Minion K C Morrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 222306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minion K C Morrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minion K C |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrison |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISON M K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Primary features of U.S. foreign policy and their application in Belarus
This article discusses and contextualizes U.S. foreign policy preferences towards Belarus. It analyses how traditional and modern foreign policy instruments can be used to hold authoritarian rulers accountable for violations and anti-democratic practices; how U.S. actions may counter such regimes. It interrogates how the U.S. prioritizes countries for diplomatic engagement. Our emphasis is on engagement with Belarus, given its distance from the U…
The Predicament of Europe’s ‘Last Dictator’
Belarusian citizens elected their first president in 1994. More than 20 years later, in October 2015, the same person triumphantly won the fifth consecutive presidential election. In August 2020, President Lukashenko’s attempt to get re-elected for the sixth time ended in months’ long mass protests against the electoral fraud, unspeakable violence used by the riot police against peaceful protesters and the deepest political crisis in the modern h…
Patricia Michelle Boyett. Right to Revolt: The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi’s Central Piney Woods
Perhaps there is no end to the blood, gore, and just plain inhumanity exhibited by segregationists in Mississippi during the civil rights movement. In Right to Revolt: The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi’s Central Piney Woods, Patricia Michelle Boyett has uncovered another astounding layer of that period in a detailed documentation of turbulence in the Piney Woods region of the state. She adds to a growing body of work detailing what wa…
The impact of diamonds on economic growth, adverse regime change, and democratic state-building in Africa
Recent studies point to how resources such as diamonds have funded insurgency movements and how their geographic presence can foment the incidence but not necessarily the onset of civil wars. Such empirical studies are based on global models; however, we believe regional effects may be present. In order to address this, we disaggregate the empirical findings based on Africa as a region. By estimating a panel study of African states, we discover t…
Did Secularism Fail? The Rise of Religion in Turkish Politics
Religious movements have long been challenging the modernist and secularist ideas around the world. Within the last decade or so, pro-religious parties made significant electoral advances in various countries, including India, Sudan, Algeria, and the Palestinian territories. In this article, we focus on the rise of the pro-religious Justice and Development Party ( Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi - AKP) to power in the 2002 elections in Turkey. Using t…
Reflections of a Senior Scholar on the Profession of International Studies
This article discusses the paucity of representation of African Americans in the discipline and the relative absence of research on racial politics
Are African Voters Really Ethnic or Clientelistic? Survey Evidence from Ghana
STAFFAN I. LINDBERG is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida and a former Parliamentary Fellow in the Parliament of Ghana. He has published Democracy and Elections in Africa and various articles on African and Ghanaian politics and is currently editing a volume on Democratization by Elections: A New Global Mode of Transition? MINION K.C. MORRISON is Frederick Middlebush Professor of Political Science at the Univ…
Ghana's political parties: How ethno/regional variations sustain the national two-party system
This paper analyses Ghanaian electoral geography and its accompanying political party variations over the last decade. After re-democratisation in the early 1990s, the Fourth Republic of Ghana has successfully completed multiple elections and party alternation. Due to its single-member-district-plurality electoral system, the country has functioned virtually as a two-party system, privileging its two major parties – the NDC and the NPP. However, …
Exploring voter alignments in Africa: Core and swing voters in Ghana
This article describes and analyses voter alignments in the new democracy of Ghana in two recent elections, 1996 and 2000. These elections are a part of the Fourth Republic that began with a 'founding' election in 1992, ushering Ghana into Africa's new wave of democratisation. First the size of the core voting population is established to be about 82% of the voting population, refuting the assumption that voting volatility in new and transitional…
Political Parties in Ghana through Four Republics: A Path to Democratic Consolidation
Ghana has had four democratic experiments since 1957, the last starting in 1993. All have revolved around two relatively stable political parties, a continuity perhaps auguring success within the third wave of democratization.1 Party development and its contribution to consolidation are the subjects of this assessment. The factors of recruitment, elections, socialization, interest aggregation, and organizational capacity will be considered. How e…
African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
This handbook provides a thorough treatment of the various mechanisms African Americans have used to participate in U.S. political affairs from the colonial era to the present. With contributions by several of the field's experts, this concise, provocative volume explores the evolution and current status of African American political action. Focusing on distinct types of activity (protest politics, grassroots movements, electoral politics, politi…
Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State (review)
Butler, Anthony. 1998. Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State. New York: St. Martin's Press
To John L. Gwaltney: Mentor, Friend, Scholar
Black Politics in Conservative America. By Marcus D. Pohlmann. New York: Longman, 1990. 271p. $17.95 paper.
Intragroup Conflict in African-American Leadership: The Case of Tchula, Mississippi
Black electoral leaders in the post-civil rights South have exhibited broad agreement on the nature of the political task of displacing unresponsive white elites from power and directing attention to the previously excluded black constituency. There are a few cases, however, in which the commonly expected solidarity and consensus among the black elected leaders has not occurred, despite intensified hostility from the white elite. In this analysis…
Black Political Mobilization: Leadership Power, and Mass Behavior
Federal Aid and Afro-American Political Power in Three Mississippi Towns
Since 1967 Afro-Americans have made great strides in electoral politics in the rural South. However, comparable progress in acquiring material resources to satisfy escalating demands from newly mobilized constituents has not been achieved in many instances. This article examines the experiences of three, rural, Mississippi towns which elected their first Afro-American mayors in the 1970s. In responding to the separate demands of representation (d…
Afro-Americans and Africa: Grass Roots Afro-American Opinion and Attitudes toward Africa
It has long and widely been assumed that Afro-Americans have a special concern for African affairs, an assumption resulting from the West African ancestry of Afro-Americans. It is thought that these descendants, like other ethnic entities in the United States, desire some form of continuing linkage to the 'motherland.' Historically this has been illustrated in several ways: Often descendants of Africa in America have referred to themselves as Afr…
Housing the Urban Poor in Africa
Ethnicity and Political Integration: The Case of Ashanti, Ghana
Preconditions for Afro-American Leadership: Three Mississippi Towns
Black leaders in rural America have not attracted much scholarly attention, probably because in that part of the country not many blacks voted, and hardly any held elective office, until some twenty years ago. In this study of black leaders in three small Mississippi towns, which is one of only a few of its kind, Professor Morrison posits the following preconditions for effective leadership: election to public office, a socio-economic status well…
Ethnicity and Political Integration: The Case of Ashanti, Ghana
Ethnicity and Integration: Dynamics of Change and Resilience in Contemporary Ghana
Traditional, diverse communities in Africa have largely been viewed as impediments to the integration of the new and broader post-1960 political arrangements. This view has been sustained by the supposed particularistic tendency of these usually ethnic-based entities. Nevertheless, reevaluations of older communities within the new states increasingly show the former to be a legitimate vehicle for political participation. By focusing on the politi…
Institutional Structure and Conflict in Nigeria
Are African Voters Really Ethnic or Clientelistic? Survey Evidence from Ghana
STAFFAN I. LINDBERG is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida and a former Parliamentary Fellow in the Parliament of Ghana. He has published Democracy and Elections in Africa and various articles on African and Ghanaian politics and is currently editing a volume on Democratization by Elections: A New Global Mode of Transition? MINION K.C. MORRISON is Frederick Middlebush Professor of Political Science at the Univ…
Exploring voter alignments in Africa: Core and swing voters in Ghana
This article describes and analyses voter alignments in the new democracy of Ghana in two recent elections, 1996 and 2000. These elections are a part of the Fourth Republic that began with a 'founding' election in 1992, ushering Ghana into Africa's new wave of democratisation. First the size of the core voting population is established to be about 82% of the voting population, refuting the assumption that voting volatility in new and transitional…
Political Parties in Ghana through Four Republics: A Path to Democratic Consolidation
Ghana has had four democratic experiments since 1957, the last starting in 1993. All have revolved around two relatively stable political parties, a continuity perhaps auguring success within the third wave of democratization.1 Party development and its contribution to consolidation are the subjects of this assessment. The factors of recruitment, elections, socialization, interest aggregation, and organizational capacity will be considered. How e…
Ghana's political parties: How ethno/regional variations sustain the national two-party system
This paper analyses Ghanaian electoral geography and its accompanying political party variations over the last decade. After re-democratisation in the early 1990s, the Fourth Republic of Ghana has successfully completed multiple elections and party alternation. Due to its single-member-district-plurality electoral system, the country has functioned virtually as a two-party system, privileging its two major parties – the NDC and the NPP. However, …
The impact of diamonds on economic growth, adverse regime change, and democratic state-building in Africa
Recent studies point to how resources such as diamonds have funded insurgency movements and how their geographic presence can foment the incidence but not necessarily the onset of civil wars. Such empirical studies are based on global models; however, we believe regional effects may be present. In order to address this, we disaggregate the empirical findings based on Africa as a region. By estimating a panel study of African states, we discover t…
Ethnicity and Political Integration: The Case of Ashanti, Ghana
The Predicament of Europe’s ‘Last Dictator’
Belarusian citizens elected their first president in 1994. More than 20 years later, in October 2015, the same person triumphantly won the fifth consecutive presidential election. In August 2020, President Lukashenko’s attempt to get re-elected for the sixth time ended in months’ long mass protests against the electoral fraud, unspeakable violence used by the riot police against peaceful protesters and the deepest political crisis in the modern h…
Did Secularism Fail? The Rise of Religion in Turkish Politics
Religious movements have long been challenging the modernist and secularist ideas around the world. Within the last decade or so, pro-religious parties made significant electoral advances in various countries, including India, Sudan, Algeria, and the Palestinian territories. In this article, we focus on the rise of the pro-religious Justice and Development Party ( Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi - AKP) to power in the 2002 elections in Turkey. Using t…
Reflections of a Senior Scholar on the Profession of International Studies
This article discusses the paucity of representation of African Americans in the discipline and the relative absence of research on racial politics
Intragroup Conflict in African-American Leadership: The Case of Tchula, Mississippi
Black electoral leaders in the post-civil rights South have exhibited broad agreement on the nature of the political task of displacing unresponsive white elites from power and directing attention to the previously excluded black constituency. There are a few cases, however, in which the commonly expected solidarity and consensus among the black elected leaders has not occurred, despite intensified hostility from the white elite. In this analysis…
Preconditions for Afro-American Leadership: Three Mississippi Towns
Black leaders in rural America have not attracted much scholarly attention, probably because in that part of the country not many blacks voted, and hardly any held elective office, until some twenty years ago. In this study of black leaders in three small Mississippi towns, which is one of only a few of its kind, Professor Morrison posits the following preconditions for effective leadership: election to public office, a socio-economic status well…
Institutional Structure and Conflict in Nigeria
Ethnicity and Integration: Dynamics of Change and Resilience in Contemporary Ghana
Traditional, diverse communities in Africa have largely been viewed as impediments to the integration of the new and broader post-1960 political arrangements. This view has been sustained by the supposed particularistic tendency of these usually ethnic-based entities. Nevertheless, reevaluations of older communities within the new states increasingly show the former to be a legitimate vehicle for political participation. By focusing on the politi…
Ethnicity and Political Integration: The Case of Ashanti, Ghana
Preconditions for Afro-American Leadership: Three Mississippi Towns
Black leaders in rural America have not attracted much scholarly attention, probably because in that part of the country not many blacks voted, and hardly any held elective office, until some twenty years ago. In this study of black leaders in three small Mississippi towns, which is one of only a few of its kind, Professor Morrison posits the following preconditions for effective leadership: election to public office, a socio-economic status well…
Housing the Urban Poor in Africa
Ethnicity and Political Integration: The Case of Ashanti, Ghana
Federal Aid and Afro-American Political Power in Three Mississippi Towns
Since 1967 Afro-Americans have made great strides in electoral politics in the rural South. However, comparable progress in acquiring material resources to satisfy escalating demands from newly mobilized constituents has not been achieved in many instances. This article examines the experiences of three, rural, Mississippi towns which elected their first Afro-American mayors in the 1970s. In responding to the separate demands of representation (d…
Afro-Americans and Africa: Grass Roots Afro-American Opinion and Attitudes toward Africa
It has long and widely been assumed that Afro-Americans have a special concern for African affairs, an assumption resulting from the West African ancestry of Afro-Americans. It is thought that these descendants, like other ethnic entities in the United States, desire some form of continuing linkage to the 'motherland.' Historically this has been illustrated in several ways: Often descendants of Africa in America have referred to themselves as Afr…
Black Political Mobilization: Leadership Power, and Mass Behavior
Black Politics in Conservative America. By Marcus D. Pohlmann. New York: Longman, 1990. 271p. $17.95 paper.
Intragroup Conflict in African-American Leadership: The Case of Tchula, Mississippi
Black electoral leaders in the post-civil rights South have exhibited broad agreement on the nature of the political task of displacing unresponsive white elites from power and directing attention to the previously excluded black constituency. There are a few cases, however, in which the commonly expected solidarity and consensus among the black elected leaders has not occurred, despite intensified hostility from the white elite. In this analysis…
To John L. Gwaltney: Mentor, Friend, Scholar
Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State (review)
Butler, Anthony. 1998. Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the Modern South African State. New York: St. Martin's Press
African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
This handbook provides a thorough treatment of the various mechanisms African Americans have used to participate in U.S. political affairs from the colonial era to the present. With contributions by several of the field's experts, this concise, provocative volume explores the evolution and current status of African American political action. Focusing on distinct types of activity (protest politics, grassroots movements, electoral politics, politi…
Political Parties in Ghana through Four Republics: A Path to Democratic Consolidation
Ghana has had four democratic experiments since 1957, the last starting in 1993. All have revolved around two relatively stable political parties, a continuity perhaps auguring success within the third wave of democratization.1 Party development and its contribution to consolidation are the subjects of this assessment. The factors of recruitment, elections, socialization, interest aggregation, and organizational capacity will be considered. How e…
Exploring voter alignments in Africa: Core and swing voters in Ghana
This article describes and analyses voter alignments in the new democracy of Ghana in two recent elections, 1996 and 2000. These elections are a part of the Fourth Republic that began with a 'founding' election in 1992, ushering Ghana into Africa's new wave of democratisation. First the size of the core voting population is established to be about 82% of the voting population, refuting the assumption that voting volatility in new and transitional…
Ghana's political parties: How ethno/regional variations sustain the national two-party system
This paper analyses Ghanaian electoral geography and its accompanying political party variations over the last decade. After re-democratisation in the early 1990s, the Fourth Republic of Ghana has successfully completed multiple elections and party alternation. Due to its single-member-district-plurality electoral system, the country has functioned virtually as a two-party system, privileging its two major parties – the NDC and the NPP. However, …
Reflections of a Senior Scholar on the Profession of International Studies
This article discusses the paucity of representation of African Americans in the discipline and the relative absence of research on racial politics
Are African Voters Really Ethnic or Clientelistic? Survey Evidence from Ghana
STAFFAN I. LINDBERG is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida and a former Parliamentary Fellow in the Parliament of Ghana. He has published Democracy and Elections in Africa and various articles on African and Ghanaian politics and is currently editing a volume on Democratization by Elections: A New Global Mode of Transition? MINION K.C. MORRISON is Frederick Middlebush Professor of Political Science at the Univ…
Did Secularism Fail? The Rise of Religion in Turkish Politics
Religious movements have long been challenging the modernist and secularist ideas around the world. Within the last decade or so, pro-religious parties made significant electoral advances in various countries, including India, Sudan, Algeria, and the Palestinian territories. In this article, we focus on the rise of the pro-religious Justice and Development Party ( Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi - AKP) to power in the 2002 elections in Turkey. Using t…
The impact of diamonds on economic growth, adverse regime change, and democratic state-building in Africa
Recent studies point to how resources such as diamonds have funded insurgency movements and how their geographic presence can foment the incidence but not necessarily the onset of civil wars. Such empirical studies are based on global models; however, we believe regional effects may be present. In order to address this, we disaggregate the empirical findings based on Africa as a region. By estimating a panel study of African states, we discover t…
Patricia Michelle Boyett. Right to Revolt: The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi’s Central Piney Woods
Perhaps there is no end to the blood, gore, and just plain inhumanity exhibited by segregationists in Mississippi during the civil rights movement. In Right to Revolt: The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi’s Central Piney Woods, Patricia Michelle Boyett has uncovered another astounding layer of that period in a detailed documentation of turbulence in the Piney Woods region of the state. She adds to a growing body of work detailing what wa…
The Predicament of Europe’s ‘Last Dictator’
Belarusian citizens elected their first president in 1994. More than 20 years later, in October 2015, the same person triumphantly won the fifth consecutive presidential election. In August 2020, President Lukashenko’s attempt to get re-elected for the sixth time ended in months’ long mass protests against the electoral fraud, unspeakable violence used by the riot police against peaceful protesters and the deepest political crisis in the modern h…
Primary features of U.S. foreign policy and their application in Belarus
This article discusses and contextualizes U.S. foreign policy preferences towards Belarus. It analyses how traditional and modern foreign policy instruments can be used to hold authoritarian rulers accountable for violations and anti-democratic practices; how U.S. actions may counter such regimes. It interrogates how the U.S. prioritizes countries for diplomatic engagement. Our emphasis is on engagement with Belarus, given its distance from the U…
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