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 2005

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Holocene artiodactyl population histories and large game hunting in the Wyoming Basin, USA, David A. Byers, Craig S. Smith, and Jack M. Broughton

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In servitio dei: Fray Diego De Landa, the Franciscan order, and the return of the extirpattion of idolatry in the colonial diocese of Yucatán, 1573-1579, John F. Chuchiak IV

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Red gold of the Ozarks: The rise and decline of tomato canning, 1885-1955, Tom Dicke

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Fashions of worldly dames: Separatist discourses of dress in early modern London, Amsterdam, and Plymouth colony, Martha L. Finch

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Life on the Edge: A Look at Ports of Trade and Other Economic Ecotones, Terrel A. Gallaway

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Between reason and common sense: On the very idea of necessary (though unwarranted) belief, Daniel A. Kaufman

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Bush administration strategic policy: A reality check, Keith B. Payne

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The nuclear posture review: Setting the record straight, Keith B. Payne

Missouri and the Civil War in the West: More Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, William G. Piston

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Whose house is this anyway? IDP and refugee return in Post-Saddam Iraq, David Romano

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Role Expectations of the Police: An Analysis of 50 State Statutes, Brenton Roncace, Andrew Giacomazzi, Craig Hemmens, and Georg Fliege

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The U.S.-Japan security alliance, ASEAN, and the South China Sea dispute, Joshua P. Rowan

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Searching for Protestantism in the Encyclopedia of Protestantism, John Schmalzbauer

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Red Tape and Public Service Motivation: Findings from a National Survey of Managers in State Health and Human Services Agencies, Patrick G. Scott and Sanjay K. Pandey

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Derrida's references to Wittgenstein, Ralph Shain

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Voting for minority candidates in multiracial/multiethnic communities, Robert M. Stein, Stacy G. Ulbig, and Stephanie Shirley Post

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Victim Services Programming: If It Is Efficacious, They Will Come, Mary K. Stohr

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Confronting china: An evaluation of options for the united states, Bradley A. Thayer

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Intimate Partner Violence Incidence and Characteristics: Idaho NIBRS 1995 to 2001 Data, Salvador P. Vazquez, Mary K. Stohr, and Marcus Purkiss

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‘Why is a Woman Still Not Safe When She's in Her Home?’: Seven Years of NIBRS Data on Victims and Offenders of Intimate Partner Violence, Salvador Vazquez, Mary Stohr, Karen Skow, and Marcus Purkiss

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Leaping behavior of Pithecia pithecia and Chiropotes satanas in eastern Venezuela, Suzanne E. Walker

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The geography of universal empire: A revolution in strategic perspective and its lessons, C. Dale Walton

Submissions from 2004

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Equity market integration in Latin America: A time-varying integration score analysis, Mahua Barari

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Fireworking Down South, Brooks R. Blevins

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Does state political ideology change over time?, Paul Brace, Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson, and Stacy G. Ulbig

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The Sergeant John R. Rice incident and the Paradox of Indian Civil Rights, Thomas A. Britten and Larry W. Burt

A Hierarchical Linear Model Approach for Assessing the Effects of House and Neighborhood Characteristics on Housing Prices, Kenneth Brown and B Uyar

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What the Manjaco bell tells us, Margaret Buckner

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The Quapaw Language and Culture Service-Learning Project, Margaret L. Buckner

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Holocene Environmental Change, Artiodactyl Abundances, and Human Hunting Strategies in the Great Basin, David A. Byers and Jack M. Broughton

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Coordination in complex systems: increasing efficiency in disaster mitigation and response, Louise K. Comfort, Mark Dunn, David E. A. Johnson, Robert Skertich, and Adam Zagorecki

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Spelunking with Ray Bradbury: The Allegory of the Cave in Fahrenheit 451., George E. Connor

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Roles and Responsibilities: Analyzing Local Leaders' Views on Jail Crowding From a Systems Perspective, Robin King Davis, Brandon K. Applegate, Charles W. Otto, Ray Surette, and Bernard McCarthy

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Learning from truth: Youth Participation in Field Marketing Techniques to Counter Tobacco Advertising, Merrill Eisenberg, Chris Ringwalt, David Driscoll, Manuel Vallee, and Gregory Gullette

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Literacy and Women's Empowerment in Indonesia: Implications for Policy, Julie H. Gallaway and Alexandra Bernasek

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Open Source Software, the Wrongs of Copyright, and the Rise of Technology, Terrel A. Gallaway and Douglas Kinnear

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The Impact of Administrative Support on Prison Treatment Staff Burnout: An exploratory Study, Brett Garland

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Conceptualizing Nature: The Politics behind Allocating and Utilizing Native Forest Resources in New Zealand, Gregory S. Gullette

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Continuity and change: The administration of George W. Bush and US policy toward Taiwan, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

Putin and the parliamentary elections in Russia: The confluence (Slijanie) of Russian political culture and leadership, Beat R. Kernen

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A Research Note Assessing the Benefit of Presentation Software in Two Different Lecture Courses, Karl R. Kunkel

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Ideological Differences Between Female and Male County Party Chairs, Joel W. Paddock and Elizabeth Paddock

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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide policy in the Netherlands and Oregon: A comparative analysis, Kant B. Patel

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Liberalism and Civic Education: Unitary versus Pluralist Alternatives, Kevin Pybas

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Globalisation, extremism and violence in poor countries, Richard Sandbrook and David Romano

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Does education at all levels cause growth? India, a case study, Sharmistha Self and Richard Grabowski

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Legally Prescribed Functions of Adult and Juvenile Probation Officers: Worlds Apart?, Benjamin Steiner, Marcus Purkiss, Misty Kifer, Elizabeth Roberts, and Craig Hemmens

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Building Bridges Between Cultures: A Literacy Program for Immigrant Latino Children, Suzanne E. Walker and Cherri Jones

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Reproductive parameters and life-history variables in captive golden-bellied mangabeys (Cercocebus agilis chrysogaster), Suzanne E. Walker, M. Elizabeth Strasser, and Leslie P. Field

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The Strategist in Context: Culture, the Development of Strategic Thought, and the Pursuit of Timeless Truth, C. Dale Walton

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The West and Its Antagonists: Culture, Globalization, and the War on Terrorism, C. Dale Walton

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Regulating Nutrient Discharge from Poultry Litter into Surface Waters: Total Maximum Daily Load Rules and Economic Incentives, Keith Willet and David M. Mitchell

Submissions from 2003

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The Multifunction Jail: Policy Makers' Views of the Goals of Local Incarceration, Brandon K. Applegate, Robin King Davis, Charles W. Otto, Ray Surette, and Benard J. McCarthy

Do we preach what we practice? A survey of methods in political science journals and curricula, Andrew Bennett, Aharon Barth, and Kenneth R. Rutherford

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Recent trends in Sri Lankan Buddhism, Stephen C. Berkwitz

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The multi-market firm, transportation costs, and the separation of the output and allocation decisions, Ardeshir J. Dalal and Eliakim Katz

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Domestic and Foreign Sales When Prices in Both Markets are Uncertain, Ardeshir J. Dalal and Sudhakar S. Raju

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Mullahs, Martyrs, and Men: Conceptualizing Masculinity in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Shahin Gerami

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Kennedy on tape, James N. Giglio

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The coming of conflict to the Caspian Sea, Mehrdad Haghayeghi

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Warming winters and New Hampshire’s lost ski areas: an integrated case study, Lawrence C. Hamilton, David E. Rohall, Benjamin C. Brown, Gregg F. Hayward, and Barry D. Keim

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The new economy: What's new, what's not, John Harms and Timothy D. Knapp

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Caveats to a “Righted Order” of the Gospel of the Savior, Charles W. Hedrick

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The secret gospel of Mark: Stalemate in the academy, Charles W. Hedrick

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Critical Justification and Critical Laws, D. A. Kaufman

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The Goals of Corrections: Perspectives from the Line, Misty Kifer, Craig Hemmens, and Mary K. Stohr

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Assessing Computer Technology in the Criminal Justice Classroom: A Case Study, Karl R. Kunkel

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Deux lettres inédites du pape Lucius III pour la collégiale de Notre-Dame de Mantes, Andrew W. Lewis

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The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Movement to Ban Landmines, Richard A. Matthew and Kenneth R. Rutherford

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Physical Space, Imagined Space, And "Lived Space" in Ancient Israel, Victor H. Matthews

Lead Creek Chert, William C. Meadows

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Educating the masses: Cartoons from the populist press of the 1890s, Worth Robert Miller

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Presidential rhetoric and the strategy of going public: President Clinton and the health care reform, Kant B. Patel

Middle Archaic Components and Chert Use at the Bass Site, Jack H. Ray and Neal H. Lopinot

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How Effective is Public Health Expenditure in Improving Overall Health? A Cross-country Analysis, Sharmistha Self and Richard Grabowski

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Where is Juvenile Probation Today? The Legally Prescribed Functions of Juvenile Probation Officers, Benjamin Steiner, Elizabeth Roberts, and Craig Hemmens

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New perspectives on the Madrid Codex, Gabrielle Vail, Victoria R. Bricker, Anthony F. Aveni, Harvey M. Bricker, John F. Chuchiak IV, Christine L. Hernandez, Bryan R. Just, Martha J. Macri, and Merideth Paxton

Submissions from 2002

A Practical User's Guide to Ethical Practices: Idaho's Method for Implementing Ethical Behavior in A Correctional Setting, Gary Barrier, Mary K. Stohr, Craig Hemmens, and Robert Marsh

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In the land of a million smiles: Twentieth-century America discovers the Arkansas Ozarks, Brooks Blevins

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Isaac long on one end of a log: The founder and the founding of Batesville's Arkansas College, Brooks Blevins

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Taphonomic analysis, associational integrity, and depositional history of the Fetterman Mammoth, eastern Wyoming, U.S.A., David A. Byers

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Toward a regional definition of idolatry: Reexamining idolatry trials in the "Relaciónes de Méritos" and their role in defining the concept of "idolatria" in colonial Yucatán, 1570-1780, John Chuchiak IV

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Covenants and Criticism: Deuteronomy and the American Founding, George E. Connor

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Determinants of job satisfaction of municipal government employees, Mark C. Ellickson and Kay Logsdon

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Pathways to Political Respect in American State Legislatures, Mark C. Ellickson and Donald E. Whistler

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Disability and feminism: Goffman revisited, Doris Ewing

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Free Ride: An Institutionalist Analysis of Information in the Internet Age, Terrel A. Gallaway and Douglas Kinnear

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Cross-Strait Relations in the Aftermath of the Election of Chen Shui-bian, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey and Yitan Li

Finns on both sides: The development of Finnish Communities along the Lower Columbia River, George P. Hummasti

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Composite objects and the abstract/concrete distinction, Daniel Kaufman

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Reality in common sense: Reflections on realism and anti-realism from a 'common sense naturalist' perspective, Daniel Kaufman

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Normative Criticism and the Objective Value of Artworks, Daniel A. Kaufman

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When the screen goes blank: A television plant closing and its impacts on workers, Timothy Knapp and John B. Harms

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(Foot)Notes on Orientalism and Religion, J. E. Llewellyn

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Out of fashion: Harriet Hemenway and the Audubon Society, 1896-1905, Kathy S. Mason

Stanford Chert, William C. Meadows

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The Lost World of Gilded Age Politics, Worth Robert Miller

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Red Tape: A Review and Assessment of Concepts and Measures, Sanjay K. Pandey and Patrick G. Scott

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The residues of feasting and public ritual at early Cahokia, Timothy R. Pauketat, Lucretia S. Kelly, Gayle J. Fritz, Neal H. Lopinot, Scott Elias, and Eve Hargrave

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The residues of feasting and public ritual at early Cahokia, Timothy R. Pauketat, Lucretia S. Kelly, Gayle J. Fritz, Neal H. Lopinot, Scott Elias, and Eve Hargrave