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Coronavirus Fiscal Policy In The United States: Lessons From Feminist Political Economy, Katherine A. Moos

PERI Working Papers

Using the U.S. fiscal response to Covid-19 in March and April 2020 as a case study, this paper explores the implications that the U.S. coronavirus legislation had on the societal distribution of responsibility for social reproduction among U.S. households, employers, and the U.S. federal government —and its effect on women and racialized minorities. It builds on feminist political economy research that argues that, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, economic crisis and stagnating conditions for workers in the United States had increased the role of households and the U.S. government in social reproduction, relative to the contribution of employers. This paper …

The State's Response To The Crisis Of Neoliberalism: A Comparison Of The Net Social Wage In China And The United States, 1992-2017, Katherine A. Moos, Hao Qi

PERI Working Papers

We compare the welfare states and taxation regimes of the two largest economies in the world, China and the United States, from 1992 to 2017. We begin with a comparison of each country’s net social wage—that is, the difference between total benefits received by and taxes paid by labor—using two established methods. While the net social wage in the two countries exhibited similar trends, the increasing net social wage has distinctly different implications in the two countries due to their specific historical trajectories in the neoliberal era. In the US, the increasing net social wage reflects an ambivalent and reluctant …

What Smartness Does In The Smart City: From Visions To Policy, Burcu Baykurt, Christoph Raetzsch

Communication Department Faculty Publication Series

This article examines what smartness does on the ground by examining how its anticipatory media visions have been interpreted and acted on in policy decisions and local implementations since the early 2000s. Using a comparative-historical analysis that draws on fieldwork in aspiring smart cities in the United States and Europe, we argue that the visions of smartness are neither singular nor fixed across time and space. Instead, the role of smartness in diffusing new technologies is recruited and reshaped in the present to lend legitimacy to future public and private interventions. We first demonstrate that the narrative of crisis, often …

Digital Storytelling With Refugee Youth: A Tool For Promoting Literacy And Youth Empowerment And A Catalyst For Social Action, Christina Chen

Master's Capstone Projects

For my master’s project in the International Education concentration, College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, I chose to conduct an action research project where I worked with refugee youth aged twelve to fourteen in Springfield, Massachusetts, to facilitate them in creating digital narratives about their lives and experiences coming to the United States. From November 2014 through March 2015, I recruited seven students to participate in a 22-hour workshop I facilitated over twelve weeks. During the workshop, they learned about digital storytelling, wrote their stories, and created multimedia videos of these narratives. They shared their digital stories with each …

The Good, The Bad, And The Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press And Intellectual Distortions Of The Latin American Left, Kevin Young

History Department Faculty Publication Series

U.S. journalists and commentators have helped popularize the image of two distinct Latin American lefts: a “bad” left that is politically authoritarian and economically erratic and a “good” left that is democratic and committed to free-market economics. This binary image oversimplifies the Latin American left in three ways: by overstating the contrast between the two alleged camps, by ignoring complex realities within each camp, and by exaggerating the failings of the so-called bad-left governments. The distinction makes sense, however, as a strategy for countering the rise of independent left-leaning governments in Latin America. Binary characterizations of subordinate peoples reflect a …

Centers Of Polymer Science: Introduction, Otto Vogl

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

Centers of Polymer Science describes polymer research activities taking place in Europe, Asia, and Australia primarily during the years between 1980 and 2000. This series of articles shows and records the activity in Polymer Science in this part of polymer history.

Prospects And Challenges: Teaching An Introductory Course On International Education In U.S. Classroom, Manaslu Gurung

Master's Capstone Projects

The purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of teaching an introductory course on International Education in a US classroom. The study focuses on some of the leading challenges of discussing links between international education and international development from a variety of global perspectives, particularly the Third World perspective. The underlying goal of this reflective research is to address the importance of International Education is today’s world where education continues to be political and where what we see, understand, and value in the First World impacts the Third World more directly and severely than ever before. Free Market …

What Do We Think About Them? Stereotypes In Russia About U.S. High Schools., Svetlana Pivovar

Master's Capstone Projects

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Osaka University: A Focus Of Polymer Science: 70th Anniversary Celebration, Otto Vogl, Koichi Hatada

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Immigrant Students In The Context Of Us School System Case Study Of Russian-Speaking Immigrant Community In West Springfield, Massachusetts Based On “Bridge” Project Materials, Natalia Oleshko

Master's Capstone Projects

The purpose of this paper is to describe Russian-speaking immigrant school students’ experiences in the United States and to explore issues of self-identification and the adaptive strategies associated with schooling. The case may shed some light on complex problems of clashes in cultural values, how the might influence the choice of adaptive strategies and efforts to excel in academia. The study of the case will not be limited by school environment; rather it will explore the issues and problems of students’ acculturation in a broader context that will include community, family, socioeconomic, cultural and historical factors.

The case study deals …

Evaluating Attainment Of Global Education Goals, Silva Kurtisa

Master's Capstone Projects

Movement that might be labeled "global education" has been existent in the United States for about 30 years. Global education content has been substantially expanding during evolution of the term. It may be drawn from all social sciences subjects but should not be limited to them. Recognizing that global education cannot be defined in terms of discipline, educators may infuse a global perspective in all subjects. A number of learning activities, resources, and teaching methodologies that contribute to a truly global curriculum have also been emerging and are described here. However, various descriptions and vague definitions of global education have …

Providence Place: The Development Of A Downtown Mall, Center For Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

This study examines the history of urban mall development in the United States and the role of such sites in widespread revitalization efforts that are intended to protect the city from further decline and bring it back to its once thriving existence, before the mass relocations to the suburbs.

Providence Place in downtown Providence, Rhode Island is the primary focus of the study which has three objectives. The first objective is to analyze the development patterns of suburban malls in the Providence region. The second is to identify the economic factors that prompted the development of a large scale downtown …

Polymer Science In Vietnam, Otto Vogl, Dang Van Luyen, Dang Mai-Huong

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Croatia, Otto Vogl, Franjo Flajsman, Zvonomir Janovic, Helena Jasna Mencer

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Australia Iv. Universities In Victoria And Southern Australia, Otto Vogl, David Solomon, Ezio Rizzardo, Robert A. Shanks, David Williams

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Institute Slovak Academy Of Sciences Bratislava, Slovakia, Otto Vogl

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Australia I. Sydney And Canberra, Otto Vogl, Donald H. Napper

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Australia Ii. Brisbane And Queensland, Otto Vogl, James H. O'Donnell, David J. T. Hill

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Australia Iii. Csiro And Other Government Institutions, Otto Vogl, Ezio Rizzardo, Carolyn Morris

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science At The Kyoto Institute Of Technology, Kyoto, Japan, Otto Vogl, Shinzo Kohjiya, Takeo Araki

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Milano - Italy, Otto Vogl, Lido Porri, Mario Farina, Guido Audisio

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science At Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Otto Vogl

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Austria Ii: Universities In Vienna, Otto Vogl, Josef Schurz

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Austria Iii, Universities In Linz, Innsbruck And Other Research Institute In Austria Including Industry, Otto Vogl, Josef Schurz

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Royal Institute Of Technology: Department Of Polymer Technology, Otto Vogl, Ann Christine Albertsson

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Finland, Otto Vogl, Johan J. Lindberg, Franciska Sundholm

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Research In Austria. I: Introduction And The Facilities, Otto Vogl, Josef Schurz, Bernd Thrattnigg, Klaus Hummel, Wolfgang Daimler, Klaus Lederer

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Hungary, Part Iii. The Industrial Research Institutes And Their Factories, Otto Vogl, Gyula Hardy, Sandor Doubravsky, Margit Iring, Ferenc Tudos

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Hungary, Part Ii. The Universities In Hungary, Otto Vogl, Jozef Varga, Margit Iring, Ferenc Tudos

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Polymer Science In Hungary. Part I. The Institutes Of The Hungarian Academy Of Sciences, Otto Vogl, Ferenc Tudos, Margit Iring

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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