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Consumerism in Farmers Markets and the Central NY Food System
No full textMy research project, “Consumerism in Farmers Markets and the Central NY Food System,” investigated the roles played by members of the local food system. Throughout the summer, I visited various farmers markets in Madison, Herkimer, and Oneida counties, and asked consumers to fill out informational surveys. These served as my primary sources of data, collecting qualitative and quantitative information about purchasing habits related to local food. My initial goal for the project was to focus solely on the consumers of farmers markets and evaluate patterns among the group based on their responses. The survey questions ranged from “How often do you buy vegetables during the season?” to “How could the local food system in your county be improved?” Given the geographic location and tendencies of local shoppers in central NY, my original goal slowly morphed into a dual-report that studied both consumers at farmers markets and the farmers markets themselves. While the final data was too small to yield any concrete patterns for conclusions, the research did draw my attention to the role of interpersonal relationships within the community and the impact of small decisions. The consumer’s choice impacts the seller’s choice which impacts the producer’s choice and so on. The local food system is just that: a system. Each role is connected to the next, forming an inevitable community and the extent to which members are involved in that community is their choice
\u27Every Wide-awake Negro Teacher of French Should Know\u27: The Pedagogies of Black Internationalism in the Early Twentieth Century
No full textAnalyzing the Effects of Policy On Residential Photovoltaic Capacity in California
No full textPhotovoltaic cells are an important tool that can be used to reduce a country’s carbon footprint. However, due to their high installation and repair costs, governments often provide price reductions either directly to consumers or by subsidizing producers. In this study, I use a panel econometric approach to analyze the effects of these two policy approaches across counties in California. I find that both production subsidies and consumer rebates have a positive effect on two different measures of photovoltaic capacity. The study also finds evidence of peer effects. Other results from the study include looking at the effects of various political and socioeconomic variables on a county’s solar capacity. These include finding that a county’s education level has a positive relationship to the average size of a household installation. I conclude by examining the policy implications and the future of the photovoltaic industry
The Militarization of the Russian Elite under Putin
No full textThis article reviews the vast literature on Russia’s transformation into a “militocracy”—a state in which individuals with career experience in Russia’s various force structures occupy important positions throughout the polity and economy—during the reign of former KGB lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin. We show that (1) elite militarization has been extensively utilized both to describe and explain core features of Russian foreign and domestic policy; and (2) notwithstanding its widespread usage, the militocracy framework rests on a rather thin, and in some cases flawed, body of empirical research. We close by discussing the remaining research agenda on this subject and listing several alternative theoretical frameworks to which journalists and policymakers arguably should pay equal or greater attention
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“Political Polarization at Hamilton College: Analyzing Student Opinions of Hamilton’s Political Climate”
No full textMillennials are a particularly politically polarized generation. This may be because, social media and cable news have increasingly compromised journalistic integrity by presenting particularly opinionated and over exaggerated news. In addition to the changing news consumption habits of millennials, familial socialization, people mimicking the political beliefs of their parents, may be contributing to increasing political polarization. To examine why millennials are a particularly polarized generation, I interview twelve students of various political backgrounds at an elite liberal arts campus to determine what shapes their political beliefs. As expected, Republicans and Democrats both expressed polarized disapproval of the other sides’ beliefs. Familial socialization had the largest impact on shaping interviewee’s political beliefs with cable news and social media consumption having comparatively less of an impact
Approaching Traditions: the Ideological Ambivalence of Modern Intellectuals in 20th-century Ireland and China
No full textDrawing for Understanding and Insight
No full textDrawing is a visible representation of our cognitive processes. We can use drawing exercises and techniques to develop a complex way of thinking, remembering, and problem solving about notions of personal identity. Philosophers think linearly in terms of one claim following another. Once we have the claims lined up, we usually begin discussing philosophic views via a critique of one link in that linear chain. Drawing can disrupt this linear approach. Ideas connect in an organic fashion and relationships between ideas can be more complex than a unidirectional line. Drawing provides a way to illustrate these complex relations so that the interconnections and relationships can be seen. Hence a more complex understanding arises. From the complexity of these new relationships, new insights can be generated. Drawing allows complexity to be felt as well as understood.
Juli Thorson, Professor of Philosophy at Ball State University, Indiana, explores these ideas in her presentation for the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy held in Clinton, New York. Professor Thorson\u27s talk focuses on lessons learned from using drawings to represent relationships among ideas and generate insights during daily class sessions over the course of the two-week summer program