Long-Term Changes in the Recruitment of the Business Elite: Germany Compared to the U.S., Great Britain, and France Since the Industrial Revolution

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Kaelble
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Business Elite ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Sample-Selection Biases and the Industrialization Puzzle

2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Bodenhorn ◽  
Timothy W. Guinnane ◽  
Thomas A. Mroz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
The U.S

Understanding long-term changes in human well-being is central to understanding the consequences of economic development. An extensive anthropometric literature purports to show that heights in the United States declined between the 1830s and the 1890s, which is when the U.S. economy modernized. Most anthropometric research contends that declining heights reflect the negative health consequences of industrialization and urbanization. This interpretation, however, relies on sources subject to selection bias. Our meta-analysis shows that the declining height during industrialization emerges primarily in selected samples. We also develop a parsimonious diagnostic test that reveals, but does not correct for, selection bias in height samples. When applied to four representative height samples, the diagnostic provides compelling evidence of selection.

scholarly journals Transformative Learning in Nicaragua: A Retrospective Analysis of University Agriculture Students’ Long-Term Changes in Perspective After a Study Abroad Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Janiece Pigg ◽  
Adam O’Malley ◽  
Richie Roberts ◽  
Kristin Stair
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Agriculture Students ◽  
Term Change ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
The U.S

Study abroad courses have become a priority for institutions of higher education because of a need to broaden students’ perspectives of the world. However, a dearth of knowledge existed regarding whether the reported outcomes of study abroad courses, such changes to students’ perspectives, endure over time. In response, this retrospective study explored how university agriculture students’ (n = 5) shared experiences during a one-week study abroad course to Nicaragua influenced their long-term changes in perspective after returning to the U.S. in 2018. Through our phenomenological analysis, three themes emerged: (1) dichotomous learning outcomes, (2) recognition of power and privilege, and (3) advocacy for global experiences. In the first theme, dichotomous learning outcomes, participants’ long-term changes in perspective appeared to vary based on their level of academic maturity. Meanwhile, in the second theme, as university agriculture students compared their lived experiences in Nicaragua to their existing assumptions of the U.S., it appeared to elicit powerful shifts concerning how they viewed the world. And, as a result, they reported their experiences prompted them to consider the implications of social inequities more deeply. In the final theme, participants reported that after returning home, they began to advocate for global experiences among their peers, family, and friends. Consequently, our findings supported the use of short-term study abroad courses to foster a positive transformation in students’ global perspectives and behaviors after returning to the U.S. Keywords: agricultural education, study abroad, phenomenology, retrospective long-term change

C1. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Address at the Herzliya Conference, Herzliya, 16 December 2004 (excerpts).

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-177
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Business Elite ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
Political Security ◽  
Closed Door ◽  
Foreign Ministry ◽  
The U.S

Prime Minister Sharon has addressed the Herzliya conference, the exclusive closed-door annual gathering of the country's very top political, security, intelligence, and business elite, every year since it was first convened in December 2000. Since he became prime minister, his speech to the conference——which is said to set Israel's long-term agenda——has been likened to the U.S. president's state of the union address; it was in this venue that he unveiled his disengagement plan in December 2003. The English translation of the speech appears on the foreign ministry Web site at www.mfa.gov.il.

scholarly journals The Partisan Sorting of `America': How Nationalist Cleavages Shaped the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Bonikowski ◽  
Yuval Feinstein ◽  
Sean Bock
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
The Other ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
The Past ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Institutional Politics ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The U.S

Political scientists have acknowledged the importance of nationalism as a constitutive element of radical-right politics, but have typically empirically reduced the phenomenon to its downstream attitudinal correlates. Sociologists, on the other hand, have extensively studied nationalism, but have only sporadically engaged in debates about institutional politics. In this study, we bring these literatures together by considering how nationalist beliefs shaped respondents' voting preferences in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and how the election outcome built on long-term changes in the distribution of nationalism in the U.S. population. The results suggest that competing understandings of American nationhood were effectively mobilized by candidates from the two parties, both in the 2016 primaries and the general election. Furthermore, over the past twenty years, nationalism has become sorted by party, as Republican identifiers have come to define America in more exclusionary and critical terms and Democrats have increasingly endorsed inclusive and positive conceptions of nationhood. These trends point to the rising demand for radical candidates among Republicans and suggests a potentially bleak future for U.S. politics, as nationalism becomes yet another among multiple overlapping social and cultural cleavages that serve to reinforce partisan divisions and undermine the stability of liberal democratic institutions.

scholarly journals Attribution of long-term changes in peak river flows in Great Britain

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 1159-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoibheann Brady ◽  
Julian Faraway ◽  
Ilaria Prosdocimi
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
River Flows ◽  
Long Term Changes

The Rise of the United States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Edelstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The U.S

By the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States had emerged as a substantial great power. Despite a century of animosity, the United States and Great Britain were able to reconcile at this time. This chapter reviews the process by which this reconciliation took place, including through three crises that defined the terms of their relationship in the western hemisphere—the Venezuela boundary crisis, the Panama Canal crisis, and the Canadian border crisis. In addition, by accepting a U.S. presence in East Asia, Britain signalled its comfort with the arrival of the U.S. as a great power. British confidence in U.S. long-term intentions, not any judgment about U.S. capabilities, were key to Anglo-American friendship.

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