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Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
WELLBEING IN POLITICS AND POLICY Series Editors: Ian Bache, Karen Scott and Paul Allin WELLBEING ECONOMICS The Capabilities Approach to Prosperity Paul Dalziel, Caroline Saunders and Joe Saunders Wellbeing in Politics and Policy Series Editors Ian Bache Department of Politics University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK Karen Scott Cornwall Campus Exeter University Penryn, Cornwall, UK Paul Allin Department of Mathematics Imperial College London London, UK Wellbeing in Politics and Policy will bring new lenses through which to under- stand the significance of the dramatic rise of interest in wellbeing as a goal of public policy. While a number of academic disciplines have been influential in both shaping and seeking to explain developments, the Politics discipline has been relatively silent, leaving important theoretical and empirical insights largely absent from debates: insights that have increasing significance as political inter- est grows. This series will provide a distinctive addition to the field that puts politics and policy at the centre, while embracing interdisciplinary contribu- tions. Contributions will be encouraged from various subfields of the discipline (e.g., political theory, comparative politics, governance and public policy, inter- national relations) and from those located in other disciplines that speak to core political themes (e.g., accountability, gender, inequality, legitimacy and power). The series will seek to explore these themes through policy studies in a range of settings – international, national and local. Comparative studies – either of dif- ferent policy areas and/or across different settings – will be particularly encour- aged. The series will incorporate a wide range of perspectives from critical to problem-solving approaches, drawing on a variety of epistemologies and meth- odologies. -
Cold War: a Report on the Xviith IAMHIST Conference, 25-31 July 1997, Salisbury MD
After the Fall: Revisioning the Cold War: A Report on the XVIIth IAMHIST Conference, 25-31 July 1997, Salisbury MD By John C. Tibbetts “The past can be seized only as an image,” wrote Walter Benjamin. But if that image is ignored by the present, it “threatens to disappear irretrievably.” [1] One such image, evocative of the past and provocative for our present, appears in a documentary film by the United States Information Agency, The Wall (1963). Midway through its account of everyday life in a divided Berlin, a man is seen standing on an elevation above the Wall, sending out hand signals to children on the other side in the Eastern Sector. With voice communication forbidden by the Soviets, he has only the choreography of his hands and fingers with which to print messages onto the air. Now, almost forty years later, the scene resonates with an almost unbearable poignancy. From the depths of the Cold War, the man seems to be gesturing to us. But his message is unclear and its context obscure. [2] The intervening gulf of years has become a barrier just as impassable as the Wall once was. Or has it? The Wall was just one of dozens of screenings and presentations at the recent “Knaves, Fools, and Heroes: Film and Television Representations of the Cold War”—convened as a joint endeavor of IAMHist and the Literature/Film Association, 25-31 July 1997, at Salisbury State University, in Salisbury, Maryland— that suggested that the Cold War is as relevant to our present as it is to our past. -
RESTORING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP Restoring American Leadership
RESTORING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP Restoring American Leadership The United States today faces a daunting array of international crises and simmering transnational problems. The current administration has committed itself to “effective multilateralism” and a world in which strong alliances play a key role in solving transnational challenges. | Cooperative Restoring American Leadership provides analysis and 13 COOPERA recommendations on 13 critical issues from international cooperation in the war on terror to curbing proliferation Steps of nuclear weapons to advancing the rights of women across the globe. Each paper offers a specific set of recommendations for action by the president consistent TIVE STEPS TO ADV with his stated values. Restoring American Leadership is to Advance Global Progress offered as a constructive contribution to the ongoing debate about how America can best assert responsible leadership in a new era. ANCE GLOBAL PROGRESS 13 Open Society Institute | Security and Peace Institute Open Society Institute | Security and Peace Institute Restoring American Leadership Cooperative Steps 13to Advance Global Progress Open Society Institute | Security and Peace Institute Copyright © 2005 by Open Society Institute and The Century Foundation All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the publishers. This book is cosponsored by the Open Society Institute, a private operating and grantmaking foundation which aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform, and by the Security and Peace Institute (SPI), a joint initiative of the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation, which works to advance a responsible U.S. -
Report: the Federal Role and School Integration
The Federal Role and School Integration Brown’s Promise and Present Challenges Janel George and Linda Darling-Hammond FEBRUARY 2019 The Federal Role and School Integration: Brown’s Promise and Present Challenges Janel George and Linda Darling-Hammond Acknowledgments In 1951, a 16-year-old sophomore at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, VA—Barbara Rose Johns—staged a student protest of the segregated school’s deplorable conditions and set in motion events that would change the course of history. Those events would culminate in the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, which signaled the death knell for Jim Crow education and the “separate but equal” doctrine. We thank her and the countless other students who demanded—and continue to demand—quality educational opportunities. We would like to acknowledge the educators, parents, families, and students who courageously stood—and continue to stand—on the front lines of integration efforts in service of securing access to quality educational opportunities for all children. The authors thank their LPI colleagues Jessica Cardichon, Peter Cookson Jr., and Kathryn Bradley for their support and feedback on this report. We acknowledge the work of organizations and advocates who have identified, developed, and implemented evidence-based strategies included in this report that serve to promote diverse and inclusive learning environments in which all children can succeed. For their contributions to editing, design, and production on this project, we thank Bulletproof Services, River Graphics, Aaron Reeves, Caitlin Scott, and Erin Chase. Without their generosity of time and spirit, this work would not have been possible. -
Alan Stuart Blinder February 2020
CURRICULUM VITAE Alan Stuart Blinder February 2020 Address Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs 284 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1021 Phone: 609-258-3358 FAX: 609-258-5398 E-mail: blinder (at) princeton (dot) edu Website : www.princeton.edu/blinder Personal Data Born: October 14, 1945, Brooklyn, New York. Marital Status: married (Madeline Blinder); two sons and four grandchildren Educational Background Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, l97l M.Sc. (Econ.), London School of Economics, 1968 A.B., Princeton University, summa cum laude in economics, 1967. Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa), Bard College, 2010 Government Service Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1994-1996. Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1993-1994. Deputy Assistant Director, Congressional Budget Office, 1975. Member, New Jersey Pension Review Committee, 2002-2003. Member, Panel of Economic Advisers, Congressional Budget Office, 2002-2005. Honors Bartels World Affairs Fellow, Cornell University, 2016. Selected as one of 55 “Global Thought Leaders” by the Carnegie Council, 2014. (See http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/thought-leaders/index) Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association, 2011-. Member, American Philosophical Society, 1996-. Audit Committee, 2003- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991-. John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2009-. William F. Butler Award, New York Association for Business Economics, 2013. 1 Adam Smith Award, National Association for Business Economics, 1999. Visionary Award, Council for Economic Education, 2013. Fellow, National Association for Business Economics, 2005-. Honorary Fellow, Foreign Policy Association, 2000-. Fellow, Econometric Society, 1981-. -
Getting Ready for Health Reform 2020: What Past Presidential Campaigns Can Teach Us
REPORT JUNE 2018 Getting Ready for Health Reform 2020: What Past Presidential Campaigns Can Teach Us Jeanne M. Lambrew Senior Fellow The Century Foundation ABSTRACT KEY TAKEAWAYS ISSUE: The candidates for the 2020 presidential election are likely to Campaign plans are used by emerge within a year, along with their campaign plans. Such plans will supporters and the press to hold presidents accountable. Though include, if not feature, health policy proposals, given this issue’s general voters are unlikely to believe that significance as well as the ongoing debate over the Affordable Care Act. politicians keep their promises, GOAL: To explain why campaign plans matter, review the health policy roughly two-thirds of campaign components of past presidential campaign platforms, and discuss the promises were kept by presidents likely 2020 campaign health reform plans. from 1968 through the Obama years. METHODS: Review of relevant reports, data, party platforms, and policy documents. Health policy will likely play FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: Proposals related to health care have a significant role in the 2020 grown in scope in both parties’ presidential platforms over the past election, with Republicans focused on deregulation and century and affect both agendas and assessments of a president’s capped federal financing success. Continued controversy over the Affordable Care Act, potential and Democrats backing the reversals in gains in coverage and affordability, and voters’ concern Affordable Care Act and a suggest a central role for health policy in the 2020 election. Republicans Medicare-based public plan will most likely continue to advance devolution, deregulation, and option. capped federal financing, while Democrats will likely overlay their support of the Affordable Care Act with some type of Medicare-based public plan option. -
Peter R. Orszag
PETER R. ORSZAG Peter R. Orszag is Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group at Citigroup, Inc. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Contributing Columnist at Bloomberg View. Prior to joining Citigroup in January 2011, Dr. Orszag served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Contributing Columnist at the New York Times. He previously served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration, a Cabinet-level position, from January 2009 until July 2010. From January 2007 to December 2008, Dr. Orszag was the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Under his leadership, the agency significantly expanded its focus on areas such as health care and climate change. Prior to CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project, Director of the Retirement Security Project, and Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center. During the Clinton Administration, he was a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and before that a staff economist and then Senior Advisor and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Orszag has also founded and subsequently sold an economics consulting firm. Dr. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar. -
Richard D. Kahlenberg Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter
A Century Foundation Report ABetter Affirmative StateAction: Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences Headquarters: One Whitehall Street, 15th Floor New York, NY 10004 212.452.7700 212.535.7534 (fax) D.C. Office: 1333 H Street, NW, 10th floor Washington, DC 20005 202.387.040 202.483.9430 (fax) [email protected] www.tcf.org Richard D. Kahlenberg Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter COVER.indd 1 9/21/12 7:33 PM A Century Foundation Report A Better Affirmative Action State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences Richard D. Kahlenberg Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter Section4.indd 1 9/21/12 7:33 PM The Century Foundation is a progressive nonpartisan think tank. Originally known as the Twentieth Century Fund, it was founded in 1919 and initially endowed by Edward Filene, a leading Republican businessman and champion of fair workplaces and employee ownership strategies, all with an eye to ensuring that economic opportunity is available to all. Today, TCF issues analyses and convenes and promotes the best thinkers and thinking across a range of public policy questions. Its work today focuses on issues of equity and opportunity in the United States, and how American values can be best sustained and advanced in a world of more diffuse power. Board of Trustees of The Century Foundation Bradley Abelow Lewis B. Kaden Jonathan Alter Alicia H. Munnell H. Brandt Ayers Janice Nittoli Alan Brinkley, Chairman P. Michael Pitfield Joseph A. Califano, Jr. John Podesta Alexander Morgan Capron Richard Ravitch Hodding Carter III Alan Sagner Edward E. -
Killing Hope U.S
Killing Hope U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II – Part I William Blum Zed Books London Killing Hope was first published outside of North America by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London NI 9JF, UK in 2003. Second impression, 2004 Printed by Gopsons Papers Limited, Noida, India w w w.zedbooks .demon .co .uk Published in South Africa by Spearhead, a division of New Africa Books, PO Box 23408, Claremont 7735 This is a wholly revised, extended and updated edition of a book originally published under the title The CIA: A Forgotten History (Zed Books, 1986) Copyright © William Blum 2003 The right of William Blum to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Cover design by Andrew Corbett ISBN 1 84277 368 2 hb ISBN 1 84277 369 0 pb Spearhead ISBN 0 86486 560 0 pb 2 Contents PART I Introduction 6 1. China 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid? 20 2. Italy 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style 27 3. Greece 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state 33 4. The Philippines 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony 38 5. Korea 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be? 44 6. Albania 1949-1953: The proper English spy 54 7. Eastern Europe 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor 56 8. Germany 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism 60 9. Iran 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings 63 10. -
To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process
To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process August 2001 The National Commission on Federal Election Reform Organized by Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia The Century Foundation Supported by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia P.O. Box 400406 2201 Old Ivy Road Charlottesville VA 22904-4406 tel 804-924-7236 fax 804-982-2739 web http://millercenter.virginia.edu The Century Foundation 41 East 70th Street New York NY 10021 tel 212-535-4441 fax 212-879-9190 web http://www.tcf.org www.reformelections.org The Commission Public Hearings Honorary Co-Chairs March 26, 2001 President Gerald R. Ford Citizen Participation President Jimmy Carter The Carter Center Co-Chairs Atlanta, Georgia Robert H. Michel April 12, 2001 Lloyd N. Cutler Election Administration Vice-Chairs The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Slade Gorton Simi Valley, California Kathleen M. Sullivan May 24, 2001 Commissioners What Does the Law Require? Griffin Bell Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum Rudy Boschwitz Austin,Texas John C. Danforth Christopher F. Edley, Jr. June 5, 2001 Hanna Holborn Gray The American and International Experience Colleen C. McAndrews Gerald R. Ford Library Daniel Patrick Moynihan Ann Arbor, Michigan Leon Panetta Deval L. Patrick Diane Ravitch Bill Richardson John Seigenthaler Michael Steele Executive Director Philip D. Zelikow To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process August 2001 The National Commission on Federal Election Reform Organized by Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia The Century Foundation Supported by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation The John S. -
Cesifo Forum 3/2006 Opening
A joint initiative of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research AUTUMN Forum 2006 VOLUME 7, NO.3 Introduction Jürgen Chrobog EUROPE AND THE Hans-Werner Sinn NEW DIVISION OF Keynote Addresses: Pascal Lamy LABOUR Michael Glos Panel 1 THE NEW GLOBAL DIVISION John Whalley OF LABOUR Panel 2 EUROPE’S ANSWER TO THE Keynote Address: Günter Verheugen GLOBAL CHANGES IN THE DIVISION OF LABOUR Richard Baldwin Panel 3 CHALLENGES FOR EUROPE’S POLITICAL Donald R. Davis INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY Trends STATISTICS UPDATE Documentation of the MUNICH ECONOMIC SUMMIT 4–5 May 2006 Jointly organised with BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt 5th Munich Economic Summit INTERNATIONAL POLICY FORUM ORGANISED BY BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt CESifo Group Munich EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Hanauer Strasse 46 80788 Munich, Germany Phone +49-(0)89-382 -1 16 30 Fax +49-(0)89-3 82 -1 16 36 CESifo Group Munich Poschingerstr. 5 81679 Munich, Germany Phone +49-(0)89-92 24 -1410 Fax +49-(0)89-92 24 -14 09 PATRON Edmund Stoiber Minister-President, Free State of Bavaria, Federal Republic of Germany CONFERENCE VENUE Hotel Bayerischer Hof Promenadeplatz 2-6 80333 Munich, Germany Phone +49-(0)89-2120-0 Fax +49-(0)89-212-906 SPONSORS BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt CESifo Group Munich Siemens AG Hypo Real Estate Group Swiss Re Swiss Re E.ON Energie AG Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Forum Volume 7, Number 3 Autumn 2006 _____________________________________________________________________________________ EUROPE AND THE NEW DIVISION OF LABOUR Introduction Jürgen Chrobog 3 Hans-Werner Sinn 5 Keynote Addresses: Pascal Lamy 9 Michael Glos 13 Panel 1 The new global division of labour John Whalley 18 Panel 2 Europe’s answer to the global changes in the division of labour Keynote Address: Günter Verheugen 24 Richard Baldwin 29 Panel 3 Challenges for Europe’s political institutions and society Donald R. -
SEPTEMBER 17, 1987 35¢ PER COPY 5747 in Review: First Soviet Jews in 4 Years Arrive in R.I
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