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In Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege, archaeologists Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi bring together a collection of authors who document the ways in which past social formations rested on violent acts and reproduced violent social and cultural structures.

Introduction : the (non-legal) role of states in constitutional maintenance -- Alerting the people : the origins and early practice of state maintenance -- Interposing the protective shield and exerting state authority : the failures of state maintenance -- The authority to reject interpretation : state maintenance in the 20th century -- Reinvigoratio n: the return of Madisonian maintenance, nullification, and the affirmation of judicial authority -- Conclusion : on development and constitutionalism.

Intro -- CONSUMER ISSUES IN GLOBAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND BUSINESS -- CONSUMER ISSUES IN GLOBAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND BUSINESS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CLASSIFYING THE TENGE-DOLLAR REGIME 2001-2008: AN APPLICATION OF THE REINHART-ROGOFF TAXONOMY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE REINHART-ROGOFF TAXONOMY OF EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES -- CLASSIFICATION RESULTS -- REGIME CHANGES AND CHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL RESERVES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 MARTINGALES AND WIDE BAND EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES: THE TENGE-DOLLAR CASE SINCE THE FEBRUARY 2009 DEVALUATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MARTINGALES -- LOG INCREMENTS VERSUS LOG RETURNS -- ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 THE AFFECT OF AUDIT RISK ON CREDIT RISK -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MODEL -- RESULT OF DATA ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 RECIPROCITY AND RESPONSIBILITY IN A NEW AGE OF HEALTH CARE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCERNING THE NOTION OF RIGHTS -- TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS AND ETHICS -- UTILITARIANISM AND MAXIMIZING RIGHTS -- RIGHTS AND THE INDIVIDUAL -- MORALITY AND THE NOTION OF RIGHTS -- SOCIAL CONTRACT: RECIPROCITY AND RESPONSIBILITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 ASSESSING NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF A RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO ERP PROJECTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ERP Systems -- Reason for Adopting -- ERP Project -- Importance, Complexity and Risk -- Relevance of ERP Project Risk Management -- Final Remarks -- RESEARCH RELEVANCE -- RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK -- BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Context Analysis -- Risk Assessment -- Risk Identification -- Risk Quantification -- Risk Treatment -- Risk Control -- Practitioner Initiatives (From Vendor or Business Integrators) -- EVIDENCES AND SUGGESTIONS -- Define Success Dimensions (Context Analysis)

AbstractThis article presents case studies of pardons in the presidencies of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. In doing so, the article moves away from the idea in existing scholarship that pardons of the past were largely noble acts of statecraft, untouched by ideological, partisan, or personal political motivations. Instead, it develops an account of how and why these pardons should be understood as both enabling presidents to achieve certain political objectives and, simultaneously, operating in an inherited environment in which presidents used existing resources to legitimate their pardons. In so doing, presidents refashioned those inherited resources and, thereby, created new resources for future presidents. The picture that emerges is of pardons as both sources of political innovation and political constraint.

What is the relationship between changes in interest group resources and the proposal and adoption of state policy? Using a dataset of proposed and enacted teacher policies across five legislative cycles in all 50 states and measures of interest group relative and absolute resource strength, I estimate a series of within‐state fixed effects models that gain identification from changes in interest group resources and teacher policy over time. I find that legislatures propose more unfavorable and fewer favorable policies toward teachers' unions in states where teachers' union opposition interest groups are expending more election (but not lobbying) resources over time. Further, I find that more unfavorable and fewer favorable policies are adopted in states where teachers' union opposition groups are growing in election resource strength. Expanding on prior empirical work, this study suggests that interest group resources matter for policy change and highlights the importance of capturing interest group resource dynamics over time.

Robert Cover argues that nomoi (normative universes) exist and operate in law-like fashion, serving as a competitor with the state's law. The state's response is jurispathic – it attempts to kill off competing nomoi. The HBO series The Wire portrays both the existence of nomoi and the state's effort to kill it off. It also reveals that the jurispathic effort fails to destroy the community's commitment to their nomos. Rather than destroy competing nomoi, The Wire portrays how a dialogue can emerge out of law-nomos conflict with the power to alter both law and nomos while promoting certain democratic goods.

AbstractSchool prayer represents a curiosity of Reagan era politics. Reagan and the social conservative movement secured numerous successes in accommodating religious practice and faith in the public sphere. Yet, when it came to restoring voluntary school prayer, conservatives never succeeded in securing the judicial victory that they sought despite conditions that seemingly favored change. Herein, we attempt to reconcile Reagan era successes with Reagan era failures by exploring Reagan's entrepreneurial activity to affect both the demand (i.e., judges) and supply (i.e., litigants) side of legal change. Identifying Reagan's entrepreneurial activities in his attempt to alter national social policy reveals the resilience of legal institutions to presidential and partisan regimes. Reagan's efforts to change national school prayer policy gained some measure of legislative success by securing the Equal Access Act but it failed to garner a change in school prayer jurisprudence. We conclude by noting that the difficulty of influencing both the demand and supply side of legal change in a timely manner and its implication for reconstructing policy through the courts.