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Miller, Harold Asher, B. 1939 (Mss 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 679. Correspondence, speeches, political material and notes related to Harold Asher Miller’s political career, which included several terms on the Bowling Green City Commission and one term as the city’s Mayor in the 1980s. It also includes material related to several Miller campaigns for the Warren County Judge Executive position.

Understanding The Characteristics Of Remittance Recipients In Venezuela: A Country In Economic Crisis, Nicole A. Degla

Undergraduate Economic Review

This essay analyzes household surveys from the World Bank Global Financial Inclusion Database for the years 2011, 2014, and 2017, as a means to distinguish individual level characteristics of remittance recipients in Venezuela. Remittances are defined as “crossborder, person-to-person payments of relatively low value. The transfers are typically recurrent payments by migrant workers to their relatives in their home countries (World Bank, 2015). Through the use of a linear probability model and probit regressions, I examine the variables age, gender, education level, and income quintile. Results of the analysis find that age has a statistically significant negative effect on the …

Moroccan Islamists Debate The Causes Of Violent Extremism, Jack V. Kalpakian

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

Using Moroccan sources associated with the Islamist movement, this paper outlines the theological and political challenges facing Morocco in terms of violent extremism, especially those posed by certain Wahhabi and Salafist views that reject mainstream Moroccan Islam. It outlines the state’s response to terrorism and evaluates its causes as offered by several Islamist Moroccan intellectuals.

Morocco’S Makhzen And The Challenge Of National Development, Zakaria Fatih

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

This article explores the question of national development in Morocco considering the institution of the makhzen. It asserts that to adequately assess Morocco’s national development as a post-colonial country, it is necessary to rely on an economic model based in politics rather than in theories exclusively informed by classical and neoclassical economics. Among the key economists called upon to investigate the validity of politics in discussions of national development and income inequality are the following: Simon Kuznets, Thomas Piketty, W. A. Lewis, and the duo Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, all of whom continue a long tradition of economic …

The Progressive Transformation Of Medellín- Colombia: A Successful Case Of Women's Political Agency, María Auxiliadora González-Malabet

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Medellín, Colombia, once one of the most corrupt and violent cities in the world, is now one of the most progressive and democratic cities in South America. This transformation was due to the mobilization of women’s movements and the influx of women in the city’s executive branch. Female political agency and new urban development programs reshaped democratic practices for the citizenry. This research examines the robust association between women’s organizations, women from Compromiso Ciudanano (CC), and a solid and active civil society. The theoretical framework covers democratization, good governance, and Latin American/Indigenous Feminism. The sources include interviews, polls, news articles, …

Discussion Of War And Rights: The Impact Of War On Political And Civil Rights, David Rousseau

Campus Conversations in Standish

How does warfare impact the political and civil liberties of men, women, and minorities? Hintze (1906) and Lasswell (1941) argue states facing a severe security threat are likely to reduce rights in order to minimize domestic opposition to the war and maximize mobilization potential. Downing (1992) and Klinkner and Smith (1999) argue that under certain circumstances mobilization for war can unintentionally lead to an expansion of rights. This presentation explores these arguments with finding from historical case studies (e.g., Imperial Russia, Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, African Americans in World War I and II, and Tirailleurs Senegalese in World War I).

European Banking Union D: Cross-Border Resolution—Dexia Group, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Natalia Tente, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

In September 2008, Dexia Group, SA, the world’s largest provider of public finance, experienced a sudden liquidity crisis. In response, the governments of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg provided the company a capital infusion and credit support. In February 2010, the company adopted a European Union (EU)-approved restructuring plan that required it to scale back its businesses and cease proprietary trading. In June 2011, Dexia withdrew from the government-sponsored credit support program before its expiration date, and in July, the company announced that it had passed an EU stress test. However, just three months later, Dexia wrote down its substantial position …

European Banking Union C: Cross-Border Resolution–Fortis Group, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Natalia Tente, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

In August 2007, Fortis Group, Belgium’s largest bank, acquired the Dutch operations of ABN AMRO, becoming the fifth largest bank in Europe. Despite its size and its significant operations in the Benelux countries, Fortis struggled to integrate ABN AMRO. Fortis’s situation worsened with the crash of the US subprime market, which impacted its subprime mortgage portfolio. By July 2008, Fortis’s CEO had stepped down, its stock had lost 70% of its value, and it was on the verge of collapse due to a severe liquidity crisis. The governments of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands quickly came together and agreed to …

European Banking Union B: The Single Resolution Mechanism, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Michael Wedow, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

The options available to European governments to respond to a multinational bank in financial trouble have been severely limited since each country has its own unique laws and authority applicable to banks operating within its borders. The Bank Recovery & Resolution Directive (BRRD), which was adopted in 2013 and scheduled to go into effect January 2015, harmonizes rules across EU countries for how to restructure and resolve failing banks. However, the directive would maintain the existing system of individual national resolution authorities and resolution funds. To better secure the Eurozone banks and to compliment the Single Supervisory Mechanism, which was …

European Banking Union A: The Single Supervisory Mechanism, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Michael Wedow, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

At the peak of the Global Financial Crisis in fall 2008, each of the 27 member states in the European Union (EU) set many of its own banking rules and had its own bank regulators and supervisors. The crisis made the shortcomings of this decentralized approach obvious, and since its formation in January 2011, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has been developing a “Single Rulebook” that will harmonize banking rules across the EU countries. In June 2012, European leaders went even further, committing to a banking union that would better coordinate supervision of banks in the then 18-country Eurozone. A …

European Central Bank Tools And Policy Actions B: Asset Purchase Programs, Chase P. Ross, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

Beginning in August 2007, the European Central Bank (ECB) used standard and non-standard monetary policies as the global financial markets progressed from initial turmoil to a widespread sovereign debt crisis. This case describes the key features of the ECB’s asset purchase programs throughout the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent European sovereign debt crisis. These programs include the Covered Bond Purchase Programs (CBPP1, CBPP2, CBPP3), Securities Markets Program (SMP), Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT), Asset-backed Securities Purchase Program (ABSPP) and the Public Sector Purchase Program (PSPP).

In combating the crises, the ECB designed various innovative programs which it successively employed as the …

European Central Bank Tools And Policy Actions A: Open Market Operations, Collateral Expansion And Standing Facilities, Chase P. Ross, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

Beginning in August 2007, the European Central Bank (ECB) responded to market turmoil with a variety of standard and non-standard monetary policy tools. This case discusses the operational framework of the ECB’s open market operation tools and standing facilities before and during the financial crisis. Specifically, this case describes the ECB’s use of its main refinancing and longer-term refinancing operations, the expansion of collateral eligible for use in Eurosystem credit operations, and the ECB’s standing facilities, including its marginal lending and deposit facilities.

Ireland And Iceland In Crisis D: Similarities And Differences, Arwin G. Zeissler, Daisuke Ikeda, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

On September 29, 2008—two weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers—the government of Ireland took the bold step of guaranteeing almost all liabilities of the country’s major banks. The total amount guaranteed by the government was more than double Ireland’s gross domestic product, but none of the banks were immediately nationalized. The Icelandic banking system also collapsed in 2008, just one week after the Irish government issued its comprehensive guarantee. In contrast to the Irish response, the Icelandic government did not guarantee all bank debt. Instead, the Icelandic government controversially split each of the three major banks into a new …

Ireland And Iceland In Crisis A: Increasing Risk In Ireland, Arwin G. Zeissler, Karen Braun-Munzinger, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

Ireland went from being the poorest member of the European Economic Community in 1973 to enjoying the second highest per-capita income among European countries by 2007. Healthy growth in the 1990s eventually gave way to a concentrated boom in property-related lending in the 2000s. The growth in the aggregate loan balances of Ireland’s six major banks greatly exceeded the growth in gross domestic product (GDP); as a result, bank loan balances grew from 1.1 times GDP in 2000 to over 2.0 times GDP by 2007. Given the small size of the domestic retail depositor base, the Irish banks increasingly funded …

C-Dem Researchers Meeting Notes, November 10, 2019, Consortium On Electoral Democracy

Meeting Notes

No abstract provided.

The Goodness Of God And His Children As A Fundamental Theological Concept In The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

The phrase goodness of God does occur occasionally in the Hebrew Bible, but has not been considered by Old Testament scholars to be an independent principle in Israelite theology. Rather, it has been interpreted as just another way of talking about God’s acts of hesed or loving kindness for his covenant people and is usually interpreted in the context of the covenants Israel received through Abraham and Moses. The Book of Mormon clearly echoes that Old Testament pattern, but also presents two additional conceptual frameworks that are explained in terms of the goodness of God. It advances an explicit …

Learning Europe, Jesse Giammarino

Showcase of Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Activities

Learning Europe is an annual project that takes place in the high schools of Florence and Pistoia in Italy. JMU master’s students in the European Union Policies Studies program in Florence attend these high schools for two sessions to teach Italian students about the European Union. JMU students go to these meeting either alone or in pairs of two, but with a JMU faculty member (usually a teaching assistant) who assists in the sessions. The two sessions are broken up by the material taught in them, with a natural progression from topics discussed in the first to the topics discussed …

Andrew T. Hatcher: Press, Public Information & Perception For A Nation In Transition Historical Content Analysis On The First African American To Serve As A White House Associate Press Secretary, Nayita Wilson

LSU Master's Theses

Andrew T. Hatcher rose to one of the highest positions in U.S. government when he became the first African American to serve as associate White House press secretary in 1960 under the administration of President John F. Kennedy and during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. This is a historical content analysis that analyzes Hatcher’s role through primary sources, presidential archives, and select national, local, and minority newspapers.

The overarching purpose of this study was to ascertain Hatcher’s role as associate White House press secretary during civil rights. This study provides further insight into: 1) to what extent did …

Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule And Political Rupture [Table Of Contents], William Callison, Zachary Manfredi

Sociology

Tales of neoliberalism’s death are serially overstated. Following the financial crisis of 2008, neoliberalism was proclaimed a “zombie,” a disgraced ideology that staggered on like an undead monster. After the political ruptures of 2016, commentators were quick to announce “the end” of neoliberalism yet again, pointing to both the global rise of far-right forces and the reinvigoration of democratic socialist politics. But do new political forces sound neoliberalism’s death knell or will they instead catalyze new mutations in its dynamic development?

Mutant Neoliberalism brings together leading scholars of neoliberalism—political theorists, historians, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists—to rethink transformations in market rule …

Ribbon: Clinton Inauguration Ribbon

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Ribbon commemorating the inauguration of Bill Clinton. No date given. Box 16 Folder 18

Kansas Speaks Fall 2019 Statewide Public Opinion Survey, Brett Zollinger Ph.D., Jian Sun Ph.D., Michael Walker M.S., Luis Montelongo

Docking Institute of Public Affairs

The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University conducted the 2019 Kansas Speaks fall survey from August 26 to October 14, 2019. A random sample of 352 adult residents of Kansas age 18 and older were surveyed by telephone to assess their attitudes and opinions regarding various issues of interest to Kansas citizens.

Gender In Bethel University’S Political Science Department: A Qualitative Study Of The Experiences Of Female Political Science Students, Sarah E. Bylsma

Library Research Prize Student Works

In one political science class I took recently, I noticed some interesting behaviors among myself and my classmates...This situation got me thinking about the role that gender plays in politics, and this course gave me the opportunity to closely examine how gender may be playing a role in the Political Science Department at Bethel. Currently, Bethel has no female political science professors, despite intentional efforts to look for female candidates during the most recent hiring process. Statistically speaking, the Political Science Department, which consists of three majors: Political Science, Business and Political Science, and International Relations, is comprised of 45% …

Book Review: The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, And Post-Soviet Migration To The United States, By Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Book Review: To Swim With Crocodiles: Land, Violence, And Belonging In South Africa, 1800-1996 By Jill E. Kelly. East Lansing, Mi: Michigan State University Press, 2018, Pp. 396. $49.95 (Pbk)., Robin L. Turner

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This is a Review of To Swim with Crocodiles: land, violence, and belonging in South Africa, 1800–1996 by Jill E. Kelly. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2018. Pp. 396. $49.95 (pbk). Originally published in The Journal of Modern African Studies.

Politikat Lokale – Bashkëpunimi Ndërkomunal Në Kosovë, Muhamet Bytyçi

Theses and Dissertations

Politikat lokale dhe mekanizmat e vendim-marrjes komunale janë pjesë përbërëse e institucioneve politike publike të çdo vendi demokratik. Përveç karakteristikave lokale tradicionale të detyrave që kanë komunat, janë edhe disa aspekte të tjera që i japin dinamikë zhvillimit lokal të politikave komunale.

Një nga politikat që ka dhënë rezultate duke ndihmuar në shkëmbimin e përvojave, në punët e përbashkëta, në krijimin e besimit shumëpalësh dhe në uljen e dallimeve partiake, etnike dhe ideologjike në përpjekjen për një sistem komunikimi të drejtë e progresiv në mes të komunave në Kosovë është edhe politika e bashkëpunimin ndërkomunal.

Ky punim ofron një qasje …

Sfida E Integrimit Europian Të Kosovës, Gentiana Sahiti

Theses and Dissertations

Ky studim ka për qëllim të paraqesë disa sfida që pengojnë ecjen përpara të integrimit europian të e Ballkanit Perëndimor duke e vendosur theksin në sfidat që ka Kosova. Integrimi Evropian është një fushë mjaft e re për Kosovën në veprimtarinë e saj politike në fushën e marrëdhënieve ndërkombëtare e cila ka mbështetetje shumë të madhe popullore. Disa prej pengesave kryesore të Kosovës në rrugën e integrimit në Bashkimin Eurpian janë lufta kundër korrupsionit, vendosja e sundimit të ligjit të barabartë për të gjithë dhe vazhdimi i reformave të gjithanëshme në shoqëri dhe institucionet demokratike.

Shtetet e Ballkanit Perëndimor ndodhen …

Outsourcing, Vendimi Për Nënkontraktimin E Specialiteteve Nga Jashtë Dhe Impakti Në Burime Njerëzore, Leonora Shala

Theses and Dissertations

Vendimet që merr organizata janë të shumta dhe shpesh duhet një analizë komplekse për të arritur në vendime të duhura. Në dy dekadat e fundit, një fenomen ekonomik mori zhvillim, ky fenomen karakterizohet nga transferimi i prodhimit ose i aktiviteteve. Shfrytëzimi i burimeve të jashtëm (outsourcing) është kur kompania, disa nga funksionet, proceset e saj i’a beson një kompanie të specializuar për kryerjen e një shërbimi të caktuar. Organizatat mund të presin që të arrijnë përfitime të ndryshme përmes një nënkontraktimi të suksesshëm edhe pse ka rreziqe të konsiderueshme që mund të realizohen në qoftë se ndjekja e strategjisë së …

Kosova Në Vitet 89-90, Ibadete Ramadani

Theses and Dissertations

Jugosllavia si shteti Sllav i Jugut, fillimisht i formuar në vitin 1918, nën emrin e Mbretërisë së tre popujve sllavë: sllovenët, Kroatët dhe serbët, dhe më pas si vend komunist, i krijuar pas Luftës së Dytë Botërore, ka luajtur një rol të rëndësishëm në rajon dhe politikën ndërkombëtare. Federata e re përbëhej nga gjashtë republika dhe dy krahina autonome, të cilat ishin elemente përbërëse të federatës që kanë të drejtën e vetos. Shteti Jugosllav luajti një rol të rëndësishëm në skenën ndërkombëtare, sidomos nëpërmjet Lëvizjes Jo të Aligned e cila u themelua me Indinë dhe Egjiptin. Udhëheqësi i saj, Josip …

“Korrupsioni Si Dukuri Negative E Administratës Publike Në Republikën E Kosovës ”, Vildane Xhemajli

Theses and Dissertations

Korrupsioni ekziston, prej që ekziston njerëzimi, në të gjitha mjediset, në të gjitha sistemet dhe regjimet e mundshme. Ai u përshtatet të gjitha situatave dhe mbijeton edhe gjatë fushatave më të organizuara kundër tij. Nënkupton çdo shkelje të detyrës së personave zyrtarë ose përgjegjës në subjektet juridike dhe çdo veprimtari e iniciatorëve apo përfituesve të kësaj sjelljeje, e drejtuar si përgjigje ndaj një shpërblimi që drejtpërdrejt apo indirekt është premtuar, ofruar, dhënë, kërkuar, pranuar apo është pritur për t'u marrë për veten apo për një person tjetër.

Korrupsioni është i pranishëm pothuajse në të gjitha institucionet, duke përfshinë si shërbyes …

Diversity In Party Leadership In State Legislatures, Eric Hansen, Christopher J. Clark

Political Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Members of historically underrepresented groups—women, African Americans, Latinos, and workers—are serving in American legislatures in increasing numbers. However, legislators wield substantially greater power in the lawmaking process when they hold leadership positions. Incorporation of these groups into leadership positions could indicate fuller political representation, but scholars to date have not assessed how well these groups are represented in leadership. We analyze original data describing the backgrounds of approximately 2,200 leaders in 30 states between 2003 and 2014. The data show that, on average across states, members of these groups are as well represented in state legislative leadership positions as they …