The Political Theory of John F. Kennedy (open access)

The Political Theory of John F. Kennedy

This thesis is an attempt to reveal John F. Kennedy, the politician, as a political theorist. Kennedy's philosophy was the underlying current for all his political action, and in the test of time and history, the measurement of his success is more likely to be weighted in favor of his political theory than in favor of his political accomplishments.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Arndt, Eileen L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Limitations of Hungarian National Power in World War Two (open access)

Limitations of Hungarian National Power in World War Two

This study covers a period of a quarter of a century of Hungarian history, focusing on questions that affected the country's World War Two participation. It invokes the aid of value forming principles in order to reach conclusions. Its guiding principles relate to political theory affecting international relations.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Novak, Emilian E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Technology to United States Foreign Policy through Technical Assistance Programs to Underdeveloped Countries (open access)

The Relationship of Technology to United States Foreign Policy through Technical Assistance Programs to Underdeveloped Countries

The focus of this work lies in an examination of the effect of technological sophistication upon, and the reactions to technological sophistication by, the United States in its active participation in the international arena. Specifically, this work is to be an examination of one aspect of twentieth century technology, that of the transfer of technology, within the foreign policy considerations of the United States. This work will be further limited to an examination of American foreign policy of technology transfer to the underdeveloped countries of the world.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Griffitts, Garland W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Input Model for Foreign Policy Crisis Decision-Making (open access)

Input Model for Foreign Policy Crisis Decision-Making

The purpose of this thesis will be to examine the decision-making process in crisis situations, defined as those presenting a high threat and short decisional time. Crisis situations in the area of foreign policy have become more acute and dangerous since the end of World War II and the rise of nuclear weapon delivery capabilities.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Linn, David W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Khrushchev and Socialist Realism: a Study of the Political Control of Soviet Literature, 1960-1963 (open access)

Khrushchev and Socialist Realism: a Study of the Political Control of Soviet Literature, 1960-1963

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topic of political control of literature within the Soviet Union. The specific scope of this examination includes an investigation of Nikita S. Khrushchev and his utilization of socialist realism as one of the primary methods of literary control during the period, 1960-1963. A study of literature and its political control will demonstrate the important and dynamic roles which the political control of literature fulfills in the political system.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Sanders, Harold R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Berlin Crisis of 1948 : A Theoretical Model of a Crisis Situation (open access)

The Berlin Crisis of 1948 : A Theoretical Model of a Crisis Situation

This study views the deeper reasons for acute crises between national systems or blocs of national systems as a function of major changes within the larger international structure. It seeks to construct eclectically a systematic and analytic model of acute international crises showing their occurrence between the balance of power and bipolar structures of the international system.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Martin, Joseph David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budgetary Decision-Making in the Texas Legislature (open access)

Budgetary Decision-Making in the Texas Legislature

The government of any state has the responsibility of providing for the health, safety, welfare, education, and protection of its citizens. To accomplish these goals, states have created elaborate and complex administrative organizations staffed by thousands of bureaucrats. The increased demands of the citizens of each state upon their state governments for better education, highways, and increased protection are reflected both in the expansion of the agencies created to provide these services and, in turn, in requests for funds in ever increasing amounts to expand the scope of the services. The ability of a state to fund each agency's request is definitely limited; no state is sufficiently wealthy to grant every request. Rather, a state must make some judgment in the distribution of its limited resources (money) among competing and demanding sources. This requires planning and is called budgeting, which one writer has defined as "one of the major processes by which the use of public resources is planned and controlled."
Date: June 1970
Creator: Butler, Daron K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sino-Indian Border Confrontation of 1962 (open access)

The Sino-Indian Border Confrontation of 1962

This thesis presents a brief history of the Sino-Indian relations, and describes the issues leading up to the border dispute between China and India in 1962.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Wah, Wun Kin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Administrative Reorganization in the Southwest Region of the Federal Aviation Agency (open access)

Administrative Reorganization in the Southwest Region of the Federal Aviation Agency

The purpose of this study is to examine an example of administrative reorganization which can provide useful information to those interested in the continuing process of administrative reorganization.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Vance, Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decisions of the Supreme Court Necessitating a New Type of Police Power (open access)

Decisions of the Supreme Court Necessitating a New Type of Police Power

This study will remain with the role of the Supreme Court, and then only with its role in the character of interpretation as far as the necessitation of a new type of police power is concerned.
Date: 1958
Creator: Crane, James D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perón of Argentina: Case Study in Political Charismatic Leadership (open access)

Perón of Argentina: Case Study in Political Charismatic Leadership

The thesis here is that the Argentina of the 1940's provided a perfect matrix for the rise of a charismatic leader. Juan Perón did not emerge as an European-style fascist or the traditional Latin American dictator. Rather, he was called forth by his environment to exercise authority over his followers in a leader-mass, savior-disciple relationship. Perón's base environment was Argentine. Thus, Argentine patterns, values, and culture outlined the scope and methods of his rule. For this reason the total social and political behavior of the Argentine people will be studied and equated with the Perón phenomenon.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Brink, Carol Lynn Robinson
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Political Career of Carl Schurz, 1868-1888 (open access)

An Analysis of the Political Career of Carl Schurz, 1868-1888

Carl Schurz, appearing on the American political stage during a period of great change, felt the influence of human events as he formulated his political thinking. He also was affected by his German birth, education, and revolutionary activity before his immigration to the United States. Indeed, it appears that much of his political thought was reaction to existing circumstances or events rather than pure contemplative thinking.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Palmer, Edwin D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japanese-American Internment: Prelude, Pressures, Practice (open access)

Japanese-American Internment: Prelude, Pressures, Practice

The present essay, studying the historical, social, political, and military factors, traces the development of ideas culminating in the detention. Considering the affair in this manner should more clearly explain the "why" of Japanese removal. Particularly, the concept of "military necessity," the Army's major reason for evacuation, is considered with emphasis on factors which contributed to the development of this position. The role of Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, the primary advocate of removal based on necessity, is explored.
Date: August 1967
Creator: MacKenna, David W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tendencies Away from Democracy (open access)

Tendencies Away from Democracy

It is the intention of the author to arrive at a definition of democracy based upon governmental principles which are refutable by none, although further discussion in the light of this definition may not be accepted by all. In addition, it is the objective of the author to make a study of deviations from the Constitution, as shown by certain acts of the agents of government, as well as dangers to our democracy that exist due to certain attitudes and practices of the people.
Date: 1947
Creator: Griffin, Ernest R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Black Versus Black: Division Within a Judge (open access)

Black Versus Black: Division Within a Judge

This thesis attempts to answer the following questions: (1) has Hugo Black abandoned his philosophy of the "absoluteness" of the First Amendment which has long been his basis of decision-making in problems involving the First Amendment, and (2) has he ceased to maintain his strong position for individual liberties?
Date: January 1968
Creator: Atterbury, Joan B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Legislation as a Remedy to Prevent Communist Influence of Labor Unions and Union Officials (open access)

Congressional Legislation as a Remedy to Prevent Communist Influence of Labor Unions and Union Officials

The United States and other nations of the free world are presently engaged in a life and death struggle. This conflict is between democracy and Communism--freedom versus slavery. In the classical definition of war, opponents and battlefields were readily defined, but in this "Cold War" conventional arms are only a part of the over-all battle plan. The persistent effort of the Communists to infiltrate and dominate the American labor movement is one of these battlefields. Domination and control of labor unions has been a primary goal of the Communist Party in the United States. In recent years, the power of organized labor has demonstrated its strength throughout our national economy. Labor organizations have the power to create, in this country, a state of national emergency. The problem is how this power can be controlled and protected for the American worker.
Date: January 1963
Creator: Doss, Cecil B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Slums and Blight: A Case of Local Government Inaction Beaumont, Texas (open access)

Slums and Blight: A Case of Local Government Inaction Beaumont, Texas

An attempt has been made in this study to analyze, examine, and investigate the efforts of the city of Beaumont, Texas, through its comprehensive plan and its planning process, to alleviate or combat the blighted areas of the city and to determine to what extent the comprehensive plan document has been implemented.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Knight, Glynn James
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equal Representation and State Legislative Apportionment: a Study of the Political Impact of the Legislative Reapportionment Decisions (open access)

Equal Representation and State Legislative Apportionment: a Study of the Political Impact of the Legislative Reapportionment Decisions

This study is concerned with the political impact of the Supreme Court's decisions concerning state legislative apportionment. First, an attempt is made to describe the political environment in which they were made, with special reference to the existing bases of representation in the states and the political reaction to the decisions. Secondly, the study traces the major issues relating to judicial enforcement of the apportionment standards enunciated by the Supreme Court and the modification and development of those standards that followed the initial decisions. Finally, the extent to which reapportionment has been successfully enforced by the courts may suggest some tentative conclusions about the viability and utility of the equal population doctrine as a constitutional standard, as well as some of the possible political consequences of enforcement of that standard.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Clark, Robert B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Certain Aspects of International Narcotics Law Enforcement 1949-1959 (open access)

An Analysis of Certain Aspects of International Narcotics Law Enforcement 1949-1959

This thesis is an analysis of aspects of international narcotics law enforcement from 1949-1959.
Date: August 1960
Creator: Dickson, James Galen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Goals of the Peace Corps (open access)

The Goals of the Peace Corps

Agencies such as the Peace Corps are by nature benevolent, which means they are devised for the expressed purpose of granting aid to other persons. In this case, the avowed purpose is aid for the underdeveloped nations of the world. However, politicians lodged in governmental authority are not humanistic solely for the sake of helping others; there are political aims to be gained. What these aims are and how they affect the operation of a youth corps for peace is a major concern of this thesis.
Date: January 1966
Creator: Thompson, Christine E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Religious Freedom of Jehovah's Witnesses (open access)

Religious Freedom of Jehovah's Witnesses

The author has tried to show in this study the broad applications laid down by the Supreme Court in its decisions dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses. The tolerance used by the Supreme Court in working out the immense problems created by this sect at such a critical period, shows how tolerance builds strength rather than lessens it.
Date: 1951
Creator: Meadows, E. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education on America's Last Frontier (Alaska) (open access)

Education on America's Last Frontier (Alaska)

This thesis covers the history of education in Alaska, the federal school system, the territorial school system, the University of Alaska, Alaska's teachers, and the future of Alaskan education.
Date: 1942
Creator: Garner, Martha Marie Gough
System: The UNT Digital Library
Governmental Policies and the Parochial Schools (open access)

Governmental Policies and the Parochial Schools

The purpose of this study is to make an investigation of certain governmental policies in relation to parochial schools and to ascertain reasons why parents enroll their children in parochial schools instead of public schools.
Date: June 1953
Creator: Roe, Joe D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Movement for Trinity River Development (open access)

The Movement for Trinity River Development

This thesis analyzes the movement for Trinity River improvement and describes the methods used to promote the project.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Davis, Edwin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library