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Challenging The Policy Establishment, Alice O'Connor
Challenging The Policy Establishment, Alice O'Connor
New England Journal of Public Policy
Among the many challenges community action faces after four decades, none cuts more deeply into its central mission than the political and ideological transformation reflected in the rise of the conservative right. Based on a potent combination of grass roots and institutional organizing, coalition-building, ideological mobilization, and inter/intra party politics, the right-wing takeover has empowered a political and policy establishment that is hostile not only to the ideas that animated the War on Poverty but to the very idea of public action against social and economic inequality. While this transformation has kept community action on the defensive, confronting the challenge …
Ideas Of Reform: Like Buddhist Souls, Peter Marris, Martin Rein
Ideas Of Reform: Like Buddhist Souls, Peter Marris, Martin Rein
New England Journal of Public Policy
In 1967 Martin Rein and Peter Marris wrote an important book exploring the projects leading to the development of community action and related programs of the Great Society. In it they describe reform as a diffuse process in which preferences clash and evolve. Purposeful reform rarely has the intended consequences. The selection below is taken from the concluding remarks of their book, The Dilemmas of Social Reform, copyright University of Chicago Press, and is reprinted here with permission.
A Portrait Of Asian Americans In Metro Boston, Paul Watanabe, Michael Liu, Shauna Lo
A Portrait Of Asian Americans In Metro Boston, Paul Watanabe, Michael Liu, Shauna Lo
New England Journal of Public Policy
The Asian American population of metropolitan Boston has grown rapidly and in extraordinary numbers. This article describes the great variety within the population with the purpose of fostering effective analysis, policy making, and service delivery.
The Quick Reaction Demining Force: The United States' Response To Humanitarian Demining Crises, Hayden Roberts
The Quick Reaction Demining Force: The United States' Response To Humanitarian Demining Crises, Hayden Roberts
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Humanitarian crises, particularly crises in which landmines are involved, may occur without warning and require an immediate response. Examples of such crises include Hurricane Mitch, which struck Central America in 1988, the rapid, post-air war return of refugees to mine-infested Kosovo in 1999, and tropical cyclones Hudah and Eline that ravaged Mozambique in 2000, displacing thousands of landmines. To respond to such emergency situations quickly and efficiently, the United States developed a Quick Reaction Demining Force (QRDF).
Metaphors For One Another: Racism In The United States And Sectarianism In Northern Ireland, John Alderdice, Michael A. Cowan
Metaphors For One Another: Racism In The United States And Sectarianism In Northern Ireland, John Alderdice, Michael A. Cowan
Peace and Conflict Studies
This article explores the possibility that an analysis of racism in the United States and sectarianism in Northern Ireland inspired by literary, psychotherapeutic, religious and philosophical conceptions of metaphor might yield new insight into the two situations by attending carefully to similarities and differences between them. Following brief summaries of the current state of racism in the U.S. and sectarianism in Northern Ireland, the article offers two perspectives from the field of psychotherapy that seem particularly germane to both situations. Then we turn to the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt for a reflection on the unpredictability and irreversibility of human …
Volume 11, Number 1 (Spring 2004), Peace And Conflict Studies
Volume 11, Number 1 (Spring 2004), Peace And Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies
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Does Money Matter? By Laurence H. Meyer In Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis Review Sept./Oct. 2001: A Review, Gloria A. Joseph-Raji
Does Money Matter? By Laurence H. Meyer In Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis Review Sept./Oct. 2001: A Review, Gloria A. Joseph-Raji
Economic and Financial Review
The major objective of the paper was to assess the influence of money and the role of monetarism in shaping the current thinking about macroeconomic modeling and the conduct of Monetary Policy in the United States. The author opined that the monetarist idea that Monetary Policy has responsibility for inflation was now conventional wisdom.