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Librarians and Labor Relations: Employment Under Union Contracts

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Report copyright infringementby Robert C. O'Reilly (Author), Marjorie I. O'Reilly (Author)Author BiographyReilly /f Robert /i C. eilly /f Marjorie /i I. Number of Pages: 191 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: April 13, 1981

Centralization and Decentralization in Economic Policy.

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Tinbergen (Author)This study considers a decentralized economic policy and to what extent a centralization of economic policy would seem justified on a national and international level. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 15, 1981

The International System: Theoretical Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Unknown (Author), Klaus Eugen Knorr (Editor), Sidney Verba (Editor)Author Biographyorr /f Klaus /i Eugen /r ed. ba /f Sidney /r ed. Number of Pages: 250 Dimensions: 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 23, 1982

Models for the Multitudes: Social Values in the American Popular Novel, 1850-1920

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Report copyright infringementby Karol L. Kelley (Author), Unknown (Author)This provocative study was developed to uncover the thought processes of the best-selling authors from 1850 to 1920 concerning the subject of success. Based on the conviction that the reading of novels strongly influences social values and behavioral expectations, a number of key discoveries are presented regarding character behavior and gender, the variations between the work of female and male writers, the similarity ...

The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labor on the South African Gold Fields, 1902-1939

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Report copyright infringementby David Yudelman (Author)The Emergence of Modern South Africa views economic conflict, specifically the interaction of the state, big business, and labor, as the central issue in the development of South Africa. Yudelman focuses on the labor-management conflict in the country's gold fields in the early decades of this century, a time and place critical to the development of the state. At that time government walked a tightrope between supporting big business (to ...

The Fiscal Congress: Legislative Control of the Budget

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Report copyright infringementby Lance T. LeLoup (Author) Number of Pages: 244 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: August 22, 1980

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Lee Dearing (Author), Wilfred Owen (Author), Unknown (Author)Author Biographyaring /f Charles /i Lee n /f Wilfred Number of Pages: 474 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: April 22, 1980

Economic Control and Colonial Development: Crown Colony Financial Management in the Age of Joseph Chamberlain

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Report copyright infringementby Richard M. Kesner (Author)Author Biographysner /f Richard /i M. Number of Pages: 328 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: December 21, 1981

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Jackson Alexander (Author)Robert J. Alexander traces organized labor from its origins in colonial Cuba, examining its evolution under the Republic, noting the successive political forces within it and the development of collective bargaining, culminating after 1959 in its transformation into a Stalin-model labor movement. In Castro's Cuba, organized labor has been subordinate to the Party and government and has been converted into a movement to control t...

Presidential Management of Science and Technology: The Johnson Presidency

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Report copyright infringementby W. Henry Lambright (Author)How do science and technology issues become important to a particular presidency? Which issues gain priority? How? Why? What is the role of the presidency in the adoption of national policies affecting science and technology? In their implementation? How does the presidency try to curtail certain programs? Eliminate others? Or rescue programs Congress might seek to terminate? How does implementation vary between a president's own prog...

Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe and Russia: Impact on Politics, Economy and Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Wejnert (Editor), Barbara Wejnert (Other)Using examples of democratic changes in former Communist states, Wejnert provides a dual-level conceptual framework that concentrates on objectification of the fundamental and unique roles of various mechanisms and components of transition. The first of these two levels is an integrative framework of the diverse social processes of transition. Here, the essays included examine the effects of global and domestic f...

Under the Eagle's Claw: Exceptionalism in Postwar U.S. - Greek Relations

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Report copyright infringementby Jon V. Kofas (Author), Unknown (Author)The record shows that the United States often acts as if it has license to disregard the sovereign rights of other peoples and nations. Kofas argues the United States has used Greece as a means of satisfying its own interests for the past half-century, and that Greece has suffered mightily at the hands of its protector. The United States has deemed this strategically situated nation too important to its own geopolitical am...

Bipartisan Strategy: Selling the Marshall Plan

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Report copyright infringementby John Bledsoe Bonds (Author)Bonds closely examines the process of bipartisanship in the creation and passage of the Marshall Plan in 1947-48, as the Truman administration confronted the first Republican Congress since 1929. The significant effect of process on policy and the evolving Cold War is illustrated, offering new insights into that confrontation. Employing extensive archival research, Bonds examines the reciprocal relationship of effect between domestic ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alvin Schorr (Author)Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. He summarizes developments in the history of welfare that led to an overwhelming public call for reform. Having participated in many of these developments as a high government official and as a policy practitioner, Schorr brings a unique perspective to thes...

The Political Economy of Latin America in the Postwar Period

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Randall (Editor)The historic and increasing interdependence of the Latin American and U.S. economies makes an understanding of the political economies of Latin American nations particularly timely and important. After World War II, many nations initially implemented import substituting industrialization policies. Their outcomes, and the shift in policies, are related to the domestic policies and world economic conditions that led to government deficits, i...

The Impact of Economic Anxiety in Postindustrial America

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Wiefek (Author)Wiefek presents evidence of a link between individual-level economic concerns and political opinion. Conceptualizing economic anxiety by applying social psychological theory to the distinct characteristics of the new American economy, she presents evidence that this postindustrial economic anxiety shapes beliefs and policy opinions, above and beyond ideology, partisanship, and income. Journalists and political commentators have written exte...

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Report copyright infringementby Alvin Louis Schorr (Author), Alvin L. Schorr (Author)Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. He summarizes developments in the history of welfare that led to an overwhelming public call for reform. Having participated in many of these developments as a high government official and as a policy practitioner, Schorr bri...

Taiwan's Application to GATT/Wto: Significance of Multilateralism for an Unrecognized State

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Report copyright infringementby Hui-Wan Cho (Author), Cho Hui-WAN (Author)Revealing a powerful economic motive behind Taiwan's 1990 application for GATT membership, CHO questions those who interpreted it solely as a political move designed to break that island nation's diplomatic isolation. Flourishing economically since the 1950s despite non-GATT membership, matters changed for Taiwan in the 1980s when it became both big and small. As a big trader, its dual trade regime was no longer tolerat...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Brown (Author)In today's culture of insatiable freedom, many believe that to be human is to be an insatiable self-actualizer. Yet insatiable is not sustainable. In order to solve today's crisis of environmental sustainability--and human sustainability--we must let go of our obsession to constantly be more. The desire to have all that we can have comes, Brown argues, from a cultural norm that has evolved to become an economic, social, and moral imperativ...

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Report copyright infringementby Vernon M. Briggs (Author)The Chicano Worker is an incisive analysis of the labor-market experiences of Mexican American workers in the late twentieth century. The authors-each established in the fields of labor economics and research on Chicano workers-describe the major employment patterns of the Chicano labor force and discuss the historical and institutional factors determining these patterns. This work speaks to the continuing widespread public interest in ...

The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the American Frontier, 1764-1768

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Report copyright infringementby Walter S. Jr. Dunn (Author)During the Seven Years War the British economy had expanded rapidly to meet the demands of equipping the army and navy as well as subsidizing Britain's European allies. After the war, the economy was left without sufficient markets to absorb the extra production. This situation led to a persistent drive to open new markets, especially in the American colonies. When the British decided to maintain an army in America after 1764, these t...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Kelly (Author)Despite roughly thirty years of experience with growth management programs, which are basically land-use planning tools, most U.S. communities do not plan for how best to limit or manage rapid growth; in fact, most communities do not plan at all. In the absence of planning, land-use boards, regulators, and other governing bodies simply react to initiatives from the private sector. The result is predictably haphazard and does not allow communi...

Socialism and the Individual: Notes on Joining the Labour Patry

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Report copyright infringementby William Angus Sinclair (Author), Unknown (Author)Author Biographynclair /f William /i Angus Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 01, 1978

Multilateral Development Banks: Improving U.S. Leadership

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Upton (Author), Sidney Weintraub (Foreword by)Upton examines the U.S. policy process toward the five multilateral development banks-the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development-as a case study in how the United States manages its participation in multilateral institutions. The management of the U.S. role in these institutions ...

Public-Private Partnerships for Local Economic Development

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Report copyright infringementby Norman Walzer (Editor), Brian D. Jacobs (Editor)Public-private partnerships are becoming increasingly important in the local economic development efforts of many cities. This collection of essays compares U.S. cities with those in western Europe. Conceptual issues are discussed, and comparisons at the city level illustrate the process, pitfalls, and results of such partnerships. Readers will be able to understand the types of partnership arrangements used in ea...

The War Within World War II: The United States and International Cartels

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Report copyright infringementby Franklin Maddox (Author)This encompassing study traces the issues of international cartels from the early days of World War II through the occupation of Germany and Japan. It focuses attention on the Justice Department's Economic Warfare Section as it utilized its resources in uncovering economic and strategic information that could be used in the war effort, such as the selection of economic bottlenecks for bombing. Maddox examines how cartels such as I. G. Fa...

Unfettered Globalization: A New Economic Orthodoxy

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Report copyright infringementby C-Rene Dominique (Author), Irene Dominique (Author)Economics, Dominique reminds us, is a social science, with prescriptions that are statistical in character but inherently polemical. In contrast to the laws of the natural sciences, economic statements, meaningful as well as meaningless, can be transformed into a vehicle for the promotion of false consciousness, as when the polemical prescriptions of social sciences are used to promote unavowed interests. The a...

A Year Inside the Beltway: Making Economic Policy in Washington

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Headlee (Author)American domestic and international economic policymaking is a sometimes bewildering mixture of economic expertise and political interests. Headlee elucidates the pivotal debates of the 2000-2001 economic policymaking cycle by walking readers through the major institutions and introducing the key actors involved. A section on domestic policy starts with a chapter on the state of the U.S. economy, followed by chapters on making fiscal policy,...

The Ups and Downs of Affirmative Action Preferences

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Report copyright infringementby M. Ali Raza (Author), A. Janell Anderson (Author), Harry Custred (Author)In the context of the evolution of affirmative action at the national and state levels, this study offers an empirical account of the citizens' movement in California that successfully resulted in the passage of a constitutional amendment to abolish such preferences in public education, public employment, and public contracting. It describes how the concept of affirmative action was transm...

Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National, and Organizational Case Studies

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Report copyright infringementby Anil Hira (Author)How are the economic policies which developing countries adopt selected and how do they change? Who are the key players in economic development policies? Professor Anil Hira answers these questions head on by suggesting new ways of looking at how ideas affect economic policy. He first traces the way that ideas become wedded to interest groups over time, and he interprets the debate over economic development policy as a series of changes in ide...

Privatizing Toll Roads: A Public-Private Partnership

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Report copyright infringementby Wendell C. Lawther (Author)Providing an in-depth case study of a highly successful public-private partnership, this book offers valuable insights for privatizing an existing public service. A mix of theory and empirical analysis, the study initially creates and explains a model for the Privatization Transfer Process, which serves as a guide for contracting out services. Drawing on the experience of the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority when it privatiz...

American Capitalism and the Changing Role of Government

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Report copyright infringementby Harry G. Shaffer (Author)The conventional wisdom has it that a balanced budget is the height of economic rationality, that social security should be privatized, and that most adult welfare recipients could and should get jobs. All our social and economic problems, we are told, are due to too much government; if we only left the American free enterprise system alone, the free market would heal all that ails our society and lead to lasting prosperity. Challenging...