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University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 04 - December 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 04 - December 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1996-2009, University Reporter
No abstract provided.
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 04 - December 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 04 - December 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1996-2009, University Reporter
No abstract provided.
Research To Practice: Barriers To Transition Planning For Parents Of Adolescents With Special Health Care Needs, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, James P. Mcintyre Jr., Jean Whitney-Thomas, John Butterworth, Deborah Allen
Research To Practice: Barriers To Transition Planning For Parents Of Adolescents With Special Health Care Needs, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, James P. Mcintyre Jr., Jean Whitney-Thomas, John Butterworth, Deborah Allen
Research to Practice Series, Institute for Community Inclusion
An examination of the transition planning experiences and concerns of family members of young adults with special health care needs.
Latinos In Massachusetts: An Update, Andrés Torres, Lisa Chavez
Latinos In Massachusetts: An Update, Andrés Torres, Lisa Chavez
Gastón Institute Publications
This research report updates the socioeconomic picture of Latinos in Massachusetts. According to estimates contained in this report, the Latino population in Massachusetts experienced vigorous growth during the first half of the 1990s. Not since the 1990 census has there been a broad profile of this rapidly growing segment of the state’s population. This information should assist the general public in understanding some of the basic issues affecting the Hispanic community. It should also be useful to the many individuals and organizations who are concerned about the future of this community and responsible for informed decision-making: elected officials, policy makers, …
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 03 - November 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 03 - November 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1996-2009, University Reporter
No abstract provided.
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 03 - November 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 03 - November 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1996-2009, University Reporter
No abstract provided.
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 02 - October 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 02 - October 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1996-2009, University Reporter
No abstract provided.
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 02 - October 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 02 - October 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1996-2009, University Reporter
No abstract provided.
Economic Currents: The State Of The State Economy, Alan Clayton-Matthews
Economic Currents: The State Of The State Economy, Alan Clayton-Matthews
Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series
The rising trade deficit that originated in the Pacific Rim Tiger economies in the summer of 1997 and then spread to Japan is now inundating the Massachusetts economy. For months we felt its benefits: lower import prices due to the relatively strong dollar; lower raw materials prices, thanks to the drop in worldwide demand; and lower interest rates because of the flight to quality U.S. securities. Now the flip side has become evident. East Asian purchases of American goods have plummeted; they are simply too expensive for these countries to afford. The strong dollar is causing American-made goods to be …
Endnotes: New Current And Leading Indexes For Massachusetts, Alan Clayton-Matthews
Endnotes: New Current And Leading Indexes For Massachusetts, Alan Clayton-Matthews
Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series
Appearing in this issue of Benchmarks is a new current index and a new leading index for the state of Massachusetts. The current index is composed of four state-level economic indicators that move concurrently with the commonwealth's economy: establishment employment, the unemployment rate, withholding taxes, and sales taxes. The index is normalized at 100 in July 1987. Its average trend growth over 1978–96 is set to equal the trend growth of real gross state product. The current index indicates whether the economy is expanding or contracting and at what rate it is doing so. It provides a more comprehensive and …
Slovak Nationalism: Model Or Mirage?, Caroline Barker
Slovak Nationalism: Model Or Mirage?, Caroline Barker
New England Journal of Public Policy
In the face of an increasing number of bloody dissolutions of states around the world, the "velvet divorce" between Czechs and Slovaks has often been cited as evidence that such excesses can be avoided. This article, written before the October 1998 elections that saw the end of the government of Vladimir Meciar, seeks to explain that the peaceful split of these two nations is not an instance that can be replicated elsewhere but grows from the unique nature of Slovak nationalism. The article traces the historical evolution of Slovak nationalism and challenges the view that it has ever been a …
Monitoring Elections In El Salvador And Nicaragua, Jack Spence
Monitoring Elections In El Salvador And Nicaragua, Jack Spence
New England Journal of Public Policy
I observed the February 1990 elections in Nicaragua as a member of both the Latin American Studies Association observation team and that of Hemisphere Initiatives, a group with which I have worked. In El Salvador I headed the Hemisphere Initiatives team. I visited Nicaragua five times during the electoral period, and for El Salvador, for once my academic calendar coincided with Salvadoran history. A sabbatical in the last academic year allowed me to be there during the electoral period.
I should say by way of comparison with Fred Gamst's presentation about Ethiopia that Nicaragua and El Salvador are ethnically and …
Kenya's 1997 Elections: Making Sense Of The Transition Process, Rok Ajulu
Kenya's 1997 Elections: Making Sense Of The Transition Process, Rok Ajulu
New England Journal of Public Policy
The transition process in Kenya appears to be getting nowhere. Six years after the opening of democratic space, politics, political institutions, and governance remain predominantly stuck in the authoritarian quagmire of the past. Lack of broader participation in decision-making processes and absence of consensus around important issues of governance appear to be the norm rather than the exception. Indeed, Kenya's democracy experiment appears to defy conventional democratization models and discourse. It refuses to comply with prescriptive models developed by various Western scholars as the so-called liberal democratic values stubbornly refuse to take root in the country. This article attempts to …
Citizen Views Of Peace Building And Political Transition In Angola, 1997, Carrie Manning
Citizen Views Of Peace Building And Political Transition In Angola, 1997, Carrie Manning
New England Journal of Public Policy
In November 1994, Angola began what became an often circular struggle to implement the Lusaka Protocol, the second of two peace agreements meant to put an end to more than thirty years of civil strife. Four years later, the Lusaka peace process appears to have come unraveled. Just past midway between these two points, the National Democratic Institute carried out a series offocus groups in Angola that sought to gauge citizens' attitudes toward and understanding of key aspects of the war-to-peace transition and the new political system. This article discusses the results of the survey. Initially intended to provide the …
Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley
Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley
New England Journal of Public Policy
This is the next to last issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy before we usher in the new millennium. In the coming year the word itself will go through many uses, many permutations of meaning, be subject of so much tendentious punditry, idiotic speculation, inane commentary, and pompous prognostications that it will have been sucked dry of meaning, and we will be left with a plethora of "millennium specials" and "the top one hundred of the millennium" in everything from cat food to human diet fads, and of course your perennial millennium "special sales" and "personalities of …
What Have We Learned About Postconflict Elections?, Larry Garber, Krishna Kumar
What Have We Learned About Postconflict Elections?, Larry Garber, Krishna Kumar
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article suggests that postconflict elections are a unique subset of transition elections which deserve special attention. The authors describe the evolution of postconflict elections, identify some of their more salient characteristics, and offer preliminary lessons drawn from the recent experiences.
Election Monitoring In Oromia: What Are The Conditions For Democracy?, Frederick C. Gamst
Election Monitoring In Oromia: What Are The Conditions For Democracy?, Frederick C. Gamst
New England Journal of Public Policy
Professor Gamst, a member of the Joint International Observer group (JIOG), reports the problems he monitored during the 1992 electoral campaign and voting activities in the strife-ridden region of Oromia in Ethiopia. His analyses illuminate the background institutional barriers and the politically competitive reasons for the failure of the elections. Gamst discusses the nature of the multitudinous Oromo people and the consequences of any election victory by them for the destiny of Ethiopia. He also describes the sometimes violent aftermaths of the failed election of 1992 and its follow-up election of 1994, in which the Oromo were again denied reasonable …
Monitoring Elections: Philippines, South Africa, And Mozambique, Padraig O'Malley
Monitoring Elections: Philippines, South Africa, And Mozambique, Padraig O'Malley
New England Journal of Public Policy
Padraig O'Malley was a member of international delegations monitoring elections in the Philippines, South Africa, and Mozambique. These delegations were organized by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), Washington, D.C. O'Malley's opinions, observations, and reflections on these elections are entirely his own and in no way reflect the opinions of NDI.
Democratic Change And Transition In Africa And The Dilemma Of Nigeria, Leonard Robinson Jr.
Democratic Change And Transition In Africa And The Dilemma Of Nigeria, Leonard Robinson Jr.
New England Journal of Public Policy
The 1990s witnessed profound political change throughout the continent of Africa. Tired and frustrated with one-party, autocratic, and often military rule, ordinary African citizens in country after country began to voice and demonstrate their discontent in 1990. As the former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe broke ranks with the Soviet Union to claim their independence, these extraordinary events served as an added catalyst to African civil servants, market women, taxi drivers and peri-urban inhabitants to rise up against what they increasingly viewed as repressive governments and regimes, which had done little or nothing to improve their living standards and …
Snapshots From Jerusalem, Ellen Weiss
Snapshots From Jerusalem, Ellen Weiss
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article is about the author's visit to Jerusalem during her sabbatical. She discusses the history of as well as the modern ethnic tensions in the city and what this means for daily life there. Weiss also explores both the Israeli and Arab elements of the city, and provides cases in which both groups are coming together to work and live together peacefully.
Cambodia's 1998 Elections: The Failure Of Democratic Consolidation, Peter M. Manikas, Eric Bjornlund
Cambodia's 1998 Elections: The Failure Of Democratic Consolidation, Peter M. Manikas, Eric Bjornlund
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article examines why Cambodia 's transition to democracy faltered in the years that followed the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia period despite the international community's assistance to two "democratic" elections.
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 01 - September 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 01 - September 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1996-2009, University Reporter
No abstract provided.
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 01 - September 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston
University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 01 - September 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1996-2009, University Reporter
No abstract provided.
Research To Practice: Employing People With Disabilities: Small Business Concerns And Recommendations, Oce Harrison
Research To Practice: Employing People With Disabilities: Small Business Concerns And Recommendations, Oce Harrison
Research to Practice Series, Institute for Community Inclusion
Survey results from Massachusetts small businesses regarding hiring and employing people with disabilities.
Economic Currents: The State Of The State Economy, Alan Clayton-Matthews
Economic Currents: The State Of The State Economy, Alan Clayton-Matthews
Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series
As economists continue to explain why growth will slow and inflation will reemerge, the Massachusetts jobs engine accelerates, generating jobs and income at an increasing rate even as inflation continues to subside. The state’s expansion has now surpassed the “Miracle Years” in length, and there is no evidence to suggest that it will end soon. In spite of this, a slowing is inevitable; the region is running out of skilled workers and cannot support this rate of growth indefinitely. The pool of available workers now appears concentrated among less-skilled workers with low levels of educational attainment. These workers could support …
Tools For Inclusion: Americans With Disabilities Act (Ada) Title 1: Employment, Joe Marrone
Tools For Inclusion: Americans With Disabilities Act (Ada) Title 1: Employment, Joe Marrone
Tools for Inclusion Series, Institute for Community Inclusion
Brief overview of the concepts and scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act, plus resource lists.
Educational Attainment, Non-English Language Usage, And Ability To Communicate In English In 30 Massachusetts Cities/Towns, Edward C. Besozzi, Carole C. Upshur
Educational Attainment, Non-English Language Usage, And Ability To Communicate In English In 30 Massachusetts Cities/Towns, Edward C. Besozzi, Carole C. Upshur
Gastón Institute Publications
Data regarding an individual's ability, or the ability of members of a household to speak English, primary language spoken at home, educational attainment, and the level of literacy proficiency should be taken into consideration when designing and implementing policies regarding health care initiatives and the publication of health care information. This report highlights data collected from three sources: 1) The National Adult Literacy Survey; 2) The 1990 Federal Census; and 3) The Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Preservation Of The Records Of The Massachusetts Bay Company, Dale H. Freeman
Preservation Of The Records Of The Massachusetts Bay Company, Dale H. Freeman
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
A paper that dually examines the painstaking work done by Boston Historian Nathaniel Shurtleff in 1853, to preserve the records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and the methods of record keeping within the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and after.
Resources File On Records Of Boston Social Welfare Agencies, Elizabeth R. Mock
Resources File On Records Of Boston Social Welfare Agencies, Elizabeth R. Mock
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
One of the Healey Library's areas of collection focus is 19th century private social welfare and charitable agencies of the Boston area. This paper reports on the creation of an electronic resource file with entries on every organization, institution, and society that fits that category.
Nursing Home Ownership And Public Policy: An Historical Analysis, K. R. Kaffenberger
Nursing Home Ownership And Public Policy: An Historical Analysis, K. R. Kaffenberger
Graduate Doctoral Dissertations
In the early days of the United States, care of the disabled elderly outside the home meant the public almshouse. By the 1920s, private, nonprofit homes for the aged were prevalent. More recently, private, for-profit facilities have grown to dominate the field.
For-profit ownership has been controversial. Underlying the controversy is the concern that quality might be lowered in order to enhance profit.
This study asks why most nursing homes are privately owned and why most privately owned nursing homes are operated for profit. It does so with reference to The Nonprofit Economy, in which Burton Weisbrod describes a …