• The impact of COVID-19 on democracy in the world 

  Azpuru, Dinorah (Wichita State University, 2020-09-09)

  Beyond the effects on health, the COVID-19 pandemic has had huge effects on the economy, but also on politics in countries around the world. More specifically, in certain countries, it has impacted democracy in a negative ...

• Chen Chü: A Cosmopolitan Leader for Human Rights and Democracy in Taiwan 

  Chang, Doris T.; Kagan, Richard (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015-09-25)

• Gender mainstreaming and gender policies in contemporary Taiwan 

  Chang, Doris T. (Bridgewater State University, 2018-08)

  In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (hereafter referred to as the Platform for Action) promulgated during the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women called for the use of gender mainstreaming ...

• What can Taiwan and the United States learn from each other's guest worker programs? 

  Chang, Doris T. (SAGE Publications, 2010)

  This study argues that employers in newly industrialized societies such as Taiwan, like their counterparts in postindustrial economies such as the United States, practice outsourcing and recruitment of guest workers in the ...

• Legalisation of same-sex marriage in contemporary Taiwan 

  Chang, Doris T. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-08-20)

  In 2019 Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage pursuant to the Constitutional Court's decision two years earlier. This article adds to previous research on same-sex marriage in Taiwan in two ...

• Studies of Taiwan's feminist discourses and women's movements 

  Chang, Doris T. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-02)

  In the twentieth century, Taiwanese feminists have selectively appropriated various strands of Western feminism to improve women's status and meet women's needs. In this article, several scholarly works pertaining to the ...

• Transformation of women’s status in Taiwan, 1920-2020 

  Chang, Doris T. (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2022-01-18)

  This chapter surveys the continuities and changes of Taiwanese women’s status and roles in the family and society in the past century. The four key topics in women’s roles and status in marriage and the family, educational ...

• The massacre generation: Young people and attitudes about mass shooting prevention 

  Vegter, Abigail; Middlewood, Alexandra T. (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022-05-12)

  Objective: We propose that citizens navigate an increasingly complex social and political world using a “cultural toolkit” shaped by firearms and gun violence. Young people in particular have experienced more mass shootings ...

• Staying home on the range: Social capital and social distancing in the Great Plains during COVID-19 

  Middlewood, Alexandra T.; Joslyn, Mark R. (University of Nebraska Press, 2021)

  Since the spread of the COVID- 19 pandemic to the United States, citizens have been encouraged to practice social distancing, staying a minimum of six feet away from others. For many, social distancing has become a form ...

• A silver bullet: Gun ownership and political participation in rural America 

  Middlewood, Alexandra T. (University of Nebraska Press, 2021)

  Gun owners are highly participatory when it comes to politics. Those who own firearms are more likely to be registered to vote, to vote in elections, and to engage in various other gun-related and non-gun-related political ...

• Intersectionality in action: gun ownership and women's political participation 

  Middlewood, Alexandra T.; Joslyn, Mark R.; Haider-Markel, Donald P. (John Wiley and Sons, 2019-07-25)

  Objective: We hypothesize that gun ownership among women is an important determinant of political engagement. Methods: First, using 2013 Pew Research Center data, we examine different types of political participation ...

• Designing and using simulations in the international relations classroom 

  Shaw, Carolyn M.; Switky, Bob (Routledge Journals, 2018-02-23)

  The value of simulations in the classroom is well established, and there are numerous publications that feature specific role-play exercises that can readily be introduced into the classroom. Frequently, however, instructors ...

• Knowledge, skills, and preparing for the future: best practices to educate international studies majors for life after college 

  Zartner, Dana; Carpenter, Kathie; Gokcek, Gigi; Melin, Molly; Shaw, Carolyn M. (Oxford University Press, 2018-05-01)

  Higher education is at a point of transition. Colleges and universities are considering new ways to attract students through innovative programs that stay true to their educational mission and also prepare students for the ...

• Does gender make a difference? The gender gap in Latin American politics 

  Azpuru, Dinorah (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

  This chapter offers a quantitative analysis based on data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project from 2012. First, it describes what Latin American women think about women’s participation in politics and how the ...

• Book review: Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement 

  Allen, Neal R. (Oxford University Press, 2016-12-01)

  In September of 1962, after failing in several attempts to prevent the integration of the University of Mississippi, Gov. Ross Barnett hatched one final plan. He would have would-be student James Meredith arrested on a ...

• Individual-level determinants of anti-Americanism in contemporary Latin America 

  Azpuru, Dinorah; Boniface, Dexter (Latin American Studies Association, 2015)

  This article examines the breadth and depth of anti-Americanism in contemporary Latin America. Using individual-level data from 2012, we employ regression analysis to understand why some Latin American citizens are more ...

• Chapter 36 -- Organization of American States 

  Shaw, Carolyn M. (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014-08-29)

  Following the end of the Cold War and the attacks of 11 September 2001, national definitions of security across the western hemisphere have been transformed. Whereas security was once narrowly defined, and often linked to ...

• Reading Sex and Temperament in Taiwan: Margaret Mead and Postwar Taiwanese Feminism 

  Chang, Doris T. (Indiana University Press, 2009)

  This essay examines the ways in which Margaret Mead's research findings in New Guinea were transmitted to a Chinese-speaking audience through Yang Mei-hui's annotated Chinese summary of part 4 of Mead's Sex and Temperament ...

• Women's movements in twentieth-century Taiwan 

  Chang, Doris T. (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

  The first book in English to consider feminist movements and discourses in modern Taiwan This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang ...

• Two women, two visions of nationhood for Taiwan: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Hsiu-lien Annette Lu 

  Chang, Doris T. (Ewha Womans University Press, 2009)

  This essay discusses the ways in which social feminism in postwar Taiwan has been used as a means to further the nationalistic goals of Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the former vice- president of Taiwan, Hsiu-lien Annette Lu. ...

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