1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464012103321

Autore

Honda Jiro

Titolo

Do IMF programs improve economic governance? / / Jiro Honda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, District of Columbia] : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4623-1846-0

1-4527-3395-3

1-4518-6974-6

1-282-84068-1

9786612840685

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (34 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

353.00722

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Developing countries - Econometric models

Economic development - Developing countries - Econometric models

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; I. Background; II. The IMF's Approach to Economic Governance; A. The Approach; B. Literature Review; III. Stylized Facts About Economic Governance in Developing Countries; IV. Empirical Framework; A. Model; B. Data; C. Results; V. Concluding Remarks

Sommario/riassunto

This paper examines the effects of IMF financial assistance on economic governance in developing countries, based on panel data analyses of perceived governance indicators. It uses a two-stage approach to address possible endogeneity issues. The results show that successful implementation of IMF programs is associated with improvements in the quality of economic governance. Specifically, the paper finds statistically robust results that IMF concessional programs through the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility tend to enhance the rule of law and strengthen control of corruption. Through this



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457223203321

Autore

Ward Jason Morgan

Titolo

Defending white democracy [[electronic resource] ] : the making of a segregationist movement and the remaking of racial politics, 1936-1965 / / Jason Morgan Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4696-1387-5

1-4696-0254-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

305.800975

Soggetti

Segregation - Southern States - History - 20th century

Segregation - Political aspects - Southern States - History - 20th century

White people - Southern States - Politics and government - 20th century

White people - Southern States - Attitudes - History - 20th century

African Americans - Segregation - Southern States - History

Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century

Government, Resistance to - Southern States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Southern States Race relations History 20th century

Southern States Race relations Political aspects History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Agitating falsely the race problem -- The white south's "double V" -- From white supremacists to "segregationists" -- Nationalizing race and southernizing freedom -- The rhetoric of responsible resistance -- The southern "minority" and the silent majority.

Sommario/riassunto

"After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight. Journalists profiled the rise of a segregationist movement committed to preserving the "southern way of life" through a campaign of massive resistance. In Defending White Democracy, Jason Morgan Ward reconsiders the origins of this white resistance, arguing that southern



conservatives began mobilizing against civil rights some years earlier, in the era before World War II, when the New Deal politics of the mid-1930s threatened the monopoly on power that whites held in the South. As Ward shows, years before "segregationist" became a badge of honor for civil rights opponents, many white southerners resisted racial change at every turn--launching a preemptive campaign aimed at preserving a social order that they saw as under siege. By the time of the Brown decision, segregationists had amassed an arsenal of tested tactics and arguments to deploy against the civil rights movement in the coming battles. Connecting the racial controversies of the New Deal era to the more familiar confrontations of the 1950s and 1960s, Ward uncovers a parallel history of segregationist opposition that mirrors the new focus on the long civil rights movement and raises troubling questions about the enduring influence of segregation's defenders. "--

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910348217303321

Autore

Gelbin Cathy S.

Titolo

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews / / Cathy S. Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2017]

ISBN

0-472-12296-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 pages)

Collana

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Disciplina

305.892/404

Soggetti

Cosmopolitanism - Europe

Jews - Europe - Identity

Jews in literature

German literature - Jewish authors

Europe Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. How Did We Get Here from There? -- Introducing the Problem -- The Cosmopolitanist Debates -- The Jew in Contemporary Theories of Cosmopolitanism -- Nomads, Gypsies, Jews



-- Jews and the Nation-State -- 2. Moving About: Cosmopolitanism from Jews in Coaches to Jews on Trains -- The Enlightenment Imagines Cosmopolitan Jews -- Writers in Coaches -- Jews Writing Their Own Cosmopolitanism -- 3. "Everyone Is Welcome": The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism in the Imperial Worlds of Austro-Hungarian and Wilhelmine Jewry -- From Vienna to Berlin and Beyond -- Vienna, Zionism, and Cosmopolitanism -- Prague: On the Fringes of Empire -- Berlin: Another Empire -- 4. Jewish Cosmopolitanism and the European Idea, 1918-1933 -- After the Deluge -- Stefan Zweig: The Model European -- Joseph Roth's Hotel Patriotism -- Lion Feuchtwanger: The Empire Strikes Back -- Cosmopolitanism Tottering on the Brink of Catastrophe -- 5. "The World Will Be Your Home": Cosmopolitanism under National Socialism and in Exile -- The Revolution of 1933 -- Thomas Mann and Egypt -- Joseph in Sigmund Freud's Egypt -- Heidegger's Rootless Jew -- Zweig's Erasmus in Exile: The Cosmopolitan par Excellence -- Roth and Zweig: Idealizing the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- Zweig's Brazil: The Farthest Exile -- Lion Feuchtwanger's History in Exile, the Josephus Trilogy -- 6. Rootless Cosmopolitans: German Jewish Writers and the Stalinist Purges -- The Left in World War II and Thereafter -- Communism, National Socialism, and the Jews -- Writing the Stalinist Purges: Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Arthur Koestler, and Manès Sperber -- The Left and the Stalinist Purges after 1945: Rudolf Leonhard, Peter Weiss, and Stefan Heym -- 7. Russian Jews as the Newest Cosmopolitans -- Rooted German Cosmopolitans? -- In Germany, Gogol Is Not Sholem Aleichem.

In America, Nabokov Really Is Not Sholem Aleichem -- 8. Walls and Borders: Toward a Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, when modern cosmopolitanist discourse arose. Through a series of case studies, the authors analyze the historical and discursive junctures that mark the central paradigm shifts in the Jewish self-image, from the Wandering Jew to the rootless parasite, the cosmopolitan, and the socialist internationalist. Chapters analyze the tensions and dualisms in the constructed relationship between cosmopolitanism and the Jews at particular historical junctures between 1800 and the present, and probe into the relationship between earlier anti-Semitic discourses on Jewish cosmopolitanism and Stalinist rhetoric.