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A Real Ghost Story, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Members of a rural Maine family, under the condition of anonymity, discuss Spiritualist beliefs, paranormal, and psychic abilities said to run through multiple generations.

Local Welfare Faces More Trouble In Future, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Article discusses the potential impact of Federal cuts to welfare on local General Assistance program.

Moral Hazard In Risk-Averse Teams, Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Holmstrom (1982) has shown that a non-budget- balancing contract induces a team of risk- neutral agents to choose the first- best effort levels. This is not generally true when agents are risk averse. Furthermore, a"massacre" contract, which punishes all but one agent when the outcome is low, can attain the first best over a wider range of parameters than any other budget-balancing contract.

Bicentennial Lecture: The Charter Of Our Liberty, Steven Alan Samson

Steven Alan Samson

If we wish to know what the founding generation meant by liberty, consult the election sermons and thanksgiving sermons of the day. The founders knew that “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). They sought to live together as a Christian people according to Christ’s “perfect law of liberty” (Jas. 1:25). That is, “the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” (Gal. 5:1). This is what is written between the lines of the Constitution. The Bible is the charter of our liberty. It is the substance of our constitutional liberties.

The Effect Of Federal Tax Deductibility On State And Local Taxes And Spending, Gilbert E. Metcalf, Martin S. Feldstein

Gilbert E. Metcalf

This paper examines the effect of federal deductibility of state and local taxes on the fiscal behavior of state and local governments. The primary finding is that deductibility affects the way that state and local governments finance their spending as well as the overall level of spending. More specifically, in states in which federal deductibility implies a relatively low cost of using deductible personal taxes (including income, sales, and property taxes), there is greater reliance on those taxes and less reliance on business taxes and other revenue sources. The effect of deductibility on the state and local financial mix implies …

1. Sexual Exploitation Of Divorce Clients: The Lawyer's Prerogative, Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

De La Manipulación De La Esperanza A La Gestión Del Fracasao: La Triste Historia Del Plan Techo, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Los últimos censos realizados en 1982 nos revelan la incontrastable situaci6n de que la magnitud del déficit de vivienda existente en el país bordea el mill6n de unidades y el aditamento nada optimista de que este crece anualmente en sesenta y cinco mil viviendas. Sin duda que esta magnitud del déficit de vivienda es uno de los rasgos más visibles del "problema o penuria de la vivienda" en el que están involucrados, como se señala, amplias capas de población. Esta en relación con las características de distribución territorial de la población, con las condiciones de apropiación de la riqueza social, …

"Party And Electoral Processes In The U.S.A.," At International Seminar On Constitutionalism And Democracy - "Political Institutions For The 21st Century," Brasilia, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

Coping With The Heartbreak Of Loosing A Child To Adoption, Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben

No abstract provided.

Adoption May Not Be The Best Option, Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben

No abstract provided.

"Congress And The Electorate," At Roundtable On "Congress - Into The Third Century," At Conference Of New England Psa, Portland, Me, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

Should Prisons Be Privately Run?: No Quick Fixes, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

No abstract provided.

"The Origins Of America's Traditional Party Organizations," At Department Of Politics, Princeton University, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

Case Studies Of Human-Forest Interactions In Northeast Thailand, James Hafner

James A Hafner

Human-Forest Interactions In Northeast Thailand, James A. Hafner Professor Emeritus

James A Hafner

The Indexation Of Interest, Depreciation, And Capital Gains And Tax Reform In The U.S., Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton

The Treasury's 1984 plan is a more comprehensive income tax, including the indexation of interest, depreciation, and capital gains. The 1985 President's proposal retains some of this indexation. The author measures the incentives under each regime to make marginal investments in the corporate, noncorporate and housing sectors. Inflation causes current effective tax rates to rise for some assets and fall for others. Overall rates fall with inflation, and the corporate tax is completely offset by credits, allowances, and deductions. Under the proposals, the corporate tax reemerges, effective tax rates are much more uniform, and the interference of inflation is virtually …

Curative Factors In Offenders' Groups, John W. Macdevitt, Charles A. Sanislow

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Curative factors were assessed among therapy groups of offenders experiencing differentially restrictive incarceration, from probation through minimum security and maximum security to a special segregation unit for behaviorally problematic prisoners. Catharsis was highly rated as in earlier studies, while interpersonal learning input was rated at varying levels. Existential awareness was rated much higher than with typical outpatient populations, while cohesiveness was rated lower. The significance of these findings is discussed.

Ambulance Volunteers: You Go Through Emotional And Physical Hell, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Members of the Dexter Volunteer Ambulance Service provide personal insight to the work of Emergency Medical Technicians in a small Maine community.

Content Similarities And Differences In Cattell’S Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Eight State Questionnaire, And Motivation Analysis Test, Gregory J. Boyle

Gregory J. Boyle

The multivariate psychometric measurement of normal personality traits, transitory emotional states, and dynamic motivational factors has been made possible through the factor analytically validated instruments devised by Cattell and his associates. Previous research by Boyle, et al. has demonstrated that in accord with theory, all three instruments are measuring essentially separate psychological domains. While this quantitative evidence suggested that the multivariate instruments exhibit little measurement overlap with each other, nevertheless, it was not possible to ascertain the content similarities and differences from the canonical-redundancy analyses reported. Hence, the present study examines these qualitative characteristics in terms of the subscale data …

A Cross-Validation Of The Factor Structure Of The Profile Of Mood States: Were The Factors Correctly Identified In The First Instance?, Gregory J. Boyle

Gregory J. Boyle

The present study investigated further the factorial structure of the Profile of Mood States in an Australian college sample of 289 undergraduate students. Responses for all 65 items were intercorrelated and subjected to an iterative principal factoring procedure together with rotation to oblique simple structure. Results indicated that the basic subscale structure of the profile is reliable, although some additional factors of emotionality could be discerned. A subsequent higher-order analysis suggested that at the typological mood-state level, the Profile of Mood States primarily indexes three state dimensions of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Arousal.

Evidence Of Typological Mood States From Change-Score (Dr) Factoring Of The Clinical Analysis Questionnaire (Caq), Gregory J. Boyle

Gregory J. Boyle

A series of studies has attempted to elucidate higher-order mood-state dimensions through factor analyses of a number of multidimensional self-report instruments. Results suggest at least five higher-order mood states (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Arousal-Fatigue, Hostility, Depression). However, the question of possible mood states in the psychopathological domain remains unresolved. The present study investigates this issue through second- and third-order dR-analyses of the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire (CAQ). Results indicate further abnormal typological mood-state factors in addition to those previously delineated within the (normal) mood-state sphere.

Commentary: The Role Of Intrapersonal Psychological Variables In Academic School Learning, Gregory J. Boyle

Gregory J. Boyle

Intellectual abilities may contribute up to 25% of the variance in measures of academic school learning. However, the role of intrapersonal variables other than cognitive ability (personality traits, motivational dynamic factors, transitory emotional states) has usually been considered as fairly trivial. Past research, to the contrary, suggests that under stressful conditions, the relative contribution of such intrapersonal factors may even become predominant in influencing achievement. When analyses are based on change scores rather than single-occasion measures (which include trait contamination variance), the influence of emotional states on learning is shown to be very significant indeed.

Jews And Adoption, Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben

No abstract provided.

Next Step, Social Oblivion?, Robert K. Thomas

Robert K. Thomas

This short position paper will consider three questions. First, what are the social and cultural consequences of language loss among North American Indian groups? Second, what is being done to counter this massive language loss? And thirdly, what are some of the tactics we might employ to counter such language loss, if indeed we think it is a problem? Hopefully, this paper will convince the reader that language loss for North American Indians is a very serious problem.

Stalemate In Northern Ireland?, James E. Crimmins, J F. Mcgarry

James E Crimmins

No abstract provided.

Dissolving A Partnership Efficiently, Peter Cramton, Robert Gibbons, Paul Klemperer

Peter Cramton

Several partners jointly own an asset that may be traded among them. Each partner has a valuation for the asset; the valuations are known privately and drawn independently from a common probability distribution. We characterize the set of all incentive-compatible and interim-individually-rational trading mechanisms, and give a simple necessary and sufficient condition for such mechanisms to dissolve the partnership ex post efficiently. A bidding game is constructed that achieves such dissolution whenever it is possible. Despite incomplete information about the valuation of the asset, a partnership can be dissolved ex post efficiently provided no single partner owns too large a …

Bourgeoisie, Staat Und Bildungsburgertum: Idealtypische Modelle Für Die Erforschung Von Bürgertum Und Bürgerlichkeit, Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

La Política Urbana Del Municipio De Quito, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El actual proceso de transformación de Quito, que finalmente desemboca en una nueva forma de organización territorial: la metropolitana (ar. Carrión, F., 1984c), se origina, históricamente, en la coyuntura petrolera de los años setenta, cuando el Estado y las fuerzas sociales involucradas logran consolidarse; lo que posibilita sobre todo al Municipio, emprender una política urbana concertada a través de sus instrumentos fundamentales: la generación de "capital físico", la realización de planes urbanos y la gestión económico-financiera.

Teóricamente, el municipio ecuatoriano forma parte de la base más descentralizada de la administración pública nacional (Avila, 1973), subordinado al orden político constitucional, con …

Quito -Crisis Y Política Urbana-, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La obra que ponemos en manos de nuestros lectores parte del pasado -concebido a partir de la problemática actual- para comprender los profundos contrastes y contradicciones del Quito de hoy.

El libro nos conduce por un conjunto de etapas que marean la vida de la ciudad deteniéndose sobre todo en las dos últimas décadas. La que surge, a de entenderse como una ciudad enteramente nueva en términos de emergencia de nuevos grupos sociales; de problemas y necesidades sociales cuantitativa y cualitativamente diferentes a -los del pasado; del aparecimiento y desarrollo de una administración urbana con otro carácter y del nacimiento …

La Urbanización Ecuatoriana, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Con este trabajo pretendemos realizar un recorrido breve y somero de la historia urbana de nuestro país, desde la conquista y la colonización española hasta nuestros días. Lo hacemos a partir de la colonización española porque consideramos que ella marca el inicio de la separación, por oposición, de la ciudad con el campo. Una oposición que surge desde la ciudad y con predominio sobre el campo; cuestión que permite, desde este momento, el análisis particularizado de la ciudad. Y lo hacemos hasta nuestros días por cuanto nos permite, aunque a grosso modo, tener una visión global del proceso histórico.

El …