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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Michaelle Browers

  • Cross-ideological Alliances in the Arab Region: Strategic Framing and Ideological Transformation
    Awarded 3 months during summer 2006 in Egypt, Lebanon, and Yemen
    Source: Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Fulbright Scholar Award
  • Reformation in Contemporary Islamic Thought
    Awarded American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars; CAORC Multicountry Fellowship
    Source: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State (DoS)

    Dr. Browers will undertake the first systematic examination of the writings of a growing number of important Islamic thinkers who are revising orthodox approaches to traditional Islamic texts. Her research locates these thinkers and the responses to their work in the debate over whether we are witnessing a "growing Islamic fundamentalism" or an "emerging Islamic Reformation" in the Middle East.

John Dinan
The Meaning and Development of State Constitutional Education Clauses
Awarded $15,117 for the period 5/15/06 to 12/31/06
Sponsor: Anonymous

Many recent state court decisions have interpreted state constitutional education clauses, in particular, their adequacy, equity, and uniformity provisions, in ways that have had significant consequences for state education policy. This project investigates the meaning and development of these clauses in order to determine whether they were intended to grant a judicially enforceable right to an equitable, adequate, and uniform education or to serve other purposes. Dr. Dinan will analyze the speeches surrounding their adoption and revision in the 114 extant state convention debates to determine the extent to which delegates aimed to create judicially enforceable rights that would be used to overturn legislative judgments or hortatory and aspirational ideals, leaving the details of the funding and operation of state school systems to the legislature.

Peter Furia
Never the Same? American National Identity Before and After 9/11
Awarded $10,000 for the period 6/03 to 6/04
Source: WFU Social and Behavioral Science Research Fund

The project examines whether and how the loyalties, allegiances, and identification of the US population have changed since the events of September 11. It will replicate an 87-item national mail survey to over 500 randomly selected US-registered voters five years earlier to measure whether what many scholars refer to as "core values" of relevance to US foreign policy (Hurwitz & Peffley 1987) have shifted. This replication will be the first of many to be conducted at 5-year intervals.

Katy Harriger

  • CIRCLE Study on College Students and Civic Engagement
    Awarded $1,200 for the period 9/7/06 to 12/31/06
    Source: Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)

    The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the University of Maryland and the Kettering Foundation are partnering with nine campuses across the country to study college student civic engagement. Professor Harriger will work with John Dinan, Associate Professor of Political Science, to organize and host three focus groups of randomly selected Wake Forest students. They will be asked questions about their level of involvement with politics and civic life, their attitudes about the political process, and the opportunities they have for engagement at Wake Forest. The data gathered will be used in a nationwide report and made available to Wake Forest.
  • with Jill McMillan, Communication
    Learning
    Awarded $200,000 for the period 8/30/00 to 8/30/05
    Source: Kettering Foundation

    Drs. Harriger and McMillan will conduct a longitudinal study of the effects of public deliberation on college students. Working with foundation staff, they will frame research questions and methodologies, identify a research team at Wake Forest to conduct the investigation, and write a paper describing their findings in the context of the scholarly literature for dissemination at meetings.

Andrew Rich
Storming the States: The Characteristics, Roles, and Influence of State Think Tanks
Awarded $45,925 for the period 4/13/00 to 12/15/01
Source: Public Policy Institute of California

In the last two decades, the number of think tanks operating in state-level policy making has more than tripled, with 110 around the country by 1999. During the same period, nationally focused think tanks have also burgeoned, and their efforts have intensified, becoming notably more marketing-oriented, contentious, and ideological. The new visibility and influence of national think tanks has revised conventional scholarly notions of policy experts as staid, distant, objective political actors.

This study examines whether similar developments have accompanied the proliferation of state-level think tanks. It will chronicle the growth, diversification, roles, and influence of state think tanks between 1980 and 2000, providing a descriptive analysis by state, a quantitative assessment of the media and legislative visibility of think tanks in four states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York), and detailed case studies of the activities of think tanks and other sources of policy expertise in recent welfare and education reform debates in each of these four states.

Luis Roniger
Latin America: A Continent of Exile
Awarded $8,000, Fall 2006
Source: WFU Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Research Fund

This project aims to study political exile in the twenty Latin American independent polities, inquiring about its role and transnational impact as a major mechanism of political exclusion used by both authoritarian and democratic regimes.

David Weinstein

  • Exile and Interpretation
    Awarded $9,746, Spring 2007
    Source: WFU Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Research Fund

Exile and Interpretation: Reinventing European Intellectual History, co-authored with A. Zakai of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will examine how migration and the exile from continental Europe in the 1930s transformed the Jewish intellectuals Baron, Auerbach, Popper, and Strauss into ardent champions of Europe’s finest values and traditions, leading them to reshape modern intellectual history and its practice as part of their fight against totalitarianism. Their intellectual legacy powerfully informed diverse scholarly disciplines—history, historiography, literary criticism, political theory and the history of political thought—after World War II. No study has analyzed the works of this group as a whole nor contextualized their shared cultural and political tragedy. In short, the book will interrogate the impact of migration, exile, refuge, anti-Semitism, world war, and totalitarianism on political theory, textual interpretation, the construction of intellectual history, the ideological appropriation of canonical philosophical texts, the politics of historiography and the formation of academic disciplines. It will appeal to a wide audience: intellectual historians, political theorists, and sociologists of knowledge who are interested in the impact of intellectual exile.

Funds will be used to complete two months of advanced intensive German at Munich’s Goethe Institute, followed by archival research at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, University of Munich; Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, Germany; the Karl Popper Archive, University of Klagenfurt, Austria; and the Karl Popper Archive, University of Vienna, Austria.

  • Exile and Interpretation: Popper's Reinvention of the History of European Political Thought
    Awarded $9,562 for the period 5/1/05 to 4/30/06
    Source: WFU Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Research Fund

    In 1937, Karl Popper was exiled from Vienna because he was Jewish. This study seeks to demonstrate how exile influenced his interpretation and reinvention of political philosophy’s canon. It will demonstrate how antitotalitarianism motivated his peculiar brand of antihistoricism, which, in turn, informed his equally idiosyncratic method of textual interpretation. More generally, the study will enhance our understanding of how the practice, in addition to the content, of intellectual history is invariably driven by its historical context, making it indelibly ideological. The study will be developed as a chapter in a book on exile and interpretation co-authored with A. Zakai of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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