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Computer Graphics 1987: Proceedings of CG International '8
Tosiyasu L. Kunii and Qiuming Zhu
Editor: Tosiyasu L. Kunii
Chapter, A Two-phase Fast Hidden-line Removal Algorithm, authored by Qiuming Zhu, UNO faculty member.
Recent developments in computer graphics have largely involved the following: Integration of computer graphics and image analysis through computer data structure; integration of CAD/CAM as computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) through the design and simulation of manufacturing processes using computer graphics; progress in basic research on the modeling of complex and mathematical graphic objects, such as computational geometry, graphic data bases, hierarchical windows, and texture; use of computer graphics as an improved human interface to present information visually and multidimensionally; and advancement of industrial technology and computer art based on developments in the areas listed above. These trends are strongly reflected in the contents of the present volume either as papers dealing with one particular aspect of research or as multifaceted studies involving several different areas. The proceedings comprise thirty selected, previously unpublished original papers presented in nine chapters.
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Cimilicy as a Panacea to Nigeria's Political Problems
Gregory Ojiewulu Ucheagwu
A study of the political development in Nigeria should be seen and explored in the context of civil-military relations. The most myopic observer will understand why and how the military cannot be insulated from political process or the futility and inextricability of distinguishing the military from the civilians. In essence, with regard to Nigerian political development, two powerful institutions, i.e., the civil and the military have confronted, complemented and cooperated with each other. These two institutions have been fully entrenched prior to, and since, Nigeria received her independence from Britain --the former by the conventional and stereotypical notion of civilian supremacy over uniformed officers (which still lacks scientific validity over this asserted mandate to rule), and the latter by its exclusive monopoly over the instruments of force and coercion.
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Human Sexuality as Public Policy in the Omaha Public Schools: A Case Study
Marlene Karen Wilken
Public policy in America affects a vast range of activities. Examples of public policy readily come to mind, and these policies can affect each person in hundreds of different ways. Public policy may be directly confronted, as in paying taxes, or may be largely forgotten, as in benefiting from tile fire and police protection provided by the taxes. Regardless of the public policy, "The study of public policy is, in a specialized way, the study of politics in society." Public policy is political in nature because it involves conflict and struggle among individuals and groups having conflicting desires.
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Administering the New Federalism
Lewis G. Bender, James A. Stever, and Dale Krane
Editors: Lewis G Bender and James A Stever
Chapter 11, State Government Control of Small Cities CDBG Awards: The Case of Mississippi, authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.
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Final Report of the Minnesota Tax Study Commission
Robert Ebel, Therese McGuire, and John R. Bartle
Chapter 6: The Tax System and Intergovernmental Linkages, authored by John Bartle, UNO faculty member.
This volume contains state and local tax policy recommendations, placed within the context of changing economic structures, demographic trends and institutional relationships.
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From Nation to States: The Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program
Edward T. Jennings Jr., Dale Krane, Alex N. Pattakos, and B. J. Reed
Editors: Edward T. Jennings, Dale Krane(UNO faculty member), Alex N. Pattakos, and B.J. Reed (UNO faculty member)
The advent of the Reagan administration's "New Federalism" initiatives in 1981 impacted state government in numerous ways. One example of this new era in intergovernmental relations is the transfer of responsibility of the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to state governments.
This volume provides an overview of the Small Cities CDBG program, an analysis of its politics, and an examination of the grant award processes established by the states. It concludes with an assessment of the consequences of state assumption for program activities, outcomes, and administration. Assessing the program transfer within the context of theories and practices of intergovernmental relations and policy execution, the book provides rich contextual information and a thorough comparison of implementation activities and outputs in seven states.
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Subnational Politics in the 1980s: Organization, Reorganization and Economic Development
Louis A. Picard, Raphael Zarinski, and Dale Krane
Editors: Louis A. Picard and Raphael Zarinski
Chapter 3, Does the Federal-Unitary Dichotomy Make a Difference?: One Answer Derived from Macrocomparative Research, authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.
This book brings together thirteen experts in subnational politics to examine the effects on local and regional governments of the pessimistic perception that governments are limited in their problem-solving abilities. Contributors discuss the issue of popular participation in the political decision-making process, which has led to the creation of community action groups and local and regional organizations that foster economic development. They take a hard look at the nature of relationships with other levels of government and address the problems caused by a shrinking budget.
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The Settlement of the Future of Taiwan: The Application of Divided Sovereignty
Jong-Joon Chun
The modern State is a sovereign State. It is independent in the face of other nations. It may instill its will towards them with a substance which need not be affected by the will of any external power. It is also internally supreme over the territory that it controls. Thus, the existence of a state or government is independent of recognition, which is granted by other members of the international community for its mutual interest. When a new state or government is established in control of a defined territory and the bulk of its population, with sufficient stability and capability to carry out international obligations, it is generally time for other states to extend recognition, in the absence of special political considerations.
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Discretion, Justice and Democracy: A Public Policy Perspective
Carl F. Pinkele, William C. Louthan, and Dale Krane
Editors: Carl F. Pinkele and William C. Louthan
Chapter 11, Discretionary Justice at DOJ: Implementing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.
Series of eleven essays on the role of discretion in all phases of the the criminal justice process, from pretrial detention, through sentencing and parole hearings. 135 pages with index and extensive bibliography.
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Minority Vote Dilution
Chandler Davidson, Howard Ball, Dale Krane, and Thomas P. Lauth
Editors: Chandler Davidson and Howard Ball
Chapter 9, The View from Georgia and Mississippi: Local Attorney's Appraisal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, co-authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.
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The Relative Impact of Environmental Factors on the Welfare Policies of Some American States: A Causal Analysis
Ihemelam Joshua Uhiara
Public policy in the American states has attracted the attention of an increasing number of political scientists in recent times. Many and varied kinds of studies have been done to determine the relationships between factors in the political environments of American states and the content of the public policies of these states. The results of these studies vary as do the studies themselves. More often than not, the findings contradict each other. One such contradiction is observed in the findings of studies on the relationship between economic and political factors within the political environment and state public policy. Some studies identify economic factors as the major determinants of state public policy while others claim that political factors play the major role in determining public policy. I observed an environmental factor that has not been given sufficient attention in many of these controversial studies. Many researchers have not seriously considered political culture as a possible prominent influence in the makinq of state public policy. The stimulus from this discovery coupled with the curiosity to find out what lies behind that of which little is known, impelled me to embark upon this study that uses the path analytic technique and hypothesizes that political culture, vis-a-vis wealth and political participation, makes the greatest impact on the welfare policies of the states in the plains and southeastern regions of America. It was found that when the direct and indirect impacts of independent variables (political culture, wealth, and political participation) upon the dependent variable (welfare) are taken into account, none of these impacts equals that of political culture. Subsidiary hypotheses also show that states with moralistic subcultures pay higher welfare benefits than states with traditionalistic subcultures, and that the difference in the amount of welfare benefits does not stem primarily from differences in wealth. Although the methodology employed in this study is open to further refinement, it has shown the need to develop and test causal relationships in the study of public policy in American states. I express my gratitude to Dr. James Johnson who gave much of his time to encourage and direct me during this study and to Professor Orville Menard and Dr. Phil Secret for their invaluable advice and corrections. I also thank my wife, my mother-in-law, and my two sons for patiently enduring some of the inconveniences which my devotion to this study brought upon them.
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Sino-Soviet ideological dispute and the stability of Asian subsystem (A case study of North Korea)
Jong-Mahn Hong
The division of the Korean peninsula into North and South, a legacy of the Cold War, was turned into a hot war in 1950. Because of its bitter experiences in this war, South Korea has remained one of those countries where anticommunist sentiment runs very high despite the changes that have taken place in the world since 1950. Even when the era of Cold War yield to that of detente in the 1970s, the Cold War in Korea continued between the two competing states.
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African Tribalism, African Socialism and the Goal of Political Democracy in Kenya
Robertson Ngunyi Ndegwa
The thesis of this study is that the goal of political democracy, which was based on Kenya's "African Socialism," has over time fallen in abeyance because the political leaders underestimated possible barriers (such as ethnic-political conflict) when defining the ideas of "African Socialism." This study evaluates Kenya's economic, political, and social systems in operation before white conquest, during colonialism, and after independence. This approach is analytical and explains how the system as a whole functions or fails to function. The thesis concludes that the government's goal of political democracy has not been met because it was based on misconceived notions of "African Socialism." African tribalism existed before "African Socialism" and continues to dominate the Kenya society.
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Foundations of Democratic Leadership in America
M. Payrow-Olia
Estrangement (disunity) is a fundamental political reality. It arises from the human condition; that is, a human is a discrete individual physically and intellectually. Human individuals are also social beings who attempt to reach out to each other and overcome their isolation. Community or unity is essential for order which underlines civilization. Leadership establishes the unity relationship among human individuals. Leadership is the ability to mobilize human resources in the pursuit of specific goals. However, there are many different ways of mobilizing people and many different goals to pursue. Throughout political philosophy, democracy and leadership have often been assumed to be in opposition. The notion of democratic leadership has been considered problematic, practically and theoretically. Democratic leadership has also been the subject of contempt or of derision in much of contemporary scholarship.
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Political Terrorism: National and International Responses Since 1972
Charles W. Stecker Jr.
The year 1972 was significant for many reasons. As one reviews the top news stories for that year, several items are remembered for both their immediate and far-reaching impact: the summit meeting between the United States and the Soviet Union, Watergate, and Vietnam. In Germany national teams gathered to compete in the Olympics, war and violence far from the minds of the young athletes who gathered for the time-honored event. Two other incidents were significant in 1972. On May 31, three Japanese men arrived at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv on the Air France flight. They are recalled as being very courteous and polite. The men left the aircraft and proceeded to the baggage claim section where they quietly opened their suitcases, withdrew submachine guns and hand grenades and open fired on the people in the area. When the shooting ended, there were twenty-five dead and seventy-two wounded. Two of the gunmen were killed and the third captured. Victims included eleven Puerto Rican citizens going to the "Holy Land." As a result of this act of terrorism, the world was quick to conclude the obvious: terrorism has international implications and terrorists have worldwide capabilities.
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Compromised Compliance: Implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Howard Ball, Dale Krane, and Thomas P. Lauth
Authored by: Howard Ball, Dale Krane (UNO faculty member), and Thomas P. Lauth
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The Theory and Practice of the Chinese Communist Party "Two-line struggle": The Course of Conflict in the Leadership
Shih-min Cheng
The purpose of this thesis is to explain and "predict" Chinese Communist leadership conflicts through examining the theory and practice of "two-line struggle." Chapter one aims to embody the concept of "two-line struggle": it defines and illuminates the political significance of the term and pins down the CCP's professed rules of struggle. The chapter concludes (1) that a two-line struggle is an irreconcilable (and often protracted) conflict in the leadership involving disputes over the estimation of the revolutionary setting and the formulation a strategic policy guideline for a particular period of the revolution; (2) that such a conflict, though basically of a "non-antagonistic" contradiction, falls on the borderline between "non-antagonism" and "antagonism"; (3) that the parties concerned shall not transgress the limits of democratic centralism.
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The 1980 Iowa Caucus in the Context of Caucus History
Dennis K. Parrott
Every four years the competitive battle for the presidency begins with the candidates traipsing all over the country trying to win the required amount of national convention delegates to gain their parties' presidential nomination. Today the nominating process consists of two methods for obtaining the needed delegates to be nominated, the caucus/convention method and the primary election method. The presidential primary is now clearly the dominant method. In 1916 there were only 20 presidential primaries, but in 1980 there were 36. Approximately three-fourths of the total delegates to both parties' national conventions are controlled by the primaries. Candidates invest most of their time and most of their money in the primary states.
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Industrial democracy in West Germany: Co-determination and participation
John A. Witt
The theory and practice of democracy may be viewed from many different perspectives: (1) as a means of achieving higher ends; (2) as a political method for the allocation of finite resources; (3) as a protective system to guard the people from one another; (4) as an authority structure in which everyone is to have a semblance of equal say; (5) as a way to alleviate and resolve power conflicts among competing factions; (6) as a way of representing the masses in complex political affairs; (7) as an aspect of the distinctive and often unique culture of a particular nation.
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Party Politics in the South
Robert P. Steed, Laurence W. Moreland, Tod A. Baker, Dale Krane, and Tip H. Allen Jr.
Editors: Robert P. Steed, Laurence W. Moreland, and Tod A. Baker
Chapter, Factional Durability in Mississippi's Gubernatorial Elections, 1927-1975, co-authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.
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A Study of the Adaptation of Local Government: The Test Case of the Japanese Prefectural System
John R. Wingender
The adaptational approach to comparative politics will be investigated in order to apply the best method to the study of the structural-functional features of the Japanese local government system. That adaptation of local government to meet the demands of the masses for better living conditions has started a new phase of prefectural administration in Japan. In the last fifteen years, the adverse effects of industrialization and urbanization on Japanese localities have increased their costs over their benefits and forced the people to push for stronger environmental policies to protect their health and welfare. The response to the demands of the masses for anti-pollution measures has come from the governors of the prefectural governments and has greatly affected the very nature of the Japanese local government system.
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The Humanities and Public Life
William L. Blizek
Edited by William L. Blizek, UNO faculty member.
A series of 14 essays providing an account of the nature the humanities in general and several specific humanistic disciplines in particular. Walter Kaufmann, Eugene E Selk, Harvey Leavitt, Nelson Potter.....exploring foreign policy, medicine, public policy, privacy, and education.
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Justice and Punishment
J B. Cederblom and William L. Blizek
Co-edited by J.B. Cederblom and William L. Blizek, UNO faculty members.
Contents:
Introduction / J.B. Cederblom
Punishment, protection, and retaliation / John Hospers
Concessions to retribution in punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau
Are questions of desert decidable? / Edmund L. Pincoffs
Criminal sentencing : some philosophical considerations / Martin P. Golding
The political feasibility of punishment / James Q. Wilson
Pursuing justice in corrections / David Fogel
Punishment and prisons / Norval Morris
Some problems with theories of punishment / Richard Wasserstrom
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On Linking Policy and Administration: A Minority Perspective
Lawrence C. Howard, Lenneal J. Henderson, Deryl G. Hunt, Dale Krane, and H. Hall
Editors: Laurence C. Howard, Lenneal J. Henderson and Daryl G. Hunt
Chapter, Reaching Out Toward Representative Bureaucracy: Public Administration Training for Non-Traditional Students, co-authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.
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American Indian property rights: Congress and the Supreme Court
Virginia C. Todd
Demands for citizens' "civil rights" has been a recurrent theme of contemporary society for nearly twenty years; however, it has not been until the last five that the rights of American indians have been accorded great attention. Perhaps because of the romantic characteristics attributed to them by our fixation on the grand development of the nation, the rights of the Indian have become a challenge to the integrity of the United States. The story of the development of the country is the story of acquisition of Indian lands, and this paper is a discussion of the elements and activities of teh two outstanding contributors to the history of United States-Indian relations--the Congress of the United States, and Supreme Court. The questions of primary responsibility and the content of policy will be discussed through chapters on the status of treaties, acquisition of title to lands, regulatory actions of Congree, and the Indian Claims Commission. In each chapter, significant opinions of the Supreme Court determining responsibility and policy will be considered.
Books and monographs written or edited in whole or in part by University of Nebraska Omaha faculty are collected here.
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