Prohibitions, Price Caps, and Disclosures: A Look at State Policies and Alternative Financial Product Use

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Signe-Mary McKernan ◽  
Caroline E. Ratcliffe ◽  
Daniel Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
State Policies ◽  
Price Caps ◽  
Product Use

Predictive Factors for High Blood Product Use in Patients with Acute Stanford Type A Dissection

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Schafigh ◽  
M. Hamiko ◽  
W. Schiller ◽  
H. Treede ◽  
C. Probst
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Factors ◽  
Blood Product ◽  
Type A ◽  
Product Use ◽  
Type A Dissection

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.

Refuge in the National Security State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Cristina García
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
The World ◽  
National Security State

In response to the terrorist attacks of 1993 and 2001, the Clinton and Bush administrations restructured the immigration bureaucracy, placed it within the new Department of Homeland Security, and tried to convey to Americans a greater sense of safety. Refugees, especially those from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, suffered the consequences of the new national security state policies, and found it increasingly difficult to find refuge in the United States. In the post-9/11 era, refugee advocates became even more important to the admission of refugees, reminding Americans of their humanitarian obligations, especially to those refugees who came from areas of the world where US foreign policy had played a role in displacing populations.

Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty: Reconfiguring State Power in Urban South Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loren B. Landau ◽  
Tamlyn Monson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
State Power ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Urban South ◽  
Urban Africa ◽  
Victims Of Violence

AbstractAcademic writing often portrays migrants as either passive victims of violence and aid recipients or as courageous heroes facing horrific indifference and hazards. This article recodes them and their activities as potent forces for reshaping practices of state power. In this depiction, displacement also becomes a lens for re-evaluating the nature of sovereignty in urban Africa. Through its focus on Johannesburg this article explores how migrant communities intentionally and inadvertently evade, erode and exploit state policies, practices and shortcomings. Rather than being bound by their ambiguous status, they exploit their exclusion to exercise forms of autonomy and freedom in their engagement with the state and its street-level manifestations. Through these interactions, displacement and the continued mobility of urban residents is generating new forms of non-state-centric urban sovereignties and new patterns of transnational governance shaped, but not controlled, by state institutions. To recognize these evolving configurations we must look beyond Manichaean perspectives to see the full nature and degree of territorial control.

Differences in Tobacco Product Use by Sexual Orientation and Violence Factors Among United States Youth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariella R. Tabaac ◽  
Brittany M. Charlton ◽  
Andy S.L. Tan ◽  
Caroline O. Cobb ◽  
Megan E. Sutter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Tobacco Product ◽  
Product Use
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