Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Germany"
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Demand for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality
(2014-10-21)This dissertation investigates the dynamics of mass attitudes toward redistributive social policies in post-industrial democracies: How have these attitudes changed over time? What factors and mechanisms drive these changes? ... -
Democracy and the University: America and the Reconstruction of German Higher Education, 1945-1966
(2023-06-01)This dissertation explores the intellectual and practical debates over the role of the university in a democratic society by examining the reconstruction and reorientation of German universities in the aftermath of the ... -
Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever in a Late Term Pregnancy from Northern Sierra Leone with a Positive Maternal Outcome: Case Report
(BioMed Central, 2011)Lassa fever (LF) is a devastating viral disease prevalent in West Africa. Efforts to take on this public health crisis have been hindered by lack of infrastructure and rapid field deployable diagnosis in areas where the ... -
Magic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905-1945
(2013-02-20)A Nazi news editor declared in 1934 that there were indefinable "magic connections" between news and politics. This dissertation demystifies those links between communications and society. An untold story of news networks ... -
Pedagogies of Flesh: Sexuality, Race, and Value in the Sex Education of Postcolonial Germany
(2023-04-17)This dissertation is an ethnography of White German sexual pedagogues in Berlin, a city where ideas of open sexuality and progress are coupled together. Although sex education is mandatory in schools in Germany, it is ...