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Autocratic Radicalization: The The Strategic Choices of Autocratic Executives and the Death of Democracy
No full textThis paper proposes a theoretic model to explain how and why some would be autocrats fail while others succeed. Drawing on a paired case study of the PiS in Poland and the AKP in Turkey, it argues that the timing and severity of autocratic executives\u27 attacks is the key to explaining their success or failure. If autocratic executives radicalize and attack democracy severely when their opponents remain strong they are likely to fail, but if the wait until their opponents are weak, they are likely to succeed
A Date with Destiny: Relative Age Effects in High School and Beyond
No full textThis paper examines the persistence of relative age effects. Using data on academic performance in high school and admission into college, I investigate whether the well-documented benefits that students born earlier in the academic calendar receive in kindergarten and primary school persist into adolescence and adulthood. I conclude that relative age has a negligible effect on academic performance in high school and beyond and potentially turns into an age penalty for older students. Notably, my results suggest that age has a sizable effect on decisions to drop out or go to college
Legacy Admissions and the Perpetuation of Racial Hierarchies
No full textLegacy admissions are a significant topic of discussion as the advantages and disadvantages they provide may be unequally distributed across different classes, demographics, and institutions. With the abolishment of affirmative action, a preference that has aided minority and underrepresented groups in the admissions process, it is now more than ever essential to discuss the issue of legacy. The debate surrounding legacy admissions stresses broader societal discussions regarding equity, equality, and access to higher education. This paper addresses higher education issues of legacy admissions and their relationship to racial hierarchies by posing the question: Does the use of legacy preferences within college and university admissions reinforce and perpetuate racial hierarchies? This analysis aims to explore whether hierarchies are supported through the prioritization of legacy preferences. It examines whether legacy admissions reinforce the elements of historical advantage, privilege disparities, academic discrepancies, and legal precedent
Bridging Gaps and Building Equity: The Role of the Paycheck Fairness Act in Addressing Gender-Based Wage Disparities
No full textApplications of Coherent Macroscopic Wavefunctions in Superconducting Material
No full textWhen the topic of quantum physics comes up, you often discuss topics seemingly completely at odds with the world we live in. For the most part, the phenomenon of quantum decoherence prevents us from having to deal with issues such as Heisenberg\u27s uncertainty principle or wavefunction collapse on our commute to work. However, there exist certain exotic forms of matter that bring quantum mechanics into the macroscopic scale of the world we live in. The systems that bring about this exotic behavior are those of superfluids, superconductors, and superradiant gasses. The exact property of these materials that make them ``macroscopic quantum objects is their wavefunctions. Each of these materials acts as a condensate of decoherence-protected quasi-particles that share identical wavefunctions, creating one macroscopic coherent wavefunction. This macroscopic wavefunction is able to interact with the rest of the world in a way that no other wavefunctions--- that we know of--- can. This particular paper will focus on superconductors, their coherent macroscopic wave functions, and their applications in modern physics, ranging from medical imaging technologies to gravitational wave interaction
Losing Her Ground By Standing Her Ground: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Gender Stereotypes within the 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial Election
No full textThis research project poses the questions: “How is a female candidate’s campaign affected when she violates gender stereotypic prescriptions?” and “Does this differ depending on her party affiliation?” The Arizona 2022 Gubernatorial Election is used as a case study to understand the consequences of female politicians violating gender roles. Scholars have argued stereotypes negatively affect women who are running for office and elected to serve in office (Schneider & Bos, 2014; Cardo, 2021; Dolan, 2014; Heilman, 2012;), female politicians need to exhibit warmth and competence to be successful on the campaign trail (Manne, 2020), and that campaign advertisements and press coverage can impact voters’ perceptions on female politicians (Bauer, 2015; Holman et al., 2015; Khan, 1994). This research is important as more women are entering into the political arena every year. Understanding how gender roles influence perceptions can allow political strategists to understand how to override those stereotypes. The project utilizes qualitative analysis to observe how candidates’ gender affected their campaign advertisements and interviews. Then, 38 articles were analyzed to create a quantitative dataset which demonstrated when the media mentioned a candidates’ presence (+) or lack (-) of warmth and/or competence. Newspaper articles were used to determine the frequency of how often they mentioned a candidates’ policies. The research demonstrates that if candidates defy gender roles, then they are criticized by the public and the press. This research is significant, as it demonstrates that gender roles and stereotypes still play a key role in voters’ and medias’ perceptions of female politicians
Possession, Existence, and Multifunctionality: The Case of Vietnamese Có
No full textThis paper examines the multifunctional morpheme có in Vietnamese, focusing on its roles in existential and possessive constructions. The analysis draws from existing literature and novel linguistic data and explores the syntax of có across various contexts, including emphatic/assertive, polar question, negative imperative, existential, and possessive constructions. While Duffield (2007, 2013b, 2017) proposes unifying specific uses of có under one functional projection, the analysis presented in this paper challenges that claim by examining the structural similarities between existential and possessive sentences, as demonstrated by Freeze (1992, 2001). I present an analysis that first argues against Duffield’s claim that existential có is structurally identical to emphatic/assertive, polar question, and negative imperative instances. Using novel data, I distinguish between a high-có and low-có, the latter comprising existential and possessive constructions. I then present a syntax for these low có sentences in Vietnamese, drawing heavily from the work of Adger & Ramchand (2003) on PredP and Freeze’s (1992, 2001) work on sentences of possession and existence. This study contributes to understanding có’s distribution and sheds light on the syntactic structures of existential and possessive constructions in Vietnamese and beyond
