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    The Puzzling Persistence of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
    (2009-05-13) King, Elizabeth D
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    Language Policy and National Unity: The Dilemma of the Kurdish Language in Turkey
    (2009-03-30) Cemiloglu, Dicle
    Linguistic diversity has emerged as a major source of conflict affecting the stability of numerous political entities around the world. Language policy makers often face the question of accommodating the needs of linguistically diverse communities. This paper examines the motivations, aims, and consequences of the Turkish state’s language policies in regards to the Kurdish language. The study also attempts to answer the question of why the status of the Kurdish language recently changed from an officially “prohibited language” to “a free language” in Turkey.
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    The Republican Security Logic of NATO Enlargement
    (2009-05-12) Zarin-Rosenfeld, Jack
    This study attempts a theoretical explanation for the United States' leadership on NATO enlargement, under the past three administrations.
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    The Chinese Primary Care System: Its Evolution, Challenges and Legal Aspects of Reform
    (2009-04-01) Hou, Thomas
    There has been much interest in China and abroad in the Chinese health care system and its legal system. To date, however, there has not been adequate study tying legal reform and health care reform in China. This paper seeks to bridge those disciplines by studying, for many reasons, the most crucial aspect of the Chinese health care system: the primary care system. The author examines herein recent efforts at reform in primary care, and explores some major legal and policy issues relating to both the national and local governments’ efforts at reform, and also citizens’ efforts using the expanding power of the legal system. For this study, the author looked at other academic and government studies on the Chinese health care system and its legal system. He also attended and reviewed presentations and interviewed professors with direct knowledge of the situation in China. The research shows that the Chinese primary care system, and in fact its entire health care system, is undergoing tremendous change and faces similar problems as the United States. National-local government differences in responsibilities might hamper efforts at reform while changes in administrative law have empowered citizens to a degree, although they still depend on the government to take action. Overall, China would likely need to find a culturally acceptable and practically workable balance between national and local power, and between governmental and citizen responsibility, in achieving health care reform.
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    The Rapid Sequence of Events Forcing the Senate's Hand: A Reappraisal of the Seventeenth Amendment, 1890-1913
    (2009-03-30) Friedman, Joseph S
    For over 125 years, from the ratification of the Constitution to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, the voting public did not elect U.S. senators. Instead, as a result of careful planning by the Founding Fathers, state legislatures alone possessed the authority to elect two senators to represent their respective interests in Washington. It did not take long for second and third generation Americans to question the legitimacy of this process. To many observers, the system was in dire need of reform, but the stimulus for a popular elections amendment was controversial and not inevitable. This essay examines why reform came in 1911 with the Senate’s unexpected passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, which was ratified twenty-four months later in the first year of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency.
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    Untapped Talent: Finding Ways to Educate America’s Low-Income High-Achieving Students
    (2009-03-27) Siddle, Kelly M
    It is well established that many students enter the classroom unprepared for the academic requirements awaiting them and spend most of their school years attempting to catch up to grade-level standards. According to a report by the National Assessment of Education Progress, almost two-thirds of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders score below grade-level in both math and reading assessments. As a result, education policy often focuses on program development geared towards augmenting the performance levels of these under-achieving students. While these statistics are staggering and the United States’ education system must strive to alleviate poor performance, it must also allow not lose sight of the other one-third. School systems must promote equal progression of students at every level. Unfortunately, despite the saliency of the challenges facing low-income high-achieving students, this population has remained largely unaddressed on the national and local scene. In order to insure the success of low-income students and use their talent to its utmost potential, public schools across the nation need to implement programs specifically designed to fit the needs of these individuals. In essence, the government needs to work to close the achievement gap between low- and high-income high-achieving students.
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    USINPAC and the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Lasting Influence or One Shot Victory?
    (2009-03-01) Freedman, Allison Marz
    While a significant amount of scholarly literature has been written on whether ethnic lobby influence has a positive or negative impact on U.S. foreign policy, what has not been well explored is the way these ethnic lobbies are organized to influence policy, whether the organizational structure successfully advances their objectives, and the potential for future successful ethnic lobby influence through changing administrations. To achieve these objectives, this investigation develops a case study around Indian-American lobbying efforts in the United States, particularly that of the U.S.-India Political Action Committee (USINPAC). It analyzes what has been deemed as USINPAC’s recent success in influencing Congress with regard to passage of the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and uses the Deal as a starting point to examine how such a success occurred and postulate whether this success foreshadows continuing influence in the future. It is clear that, due to its organizational strength, USINPAC did indeed play a role in influencing passage of the Deal and has the capacity to influence U.S. congressional policy in the future. However due to the ambiguities inherent in the Deal, it will be up to the Obama administration to follow through on the commitments of the Deal. Thus, what lies ahead for this lobby will be, in large part, contingent upon future administrations’ decisions about how they will treat the U.S.-India partnership.
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