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The EU Response to Regime Change in the Wake of the Arab Revolt: Differential Implementation
Assem Dandashly
Journal of European Integration·2014·45 citations
Following the Arab Spring, one might expect a paradigm shift in the EU’s attitude towards the MENA — at least with respect to democracy promotion. However, the EU response has been neither consistent nor coherent. This paper seeks to answer the following questions: How did the EU react to the Arab Spring events in North Africa? Is there evidence of any change in the goals and instruments pursued by the EU after the Arab Spring? And, do these goals and instruments change coherently across countries? The paper argues, first, that EU goals remain security and stability driven. While the EU viewed the Arab Spring as a window of opportunity for democracy, as events developed the EU prioritized security concerns as a response to the threat of instability in the MENA. And second, the utilization of instruments varied across time and cases due to the domestic politics of the targeted countries.
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View paper →Origins of the police | Works in theory
Unknown Author
Works in theory·2014
New urban working classes in the 19th century resisted their masters through strikes, riots and slave revolts. The masters responded by inventing the cops.
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View paper →We Don’t Just Need Nicer Cops. We Need Fewer Cops. | The Nation
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The Nation·2014
The Nation Magazine
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View paper →Follow the Leader?: How Voters Respond to Politicians’ Policies and Performance. By Gabriel S. Lenz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 344p. $90.00 cloth, $27.50 paper
Seth Masket
Perspectives on Politics·2014
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View paper →The Production of Voice Onset Time in Voiceless Stops by Spanish-English Natural Bilinguals
Ivan K Banov
BYU ScholarsArchive·2014
This study analyzes the production of Voice Onset Time (VOT) of natural Spanish-English bilinguals. VOT is a linguistic characteristic that measures the amount of aspiration occurring after the release of a stop consonant. In terms of VOT, English stop consonants differ substantially from their Spanish equivalents. This study analyzes whether or not natural bilinguals produce VOTs that approximate VOTs of monolingual speakers of each language. Participants completed two surveys to quantify their linguistic dominance in English and Spanish. They were then recorded performing similar speaking tasks in both languages. The conclusions show that natural bilinguals do not produce their English or Spanish VOTs within the monolingual norms defined in previous studies. If conclusions were to be drawn solely from this data, then the participants would theoretically have no monolingual-like language production of VOT. There is also no correlation between language dominance scores and production of VOT. These results support the conclusion that a natural bilingual is not the equivalent of two natural monolingual speakers. Significant correlations exist between VOT production and gender, age of learning English, and amount of time spent watching TV in each language. Another interesting conclusion is that many of the participants score more Spanish-dominant when a survey is given in Spanish and more English-dominant when the very same survey is given in English. This shows that even the language of a survey may skew responses slightly.
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