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Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Butler University in Indianapolis.

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Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Butler University in Indianapolis.

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Political Science

International Politics, Comparative Politics, U.S. Foreign Policy, European Politics, Russian and East European Politics, and Public Opinion

Butler University
4600 Sunset Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46208
(317)940-9682

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Enabling Faculty to Write; a Short Course on Successful Scholarly ...

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS (2013)

Carolyn Richie, David Mason and Michael Zimmerman

This paper describes a course on scholarly publication that was offered to faculty at a liberal arts college. The course ...

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The U.S. No Longer Makes the Grade: Economic Inequality ...

Phi Kappa Phi Forum (2012)

David S. Mason

In his State of the Union address last January, U.S. President Barack Obama said that "anyone who tells you that ...

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Entering a Systemic Revolution

Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture (2009)

David S. Mason

The collapse of the United States as the global hegemon constitutes a “systemic revolution” that will transform both the U.S. ...

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To Increase Federal Revenue, Taxes Must Go Up

Christian Science Monitor (2009)

David S. Mason

An opinion piece on tax cuts.

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Fairness Matters: Social Justice and Political Legitimacy in Post-Communist Europe

Europe-Asia Studies (2004)

James R. Kluegel and David S. Mason

Examines economic fairness as a factor in popular support for the political system in the five transnational states in Eastern ...

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Fairness Matters: Equity and the Transition to Democracy

World Policy Journal (2004)

David S. Mason

Highlights the effects of the transition of Eastern Europe and Russia from communism to democracy. Factors that seem to account ...

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Political involvement in transition: Who participated in Central and Eastern ...

International Journal of Comparative Sociology (1999)

James Kluegel and David S. Mason

Using surveys conducted in 1991, we find that western individual-level models of participation also largely apply to Eastern Europe during ...

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The Legitimation of Capitalism in the Postcommunist Transition: Public Opinion ...

European Sociological Review (1999)

James Kluegel, David S. Mason and Bernd Wegener

This paper examines change in economic justice attitudes in five former communist states (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, eastern Germany, Hungary, ...

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Political Research in Martial Law Poland

IREX Frontline (1998)

David S. Mason

In early 1981, at the height of the Solidarity revolution, I was accepted by lREX to spend the spring 1982 ...

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The MIDDLE CLASS: Increasingly Fond Memories of a Grim Past

Transition (1997)

David S. Mason

Despite seemingly successful reforms in many post-communist countries, increasing numbers of people have been sliding from the middle class into ...

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Public Opinion and the 1996 Elections in Russia: Nostalgic and ...

Slavic Review (1997)

David S. Mason

Between 1991 and 1996 Russia underwent a precipitous economic and social decline with decreases in production, gross national product, and ...

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Attitudes toward the Market and Political Participation in the Postcommunist ...

Slavic Review (1995)

David S. Mason

In the aftermath of the anti-communist revolutions of 1989-1991, the new governments in eastern Europe faced the herculean task of ...

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Perestroika in Central Europe

The Sarmatian Review (1991)

David S. Mason

Syllabus for Political Science 380, "Perestroika in Central Europe".

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Apathy and the Birth of Democracy: The Polish Struggle

East European Politics and Societies (1991)

David S. Mason

Apathy, from the Greek words meaning "w ithout feeling," is at once a term denoting an individual's impassivity or indifference ...

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Perestroyka, Social Justice and Soviet Public Opinion

Problems of Communism (1990)

David S. Mason and Svetlana Sydorenko

Examines Mikhail Gorbachev's perspective of social justice that points to the unfairness of slothful workers' receiving the same pay as ...

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Solidarity Enters the Fray

Christian Science Monitor (1989)

David S. Mason

The recent agreements between the Polish government and the Solidarity-led opposition are path-breaking developments.

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Public Opinion Reform in China

Footnotes of the American Sociological Association (1989)

David S. Mason and Ken Colburn

As the People's Republic of China shifts toward a more market-oriented economic system, it has also begun exploring another Western ...

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Solidarity as a new social movement

Political Science Quarterly (1989)

David S. Mason

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Political Apathy in Poland

Studium Papers (1988)

David S. Mason

Strikes in Poland during April and May 1988 demonstrate once again the stalemate confronting regime and populace. Although Jaruzelski cannot ...

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Glasnost, Perestroika and Eastern Europe

International Affairs (London) (1988)

David S. Mason

Examines the correlation between economic and political changes in Russia and Eastern Europe. Impact of Russian-style reforms on societies of ...

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Poland's new trade unions

Soviet Studies (1987)

David S. Mason

With the declaration of martial law in December 1981 and the formal banning of Solidarity in October 1982, the Polish ...

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Stalemate and Apathy in Poland

Current History (1985)

David S. Mason

Focuses on the leadership of Polish Prime Minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski during the 1980s. Claims made by the leader's camp ...

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The Polish Party in Crisis, 1980-1982

Slavic Review (1984)

David S. Mason

Over the last three years, the Polish United Workers' Party has suffered a major crisis, the most substantial crisis of ...

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Policy Dilemmas and Political Unrest in Poland

Journal of Politics (1983)

David S. Mason

The recent unrest in Poland is not simply a struggle between the workers and the regime over political freedom and ...

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Solidarity, the Regime and the Public

Soviet Studies (1983)

David S. Mason

This paper examines the extent to which Solidarity acted as a link between the population and the regime and as ...

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