Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper presents an approach to conceptualizing and analyzing core dynamics of deliberation, with an emphasis on power and face-to-face citizen interaction. This approach is used to explore differences between various deliberative contexts.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Feminist Film Theory and Comic Feminist Film Theory backdrop this study, which struggles through Asian, Asian American and American women’s perspectives regarding a globalized popular culture minority portrayal(s). Textual analysis and audience study reveal that stereotypes nor beauty nor behavior standards are transborder, dual pan-ethnicization occurs, women’s limited space within the male-constructed public sphere is reified, and Straubhaar’s (1991) cultural proximity notion is challenged; gender experienced through comedy trumps several societal demarcations.

Publication Type: Symposium Paper
Abstract: With the continued proliferation of malingering measures, clinicians are increasingly utilizing multiple measures of malingering in their clinical assessment process. Yet no guidelines exist for how to integrate multiple measures into a clinical decision. This study presents data on four commonly-used measures (the MMPI-2, VIP, TOMM, and SIRS), using a range of strategies with varying levels of complexity to evaluate classification accuracy.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The emergence of terrorism as a dominant specter in the contemporary world has turned the eyes of many back to Thomas Hobbes. Indeed, the ability of terrorists to strike either by “secret machination or by confederacy with others” (Leviathan, 13.1) is the ultimate manifestation of Hobbesian equality. We are in this sense truly in his state of nature. Further, American efforts to thwart the terrorists can be described as an attempt to establish a Leviathan who can “overawe them all” (Leviathan, 13.5), thus bringing us out of a state of nature. Hobbes indeed has a great deal to say to both the terrorists and the American predicament.

Publication Type: Proceeding
Abstract: Do presidents lead or follow public opinion? In this paper, I argue for a new approach to answer the question: a content analysis of presidential speeches, coding for a number of rhetorical features that should occur more frequently when the president perceives that public opinion may be difficult. To establish the validity of this method, I examine two cases from the Clinton Presidency in which the political context is well known. In the first, we see his efforts to lead the public by retreating from a key campaign promise of a tax cut for the middle class in the interest of deficit reduction. Two years later, Clinton followed the public, offering the “Middle Class Bill of Rights,” which promised an array of benefits to ordinary Americans. As predicted, Clinton’s rhetoric matched expectations – when he needed to lead, he used rhetorical techniques appropriate to do so, and when he did not need to lead, he did not speak in leading ways. The unorthodox method being advanced here is conceptually satisfying and methodologically promising, offering opportunities for new insight into the public presidency.