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the Toolbox project TOOLS FOR LEARNING • TOOLS FOR LIFE Building(children’s(resilience,(self1mastery,(and(empathy(for(others( What%is%Toolbox?% Filling&a&gap&in&today’s&educational&assumptions,&Toolbox,&by& The 12 Tools Dovetail&Learning,&honors&children’s&innate&capacity&for&managing& Breathing Tool their&own&emotional,&social,&and&academic&success&by&g iving&them& Quiet/Safe Place Tool tools&that&empower&them.& Listening Tool Empathy Tool The&Toolbox&curriculum&teaches&12&simple&yet&powerful&“Tools.”&& Personal Space Tool With&practice&and&in&a&classroom&community&that&shares&them,&these& Using Our Words Tool inner&skills&become&important&personal&and&social&proficiencies&for:&& Garbage Can Tool selfEawareness,&selfEmanagement,&healthy&relationships,&and& Taking Time Tool responsible&decisionEmaking.&&The&common&language&and&practices & Please & Thank You Tool of&Toolbox&help&children&quickly&adopt&the&T ools&and&use&them&with& Apology & Forgiveness Tool autonomy,&resilience,&and&selfEmastery. & Patience Tool Courage Tool Toolbox&starts&with&the&individual&child,&building&selfEknowledge&and& selfEtrust;&it&quickly&creates&improvements&in&communication,&civility& and&conflict&resolution&in&the&classroom,&on&the&playground,&and& across&the&whole&school&community.&&Toolbox&is&an&upstream& prevention/intervention&program&that&restores&hope&and&optimism&to& “Of all the programs on the Federal lists, Toolbox is the teachers,&children,&and&their&families. & only one that teaches Academic%and%Life%Success% children about their own Toolbox&is&a&discovery&that&offers&a&coreEsolution&in&education,& -
“So Many Voices”: the Piety of Monica, Mother of Augustine MATTHEW HASTE
JDFM 4.1 (2013): 6-10 “So many voices”: The Piety of Monica, Mother of Augustine MATTHEW HASTE In The History of St. Monica, Émile often built on hagiographic depictions, are common in Matthew 6 Haste is a PhD Bougaud (1823–1888) introduced the many Catholic biographies of Augustine’s mother. candidate his subject with the lofty claim that At the other end of the spectrum, modern secular in Biblical readers should sing such a biography scholars have examined Monica from seemingly every Spirituality at 1 the Southern rather than read it. Believing Monica angle and yet few have focused on her personal piety. Baptist had possessed “the most beautiful love From Elizabeth Clark’s literary theory study of the Theological Seminary in that perhaps ever existed,” Bougaud “Monica-functions” in Confessions to Anne-Marie Bow- Louisville, Kentucky, where he also serves in Ministry encouraged mothers to look to her ery’s conclusion that Monica provides “the feminine Connections. He previously example and recognize “how divine face of Christ,” many of these works reveal more about served as the Adult is the strength with which God has the presuppositions of the author than Monica.7 Discipleship Pastor of Living endowed them in the interest of their Modern readers of Augustine’s may Hope Baptist Church in Confessions 2 Bowling Green, Kentucky. children’s eternal salvation.” While wonder if there are other options for appreciating this such a statement may sound admi- fourth-century woman. To put it more bluntly, one rable, Bougaud goes on to explain might ask, “What can an evangelical Protestant learn that a mother’s divine strength con- from Monica, the mother of Augustine?” This essay will sists of her ability to bring about her endeavor to answer that question by examining the life children’s salvation through her own and piety of Monica as set forth in Confessions, with steadfast will.3 Bougaud continues, particular reference to her final days recounted in Book “As regards the life of the body, a 9.17–37. -
Failed Democratic Experience in Kyrgyzstan: 1990-2000 a Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of Social Sciences of Middle Ea
FAILED DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE IN KYRGYZSTAN: 1990-2000 A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BY OURAN NIAZALIEV IN THE PARTIAL FULLFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION APRIL 2004 Approval of the Graduate School of Social Sciences __________________________ Prof. Dr. Sencer Ayata Director I certify that thesis satisfies all the requirements as a thesis for degree of Master of Science __________________________ Prof. Dr. Feride Acar Head of Department This is to certify that we have read this thesis and that in our opinion it is fully adequate, in scope and quality, as a thesis for the degree of Master of Science. __________________________ Assist. Prof. Dr. Pınar Akçalı Supervisor Examining Committee Members Assist. Prof. Dr. Pınar Akcalı __________________________ Assist. Prof. Dr. Canan Aslan __________________________ Assist. Prof. Dr. Oktay F. Tanrısever __________________________ ABSTRACT FAILED DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE IN KYRGYZSTAN: 1990-2000 Niazaliev, Ouran M.Sc., Department of Political Science and Public Administration Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pınar Akçalı April 2004, 158 p. This study seeks to analyze the process of transition and democratization in Kyrgyzstan from 1990 to 2000. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened new political perspectives for Kyrgyzstan and a chance to develop sovereign state based on democratic principles and values. Initially Kyrgyzstan attained some progress in building up a democratic state. However, in the second half of 1990s Kyrgyzstan shifted toward authoritarianism. Therefore, the full-scale transition to democracy has not been realized, and a well-functioning democracy has not been established. -
A Quantitative Theory of Political Transitions∗
A Quantitative Theory of Political Transitions∗ Lukas Buchheimy Robert Ulbrichtz August 28, 2019 Abstract We develop a quantitative theory of repeated political transitions driven by revolts and reforms. In the model, the beliefs of disenfranchised citizens play a key role in determining revolutionary pressure, which in interaction with preemptive reforms determine regime dynamics. We study the quantitative implications of the model by fitting it to data on the universe of political regimes existing between 1946 and 2010. The estimated model generates a process of political transitions that looks remarkably close to the data, replicating the empirical shape of transition hazards, the frequency of revolts relative to reforms, the distribution of newly established regime types after revolts and reforms, and the unconditional distribution over regime types. Keywords: Democratic reforms, quantitative political economy, regime dynamics, revolts, transition hazards. JEL Classification: D74, D78, P16. ∗This paper supersedes an earlier working paper titled \Dynamics of Political Systems." We would like to thank the managing editor, Mich`eleTertilt, four anonymous referees, Daron Acemoglu, Toke Aidt, Matthias Doepke, Christian Hellwig, Johannes Maier, Uwe Sunde, and various seminar and conference participants for valuable comments and suggestions. yLMU Munich, Schackstr 4/IV, 80539 Munich, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]. zBoston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. E-mail: [email protected]. 1 Introduction This paper develops a quantitative theory of political transitions based on the evolution of beliefs regarding the regime's strength. Traditionally, the literature has focused on explaining specific patterns of regime changes, focusing on isolated transition episodes.1 In this paper, we shift the focus to a macro perspective, aiming to account for a number of stylized facts in a unified framework. -
Prof. Dr. Armin Falk Biographical Sketch 1998 Phd, University Of
Prof. Dr. Armin Falk Biographical Sketch 1998 PhD, University of Zurich 1998 - 2003 Assistant professor, University of Zurich 2003 - 2005 Lecturer, Central European University (Budapest) 2003 - today Research Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 2003 - today Professor of Economics, University of Bonn Affiliations with CESifo, CEPR Research Interests Labor Economics, Behavioral and experimental economics Selected Journal Publications “Fairness Perceptions and Reservation Wages - The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wage Laws” (with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder), Quarterly Journal of Economic, forthcoming. “Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control” (with Michael Kosfeld), American Economic Review, forthcoming. “Clean Evidence on Peer Effects” (with Andrea Ichino), Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming. “A Theory of Reciprocity” (with Urs Fischbacher), Games and Economic Behavior 54 (2), 2006, 293-315. “Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Econometrica 73 (6), 2005, 2017-2030. “The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation” (with Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller), Labour Economics 12 (6), 2005, 739-748. “Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards” (with Markus Knell), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106 (3), 2004, 417-435. “Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions” (with Martin Brown and Ernst Fehr), Econometrica 72, 2004, 747-780. “On the Nature of Fair Behavior” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Economic Inquiry 41(1), 2003, 20-26. “Reasons for Conflict - Lessons From Bargaining Experiments” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 159 (1), 2003, 171-187. “Why Labour Market Experiments?” (with Ernst Fehr), Labour Economics 10, 2003, 399-406. -
Armin Falk IZA and University of Bonn April 2004
I. Introduction Armin Falk IZA and University of Bonn April 2004 Falk: Behavioral Labor Economics: Psychology of Incentives 1/18 This course • Study behavioral effects for labor related outcomes • Empirical studies •Overview – Introduction – Psychology of incentives • Reciprocity and contract enforcement • Dysfunctional effects of explicit incentives • Peer effects • Loss aversion, collusion and sabotage in the presence of tournament incentives – Labor supply – Market behavior • Monopsony and minimum wages • Fairness, efficiency wages and wage rigidities • Incomplete contracts, fairness and the functioning of markets Falk: Behavioral Labor Economics: Psychology of Incentives 2/18 Requirements 1. Take part in the lecture 2. Write a short paper • Either about a summary and discussion of 3 papers • List of topics and papers will be provided • Papers, which are not discussed in this course • Or about a labor economics experiment, which you design, conduct and analyze • Motivation, design, results, discussion • Few observations sufficient • Can also be a field experiment, a theoretical model or the analysis of an existing data set • You can see me and David Huffman to discuss your suggestions Falk: Behavioral Labor Economics: Psychology of Incentives 3/18 Information • Slides can be downloaded – www.iza.org/home/falk • Readers available at IZA Falk: Behavioral Labor Economics: Psychology of Incentives 4/18 Behavioral Economics: From the Nobel Prize laudation “Traditionally, economic theory has relied on the assumption of a "homo œconomicus", whose behavior is governed by self-interest and who is capable of rational decision-making. Economics has also been regarded as a non-experimental science, where researchers – as in astronomy or meteorology – have had to rely exclusively on field data, that is, direct observations of the real world. -
2019 International Religious Freedom Report
CHINA (INCLUDES TIBET, XINJIANG, HONG KONG, AND MACAU) 2019 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT Executive Summary Reports on Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet, and Xinjiang are appended at the end of this report. The constitution, which cites the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, states that citizens have freedom of religious belief but limits protections for religious practice to “normal religious activities” and does not define “normal.” Despite Chairman Xi Jinping’s decree that all members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must be “unyielding Marxist atheists,” the government continued to exercise control over religion and restrict the activities and personal freedom of religious adherents that it perceived as threatening state or CCP interests, according to religious groups, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and international media reports. The government recognizes five official religions – Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism. Only religious groups belonging to the five state- sanctioned “patriotic religious associations” representing these religions are permitted to register with the government and officially permitted to hold worship services. There continued to be reports of deaths in custody and that the government tortured, physically abused, arrested, detained, sentenced to prison, subjected to forced indoctrination in CCP ideology, or harassed adherents of both registered and unregistered religious groups for activities related to their religious beliefs and practices. There were several reports of individuals committing suicide in detention, or, according to sources, as a result of being threatened and surveilled. In December Pastor Wang Yi was tried in secret and sentenced to nine years in prison by a court in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, in connection to his peaceful advocacy for religious freedom. -
Kranton Duke University
The Devil is in the Details – Implications of Samuel Bowles’ The Moral Economy for economics and policy research October 13 2017 Rachel Kranton Duke University The Moral Economy by Samuel Bowles should be required reading by all graduate students in economics. Indeed, all economists should buy a copy and read it. The book is a stunning, critical discussion of the interplay between economic incentives and preferences. It challenges basic premises of economic theory and questions policy recommendations based on these theories. The book proposes the path forward: designing policy that combines incentives and moral appeals. And, therefore, like such as book should, The Moral Economy leaves us with much work to do. The Moral Economy concerns individual choices and economic policy, particularly microeconomic policies with goals to enhance the collective good. The book takes aim at laws, policies, and business practices that are based on the classic Homo economicus model of individual choice. The book first argues in great detail that policies that follow from the Homo economicus paradigm can backfire. While most economists would now recognize that people are not purely selfish and self-interested, The Moral Economy goes one step further. Incentives can amplify the selfishness of individuals. People might act in more self-interested ways in a system based on incentives and rewards than they would in the absence of such inducements. The Moral Economy warns economists to be especially wary of incentives because social norms, like norms of trust and honesty, are critical to economic activity. The danger is not only of incentives backfiring in a single instance; monetary incentives can generally erode ethical and moral codes and social motivations people can have towards each other. -
Research on Systemic Transformation in the Countries of Central Asia
POLISH POLITICAL SCIENCE YEARBOOK, vol. 49(3) (2020), pp. 111–133 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2020307 PL ISSN 0208-7375 www.czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/10-15804/ppsy Tadeusz Bodio University of Warsaw Committee of Political Science, Polish Academy of Science (Poland) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8873-7434 e-mail: [email protected] Andrzej Wierzbicki University of Warsaw, Poland ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5493-164X e-mail: [email protected] Research on Systemic Transformation in the Countries of Central Asia Abstract: The article presents the goals, tasks, organization and major stages of implemen- tation of the international programme of research on transformation in the countries Cen- tral Asia. The research has been conducted since 1997 by a team of political scientists from the University of Warsaw in cooperation with representatives of other Polish and foreign universities. Keywords: Research programme, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, political transformation, political tradition, political mod- ernization, ethnopolitics, velvet revolutions, post-communism 1. Preliminary Remarks The idea ofpolitical science research on political changes in Central Asia was spawned at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Warsaw in the 1990s, in the conditions of growing interest in cooperation with the newly created post-Soviet states and a huge deficit of knowledge about the region in which a significant Polish diaspora lived. In 1997, an intercol- legiate research team was established, conducting, together with scientists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, research on changes taking place in the countries of the region (Deres, 2003). The team was organized on the initiative of Tadeusz Bodio, who was also the head of the international research programme. -
Sergey Abashin Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) [email protected]
Sergey Abashin Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) [email protected] Cultural Processes and Transcultural Influences In Contemporary Central Asia Issues addressed and the aims of the text What is this text about? What are the goals of its author? Some preliminary explanations may help shape the expectations of the reader and prevent possible disappointment. My main purpose is to give a three-dimensional overview of the state of cultural affairs in Central Asian societies after the states in the region achieved independence and to describe the main current tendencies defining local cultural processes and transcultural influences in the long term. I am interested in such themes as: culture and the changing political landscape; the institutional environment for culture; culture and education; culture and language; culture and ethnic minorities; culture and religion; the cultural marketplace; culture and business; culture and globalisation. My questions: how is the Soviet experience of "cultural construction” used and transformed in the modern nation-states of Central Asia? what restrictions on cultural production are imposed by the political situation and economic possibilities of these countries? how do the processes of isolationism and globalisation interact? what changes are being wrought by the islamisation of these societies? what is the future potential of secular, European-style, culture? who are the main players in the region’s cultural space? These questions might seem too general, but without considering and judging them, any attempt to understand the essence of events in narrower fields of cultural life is, surely, doomed to failure. In an “analytical note”, a number of general recommendations for the work of international organisations in the cultural sphere of Central Asia are presented. -
Patience and Comparative Development*
Patience and Comparative Development* Thomas Dohmen Benjamin Enke Armin Falk David Huffman Uwe Sunde May 29, 2018 Abstract This paper studies the role of heterogeneity in patience for comparative devel- opment. The empirical analysis is based on a simple OLG model in which patience drives the accumulation of physical capital, human capital, productivity improve- ments, and hence income. Based on a globally representative dataset on patience in 76 countries, we study the implications of the model through a combination of reduced-form estimations and simulations. In the data, patience is strongly corre- lated with income levels, income growth, and the accumulation of physical capital, human capital, and productivity. These relationships hold across countries, sub- national regions, and individuals. In the reduced-form analyses, the quantitative magnitude of the relationship between patience and income strongly increases in the level of aggregation. A simple parameterized version of the model generates comparable aggregation effects as a result of production complementarities and equilibrium effects, and illustrates that variation in preference endowments can account for a considerable part of the observed variation in per capita income. JEL classification: D03, D90, O10, O30, O40. Keywords: Patience; comparative development; factor accumulation. *Armin Falk acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council through ERC # 209214. Dohmen, Falk: University of Bonn, Department of Economics; [email protected], [email protected]. Enke: Harvard University, Department of Economics; [email protected]. Huffman: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics; huff[email protected]. Sunde: University of Munich, Department of Economics; [email protected]. 1 Introduction A long stream of research in development accounting has documented that both pro- duction factors and productivity play an important role in explaining cross-country income differences (Hall and Jones, 1999; Caselli, 2005; Hsieh and Klenow, 2010). -
Virtues and Vices to Luke E
CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY THE LUKE E. HART SERIES How Catholics Live Section 4: Virtues and Vices To Luke E. Hart, exemplary evangelizer and Supreme Knight from 1953-64, the Knights of Columbus dedicates this Series with affection and gratitude. The Knights of Columbus presents The Luke E. Hart Series Basic Elements of the Catholic Faith VIRTUES AND VICES PART THREE• SECTION FOUR OF CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY What does a Catholic believe? How does a Catholic worship? How does a Catholic live? Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Peter Kreeft General Editor Father John A. Farren, O.P. Catholic Information Service Knights of Columbus Supreme Council Nihil obstat: Reverend Alfred McBride, O.Praem. Imprimatur: Bernard Cardinal Law December 19, 2000 The Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur are official declarations that a book or pamphlet is free of doctrinal or moral error. No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur agree with the contents, opinions or statements expressed. Copyright © 2001-2021 by Knights of Columbus Supreme Council All rights reserved. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America copyright ©1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. – Libreria Editrice Vaticana. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. – Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Scripture quotations contained herein are adapted from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971, and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, and are used by permission.