The question that I would like to pose is--under what conditions do social movements choose to pursue conventional or unconventional stratagems? This query is critical to our understanding of why social movements employ ...

When President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation into law on January 8, 2002, he fundamentally altered the federal government’s role in America’s public schools. By mandating state testing ...

After the labor movement saw its apex in the 1950s with one third of the non-agricultural workforce unionized, it began to slowly decline, and union density decreased. This trend was heightened with the onset of globalization ...

I set out in this paper to examine the trends in the 20th and 21st centuries that have led to these potential realignments. I will examine the key theories for the causes of realignment, their effect on voting patterns, ...

This thesis asks what is the most effective model of school governance for both academic achievement and democratic citizenship. By examining the Philadelphia School District’s portfolio of diverse providers, this thesis ...

This thesis assesses public interest group effectiveness and more narrowly focuses on how the issue choices and organizational tactics of these groups affect their ability to influence federal policy. The involvement of ...

Urban poverty has become increasingly concentrated in the inner-city. From 1970 to 1990, the number of high-poverty neighborhoods more than doubled (Jargowsky, 1996). In the 1990s, policymakers came to the consensus that ...

What policies or strategies have been most effective in either reducing or outright eliminating homelessness in U.S. cities? And what policies or strategies have been most effective in overcoming community resistance to ...