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The Magic Chain: Interdimensional Movement in the Supply Chain for the “Black Minerals”
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James H. Smith
Published: 17 December 2021
... agriculture child labor exclusion Mai Mai Nyabibwe sex work Maniema North Kivu Kalima ruin capitalism technology China bureaucracy fish visibility Direction General de Migration DGM Sakima enslavement forced labor salongo hunting vortex Agence Nationale de Renseignements ANR customary...
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Silt and Empire
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Alan Mikhail
Published: 13 March 2017
... Ahmet III corruption famines al Jabartī ʿAbd al Raḥman weirs flooding of the Nile Mehmed Paşa al Yedekçi Mehmed Raghib Paşa Fayyum Beni Suef Istanbul irrigation food production peasants Hijaz center-periphery model of empire law imperial bureaucracy This chapter examines the history...
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Traversing Shadow Spaces of Accountability
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Britt Halvorson
Published: 28 June 2018
... Malagasy and Americans: What does it ultimately mean to be accountable, and how is it assessed? Do accountability requirements between fellow believers contradict contemporary principles of global religious communion? accountability bureaucracy accompanying model biblical model of accompanying...
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Military Patronage and Hodgson’s Genealogy of State Centralization in Early Modern Eurasia
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Pamela Kyle Crossley
Published: 05 November 2018
... patronage state” to be of particular interest. All steppe empires (another Hodgsonian concept) from East Asia to the Ottoman empire were shaped by their common of the ruler as the proprietor of the state. From this it followed that the state was ruler’s personal monopoly and the centralized bureaucracy...
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Boundaries of the State In Us History
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James T. Sparrow (ed.) and others
Published online: 19 May 2016
Published in print: 07 September 2015
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Conclusion and Discussion
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Matthew Lange
Published: 01 June 2009
... development. These include greater degree of bureaucracy and high levels of infrastructural power and state inclusiveness. This chapter concludes that colonial state legacies are an important cause of uneven development among former British colonies. direct rule indirect rule state Acemoglu Daron colonial...
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The Officer’s Three Names: The Formal, Familiar, and Bureaucratic in the Transnational History of Scientific Fellowships
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Michael J. Barany
Published: 25 January 2019
...This chapter uses Rockefeller Foundation fellowship files and related documentation for mathematicians in Latin America (especially Uruguayan communist José Luis Massera) to examine the multifarious work of scientific fellowship administration in a mid-twentieth century transnational bureaucracy...
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Government and the Economy
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Price Fishback
Published: 01 May 2007
... in the American economy from colonial times to the present. It describes the impact of government policies on the economy and the political economy of the policy making process. It also examines the involvement of government in labor, education, and health and looks at the federal bureaucracy. Argentina Bill...
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State Matters
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Martha Lampland
Published: 15 September 2016
...This chapter describes the efforts to restructure the government bureaucracy, economy and academic institutions that were initiated at the end of WWII when a multi-party political system was still in place, reforms that were eventually usurped by the Communists when they seized power in 1948...
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Administering Coercion
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Martha Lampland
Published: 15 September 2016
... of planning and political oversight weigh heavily on government offices, especially at the lower levels of the bureaucracy, which were ill equipped and poorly staffed to deal with the onerous workload. Attempts to promote collectivization were largely rebuffed by self-sufficient landowners, but the poorest...
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Punishment, Bureaucracy, and Demoralization
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Campbell F. Scribner and Bryan R. Warnick
Published: 17 May 2021
... of punishment poverty professionalization rural schools social promotion students teachers To Kill a Mockingbird Lee White students working class children behavior management bureaucracy corporal punishment courts exclusionary punishment guidance counselors immigration juvenile courts moral...
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The Mill and the Grist
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Spencer Headworth
Published: 22 May 2021
... investigative work information silos private sector databases “quality vs quantity” debate in building fraud control knowledge duplicate participation duplicate benefit cases hearings and hearing officers privacy hearing system navigating the welfare fraud irregularity bureaucracy intent evidence...
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Fraud Control as Performance
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Spencer Headworth
Published: 22 May 2021
... of Investigation FBI working with the information silos Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP Food Stamp Program United States Department of Agriculture USDA Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF applications application forms welfare fraud bureaucracy signaling credit blame legitimacy...
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Secular Governance in Columns and Rows
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Charles McCrary
Published: 08 April 2022
... abortion Spiritualism Ashley Alice bureaucracy inquisition Anthony Comstock Herman Melville Confidence-Man New York Society for the Suppression of Vice secular governance calculative reason if the confidence-man ’s steamer is a “world of unregulated miscellany...
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The Impossibility of Determining Age
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Ulrike Bialas
Published: 15 December 2023
... Group of Critical Social Workers medical examiners social workers Bowker Geoffrey C infrastructural inversion Star Susan Leigh vulnerability age determination age estimation age assessment forensic science medical examiners social work street-level bureaucracy social construction...
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Expertise: Settler Politics and the New Water Management
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K. Maria D. Lane
Published: 18 July 2024
...This chapter focuses on the emergence of U.S. water management policy and bureaucracy in the nineteenth century. Relying on historical and policy scholarship, it situates water management within the broader Progressive Era effort to claim and control new territory in the American West via...
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A Second-Best Court
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J. Mark Ramseyer
Published: 18 November 2015
... harder for everyone involved to predict. The Japanese court system generates and maintains this predictability by corralling its judges within a tightly organized bureaucracy that focuses relentlessly on the second-best. The court hires its judges while still young. It monitors them relentlessly...
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Published: 23 May 2019
... Doan Tam GMAC Litton Loan Stephan Jeffrey Wells Fargo Countrywide National Mortgage Settlement Chavez Wanda James Rhonda Ocwen Silva David Massachusetts Goldman Sachs surveillance foreclosure crisis mortgage assistance corporate lenders bureaucracy United States More than fourteen...
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Published online: 26 September 2013
Published in print: 07 November 2012
...Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but this book uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on archival research in the files of the East India...
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The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public: Special Interests, Government, and Threats to Health, Safety, and the Environment
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Rena Steinzor and Sidney Shapiro
Published online: 21 March 2013
Published in print: 15 June 2010
... on the bureaucracy all have contributed to the broken system. But while the news is troubling, the book also proposes a host of reforms, including a new model for measuring the success of the agencies and a revitalization of the civil service....