What makes news more multiperspectival? A field analysis

Politics of People's War and human rights in Nepal

The unprecedented campaign against corruption appears as an answer to the erosion of the state party legitimacy, following the extent of social polarization, much higher in detailed representative surveys than in the official statistics. As the new blueprint for reform defined by the 3rd Plenum of September 2013 implies a huge transfer of resources from the party-state and elites to households and small and medium enterprises, vested interests groups tend to defend their privi leges. Based on the analysis of the sociologist Sun Liping (Tsinghua University) and on extensive data, from Chinese as well as international sources, this article demonstrates that the anti-corruption campaign aims to destabilize the wall of vested interest groups which, in the name of stability, defend the anti-redistribution status quo. In the same time, anti-corruption is used as an institutional battle horse to strengthen the authority of the new secretary general and president, and to eliminate his political rivals. The recentralization of justice is supposed to control local protectionism and the foot-dragging of the local bureaucracy, which feels threatened. But this authoritarian and top-down policy tends to alienate wealthy Chinese and intellectuals, without succeeding to forge a real social coalition based on the redistribution of income, the condition for higher growth.

Xi jinping’s challenge: what is behind china’s anti-corruption campaign?

....................................................................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................. iii DEDICATION ................................................................................................................... iv LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................. ix CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 1 Problem Statement .......................................................................................................... 1 Research Question .......................................................................................................... 1 Significance of the Study ................................................................................................ 1 CHAPTER II – LITERATURE REVIEW ......................................................................... 8 Synopsis of Literature Review ........................................................................................ 8 The Changing Nature of Security Studies ...................................................................... 8 U.S.-Led State-Building................................................................................................ 15 U.S. Politics and Firearms ............................................................................................ 22 Firearms and Constitutions ........................................................................................... 30 Summary of Literature Review ..................................................................................... 37 CHAPTER III METHODS ............................................................................................. 41 Research Design............................................................................................................ 41 Qualitative-Quantitative Mixed Methods ................................................................. 42 Case-Study Research ................................................................................................ 44 vi Case Selection ........................................................................................................... 49 Interventions. ........................................................................................................ 52 Time period ........................................................................................................... 52 Type of governance at time of U.S. interventio .................................................... 53 Geographical location ........................................................................................... 53 Culture................................................................................................................... 53 Post-intervention constitution ............................................................................... 54 Success-failure of U.S. intervention. .................................................................... 55 Executive branch political party in power during state-building timeframes. ...... 56 Legislative branch political party in power during state-building timeframes ..... 56 Content Analysis ........................................................................................................... 57 Data Source Selection ................................................................................................... 61 Categories of Content ................................................................................................... 66 Data Collection Sites..................................................................................................... 69 Recording Unit .............................................................................................................. 71 Data Collection Procedures ........................................................................................... 73 Data Collection Process Example ................................................................................. 75 System of Enumeration ................................................................................................. 76 CHAPTER IV– RESULTS OF CUBA CASE STUDY ................................................... 77 The American Presidency Project ............................................................................. 80 vii The National Archives, Washington, DC ................................................................. 83 The Library of Congress ........................................................................................... 85 Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, University of Wisconsin, Madison ........................................................................... 92 Cumulative Findings from all Data Sources ............................................................. 94 Other Findings .............................................................................................................. 95 Discussion of Results .................................................................................................. 103 Research Limitations .................................................................................................. 109 CHAPTER V– RESULTS OF GERMANY CASE STUDY ......................................... 119 American Presidency Project .................................................................................. 122 Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States .............................................. 123 Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, University of Wisconsin ......................................................................................... 124 The Library of Congress ............................................................................................. 134 The National Archives, Washington DC ................................................................ 145 Cumulative Findings from All Data Collection Sources ............................................ 152 Other Findings ............................................................................................................ 153 Discussion of Results .................................................................................................. 159 Research Limitations .................................................................................................. 165 CHAPTER VI– RESULTS OF IRAQ CASE STUDY .................................................. 176 viii American Presidency Project .................................................................................. 180 U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO ............................................................. 196 Library of Congress ................................................................................................ 205 United States Senate ............................................................................................... 206 Constitution Finder ................................................................................................. 210 Cumulative Findings from all Data Collection Sources ............................................. 223 Other Findings ............................................................................................................ 224 Discussion of Results .................................................................................................. 237 Research Limitations .................................................................................................. 244 CHAPTER VII– CONCLUSION ................................................................................... 252 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 252 Methodology ............................................................................................................... 254 Cumulative Findings from all Case Studies................................................................ 256 Research Question .................................................................................................. 256 Hypothesis............................................................................................................... 260 Contribution to the Disclosure and Analysis of the Findings ..................................... 263 Future Research .......................................................................................................... 268 APPENDIX A – U.S. State Building and the Second Amendment Coding Sheet ......... 270 BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................... 272

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U.S. State Building and the Second Amendment

The death of activism?: popular memories of 1960s protest

On November 14, 1988 the editor, managing editor, and assistant managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor resigned because of changes to be made in the newspaper. January 3, 1989 marked the debut of the new Christian Science Monitor. In order to assess the value of the new paper to library users, a comparison was made of representative issues from before and after January 3. The number of articles per issue, the geographic spread of the articles, the subjects of the feature articles, and the number of nonstaff writers were compared. In addition the new paper's delivery pattern, subscription price, indexing, and inclusion of specific features were investigated. The findings are presented as a conversation between the author and a librarian.

Pamela R. McKay

Papers

The Christian Science Monitor, Old and New