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Biancolli, Dani E. "The First Dissenter: Richard B Russell and the Warren Commission." W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626373.
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Qualmann, Kate. "The new protectionism. Sanitary and phytosanitary measures : The United States and Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/130503.
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Magíster en Estudios InternacionalesThe objective of this investigation is to explore the trade relationship between the U.S. and Chile within the framework of non-tariff measures. Using as its context debate between free-trade and protectionism, the question is presented as to whether or not the U.S. is misusing sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures with the ulterior motive of protecting national agricultural industries and thus unfairly shifting the balance in the trade relationship with Chile. Quantitative and quantitative analysis is done to extract patterns based on the number of refusals found for different sanitary measures, particularly for fruit and seafood products. Through examination of the formation of the trading agreement between the U.S. and Chile, WTO transparency mechanisms, interviews and the study of refusal documents that describe concrete cases of rejections of agricultural imports from Chile to the U.S. for violation of SPS measures, inferences are made as to the whether or not intentions of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are to protect health of consumers or national industry.
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Nelson, Eric G. "The effects of the Federal Communications Commission Registration Program of 1977 on the domestic industry producing telecommunications equipment." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101247.
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The effects of the Federal Communications Commission Registration Program of 1977 on the structure of the domestic telecommunications equipment producing industry was evaluated. Econometric analysis and anecdotal evidence were used as the foundation for the investigation.
The major hypothesis of the paper was that the FCC Registration Program of 1977 changed the structure of the telecommunications equipment producing industry from a monopoly to an industry characterized by competition. This resulted in a change in the equilibrium price and output in the market place with price decreasing and output increasing.
The three major component subsectors, i.e., transmission equipment, switching equipment, and customer premises equipment (CPE) were discussed individually and collectively to determine any differential effects. This was particularly relevant because the FCC Registration Program focussed on CPE.
Empirically, the central hypothesis was supported. Also, differential effects in the various subsectors were found.M.A.
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Lo, Chih-Cheng. "International trade disputes in intellectual property : Taiwanese cases in the United States International Trade Commission." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.626852.
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Section 337 of the Tariff Act in the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has been recognised as a mechanism for further strengthening patent protection and competitiveness of US firms (Aoki and Prusa, 1993; Mutti and Yeung 1996). Section 337 has an effective deterrent, the Exclusive Order, which prohibits the imports and lor distribution of imported products based on one or more patents held by US firms that have been infringed. Several studies have shown that there is a strategic motivation behind patent litigation (Lerner, 1995; Somaya, 2003; Harhoff and Reitzig, 2004; Lanjouw and Schankerman, 2004). However, a fuller understanding of how firms react to the enforcement environment has not been fully explored. After reviewing the relevant literature in highlighting the issue of cross-border patent litigation, the contribution of this thesis is to take the viewpoint of a foreign firm from a newly industrialised country to illustrate the issue of the strategic use of trade-relevant patent protection. With this in mind, the main research questions in this thesis are as follows: (1) What issues and interactions have taken place in the trade-relevant patent dispute between Taiwan and the US? (2) What patterns of cross-border patent dispute emerge from the USITC protection mechanism involving in Taiwanese firms? (3) What are the strategic responses of Taiwanese firms to defending a lawsuit in US jurisdiction? For the empirical part of the thesis, a patent litigation dataset was constructed with records extracted from the ITC investigation achieve and LEXIS-Nelson database; and descriptive statistics were computed to uncover the overall patterns of Taiwanese trade-relevant patent litigations and infringed patents. The findings illustrate sharply the characteristics of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) relevant products' competition between American and Taiwanese firms. This was particularly the case after the year 2000 as Taiwanese firms became involved in patent infringement cases as direct defendants rather than as a third party as occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. Specifically, half of the infringed patents in Section 337 investigation cases were located in the classifications of computer hardware and semiconductor devices. Further empirical studies to evaluate how Taiwanese firms respond to the risk of litigation and its various impacts reported is based on a research design that combined insights gained from interviews with in-depth case studies. Following an analysis of interviewee responses, potential impact of US patent disputes of two significant USITC investigations associated with Taiwanese firms were analysed using firm level performance data. The findings appear to support those from other empirical literature about the industry-specific importance of a patent. The case studies illustrate that the role of patent litigation is perceived as a strategic manipulation rather than a protection mechanism in leT industries. Finally, the finding casts doubt on the effectiveness of discriminatory regulation to protect patent rights in the US due to the distortionary effects caused by the strategic motivations of both complainant and defendant.
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Jähnicke, Burkhard. "Washington und Berlin zwischen den Kriegen : die Mixed Claims Commission in den transatlantischen Beziehungen /." Baden-Baden : Nomos-Verl.-Ges, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0613/2005361609.html.
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Univ., FB Philos. und Geschichtswiss., Diss. u.d.T.: Jähnicke, Burkhard: Die Geschichte der deutsch-amerikanischen Mixed Claims Commission, 1922 - 1939--Hamburg, 2000.Literaturverz. S. 310 - 359.
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Butler, David Alan. "Does "independent" mean "free from influence?" : Escape clause decision making at the United States International Trade Commission /." New York [u.a.] : Garland, 1995. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/278509002.pdf.
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Tolley, Rebecca. "Jan. 5, 1950: Senator Estes Kefauver Proposes Government Commission to Investigate Organized Crime in the United States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://www.amzn.com/1587654695.
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Contains 400 of the most important and publicized scandals throughout the world since the beginning of the twentieth century. This title contains topics that include scandals that rocked the worlds of banking and finance, education, government and politics, health and medicine, publishing and journalism, and sports and entertainment.
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Ryan, Mary Kathleen. "The Democratic Kaleidoscope in the United States: Vanquishing Structural Racism in the U.S. Federal Government." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88831.
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This dissertation is broadly concerned with the relationship between democracy and race in the United States federal government. To analyze this problem, I rely on archival research from the 1967-8 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (commonly known as the Kerner Commission, after chairperson Governor Otto Kerner) to examine how the discussion and management of hundreds of so-called "race riots" in the summer of 1967 both challenges civil disobedience and embodies structural racism. Employing a content analysis of the final 425-page Kerner Commission government report, I assess the categorization, labeling, and language used to describe and document the hundreds of "race riots" and related state violence through acts of police misconduct that engulfed the country in the summer of 1967. I rely heavily on the report and background research itself, as well as major books related to race riots and presidential commissions, such as Anthony Platt's 1971 The Politics of Riot Commissions and Steven Gillon's 2018 Separate and Unequal. I incorporate theories of exit and the entitlement to rights advanced in literature by scholars like Jennet Kirkpatrick, James C. Scott, and Hannah Arendt. This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between morality and civic participation in democratic politics. I analyze Christopher Kutz's book Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age to delve into the ramifications of democracy and US citizenship being considered a kind of "collective project" and further contemplate what obligations and implications exist for citizens in US democracy against racial injustice. Since the Kerner Commission coincided with the rise of "law and order" politics in the nation's political vernacular, it represents a unique opportunity to witness an ideological shift toward a Garrison state and neoliberal ethos, both of which undermine the country's espoused democratic values, resting on the grammar of equality and justice for all. The Kerner Commission can provide valuable lessons in studies of political domination that remain pertinent to overcoming oppression and injustice today.Doctor of Philosophy
This dissertation is broadly concerned with the relationship between democracy and race in the United States federal government. American democracy espouses moral virtues related to freedom and justice for all, and yet structural racism remains pervasive in how the government operates. To analyze this problem, I rely on archival research from the 1967-8 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (commonly known as the Kerner Commission, after chairperson Governor Otto Kerner) to examine how the discussion and management of hundreds of so-called “race riots” in the summer of 1967 both challenges civil disobedience and embodies structural racism. I rely heavily on the report and background research itself to do a content analysis. I also use major books related to race riots and presidential commissions, such as Anthony Platt’s 1971 The Politics of Riot Commissions and Steven Gillon’s 2018 Separate and Unequal. Given that this dissertation is concerned with how morality shapes civic participation in democratic politics, I analyze Christopher Kutz’s book Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age. Since the Kerner Commission coincided with the rise of “law and order” politics in the nation’s political vernacular, it represents a unique opportunity to witness an ideological shift toward a Garrison state and neoliberal ethos, both of which undermine the country’s espoused democratic values, resting on the grammar of equality and justice for all. Individual advocates as well as scholars can learn valuable lessons from the Kerner Commission about oppression and injustice in today’s society.
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Franklin, Timothy V. "An educational reform commission and institutional change : case study of the policies, politics, and processes of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics /." Diss., This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08232007-113128/.
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Harris, Cheryl A. "U.S. intelligence." [Norfolk, Va.] : Joint Forces Staff College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 2006. http://doclib.jfsc.ndu.edu/2006Harris.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy)--Joint Forces Staff College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 2006."April 14, 2006." Electronic version of original print document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-70).
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Conway, Catrina M. "Some Secrets You Keep: Reconsidering the Rockefeller Commission." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461264101.
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Jones, Sheila. "Not "part of the job" sexual harassment policy in the U.S., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and women's economic citizenship, 1975-1991 /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1217964889.
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Rayneard, Max James Anthony. "Performing Literariness: Literature in the Event in South Africa and the United States." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12083.
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x, 208 p.In this dissertation "literariness" is defined not merely as a quality of form by which texts are evaluated as literary, but as an immanent and critical sensibility by which reading, writing, speaking, learning, and teaching subjects within the literary humanities engage language in its immediate aesthetic (and thus also historical and ethical) aspect. This reorientation seeks to address the literary academy's overwhelming archival focus, which risks eliding literary endeavor as an embodied undertaking that inevitably reflects the historical contingency of its enactment. Literary endeavor in higher education is thus understood as a performance by which subjects enact not only the effect of literary texts upon themselves but also the contingencies of their socio-economic, national, cultural, and personal contexts. Subjects' responses to literature are seen as implicit identity claims that, inevitably constituted of biases, can be evaluated through the lens of post-positivist realism in terms of their ethical and pragmatic usefulness. Framing this reoriented literariness in terms of its enactment in higher education literature classrooms, this dissertation addresses its pedagogical, methodological, and personal implications. The events of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the literature arising from it serve as a pivotal case study. The TRC Hearings, publically broadcast and pervasive in the national discourse of the time, enacted a scenario in which South Africans confronted the implications for personal and national identities of apartheid's racial abuses. The dissertation demonstrates through close reading and anecdotal evidence how J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull formally reactivate this scenario in the subject in the event of reading, while surveys of critical responses to these texts show how readers often resisted the texts' destabilizing effects. A critical account of the process that resulted in Telling, Eugene - a stage production in which U.S. military veterans tell their stories to their civilian communities - analyzes the idea of literariness in the U.S. and assesses its potential for socially engaged literary praxis.
Committee in charge: Linda Kintz, Chairperson; Suzanne Clark, Member; Michael Hames-Garcia, Member; John Schmor, Outside Member
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Anderson, Amber L. "Rhetorical vision and the great commission." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115761.
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This study analyzed representative works of John Mott and Bill Bright using Ernest Bormann's method of fantasy theme analysis. The analysis confirmed that Mott and Bright, as leaders of two organizations that encourage college students to engage in evangelism, share an identical rhetorical vision. This vision can be labeled the Great Commission and is identical in thought and content to the words of Christ found in Matthew 28. The shared rhetorical vision encourages members of the rhetorical community to acknowledge the needs of the world and seek to meet those needs by sharing the gospel message of Christ.In addition to a shared rhetorical visions, the works considered in this study also share identical fantasy types: "Fetching Good Out of Evil," and the quest. The fantasy type of the quest has received little interest in other studies. This study suggests that the type might provide rhetorical critics with a useful form for future studies. Several fantasy themes also were found to exist within each artifact. The presence of shared fantasy types and the commonalties that exist between the fantasy themes verifies the presence of the shared rhetorical vision, the Great Commission.Department of Speech Communication
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Wendle, Claire. "Rights to the River: Implementing A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis in the United States Hydropower Relicensing Process." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1395.
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Private hydropower operations across the United States are utilizing a public resource, rivers, for power production benefits. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates river use through a relicensing procedure that occurs every thirty or fifty years through a cost-benefit analysis framework to determine the best public use of the river. This thesis explores the structure of the current cost-benefit analysis and the effects of timing, public participation and valuation of ecosystem services in the final relicensing decision, and recommends the use of a social cost-benefit framework to distribute the natural resource benefits rivers provide more equally and give fair weight to ecosystem benefits in a market-driven process.
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Roberts, Amy. "Faculty Practice Among Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education Accredited Nursing Schools." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3317/.
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This descriptive survey study investigated the value of faculty practice among Commission of Collegiate Nurse Education (CCNE) Accredited Nursing Schools. The sample included all CCNE accredited schools that offered a Masters degree. Subjects from the 66 schools in the sample the dean and three Nurse Practitioner faculty who are teaching a clinical course. Response rate was 51% for the deans and 35% for the faculty. The opinions of deans were compared to the opinions of faculty on the views of faculty practice as research and the incorporation of faculty practice in the tenure and merit review system. The results showed faculty and deans differed on the value of faculty practice as research. However, only 6.5 % of statistically significance difference was contributable to whether the response was from a dean of a faculty. There was no significant difference to the inclusion of faculty practice in the tenure and merit review system.
Boyer's expanded definition of research was used as a theoretical background. Deans viewed faculty practice more important as compared to the traditional faculty expectation of research than faculty did. The operational definition of faculty practice was that it required scholarly outcomes from the practice. Deans were more willing than faculty to acknowledge there were scholarly measurable outcomes to evaluate faculty practice than faculty were. The greatest difference in opinion of outcomes was the deans were more willing to accept clinically focused articles as an outcome than faculty were.
Faculty were asked how the money from faculty practice was distributed. Faculty overwhelmingly reported that money generated from faculty practice most often goes to the individual faculty member. Suggested areas for future research involve investigation of the role of tenure committees in tenure decisions relating to research and faculty practice.
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Bauer, Andy. "A proposal for updating the Portland Middle School Technology Education Program to address the workplace competencies outlined in the 1991 Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills /." View abstract, 1999. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1518.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Central Connecticut State University, 1999."TE 596 special project in technology education." Thesis advisor: Dr. Michael Williams. " ... [In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science for the Department of Technology Education]." Includes bibliographical references (leaf 10).
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Tikkanen, J. (Janne). "From cooperation to skepticism:The United States’ attitude towards the Far Eastern Commission in the context of Japanese re-armament 1946–1951." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201706012336.
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The primary aim of the thesis is to explore American views towards the Far Eastern Commission in issues related to the Japanese re-armament between 1946 and 1951. This is a topic which has been rarely studied in-depth previously. The focus is on views expressed by the United States’ State Department personnel. The study is based on qualitative research. The main primary sources used are “Foreign Relations of the United States” documents between 1946 and 1952 and documents from the “Rearmament of Japan Part 1: 1947–1952” microfilm collection. These collections include documents from the Department of State and other American organizations. The most important research literature used in the work include Eiji Takemae’s “Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy”, Thomas French’s “National Police Reserve: The Origin of Japan’s Self Defense Forces”, Catherine Edwards’s “U.S. Policy towards Japan, 1945–1951: Rejection of Revolution”, Michael Schaller’s “Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation” and John Swenson-Wright’s “Unequal Allies? : United States Security and Alliance Policy toward Japan 1945–1960”. The study shows that there was a definite change in American State Department’s views towards the Far Eastern Commission during the period under study and the State Department’s initially cooperative attitude gradually changed into increasing skepticism. This work also shows that the Far Eastern Commission had a more significant role in the American decision-making towards Japan during the occupation period than has been previously thought. Even when Americans hoped to increase Japan’s defence capabilities, they had to consider a possible reaction from the Far Eastern Commission. There were two main reasons behind this. The first one was the Cold War. This forced American to avoid actions which could benefit the Soviet propaganda. The second was the American Pacific allies who still distrusted Japan. The State Department hoped to secure other countries’ acceptance for a peace agreement with Japan and was unwilling to take too controversial actions before the peace treaty was secured. This meant that the Far Eastern Commission was able to influence American attitudes towards the re-armament indirectlyTyön päätarkoitus on käsitellä Yhdysvaltain näkemyksiä Far Eastern Commissionia koskien Japanin uudelleenaseistautumiseen liittyvissä kysymyksissä vuosina 1946–1951. Tätä aihetta on harvoin käsitelty kattavasti aiemmin. Työn päähuomio on Yhdysvaltain ulkoasianhallinnon henkilöstön esittämissä näkemyksissä. Työ perustuu kvalitatiiviseen tutkimukseen. Päälähteinä työssä käytetään ”Foreign Relations of the United States” -asiakirjakokoelmia vuosien 1946 ja 1952 väliltä sekä ”Rearmament of Japan. Part 1. 1947–1952” mikrofilmikokoelmaa. Nämä kokoelmat sisältävät sekä Yhdysvaltain ulkoasianhallinnon, että myös muiden amerikkalaisten toimijoiden tuottamia dokumentteja. Tutkimuskirjallisuutena työssä käytetään Eiji Takemaen teosta “Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy”, Thomas Frenchin teosta “National Police Reserve: The Origin of Japan’s Self Defense Forces”, Catherine Edwardsin väitöskirjaa “U.S. Policy towards Japan, 1945–1951: Rejection of Revolution”, Michael Schallerin teosta “Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation” and John Swenson-Wrightin teosta “Unequal Allies? : United States Security and Alliance Policy toward Japan 1945–1960”. Työssä näytetään, että Yhdysvaltain ulkoasianhallinnon mielipiteissä tapahtui selvä muutos Far Eastern Commissionia kohtaan tutkittavina vuosina ja ulkoasiainhallinnon alun perin yhteistyöhön perustuvat näkemykset korvautuivat kasvavalla skeptismillä. Tämän työn on tarkoitus osoittaa, että Far Eastern Commissionilla oli merkittävämpi rooli Yhdysvaltalaisessa päätöksenteossa koskien Japania miehityskauden aikana kuin on aikaisemmin ajateltu. Yhdysvaltalaisten piti ottaa huomioon Far Eastern Commissionin reaktio, kun he pyrkivät lisäämään Japanin puolustuskykyä. Tähän oli kaksi syytä. Ensimmäinen oli kylmä sota, joka pakotti Yhdysvallat välttämäät liikkeitä, joita Neuvostoliitto olisi voinut hyödyntää propagandassaan. Toiseksi, Yhdysvaltain liittolaiset Tyynenmeren alueella eivät edelleenkään luottaneet Japaniin. Yhdysvaltain ulkoasianhallinto halusi varmistaa, että rauhanneuvottelut Japanin kanssa sujuisivat hyvin ja halusi välttää toimia, jotka voisivat vaarantaa Yhdysvaltain tavoitteet neuvotteluissa. Tämän ansiosta Far Eastern Commissionin kykeni epäsuorasti vaikuttamaan yhdysvaltalaisten asenteisiin uudelleenaseistautumista koskien
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Colnic, David Harold. "Designing sustainability in the United States-Mexico borderlands: Policy design analysis of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and prospects for sustainability." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289971.
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This research investigates environmental policy in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In particular, the analysis focuses on the Border Environment Cooperation Commission's (BECC) ability to facilitate sustainability in the region. Although BECC exerts some positive effects, in general, policy design flaws combined with administrative weaknesses limit the Commission's capacity to promote sustainability. The research divides into three main sections. The first section provides an overview of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and justifies the method to analyze the region's public policy. The overview portrays boom-and-bust development pathologies that lead to social, political, economic, environmental hardships. This analysis also presents several regional characteristics--policy oriented social networks, binational institutions, and an ethic of place--that serve sustainability. The methodological overview focuses on policy design theory. According to design theory, effective public policy requires a close fit between the solution and problem contexts and the policy design. The second section evaluates the solution and problem contexts. These contextual analyses include a detailed discussion of sustainability, the problematic nature of public policy in borderlands, and specific characteristics of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Several criteria for U.S.-Mexico borderlands sustainability are developed based on these contextual analyses. The third section describes and evaluates BECC's performance. The specific focus is devoted BECC's institutional and policy designs and its major program areas. The research concludes with an overview of empirical and theoretical implications and a presentation of policy prescriptions to build BECC's capacity to facilitate sustainability.
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Webster, Sean T. "National Patterns and Community Impacts of Major Domestic U.S. Military Base Closures, 1988-present." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4560/.
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This thesis analyses major U.S. military bases closed by the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission since 1988. The study focuses on geographic patterns of pre-existing versus BRAC bases, statistical attributes, environmental restoration, and reuse of bases. Comparative case studies supplement the analysis, highlighting rural versus urban location, success versus failure, politics, conflict, and local versus national goals. Thesis findings are that: 92 bases closed versus 97 commonly published; a fairly even national closure pattern occurred, indicating Commission efforts to achieve equity, except for three closure clusters indicating efforts to consolidate functions in some regions and leave others; base reuse, while commonly perceived negatively, has been positive in most cases; the BRAC process is becoming more efficient, such that allowed years between BRAC closure decisions and base closures should be reduced from six to three years to benefit both communities and the Defense Department.
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Sabol, David. "Indiana's Civil Rights Commission : a history of the first five years /." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 1994. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/40.
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Bottomley, Edward-John. "Governing 'Poor Whites' : race, philanthropy and transnational governmentality between the United States and South Africa." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270079.
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Throughout the twentieth century so-called Poor Whites caused anxiety in countries where racial domination was crucial, such as South Africa, the colonies of European empire and the United States. The Poor Whites were troubling for a number of reasons, not least because they threatened white prestige and the entire system of racial control. The efforts of various governments, organisations and experts to discipline, control and uplift the group necessarily disadvantaged other races. These controls, such as colour bars and Jim Crow laws, had an enormous effect on the countries where the Poor Whites were seen as a problem. The results can still be seen in the profoundly unequal contemporary racial landscape, and which is given expression by protest groups such as Black Lives Matter. Yet the efforts to manage the Poor Whites have thus far been examined on a national basis — as a problem of the United States, or of South Africa, to name just the most significant locales and regimes. This dissertation attempts to expand our understanding of the geography of the Poor Whites by arguing that the ‘Poor White Problem’ was a transnational concern rooted in racial interests that transcended national concerns. The racial solidarity displayed by so-called ‘white men’s countries’ was also extended to the Poor Whites. Efforts to control and discipline the population were thus in service of the white race as a whole, and ignored national interests and national borders. The transnational management of the Poor Whites was done through a network of transnational organisations such as the League of Nations and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as the careering experts they employed. The dissertation argues that these attempts constituted a transnational ‘governmentality’ according to which these organisations and their experts attempted to discipline a Poor White population that they viewed as transnational in order to uphold white prestige and tacitly maintain both global and local racial systems. This dissertation examines some of the ways in which Poor Whites were disciplined and racially rehabilitated. It examines health and sanitation, education and training, housing standards and the management of urban space, and finally photographic representation.
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Pickard, Scott D. "Co-workers in the field of souls: the Civil War partnership between Union chaplains and the U.S. Christian Commission, 1861-1865." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15271.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of History
Robert D. Linder
A religious revival movement occurred in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The revivals began to appear with some regularity at the end of 1862 and continued until the end of the conflict. Union soldiers also widely adopted Protestant evangelical values during this time of religious enthusiasm. Two groups in particular played a pivotal, yet often unheralded, role in the substantial growth of religious fervor among northern soldiers during the Civil War: Union military chaplains and the United States Christian Commission. The thesis of this work is that Union chaplains and the United States Christian Commission developed a close and effective wartime partnership that significantly facilitated their ability to promote Protestant evangelical Christianity among Union soldiers during the Civil War. This wartime association substantially aided their efforts to advance their theological and moral views among the troops. Union chaplains and Commission representatives gained considerable influence over the army’s spiritual and moral environment during the war and were primarily responsible for initiating the widespread revivals that occurred within the Union Army. Although they began the conflict as two distinct organizations, Union chaplains and the Christian Commission collaborated with increasing frequency as the war progressed. Their affiliation brought a number of advantages to each organization and significantly increased their ability to promote their evangelical beliefs with the soldiers. This dissertation contributes to studies on religion and the Civil War by analyzing the religious leadership provided by Union chaplains and the Christian Commission and explains how they shaped the Union Army’s religious environment during the war.
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Willshire, Kyle P. "Aaron Kohn Attacks Corruption in New Orleans: An Intersection of Media and Politics, 1953-1955." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1709.
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Aaron Kohn’s career as a driven professional crime fighter with the Special Citizens Investigative Committee, and later the Metropolitan Crime Commission, began after the Kefauver Hearings on organized crime, one of the first Senate investigative committee hearings broadcast on the evolving medium of television, gripped the American public in 1950. Sen. Estes Kefauver’s committee visited cities across America, including New Orleans. The hearings’ popularity revealed public thirst for coverage of sensational topics like organized crime, and established how Kohn would soon approach the SCIC job: with force and bombast, featuring flair and sometimes bended truth. Aaron Kohn combined Kefauver’s crusading spirit and media savvy and attempted to apply it to his own long career as a citizen crime fighter in New Orleans, but he met limited success taking on a corrupt establishment in a career that could ultimately be deemed a failure.
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Sellers, John Paul. "Perceptions of Texas Public School Teachers and Principals Regarding Recommendations for Educational Reform." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331701/.
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The problem of this study was the perceptions of Texas public school teachers and principals regarding recommendations for educational reform made in April, 1983, by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Purposes included determining those perceptions and investigating differences between them, differences among teachers1 perceptions, and differences among principals' perceptions relative to specific categories of recommendations and specific biographic variables. A random sample of 460 teachers and 180 principals, stratified equally among the state's twenty education regions, was selected from the population of public school teachers and principals on computer at the Texas Education Agency, Austin, Texas. The actual number of respondents included 224 teachers and 91 principals, or 49 percent and 51 percent respectively. The instrument used was an attitude scale developed by the investigator. The thirty-nine original recommendations made by the Commission were converted into 118 specific recommendations, more precise and easier to read according to a jury of experts. An. analysis of variance was calculated for hypotheses one, two, five, and six, and t values were calculated for hypotheses three and four. The study was organized into five chapters including the "Introduction," "Review of the Related Literature," "Procedures for Collection and Analysis of Data," "Analysis of Data," and "Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations." The Appendix includes a sample of the instrument used, the overall mean scores on each individual item for teachers, principals, and all respondents combined, and the total mean scores.
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Rach, Margaret M. (Margaret Mannion). "The Impact of EEO Legislation Upon Selection Procedures for Transfer, Training and Development and Promotion." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331995/.
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Legislation, court decisions, and the changing political and social climate provide evidence of the importance of the outcomes of EEO litigation involving challenged selection procedures for transfer, training and development, and promotion. These selection procedures are being challenged by more informed employees and, in many cases, result in costly litigation. Thus, organizations must be aware of the continuing developments in employment law especially as found in court decisions and related legislation. This study investigates judicial and EEOC decisions in discrimination cases to provide answers to these questions: Are organizations aware of the outcomes of EEO litigation involving challenged selection procedures for transfer, training and development, and promotion? Are organizations aware of what constitutes a discriminatory practice in the selection of employees for transfer, training and development, and promotion? Does management recognize and follow nondiscriminatory procedures in selecting personnel for transfer, training and development, and promotion? The purposes of the study are 1. To analyze outcomes of EEO litigation involving challenged selection procedures for transfer, training and development, and promotion; 2. To develop a model set of guidelines to aid organizations in developing nondiscriminatory procedures for use in selecting employees for transfer, training and development, and promotion. This study concludes that many employers are aware of the outcomes of EEO litigation involving challenged selection procedures for transfer, training and development, and promotion. Many employers are also aware of what constitutes a discriminatory practice in the selection of employees for some employment advantage. However, management does not always recognize and follow nondiscriminatory procedures when selecting employees for transfer, training and development, and promotion. The number of cases in which selection procedures were found discriminatory supports this conclusion.
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Parks, Ryan William. "Rhetorical strategies of legitimation : the 9/11 Commission's public inquiry process." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2470.
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This research project seeks to explore aspects of the post-reporting phase of the public inquiry process. Central to the public inquiry process is the concept of legitimacy and the idea that a public inquiry provides and opportunity to re-legitimate the credibility of failed public institutions. The current literature asserts that public inquiries re-legitimise through the production of authoritative narratives. As such, most of this scholarship has focused on the production of inquiry reports and, more recently, the reports themselves. However, in an era of accountability, and in the aftermath of such a poignant attack upon society, the production of a report may represent an apogee, but by no means an end, of the re-legitimation process. Appropriately, this thesis examines the post-reporting phase of the 9/11 Commission’s public inquiry process. The 9/11 Commission provides a useful research vehicle due to the bounded, and relatively linear, implementation process of the Commission’s recommendations. In little more than four months a majority of the Commission’s recommendations were passed into law. Within this implementation phase the dominant discursive process took place in the United States Congress. It is the legislative reform debates in the House of Representatives and the Senate that is the focus of this research project. The central research question is: what rhetorical legitimation strategies were employed in the legislative reform debates of the post-reporting phase of the 9/11 Commission’s public inquiry process? This study uses a grounded theory approach to the analysis of the legislative transcripts of the Congressional reform debates. This analysis revealed that proponents employed rhetorical strategies to legitimise a legislative ‘Call to Action’ narrative. Also, they employed rhetorical legitimation strategies that emphasised themes of bipartisanship, hard work and expertise in order to strengthen the standing of the legislation. Opponents of the legislation focused rhetorical de-legitimation strategies on the theme of ‘flawed process’. Finally, nearly all legislators, regardless of their view of the legislation, sought to appropriate the authoritative legitimacy of the Commission, by employing rhetorical strategies that presented their interests and motives as in line with the actions and wishes of the Commission.
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Hrach, Thomas J. "The News Media and the Disorders: The Kerner Commission's Examination of Race Riots and Civil Disturbances, 1967-1968." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1210083752.
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Pearcy, Matthew Todd 1967. "A History of the Mississippi River Commission, 1879-1928: from Levees-Only to a Comprehensive Program of Flood Control for the Lower Mississippi Valley." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277642/.
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In 1879 Congress created the Mississippi River Commission (MRC) to develop and coordinate federal flood control policy for the Lower Mississippi River. Through 1927, that Commission clung stubbornly to a "levees-only" policy that was based on the mistaken belief that levees alone could be effective in controlling the flood waters of the Mississippi River. When the levees failed--and they occasionally did--the MRC responded by raising and strengthening the system but refused to adopt a more comprehensive program, one which would include outlets and reservoirs. Finally, a disastrous flood in 1927 forced the abandonment of levees-only and the adoption of a comprehensive plan for the Lower Mississippi River. Predictably, the MRC faced heavy criticism following the failure of its highly-touted levee system in 1927. While certainly the Commission was culpable, there was plenty of fault to go around and a plethora of mitigating circumstances. Developing a plan for achieving adequate flood control along the lower Mississippi River constituted what was probably the most difficult and complex engineering problem ever undertaken by the U. S. Government. Additionally, there were innumerable political and financial constraints that worked to shape MRC policy. This study will endeavor to tell the story of the MRC from its earliest origins through the landmark 1928 Flood Control Act, and, in the process, give evidence to the reality that the Commission did not function independently. As an organization, it relied upon outside forces for its membership, for its jurisdiction, and for the appropriations necessary to carry out its policies. Significantly, these forces were politically driven and did not always, or even often, share the MRC's priorities for the Lower Mississippi River. Even so, the MRC accomplished a great deal in its efforts to protect the Valley from moderate floods, to improve the navigability of the Mississippi River, and to expand significantly the body of knowledge available on the "Father of Waters."
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Haus, David Russell Jr. "EXPERTISE AT WAR: THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION BY RADIO, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS, THE FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICAN RADIO." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151521658.
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Haus, David R. "Expertise at war the National Committee on Education by Radio, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Federal Radio Commission and the battle for American radio /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1151521658.
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Key, Brian David. "Appeals for “One Million Belgian Children”: Understanding the Success of the Commission for Relief in Belgium through the Mudd Family Papers." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1189.
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In response to the German occupation of Belgium in World War I, future U.S. president Herbert Hoover and a handful of his colleagues in the mining engineer industry founded the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB). The CRB engineered one of the greatest relief movements in history partly on account of its successful public appeals; nevertheless, the success of these appeals has never been fully explained due to a remarkable dearth of scholarship on the topic. This paper seeks to fill in the gap by analyzing salient documents in the Mudd Family Papers, located in Honnold/Mudd Library’s Special Collections section. The artifacts ultimately evince that the CRB tailored its appeals to the American upper and middle classes, appropriating their respective motifs and lexicons to successfully mobilize both groups; that rumors of wartime atrocities against Belgian children augmented its appeals to the middle class; and that it issued targeted messages to its American supporters after the United States’ entry into World War I, maintaining vital public support. The findings of this paper promise to add invaluable knowledge to an exceedingly understudied historical subject.
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Garner, Steve A. "A Study of Firm Location to Examine Disclosures and Governance Using a Dual Approach: Quantitative Analysis Based Upon the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Qualitative Analysis of the Annual Report’s Management Discussion and Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799474/.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the effect of U.S. firms’ geographic location, whether urban or rural, on their corporate disclosure and governance practices. An “urban” firm is one that is headquartered in a large metropolitan area; whereas, a “rural” firm is one that is headquartered some distance from any metropolitan area. Specifically, the study examines whether there are different stock market reactions to urban and rural firms around key event dates relative to the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on July 30, 2002. Also, the readability and linguistic style in the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) section of public company’s annual reports (Form 10-K) to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are investigated to determine whether urban and rural firms communicate information differently to investors.
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Chambers, James. "Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: America Attempts to Collect its War Debts 1922-1934." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1363.
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During and immediately after World War I the United States lent over $10 billion to various countries to sustain their war efforts and to provide post-war relief. The United States's insistence that these loans be repaid led to sharp disagreements with its erstwhile allies as to the nature of these loans and whether they should actually be repaid.
This thesis examines the processes, and the policies upon which those processes were based, by which the United States attempted to compel the debtor nations to begin repaying their loans.
The central theme of the thesis was developed largely from primary sources, including Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, diplomatic message traffic, and minutes and reports of the World War Foreign Debt Commission. Secondary sources supported the development of the economic and political context in which these events occurred as well as the perspectives of the foreign governments involved.
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Kalaf, William M. "Arizona law enforcement biometrics identification and information sharing technology framework." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FKalaf.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010.Thesis Advisor(s): Bergin, Richard ; Josefek, Robert. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 28, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Arizona Criminal Justice Commission, biometrics technology, biometrics identification, facial recognition, fingerprint identification, law enforcement, information sharing, criminal information sharing, Arizona, Mexico, New Mexico, Texas, California, RISC, AFIS, IAFIS, NGI, governors border conferences, Central America, south west border initiative. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-92). Also available in print.
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Townsend, Larry A. (Larry Allan). "The Reverend Carl D. McIntire v. the Fairness Doctrine." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500361/.
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This study explored the development of the Federal Communications Commission's Fairness Doctrine policy from its beginnings in the 1920's until the FCC eliminated most of its requirements in 1987. The chapters discuss the Reverend Carl D. McIntire's battle with the FCC concerning the policy's impact on free speech in broadcasting. McIntire lost his battle with the FCC and became the first broadcaster to lose his license for Fairness Doctrine violations. The problem in this study focused on the difficulty of reconciling government regulation of broadcasting with the rights of licensees to speak freely and be heard by their listeners. The study concluded that today the FCC advocates First Amendment protection for broadcasters but it remains questionable whether present policy will continue.
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Park, David B. "The Administration of Unemployment Relief by the State of Texas during the Great Depression, 1929-1941." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703286/.
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During the Great Depression, for the first time in its history, the federal government provided relief to the unemployed and destitute through myriad New Deal agencies. This dissertation examines how "general relief" (direct or "make-work") from federal programs—primarily the Emergency Relief and Construction Act (ERCA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)—was acquired and administered by the government of Texas through state administrative agencies. These agencies included the Chambers of Commerce (1932-1933), Unofficial Texas Relief Commission (1933), Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission (1933), Official Texas Relief Commission (1933-1934), Texas Relief Commission Division of the State Board of Control (1934), and the Department of Public Welfare (1939). Overall, the effective administration of general relief in the Lone Star State was undermined by a political ideology that persisted from, and was embodied by, the "Redeemer" Constitution of 1876.
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Schmidt, David Glenn. "Digital-high definition television servicing curriculum for Santa Ana Community College." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2202.
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The purpose of this project was to develop a semester length community college curriculum for a course in the theory and servicing of digital-high definition television for the students in the service technology field of electronics at Santa Ana Community College in Santa Ana, California. Additionally, it is designed with the current electronic service industry in mind.
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Mibeck, Bryce Michael. "Veteran police officers field training supervisors in ethics and integrity." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2406.
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This project developed a course that could be used by any police agency under the training umbrella of the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.). Specifically, the project was developed to be used by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department and San Bernardino Valley College working with veteran police officers, police training officers, and police supervisors. The course included information from Josephson's Six Pillars of Character, Vicchio's Five Personality Types Lacking Integrity, and an ethical dilemma exercise.
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Orozco-Espinel, Maria Camila. "L’économie, une discipline en quête d’autorité scientifique. États-Unis, 1932-1957." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH087.
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Cette thèse étudie la manière dont les économistes ont cherché à asseoir l’autorité scientifique de leur discipline pendant la période autour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux États-Unis. La recherche montre comment la quête pour l’autorité de la science des économistes a façonné un nouveau corpus de notions et de concepts, d’instruments de contrôle et de procédures de calcul qui sont l’expression de l’économie même et qui, simultanément, a apporté à la discipline des bénéfices matériels et symboliques dans le monde universitaire et dans la sphère extra-académique. En s’établissant comme une forme de savoir à la fois abstrait, technique et empirique, l’économie s’est consolidée comme une discipline capable de produire des connaissances universelles, d’articuler le monde académique et la sphère pratique et a affirmé ses qualifications en tant que domaine appliqué impliqué dans la prise de décision politique. L’analyse se focalise sur trois des institutions au sommet de la discipline dans le monde universitaire étasunien : la Commission Cowles, le Département d’Économie du Massachusetts Institute of Technology et le Département d’Économie de l’Université de Chicago. En étudiant la standardisation du diplôme de doctorat en économie, cette enquête met de même en lumière la cristallisation d’un consensus comme étant à son tour liée à l’obtention du statut particulier de science. Inscrite dans une démarche d’histoire sociale des sciences, cette thèse est une contribution à l’étude des standards qui continuent aujourd’hui d’influencer la recherche, l’enseignement et l’activité professionnelle des économistesThis research studies how economists in the United States established the scientific authority of their discipline during the period around World War II. Concretely, our analysis shows how the economists’ quest for the authority of science shaped a new body of ideas and concepts, control instruments and computational procedures which defined the very essence of economics. Simultaneously these developments brought material and symbolic benefits to the discipline, inside and outside academia. By establishing itself as a type of knowledge which is at once abstract, technical and empirical, Economics consolidated as a discipline capable of producing universal knowledge, articulating the academic world and the practical sphere and establishing its qualifications as an applied domain for policy-making. Our analysis focuses on three top institutions in the US academic world: the Cowles Commission, the Economics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. By studying the standardization of the PhD program in Economics, this research also studies the process of reaching a consensus within the discipline as link to the quest for the special status of “science”. Rooted in the social history of science, this study contributes to the analysis of standards which influence today’s research, teaching and professional activity of economists
Esta tesis estudia cómo los economistas estadounidenses buscaron establecer la autoridad científica de su disciplina desde el principio de la década de 1930 hasta el periodo post Segunda Guerra Mundial. Concretamente, la investigación muestra cómo la búsqueda por la autoridad de la ciencia de los economistas dio forma a un nuevo cuerpo de nociones y conceptos, instrumentos de control y procedimientos de cálculo que se convirtieron en la expresión misma de la economía contemporánea. Y que, simultáneamente, también trajeron beneficios materiales y simbólicos a la disciplina, tanto dentro como fuera de la academia. Al establecerse como una forma de conocimiento a la vez abstracta, técnica y empírica, la economía logró consolidarse como una disciplina capaz de producir conocimiento universal, articulando el mundo académico y la esfera práctica y afirmar al mismo tiempo sus calificaciones como un dominio aplicado involucrado en la toma de decisiones políticas. El análisis se centra en tres de las principales instituciones del mundo académico de los Estados Unidos: la Comisión Cowles, el Departamento de Economía del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts y el Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chicago. Al estudiar la estandarización del programa de doctorado en economía, esta investigación analiza la cristalización de un consenso en la disciplina como vinculado a la obtención del estatus especial de “ciencia”. Anclada en la historia social de la ciencia, esta tesis ofrece una contribución al estudio de los estándares que hoy continúan influenciando la investigación, la enseñanza y la actividad profesional de los economistas
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Mesquita, Priscila Alcântara Sena. "De Vargas a Juscelino rupturas e continuidades no processo de desenvolvimento brasileiro (1951 61)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9216.
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Previous issue date: 2013-06-05The objective of this dissertation is to make an analysis of the second term of Getúlio Vargas and the government of Juscelino Kubitschek, highlighting points of rupture and continuity. The 1950s were very important for the Brazilian economic development process. It was a period of intense growth, maturing, and changes in the country. However, along with these transformations, inequalities arose and the political interests of each group in Brazilian society stood out. If, on one hand Vargas sought in his government development linked to economic stability by initiating the partnership with the North American government with the establishment of the Joint Brazil-United States Commission [Comissão Mista Brasil-Estados Unidos (CMBEU)] JK had the intention of promoting growth at any cost, based on these same projects generated by CMBEU. In this way, the search for consolidation of the national industry by Vargas, whether with internal or external resources, was later weakened due to the intense flow of foreign capital observed during Kubitschek s government. Within this context, the economic imbalance became increasingly greater, but as it had been accompanied by economic growth, it was seldom discussed by the society of the time. Thus, the problems generated by inflation and external imbalance, resulting from this disorderly growth, brought problems for the successors of JK and, further on, compromised the Brazilian democracy itself
Uma análise do segundo governo Vargas e do Governo de Juscelino Kubitschek, destacando pontos de rupturas e continuidades é o objetivo desta dissertação. Os anos de 1950 foram de grande importância para o processo de desenvolvimento econômico brasileiro. Foi um período de intenso crescimento, amadurecimento e mudanças no país. Entretanto, junto com estas transformações emergiram as desigualdades e destacaram-se os interesses políticos de cada grupo da sociedade brasileira. Se por um lado Vargas buscou em seu governo o desenvolvimento atrelado ao equilíbrio econômico, ao iniciar a parceria junto ao governo norte americano com o estabelecimento da Comissão Mista Brasil-Estados Unidos (CMBEU), JK visou o crescimento a qualquer custo, baseando-se nestes mesmos trabalhos gerados pela CMBEU. Desta maneira, a busca pela consolidação da indústria nacional por Vargas, quer seja com recursos internos quer seja com recursos externos, foi posteriormente enfraquecida frente ao intenso fluxo de capital estrangeiro observado no governo de Kubitschek. Nesta conjuntura, o desequilíbrio econômico se mostrou cada vez maior, porém como vinha acompanhado pelo crescimento econômico foi pouco discutido pela sociedade no momento. Assim os problemas gerados pela inflação e pelo desequilíbrio externo, resultante deste crescimento desordenado, acarretaram problemas para os sucessores de JK e, mais adiante, comprometeu a própria democracia brasileira
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Zreik, Saba. "Conventions réglementées et intérêt social en droit comparé (Liban, France, USA)." Thesis, Paris 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA020027/document.
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L’intérêt social est la raison d’être principale de la règlementation des conventions réglementées. Il est délimité par des intérêts voisins et par l’intérêt personnel abrité par ces conventions, dont le jeu conflictuel peut léser la société. L’existence d’un conflit et de sa justification peuvent être présumées. L'intérêt social est désormais celui de l’entreprise vue dans son contexte économique large. Un intérêt de groupe est distinctement reconnu. La qualification des conventions sert à identifier celles qui doivent être contrôlées. La mise en oeuvre de la protection de l’intérêt social s’opère à travers la prévention des conflits d’intérêts, moyennant une révélation de l'intérêt personnel. Cette révélation déclenche la procédure d'appréciation par les organes sociaux concernés. Des garanties législatives et jurisprudentielles assurent la primauté de l’intérêt social, par la limitation de l’exercice de certains droits et par l’application judiciaire stricte du respect des obligations légales qui pèsent sur les intéressés. La convention frauduleuse est nulle. Celle non autorisée qui est préjudiciable à la société est annulable; et ses conséquences sont supportées par l’intéressé qui engage sa responsabilité civile et même parfois sa responsabilité pénale. La comparaison du traitement de ce sujet dans les trois systèmes juridiques libanais, français et américains a dévoilé des failles dans les deux premiers ; des projets de réforme sont proposésThe corporate interest is the main reason behind the regulation of related party transactions. Its limits are defined by similar interests and the personal interest embodied in these transactions. The inter-action of these conflicting interests may harm the company. The existence of a conflict and of its justification may be presumed. The corporate interest is from now on that of the enterprise seen within its wide economic context and the interest of a group of companies is distinctively acknowledged. The qualification of those transactions helps identify those that are subject to scrutiny. The protection of the corporate interest is achieved by the prevention of the conflicts of interests through the disclosure of the personal interest. This disclosure triggers the concerned corporate bodies’ evaluation process. Legislative and jurisprudential guarantees ensure the predominance of the corporate interest through limitations on the exercise of certain rights and a strict judicial enforcement of legal duties laid on the interested party. The fraudulent transaction is void. The unauthorized one that is damaging to the company is voidable and its consequences are assumed by the interested party who may be exposed to civil and, sometimes, criminal liability. The comparison of the treatment of this subject in the Lebanese, French and American legal systems revealed the weaknesses in the first two; amendment proposals are made
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El, Yattioui Mohamed Badine. "Les enjeux géostratégiques des programmes publics de Washington à destination de l'Amérique Latine, de George Bush père à George Bush fils (1988-2008)." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO30059.
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Les relations entre les Etats-Unis et l’Amérique latine entre 1988 et 2008 ont connu de nombreux bouleversements et chambardements. Les nombreuses raisons qui en sont les causes ont été abordées dans cette thèse. Après avoir étudié les enjeux théoriques de leurs relations nous nous sommes demandés si la politique étrangère était une politique publique comme les autres. Suite à une comparaison générale nous avons étudié les spécificités de l’aide publique au développement et le cas d’une théorie promue par George Bush Jr qui est la « diplomatie transformationnelle ». Dans un second temps, nous avons étudié les bouleversements diplomatiques apparus dans un certain nombre de pays de cette région du fait de l’arrivée de gouvernements de gauche. Les pages consacrées aux trois programmes élaborés par Washington dans les années 2000 (MCA, les deux plans Colombie et le Plan Merida) montrent leur originalité mais aussi leur application et leurs résultats mitigés tant du point de vue de l’efficacité, de l’efficience que de la consolidation des relations diplomatiques avec les pays de cette région. Enfin, nous avons décrit et analysé l’importance des enjeux énergétiques avec l’Amérique latine pour les Etats-Unis puis développé les raisons qui les poussent à vouloir constituer la ZLEA. Cela démontre l’imbrication des questions économiques, diplomatiques et sécuritaires pour les décideurs américainsThe relations between the United States and Latin America between 1988 and 2008 had known a lot of upheavals. The different reasons which were at the origin of that were approached in this dissertation. After having studied the theorical stakes concerning their relations we asked ourself if foreign policy was a classic public policy. Then, we studied development aid’s specificities and a theory promoted by George W. Bush which is the « transformational diplomacy ». In a second part, we studied diplomatical upheavals appeared in some countries of the region, consequence of the election of left wing governments. Pages dedicated to the three programs worked out by Washington during the 2000’s (MCA, both Colombian plans and Merida Initiative) showed the originality but also their application and their reserved results so much from the point of view of the efficiency and the consolidation of the diplomatical relations with the countries of this region. At last, we described and analyzed the importance the energy challenges with Latin America for the United States and developed reasons which urge them to want to constitute the FTAA. This show The interweaving of the economic, diplomatic and security questions for the American decision-makers
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Grayson, Ronald I. Ward Cheryl A. "Investigations into civil war medicine through some artifacts recovered from the U.S. Army transport Maple Leaf." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04132004-163322.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004.Advisor: Dr. Cheryl Ward, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 16, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Huang, Chin-Chih, and 黃景智. "Empirical Study on Determinations of United States International Trade Commission and Strategies for Litigation at United States International Trade Commission." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71949195116353098496.
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There are two forums in United States, U.S. district court and U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC or ITC), for the patentee to seek the remedies of patent infringement, if the patentee believes anyone infringes her or his patent. In U.S. district court, the decision is made mostly by jury. However, for the patent infringement litigation, complex technical issues are involved, and thus either the patentee or the infringer need to take the risk of the unpredictability of the jury decision into consideration. In ITC, an administrative law judge (ALJ) is assigned to investigate the infringement and make a determination. Under general recognition, the determination in ITC which is made by a professional judge should have higher predictability than the decision made by jury. This study is started from this recognition, and is expected to verify this recognition by an empirical study of the ITC determinations. The empirical study covers the ITC determinations after the amendment of Section 337, i.e., from 1995, which include 270 investigations. The statistic of the 270 investigations demonstrates that the determinations of USITC are favorable to the patentees in percentage. It should be noted that one of the reasons why the patentee chooses the USITC to obtain the remedies is the powerful enforcement tool, the exclusion order enforced by the U.S. customs and board protection. Even if the determination of the USITC is wrongly favorable to the patentee, the defendants will be substantially damaged before the appeal court reverses the determination. Through reviewing the empirical study of the ITC determinations, this article wants to provide a premonition that an ITC litigation may result in a great loss for defendants. Furthermore, the appeal decisions for the ITC determinations will be reviewed so as to understand if the interpretation of the matter of law in the ITC coincides with that in Federal Circuit. In fact, during the appeal proceedings of patent infringement litigations in Federal Circuit, the survival rate of the ITC determinations is not higher than that of the federal district court. United States is still one of the biggest single market for a lot of goods, and with the trend of global vertical disintegration, almost all of the products are manufactured through an international cooperation. Any competition in the U.S. market is possibly used to bring an ITC litigation so as to attack the competitor. Domestic industries in Taiwan can not avoid this type of litigation. The empirical study is also expected to further provide help on analysis or recognition of the ITC litigation.
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Moten, Matthew. "The Delafield Commission and the American military profession." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16972.
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The American regular army gained permanence in the early nineteenth century after overcoming numerous social and political obstacles, most notably a strong militia tradition. The War of 1812 and its aftermath established conditions for professional reform. The army now had a mission: to prepare for another seaborne attack from Europe. That sense of purpose allowed the officer corps to grow in collective ability, institutional autonomy, and corporate identity. The army developed an ethic of responsibility to the state. Intellectually, however, officers derived professional expertise primarily from French sources, mainly in military engineering. The U.S. Military Academy reinforced those trends and fostered "a system and habit of thought" in the officer corps. The profession, maturing quickly in other ways, remained intellectually adolescent.
In 1855 Secretary of War Jefferson Davis dispatched Major Richard Delafield, Major Alfred Mordecai, and Captain George B. McClellan to Europe and the Crimean War to seek the newest professional expertise. The Delafield Commission was the most ambitious military observer mission to date, the first sent to observe on-going war. During the year-long tour they traveled throughout Europe and exemplified the characteristic traits of the professional officer corps--corporateness and responsibility.
The Delafield Commission was a milepost in the history of American military professionalism. Most noteworthy were the reports that the commissioners wrote after their return, wherein they published a wealth of information useful to their respective branches. Yet the reports manifest the limits of antebellum professionalization: "a system and habit of thought" circumscribed their efforts. The commissioners demonstrated a narrow particularity that focused attention on technical details. They discarded the army's francophile paradigm, but quickly replaced it with an equally uncritical adoration of the Russians. They made reform suggestions, but mostly reaffirmed the status quo, especially the felt necessity for preparing for a European invasion. They refused to reach outside parochial branch interests to collaborate on a single report addressing broad issues of military policy and strategy. The mid-nineteenth century army's best minds were as yet incapable of synthesizing their European observations with their own experiences to create a uniquely American professional expertise.
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Lentz, Roberta G. ""Linguistic engineering" and the FCC computer inquiries, 1966-1989." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18249.
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This study applies a critical discourse analysis framework to an examination of the constitutive effects of three regulatory proceedings, called “The Computer Inquiries,” on contemporary notions about communications infrastructure policy. The Computer Inquiries are a trio of interrelated U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) dockets focused on problems posed by the convergence of regulated telephony with unregulated computing services. The Inquiry docket texts, which date from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, are a basis for the liberalization of common carrier1 regulation and are the empirical evidence that the dissertation draws upon to trace the incremental evolution of terms used to define the boundaries between these converging services. Datasets include the 23 documents contained in three case studies: Computer Inquiry I (FCC Docket 16979), Computer Inquiry II (FCC Docket 20828), and Computer Inquiry III (FCC Docket 85-229). The first case study traces the incremental construction of a concept called “hybrid” services as the foundation for an FCC policy of “maximum industry separation” between common carriers and data processing companies. The second case study illustrates how the FCC subsequently re-engineered the hybrid concept into regulatory categories of “basic” and “enhanced” services. This definitional shift justified liberalizing the FCC’s maximum separation policy into a “modified” policy based upon a resale structure. The third case study demonstrates how the FCC further relaxed the resale policy by implementing accounting controls to distinguish between regulated common carriers providing the telecommunications infrastructure (conduit) used by unregulated information services (content) companies. Research reveals the malleable and somewhat arbitrary nature of regulatory distinctions between content and conduit as a basis for the FCC’s shifting jurisdictional authority over common carriers. During the course of the Inquiries, the FCC transitioned from a proactive to a reactive regulator with a discursive strategy involving what the dissertation calls “linguistic engineering.” Finally, the study notes the lack of attention to First Amendment and democracy concerns in all three Inquiry dockets. The dissertation concludes by calling for a Fourth Computer Inquiry to reconsider the legacy of the Computer Inquiries through which the principle of nondiscriminatory carriage of information by telecommunications providers has been eroded.text
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Tavares, Marques Ana Cristina de Oliveira. "SEC interventions and the frequency and usefulness of non-GAAP financial measures." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2340.
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Chang, Yu-Yu, and 張佑宇. "The Difference of Dealing with Patent Infringements between the Federal Court and the International Trade Commission of the United States: The Difference of Offence and Defense Strategies regarding Patent Litigation in the United States." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55947709373982693051.
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Today the United States of America is the largest economy in the world. A huge part of it is due to the fast development of US technology. Therefore, patents from this field are increasingly important. A strong patent strategy could help both, to prevent the infringement of patent rights, and stimulate the innovation of technology development. There are two ways to sue companies which infringe their patents: the US Federal Court and the International Trade Commission. This study is aimed at analyzing the characteristics of the US Federal Court and the ITC, respectively, and wishes to high-light the differences between these two institutions. It also focuses on the choice a firm can make when filing a lawsuit or a claim concerning the patent infringement. This study is based on some theories on patent infringements and their remedies developed in the US already several decades ago. It observes recent cases of infringements dealt with by such theories. This research seeks to find the best way for companies to select their strategies of patent litigation, and, simultaneously, also to make these strategies of patent litigation transparent. There are more and more Taiwanese corporations setting up subsidiaries companies or affiliates in the United States. Therefore, strategies with regard to patent infringement for those companies become more and more important. This study is devoted to developing a series of patent strategies. This paper tries to provide businesses with a right way to gain technological competitive advantages and to plan their patent portfolio more efficiently.
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Williamson, Shaun. "Creating the American carceral state: the evolution of liberal criminology." Thesis, 2018. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/10116.
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This thesis explores mass incarceration in the United States as an outcome of the evolution of liberal penal theory over the last two centuries. The first chapter analyzes the work of the 18th century Italian legal theorist Cesare Beccaria. Within the context of the thesis, the exploration of Beccaria’s work serves to describe many of the foundational principles and assumptions that arose out of liberal criminal theory in this period. This chapter demonstrates that in the minds of early liberal criminal theorists, such as Beccaria, the role of a justice system was not to merely punish those who break the law, but also to reform those found to have broken the law into productive members of society.
The second chapter jumps ahead almost 100 years to the beginning of the International Penitentiary Commission (IPC). This chapter demonstrates that the IPC was influential in entrenching incarceration as a foundational element in the liberal penal system, which the IPC was attempting to popularize and promulgate.
The final chapter follows the evolution of liberal penal theory in the United States following the Second World War. During this period, economists and neoliberal legal theorists, such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, and Richard Posner, dramatically altered the liberal consensus on crime and punishment. Whereas earlier liberal writers viewed the role of criminal punishment as a means of reforming prisoners into useful citizens, neoliberal criminal reformers theorized that it would be more efficient to view crime and criminal punishment as an economic problem, to be solved with the same tools that liberal economists used to examine the market economy. Instead of focusing on reforming the criminal, these theorists posited that the most effective way to decrease crime was to modify the criminal incentive structure.
Overall, this thesis follows the evolution of liberal penal theory in the United States and will demonstrate that what began as a noble attempt to create a more humane and just penal system, focused on the reformation of the prisoner, became a behemoth of an institution that grew to an extraordinary level in an attempt to crackdown on crime. It will be argued that what was lost in this evolution of liberal criminal theory was the importance of social and economic context in the creation of criminal behaviour.Graduate
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