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Title: 寧化飛灰, 不作浮塵
Date: 2019
Collection: Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
Description: Sticker shows an image of a protester wearing a black t-shirt, a black face mask, and a yellow hard hat with text printed on it.

Title: 堅持到煲底
Date: 2019
Collection: Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
Description: Sticker shows an image of two protesters in black t-shirts and yellow hard hats smiling and holding up their black face masks.

Title: 五大訴求, 缺一不可
Date: 2019
Collection: Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests Collection
Description: Sticker shows an image of a protester wearing a black t-shirt, a black face mask, and a yellow hard hat with text printed on it.

Title: Your obedient servant : government clerks, officeseeking, and the politics of patronage in antebellum Washington City
Creator: Bowen, Heath J.
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation examines the social, political, and gendered components of public office and government employment during the antebellum era. Historians have invoked Andrew Jackson's system of spoils to demonstrate the rise of political democratization and the emergence of a federal bureaucracy. But few studies have attempted to examine at any length the public servants and citizens who were implicated into political parties and connected to government institutions through patronage. My...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the social, political, and gendered components of public office and government employment during the antebellum era. Historians have invoked Andrew Jackson's system of spoils to demonstrate the rise of political democratization and the emergence of a federal bureaucracy. But few studies have attempted to examine at any length the public servants and citizens who were implicated into political parties and connected to government institutions through patronage. My research on public servants shows that officeseeking was a highly complex and contested phenomenon that was intimately connected to nineteenth-century political and moral economy. Its connection to the rise of partisan politics and its lure of men from more independent and manly professions worked to create a popular perception of government employment as a social evil. What is more, public office was regularly sought through elite Washington political networks accessible only to applicants with a relative close proximity to political power. My dissertation argues that these developments created a common ambivalence toward public life and a cultural hurdle to the development of a professional ideal within the federal government. How government clerks understood this dynamic and how they made sense of their place within the unique political and social environment of the nation's capital, is of central importance to this study. Officeseeking emerged as a gendered middle-class experience, and clerking in the federal government offered an alternative livelihood to the diverse antebellum labor market. Many government officeseekers experienced decreased opportunities for independent employment and hoped to protect their family's financial future with a clerk's salary. In their efforts to claim a respectable professionality, Washington clerks articulated an understanding of the relationship between the federal government and its employees that challenged popular patronage rationality, setting the tone for future debates regarding civil service reform in the years following the Civil War.
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Title: Will of the people
Creator: Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Date: 1904
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: United States Secretary of War William Howard Taft, in a speech entitled "Will of the People", praises McKinley's action on the gold standard and cites the popularity of Theodore Roosevelt's administration.

Title: Why the bosses oppose the Progressive party
Creator: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date: 1912
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Roosevelt compares the Republican and Democratic parties to the Progressive party, gives his opinion of Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania and Mr. Archbold of the Standard Oil Company, describes the "Abyssinian Treatment" of Standard Oil, and defends his policies regarding the Progressive movement.

Title: Why the bosses oppose the Progressive party
Creator: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date: 1912
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Roosevelt gives his opinion of Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania and Mr. Archbold of the Standard Oil Company.

Title: Who are the people?
Creator: Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Date: 1912-10-01
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Taft gives a campaign speech entitled "Who are the people?"

Title: When the doors opened : transitional era impacts on Albanian english teachers' professional lives
Creator: Morgan, Lisa Anne
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: What happens in your state doesn't stay in your state : omissions and opportunities in policy diffusion
Creator: Jordan, Marty P.
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Decades of research have offered strong evidence for policy diffusion, whereby one government's adoption of a new policy influences subsequent governments' enactment of the same innovation. But most of this rich research has narrowly focused on the spread of statutes in the legislative arena, neglecting the myriad other venues where policy change occurs. And even when scholars have taken note of policies adopted via multiple forums, they have typically employed binary models to estimate...
Show moreDecades of research have offered strong evidence for policy diffusion, whereby one government's adoption of a new policy influences subsequent governments' enactment of the same innovation. But most of this rich research has narrowly focused on the spread of statutes in the legislative arena, neglecting the myriad other venues where policy change occurs. And even when scholars have taken note of policies adopted via multiple forums, they have typically employed binary models to estimate enactment without accounting for inter-venue dynamics that might affect policy diffusion. In addition, nearly all diffusion studies fall prey to selection bias, explaining the transfer of innovations that have knowingly diffused, omitting from the models those policies that failed to spread. What is more, most of this research has focused on the transmission of the policy itself, overlooking the potential diffusion of alternative aspects of the policymaking process. This dissertation addresses these omissions and capitalizes on existing opportunities in the policy diffusion literature. First, to better understand the spread of policies beyond the legislative context, I mapped the diffusion of a large sample of ballot measures across U.S. states from 1902 - 2016, and both anti- and pro-gay marriage policies via multiple venues from 1993 - 2015. I offer evidence of policy diffusion via state legislatures, legislative referenda, citizen initiatives, state courts, and federal courts. While the results reinforce much of our current understanding of policy diffusion, they also help refine the precise nature of this dynamic process across varying institutional arrangements. Second, I used an established but underutilized modeling strategy-multinomial logistic regression-to better account for the transfer of innovative ideas via multiple competing arenas. This approach allows me to simultaneously recognize each factor's contribution to policy adoption in the respective venues and uncover inter-venue dynamics. Third, to address the persistent selection bias in diffusion studies, I relied on the same large sample of ballot measures pursued across U.S. states from 1902 - 2016. I find that nearly half of the ballot measures did not diffuse to other states, and almost three-quarters of the measures were enacted by less than a handful of states. Moreover, when I reran the models omitting policies that did not diffuse or only narrowly spread, policy learning's effect on adoption was twice as large when compared to the full set. This suggests that policy scholars may be overstating the rate of policy diffusion and inflating fundamental mechanisms' effect on the process.Finally, fusing the policy-diffusion and venue-shopping literatures, I investigated whether policy actors' choice of venue to press for anti- or pro-gay marriage policies in one state influenced subsequent states' actors to pick the same forum, a process I term venue diffusion. I posit that policy advocates look to and learn from others, purposively seeking a solution to their shared problem (i.e., policy learning) and how best to achieve that solution (i.e., political learning). By incorporating political learning into my models, I am better able to explain the dynamics of policy diffusion and offer evidence of venue diffusion, at least in the context of a salient morality policy. States are more likely to pick the venue that other, especially similarly-situated, states have chosen to enact the policy successfully. The interdependence between the American laboratories of democracy appears to go beyond merely the copying of a policy idea to emulating a fundamental input of the policymaking process.
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Title: What God wants: a content analysis of American presidential civil religion on the man-nature relationship, 1961-1989
Creator: Burns, Robert Earl
Date: 1992
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Werner Blumenthal discusses Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter, the cabinet, the Congress, Ted Kennedy's economic philosophy, with Barbara Walters
Creator: Blumenthal, W. Michael, 1926-
Date: 1979
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Warren Burger gives an historical and sociological overview of the Supreme Court
Creator: Burger, Warren E., 1907-1995
Date: 1978
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Walter Mondale's acceptance speech at the 1980 Democratic Convention
Creator: Mondale, Walter F., 1928-
Date: 1980-08-14
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Walter Mondale's speech accepting the nomination for the vice presidential candidacy at the 1980 Democratic Convention.

Title: Walter Mondale speaking to the National Press Club in Washington on employment, economic policy, foreign policy, housing, and the 1978 Democratic campaign
Creator: Mondale, Walter F., 1928-
Date: 1978-10-05
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Vice President Walter F. Mondale speaks to the National Press Club in Washington D.C. about employment, economic policy, foreign policy, housing and the 1978 Democratic campaign. Frank Aukofer, President of the National Press Club, directs questions from the audience to Mondale.

Title: WKZO Reporter Bob Taslow covers stories from around the state in this WKZO radio news segment
Creator: Taslow, Bob
Date: 1949-01
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: WKZO Reporter Bob Taslow covers stories from around the state in this WKZO radio news segment. Taslow reports on reaction to President Harry S. Truman's State of the Union speech by Michigan's Republican congressional delegation, including Representative George Dondero's vow to oppose everything in Truman's agenda except work on the Saint Lawrence waterway project. Taslow also covers stories concerning former Michigan Attorney General Eugene Black's comments being struck from the record by...
Show moreWKZO Reporter Bob Taslow covers stories from around the state in this WKZO radio news segment. Taslow reports on reaction to President Harry S. Truman's State of the Union speech by Michigan's Republican congressional delegation, including Representative George Dondero's vow to oppose everything in Truman's agenda except work on the Saint Lawrence waterway project. Taslow also covers stories concerning former Michigan Attorney General Eugene Black's comments being struck from the record by the Michigan Supreme Court and the upcoming trial for fraud of Morrison Wade, president of the Society of Good Neighbors.
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Title: Vladimir Lenin talks on the occasion of the Third Communist International about the complete leadership claims of the various Soviet republics
Creator: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924
Date: 1919
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Vladimir Lenin calls up the Soviet Army
Creator: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924
Date: 1917
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Violent communal conflict in Burkina Faso : a multi-level examination
Creator: Kirwin, Matthew Fitzrobert
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This project examines violent communal conflict in rural zones in Burkina Faso, a country otherwise known for its relatively low levels of group violence. The study commences with a systematic cross-case analysis at the village level with the goal of shedding light on the factors that explain variation in levels of violent conflict. The second stage of the study proposes a micro-level examination of the factors that contribute to an individual's approval of and participation in violence. The...
Show moreThis project examines violent communal conflict in rural zones in Burkina Faso, a country otherwise known for its relatively low levels of group violence. The study commences with a systematic cross-case analysis at the village level with the goal of shedding light on the factors that explain variation in levels of violent conflict. The second stage of the study proposes a micro-level examination of the factors that contribute to an individual's approval of and participation in violence. The study is executed by means of a mixed methods approach which combines focus group discussions, ethnographic interviews with individuals and a survey of a randomly sampled representative population in areas that have experienced variation in levels of violent conflict. The micro-level investigation tests whether variation in self-ascribed individual identity, traditional and modern institutional capacity, interpersonal trust and levels of social capital in the form of associational life The study finds that when local institutions responsible for land management are weak or lack capacity the chances for violent conflict between producer groups is enhanced. I extend the analysis through an examination of public opinion data collected in Liberia and query whether or not local institutions also play a role in individual participation in violence.
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Title: Various speeches by Vladimir Lenin
Creator: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924
Date: 1919/1921
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Lenin's speeches deal with the following subjects: a) to the memory of Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Conrade Yakov Sverdlov; b) speech to the 3rd Communist International; c) Comrade Lenin's report on radio conversations with the Hungarian communist leader Bela Kun; d) address to the Red Army; e) what is Soviet power? f) how to deliver the toilers and laborers from the oppression of the land-owners and capitalists for all time; g) about the work of the transport system;...
Show moreLenin's speeches deal with the following subjects: a) to the memory of Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Conrade Yakov Sverdlov; b) speech to the 3rd Communist International; c) Comrade Lenin's report on radio conversations with the Hungarian communist leader Bela Kun; d) address to the Red Army; e) what is Soviet power? f) how to deliver the toilers and laborers from the oppression of the land-owners and capitalists for all time; g) about the work of the transport system; h) about labor discipline Melodiya, All-Union Record Firm (April Factory), 1919-1921.
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