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Free Trade Is Not Free: A Case For Fair Trade, Wardah Javaid Cheema

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

To this day, mainstream economists favor free trade policies as the best way to generate economic development. They do so at the expense of their unjustified romanticization of reductionist classical trade theories. This thesis seeks to comprehend the constraints of traditional trade theories and their inability to be applied to practical contemporary problems. Further, contrary to the fundamental assumption of free trade theory, there is ample evidence of government intervention in free trade agreements. These interventions solely encourage and protect large corporations and investors rather than the actual development and sustainability factors, namely labor and the environment. It all adds …

The Political Consequences Of Racialized Ethnic Identities, Kimberly Cardenas, Heather Silber Mohamed, Melissa R. Michelson

Political Science

Racial classifications are a social construct with no basis in biology; yet, race is an omnipresent and powerful factor in U.S. politics, shaping electoral boundaries, disbursement of resources, and political alliances (Omi and Winant 1994, Haney López 1994). Race, then, is a malleable construct wielded by varying interests, with racial definitions changing in response to social and political battles. Some new immigrant groups initially classified as not white have been reclassified as white over time, thereby benefitting from associated legal, economic, and sociopolitical privileges. More recently, however, some Latinos have sought recognition as a distinct non-white racial group, in acknowledgment …

Social Welfare Policy In Post-Transition Chile: Social Democratic Or Neoliberal?, Paul W. Posner

Political Science

Chile’s massive 2019 protests indicate a pronounced discrepancy between the country’s alleged establishment of social democracy and the public’s perception of pervasive inequity. To understand this discrepancy, this analysis evaluates the extent to which Chilean social welfare policy conforms to social democratic norms of promoting solidarity, equity, and universalism. Analysis of poverty reduction, pension, health care, and education policy demonstrates that Chile’s center-left governments succeeded in mitigating some of the more extreme elements of the social welfare policies inherited from the Pinochet regime. However, they failed to reverse their underlying logic, which reinforces stratification and inequity and undermines incentives for …

The Environmental Citizen: Participant And Problem, Monika U. Ehrman

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs

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The Citizen And The Energy Regulatory Process, Shelley Welton

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs

No abstract provided.

Ruckelshaus's Blind Spot: The Economics Of Participation, Wendy Wagner

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Regulatory Performance, Cary Coglianese

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs

This article presents a framework for systematically evaluating the performance of regulations and regulatory processes. Offering an accessible account of the fundamentals of evaluation, the article explains the need for indicators to measure relevant outcomes of concern and research designs to support inferences about the extent to which a regulation or regulatory process under evaluation has actually caused any change in measured outcomes. Indicators will depend on the specific problems of concern to policymakers as well as on data availability, but the best indicators will almost always be those that measure the ultimate problem the regulation or process was intended …

"When I Grow Up, I Want To Be A Boy:" Addressing Gender-Stereotypes Against Girls Through The Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Benyam Dawit Mezmur

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs

No abstract provided.

Appendix: Transcript Of "Informing The General Recommendation 41: Shaping A New Normative Framework In International Law"

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs

This is the transcript of a Zoom-hosted podcast panel discussion on April 19, 2024 to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the upcoming General Recommendation 41 of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which deals with gender stereotypes in laws around the world. Moderating is Julian Lutz, Associate Editor for this Issue and Editor-in-Chief of Volume 9 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs.

Zambia’S Missing Narrative Of Structural Adjustment, Michael Gubser

Zambia Social Science Journal

In 1991, Zambia launched one of the most orthodox structural adjustments programs (SAPs) in Africa. The last and longest chapter of its fitful history with the IMF and World Bank, Zambia’s SAP commenced during the euphoria following the ouster of long-time President Kenneth Kaunda, when it was presented as the only strategy for dealing with the country’s economic collapse. What followed was one of Africa’s most striking experiments with rapid liberalisation, leading to budgetary stabilisation and increased investment but also sudden unemployment and impoverishment. If in retrospect liberalisation seems inescapable, given the ballooning debt of Kaunda’s last years, Zambians at …

Los Que Cantan Transmiten Y Los Que Escuchan Recuerdan, Laura Vanessa Urdaneta Terán

Maestría en Política y Relaciones Internacionales

Colombia fue considerada como una de las zonas más militarizadas del mundo. Los habitantes de los municipios afectados por la violencia en Colombia, como comunidad, han sufrido de un trauma colectivo durante décadas. En este sentido, la música popular de Colombia, como grupo colectivo, no ha sido objeto recurrente de estudios académicos cuando de análisis de expresión de los recuerdos se trata. Esta monografía es un intento de analizar la música popular que es una muestra de los sucesos traumáticos a través de las canciones populares de Colombia para reclamar la auténtica experiencia de su trauma colectivo y servir como …

Lineamientos Para La Administración De Archivos De Postconflicto, Memoria Y Derechos Humanos En El Departamento Administrativo De La Presidencia De La República De Colombia - Dapre, Edwin Yovanny Cabrera Hurtado

Maestría en Gestión Documental y Administración de Archivos

El desarrollo de esta investigación se realizó con el fin de identificar los lineamientos internacionales, nacionales y buenas prácticas para la administración de archivos de derechos humanos y derecho internacional humanitario. Es así como se desarrolló un estudio de caso en el Departamento Administrativo de la Presidencia de la República, en donde se identifican las consejerías presidenciales que producen y gestionan este tipo de archivos, se identifica la actuación administrativa actual y se proponen los lineamientos que se deben implementar para el cumplimiento legislativo colombiano y las buenas prácticas relacionadas con este tipo de archivos.

2022-2023 Annual Report By The Numbers, Sarah Myers, Murray Library

Library Publications

Murray Library's 2022-2023 Annual Report displayed as an infographic. It includes highlights for the 2022-23 year and testimonials from undergraduate students.

A Forgotten Wave: Socialist Women’S Activism And The Struggle For Gender Equality, Sevgi Adak

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

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Editorial: Positive Youth Development, Mental Health, And Psychological Well-Being In Diverse Youth, Nora Wiium, Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Jennifer E. Lansford, Lene Arnett Jensen

Psychology

This is an editorial commentary on the Research Topic entitled: Editorial: Positive youth development, mental health, and psychological well-being in diverse youth. One impetus behind this Research Topic was to examine the ways in which positive development intersects with problematic aspects of development and behavior, with an emphasis on connections to indicators of mental health problems. The second impetus was to take an international approach, including youth from diverse countries and settings who were studied using a variety of etic and emic methods that correspondingly consider cross-culturally common features and features that vary across cultures.

Obfuscating Systemic Racism: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis On The Operation Of Neoliberal Ideas In Media Representation Of A School District State Takeover, Trish A. Lopez, Holly Sheppard Riesco, Christian Z. Goering

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications and Presentations

Education reform in the United States has unwisely focused attention on standards and accountability to the state as determined by standardized testing (Berliner & Biddle, 1995; Mehta, 2013). Stemming from the emphasis on standards-based accountability are the ideas of rapid school turnaround and the state’s role in this process (Peck & Reitzug, 2014; VanGronigen & Meyers, 2019). The current study employed critical policy discourse analysis to examine the media’s portrayal of the 2019 determination to continue or terminate state control of the Little Rock School District. The analysis highlights two argumentative frames—one that emphasized neoliberal values in support of continued …

How Social Media Influencer Collaborations Are Percieved By Consumers, Veronica L. Thomas, Kendra Fowler, Faegheh Teheran

Marketing Faculty Publications

Within the social media community, influencers engage in a variety of collaborative practices such as tagging, reposting content from, or forming partnerships with other influencers and brands. While such collaborative efforts are a known practice, less is understood about how influencer collaborations affect consumers' perceptions of the partnering influencers, specifically when a status differential exists within the collaboration. We suggest that such collaborative practices, specifically those where the focal influencer has a higher status than the collaborating partner, may help to weaken consumers' perceptions that the influencer's actions are purely self‐focused. A pilot study, analyzing both influencer–influencer collaborations and influencer–brand …

Judging Firearms Evidence And The Rule 702 Amendments, Brandon Garrett, Nicholas Scurich, Eric Tucker, Hannah Bloom

Faculty Scholarship

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The Price Of Fairness, Christopher Buccafusco, Daniel Hemel, Eric Talley

Faculty Scholarship

The COVID-19 pandemic led to acute supply shortages across the country as well as concerns over price increases amid surging demand. In the process, it reawakened a debate about whether and how to regulate “price gouging”—a controversy that continues as inflation has accelerated even as the pandemic abates. Animating this debate is a longstanding conflict between laissez-faire economics, which champions price fluctuations as a means to allocate scarce goods, and perceived norms of consumer fairness, which are thought to cut strongly against sharp price hikes amid shortages.

This Article provides a new, empirically grounded perspective on the price gouging debate …

The Possible Futures Of American Democracy, Jedediah Purdy

Faculty Scholarship

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The Vilnius Summit: A Platform For Female Leadership And Flexibility In Europe's Security Infrastructure, Amber Brittain-Hale, Amber Brittain-Hale

Education Division Scholarship

This paper examines the strategic evolution of Europe’s security framework in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the concluded Vilnius Summit — a critical juncture, with the possibility of selecting a new Secretary General. Among the nominees was Kaja Kallas, Estonia’s Prime Minister, whose innovative vision advocated a departure from traditional models. Kallas promoted a more inclusive and flexible NATO membership structure, more active and robust support for Ukraine against Russian aggression, increased roles for women in security architecture and policymaking, and the utilisation of public diplomacy and strategic communication in novel ways. The summit culminated in the reappointment …

Redefining The Diplomatic Stage: The Evolution Of Feminine Foreign Policy In The Russo-Ukrainian War, Amber Brittain-Hale, Amber Brittain-Hale

Education Division Scholarship

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Theory-Building And Tool-Building For A Science Of Dysfunctional Political Discourse, Eric Hamilton, Marguerite Williamson, Andrew Hurford

Education Division Scholarship

This paper extends a developing analytic framework for political discourse that takes place over digital social media. Earlier presentations of the framework have furnished a rationale for applying the conceptual framework of epistemic frame theory and the tools of quantitative ethnography for political discourse analysis. They have provided early existence proofs of the viability of epistemic network analysis (ENA) for rudimentary models of social media threads that involve political content. The current theoretical paper moves significantly beyond this foundation. It summarizes and deepens the explanation of the constructs of discursive transactions, response grammars, and epistemic frames in political discourse. It …

More Equitable Fiscal Systems Are Needed To Improve Welfare Provision For Migrant Workers In China And Vietnam, Jake Lin, Jingyu Mao

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Administration As Democratic Trustee Representation, Katharine Jackson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

The “folk” theory of democracy that typically justifies the administrative state cannot help but lead to a discourse of constraint. If agency action is only legitimate when it mechanically applies the will of the voters as transposed by Congress through statutes, then the norms guiding that action will inevitably restrain agency discretion. As a result, attempts to establish the democratic credentials of the administrative state ironically obstruct the application of collective power. But this “folk” theory of democracy is bad theory. It is empirically incredible and, alarmingly, facilitates dangerous populist politics. Political theory instead suggests that a theory of democratic …

Policy Analysis: School Clustering Policy, Sajid Ali, Aisha Naz Ansari

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

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Paper Gowns, Cold Hands, Or Something Else? Black Women's Barriers To Gynecologic Screening, Nadia Ayesha Sesay

Theses and Dissertations--Communication

Cervical cancer mortality burden is carried disproportionately by African American women. Early indicators of cervical cancer are identified through prevention screening, a procedure typically performed by a gynecologist. Ideally, the patient group with the most severe mortality would likewise be the group with the most robust communication exchange with their physician to prevent cervical cancer incidence. However, a slew of factors contributes to continued mortalities among Black women. This study uses semi-structured interviews (n=10) and the health belief model to examine one barrier to Black women’s prosocial behaviors regarding routine gynecologic care—awkwardness, which here is conceptualized as social anxiety. The …

When The Institutional Context Thwarts Public-Private Partnerships: The Role Of Political Factors In The Failure Of Ppps, Mhamed Biygautane, Omar Ahermouch

All Works

The PPP scholarly work has effectively explored the material values attached to PPPs such as efficiency of services, value for money and productivity, but little attention has been paid to procedural public values. This paper aims to address this gap by exploring how Enfidha Airport in Tunisia failed to achieve both financial and procedural values that were expected from delivering the airport via the PPP route, and what coping strategies the public and private sectors deployed to ameliorate any resultant value conflicts. Based on the analysis of Enfidha Airport, it is argued that PPP projects are likely to fail to …

Evaluating The Differential Effects Of Using A Technology-Based Antecedent Intervention In Comparison To A Technology-Based Treatment Package, Rachel Fosnaught

Theses and Dissertations--Early Childhood, Special Education, and Counselor Education

This study investigated the differential effects of using non-contingent reinforcement in the form of attention as an antecedent intervention in comparison to using non-contingent reinforcement in addition to self-monitoring as a treatment package. A multi treatment single case research design was utilized in this study. Levels of student’s on-task behavior were measured to evaluate the differential effects of an antecedent intervention in comparison to the combination of an antecedent and consequent intervention. This study also only used treatments that were technologically delivered to the participants.

Impact Of Targeted Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion (Dei) Initiatives On The Retention And Graduation Rates Of Students Of Color At Community Colleges, Momoh Sekou Dudu

School of Business Student Theses and Dissertations

In the United States of America, students of color (SOCs) encounter significant barriers when they seek higher education. As a result, many institutions of higher learning pursue diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to enhance these students’ chances at social and academic attainment. For community colleges across the nation, because they enroll a disproportionately large number of SOCs due to their combination of open enrollment policies, low tuition and geographic proximity, targeted DEI initiatives are a strategy of choice in dealing with their abysmal retention and graduation rates among this student demographic. This dissertation, anchored in sociological-based theoretical frameworks—specifically William …