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Session F AbstractsStudy of Survey Research Data on St. Cloud Students' Drinking and Drug UseBridget Keanery, Mina Johnson and Bill Hyers The purpose of the presentation is to analyze and explain the St. Cloud State 2001 student survey research findings on alcohol use at St. Cloud State University. The presentation will include an overview of the methodology used in collecting the data and what the data actually revealed about the drinking habits of St. Cloud State University Students. The analysis of the St. Cloud State drinking habits will be done by comparing the Student Survey conducted in March 2001 results with other similar surveys. The main two other surveys that the results will be compared to will be a 1999 St. Cloud State student survey asking the same questions, and a Harvard study of all college students seeking the same results. Presentation Index: F1 SCSU: Up In Smoke?Sonu Kapoor, Stefanie Morseth and Angela Bennett Due to the nation wide legislation on prohibiting smoking in public places, the Saint Cloud State University (SCSU) Survey conducted a study on student smoking and how it effects students views on a similar policy being implemented on the SCSU campus. The SCSU survey team and the students conducted the study using the computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) system. Random digit dial (RDD) and systemic sampling were the methods used to obtain the data. Our main goal is to ascertain student views on the smoking policy on the SCSU campus. We will also take a comparative look at how citizens of Minnesota and the United States feel on prohibiting smoking in public places. Revolving around student smoking issues, we will compare the empirical data throughout three studies conducted between 1999-2001. In addition, our study will also provide possible variables influencing student views on implementing smoking policies. Presentation Index: F2 Land Distribution as a Measure of DemocracyMatthew Heffron Ever since theorists such as James Harrington and John Locke, the Western concept of liberal democracy has been tied to the idea of individual property rights. Harrington argued that the distribution of property in a country determined the form of government that state would have. If all property was considered to be owned by the king, absolute monarchy was assured. A small group, an elite, owning the land resulted in aristocracy. Only where there was broad ownership of land could democracy develop. Later theorists developed these theoretical concepts. A good example of this development is the British Distributionist movement, which argued that the only way to avoid economic and eventually political slavery was by broad distribution of property. Hilare Belloc argued that not owning capital made us economic slaves, and unless property was more distributed, it would not be long until we were slaves in all respects and at all times. Research into regime stability has identified some relationship between land distribution and political violence, but the results have been inconclusive in many respects and do not show the strong direct correlation our theory would expect. The purpose of this paper was to directly measure correlation between Zehra Arat's measure of "democraticness" presented in her 1991 book Democracy and Human Rights in Developing Countries and the Gini coefficient of land inequality. This study measures these two variables for 85 countries from data taken around 1970. My hypothesis was that countries with a high score on the measure of democracy would have a low coefficient for land inequality; the more distributed ownership of land in a state, the more democratic it would be. This paper proposes tentative conclusions about the nature of land distribution as a measurement of democracy and proposes many possibilities for further research. Presentation Index: F3 Building Effective Web Sites for Export MarketingUlrik Nielsen and Ming Chee Ming Tan The Internet is becoming increasingly important for exporters to reach out to their customers and to develop new markets. This study investigated how different components of exporters' web sites can help exporters achieve either their communication or transaction objectives. Presentation Index: F4 Women and Political ParticipationHolly Dasinger This research is to determine how men and women participate in political issues differently in Minnesota and how they compare to national political participation trends. I hypothesize that women in Minnesota participate in politics as often as men do and that Minnesota's rate of participation is higher than the national trends. Data were collected from the SCSU Survey research lab by random telephone interviews of 629 Minnesota Adults. A series of 10 questions were asked involving registered voters, past political participation, interest in politics, and ways in which one might participate in politics. The results show that women participate in political matters as frequently as men do in Minnesota, but they participate in different ways. Women in Minnesota also participate in politics more frequently than the national average for women. These findings provide important new insights on women and political participation. Presentation Index: F5 |
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