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 1997

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A Note on Measuring the Economic Impact of Institutions of Higher Education, Kenneth H. Brown and Michael T. Heaney

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An overview of Institutions for Juvenile Offenders in the Netherlands and Their Place Within the Dutch System of Justice, Mike Carlie

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Politics of privatization in Kazakstan, Mehrdad Haghayeghi

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Juvenile Justice Code Purpose Clauses: The Power of Words, Craig Hemmens, Eric Fritsch, and Tory J. Caeti

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Grave doubts about "reasonable doubt": Confusion in state and federal courts, Craig Hemmens, Kathryn E. Scarborough, and Rolando V. del Carmen

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U.S. policy and Taiwan's bid to rejoin the United Nations, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

Shift-share analysis for regional health care policy, R. Bradley Hoppes

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The validity of self-reported marijuana and cocaine use, Charles M. Katz, Vincent J. Webb, Patrick R. Gartin, and Chris E. Marshall

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A default of critical intelligence? The scholar of religion as public intellectual, Russell T. McCutcheon

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“My theory of the brontosaurus”: Postmodernism and “theory” of religion, Russell T. McCutcheon

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Political Culture and the Partisan Style of State Party Activists, Joel W. Paddock

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Feminsim And Men: Toward A Relational Understanding Of Patriarchy And Cooperative Social Change, Steven Schacht and Doris W. Ewing

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The Many Paths of Feminism: Can men travel any of them? [1], Steven Schacht and Doris W. Ewing

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Assessing Determinants of Bureaucratic Discretion: An Experiment in Street-Level Decision Making, Patrick G. Scott

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Professionalism and Bureaucracy: An Assessment in Conflict and Contradiction, Patrick G. Scott

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Service V. Security Focus in Training Assessments: Testing Gender Differences Among Contemporary Women's Jail Correctional Officers, Mary K. Stohr, Nicholas P. Lovrich, and G. Larry Mays

Submissions from 1996

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Age of wife as a major determinant of male-to-female transmission of HIV-2 infection: a community study from rural West Africa, Peter Aaby, Koya Ariyoshi, and Margie Muckner

The Prospect Spring site and the problem of the Late Woodland/Mississippian transition in the western Ozarks, David W. Benn and Jack H. Ray

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Bureaucratic Red Tape and Formalization: Untangling Conceptual Knots, Barry Bozeman and Patrick G. Scott

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Reckoning with Violence: W. E. B. Du Bois and the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, Dominic J. Capeci and Jack C. Knight

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Change on the range?: Policy reforms and agenda control, Charles Davis and Brian A. Ellison

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Spare the Needle But Not the Punishment:The Incarceration of Waived Youth in Texas Prisons, Eric J. Fritsch, Tory J. Caeti, and Craig Hemmens

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Postmodern media studies: Analysis or symptom?, John Harms and David R. Dickens

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Standardized descriptions of primate locomotor and postural modes, Kevin D. Hunt, John G.H. Cant, Daniel L. Gebo, Michael D. Rose, Suzanne E. Walker, and Dionisios Youlatos

The Russian parliamentary elections of 1993: A quasi-historical interpretation in light of the 1995 elections, Beat R. Kernen

A Bumpy Economic Road for Rural Communities: Portraying the Reactions of Local Leaders to Facility Closures and Economic Development in Six Midwestern States, Timothy D. Knapp, Larry Leistritz, and Ken Root

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Cultural and moral boundaries in the United States: Structural position, geographic location, and lifestyle explanations, Michele Lamont, John Schmalzbauer, Maureen Waller, and Daniel Weber

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Caring, information control, and emotionality: Fieldwork trade-offs, Melodye G. Lehnerer

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The reform of medical malpractice law: Historical perspectives, Reed Olsen

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Gender Differences in the Returns to and the Acquisition of On-the-Job Training, Reed N. Olsen and Edwin A. Sexton

Preservation Measures and Limited Test Excavations at the Pineville Site, Jack H. Ray

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Between Fundamentalism and Secularization: Secularizing and Sacralizing Currents in the Evangelical Debate on Campus Lifestyle Codes, John A. Schmalzbauer and C. Gray Wheeler

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Service versus security concerns in contemporary jails: Testing general differences in training topic assessments, Mary K. Stohr, Nicholas P. Lovrich, and Marcia J. Wood

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Use of archaeology to date liquefaction features and seismic events in the new madrid seismic zone, Central United States, Martitia P. Tuttle, Robert H. Lafferty, Margaret J. Guccione, Eugene S. Schweig, Neal H. Lopinot, Robert F. Cande, Kathleen Dyer-Williams, and Marion Haynes

Submissions from 1995

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Group selection of service efforts and accomplishments indicators for colleges, Kenneth Brown

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Clinton’s “slow boat to Korea”, Jack D. Crouch

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Examining Differential Officer Effects in the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment, Patrick Gartin

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Dealing with Design Failures in Randomized Field Experiments: Analytic Issues Regarding the Evaluation of Treatment Effects, Patrick R. Gartin

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Not Either/or But Both/and in Paul's Areopagus Speech, Mark D. Given

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Inmate Needs and Programming in Exclusively Women's Jails, Tara Gray, G Larry Mays, and Mary K. Stohr

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Reaching Out in the Darkness: The Changing Nature of U.S. Policy toward Taiwan, Dennis Hickey

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Rust in the Wheatbelt: The Social Impacts of Industrial Decline in a Rural Kansas Community, Tim Knapp

A Critique of Legislated Gender Equality: The Ideological Failure of Assimilation in College Intramural Sport, Karl Kunkel and Victoria J. Godino

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Six Charters of Henry II and his Family for the Monastery of Dalon, Andrew W. Lewis

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The Career of Philip the Cleric, Younger Brother of Louis VII: Apropos of an Unpublished Charter, Andrew W. Lewis

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Toward the Identification of Fulcher (ob. 1171), Abbot of Pontlevoy and of Saint-Père at Chartres, Andrew W. Lewis

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Sociological Explanations of Crimes in Late Imperial China: 1744-1903, Liying Li

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Market and regulatory forces in the pricing of legal services, Dean Lueck, Reed Olsen, and Michael Ransom

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The Anthropology of Clothing in the Joseph Narrative, Victor H. Matthews

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A No-Fault Medical Liability in Virginia and Florida: A Preliminary Evaluation, Kant Patel

Medicaid: perspectives from the states, Kant Patel

Harrison County Methods: Election Fraud in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas, Miller Worth Robert

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Nuclear weapons as a Faustian bargain, Bradley A. Thayer

Submissions from 1994

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Assessment Measures: Management's yardstick, Kenneth Brown and Mary L. Fischer

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The Effect of Social Class on the Adjudication of Criminal Cases: Class‐linked Behavior Tendencies, Common Sense, and the Interpretive Procedures of Court‐appointed Defense Attorneys, Debra S. Emmelman

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Gentrifying the British Public House, 1896–1914, David Gutzke

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Progressivism and the History of the Public House, 1850–1950, David W. Gutzke

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Islamic Revival in the Central Asian Republics, Mehrdad Haghayeghi

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United States and China’s Military Ties with the Russian Republics, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey and Christopher Craig Harmel

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Rejoinder: Industry-Level Shift-Share Analysis, R. Bradley Hoppes

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Female Voices: Upholding the Honor of the Household, Victor H. Matthews

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Ideological Integration in the Democratic and Republican Parties, 1956-1992, Joel Paddock

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A Comparative Analysis of the Policy Development Function of U.S. State Party Organizations, Joel W. Paddock

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Testing models of agenda building, Mark E. Rushefsky

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The Returns to On-the-Job Training: Are They the Same for Blacks and Whites?, Edwin A. Sexton and Reed Neil Olsen

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"He said, she said": Sexual harassment in the fractured criminal justice work place, Mary K. Stohr and Ann C. Beck

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Staff stress in contemporary jails: Assessing problem severity and the payoff of progressive personnel practices, Mary K. Stohr, Nicholas P. Lovrich, and Gregory L. Wilson

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The Risk of Nuclear Inadvertence: A Review Essay, Bradley A. Thayer

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An Outline of an Economic Ethics for Developing Countries, Johnny Washington

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House Members as Residual Claimants: Campaign Spending in the 1980s, Thomas L. Wyrick

Submissions from 1993

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Stochastic trade policy with asset markets. The role of tariff structure, Mahua Barari and Harvey E. Lapan

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Ethnic Conflict and Machine Politics in San Antonio, 1892-1899, Dale Baum and Worth Robert Miller

Prehistoric Occupations at Cobb Cave in the Western Ozarks, David W. Benn and Neal H. Lopinot

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Prison Reform in England: An Overview, Michael Kaye Carlie

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The geometry of risk aversion: A further comment, Ardeshir J. Dalal

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Estimating the demand for risky assets via the indirect expected utility function, Ardeshir J. Dalal and Bala G. Arshanapalli

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Does Uncertainty Affect Investment Spending?, J. Peter Ferderer

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The Crises of Communism and the Prospects for Change in the People's Republic of China, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

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New York City's Penny Press and the Issue of Woman's Rights, 1848–1860, Sylvia D. Hoffert

Archaeological investigations on the western periphery of the Cahokia site, Neal H. Lopinot, Alan J. Brown, and George R. Holley

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Gender and Jail Work: Correctional Policy Implications of Perceptual Diversity in the Work Force, Nicholas P. Lovrich and Mary K. Stohr

Control, efficiency, and the street-level bureaucrat, James R. Maupin

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The impact of health maintenance organizations on health and health care costs, Reed Olsen

A Centennial Historiography of American Populism, Miller Worth Robert

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Evangelicals in the New Class: Class versus Subcultural Predictors of Ideology, John Schmalzbauer

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Paying attention to channels: Differential images of recruitment in students for a democratic society, 1960-1965, J. F. Walsh Jr.

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A Commentary on Oshita O. Oshita’s Analysis of the Mind-Body Problem in An African World View, Johnny Washington

Submissions from 1992

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Adam Smith's theory of economic development: "Of the natural progress of opulence", Joe Bell

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Red Tape and Task Delays in Public and Private Organizations, Barry Bozeman, Pamela N. Reed, and Patrick G. Scott

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Laboratory Experiments in Public Policy and Management, Barry Bozeman and Patrick Scott

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On Hypothesis Testing: A Selective Look at the Lagrange Multiplier, Likelihood Ratio and Wald Tests, Kenneth Brown and Francisco Cribari-Neto

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Western Tribes and Balance Sheets: Business Development Programs in the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Burt

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The politics of insurrection: A comparative analysis of the shays', whiskey, and fries' rebellions, George E. Connor

Pathways to Legislative Success: A Path Analytic Study of the Missouri House of Representatives, Mark C. Ellickson

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China's threat to Taiwan, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

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Perceptions, Misperceptions and Policy: Taiwan's Assessment of the Democracy Movement in the People's Republic of China, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

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U.S. policy and Taiwan's reintegration into the global community, Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

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Hospitality and Hostility in Genesis 19 and Judges 19, Victor H. Matthews

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Archaeological Coverage in Recent One-Volume Bible Dictionaries, Victor H. Matthews and James C. Moyer

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Inter-Party Ideological Differences in Eleven State Parties: 1956-1980, J. Paddock