the politics of cost of living adjustments

... economically, so they can take the benefit of increased economic efficiency in the form of more free time for their families and their own interests, rather than in the form of more consumer goods of dubious ... cause the economic boom of the 1960s, and together with Lyndon Johnson’s large deficits, they helped cause the inflation of the late 1960s During the 1970s, the inflation already built into the ... and having more time to the things we really want to Simpler living in the United States and the other developed nations would take some of the edge off of the crisis of global warming and energy...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rule pursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination of the sub-human races of the world or the Wnal ... to political agents on the basis of the perceived merits of the values and ends they serve and of their practical Wdelity in pursuing them It is only thus that the breed of ‘‘scurvy politicians’’ ... themselves, at the very least in the eyes of their supporters, as legitimate interests, arguing not just the contingent existence of their desires but the rightness and justness of their claims...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... in the dominant paradigm of fertility and reproduction, a shift generated by the development of the ‘seductive egg’ theory 119 120 C.R Daniels The ‘seductive egg’ theory The ‘seductive egg’ theory ... gender diVerence generated by the politics of fetal risks, and the problematic nature of the idea of individual causality in discussions of fetal harm Social constructions of maternity and paternity ... from virtually all of the news stories on fetal health and addiction The absence of fathers in news reports of crack babies was made easier to believe by the racial subtext of the story: African–American...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... the large majority of other states that voted to adopt the Rome Statute of the Court, in particular the role of the Security Council, the powers of the prosecutor, the questions of jurisdiction ... terrorism’, the intervention in East Timor, the treatment of refugees, the expansion of the European Union, and the creation of the International Criminal Court In each of these cases the political ... view of ‘law as process’,15 Wheeler shows the limits of the ‘law as rules’ approach and the value of the proposition that communicative dynamics shape the possibilities of politics Although the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... suggest the critical significance of the politics of healing to the general politics of democracy.15 The Politics of Healing contains five parts The first, “Precursors: The Years in the Wilderness,” ... States was the establishment of the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) within the National Institutes of Health The two legislators with the greatest responsibility for the growth of this office, ... matter of politics These essays therefore represent a purposeful step beyond the traditional boundaries within the historical profession that have separated the study of medicine and the study of the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... account of the varieties of institutional form and the nature of the policy area, but the unique features of the American system compound the problem and beg the question of the significance of the ... struggles and the roles of lawyers may adapt to the setting; at another level, the meaning of the law” in practice reflects the meanings brought into regulatory spheres through the practices of interested ... lawyers, with everything that implies for the role of law, construct the politics of the administrative process? These questions lie at the intersection of two key themes featured in debates about contemporary...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... detail the policies of aid selectivity adopted by the World Bank, the Netherlands and the United States since the end of the 1990s The main assumptions underlying the policies, as well as the key ... In economic theory, the increasing prominence of the new institutional economics and the emphasis of information for the functioning of markets has led to a rethinking of the role of the market ... implementation of the CPIA During the negotiations on IDA12 (1999–2002), a major overhaul of the CPR system was undertaken This resulted in the replacement of the CPR by the CPIA and the removal of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 20:21

... crises of the future – always different from past events – only if they learn from the variety of experiences they themselves and other leaders have had in other types of crisis 1.3 The ubiquity of ... within the organizations that are responsible for preventing the disasters they encounter.14 But the policy makers at the top of these organizations just cannot put together the pieces of the crisis ... surprisingly long period of time On the eve of the German invasion of Holland, in the spring of 1940, Dutch politicians reassured their anxious people that the Netherlands would escape the war threat Dutch...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 11:44

... a new risk politics; on the other it may exacerbate the risk management of everything The example of the UK General Medical Council (GMC) is instructive The official inquiry into the serial murders ... regulation; the invention of the category of ‘operational’ risk to name a diverse basket of threats to organisations; the emergence of the category of reputational (and ethical) risk and the manner ... rather than being in the hands of the gods.13 As part of a politics of uncertainty, publics of varying kinds demand decisions and the right to hold decision-makers to account In this view, the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... is on the politics of language and the way these operate in the Spanish-speaking world Grillo (1989:7–21) gives an excellent summary of current definitions of the field of the politics of language ... of intellectuals, usually linked together under the name of the ‘98 Generation, were prominent in their questioning of the fate of Spain, critical of her inability to throw off the failings of ... the case of Quechua in the Incan empire of the Andean region, or Nahuatl of the Aztec empire through parts of Mexico Other major indigenous languages being used at the time of the conquest, often...

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2014, 12:55

... of the innate ability of early jazz musicians Because of these writers’ lack of understanding of the mechanics of music, they thought there weren’t any mechanics It is the ‘they all can sing, they ... practices of the street, these culture workers seek to articulate their experience of themselves as racial(ized) subjects of the state In the representation of crime the discursive alliance between the ... television is on the occupational hazards (or glories) of the legal profession, the character defects of individual criminals, or the fetishization of the technical machinations of the criminal justice...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 00:33

... Taken together, the results of these studies paint a rich picture of the general and the specific, the common and the uncommon, for better understanding the dynamics of decentralization in the forestry ... findings on: the implementation of decentralization; 18 The Politics of Decentralization the role of forestry within the broader political context and the importance of cross-sectoral linkages; the importance ... reluctantly The Politics of Decentralization conclude that they need the help of the government; and the authors of the Guatemalan case present conflict-ridden scenarios with the potential for...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 11:14

... “mistrustful of the whole idea of a ‘general theory’ of employment, of money, of economic enterprise, or of any one of the significant segments of the economic process and still more of the idea that there ... for the underdevelopment of the relationship between policy and theory was the striking lack of interest in theory per se on the part of key CEA figures and, less surprising, on the part of the ... contract the so-called Treaty of Detroit— that sweetened the COLA and AIF provisions of the earlier deal, guaranteed workers a 20 percent increase in their standard of living over the life of the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:47

... sight of the human face of the NGO sphere, the individuals who populate it, or their stories The problem with existing models of civil society, and with many critiques of these models, is that they ... and learning about the lives of women in different parts of the world Their commitment to social change and their insights into the effects of socialist collapse on the lives of everyday people ... reworked, and the rights and needs of various categories of citizens redefined These women’s social justice struggles and their uneven success highlight some of the social costs of economic reforms...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 17:40

... another For, when they gathered together libels and anti-courtly love poems, they likewise forced these two kinds of politics together One could say that the authors of libels did as much on their ... Shakespeare’s sonnets, they turned The Anagram’ into a central example of a genre that they were fashioning themselves 11 The Donne Variorum editors record 62 copies of The Anagram,’ 63 of The Bracelet,’ ... regarding their access to texts; their tastes; their working deWnitions of literary genres, or lack thereof; and their perspectives on recent politics Without necessarily realizing the ramiWcations of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:43

... yet, there have been numerous struggles over it: Can the claims of adult survivors, the testimony of children, or the denials of those accused of offenses be believed? What is the nature of memory? ... contradictions of politics on the ground, and to take seriously the aims and understandings of the activists involved in these social changes (Apostolidis 2008: 546) Therapeutic Politics and the Therapeutic ... We see the use of the term “rape” to describe assaults, regardless of the age of the victim A lengthy article in the Seattle feminist newspaper Pandora in 1974 provides another example of the equation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:50

... in much of African political rhetoric, but instead to recognize that the symbols politicians employ is the surface rather than the essence of politics (Szeftel 2000b) The corollary of these analyses ... in the name of development or in the name of the poor, they face the same criticisms as past colonial rulers: they cannot claim to be representatives of recipient country populations and they ... they have the right to dictate, in practice, the terms of use of that aid, which is done according to their own interests, irrespective of the views of the recipient Thus, in some cases, the priorities...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:23

... 1990) suggests The Politics of Tolerance 23 that the answer is “no.” Given the record of results, I nevertheless advance the argument that the religion/religiosity of individuals in the contemporary ... integration of the values of liberal democracy with the experience of religion and religiosity within America in the twenty-first century Chapter The Politics of Tolerance h America has from the beginning ... by revulsion with the corruptions of a contemporary society —Michael Kazin, The Politics of Devotion” in The Nation, April 6, 1998 The more things change the more they remain the same In every...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:53

... farmers of the benefits of abandoning forest pasturing in favour of cultivating fodder for dairy animals Small-scale farming was seen as a challenge to the creation of the welfare state, as the profit ... saving the breed, which was by then close to extinction The rapid development of new technologies was another important factor in the rationalisation of agriculture For example, the expansion of ... animals to keep them off the hayfields or pasture land of other farms In addition, as labour costs increased and the use of unpaid labour by family members decreased considerably during the twentieth...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... privileged food The irony is that women are better off nutritionally than men and that there are many ways that women can deny men food as they are in control of the distribution of food within the household ... and as a decline of Samburu culture All Samburu also link these foods and new ways of eating to the drastic reduction in livestock holdings in the last decades Another example of change is beer ... new, but the cultural constructions of it are more nuanced and detailed than in other studies of pastoral food Food here is explained through a certain set of postmodern theories, and at the same...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20