Access to mental health care and traumatic brain injury services : addressing the challenges and barriers for veterans : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, Tuesday, April 24, 2014

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910708180503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 71 pages) : illustrations
• Soggetti: Veterans - Mental health services - United States; Brain - Wounds and injuries - Diagnosis - United States; Brain - Wounds and injuries - Treatment - United States; Brain - Wounds and injuries - Patients - Rehabilitation - United States; Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment - United States; Post-traumatic stress disorder - Patients - Rehabilitation - United States; Psychiatric disability evaluation - United States; Brain - Wounds and injuries - Diagnosis; Brain - Wounds and injuries - Patients - Rehabilitation; Brain - Wounds and injuries - Treatment; Post-traumatic stress disorder - Patients - Rehabilitation; Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment; Psychiatric disability evaluation; Veterans - Mental health services; Legislative hearings.; Rules.; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 9, 2015).; Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.; Subcommittee's name in subtitle should read Oversight and ; Investigations.; "Serial no. 113-66."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

Monitoring democracy [[electronic resource] ] : when international election observation works, and why it often fails / / Judith G. Kelley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789980603321
• Autore: Kelley Judith Green
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-49446-8; 9786613589699; 1-4008-4252-2
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.6/5
• Soggetti: Election monitoring
• 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: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Rise of a New Norm -- Chapter 3. The Shadow Market -- Chapter 4. What Influences Monitors' Assessments? -- Chapter 5. Do Politicians Change Tactics to Evade Criticism? -- Part II -- Chapter 6. International Monitors as Reinforcement -- Chapter 7. Are Monitored Elections Better? -- Chapter 8. Long- Term Effects -- Conclusion: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Appendix A: Data Description -- Appendix B: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 3 -- Appendix C: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 4 -- Appendix D: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 7 / Buntaine, Mark -- Appendix E: Case Summaries / Kolev, Kiril -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent decades, governments and NGO's--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. But when more organizations join the practice without uniform standards, are assessments reliable? When politicians ; nonetheless cheat and monitors must return to countries even after two decades of engagement, what is accomplished? Monitoring Democracy argues that the practice of international election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing. By analyzing the evolving interaction between domestic and international politics, Judith Kelley refutes prevailing arguments that international efforts cannot curb government behavior and that democratization is entirely a domestic process. Yet, she also shows that democracy promotion efforts are deficient and that outside actors often have no power and sometimes even do harm. Analyzing original data on over 600 monitoring missions and 1,300 elections, Kelley grounds her investigation in solid historical context as well as studies of long-term developments over several elections in fifteen countries. She pinpoints the weaknesses of international election monitoring and looks at how practitioners and policymakers might help to improve them.