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This timely Handbook explores the handling of city and municipal
finances in the 21st century. It examines the impact of the Great
Recession and Covid-19 pandemic on cities and municipalities,
highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and avenues for future progress
in city and municipal financial management. Bringing together
leading global scholars of public finance and budgeting, economics,
law, political science and policy analysis, this Handbook
scrutinises how cities and municipalities have adapted after crisis
periods. It combines theoretical ideas, empirical findings and
practical applications, focusing on federalist systems as well as
including global case studies from diverse governance contexts.
Contributors analyse sources of revenue for cities and
municipalities, critical areas of spending, fiscal structure,
budgeting, debt, pensions and financial resilience. Forward
thinking, it considers the strength and resilience of city and
municipal finances in meeting long-term liabilities and responding
to short-term crises. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource
for students and scholars of public finance and administration,
urban economics, and political economy. Providing cutting-edge
policy recommendations, it will also be a highly useful guide for
policy-makers and administrators seeking to effectively guide city
and municipal finances.
The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is
essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This
second edition of State and Local Financial Instruments covers the
municipal securities market in the United States from the
perspective of its primary capital financing role in a fiscal
federalist system, where subnational governments are responsible
for financing the nation's essential physical infrastructure. Using
the latest financial research, the authors use data-driven analysis
to inform current public policy debates regarding the future of
subnational government debt finance. The theories, research and
practical examples in the book illustrate the policies and
practices that helped governments navigate through the COVID-19
pandemic, the Financial Crisis and Great Recession, and that
contributed to government shipwrecks. The book is designed to help
officials make good, sound fiscal choices in a fast changing,
complex financial world entwined in a network of intermediaries,
and within the constraints imposed by fiscal rules and
institutions. This updated edition will be of interest to
academics, students and researchers interested in economics,
finance, international studies and public administration and
policy. It is also an excellent reference tool for government
officials, public policymakers and professionals working in
finance.
We Are Being Lied To It's time to get honest with ourselves.
Culture's beauty standards are messed up. We all know it, and we
all think we can resist the pull to look a certain way. Yet most of
us--our daughters and nieces too--still strive for a broken kind of
beauty and feel I'm. not. good. enough. For Melissa Johnson, a
marriage and family therapist, this lie eventually led to battling
an eating disorder. Through that experience, she saw that chasing
broken beauty breaks women in so many ways. She also realized that
true, soul-deep beauty is not impossible--it abounds in us and all
around us. And now Melissa's on a mission to help you · uncover
the hidden damage cultural lies about beauty have on your mind and
soul · reconnect with God, in whose image you are made · walk
away from shame and striving · love yourself--and
others--unconditionally True beauty is the fullness of life we are
longing for. It's the reality that blows our minds, affirms our
true worth, and invites us into an adventure that meets our deepest
longings. And it's true beauty that will save us if we open our
eyes to it. "Nothing is more shattered or more misunderstood in our
lives than beauty. On our own, we are unable to recapture God's
vision for it, and every generation needs guides who can
reintroduce it to us again for the first time. In Melissa Johnson,
we have such a guide."--CURT THOMPSON, MD, author of The Soul of
Desire and The Soul of Shame
In Humanities Perspectives in Peace Education: Re-Engaging the
Heart of Peace Studies, scholar-teachers across a variety of
humanities fields explore the content, methods, and pedagogies that
are unique to their respective disciplines in contributing to the
study of peace and justice. In recent decades, even as peace
scholarship has burgeoned, many peace studies texts- including
those that purport to be interdisciplinary in nature-have
emphasized social science perspectives and, in some cases, have
foregone exploration of the role of the humanities altogether in
comprehensive peace education. While humanities scholars continue
to stake out space for peace scholarship within their fields, no
volume has attempted to collect the wisdom of multiple humanities
disciplines in order to make the case for their critical role in
authentic peace education. Humanities Perspectives in Peace
Education addresses that shortcoming in the field of peace studies
by exploring the ways in which the humanities are uniquely situated
to contribute particular content, knowledge, skills, and values
required of comprehensive peace education, scholarship, and
activism. These include the development of empathy and
understanding, creative vision and imagination, personal and
communal transformation toward "the good" in society (such as the
pursuit of justice, nonviolence, freedom, and human thriving), and
field-specific analytical lenses of their own, among other
contributions. Both teachers and students of peace will find value
in this interdisciplinary humanities volume. Each chapter of
Humanities Perspectives in Peace Education offers a deep-dive into
a particular humanities field-including philosophy, literature,
language and culture studies, rhetoric, religion, history, and
music-to mine the field's unique contributions to peace and justice
studies. Scholars ask: "What are we missing in peace education if
we fail to include this academic discipline?" Chapters include
suggestions for peace pedagogies within the humanities field as
well as bibliographies and suggestions for further reading.
A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups' unspoken
history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing
American democracy from its inception to the present In this
uniquely structured conversational work, two scholars-one of
African American politics and religion, and one of contemporary
American Jewish culture-explore a mystery: Why aren't Blacks and
Jews presently united in their efforts to combat white supremacy?
As alt-right rhetoric becomes increasingly normalized in public
life, the time seems right for these one-time allies to rekindle
the fires of the civil rights movement. Blacks and Jews in America
investigates why these two groups do not presently see each other
as sharing a common enemy, let alone a political alliance. Authors
Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau consider a number of
angles, including the disintegration of the "Grand Alliance"
between Blacks and Jews during the civil rights era, the
perspective of Black and Jewish millennials, the debate over Louis
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, and the Israel-Palestine
conflict. Ultimately, this book shows how the deep roots of the
Black-Jewish relationship began long before the mid-twentieth
century, changing a narrative dominated by the Grand Alliance and
its subsequent fracturing. By engaging this history from our
country's origins to its present moment, this dialogue models the
honest and searching conversation needed for Blacks and Jews to
forge a new understanding.
1. Introduces students to current and emerging environmental
hazards to human and related ecosystem health. 2. Explains
detrimental policy changes of existing policies and recently
developed policies that impact the health of the environment and
that of communities. 3. Presents a perspective for global sources
of pollution and how international actions have emerged for control
of environmental hazards such as climate change and global air
pollution. 4. Includes foundation lectures, case studies, and
practice questions to help create student-led discussions for both
in-class and homework assignments. 5. Describes the integrated One
Health concept and critically examines the interconnectedness of
human- and ecosystem health. 6. Written by environmental health
experts with a long teaching career on policy and public health.
I Don't Have Crooked Legs tells the story of a beautiful young
filly named Kit Kat, born on a wonderful place called Unwanted
Farms. Everything appears to be fine until one day two other babies
laugh at her, and she hears them say she has crooked legs. Their
laughter and those words, "crooked legs," leave her wanting to hide
from everyone. Her mom, Cookie, shows her own imperfection to Kit
Kat and sends her off on a journey of self discovery and
acceptance. In her conversations with other animals on the farm,
Kit Kat learns that she is very special, that she can overcome
bullying, and that other people don't determine her value.
I Don't Have Crooked Legs offers lessons we all need to
learn.
This is author-approved bcc: This is the third volume of a
collection of seminal papers in the statistical science written
during the past 110 years. These papers have each had an
outstanding influence on the development of statistical theory and
practice over the last century. Each paper is preceded by an
introduction written by an authority in the field providing
background information and assessing its influence. Volume III
concertrates on articles from the 1980's while including some
earlier articles not included in Volumes I and II. Samuel Kotz is
Professor of Statistics in the College of Business and Management
at the University of Maryland. Norman L. Johnson is Professor
Emeritus of Statistics at the University of North Carolina. Also
available: Breakthroughs in Statistics Volume I: Foundations and
Basic Theory Samuel Kotz and Norman L. Johnson, Editors 1993. 631
pp. Softcover. 0-387-94037-5 Breakthroughs in Statistics Volume II:
Methodology and Distribution Samuel Kotz and Norman L. Johnson,
Editors 1993. 600 pp. Softcover. 0-387-94039-1
This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean,
Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in
ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and
shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in
post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works.
The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to
be an urgent and timely issue, as colonial history has served to
crush, erase and manipulate collective and individual memories.
Indeed, the most powerful mechanism of colonial discourse is that
which alters and silences local histories and even individuals'
memories in service to colonial authority. Johnson and Brezault
work to contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow
of colonial history, creating a collection that pioneers a
postcolonial turn in cultural memory studies suitable for scholars
interested in cultural memory, postcolonial, Francophone and ethnic
studies. Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch.
This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural
Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors'
earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security
Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with an eye towards
isolating those vectors of nuclear decision-making on which the US
might exert influence within a foreign state. The case studies
included in this volume tackle a number of the nuclear
challenges-termed "nuclear thresholds"-likely to be faced by the US
and identify the most promising points of leverage available to
American policymakers in ameliorating a wide range of
over-the-horizon nuclear challenges. Because near and medium-term
nuclear thresholds are likely to involve both allies and
adversaries simultaneously, meaning that US response will require
strategies tailored to both the perception of threat experienced by
the actors in question, the value the actors place on their
relationship with the US, and the domestic context driving
decision-making. This volume offers a nuanced look at each actor's
identity, national norms, values, and perceptual lens in order to
offer culturally-focused insights into behavior and intentions.
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