...With an essay that challenges the notion that processes can ever be neutral, Carmen Harris addresses the issue of bureaucratic racism and the resultant marginalization of African American faculty in historically white colleges and universities through processes of faculty governance. The essay...

...The persistent weakness of Russia’s state institutions was a major cause of the tumult of the 1990s. Yeltsin and his ministers took important steps to bolster government effectiveness, but the crucial changes were made by Putin. He employed a two-pronged strategy. First, he collected a group...

...This chapter discusses challenges of global health inequalities in the current global health policy system. It then describes provincial globalism and a shared health governance framework as approaches to these challenges. Moral philosophers have for some time argued that global poverty...

...This chapter addresses the structure and familial relationships in the Weston family and also in the Weymouth household. Inconsistent paternal governance and the necessity for the elder sisters to assume responsibility for the family's well-being were key aspects of the running of the Weston...

... enshrined the logic of cultural pluralism as a framework of international governance. The League’s system created the category “national minority” and in doing so established new conditions of possibility within which groups could be made legible within the international order. Ali Dusé Mohamed World War I...

... governance was the Cape Fear settlement. Later in the chapter, the framework for future colonies including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and the offshore Bahamas is constructed through Carolina’s proprietary charters as well as its constitutions. Berkeley James Charles II Cromwell Oliver...

... the ” “swagger jacking ” racism Urban planning Diversity Neoliberalism Governance Economic development They only want certain kinds of businesses on H Street now. —Daniel, H Street business owner Several years of failed investment schemes plagued the H Street, NE corridor after the 1968 uprisings through...

...In 2012, the rectors of the University of Virginia carried out a failed attempt to oust President Teresa Sullivan, demonstrating how a lack of understanding of shared governance and the importance of the internal dynamics of a university can frustrate university trustees. Bart Giamatti said...

...The colonial process has made the Mineral Estate into another hazardous entanglement, instilling fears and doubts about the expansion of Osage governance. This chapter investigates the colonial entanglement created by the Osage Mineral Estate trust. By looking at its impact on both the writing...

...This chapter focuses on inauguration day, when the capital was secure and there seemed little chance that the event would be interrupted by violence. Lincoln's precise plans for governance were uncertain; his initial concerns revolved around organizing the government, which meant distributing...

... some of the ways the Civil War echoed beyond 1865. In reimagining the war's consequences, it considers new ways of understanding the size and particular strengths of the so-called Stockade State. It also examines how the federal government located in outposts were able to enforce its policies...

... track faculty positions, the academic promotion and tenure process, academic freedom, and shared governance. doctor of philosophy PhD degrees faculty graduate students seminars stipends teaching assistants TAs tuition and fees tuition waivers dissertation committee funding dissertation...

... and an advocate of non-alignment, disarmament, and global governance as it stood between the United States and the Soviet Union, actively fostering dialogue and attempting to forge friendships without entering into formal alliances. Sweeping in its scope yet nuanced in its analysis, this is the authoritative...

...In this study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia—Spain's Kingdom of Quito—the chapters argue that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. The book shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century royal...

... system for their governance and for gathering the Saints scattered abroad. Benson Ezra Taft broadcasting earth secretaries television Latter day Saint use of appearance Bowman Matthew Christianity consumerism curriculum distant vision infrastructure McKay David O Mormon Correlation...

... to new calls for corporate responsibility, Elmore shows the limits of their efforts to “green” their operations and offers insights on how governments and activists can push corporations to do better. At the root, Elmore reveals a fundamental challenge: Our lives are built around businesses that connect...

... fostered major changes in the allocation of time, space, and financial resources. They have helped redefine work, leisure, personal relationships, and entrepreneurship. Emphasizing as they do the neoliberal goal of self-governance, they have accentuated the power of individualism and eroded the roles...

... of governance unless responsible civic leadership is already in place. The author describes WLP’s growth, conducting trainings in sixty countries in thirty languages and growing around the globe, as each of the twenty partners expanded their reach in turn by partnering with other independent organizations...

.... It lays out the ways in which insurance functioned as a form of merchant self-governance, which sometimes aligned with the American political project of self-governance and sometimes operated in tension with it. It demonstrates the political and social diversity of eighteenth-century marine insurers...

...This chapter reveals how, even as Obeso entered into public debates in Bogotá, democratic experiments in Caribbean public life became irrevocably tied to factional politics. People of color found opportunities to participate in local republican governance, and they used their public standing...