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THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES WHETHER, SINCE THE LATE 1980S, ADVOCATES HAVE IN FACT BENEFITED FROM SOVIET REFORM OPPORTUNITIES BY BECOMING RELATIVELY AUTONOMOUS FROM STATE OFFICIALS, OR WHETHER THEIR RELATIONS ARE STILL STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY SOVIET-ERA LEGACIES. THE APPROACH USED IS TO EXPLAIN THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN THE ADVOKATURA WHICH IS HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM, A NEO-INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH THAT FOCUSES ON HOW INSTITUTIONS SHAPE ACTORS' GOALS AND STRATEGIES AND MEDIATE THEIR RELATIONS OF COOPERATION AND CONFLICT.

Ryan P. Jordan uses the discourse of religious liberty to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750-1900). This book seeks to destabilize the widespread assumption that the dominant American culture inevitably trends toward greater freedom in the realm of personal expression

Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. In response, many Quaker abolitionists began to build "comeouter" institutions where social and legal