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American Identity And Attitudes Toward English Language Policy Initiatives, Carlos Garcia, Loretta E. Bass

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Relatively little is known about what individual-level factors drive Americans' attitudes toward offering services to immigrants. Using national-level data and logistic regressions, we examine what factors co-vary with whether respondents agree or disagree with specific policy initiatives regarding support for English language use for immigrants. We then examine what factors are related to whether respondents agree that tax money should be used to fund English classes for immigrant children and adults. We find that age, race, and general warmth toward undocumented immigrants predict English-only attitudes, and that marital status, education, and warmth toward undocumented immigrants predict attitudes toward the use …

Controlling The Levers Of Power: How Advocacy Organizations Affect The Regulation Writing Process, Richard Hoefer, Kristin Ferguson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The Federal regulation-writing process is vital to understanding how laws are translated into policy. This paper re-examines data on human services interest groups active in lobbying the executive branch to determine what factors influence their effectiveness. Building on findings from Hoefer (2000), structural equation modeling is used to re-analyze the original regression model of interest group effectiveness (IGE) on a sample of 127 Washington D.C.-based interest groups. Results indicate that some of the previous findings are not supported and an alternative model is proposed. A group's position, context and access to information and policymakers emerge as significant determinants of IGE. …

Review Of Culture, Capitalism And Democracy In The New America. Richard Harvey Brown. Reviewed By Shanti S. Khinduka., Shanti K. Khinduka

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Richard Harvey Brown, Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. $37.50 hardcover.

Review Of The Logic Of Social Research. Arthur L. Stinchcombe. Reviewed By Marvin D. Feit., Marvin D. Feit

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Arthur L. Stinchcombe, The Logic of Social Research. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $ 20.00 papercover.

Review Of Work And The Workplace: A Resource For Innovative Policy And Practice. Sheila H. Akabas And Paul A. Kurzman. Reviewed By Michalle Mor Barak., Michalle Mor Barak

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review for Sheila H. Akabas, Ph.D. and Paul A. Kurzman, Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. $ 49.50 hardcover.

Review Of Managing Diversity: Towards A Globally Inclusive Workplace. Michalle Mor Barak. Reviewed By Susan J. Lambert., Susan J. Lambert

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Michelle Mor Barak, Managing Diversity: Towards a Globally Inclusive Workplace, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005. $49.95 papercover.

Good Parents Or Good Workers: How Policy Shapes Families' Daily Lives. Jill Duerr Berrick And Bruce Fuller (Eds.)., Mellissa Martin-Mollard

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for J. Duerr Berrick and Bruce Fuller (Eds.), Good Parents or Good Workers: How Policy Shapes Families' Daily Lives. New York: Palgrave, 2005. $39.95 hardcover.

Backlash Against Welfare Mothers Past And Present. Ellen Reese, Allison De Marco

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Ellen Reese, Backlash Against Welfare Mothers Past and Present. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. $ 19.95 papercover.

Thriving In The Wake Of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide. Thema Bryant-Davis., Rose M. Barreto

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Thema Bryant-Davis. Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. $39.95 hardcover.

Widening The Circle: The Practice And Evaluation Of Family Group Conferencing With Children, Youths, And Their Families. Joon Pennell And Gary Anderson (Eds.)., Anne Abramson-Madden

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Joan Pennell and Gary Anderson (Eds.), Widening the Circle: The Practice and Evaluation of Family Group Conferencing with Children, Youths, and their Families. Washington, DC: NASW Press, 2005. $49.99 papercover.

University Of Montana Events Monday, March 5, Through Monday, March 12, 2007, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Emergency Transportation Preparedness, Management, And Response In Urban Planning And Development, Brian Wolshon

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

March 1, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the March 1, 2007, meeting of the University Senate. 7 pages

Conflict, Terrorism And The Media In Asia, Rebekah L. Bina

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia (Benjamin Cole ed., RoutledgeCurzon 2006) [hereinafter Cole].

The fourth and latest release in a series of publications on the impact of media and changes in societal culture in Asia, this book provides a study of the subnational conflicts across Asia and the global "War on Terror." The authors examine the condition of free press, access to media, and diversity in news reporting to explore how media is used as a tool to facilitate ideological coalition, shelter populations, and maintain political stability.

Using Emerging Technologies To Serve The Underserved, Andree' Robinson-Neal

Essays in Education

Community colleges in America developed out of a need to fill the gap between high school or technical education and university-level study. The two-year postsecondary experience which is typically offered at locations that are “community friendly” has attracted persons of color and those with more conservative economic means in ever-increasing numbers. Historically, these marginalized populations have experienced educational inequalities in larger numbers than other groups. As statistics show increasing enrollments from members of these groups, community colleges must provide and improve services that appropriately address both student need and societal demand. Students who are able to successfully obtain transfer to …

2007 Abstract Book, Undergraduate Research Forum

Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Forum Abstract Books

No abstract provided.

Latino Participation In Food Assistance Programs: A Study Conducted For Project Bread, Anny Rivera-Ottenberger, Elaine Werby

Center for Social Policy Publications

Concern with low participation rates of households eligible for the Food Stamp program is shared among many groups focusing on the social and health needs of the low income population. While strides have been made in improving these rates, still both nationally and here in Massachusetts too many families are still food insecure, or worse, still hungry. Project Bread, the leading statewide anti-hunger organization, allocates resources for research, programs, and activities to promote greater utilization of the food stamp and other food assistance programs.

Project Bread through its direct service program provides telephone and Internet information and assistance to potential …

March 2007, Syracuse University In Florence

Foglio

No abstract provided.

The Cost Of Norms: Tax Effects Of Tacit Understandings, Alex Raskolnikov

University of Chicago Law Review

Most human interactions take place in reliance on tacit understandings, customary practices, and other legally unenforceable agreements. A considerable literature studying these informal arrangements (commonly referred to as social norms) has a decidedly positive flavor, arguing that many, if not most, of these norms are welfare enhancing. This Article looks at the less-appreciated darker side of social norms. It combines an analysis of modern sophisticated tax planning techniques with existing empirical studies of commercial relationships to reveal a disturbing connection. By relying on tacit understandings rather than express contractual terms, many taxpayers shift some of their tax liabilities to those …

Predicting Corporate Governance Risk: Evidence From The Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurance Market, Tom Baker, Sean J. Griffith

University of Chicago Law Review

This Article examines how liability insurers transmit and transform the content of corporate and securities law. Directors' & Officers' (D&O) liability insurers are the financiers of shareholder litigation in the American legal system, paying on behalf of the corporation and its directors and officers when shareholders sue. The ability of the law to deter corporate actors thus depends upon the insurance intermediary. How, then, do insurers transmit and transform the content of corporate and securities law in underwriting D&O coverage? In this Article, we report the results of an empirical study of the D&O underwriting process. Drawing upon in-depth interviews …

The Allure Of Technology: How France And California Promoted Electric And Hybrid Vehicles To Reduce Urban Air Pollution, David Calef, Robert Goble

Sustainability and Social Justice

All advanced industrialized societies face the problem of air pollution produced by motor vehicles. In spite of striking improvements in internal combustion engine technology, air pollution in most urban areas is still measured at levels determined to be harmful to human health. Throughout the 1990s and beyond, California and France both chose to improve air quality by means of technological innovation, adopting legislation that promoted clean vehicles, prominently among them, electric vehicles (EVs). In California, policymakers chose a technology-forcing approach, setting ambitious goals (e.g., zero emission vehicles), establishing strict deadlines and issuing penalties for non-compliance. The policy process in California …

The Experience Of Retirement. Robert S. Weiss., Nancy Giunta

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Robert S. Weiss, The Experience of Retirement. New York: Cornell University Press, 2005. $18.95 papercover.

Police Chiefs, Anomia, And Leadership, Kraig L. Hays, Robert M. Regoli, John D. Hewitt

Peer Reviewed Publications

This research assesses a potentially harmful condition among police chiefs: anomia. The article analyzes a large (N = 1,120) stratified sample survey of American police chiefs. Nine hypotheses are tested using multiple regressions. Results show relatively little anomia (as defined by Srole’s 5-point Likert-type scale) among the respondents. Data analysis reveals little relationship between anomia and the following four variables: age, being a chief in a previous jurisdiction, race/ethnicity, and internal hire. However, the analysis also reveals significant negative relationships between anomia and education, merit selection, and years in law enforcement and between anomia and size of department and tenure …

Spartan Daily, March 1, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 128, Issue 21

Comments On The Comments, Robert S. Summers

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The paper replies to Bix and Soper (Bix 2007; Soper 2007). Bix’s paper raises methodological questions, especially whether a form-theorist merely needs to reflect on form from the arm-chair so to speak. A variety of methods is called for, including conceptual analysis, study of usage, “education in the obvious,” general reflection on the nature of specific functional legal units, empirical research on their operation and effects, and still more. Further methodological remarks are made in response to Soper’s paper. Soper suggests the possibility of substituting “form v. substance” of a unit as the central contrast here rather than form v. …

Foreigners' Fate In America's Courts: Empirical Legal Research, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This article revisits the controversy regarding how foreigners fare in U.S. courts. The available data, if taken in a sufficiently big sample from numerous case categories and a range of years, indicate that foreigners have fared better in the federal courts than their domestic counterparts have fared. Thus, the data offer no support for the existence of xenophobic bias in U.S. courts. Nor do they establish xenophilia, of course. What the data do show is that case selection drives the outcomes for foreigners. Foreigners’ aversion to U.S. forums can elevate the foreigners’ success rates, when measured as a percentage of …

Lawyers And Prophetic Justice, Timothy Floyd

Mercer Law Review

The statue of Lady Justice, a blindfold over her eyes, holding scales in one hand and a sword in the other, is our traditional visual image of justice. The scales convey the idea of neutrality and the weighing of competing interests; they emphasize rationality and the application of neutral principles in decision making. The blindfold emphasizes equality before the law, that the law is dispassionate and objective, and that decision making is untainted by bias. The statue also implies the stability and permanence of the justice system.

In my experience with lawyers, justice is not a regular topic in our …

Contract Law And The Second-Person Standpoint: Why Efficiency-Maximization Principles Can Neither Explain Nor Justify The Expectation Damages Remedy, Robin Bradley Kar

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dynamics Of Asynchronous Random Boolean Networks With Asynchrony Generated By Stochastic Processes, Xutao Deng, Huimin Geng, Mihaela Teodora Matache

Mathematics Faculty Publications

An asynchronous Boolean network with N nodes whose states at each time point are determined by certain parent nodes is considered. We make use of the models developed by Matache and Heidel [Matache, M.T., Heidel, J., 2005. Asynchronous random Boolean network model based on elementary cellular automata rule 126. Phys. Rev. E 71, 026232] for a constant number of parents, and Matache [Matache, M.T., 2006. Asynchronous random Boolean network model with variable number of parents based on elementary cellular automata rule 126. IJMPB 20 (8), 897–923] for a varying number of parents. In both these papers the authors consider an …

Commanded To Enjoy: The Waning Of Traditional Authority And Its Implications For Public Administration, Gary S. Marshall

Public Administration Faculty Publications

This article addresses the recent changes in social experience and the effect these changes have on the practice of public administration. It is argued that we have moved from a society of prohibition to a society of commanded enjoyment. This thesis is explored using the frame of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The central claim is that the waning of traditional authority means that enjoyment or jouissance operates on an axis of possibility or impossibility. In such a realm, the coterminous relationship of science and the market make most things possible.