American evangelicals have become dominant players within the United States government. One particularly important domain of elite activity has been the U.S. military. Through important institutions like the Pentagon and the U.S. Air Force Academy, a cohort of civilian and military leaders have brought their faith to bear in their professional responsibilities and forms of public self-presentation. Drawing on data from interviews with 360 national, public leaders who are evangelical as well as leaders of evangelical institutions, this essay traces the expressive and institutional elements of evangelical activity within the U.S. military. Informants for this essay include two former Presidents of the United States; dozens of Cabinet secretaries, governmental leaders, and senior White Hou...
Recent decades have seen momentous changes in the economic geography of the world. Political transitions and economic liberalization have brought formerly closed countries into the world economy. This sketch describes some of the forces driving change in the world economy and some of the ensuing changes in economic geography. It also challenges the understanding of the location of economic activity and of the determinants of changes in the pattern of location. There are many reasons for variation in the prosperity of countries and regions. Some factors are truly exogenous and others are a function of political and institutional history. Even as globalization causes dispersion of activity, so economic development will be in sequence, not in parallel; some countries will experience rapid ...
[M]ost civil rights litigation is not brought by institutional litigators or by large firms engaging in pro bono activity," but by individual lawyers who are trying to make a living.10 Public interest organizations tend to focus on the few large-scale law reform cases at the expense of the important day-to-day enforcement work of individual cases.11 And pro bono is very rarely deployed for civil rights cases-particularly civil rights cases against businesses.12 Market-based private enforcement of civil rights therefore seems like it will be insufficient to serve the public interest reflected in civil rights statutes. The Court has, for example, held in Buckhannon Board & Care Home, Inc. v. West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources that a plaintiff is not a "prevaili...
We estimate expected short interest for Nasdaq stocks. Extending prior work, our research is among the first to investigate the impact of ownership structure on short-selling activity. We find that short interest is negatively related to institutional ownership and positively related to inside ownership; stocks with greater liquidity and smaller relative spreads are more heavily shorted. We also develop a measure of the unanticipated level of short selling; relative to the reported amount of short interest, this unexpected level of short selling seems at first to better represent the opinions of informed investors engaging in costly short-selling activities. However, the power of the unanticipated level of short-selling factor is displaced when we make allowances for traditional market,...
As the uptake of repositories increases, JISC continues to support UK universities in developing their services. This article describes some of the key areas of activity at the institutional and national levels, illustrates the way in which effective networked repositories can support academics, and showcases the contribution of JISC-funded projects to the global growth of repository services.
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... intra-organizational collaborative activity. Particularly pronounced in recent years, outside ... emerge, develop, and become institutionalized within major research universities. . Organization...
The latest version of regulatory relief legislation meandering its way through Congress is chock-full of burden-lifting measures-in areas such as Bank secrecy Act enforcement, call-report filing, privacy notices, and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requirements-that bankers say are desperately needed. But for one constituency, bank directors, a proposed wrinkle makes the bill's title look like a misnomer. Section 405 of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act, known formally as H R 3505, would give banking regulators the power to enforce written agreements requiring that directors dip into their own pockets to prop up a financially ailing institution. No "reckless disregard" or "unjust enrichment"-the present standards for such actions-would be required. Rather, the agencies would be ...
... risks also could discourage start-up activity and institutional investments in banks. For troubl...
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