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AbstractThe process of political transition in Mexico has fostered several institutional transformations in the political system. Such changes do not modify the system's design, but they do reactivate some basic institutions and forgotten powers that affect the operation of the political system as a whole. The state governors have undergone one of the most relevant transformations: they have gained more autonomy and have forged a new relationship with the federal executive. This essay analyzes the different actions governors have taken depending on their partisan origin. While the PAN governors focus on administrative and financial issues, the PRI governors have developed the most important political challenges to the president's authority.

The hostile and patronizing attitudes of native Americans toward the increasing number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe at the turn of the century raise a number of issues that bear on the history of U.S. immigration policy and on other matters. Utilizing Zellner's SUR technique, a model of settlement patterns of ten immigrant nationalities is estimated, and the appropriate F-statistics are generated to test several of these issues: (1) Did "new" immigrants behave as purposefully as contemporaneous "old" migrants from northwestern Europe? (2) Did they react as did the old migrants to a variety of socioeconomic factors? (3) Were the new migrants more dependent on the cultural support of earlier migrated countrymen? The findings indicate diverse, but purposeful, behavior within both the new and the old migrant groups with few systematic differences between them.

The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries of economy and finance. Our main finding is that there is little heterogeneity across regions when considering a non quality-adjusted measure of education attainment in public administrations. Adjusting our measure for quality, using a country wide academic ranking, reveals important cross-regional hete

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Political and Social Change in England from 1660 to 1775 -- Notes: -- References: -- Chapter 2: Political and Social Change in the American Colonies from 1660 to 1783 -- The 13 English Colonies -- Notes: -- References: -- Chapter 3: Political and Social Change in the United States from 1784 to 1900 -- States of the Union during the Civil War -- Confederate States during the Civil War -- Notes: -- References: -- Chapter 4: Political and Social Change in the United States from 1901 to 1960 -- Notes: -- References: -- Chapter 5: Political and Social Change in the United States from 1961 to 2000 -- Notes: -- References: -- Chapter 6: Political and Social Change in the United States, from 2001 to 2020 -- Notes: -- References: -- Appendix A: Presidents of the United States and the National Debt -- Appendix B: Unemployment Rates for Each President Since 1929 -- Appendix C: Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union -- Appendix D: Declaration of Independence -- Appendix E: The Constitution of the United States -- Appendix F: The Amendments to the Constitution -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.

Abstract: Thomas Carothers' "The 'Sequencing Fallacy" is largely correct in its criticisms of the argument that democratic reforms ought to be delayed until after a liberal rule of law and economic growth have been achieved. However, Carothers does not take sufficiently into account the need to create a coherent nation as the beginning point of the state-building process, something that usually requires changing borders or moving populations and has seldom in human history been accomplished without violence. The norm prohibiting such changes in Africa has in effect prohibited the sequencing of state-building and both rule of law and democracy there, contributing in some measure to state weakness.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the overall users' satisfaction with preschool institutions, and the correlation between different socio-economic characteristics of the respondents and their satisfaction with the obtained services. A survey was conducted in seven towns and municipalities in the Province of Vojvodina in Serbia, including 7798 parents of children using preschool services. The research instrument was a questionnaire composed based on similar surveys of user satisfaction. Multiple regression analysis served as the tool in analyzing the relationship between the users' socio-economic background and overall satisfaction with services. Overall parent satisfaction with preschool education services appears lower among respondents with higher education, those who participate in the costs of preschool services and those living in urban areas.

From domination to negotiation from 1949 to today: declining state capacity, rising Protestant numbers -- The role of official associations: projecting a façade of domination in the public transcript -- Resisting the official agenda, sharing grassroots values: the spread of Protestant groups -- Cultivating social capital as a resource for Protestant resistance -- Enlarging the bounds of the public transcript: founding large, public urban churches -- Repression of an urban church Shanghai's Wanbang Church -- Challenging the bounds of the public transcript - Beijing Shouwang Church

In early 2020, Indonesia and almost all countries worldwide faced the Covid-19 pandemic. The government issued a regulation to implement online learning activities in the education sector. Responding to the regulation, the Directorate General of Tax issued a policy stating that the dissemination activities can be done online. Effective communication is needed to fill the gap between information delivered by the dissemination officer and taxpayers' understanding. Therefore, the online tax education in the Makassar Utara Tax Office is required to be presented attractively to change the taxpayers' behaviors. The present study aims to analyze the communication effectiveness in online tax dissemination held by the Makassar Utara Tax Office. Conducted in the Makassar Utara Tax Office, this quantitative action research involved 105 taxpayers classified as high compliance risk, recruited using a probability sampling technique. The primary data were collected using a questionnaire, while the secondary data were gathered from literature and the Makassar Utara Tax Office reports. The study found that online learning communication in tax dissemination was very effective. Most taxpayers access tax-related information more than five times a year to fulfill their tax obligation. Most taxpayers stated that the online dissemination was presented attractively, clearly, and relevant to their tax-related needs.

The present article addresses the question of whether there is a link between the spatial patterns of human development and period fertility in the United States at the county level. Using cross-sectional analyses of the relationship between Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and an array of human development indicators (pertaining to three components of the Human Development Index (HDI) – wealth, health, and education), this study sheds light on the relationship between fertility and human development. The analyses were conducted separately for urban, suburban and rural counties. According to the multivariate results, a negative association between selected human development indicators and TFR exists in suburban and rural counties, as well as in the United States as a whole. However, this is not the case for urban counties, where the results were inconclusive. Some indicators (e.g., median income per capita) were found to be positively, and some (e.g., the share of adults with at least bachelor's degree) negatively, associated with TFR in urban counties. All in all, our results provide evidence of a negative relationship between human development indicators and period fertility in the United States at the county level, a finding which is consistent with the basic tenets of classic demographic transition theory. ; The present article addresses the question of whether there is a link between the spatial patterns of human development and period fertility in the United States at the county level. Using cross-sectional analyses of the relationship between Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and an array of human development indicators (pertaining to three components of the Human Development Index (HDI) – wealth, health, and education), this study sheds light on the relationship between fertility and human development. The analyses were conducted separately for urban, suburban and rural counties. According to the multivariate results, a negative association between selected human development indicators and TFR exists in suburban and rural counties, as well as in the United States as a whole. However, this is not the case for urban counties, where the results were inconclusive. Some indicators (e.g., median income per capita) were found to be positively, and some (e.g., the share of adults with at least bachelor's degree) negatively, associated with TFR in urban counties. All in all, our results provide evidence of a negative relationship between human development indicators and period fertility in the United States at the county level, a finding which is consistent with the basic tenets of classic demographic transition theory.

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The paper is devoted to providing a schematic presentation of the evolution of Dobruja's administrative-territorial system as part of Romania, presenting and highlighting the factors that contributed to the Romanian nation- and state-building process. As its primary objective, the study describes the evolution and conscious development of the abovementioned region as part of Romania between the years 1878 and 1926. Also, it formulates as a secondary goal the impact of Dobruja's numerous administrative-territorial reorganizations on the fate of the multicultural community living in the region. At the same time, the aim is also to list and emphasize the strategies, procedures of assimilation, integration, and colonization of the region.