"The Federal Reserve - the central bank of the United States - is the most powerful peacetime bureaucracy in the federal government. Under the chairmanship of Alan Greenspan (1987-2006), the Fed achieved near mythical status for its part in managing the economy, and Greenspan wa…
"The Federal Reserve - the central bank of the United States - is the most powerful peacetime bureaucracy in the federal government. Under the chairmanship of Alan Greenspan (1987-2006), the Fed achieved near mythical status for its part in managing the economy, and Greenspan wa…
Pt. I. Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium -- pt. II. Comparative and theoretical perspecitves -- pt. III. Other national public initiatives.
Preface : the benefit of analysing national public commissions on diversity for research and policy making / Solange Lefebvre and Patrice Brodeur -- Introduction : national commissions on diversity : when reflective processes happen in parallel within several nation-states / Sol…
Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptio…
Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptio…
Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptio…
Introduction : a retrospective on diversity commissions : from set-up and working methods to impacting policy / Katayoun Alidadi and Marie-Claire Foblets -- Pointing to a multicultural future : rethinking race, ethnicity, religion and britishness / Tariq Modood -- National ident…
In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society. Commission recommendatio…
This research project seeks to explore aspects of the post-reporting phase of the public inquiry process. Central to the public inquiry process is the concept of legitimacy and the idea that a public inquiry provides and opportunity to re-legitimate the credibility of failed pub…
"An updated re-issue of Loch Johnson's classic "insider" study of the US Senate's so-called Church Committee investigations (ca. 1975-1976) into the activities and abuses of our intelligence agencies (especially CIA and FBI). Named after Frank Church, its charismatic Democratic …
"An updated re-issue of Loch Johnson's classic "insider" study of the US Senate's so-called Church Committee investigations (ca. 1975-1976) into the activities and abuses of our intelligence agencies (especially CIA and FBI). Named after Frank Church, its charismatic Democratic …