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Section one: making sense of troublesome questions -- Chapter one: the grace of troublesome questions -- Chapter two: the apocalyptic Origins of Churches of Christ and the triumph of modernism -- Chapter three: two restoration traditions: Mormons and Churches of Christ in the nineteenth century -- Section two: making sense of the restoration vision -- Chapter four: called by a book -- Chapter five: restoring first times in the Anglo-American experience -- Chapter six: why restorationists don 't fit the Evangelical mold; why Churches of Christ do -- Section three: The call of the upside-down kingdom -- Chapter seven: how a teacher heard the call of racial justice -- Chapter eight: the summons of the biblical text -- Chapter nine: finding vocation in loss, suffering and death -- Chapter ten: why I am not an Evangelical Christian -- Section four: the restoration vision, innocence, and race -- Chapter eleven: the restoration vision and the myth of the innocent nation -- Chapter twelve: how slavery still shapes the world of white Evangelical Christians -- Chapter thirteen: Resisting white supremacy -- Chapter fourteen: Christian nationalism and racial injustice? Where do people of faith go from here? -- Chapter fifteen: how can we rethink the restoration vision? -- Section five: the people who shaped my vocation -- Chapter sixteen: the people who shaped my vocation -- Chapter seventeen: finding someone to love -- Chapter eighteen: "next time, send Jan" -- Chapter nineteen: they believed in me: the grace of good teachers -- Chapter twenty: five words that made a difference - and the man who spoke them -- Afterword: Richard C. Goode.

AbstractAlthough many return migrants had planned to go back to their country of origin, other return migrants who had originally planned to pursue the immigrant dream––the idea that one can have a better life by migrating—eventually change their mind and return to their society of origin. Just as the identity of individuals must adjust to the loss of a relationship, job, or membership of a group, many formerly aspiring immigrants give up on immigrating. I analyze data from oral history interviews and social media narratives of 121 Chinese ex-immigrants from 16 different countries. I show how disappointments, the language barrier, cultural alienation, racial-ethnic discrimination, intersectional-gender issues, barriers to upward socioeconomic mobility, and/or restrictive immigration policies interact with each other to constitute ex-immigrant subjectivity. This article highlights why immigration is a far less certain process than many perceive it to be, contributing to the broader sociological literature on how in different and similar ways processes of abandoning important social endeavors, like a romantic partnership, political party, or religious faith, transform subjectivities and social identities in other domains of social life.

This dissertation contains three essays in strategic trade theory. They focus on the effects of trade barriers on the social welfare of an individual country through the effects of these barriers on the behavior of firms. Our analyses are undertaken in models with imperfectly competitive market structures. The assumption of imperfectly competitive market structures leads to certain conclusions that differ from those in the existing literature, where perfect competition is assumed. The first essay is a survey sampling recent papers dealing with the topics mentioned above. Specifically, we choose papers on trade barriers in imperfectly competitive markets, according to the types of models--static vs dynamic--and to the types of trade barriers--quotas, tariffs, voluntary export restraints, etc. We consider the case of almost every combination of the previous classifications. From this survey we find that once the assumption of perfect competition is removed, the outcome for a particular trade barrier depends critically on details of the model used. In the second essay, simple oligopolistic models are used to examine the welfare effects arising from a quota. The trade-off faced by a policymaker (concerned only with the welfare of his own country) when there is competition between foreign and domestic firms for a domestic market, is highlighted. Moreover, the impact of differing numbers of and cost differences between domestic and foreign firms is investigated. The third essay considers a repeated game with three players, two quantity-setting firms and one quota-setting government. In this model the differing effects of quotas and VERs on the actions of firms are explored. The focus is on how a quota (or the threat of a quota) can be used not only to break up collusive behavior but also to prevent the firms from colluding in the first place. Further, various ways in which quotas can be used by the government to actually improve on the static Cournot-Nash equilibrium outcome are examined. This last result is somewhat surprising since typically in quantity-setting trade models the static Cournot-Nash equilibrium (though second best) is the benchmark used to judge various outcomes (i.e. the closer to the C-N equilibrium, the better the outcome). Indeed, quotas are usually considered clumsy instruments, inferior to some other industrial policy. However, careful use of the threat potential inherent in quotas is shown to enforce outcomes which approach the competitive solution. ; Ph. D.

published_or_final_version ; Public Administration ; Master ; Master of Social Sciences