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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Coalition for Abolition: Strategic Alliances and Antiprison Activism in California's Central Valley

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Ethan Buckner
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

There are currently over 3 million people locked behind bars in United States prisons, jails, and detention centers. In this era of mass incarceration, prison abolitionists envision a world entirely without prisons. The politics of abolition are complex, and the...

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The income redistribution impact of financing higher education in Pakistan

Publication Date
1989-November-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Khan, Shahrukh R.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This study examines the income redistributional consequences of the public financing of higher education in Pakistan. The results show that the tax incidence and the subsidy to higher education entail a redistribution from the middle and upper to the lower...

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Theater and Social Change: How Small-town U.S. Theaters Reproduce and Resist Inequality

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Schenk, Hannah
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

This thesis interrogates the social function of small-town theater in the United States. Through a series of interviews with theater artists working at regional and local theaters in the northeast United States, I demonstrate theater's capacity to both reproduce and...

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