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 2002

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Interstate Fiscal Disparities among American States: Its General Trend during 1970-1996 and Its Implications to the 1996 Welfare Reform, Yuhua Qiao

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A reevaluation of the authenticity of Fray Diego de Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, Matthew Restall and John F. Chuchiak IV

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Modern communications technology in ethnic nationalist hands: The case of the Kurds, David Romano

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Examining red tape in public and private organizations: A further look at the role of individual perceptions and attributes, Patrick Scott

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Comparing Inmate Perceptions of Two Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs, Mary K. Stohr, Craig Hemmens, Brian Shapiro, Brian Chambers, and Laura Kelley

Exchange at the Dahlman site (23LA259), a late prehistoric neosho phase settlement in Southwest Missouri, Larissa A. Thomas and Jack H. Ray

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Policies, procedures, and people: Sources of support for government?, Stacy G. Ulbig

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Beyond China: The Geopolitics of Eastern Eurasia, C. Dale Walton

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Coping with anarchy: Interstate violence and the character of American foreign policy, C. Dale Walton

Submissions from 2001

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Emotions and ethics in buddhist history: The sinhala thūpavamsa and the work of virtue, Stephen C. Berkwitz

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Walking together or divided agenda? Comparing landmines and small-arms campaigns, Stefan Brem and Kenneth R. Rutherford

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Determinants of Job Satisfaction of Municipal Government Employees, Mark C. Ellickson and Kay Logsdon

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Explaining state legislators' casework and public resource allocations, Mark Ellickson and Donald E. Whistler

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Unchained melody: A price discrimination-based policy proposal for addressing the MP3 revolution, Terrel Gallaway and Douglas Kinnear

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Women's agency and household diplomacy: Negotiating fundamentalism, Shahin Gerami and Melodye G. Lehnerer

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Women, men, and patriarchal bargaining in an islamic sufi order: The Tijaniyya in Kano, Nigeria, 1937 to the present, Alaine S. Hutson

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The Parker P. McKenzie Kiowa orthography: How written Kiowa came into being, Parker P. McKenzie and William C. Meadows

Indian Creek Chert, William C. Meadows

An Archaeological Survey of High Priority Archaeological and Historical Areas in the East Fork White River Watershed in South Central Indiana, William C. Meadows, Charles E. Bair, and C. Russell Stafford

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The determinants of gender differentials in income in Trinidad and Tobago, Reed Olsen and Addington Coppin

Down and out in America: children and health care, Kant Patel

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Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century, Ken R. Rutherford

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Autonomy, benevolence, and Alzheimer's disease, Pamela Sailors

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The Late Ottoman Cemetery in Field L, Tall Hisban, Bethany J. Walker

Submissions from 2000

Retreating to the Hill: Population Replacement in the Arkansas Ozarks, Brooks Blevins

Remote sensing, shuttle radar topographic mapper data, and ancient frankincense trade routes, Ronald G. Blom, Robert E. Crippen, Juris Zarins, and George R. Hedges

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Hedonic price indexes and the distribution of buyers across the product space: an application to mainframe computers, Kenneth H. Brown

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Identifying The Demand For Features: An Application To Mainframe Computers, Kenneth H. Brown and Shane M. Greenstein

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Strict Concavity with Homogeneity and Decreasing Returns to Scale, Ardeshir J. Dalal

A path analysis of legislative success in professional and citizen legislatures: A gender comparison, Mark Ellickson and Donald E. Whistler

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Managerial Innovation at the Local Level: Some Effects of Administrative Leadership and Governing Board Behavior, Gerald T. Gabris, Keenan Grenell, Douglas M. Ihrke, and James Kaatz

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Resistance Is Futile: The Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest in an Era of Aggressive Policing, Craig Hemmens and Daniel Levin

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Friend or Foe? Race, Age and Inmate Perceptions of Inmate-Staff Relations, Craig Hemmens and James W. Marquart

Taiwan and the World Health Organization: Good health for all or some?, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

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The 'Overpaid Bureaucrat': Comparing Public and Private Wages in Mississippi, James B. Kaatz and John C. Morris

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Rationalism, Naturalism, and Conservatism, Daniel A. Kaufman

"Like small bumps on the neck...": The problem of evil as something ordinary, Russell T. McCutcheon

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Taming ethnocentrism and trans-cultural understandings, Russell T. McCutcheon

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The Failure of Fordism: Reform of the Automobile Repair Industry, 1913-1940, Stephen L. McIntyre

Bryantsville Chert, William C. Meadows

An Archaeological Survey of High Probability Water Course Development Areas in the East Fork White River Watershed in South Central Indiana, William C. Meadows, Charles E. Bair, and Christopher S. Peebles

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Aspects of Bronze Age art of southern Arabia: The pictorial landscape and its relation to economic and socio-political status, Lynne S. Newton and Juris Zarins

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The efficiency of medical malpractice law: A new appraisal, Reed Olsen

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Procuring technology: issues faced by public organizations, Carole Pettijohn and Yuhua Qiao

Possible pre-Clovis-age artifacts from the Big Eddy Site, Jack H. Ray, Neal H. Lopinot, Edwin R. Hajic, and Rolfe D. Mandel

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A theoretical examination of disarming states: NGOs and anti-personnel landmines, Kenneth R. Rutherford

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The Evolving Arms Control Agenda: Implications of the Role of NGOS in Banning Antipersonnel Landmines, Kenneth R. Rutherford

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The influence of red tape on bureaucratic behavior: An experimental simulation, Patrick Scott and Sanjay K. Pandey

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We Know it, We Just Have to Do it: Perceptions of Ethical Work in Prisons and Jails, Mary K. Stohr, Craig Hemmens, Misty Kifer, and Mary Schoeler

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Can't Scale This? The Ethical Parameters of Correctional Work, Mary K. Stohr, Craig Hemmens, Robert L. Marsh, Gary Barrier, and Dan Palhegyi

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Bringing in Darwin: Evolutionary Theory, Realism, and International Politics, Bradley A. Thayer

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The political effects of information warfare: Why new military capabilities cause old political dangers, Bradley A. Thayer

Submissions from 1999

Neosho Tradition Occupation in Lawrence County, Missouri, Michael D. Conner, Neal H. Lopinot, Jack H. Ray, and Jeffrey Yelton

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Environmental Management and the New Politics of Western Water: The Animas-La Plata Project and Implementation of the Endangered Species Act, Brian A. Ellison

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Juvenile Curfews and the Courts: Judicial Response to a Not-So-New Crime Control Strategy, Craig Hemmens and Katherine Bennett

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The Impact of Inmate Characteristics on Perceptions of Race Relations in Prison, Craig Hemmens and James W. Marquart

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The ethnic question in an environment of insecurity: The Kurds in Turkey, Ahmet Içduygu, David Romano, and Ibrahim Sirkeci

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City Council Conflict as a Cause of Psychological Burnout and Voluntary Turnover among City Managers, James B. Kaatz, P. Edward French, and Hazel Prentiss-Cooper

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Reclaiming Deviance as a Unique Course from Criminology: Revisited, Karl R. Kunkel

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Seed handling in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and redtail monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius): Implications for understanding hominoid and cercopithecine fruit-processing strategies and seed dispersal, Joanna E. Lambert

Seed handling in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and redtail monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius): implications for understanding hominoid and cercopithecine fruit-processing strategies and seed dispersal, Joanna E. Lambert

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The Execution of Karla Faye Tucker: An Examination of the Attitudes and Motivations of Protesters, Supporters and Curiosity Seekers, Tana M. McCoy, Patti Salinas, and W. Wesley Johnson

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Income Redistribution Effects in the Presence of Region-Specific Factors, Eor Myong-Keun and Ardeshir J. Dalal

Physicians for the 21st century. Challenges facing medical education in the United States, Kant. Patel

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Physicians for the 21st century: Challenges facing medical education in the United States, Kant B. Patel

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The Hague and Ottawa Conventions: A Model for Future Weapon Ban Regimes?, Kenneth R. Rutherford

Model United Nations: Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom, Karrin Scapple

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Between Professional and Religious Worlds: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism, John Schmalzbauer

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Meeting the Missions of the 1990s With a Downsized Force: Human Resource Management Lessons From the Deployment of PATRIOT Missile Units to Korea, David R. Segal, David E. Rohall, Joseph C. Jones, and Angela M. Manos

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Militarization to Nomadization: The Middle and Late Islamic Periods, Bethany J. Walker

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The Incorporation of Women in State Legislatures, Donald E. Whistler and Mark C. Ellickson

Submissions from 1998

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Earnings and ethnicity in Trinidad and Tobago, Addington Coppin and Reed N. Olsen

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Intergovernmental relations and the advocacy coalition framework: The operation of federalism in Denver water politics, Brian A. Ellison

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The advocacy coalition framework and implementation of the Endangered Species Act: a case study in western water politics, Brian A. Ellison

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Christianity in public schools: Perspective of a non-christian immigrant parent, Shahin Gerami

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Fear and Loathing in the Joint: The Impact of Race and Age on Inmate Support for Prison AIDS Policies, Craig Hemmens and James W. Marquart

The Revised U.S.-Japan Security Guidelines: Implications for Beijing and Taipei, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

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The Taiwan Strait crisis of 1996: Implications for US security policy, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

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Primate frugivory in Kibale National Park, Uganda, and its implications for human use of forest resources, Joanna E. Lambert

State supreme court decisions to overrule precedent, 1965-1996, Stefanie Lindquist and Kevin M. Pybas

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The Center Way Out There: A Review Article of Recent Books on Hindu Pilgrimage, John Llewellyn

Stratified Paleoindian deposits at the Big Eddy site, southwest Missouri, Neal H. Lopinot, Jack H. Ray, Edwin R. Hajic, and Rolfe E. Mandel

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Guarding the Public: A Statutory Analysis of State Regulation of Security Guards, Jeffrey R. Maahs and Craig Hemmens

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The Social Context of Law in the Second Temple Period, Victor H. Matthews

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Returning the volley to William E. Arnal, Russell T. McCutcheon

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The crisis of academic labour and the myth of autonomy: Dispatch from the job wars, Russell T. McCutcheon

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The economics of spiritual luxury: The glittering lobby and the parliament of religions, Russell T. McCutcheon

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Differences in Partisan Style and Ideology Between Female and Male State Party Committee Members, Elizabeth Paddock and Elizabeth Paddock

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Explaining State Variation in Interparty Ideological Differences, Joel W. Paddock

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The health policy community and health-care reform in the US, Kant B. Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky

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Health care policy in theory and practice: A review of the process as a product of rational decision-making, Marvin Prosono

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The Big Eddy site: A multicomponent Paleoindian site on the Ozark border, southwest Missouri, Jack H. Ray, Neal H. Lopinot, Edwin R. Hajic, and Rolphe D. Mandel

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Is consensus necessary for effective environmental treaties?, Karrin Scapple

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Comparing public and private organizations: An Exploratory Analysis of Three Frameworks, Patrick Scott and Santa Falcone

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Constabulary Attitudes of National Guard and Regular Soldiers in the U.S. Army, David R. Segal, Brian J. Reed, and David E. Rohall

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Gender differences in pre-adolescent reactance to age-categorized television advisory labels, James E. Sneegas and Tamyra A. Plank

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Power and community: The archaeology of slavery at the hermitage plantation, Brian W. Thomas

Submissions from 1997

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Trade policy with asset markets: The role of financial structure for time consistency, Mahua Barari

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Who Gets Maternity Leave? The Case of Malaysia, Alexandra Bernasek and Julie H. Gallaway

Space technology and the discovery of the lost city of Ubar, Ronald Blom, Robert Crippen, Charles Elachi, Nicholas Clapp, Juris Zarins, and George R. Hedges