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Association between direct foreign investments and foreign policy behavior in underdeveloped countries.

Whether host governments gain a decisive advantage that is used to limit the corporation or multinational corporations use their subsidiaries in the Third World to compensate for the damage done by recessions in capitalist core states.

Whether foreign investments magnify the host state's foreign capital requirements and lead to the accumulation of external public debt.

Trade and Development in a Globalized World examines how the unfair trade regulations of advanced countries affect developing societies. In an effort to determine how developing states attempt to cope with the problems created by unfair trade rules, Rothgeb and Chinapandhu conducted a case study of the ThaiDU.S. trade relationship and share their discoveries in this valuable book

AbstractThis article investigates the variables that affect the award of
tenure in political science departments in the United States. We
examined two dependent variables: (1) whether a department has
denied tenure in the past five years, and (2) whether a positive
departmental tenure recommendation has been reversed by higher
college or university authorities during the same period of time.
Five clusters of independent variables were evaluated: (1)
college/university and departmental characteristics, (2) the
procedures employed to evaluate tenure cases, (3) the instruments
used to assess teaching, (4) service expectations, and (5) research
and publication standards. We found that the most important factors
affecting departmental decisions to deny tenure were whether
teaching and substantive publications were treated as equally
valuable qualifications, the number of articles a candidate
published, and the candidate's level of commitment to advising.
Interestingly, reversal decisions by higher authorities were not
strongly affected by any of the variables in the analysis.

In recent years, increased attention has focused on how doctoral
programs prepare graduate students to become faculty members at
colleges and universities. One reflection of this interest is the
development of such training programs as Preparing Future Faculty
(PFF), which the Association of American Colleges and Universities
and the Council of Graduate Schools founded in 1993. With financial
support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Science
Foundation, and the Atlantic Philanthropies, and with the
participation of several professional associations, including the
American Political Science Association, PFF has grown to include
nearly 300 colleges and universities nationwide. In the recent past,
21 doctoral departments, including four from political science, have
received funding for PFF. In addition to formal PFF programs, the
literature on graduate education suggests that many doctoral
departments have established their own training routines to assist
graduate students as they prepare to teach and/or to assume faculty
responsibilities.