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Cover -- Half Title -- Other Titles Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: War on Terror -- Congress Approves Force to Fight Terrorism -- Congress Passes the USA Patriot Act -- Terrorist Surveillance Program -- Congress Challenges the TSP -- Dubai Ports World Controversy -- Checks and Balances -- Chapter 2: Congress: Organization and Responsibilities -- BRANCHES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT -- Balance of Power -- House and Senate Chambers -- Major Duties of Congress -- Leadership Positions in the House of Representatives -- Speakers and Whips -- Leadership Positions in the Senate -- Making Laws -- Debating Bills: Senate vs. House Procedures -- Filibusters -- Conference and Compromise -- The President's Actions -- Influences on Members of Congress -- Lobbyists and Special Interest Groups -- The Media and the Public -- Chapter 3: History of the Legislative Branch -- Constitutional Convention -- Political Parties -- Slavery and Territorial Expansion -- Missouri Compromise of 1820 -- Congress and the Nullification Issue -- Final Attempts to Settle the Slavery Issue -- Congress Takes Control -- Reconstruction -- Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson -- Groundwork for the Modern Congress -- Balancing Power in Both Chambers -- The Progressive Era -- Congress and FDR -- Democrats Rule -- War Powers Act -- Republican Revival -- Chapter 4: Powerful Persons Who Have Served -- The Great Triumvirate -- Calhoun -- Clay-The Great Compromiser -- Webster Calls for "Liberty and Union" -- Czar Reed -- "Uncle Joe" Cannon -- "Mista Sam" Rayburn -- The Johnson Treatment -- War Heroes: Inouye and McCain -- The Gingrich Revolution -- Longest Service in Congress -- Ethnic Minorities -- Barack Obama -- Women in Congress -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Chapter 5: What the Legislature Does for Americans -- Federal Bills -- Earmarks

Reflexionamos aquí acerca de los imaginarios construidos alrededor de los binomios pioneros- paisajes agrestes, que constituyen uno de los recursos morales de identificación más transitados por las comunidades. Son categorías con las que una comunidad clasifica a ciertos actores a los cuales reconoce como emprendedores morales, culturales, identitarios, sociales, económicos o políticos y en torno a los cuales se erigen imaginarios destinados a mantener una determinada representación de la sociedad. A ellos se contraponen imágenes que los complementan: espacios vacíos, territorios agrestes, regiones inhóspitas, geografía hostil; completando el discurso de las dificultades encontradas, los esfuerzos realizados. Una vez armado, ese discurso; devenido en Historia, será presentado, difundido, reescrito, repetido, divulgado en artículos periodísticos, editoriales, homenajes, discursos, consumido y naturalizado por la comunidad local. ; We reflect here on the imaginaries built around the pioneering binomials - wild landscapes, which constitute one of the most used moral identification resources in communities. They are categories with which a community classifies certain actors whom it recognizes as moral, cultural, identity, social, economic or political entrepreneurs and around which imaginaries are built to maintain a certain representation of society. They are contrasted with images that complement them: empty spaces, wild territories, inhospitable regions, hostile geography; completing the discourse of the difficulties encountered, the efforts made. Once armed, that speech; turned into History, it will be presented, disseminated, rewritten, repeated, disclosed in newspaper articles, editorials, tributes, speeches, consumed and naturalized by the local community.

This chapter is based on Fonseca Braga's PhD research which looked into broadly applied design support programmes that aim at introducing design innovation into Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) with little or no design experience in Brazilian traditional industries. The need to better understand how elements at diverse levels support the conditions and influence the decision to use design (as along with its intensity of use) or to not use design, making empirical barriers and drivers to design innovation evident, represents the motivation behind this study. The research approach is inductive, exploratory and qualitative. Few barriers and drivers were new and distinguished from others in prior research focused only on the rationale used to address them by the interviewee or the lack of empirical evidence within design studies or regarding design support programmes. This analysis showed that barriers and drivers differ according to: (1) the context in which each project is embedded, including the economic and political priorities and orientation, as well as cultural aspects; (2) the way programmes and their projects are crafted, managed, implemented, and evaluated; (3) the background and mindset of key stakeholders who take part in these projects. The main contributions to the design policy field are: (1) an interpretative framework at three levels to identify barriers and drivers to design innovation, contributing to underpinning strategies in order to harness drivers and overcome barriers; and (2) a design support metamodel which aims at an experimental and participatory approach to tackling design support programmes' creation, and development.

In recent years the impact of globalisation on the welfare state has become a major issue in comparative policy studies. Some empirical studies demonstrate a negative relationship between globalisation and the welfare state, while others show adverse findings or a non‐significant relationship. The impact of globalisation, however, can be neither uniform nor unidirectional because of the differences in the political economies of individual welfare states. Welfare regimes reflect qualitative differences in arrangements of welfare institutions and the associated enduring configuration of the welfare nexus, suggesting that welfare regimes may influence the impact of globalisation on the welfare state. We scrutinise the relationship between globalisation and the welfare state by sampling 18 affluent countries from 1980 to 2001 and concentrating on the mediating effect of three welfare regime types. Our study provides a comprehensive examination of the relationship between globalisation and the welfare state using a state‐of‐the‐art analytical technique – the mixed‐effect model. Findings suggest that welfare regimes respond differently to the impact of globalisation and therefore mediate the relationship between globalisation and the welfare state. Globalisation negatively affects the welfare state in a social democratic regime, while it marginally affects the welfare state in liberal and conservative regimes.

English We empirically analyzed a representative workfare program in South Korea, the Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP), using multinomial logistic regression. Our findings demonstrated that family income sources, program participation length and health status are important factors affecting the self-sufficiency of program participants. Based on these results, we recommend improvements in the current SSP. French Nous avons fait l'analyse empirique d'un programme de sécurité du revenu de Corée du Sud, le Self-Sufficiency Program (programme d'autosuffisance), en utilisant le modè le de régression logistique multinomial. Les résultats indiquent que la provenance des revenus de la famille, la durée de participation au programme et l'état de santé sont d'importants facteurs qui ont un impact sur l'autosuffisance des participants au programme. À la lumière de ces résultats, nous suggérons des correctifs à apporter à l'actuel programme d'autosuffisance. Spanish Analizamos empíricamente un programa representativo de bienestar en el trabajo en Corea del Sur, el Self-Sufficiency Program (Programa de Autosuficiencia) (SSP), utilizando la regresión logística multinomial. Nuestros hallazgos demuestran que las fuentes de ingreso familiar, la duración del programa de participación, y el estatus de salud son factores importantes que afectan la auto-suficiencia de los participantes en el programa. Con base en los resultados, recomendamos el mejoramiento del actual SSP.