Yale political science professor named Carnegie Scholar.

M2 Presswire;  June 8, 2000 ;     398 words ......demand side, asking why there is not more pressure for redistributive policies that would benefit those at or near the bottom, and...politicians and political elites do not try to put more redistributive policies on the table. His investigation will lead to an evaluation...

What Is to Be Done?

Literary Review of Canada;  May 1, 2006 ;   Janigan, Mary;   787 words ......status quo, doing little to foster real economic change. "Redistributive policies have been the price Ottawa has decided to pay to pursue...bluntly. "However the past fifty years have shown that redistributive policies do not produce positive historical events in economic...

Reducing poverty, not inequality.

Public Interest;  September 22, 1999 ;   Feldstein, Martin S.;   787 words ......problem that demands new redistributive policies. I disagree. I believe that...egalitarianism and still favor redistributive policies and tax progressivity. Such redistributive policies reflect an assumption that...

Why doesn't the United States have a European-style welfare...

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  September 22, 2001 ;   Alesina, Alberto Glaeser, Edward Sacerdote, Bruce;   787 words ......our focus is broader, because redistributive policies go beyond the government budget...creates obstacles to centralized redistributive policies. The relative political stability...state. The Size and Structure of Redistributive Policies in the United States and Europe...

Proud of Labour's social justice achievements.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  May 4, 2004 ;     787 words ...It is possible to regret Labour has not been more explicit about its redistributive policies, and even to support a 50pc tax rate on incomes over pounds 100,000pa and still acknowledge the gulf between today's Government...

Does Economic Adjustment Affect the Legitimacy of Democracies?

International Journal of Comparative Sociology;  November 1, 1999 ;   ETHIER, DIANE;   787 words ......development, to resume economic growth while safeguarding redistributive policies. This article largely confirms the validity of this...desequilibria and resumes economic growth while safeguarding redistributive policies, is a social-democrat or heterodox adjustment policy...

Policy characteristics, patterns of politics, and the minimum wage: toward...

Policy Studies Journal;  August 1, 2007 ;   Hayes, Michael T.;   787 words ......inasmuch as it exhibits features of both regulative and redistributive policies. While this problem could be solved simply enough by...proletariat (Lowi, 1964, pp. 691, 703-15). Although some redistributive policies may well approach class conflicts, as hypothesized by...

Sea sawdust makes tropical oceans richer

Sea Technology;  August 1, 1997 ;   Anonymous;   438 words ...Tropical oceans are generally considered to be tropical "deserts"-relatively unproductive regions with a scarcity of nutrients when compared to coastal waters. In an article that appeared in the May 23rd issue of the...

(book review)

Journal of Economic Issues;  March 1, 2001 ;   CHAMPLIN, DELL;   787 words ......coercive policies into distributive, regulatory, and redistributive policies. The minimum wage is obviously a coercive policy, but...ideological conflict, and resolution based on compromise. Redistributive policies, on the other hand, involve identifiable winners and...

Official says Chiefs will release Law

Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current);  February 29, 2008 ;   Associated Press;   343 words ...Ty Law's short and relatively unproductive career in Kansas City appears to be over. The Chiefs have told Law he will be released, likely within the next week, according...

Official says Chiefs will release Law.(Sports)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 29, 2008 ;     347 words ...Byline: Associated Press Ty Law's short and relatively unproductive career in Kansas City appears to be over. The Chiefs have told Law he will be released, likely within the next week, according...

Chiefs expected to release Law, ex-Steelers LB Bell

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  February 29, 2008 ;   John Marshall;   347 words ...KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Ty Law's short and relatively unproductive career in Kansas City appears to be over. The Chiefs have told Law he will be released, likely within the next week, according...

Employment and training alternatives for non-college women: do...

Policy Studies Journal;  November 1, 2003 ;   Mastracci, Sharon H.;   787 words ...Although the proportion of the population earning a 4-year college degree has increased over time, nearly three-fourths of the nation's population never earns one. Over one-fourth of the population never enrolls in formal schooling again after obtaining a high school diploma. Public policies aimed

Redistributive policy and devolution: is state administration a road block...

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory;  October 1, 2006 ;   Collins, Brian K. Gerber, Brian J.;   787 words ......approach has been applied in particular to federally funded redistributive policies. Transferring primary administration of major redistributive...findings have important implications for understanding redistributive policies generally, and they are also especially relevant to...

Racial Politics and Redistribution: Isolating the Contingent Influence of...

Social Forces;  September 1, 2001 ;   JACOBS, DAVID HELMS, RONALD;   787 words ......income tax. Nonviolent civil rights protest should increase sympathy for the least affluent and enhance support for redistributive policies, but social problems blamed on the underclass may have the opposite effect. After controlling for shifts in partisan...