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Description:: Chapter 1. Caste, Bureaucracy, and the Limits to Political Affirmative Action. The aim of political affirmative action policies is to ensure that disadvantaged groups are represented in their governments and, in turn, that laws preferred by this group are more likely to be instituted. Often, however, they have not been...
Keyword:: citizenship, affirmative action, contagion, caste, bureaucracy, and political economy
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Campillo Betancourt, Eduardo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_986068 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16575

Description:: In the United States there is little material culture that foster youth share in common while in state custody. Removed from alleged circumstances of abuse or neglect, these young people frequently relocate between residential care settings like group homes, institutional treatment centers, or single family foster homes. Due to perpetual...
Keyword:: administration, materiality, United States, documents, bureaucracy, and foster care
Subject:: Social work
Creator:: Stubbs, Matilda
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_614326 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14392

Description:: This dissertation project is one of the first to explicitly study the theoretical and empirical relationship between public opinion and the policies of unelected administrative agencies in the United States. This research addresses two important questions: (1) given the absence of a direct electoral connection between bureaucrats and the public,...
Keyword:: regulation, bureaucracy, public opinion, and Congress
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Julia Rabinovich
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/01/2018
Date Modified:: 10/01/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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