Local control and financing of education: a perspective from the American state judiciary
Cultural studies ; Decision ; Education ; Finance ; Local administration ; School system ; State control ; Teaching ; United States
Local control of education in the United States today is more myth than reality. The American judiciary continues to justify its decisions concerning educational governance on the grounds of local control. Most states fund education through
a combuination of local, state and Federal taxes. The A. analyzes the state court decisions involving local control in school financing, with the intent of developing a more comprehensive interpretation of how local control arguments are used as justification
South Africa: the case of a failed state partition
Bantustan ; Conflict ; Ethnic group ; Language ; Multi-ethnic state ; Nation ; Political geography ; Segregation ; South Africa ; State
In South Africa the White minority sought to retain political power in the face of majority African demands for equality, by means of state partition. The government attempted to create new states for linguistically defined groups within the African
population, without resolving the problems involved in creating new nations or drawing state boundaries. The lack of legitimacy and the degree of coertion applied in the policy's enforcement ensured failure and the re-establishment of the unitary state.
Etats-Unis ; Géographie sociale ; Immigration ; Minorité ; Petite ville ; Washington State
Immigration ; Minority ; Small town ; Social geography ; United States ; Washington State
A highly personal narrative of the Mexican-American (Chicano) minority in the small city of Yakima, an orchard center in eastern Washington state, USA. - (DWG)
Central Europe ; Czech Republic ; Geopolitics ; International relations ; National identity ; Political geography ; State
Since a millenary the Czech State has been figuring in different territorial extent and a differant degree of dependence on the political map of Central Europe. The Czech national individuality is territorially still based especially on the Czech
Massif, the Western Carpathians and on the neighbouring lowlands. The investigation demonstrates the prospects of the Czech State for the next century. - (MS)
The effects of exchange rate and relative productivity changes on US industrial output at the state level
Competition ; Economic impact ; Industrial production ; Inter-regional trade flow ; Money ; Productivity ; Regional economy ; Terms of trade ; United States
This paper considers the effects of a changing dollar on aggregate state output, and for the agricultural, manufacturing and all other sectors for the contiguous 48 US states during the period 1972-89. After controlling for productivity
differentials between the US and its major trading partners, the findings indicate that in the long run, states have more to fear from slow productivity growth than from fluctuations in the dollar.
The state as container: territoriality in the modern world-system
Behaviour ; Democracy ; Historical geography ; Political geography ; Power ; State ; Territorial strategy ; Territoriality
Across the whole of our modern world, territory is directly linked to sovereignty to mould politics into a fundamentally state-centric social process: the state'scapture of politics is premissed upon territoriality. The domination of political
Calcul économique ; Coût de production ; Etats-Unis ; Formation des prix ; New York State ; Régulation du marché ; Tarification ; Télécommunication ; Téléphone
Economic cost ; Market regulation ; New York State ; Price fixing ; Production cost ; Tariff rate ; Telecommunications ; Telephone ; United States
A cost function for local exchange companies is estimated using 1980 data operating in the state of New York, with, as outputs, the annual numbers of local and toll calls.
Regional-scale troughing over the southwestern United States: temporal climatology, teleconnections, and climatic impact
Atmospheric circulation ; Climatic variability ; Climatology ; Precipitation ; Regional climate ; Seasonal variation ; Teleconnection ; United States ; Western United States
in the precipitation climatology of the western and central United States.
Urban conservation in Singapore: a survey of state policies and popular attitudes
Architectural legacy ; Attitude ; Old district ; Residential environment ; Singapore ; Site preservation ; State control ; Urban renewal ; Urbanism
The AA. review changing state policies which have shaped the built environment from slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s to the conservation of the city's historic districts in the 1980s and 1990s. They explore the degree of convergence between
the state and the public in terms of the meaning and purposes of conservation, the question of whose heritage to conserve and which strategies are appropriate.
A state scholarship: the political geography of French international science during the nineteenth century
In France, the state has traditionnaly exerted an extremely important influence on the activities of scientists, scholar and academics. Building on recent innovative research on the hstory of geography and on research into the role of state
patronage in the history of other sciences, this essay considers how a powerful, centralized state was able to influence the nature and geographical structure of French international science during the nineteenth century.
Variations in dew-point temperatures in the southern United States
Atmospheric circulation ; Atmospheric moisture ; Climate ; Climatic variability ; Global change ; Seasonal variation ; Southern United States ; Temperature ; United States
Atmospheric humidity as measured by dew-point temperatures is an important component of the climate of the southern United States. A gradient is established between moist air along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts inland toward the drier areas
from greenhouse warming has altered dew-point temperaturesin the southern United-States.
Further reflections on organized labor and deindustrialization in the United States
Deindustrialization ; Economic environment ; Economic restructuring ; Factory closure ; Local policy ; Locality ; United States ; West Virginia ; Work organization
Beach-state controls on aeolian sand delivery to coastal dunes
Characteristics of morphodynamically reflective, intermediate, and dissipative beach systems, from the data of Short (1984), are used with an iterative aeolian sediment transport model to predict beach-state controls on transport rates.
Reunification of partitioned nation-states : theory versus reality in Vietnam and Germany
Comparative analysis of reunification process in formerly partitioned states : Vietnam (1975-76) and Germany (1990) and how certain elements can be applied to the possible future case of Korea. - (DWG)
Migration, benefit spillovers and state support of higher education
Allocation ; Decision ; Economic cost ; Education ; Finance ; Higher education ; Migration ; Public expenditure ; State control ; Students ; United States