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A Man Of Passion And Vision: George Whitewolf, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

George Whitewolf's home was also just a stone's throw from Washington, D.C, and many Natives from the Lakota, Haudenosaunee, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, and countless other nations would stop at George's place for rest and ceremonies as they prepped for their difficult diplomatic visits to Congress and the BIA to discuss treaty rights, protest events like the Longest Walk, and other politically incendiary topics. In the 1970s, George was also very active in the American Indian Movement and his home was under frequent surveillance by the FBI.

Within a few years, George and his allies had made tremendous progress on both fronts …

Measured Sovereignty: The Political Experiences Of Indigenous Peoples As Nations And Individuals, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

On June 18, 2001, in Washington, D.C., Jack Abramoff, a powerful Washington lobbyist, met with Michael Scanlon, a former congressional communications director, to secretly discuss a partnership centered around a firm known as "Capi­tol Carnpaign Strategies" (CCS). Their strategy, later labeled as "Gimme Five," was designed to put in $5 million a year to CCS, revenue that was to be secured from several Indian nations that had grown wealthy through gaming operations. Later, the expression "Gimme Five" was understood as entailing major kickbacks to Abramoff from payments made by any of Scanlon's American Indian clients to Scanlon. By late 2004, …

An Argument For Guest Worker Programs, Javier S. Hidalgo

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

Several noted economists and prominent international organizations have recently advocated for the implementation of guest worker programs in developed states.1 Their primary argument is that guest worker programs would serve as a powerful mechanism for reducing global poverty and inequality. For example, economist Dani Rodrik estimates that guest worker programs in wealthy states would generate $200 billion or more annually for poor countries. According to Rodrik, liberalizing the temporary movement of workers would “produce the largest possible gains for the world economy, and for poor countries in particular” in comparison with other policies, such as trade liberalization.

Political Traditions: Left Political Movements And The Politics Of Social Justice, Thad Williamson

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

Left political traditions, in this chapter, refer to systems of political thought and theories of political action that aim to transform existing political and economic institutions so as to increase substantially the political and economic power of ordinary people, to eliminate or reduce invidious forms of social inequality, and to prevent private interests from trumping the common good. Although the Left (so defined) shares some goals with liberalism, civic republicanism, and even conservatism, it differs from those political traditions (as generally understood) in that it does not seek to legitimate existing political, economic, and constitutional structures or provide an account …

Beyond Sprawl And Anti-Sprawl, Thad Williamson

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

The widespread acceptance of the term suburban sprawl stands as a major rhetorical victory for critics of the land-use, transportation, and growth patterns characteristic of metropolitan America. As both friends and critics of suburbia have noted, the term sprawl itself has an almost inescapably pejorative connotation (Gordon and Richardson 1997; O'Flaherty 2005). Despite the best efforts of numerous academics to define the term with rigor and precision, what comes to mind first for most people on hearing the term is not some scholar or another's strategy for defining and measuring sprawl, but rather an image of something unpleasant-- a particularly …

Political Traditions: Conservatism, Liberalism, And Civic Republicanism, Thad Williamson

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

How unequal authority and power can be justified is a central question of political theory and of leadership studies (Price & Hicks, 2006). Indeed, while in everyday language leadership is commonly viewed as a positive term and the word leader connotes respect, in some political vernaculars, the very idea of leadership is suspect, if not embarrassing. For instance, one of the most influential public intellectuals of the late 20th century, Noam Chomsky, consistently refers to leadership in disparaging way. In Chomsky's (2005) view, leadership is a code word intended to justify class rule, vastly unequal political and economic power, and …

Political Economy, Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

Political economy describes how human societies are organized by exchange. The critical issue for political economists is the interaction between self-directed decision making and the incentives that turn decisions into approved outcomes. In this interaction, political economists see a key role for leadership, a role that depends upon our common concern for others (Robbins, 1981). There are three roles, then, for leadership in the political economist’s model: self-directed decision making, incentive making, and establishing the criteria for approved outcomes.

The Impact Of Blatant Stereotype Activation And Group Sex-Composition On Female Leaders, Crystal L. Hoyt, Stefanie K. Johnson, Susan Elaine Murphy, Kerry Hogue Skinnell

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

The individual and combined impact of blatant stereotype activation and solo status or mixed-sex groups on the self-appraisals, performance, and anxiety of female leaders was examined across three laboratory studies. The first study utilized a two-condition, two-stage design in which female leaders were exposed to a blatant stereotype threat or control condition after which they completed a leadership task. In the second stage, the threatened leaders received a solo status manipulation (leading a group of men) while the control condition did not. In the second study a 2 (blatant threat, no blatant threat) by 2 (solo status, all-female group) fully …

Leadership And The More-Important-Than-Average Effect: Overestimation Of Group Goals And The Justification Of Unethical Behavior, Crystal L. Hoyt, Terry L. Price, Alyson E. Emrick

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

This research investigates the empirical assumptions behind the claim that leaders exaggerate the importance of their group’s goals more so than non-leaders and that they may use these beliefs to justify deviating from generally accepted moral requirements when doing so is necessary for goal achievement. We tested these biased thought processes across three studies. The results from these three studies established the more-important-than-average effect, both for real and illusory groups. Participants claimed that their group goals are more important than the goals of others, and this effect was stronger for leaders than for non-leading group members. In Study 3, …

Dis-Manteling More, Peter Iver Kaufman

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Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, winner of the prestigious 2009 Booker-Man award for fiction, re-presents the 1520s and early 1530s from Thomas Cromwell's perspective. Mantel mistakenly underscores Cromwell's confessional neutrality and imagines his kindness as well as Thomas More's alleged cruelty. The book recycles old and threadbare accusations that More himself answered. "Dis-Manteling" collects evidence for the accuracy of More's answers and supplies alternative explanations for events and for More's attitudes that Mantel packs into her accusations. Wolf Hall is admirably readable, although prejudicial. Perhaps it is fair for fiction to distort so ascertainably, yet I should think that historians will …

Groups And Teams, Crystal L. Hoyt, Donelson R. Forsyth

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

To understand leaders and leadership, one must understand groups and their dynamics. This chapter describes group-centered leadership, leading change in groups, leaders in groups, decision-making and leadership and social influence and leadership.

Ay 2009/2010 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2009-11-04, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2010-02-10, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2010-03-17, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2009-09-09, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2010-01-13, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2010-06-02, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2010-05-05, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2010-03-31, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Committee On Committees, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Sec Roster, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2009/2010 Memorandum Of Understanding (Mou) For Academic Restructuring, Faculty Senate

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Constitution, Revised October 2010, Faculty Senate

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Nutrition Supplementation And Prevention Of Low Birth Weight, Suwapiccha Attavorrarat

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

Low birth weight is a major determinant of mortality, morbidity and disability in neonates, infancy andchildhood, Therefore improvements in maternal nutrition and health can increase birth weight, survival and growthof the child including subsequent size and health productivity in adult life.

The mother needs an additional intake of nutrients to achieve optimal fetal growth. This additional intakeis 300 kcal per day more than the normal needs of a non-pregnant woman, that is, a minimum intake of 2,500kcal per day. As previously, the favored hypothesis was that timing maternal supplementation during the third trimesterof pregnancy would be most likely to increase …

Daubert And Its Discontents, Ronald J. Allen, Esfand Nafisi

Brooklyn Law Review

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Capping Auditor Liability: Unsuitable Fiscal Policy In Our Current Financial Crisis, Stephanie M. Spell

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Unregulable: Why Derivatives May Never Be Regulated, Alireza M. Gharagozlou

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Lessons Learned From Csx Corp. V. Children's Investment Fund Management And Proposals For Reform, Sean M. Donahue

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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If It's Broken, Sometimes It Can't Be Fixed: Why The Auction Rate Securities Market Was Faulty From Its Inception And How Broker-Dealers Caused Its Downfall, Brendan P. Tracy

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Laws, Sausages, And Bailouts: Testing The Populist View Of The Causes Of The Economic Crisis, J. Scott Colesanti

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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