Publication Type: Invited Paper
Abstract: The conflict for mental dominance between Mary and Doro, the progenitors of the Pattern that will inform humanity’s future, is an apt metaphor for exploring the consequences of slavery in America. Doro represents the continuing presence of the African past that haunts African Americans, and Mary represents the modern day African American who struggles to reconcile a history and a heritage she does not fully understand but that informs her life. Butler creates a thought-provoking neo-slave narrative and a powerful message about the power of the human mind to overcome adversity in Mary’s quest to free herself from the dominance of negative thought structures, to embrace positive conceptions of identity and heritage, and ultimately to establish her own mind.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper examines the history of international investment rules and corporate responsibility pressures. I show how the failure to delineate not only the rights but the responsibilities of investors at the global level has led to corporate responsibility pressures, as so many firms today operate in nations with inadequate governance. I then make suggestions for addressing public concern about global business.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The results of my analysis suggest that most Americans
support tax cuts not because they are indifferent to
economic inequality, but because they largely fail to
connect inequality and public policy. Three out of
every four people say that the difference in incomes
between rich people and poor people has increased in
the past 20 years, and most of them add that that is a
bad thing--but most of these people still support Bush's
tax cuts and the repeal of the estate tax. People who
want to spend more money on a variety of government
programs are more likely to support tax cuts than those
who do not, other things being equal. And people's
opinions about tax cuts are strongly shaped by their
attitudes about their own tax burdens but virtually
unaffected by their attitudes about the tax burden of
the rich--even in the case of the estate tax, which
only affects the wealthiest one or two percent of
taxpayers. Some of these peculiarities appear to be
mitigated by political information, but others seem
perversely resilient.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Abstract

The Confederate battle emblem persists as a controversial issue in the South. The debate hinges on whether support for the flag is a result of racism or a sense of commitment to Southern heritage. We examine this question with an experimental design, embedded in a representative Internet survey, in the state of Georgia where, until recently, the state flag prominently featured the Rebel Cross. Specifically, we consider the effects of framing the debate in different ways---as a non-racial heritage issue, or as a racially infused conflict--- on support for Confederate symbols among White men and women. We hypothesize that support for the battle flag will decline among women when it is associated with racism. Men, on the other hand should be largely unaffected by such racial frames. Additionally, we examine the role that partisanship plays in support for the battle flag and the role of racial considerations in the partisan transformation of the South. We anticipate that Democratic women will be most likely to abandon support for the Confederate battle emblem when it is associated with racist hate groups. Further, framing this debate in terms of race should encourage White men, but not women, to abandon the Democratic Party. Lastly, we hypothesize that support for the battle flag is correlated with opposition to interracial marriage. Our results largely confirm each of these expectations.

Publication Type: Proceeding