Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Inequality Measures ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
American Elections ◽  
The University

Branko Milanovic of World Bank reviews, “Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis” by James K. Galbraith. The EconLit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the relationship between the rise of inequality and the performance of the U.S. stock market and the rise of finance and of free-market policies elsewhere. Discusses the physics and ethics of inequality; the need for new inequality measures; pay inequality and world development; estimating the inequality of household incomes; economic inequality and political regimes; the geography of inequality in America, 1969-2007; state-level income inequality and American elections; inequality and unemployment in Europe—a question of levels; European wages and the flexibility thesis; globalization and inequality in China; finance and power in Argentina and Brazil; inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse; and economic inequality and the world crisis. Galbraith is Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas, Austin. Index.”

scholarly journals Teaching 7000 Students Per Year

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
R. Robert Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Undergraduate Program ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The University

The undergraduate program at the University of Texas has grown into the largest astronomy teaching program in the world, with some 7000 students per year (almost 20,000 credit hours). The department has 22.5 Ph.D.-level teaching faculty, about 45 graduate students, and about 40 pre-professional undergraduate majors. But most of the enrollment is in courses that satisfy the science requirements of students in liberal arts and non-technical majors. In 1985–86, 96.4 per cent of our undergraduate credit hours taught were in such classes. It is instructive to examine the historical reasons for our growth and its educational consequences, and to draw some conclusions from both for other programs.

scholarly journals Strukturförderung und die Beachtung von Umweltbelangen in den USA

1998 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-313
Author(s):  
Reinhard Klein
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Block Grants ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Community Development Block Grants ◽  
Development Block ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

Kurzfassung Im Anschluß an Teil 1Klein, Reinhard: Strukturförderung und die Beachtung von Umweltbelangen in den USA. Mechanismen und Praxis — Teil 1: Strukturförderung in den USA. In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung (1998) 2/3, S. 194–200 schildert dieser Teil der zusammengefaßten Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung, die der Autor 1997 in den USA erstellt hat,Klein, Reinhard F.: Environmentally Friendly Decision-Making in Structural Policies. An Analysis of the Mechanisms and Practice in the U.S. and Conclusions for the European Union. LBJ School of Public Affairs (The University of Texas at Austin). — Austin TX 1997. = Working Paper No. 86. (Eine deutschsprachige Fassung ist beim Verfasser erhältlich.) zunächst das US-System zur Beachtung der Umweltbelange in der Entscheidungsfindung. An den Beispielen der Maßnahmen derEconomic Development Administration und derCommunity Development Block Grants wird die Praxis der Umweltprüfung strukturrelevanter Maßnahmen des Bundes dargestellt. Danach wird die Bedeutung von Umweltgenehmigungen beleuchtet. Nach einer kurzen allgemeinen Bewertung der US-Erfahrungen schließt der Beitrag mit ausführlichen Schlußfolgerungen für die Strukturpolitik der Europäischen Union und deren Durchführung. Integration, Durchsetzung, Unterstützung, Offenheit sowie Begleitung und Kontrolle sind die angesprochenen Grundsätze.

Comparing Electoral Integrity within and across States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pippa Norris
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The South ◽  
Us States ◽  
The World ◽  
American Elections ◽  
Electoral Performance ◽  
Cross National

This chapter compares cross-national and state-level evidence from expert and mass surveys to diagnose problems in American elections. When evaluating the integrity of elections, experts rated America exceptionally poorly. Compared with all 153 countries in the survey, based on the average evaluations of both the 2012 and 2014 US elections, America scored 62 out of the 100-point PEI Index. Compared with the rest of the world, the United States ranks 52nd worldwide. Experts also evaluated the 2016 elections across all fifty US states and Washington, DC. The results show that the south remains the region of America which experts assess as having the weakest electoral performance. Democratic-controlled states usually had significantly greater electoral integrity than Republican-controlled states, across all stages except one (the declaration of the results, probably reflecting protests in several major cities following the unexpected Trump victory).

French and U. S. Influences upon the Latin American Press

1954 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Danton Jobim
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
American Press ◽  
The University

Danton Jobim is editor-in-chief of Diario Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, and professor of journalistic technique at the University of Brazil. He conducted a seminar on the world press at the University of Texas School of Journalism in February-March, 1953. This essay is transcribed from notes on several of his lectures.

scholarly journals From Bologna to Zoom: The Evolution of the University

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glynn Custred
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Created in Europe and spread throughout the world with the West’s rise, the university evolved from a guild-like medieval institution bounded by Christian doctrine to a flourishing, free-market place of ideas by the latter half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, Glynn Custred informs us, the universities’ more recent transformation into institutions of “political indoctrination” represents a return to the doctrine-bound era of its infancy.

scholarly journals A brief look on Agenda - setting theory nowadays

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Fernanda Ferreira ◽  
Marceli Silva ◽  
Rafiza Barão
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Initial Hypothesis ◽  
Ethical Role ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

Professor Maxwell McCombs began his career as a journalist in the 1960s, as a reporter for the New Orleans Times. A decade later, McCombs, in partnership with Donald Shaw, developed one of his major theories -the agenda-setting hypothesis, now considered a theory, which reflects on the influence of the mass media in relation to public affairs. In the 1980s, McCombs became a professor in the Journalism Department at the University of Texas. In this interview, we seek to recover the basis of the Agenda-setting theory and confront the initial hypothesis with the contemporary scenario and the advent of the internet, contextualizing particularities of Brazilian politics and electoral process and seeking to reflect on the possibility of scheduling different media, especially TV. McCombs was emphatic in saying that the media agenda plays an important ethical role "to use time and space for important topics and not fun topics"

Digital Resources: The Hijuelas Collection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Butler ◽  
David A. Bliss
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
State Government ◽  
State Level ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
British Library ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Land Privatization ◽  
The University ◽  
The 19Th Century

The Hijuelas project is a multi-domain international collaboration that makes available in digital form a large and valuable source on nineteenth-century indigenous history––the so-called libros de hijuelas or deed books recording the statewide privatization of indigenous lands in Michoacán, Mexico. These deed books, 194 in total, have been digitized and described over a two-year period by a team of History students from Michoacán’s state university, the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo (UMSNH), trained by and working under the supervision of archivists of the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies-Benson Latin American Collection of (LLILAS Benson) of the University of Texas at Austin. Additional logistical support has been provided by the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) as a partner institution in Mexico of the University of Texas at Austin and by the state government of Michoacán via the Archivo General e Histórico del Poder Ejecutivo de Michoacán (AGHPEM), which is custodian of the hijuelas books. The project was generously funded by the British Library through its Endangered Archives Programme (EAP 931, “Conserving Indigenous Memories of Land Privatization in Mexico: Michoacán’s Libros de Hijuelas, 1719–1929”). The project seeks to be innovative in two ways. As a post-custodial archiving project, first and foremost, it uses digital methods to make easily accessible to historians, anthropologists, and indigenous communities the only consolidated state-level record of the land privatizations (reparto de tierras) affecting Mexican indigenous communities in the 19th century. It therefore projects digitally a key source for historians and one that possesses clear identitarian and agrarian importance for indigenous communities. It also makes widely available a source that is becoming physically unstable and inaccessible because of the difficult public security conditions affecting Michoacán. As a collaboration involving diverse institutional actors, furthermore, the project brings together institutions from three different countries and is an example of what may be achieved through equitable international collaborations.

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