Muhafazakârlık ve sosyal değişme olgularını ele alan bu çalışma, Muhafazakâr Düşünce dergisi kapsamında modernleşme sürecini ve karşısında gelişen muhafazakâr refleksi soyo-kültürel temalar zemininde incelemeyi, Türk toplumunda ve özellikle Cumhuriyet döneminde belirginleşen muh…
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This study constitutes the contextualized and analytical biography of Frederick Charles Schwarz (1914-2009), an anticommunist figure who had a marked influence on American postwar conservatism. Born in Brisbane, Australia, and trained as a physician, Schwarz was a conservative e…
This dissertation examines how women, as a group, and domesticity, as a system of gender relations, shaped the Cold War conservative ascendancy. After World War II, when California reached new heights of electoral importance as the most populous state in the nation, the greater …
The thesis focuses on the conservative canon and analyses the validity of exceptionalist claims of conservative thinking through a deconstructive reading of conservatism. The comparison of classical and radical conservatisms provides the grounds for this analysis. After the intr…
R.A. Butler was one of the most influential and yet enigmatic of twentieth century politicians. He did more than anyone to stimulate the revival of post-war Conservatism, which led to three consecutive general election victories. He was a powerful figure in all Conservative Cabi…
This dissertation analyzes the rise of conservatism in American politics from 1948 to 1968, paying special attention to the impact of the civil rights movement and race on postwar political realignments. Unlike previous studies, which have concentrated chiefly on domestic policy…
This dissertation seeks to accomplish four goals: first, to trace the development and history of ultra-conservative anti-communist conspiracists--who referred to themselves as "Americanists"--from the emergence of Americanist speakers near the beginning of the 1950s, through the…
This dissertation focuses on the political career of Enoch Powell. It follows Powell's trajectory from a young army officer in the British Raj to the center of British politics in the 1960s through to his return to the periphery in Ulster Unionism. It argues that Powell's notori…
Consequential effects of new revenue guidelines proposed jointly by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for company valuation models are largely unexplored in scholarship and in practice, despite their potential…
This dissertation explores the motivations behind the political attitudes and behaviors of Evangelical Christians in the United States. I develop a theory of Evangelical politics that blends theories of social identity threat with a theory of cognitive dissonance. I argue that E…
This thesis studies how Paraguayan literature about the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870), written in the 1920s, addresses both historical trauma and revisionism by reacting to the prevailing liberal historiography of the war. The thesis analyzes war narratives by three dif…
"The Paper Chase: A Survey of Student Newspapers on Ontario Campuses in the 1960s" is a regional study of three University campuses in Ontario — the University of Toronto, Queen's University and Trent University — and examines each of these institutions’ respective student newsp…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always been an apocalyptic religion since its founding in 1830. Yet, Mormons have never sat idly by waiting for Christ to return. Rather, the leadership and the laity developed a nationalistic eschatology that required particip…
Although parental religiosity generally has been associated with positive child outcomes it also has been connected to the use of corporal punishment and authoritarian parenting style. Thus, other variables must exist which influence how the interaction between religiosity and p…
By the mid-twentieth century, Blacks in the United States had left what was known as the “Party of Lincoln” and moved towards supporting Democrats and left-wing candidates and policies both locally and nationally. This shift in Black politics has led to American society broadly …
This dissertation examines the intersection of conservatism and reform in American politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This dissertation focuses on four prominent conservatives – US Senators Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI), John C. Spooner (R-WI), and Orvil…
James G. Watt, secretary of the interior under Ronald Reagan, was one of the most controversial figures to hold the office. Much of the historical legend of Watt stems from a 1981 House Committee Briefing where Watt casually referred to the Second Coming of Christ in discussion …
When Candy Lightner founded Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) in 1980 following the death of her daughter, there was little reason to think the group would succeed in its mission. To stigmatize such a common drinking practice would threaten to upset a model of acceptable soci…
Conservative thought has a complex relationship between principles and expediency; conservative intellectuals read history in line with their needs. This dissertation traces the construction of “conservatism” as a political identity in a nation of normative liberalism. Conservat…