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Much has occurred in the Dominican Republic since the first edition of this critically acclaimed profile was published ten years ago: Democratic government has become more firmly established, if no less contentious, and the fragile economy, though still the definitive element in Dominican life, has benefited from changes in global trade patterns and corporate investment. Yet the Dominican Republic remains a nation mired in poverty and social tension. As the country heads toward the quincentennial of Columbus's landing in the New World, there is both anticipation and apprehension as the citizenry looks back proudly to their heritage and forward to a future clouded by uncertainties. This edition examines the changing character of governance and the political changes that have returned Joaquin Balaguer to the presidency for an unprecedented sixth term. The economic transitions that have made the Dominican Republic an attractive site for foreign business and tourism are also addressed, along with the economic causes of urban and rural unrest and the emigration of Dominicans to Puerto Rico and the United States. Critical public policy issues such as energy, taxation, population control, and education are explored, together with the social and political conflicts created by debt, austerity, and fiscal reform. Finally, the authors analyze the Dominican Republic's relations with its neighbors and major trading partners, giving special emphasis to the impact of new global and regional ties. Throughout, they focus on the struggle to maintain democracy in the face of the inevitable dislocations caused by economic reform and modernization.

-pt.1. The position of the United States among the nations [by] S. Low.-pt.2. Attitude of the United States toward other American powers [by] F. B. Loomis. Responsibilities of international leadership [by] E. R. Johnson. Europe and the United States in the West Indies [by] T. Williams. The situation in Santo Domingo [by] H. J. Hancock. Conditions in Porto Rico [by] T. Larrinaga.-pt.3. The settlement of political affairs in the Far East [by] J. H. Wilson. Japan's position in the Far East [by] Baron K. Kaneko. American commercial interests in the Far East [by] J. H. Hammond. The internal situation in Russia [by] C. E. Smith.-pt.4. The important elements in modern land conflicts [by] T. H. Bliss. The important elements in naval conflicts [by] G. W. Melville. The extent to which the navy of the United States should be increased [by] F. Rodgers. The training of the efficient soldier [by] W. W. Wotherspoon. The needs of the navy [by] W. H. Beehler.-pt.5. Proceedings of the annual meeting. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Describes the Department of Political Science's assessment activities for academic year 2014-2015 ; The Political Science Department 2014-15 annual assessment report to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences for the Office of Academic Assessment. The department applied results of past assessments and analysis ("closed the loop") to curriculum review and revision, as well as collected final writing assignments from ten upper-division classes for future assessment of program SLO #2 (Develop a Global Perspective). The EAS was used to collect student work, but response rates were "low" (33%) due to "technical difficulties many students experienced when trying to submit their papers" and the voluntary nature of the assignment. Program modifications and new course proposals were discussed to address identified student weakness in critical thinking and substantive knowledge in the Major, and preparations for future revision of both graduate and undergraduate program SLO's (to be continued in 2015-16) were begun.

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. The Young Ottomans -- III. The Islamic Intellectual Heritage of the Young Ottomans -- IV. Turkish Political Elites in the Nineteenth Century -- V. The Young Ottomans and the Ottoman Past -- VI. Sadik Rifat Paşa: the Introduction of New Ideas at the Governmental Level -- VII. The Immediate Institutional and Intellectual Antecedents of the Young Ottomans -- VIII. Şinasi: the Birth of Public Opinion -- IX. Mustafa Fazil Pasa: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liberalism -- X. Namik Kemal: the Synthesis -- XI. Ziya Paşa: Philosophical Insecurity -- XII. AIi Suavi: the Zealot -- XIII. Hayreddin Paşa: the Attempt to Compromise -- XIV. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

This volume is the definite statement on the current state of political science as a discipline in Western Europe. Detailfour chapters portray European developments. To know about the historical development, the organization of teaching and research, professional communication, and the chances of students of political science in the job market is of essential importance to political scientists, university administrators, and policy makers national, European, and global. This is particularly true after the Bologna Declaration when universities across Europe were asked to adopt (1) a system of easily readable and comparable degrees, (2) a system based on two cycles, (3) the establishment of a common system of credits, (4) to increase student and teacher mobility, (5) to assure quality standards, and (6) to improve the European dimension in teaching. The book informs on these general issues and reports country specific developments.

ABSTRACTCharges are frequently leveled that the peer-review system is broken, and reviewers are overburdened with requests. But this specific charge has been made in the absence of data about the actual reviewing loads of political scientists. I report the results of a recent survey asking a random sample of about 600 APSA members with PhDs what their reviewing loads are like and what their beliefs are about the value of peer reviewing to them and others. Article reviewing loads correspond to rank, institution, and scholarly productivity in predictable ways. At PhD-granting institutions, assistant professors averaged 5.5, associate professors averaged 7.0, and full professors averaged 8.3 in the past year; everyone else averaged just under 3 reviews a year. To recognize the value we place on peer reviewing, we need a system that collects data on who reviews and presents them in a format usable by scholars and their relevant evaluation bodies.

A decade after the 9/11 attacks, this groundbreaking book takes readers deep into rebellions against both autocrats and extremists that are redefining politics, culture, and security threats across the Islamic world. The awakening involves hundreds of millions of people. And the political transformations' and tectonic changes'are only beginning. Robin Wright, an acclaimed foreign correspondent and television commentator, has covered the region for four decades. She witnessed the full cycle, from extremism's angry birth and globalization to the rise of new movements transforming the last bloc of countries to hold out against democracy. Now, in Rock the Casbah, she chronicles the new order being shaped by youthinspired revolts toppling leaders, clerics repudiating al Qaeda, playwrights and poets crafting messages of a counter-jihad, comedians ridiculing militancy, hip-hop rapping against guns and bombs, and women mobilizing for their own rights. This new counter-jihad has many goals. For some, it's about reforming the faith. For others, it's about reforming political systems. For most, it's about achieving basic rights. The common denominator is the rejection of venomous ideologies and suicide bombs, plane hijackings, hostage-takings, and mass violence to achieve those ends. Wright captures a stunning moment in history, one of the region's four key junctures'along with Iran's revolution, Israel's creation, and the Ottoman Empire's collapse'in a century. The notion of a clash of civilizations is increasingly being replaced by a commonality of civilizations in the twenty-first century. But she candidly details both the possibilities and pitfalls ahead. The new counter-jihad is imaginative and defiant, but Muslim societies are also politically inexperienced and economically challenged

This paper outlines the origins and institutionalization process of French political science since 1945. It sketches the present state of the discipline, and it analyses recent trends that appear almost as a form of 'de-institutionalization'. Overall, the discipline is quite well entrenched and is independent in terms of recruitment with its own teaching and research branches. However, political scientists suffer from a relative lack of visibility in the public space in comparison with their colleagues from more prominent disciplines. In many fields French political science remains invisible at the international level, though this may change considerably in the years to come. The main element of uncertainty comes from the ongoing reforms, the redefinition of the partnership between universities, the Instituts d'Etudes Politiques and the CNRS, and the way the autonomy of universities will be implemented. Adapted from the source document.

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Integrity ought logically to be a particularly important concept within political science. If those acting within the political system do not have integrity, our ability to trust them, to have confidence in their actions, and perhaps even to consider them legitimate can be challenged. Indeed, the very concept of integrity goes some way towards underwriting positive views of political actors. Yet, despite this importance, political science as a discipline has perhaps focused too little on questions of integrity. Where political science has looked at the subject of integrity, it has often done so without using the specific linguistic formulation "integrity". Most commonly, the focus has instead been on "corruption"—a strand of research which has produced results that cannot always be translated into discussions of integrity, by virtue of its narrower focus upon the "negative pole" of public ethics. Other measures, such as "Quality of Government", focus on positive attributes, notably impartiality, but this also fails fully to capture the notion of integrity: dishonesty can be impartial. Specific formal "codes" used within public life and among political practitioners can be much more nuanced than the most widely used measures, and can be much closer to what we understand—academically—as "integrity". This paper argues that the hard conceptual and empirical work of elaborating integrity into a fully operationalizable concept offers the potential reward of an analytical concept that is more closely aligned with political reality.

Includes bibliographical references and index. ; pt. 1. Wage standards: The minimum wage as part of a program for social reform by H.R. Seager. Massachusetts and the minimum wage by H.L. Brown. The minimum wage in Great Britain and Australia by M.B. Hammond. The proposed Pennsylvania minimum wage act by W.D. Lewis. Wages in the United States by S. Nearing. The minimum wage as a legislative proposal in the United States by S. McC. Lindsay. Social investigation and social legislation by A.L. Elkus. Immigraion and the minimum wage by P.U. Kellogg. -- pt. 2. Family standards: The standardization of family life by S.N. Patten. The waste of private housekeeping by Mrs. Charlotte P. Gilman. Scientific management in home-making by Mrs. F.A. Pattison. The cost of living for a wage-earner's family in New York city by Mrs. Louise B. More. Some unconsidered elements in household expenditure by Margaret F. Byington. Utilization of the family income by Martha B. Bruere. Work of the Housewives league by Mrs. J. Heath. The cost of living and household management by Ida M. Tarbell. -- pt. 3. Public service and control: The monetary side of the cost of living problem by I. Fisher. Municipal markets in their relation to the cost of living by C.C. Miller. Communal benefits from the public control of terminal markets by Mrs. E. Black. Relation of cold storage to the food supply and the consumers by M.E. Pennington. The cost of private monopoly to public and wage-earner by A.R.E. Pinchot. Burdens of false capitalization by S.H. Barker. -- pt. 4. Concrete measures for reducing cost of living: Can the cost of distributing food products be reduced? by C, L. King. Cooperation as a means of reducing the cost of living by A. Shaw. Advertising and the high cost of living by H.W. Hess. The increased cost of production by E.P. Wheeler. The farmer's share in the high cost of living by Mrs. Edith E. Smith. The housekeeper and the cost of living by Martha Van Renssellaer. -- Book department. -- Report of annual meeting committee. -- Index. ; Mode of access: Internet.