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Mountain Monitor-3rd Quarter 2010, Jonathan Rothwell, Kenan Fikri Dec 2010

Mountain Monitor-3rd Quarter 2010, Jonathan Rothwell, Kenan Fikri

Mountain Monitor Quarterly

One year after the Mountain Monitor began tracking recession and recovery in the Intermountain West, the Southern Nevada economy has yet to turn around. The rate of slippage across a range of indicators has slowed measurably, but evidence of a nascent recovery eludes. Las Vegas' poor relative performance over the past year can be attributed not only to the legacy of a particularly devastating initial wave of economic distress, but also to a continued struggle to slow and reverse the downward trend.


The State-In-Society Approach To Democratization With Examples From Japan, Mary Alice Haddad Sep 2010

The State-In-Society Approach To Democratization With Examples From Japan, Mary Alice Haddad

Mary Alice Haddad

How does an undemocratic country create democratic institutions and transform its polity in such a way that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? This article uses the case of Japan to advocate for a new theoretical approach to the study of democratization. In particular, it examines how theoretical models based on the European and North American experiences have difficulty explaining the process of democratization in Japan, and argues that a state-in-society approach is better suited to explaining the democratization process diverse cultural contexts. Taking a bottom-up view of recent developments in Japanese civil society through …


Mountain Monitor-2nd Quarter 2010, Jonathan Rothwell, Kenan Fikri Sep 2010

Mountain Monitor-2nd Quarter 2010, Jonathan Rothwell, Kenan Fikri

Mountain Monitor Quarterly

The Intermountain West exemplifies the peculiarities of the Great Recession and its subsequently fragile and protracted recovery. Where pre-recession growth in employment and housing prices was fastest, employment losses and housing price declines have been the most severe—in Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Boise most starkly. The profundity of the recession and sluggishness of the recovery have ensured that no metro in the region escaped unscathed, however, and in the second quarter even the best performers fell on some indicators. Perhaps most significantly for the region, housing prices are unlikely to keep falling much further. An analysis by Howard Wial and …


Preservation Ethics In The Case Of Nebraska’S Nationally Registered Historic Properties, Darren Michael Adams Jul 2010

Preservation Ethics In The Case Of Nebraska’S Nationally Registered Historic Properties, Darren Michael Adams

Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This dissertation focuses on the National Register of Historic Places and considers the geographical implications of valuing particular historic sites over others. Certain historical sites will either gain or lose desirability from one era to the next, this dissertation identifies and explains three unique preservation ethical eras, and it maps the sites which were selected during those eras. These eras are the Settlement Era (1966 – 1975), the Commercial Architecture Era (1976 – 1991), and the Progressive Planning Era (1992 – 2010). The findings show that transformations in the program included an early phase when state authorities listed historical resources …


Mother Earth "Speaks": Change Yourself, Change The World, Use The Archetypal Energy "Harmony" As A Guide, Carroy U. Ferguson Jun 2010

Mother Earth "Speaks": Change Yourself, Change The World, Use The Archetypal Energy "Harmony" As A Guide, Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

In relation to the Cosmos, we all, as human beings, live on this tiny planet we call Earth, a planet that supports and sustains life, as we know it. There are many different kinds of people, plants, and animals functioning in harmony with soil, air, and water--all linked to one another in a complex web of life to form one Earth community. Unfortunately, we often take this miracle and ecosystem of life for granted. When, however, we take the ecosystem of life too much for granted, Mother Earth "speaks," reflecting imbalances and dis-harmonies. When Mother Earth "speaks," her message is …


Placing Immigrant Incorporation: Identity, Trust, And Civic Engagement In Little Havana, Richard N. Gioioso Jun 2010

Placing Immigrant Incorporation: Identity, Trust, And Civic Engagement In Little Havana, Richard N. Gioioso

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Immigrant incorporation in the United States has been a topic of concern and debate since the founding of the nation. Scholars have studied many aspects of the phenomenon, including economic, political, social, and spatial. The most influential paradigm of immigrant incorporation in the US has been, and continues to be, assimilation, and the most important place in and scale at which incorporation occurs is the neighborhood. This dissertation captures both of these integral aspects of immigrant incorporation through its consideration of three dimensions of assimilation – identity, trust, and civic engagement – among Latin American immigrants and American-born Latinos in …


Archetypal Energies, "Psychic Politics", And The Transformative Potential Of The Health Care Debate, Carroy U. Ferguson Apr 2010

Archetypal Energies, "Psychic Politics", And The Transformative Potential Of The Health Care Debate, Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

In a previous message, I spoke of “Archetypal Energies, The Emergence of Obama As A Practical Idealist, and Global Transformation” (February/March 2009). I suggested that at issue is what I called “psychic politics for global transformation, nurtured by practical idealism and the Archetypal Energies.” To reiterate, I have described Archetypal Energies as Higher Vibrational Energies, operating deep within our individual and collective psyches, which have their own transcendent value, purpose, quality, and “voice” unique to the individual. We experience them as “creative urges” to move us toward our Highest Good or Optimal Realities. I use easily recognized terms to evoke …


The Evolution Of The Theoretical Foundations Of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory In Public Policy, Michael S. Givel Feb 2010

The Evolution Of The Theoretical Foundations Of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory In Public Policy, Michael S. Givel

Michael S. Givel

Punctuated equilibrium theory in public policy replicated from biological punctuated equilibrium theory has concluded that public policies alternate between stasis and punctuation. However, recent research on Pacific Northwest forest policy, U.S. state tobacco policy, and U.S federal auto efficiency policy have found no punctuations despite an attempt to do so. What is the efficacy of using biological punctuated equilibrium theory to also explain punctuated equilibrium in public policy? Significant differences exist between biological and public policy punctuated equilibrium theory including time frames for change, what constitutes outside disturbances of equilibrium, venues of punctuated equilibrium, levels of analysis for change, and …


From Undemocratic To Democratic Civil Society: Japan's Volunteer Fire Departments, Mary Alice Haddad Jan 2010

From Undemocratic To Democratic Civil Society: Japan's Volunteer Fire Departments, Mary Alice Haddad

Mary Alice Haddad

How do undemocratic civic organizations become compatible with democratic civil society? How do local organizations merge older patriarchal, hierarchical values and practices with newer more egalitarian, democratic ones? This article tells the story of how volunteer fire departments have done this in Japan. Their transformation from centralized war instrument of an authoritarian regime to local community safety organization of a full-fledged democracy did not happen overnight. A slow process of demographic and value changes helped the organization adjust to more democratic social values and practices. The way in which this organization made the transition offers important lessons for emerging democracies …


Bolivia's Coca Headache: The Agroyungas Program, Inflation, Campesinos, Coca And Capitalism In Bolivia, John D. Roberts Jan 2010

Bolivia's Coca Headache: The Agroyungas Program, Inflation, Campesinos, Coca And Capitalism In Bolivia, John D. Roberts

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Bolivia in the 1980s was wracked by monetary inflation approaching levels of the German Weimar Republic. Immediately following this time of great financial crisis in Bolivia, the U.N. founded a project through the U.N.D.P. to encourage peasant farmers in Bolivia to switch from growing coca (the plant used manufacture cocaine) to growing other cash crops for market. This crop substitution and development program, called the Agroyungas Project, lasted from 1985 to 1991 and is the focus of this study. While many U.N. pundits and journalists considered the program’s initial small successes promising, it has been considered since its conclusion to …


Redes Universitárias De Cooperação Internacional No Mercosul, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Redes Universitárias De Cooperação Internacional No Mercosul, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Roraimado, Roraimando, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Roraimado, Roraimando, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Ri 406 - Análise Macroeconômica, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Ri 406 - Análise Macroeconômica, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Ri 406 - Análise Macroeconômica, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Ri 406 - Análise Macroeconômica, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


A Política De Roraima No Topo Dos Gastos De Campanha Eleitoral, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

A Política De Roraima No Topo Dos Gastos De Campanha Eleitoral, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Paradiplomacia Das Cidades: A Regionalização Sul-Americana A Partir Do Local, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Paradiplomacia Das Cidades: A Regionalização Sul-Americana A Partir Do Local, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Campanha Eleitoral Em Roraima: Um Balanço Sobre As Primeiras Semanas, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Campanha Eleitoral Em Roraima: Um Balanço Sobre As Primeiras Semanas, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Ri 603 - Finanças Internacionais, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Ri 603 - Finanças Internacionais, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Estágio Docente De Pós-Graduandos E Auxílio Didático De Graduandos No Ensino De Cursos De Licenciatura, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Estágio Docente De Pós-Graduandos E Auxílio Didático De Graduandos No Ensino De Cursos De Licenciatura, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Custo-Roraima E Os Gastos Nas Eleições De 2010, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Custo-Roraima E Os Gastos Nas Eleições De 2010, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


A Assembleia Legislativa De Roraima Após As Eleições De 2010, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

A Assembleia Legislativa De Roraima Após As Eleições De 2010, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Renovação Política É Aparente (Entrevista), Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Renovação Política É Aparente (Entrevista), Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Geopolítica Dos Complexos Regionais De Segurança Da América Latina, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Geopolítica Dos Complexos Regionais De Segurança Da América Latina, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


O Sistema Eleitoral Moderno E As Desfuncionalidades Da Lógica Política De Roraima, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

O Sistema Eleitoral Moderno E As Desfuncionalidades Da Lógica Política De Roraima, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Custo-Roraima E Os Gastos Nas Eleições De 2010, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Custo-Roraima E Os Gastos Nas Eleições De 2010, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Ri 406 - Analise Macroeconomica, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Ri 406 - Analise Macroeconomica, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Cuba E As Transformações No Monolito, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Cuba E As Transformações No Monolito, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


(In)Segurança Nos Países Sul-Americanos, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

(In)Segurança Nos Países Sul-Americanos, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


A Regionalizaçao Transnacional Na América Do Sul E A Institucionalizaçao Diplomática Da Unasul, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

A Regionalizaçao Transnacional Na América Do Sul E A Institucionalizaçao Diplomática Da Unasul, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Novas Ameaças, Instituições E Tensões Geopolíticas Nos Complexos Regionais De Segurança Da América Central E Caribe E Da América Do Sul, Eloi Martins Senhoras Jan 2010

Novas Ameaças, Instituições E Tensões Geopolíticas Nos Complexos Regionais De Segurança Da América Central E Caribe E Da América Do Sul, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.