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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

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Power is a difficult concept to study but if you are tracking outcomes, it becomes a little bit easier as James Battista (2011) states in his paper Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. Battista, James (2011). Mooney, Christopher (2013). References. Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. State Legislatures.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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While journalists covered the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements exhaustively, the body of literature in the academic world is still relatively small in examining outcomes based on these social movements; even smaller in public administration and political science emphasized journals. 2011; Aday, et al.,