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Scholars have provided great theoretical insight and empirical understanding to the concept of representative bureaucracy, documenting the changing makeup of the civil service and demonstrating the importance of representative bureaucracy toward democratic governance. Yet, important questions remain. What specifically does bureaucratic representation mean? Is descriptive representation necessary for policy representation? What characteristics are important? How do we measure representation? Finally, are there any negative effects of representative bureaucracy? This article provides an overview and analysis of the literature focusing on how scholars define and measure representative bureaucracy. Efforts are made to emphasize achievements and highlight areas that need attention.

Corruption has impacted the world, from consumers losing confidence in the economy, to companies losing out on major deals due to high corruption cost. Today bribery is hitting headlines weekly, becoming more prevalent in today's society. Through research and data, this paper analyzes the effectiveness of the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act and the UK Bribery Act of 2010 for the elimination of bribery. The goal of this paper is to show how companies and the government are not actively preventing bribery.

This paper uses poststructural theories, in particular Judith Butler's work, to analyze the performances and interviews of Vancouver-based performers Heather Robertson and Nikki Prime-French and explores how feminist political intervention need not always be directly intentional and organized to be effective. ; Cet article se sert de théories poststructurelles, en particulier le travail de Judith Butler, pour analyser les représentations et les entrevues des artistes de Vancouver Heather Robertson et Nikki Prime-French et explore comment l'intervention féministe n'a pas toujours besoin d'être directement intentionnelle et organisée pour être efficace.

This paper explores three dimensions of China's external relations. First, China can be viewed as a region-state, one in which scale and the diversity of the domestic political economy make it necessary to view the state as an interrelationship of parts even in its external relations. As a sovereign nation, China is a unitary actor unlike international regions, but it is not as uniform an actor as most other states. Second, China is a multi-regional power. Its relationships with the various international regions in which it is a major power are affected by the fact that it is not enclosed by a single region. Lastly, although China is not likely to be in the position of challenging the United States as a global great power in the foreseeable future, its stature as a global presence in a multi-nodal world is already assured. Its global foreign policy of multi-polarity is fundamentally shaped by its situation of being incapable of domination.The salience of China as region-state, multi-regional power, and global presence varies by sphere of activity and partner. Region-state diversity complicates China's domestic political economy and is most relevant to business activities, but it is also a fundamental factor in numerous global issues and in cross-Strait relations. China's neighbors are most affected by China's status as a multi-regional power. Global actors like the United States as well as other non-neighbors are directly affected by China's global presence. However these are dimensions of China's external relations rather than separable categories, and they interact. (China J/GIGA)

The US media has taken an intense interest in the experience of a relatively small group of young males who walked from South Sudan to Ethiopia, spent up to a decade in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya & were eventually re-settled in the USA in 2001. What is behind the celebrity status -- & the cultural misunderstanding -- of those dubbed the 'Lost Boys'? Adapted from the source document.

Front Matter --Copyright page --Advance Praise for Expanding The Rainbow --Foreword /R. F. Plante --Preface --Acknowledgements --Introduction /Brandy L. Simula , Andrea Miller and J. E. Sumerau --Bi+ and Plurisexual Relationships --"By Definition They're Not the Same Thing" /Ashley Green --You Cared before You Knew /Nik Lampe --Sibling Relationships and the Bi+ Coming out Process /Lain A. B. Mathers --Autoethnographic Insights on Media Representations of Bi Narratives /Brittany M. Harder --Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships --Polyamory and a Queer Orientation to the World /Mimi Schippers --Monogamy vs. Polyamory /Michelle Wolkomir --Margins of Identity /Krista L. Benson --Race, Class, Gender, and Relationship Power in Queer Polyamory /Emily Pain --Relational Fluidity /J. E. Sumerau and Alexandra "Xan" C. H. Nowakowski --Kinky/BDSM Relationships --BDSM Relationships /Robin Bauer --Kink Work Online /Angela Jones --BDSM Disclosures and the Circle of Intimates /Katherine Martinez --Finding Yourself in the Dark /Mar Middlebrooks --Asexual Relationships --Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality /Tiina Vares --At the Intersection of Polyamory and Asexuality /Daniel Copulsky --Asexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation /C. J. Chasin --Queering the Nuclear Family /Katie Linder --Intersex Relationships --Understanding Intersex Relationship Issues /Cary Gabriel Costello --Not Going to the Chapel? /Georgiann Davis and Jonathan Jimenez --Shifting Medical Paradigms /Sarah S. Topp --Transgender Relationships --Trans Relationships and the Trans Partnership Narrative /Carey Jean Sojka --"I Try Not to Push It Too Far" /alithia zamantakis --Generational Gaps or Othering the Other? /stef m. shuster --Research on Gender Identity & Youth /Griffin Lacy --Symbiotic Love /Shalen Lowell --Back Matter --For Use in the Classroom /Andrea Miller --Notes on Contributors.

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This article examines the National Council of Negro Women's (NCNW) participation in the founding conference of the United Nations. Moving beyond a focus on formal actors, it situates Mary McLeod Bethune, the organization's founder and president and the only African American woman to serve as an official representative, alongside her contemporaries on whom she relied. It argues that recovering the activism of Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Eunice Hunton Carter, Sue Bailey Thurman, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, and a host of other Black women is to recognize a polity that, by all accounts, was not supposed to be present or active in San Francisco. These women's activities at the conference and in the decades that followed illuminate the broad contours of Black women's antisexist, antiracist, and anticolonial activism during the Second World War into the Cold War period. Akin to their efforts at the founding conference, this population's creative practices and cultural diplomacy reveal that the councilwomen maintained an enduring commitment to global freedom and the United Nations' radical potential.

Building and leading successful teams requires a set of professional skills that hinge on intentional practices and strategies. Yet far too few of us leading teams in higher ed settings have received sufficient — if any — training in how to build and lead teams. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of learning to lead successful, productive, and inclusive teams, you're not alone.