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Organized and written with the collaboration of Marie Gulbransen. ; Town and city life in America.--The westward movement and the growth of transportation.--The mechanical conquest of America.--America's march toward democracy.--Americanizing our foreign-born.--Resources, industries and cities.--Industries and trade which bind nations together.--Explorers and settlers westward bound.--Problems of American industry and business.--Problems of American government. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled emigration that is generally positive, significant for a few countries in the short run and for many countries in the long run once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for.

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled emigration that is generally positive, significant for a few countries in the short run and for many countries in the long run once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for.

Diese Studie behandelt das Thema der tschechischen Emigranten, die seit der Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika auswanderten, und konkret die Frage, wie sich die interkulturelle Lage, in der sie sich nach ihrer Ankunft in den USA befanden, auf ihr Leben und Sprache ausgewirkt hat. Diese Sachverhalte werden auf der Grundlage der Analyse der tschechoamerikanischen Presse untersucht. Der Bewegungsgrund dafür ist die Tatsache, dass Journalistik in der Emigration alle Änderungen treu wiederspiegelt, zu denen es im Leben der
Einwanderer kommt. Unser Beitrag behandelt insbesondere die 60er und 70er Jahre des 19. Jahrhunderts, weil in diesem Zeitraum die Interkulturalität im Leben der Tschechen in den USA am stärksten ausgeprägt war. Der Beitrag untersucht sowohl den Inhalt und die Themenbereiche der Periodika als auch deren Sprache. Bei der Analyse der
Sprache werden auf Basis der Applikation der ethnomethodologischen Konversationsanalyse vor allem die Änderungen der sozialen Kategorien behandelt, die die Einwanderer in Beziehung zu ihrer Ethnizität zur Bezeichnung von sich selbst verwendeten. Aufmerksamkeit wird ebenfalls der beginnenden Amerikanisierung der tschechischen Sprache gewidmet.

Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) raises many cultural, ethical, legal, social, and political issues, yet in the growing area of GGR research, humanities and social sciences (HASS) research is often marginalized, constrained and depoliticised. This global dynamic is illustrated by an analysis of the UK GGR research programme. This dynamic matters for the knowledge produced and for its users. Without HASS contributions, too narrow a range of perspectives, futures and issues will be considered, undermining or overpromising the prospects for the responsible development of GGR (and threatening worse side-effects), and limiting our understanding of why and how policy demands GGR solutions in the first place. In response, we present policy principles for bringing HASS fully into GGR research, organized around three themes: (1) HASS-led GGR research, (2) Opening up GGR futures, and (3) The politics of GGR futures.

Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) raises many cultural, ethical, legal, social, and political issues, yet in the growing area of GGR research, humanities and social sciences (HASS) research is often marginalized, constrained and depoliticised. This global dynamic is illustrated by an analysis of the UK GGR research programme. This dynamic matters for the knowledge produced and for its users. Without HASS contributions, too narrow a range of perspectives, futures and issues will be considered, undermining or overpromising the prospects for the responsible development of GGR (and threatening worse side-effects), and limiting our understanding of why and how policy demands GGR solutions in the first place. In response, we present policy principles for bringing HASS fully into GGR research, organized around three themes: (1) HASS-led GGR research, (2) Opening up GGR futures, and (3) The politics of GGR futures.