebo (1847-1927): A Self-Portrait of Cultural and Religious Transition, William C. Meadows and Kenny Harragarra

A Pure Son of Missouri, Jeremy Neely

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The Religious Dynamics of Decision Making on Gay Rights Issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1993-2002, Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon and Brian Robert Calfano

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Public vs. Private Sector Earnings Differentials in the Caribbean Region: Evidence from the Economy of Trinidad & Tobago, Reed N. Olsen and Addington Coppin

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An Ambivalent Legacy: Cardoso and Land Reform, Gabriel Ondetti

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Interest group influence on the ideological orientations of local party activists, Joel Paddock

Extent of Nationalization of Republican Policy Positions in the Post-New Deal Era, Joel W. Paddock

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The Continuing Roles for U.S. Strategic Forces, Keith B. Payne

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Structural Deficits and the Politics of Balancing the Budget: The Case of Missouri Fy 2004 Budget, Yuhua Qiao

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"Admitted to the heavenly school": Consolation, instruction, and admonition in Aegidius Hunnius's academic funeral sermons, Austra Reinis

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IDP and refugee return to Northern Iraq: Sustainable returns or demographic bombs?, David Romano

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Behaviour change and competitive exclusion can explain the diverging HIV-1 and HIV-2 prevalence trends in Guinea–Bissau, W. P. Schmidt, M. Schim van der Loeff, P. Aaby, H. Whittle, R. Bakker, M. Buckner, F. Dias, and R. G. White

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Economic development and the role of agricultural technology, Sharmistha Self and Richard Grabowski

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Derrida and Wittgenstein: Points of Opposition, Ralph Shain

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Mao's Formative Years Revisited, Michael M. Sheng

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Guest Editors' Introduction: Ethnohistory volume 54, no. 1, Pete Sigal and John F. Chuchiak IV

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Drivers of violent conflict [1], Bradley A. Thayer

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Thinking about Nuclear Deterrence Theory: Why Evolutionary Psychology Undermines Its Rational Actor Assumptions, Bradley A. Thayer

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Geographic and temporal trends in proboscidean and human radiocarbon histories during the late Pleistocene, Andrew Ugan and David A. Byers

Population characteristics and health service use by Latino immigrants to Southwest Missouri, Suzanne E. Walker, Susan Dollar, and Ravindra G. Amonker

Submissions from 2006

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History and Gratitude in Theravāda Buddhism, Stephen C. Berkwitz

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The mountain view conference of the Arkansas Historical Association, 2006, Brooks Blevins

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Reprint of correction: Does state political ideology change over time? (Political Research Quarterly 57:4 (529-540)), Paul Brace, Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson, and Stacy G. Ulbig

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The Production Possibility Frontier as a Maximum Value Function: Concavity and Non-increasing Returns to Scale, Ardeshir J. Dalal

Reconciliation and Confirmation: Blacks and Whites at a Predominantly White University, Frank Dinka, Frank Mazzella, and Denny E. Pilant

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Knowing Me, Knowing You: Gender Differences in Students’ File Trading, Julie H. Gallaway and Terrel A. Gallaway

The Times They Are a Changin’: Digital Content Supply Decisions of Students, Terrel A. Gallaway, Julie H. Gallaway, and Douglas Kinnear

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Explaining Perceptions of Administrative Support Among Prison Treatment Staff, Brett E. Garland and William P. McCarty

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Growing up Kennedy: The role of medical ailments in the life of JFK, 1920-1957, James N. Giglio

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Factor Accumulation or TFP? A Reassessment of Growth in South East Asia, Shawna Grosskopf and Sharmistha Self

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Estimating the efficiency of the system of healthcare financing in achieving better health, S. Grosskopf, S. Self, and O. Zaim

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America, China and Taiwan: Three Challenges for Chen Shui-bian, Dennis V. Hickey

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Knowledge, Wisdom, and the Philosopher, Daniel A. Kaufman

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Multiple approaches to formation processes: The Pine Spring Site, southwest Wyoming, Robert L. Kelly, David A. Byers, William Eckerle, Paul Goldberg, C. Vance Haynes, R. Mark Larsen, John Laughlin, Jim I. Mead, and Sage Wall

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The Determination of Social Identity in the Story of Ruth, Victor H. Matthews

Black Goose's Map of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows

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Local Economic Performance and Election Outcomes, David M. Mitchell and Keith Willett

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Repression, opportunity, and protest: Explaining the takeoff of Brazil's landless movement, Gabriel Ondetti

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Conducting research in the Middle East's conflict zones, David Romano

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Women in Post-Saddam Iraq: One Step Foward or Two Steps Back?, David Romano and Lucy Brown

Agricultural Development, State Effectiveness and Long-Run Economic Development, Sharmistha Self and Richard Grabowski

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It Is Not Paranoia if People Really Are Out to Get You: The Nature and the Extent of Hate Crime Victimization in Idaho, Mary K. Stohr, Salvador P. Vazquez, and Shandell Kleppinger

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Self-destructing prophecies: Long-term forecasting of municipal correctional bed need, Ray Surette, Brandon Applegate, Bernard McCarthy, and Patrick Jablonski

Evolution and the American social sciences: An evolutionary social scientist's view, Bradley A. Thayer

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Documenting Desegregation: Segregation in American Workplaces by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex. 1966-2003, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Catherine Zimmer, Kevin Stainback, Corre Robinson, Tiffany Taylor, and Tricia McTague

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The opportunity cost of regulating phosphorus from broiler production in the Illinois River Basin, Keith Willett, David M. Mitchell, H. L. Goodwin, Baxter Vieux, and Jennie S. Popp