Measuring Complex State Policies: Pitfalls and Considerations, with an Application to Race and Welfare Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 712-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Plutzer ◽  
Michael B. Berkman ◽  
James Honaker ◽  
Christopher Ojeda ◽  
Anne Whitesell
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Policy ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Complex State ◽  
Measuring Complex

Casualties of Conflict: Crimean Tatars during the Crimean War

Slavic Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 866-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Kozelsky
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Complex State ◽  
Intelligence Operations

During the Crimean War, Crimean Tatars were charged en masse with collaborating with the Allies. At the war's conclusion, nearly 200,000 Tatars left the peninsula to relocate in the Ottoman empire. Mara Kozelsky contributes to an understanding of this critical episode in the Crimean War by examining secret surveillance documents, a collection that records complex state attitudes toward Tatars from the Allied landing on the Crimean coast to the Treaty of Paris. These documents reveal that intelligence operations provided no evidence of a collective Tatar guilt and instead testified to the diversity of pressures on state policies toward subject populations on the front lines of battie. Shifting wartime conditions, religious tensions, and repeated crises at the front highlighted unresolved debates about religion and loyalty to the state. Some officials recommended deporting the Tatars, others encouraged their migration, and still others advocated on the Tatars’ behalf.

The Roma in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Growing Social Marginalization and State Policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Yorgos Christidis
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Social Marginalization ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Poor

This article analyzes the growing impoverishment and marginalization of the Roma in Bulgarian society and the evolution of Bulgaria’s post-1989 policies towards the Roma. It examines the results of the policies so far and the reasons behind the “poor performance” of the policies implemented. It is believed that Post-communist Bulgaria has successfully re-integrated the ethnic Turkish minority given both the assimilation campaign carried out against it in the 1980s and the tragic events that took place in ex-Yugoslavia in the 1990s. This Bulgaria’s successful “ethnic model”, however, has failed to include the Roma. The “Roma issue” has emerged as one of the most serious and intractable ones facing Bulgaria since 1990. A growing part of its population has been living in circumstances of poverty and marginalization that seem only to deteriorate as years go by. State policies that have been introduced since 1999 have failed at large to produce tangible results and to reverse the socio-economic marginalization of the Roma: discrimination, poverty, and social exclusion continue to be the norm. NGOs point out to the fact that many of the measures that have been announced have not been properly implemented, and that legislation existing to tackle discrimination, hate crime, and hate speech is not implemented. Bulgaria’s political parties are averse in dealing with the Roma issue. Policies addressing the socio-economic problems of the Roma, including hate speech and crime, do not enjoy popular support and are seen as politically damaging.

The Mismanaged Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Bulgaria

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-327
Author(s):  
Petar Cholakov
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Political System ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Integration Policies

This article delves into the intricate, and often inconsistent, worlds of Bulgarian government policies towards ethnic minorities, in particular towards the Roma, after 1989. The author begins with an overview of the ‘ethnic model’ embedded at present in the country’s political system. Then he discusses the integration policies of Bulgarian governments after the fall of communism. His conclusion is that the lack of political will of the ruling parties represents the biggest obstacle to the integration of minorities. Anti-discrimination legislation is plagued by inconsistencies and problems related to its implementation. Despite some moderate progress, state policies continue to lack vision, direction and effective monitoring mechanisms. The representatives of minorities are still, for the most part, ignored in the process of tailoring and implementation of programmes.

Investigation of discontinuous periodic signals using the measuring labview complex

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
E.B. Solovyeva ◽  
◽  
Yu.M. Inshakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Series ◽  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Gibbs Phenomenon ◽  
Electrical Signals ◽  
Measuring Complex ◽  
Universal Measuring ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Periodic Signals ◽  
Truncated Fourier Series

General approaches to the analysis of the Gibbs phenomenon for discontinuous periodic signals approximated by the truncated Fourier series are considered. Methods for smoothing the truncated Fourier series and improving its convergence are discussed. The software means for modeling is a universal measuring complex LabVIEW, which possesses a convenient environment for analyzing electrical signals, on the basis of this complex a laboratory experiment is carried out. The advantages of the measuring LabVIEW complex and its capabilities for in-depth study of discontinuous periodic signals are noted.

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