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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Democracy on Trial: The Persistence of Race-Based Vote Denial in American History -- 2. To Exclude and Oppress: The Evolution of the Texas All-White Primary -- 3. A Rising Tide of Protest: Early Efforts to Combat the Texas All-White Primary -- 4. Last Chance for Victory: Smith v. Allwright in the Lower Federal Courts -- 5. May It Please the Court: Smith v. Allwright in the Supreme Court -- 6. Death Knell: The All-White Primary after Smith -- Chronology -- Relevant Cases -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.

What is an organizational ombuds? -- Why should an organization establish an ombuds office? -- What should organizations consider in creating and operating an ombuds program? -- What is ombuds' confidentiality and how does it work? -- Fraud and compliance -- Concerns over suspected misconduct -- Sexual harassment/discrimination/misconduct -- Other types of unfair treatment -- Middle managers -- Senior management -- Union issues -- New hires -- Difficult bosses -- Difficult employees/coworker conflict -- Relationship and reputation issues -- Retaining talent -- Helping people exit gracefully -- Formal channels as part of the problem -- Working cooperatively with formal channels -- Navigating the bureaucracy -- Risk management -- Gaps in communications, policies, and expectations -- Facilitation/mediation -- High impact cases/potential litigation/ threat to organizational reputation -- Imminent threat of serious harm (breaking confidentiality) -- permission given to make disclosure (breaking confidentiality) -- Reports to senior management/identifying trends and systemic issues -- Not wanting to be a whistleblower -- Federal agencies -- Cross cultural issues -- Undergraduate issues -- Graduate student, post doc, fellow, and resident issues -- Faculty issues.

"Matthew Williams: his family, his community, his humanity -- "The blood lust of the eastern shore": the taking and the spectacle -- Governor Albert C. Ritchie confronts Judge Lynch: the politics of anti-black racism in the free state and beyond -- From pugilist to private eye: a prizefighter infiltrates the mob -- Unmasking the mob and breaking the system of silence -- "Maryland's disgrace, the denial of justice" -- A blot on the tapestry of the free state -- Confronting the legacy of Judge Lynch in the age of fracture.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Preface: The Case That Must Be Named -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Vote Too Close to Call -- 2. Enter the Lawyers -- 3. Eye of the Beholder -- 4. The Battlefield of Litigation -- 5. The Ticking of the Clock -- 6. Ballots before the Bench -- 7. "A Florida Hurricane Heading to Washington -- 8. Headfirst into the Political Thicket -- 9. A Self-Inflicted Wound? -- 10. The Unlearned Lessons of 2000 -- 11. (Wrong) Lessons Learned: Bush v. Gore at Twenty -- Afterword: The Process Matters -- Chronology: A Time Line of Events for the 2000 Presidential Postelection Crisis -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.

"This book examines the changing relationship between social class and voting behavior in contemporary America. At the end of the 20th century, working-class white voters were significantly more Democratic than their middle-class counterparts, as they had been since the 1930s. By the second decade of the 21st century, that long-standing relationship had reversed: Republicans now do better among working-class whites. While Trump accentuated this trend, the change began before 2016, something that has not been fully appreciated or understood. Charles Prysby analyzes this development in American politics in a way that is understandable to a wide audience, not just scholars in this field. Drawing on a wealth of survey data, this study describes and explains the root-cause of the change that has taken place over the past two decades, identifying how social class is directly related to partisan choice. Attitudes on race and immigration, on social and moral issues, and on economic and social welfare policies are all part of the explanation of this 21st century development in American political trends. Rich Voter, Poor Voter, Red Voter, Blue Voter: Social Class and Voting Behavior in Contemporary America is essential reading for scholars, students, and all others with an interest in American elections and voting behavior"--

"American cities of all sizes financially struggle to do basic things: maintain streets, keep public safety workers employed, pay pensions, etc.. The conventional response to these struggles is: more growth. If a city can induce more development, more construction, and more infrastructure, then it can grow its way to prosperity. Yet, what if the American approach to growth is the problem? What if the wealth generated by all that new investment isn't enough to support the infrastructure? That is the core premise of Strong Towns, a movement to change the way cities approach growth and development. While modern city development creates a short-term illusion of prosperity, it results in more long-term obligations than the community can handle. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we life. By shifting focus from state and federal growth initiatives towards the basic, day-to-day needs of residents, communities of all sizes can make low risk investments that simultaneously strengthen the community financially while improving quality of life"--

"One of the most common religious practices among medieval Eastern Christian communities was their devotion to venerating crosses and crucifixes. Yet many of these communities existed in predominantly Islamic contexts, where the practice was subject to much criticism and often resulted in accusations of idolatry. How did Christians respond to these allegations? Why did they advocate the preservation of a practice that was often met with confusion or even contempt? To shed light onto these questions, Charles Tieszen looks at every known apologetic or polemical text written between the eighth and fourteenth centuries to include a relevant discussion. With sources taken from across the Mediterranean basin, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, the result is the first in-depth look at a key theological debate which lay at the heart of these communities' religious identities. By considering the perspectives of both Muslim and Christian authors, Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World also raises important questions concerning cross-cultural debate and exchange, and the development of Christianity and Islam in the medieval period. This is an important book that will shine much needed light onto Christian-Muslim relations, the nature of inter-faith debates and the wider issues facing the communities living across the Middle East during the medieval period."--

The question of Christian-Muslim relations is one of enduring importance in the twenty-first century. While there exists a broad range of helpful overviews on the question, these introductory texts often fail to provide readers with the depth that a thorough treatment of the primary sources and their authors would provide. In this important new project, Charles Tieszen provides a collection of primary theological sources devoted to the formational period of Christian-Muslim relations. It provides brief introductions to authors and their texts along with representative selections in English translation. The collection is arranged according to the key theological themes that emerge as Christians and Muslims encounter one another in this era. The result is a resource that offers students a far better grasp of the texts early Christians and Muslims wrote about each other and a better understanding of the important theological themes that are pertinent to Christian-Muslim dialogue today

Historically, Latin American political regimes have sought to postpone far-reaching economic reforms and improvements in living standards in order to facilitate the accumulation of private capital. These goals have led to exclusion of the lower classes from the political process altogether or to efforts to control their political mobilization. The ability of governments to maintain such control has often been attributed to the lack of political sophistication by the working class or to the distribution of benefits through patron-client networks designed to preserve the hegemony of ruling parti