229 research outputs found
Corruption, Institutions and Regulation
No full textWe analyze the effects of corruption and institutional quality on the quality of business regulation. Our key findings indicate that corruption negatively affects the quality of regulation and that general institutional quality is insignificant once corruption is con- trolled for. These findings hold over a number of specifications which include additional exogenous historical and geographic controls. The findings imply that policy-makers should focus on curbing corruption to improve regulation, over wider institutional re- form.Business Regulation; Economic Policy; Institutional Quality; Corruption
Class of 1964, Indiana University School of Law
No full textPictured: John E. Allen, Lowell E. Baier, Bernard R. Baker, Robert L. Biberstein, Joe D. Black, John R. Brown III, George G. Bryan, Gregory D. Buckley, Craig B. Cambell, Ralph A. Cohen, Timothy J. Cannor, Thomas A. Cayne, Alan R. Diodore, Ronald L. Drake, William C. Ervin, John M. Frost, Gayle W. Gardner, John P. Geberin, Dallas M. Gray, John R. Hoffman, Kernard L. Johnson, Keith A. Kaulke, Edward C. King, Pickard G. Lesniak, Robert D. Lewis, Ellis K. Locker, Gerald H. McGlone, Mark A. McIntosh, Lee F. Mellinger, Phillip M. Mitchell, Daniel B. Mohler, Laurence R. Murrell, James J. Nagy, J. Peter O\u27Malley, Robert E. Peterson, David D. Phoenix, Ray S. Plain, Mildred L. Richle, Joseph A. Ransel Jr., Gene E. Robbins, Kim A. Rogers, James S. Rollings, Marshall D. Ruckman, Charles Rusen Jr., Frederick A. Salatini, Patricia J. Searcy, Jack R. Shields, Dennis F. Smith, Sydney L. Steele, Kenneth A. Sullivan, William D. Swift, Robert P. Tennin Jr., Larry K. Wallace, Kenneth M. Waterman, Richard S. Young, and Charles O. Zimmerhttps://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/composite/1011/thumbnail.jp
Class of 1964, Indiana University School of Law
No full textPictured: John E. Allen, Lowell E. Baier, Bernard R. Baker, Robert L. Biberstein, Joe D. Black, John R. Brown III, George G. Bryan, Gregory D. Buckley, Craig B. Cambell, Ralph A. Cohen, Timothy J. Cannor, Thomas A. Cayne, Alan R. Diodore, Ronald L. Drake, William C. Ervin, John M. Frost, Gayle W. Gardner, John P. Geberin, Dallas M. Gray, John R. Hoffman, Kernard L. Johnson, Keith A. Kaulke, Edward C. King, Pickard G. Lesniak, Robert D. Lewis, Ellis K. Locker, Gerald H. McGlone, Mark A. McIntosh, Lee F. Mellinger, Phillip M. Mitchell, Daniel B. Mohler, Laurence R. Murrell, James J. Nagy, J. Peter O\u27Malley, Robert E. Peterson, David D. Phoenix, Ray S. Plain, Mildred L. Richle, Joseph A. Ransel Jr., Gene E. Robbins, Kim A. Rogers, James S. Rollings, Marshall D. Ruckman, Charles Rusen Jr., Frederick A. Salatini, Patricia J. Searcy, Jack R. Shields, Dennis F. Smith, Sydney L. Steele, Kenneth A. Sullivan, William D. Swift, Robert P. Tennin Jr., Larry K. Wallace, Kenneth M. Waterman, Richard S. Young, and Charles O. Zimmerhttps://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/composite/1011/thumbnail.jp
Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
No full textThe Washington Consensus suffers from fundamental inadequacies, and that a more comprehensive framework of the economic process is needed to guide the formulation of country-specific development strategies. The following five propositions summarise the set of interrelated arguments made in this paper: 1. The Washington Consensus was based on a wrong reading of the East Asian growth experience. This explains why some observers have called the trade regimes of Korea and Taiwan in the 1965- 1980 period “free trade regimes” even though they featured extensive import tariffs and export subsidies. 2. There have been two phases to the Washington Consensus doctrine. The mantra of the first phase (Washington Consensus Mark 1) is “get your prices right”, and the falsification of this first mantra led to the emergence of the second phase of the Washington Consensus doctrine. The new mantra from the Washington Consensus Mark 2 is “get the institutions right.” The danger is that an elastic definition of the term “institutions” will render the current mantra intellectually vacuous. 3. While central planning went overboard in suppressing the private market economy, the Washington Consensus runs the danger of denying the state its rightful role in providing an important range of public goods. The Washington Consensus also runs the danger of denying the limitations of self-help in the case of sub-Saharan Africa by overlooking the possibility of poverty traps. 4. The Washington Consensus does not understand that the ultimate engine of growth in a predominantly private market economy is technological innovations, and that the state can play a role in facilitating technological innovations. The Washington Consensus is too hooked upon trade-led growth to acknowledge that science-led growth is becoming even more important. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth potential of a country. For example, the trade-led growth strategy of East Asia cannot work with the same efficiency for a landlocked country. Foreign direct investment is also less likely to go to places that are malaria- infested.Washington Consensus, poverty trap, institutions, geography, ecology
Re-thinking translation quality
No full textAbstract
Editing and revision are regularly incorporated into professional translation projects as a means of quality assurance. Underlying the decision to include these tasks in translation workflows lay implicit assumptions about what constitutes quality. This article examines how quality is operationalized with respect to editing and revision and considers these assumptions. The case is made for incorporating revision into translation quality assessment models and employs the concepts of adequacy, distributed cognition, and salience – and their treatment in the research on cognitive translation processes, post-editing, and translation technology – in order to re-think translation quality.</jats:p
Exonerated pleasures: how women experience the relationship between pleasure and power
No full textPleasure is a complex word, with a complex history. It encompasses a variety of different meanings, depending on its context and usage. Through time, it has been riddled with cultural connotations, and even moral forbodings. Classical writings and Christian scriptures cast a suspicious overtone to the pursuit of pleasure. American advertising has used the concept of pleasure to sell everything from cigarettes to college educations. The mass media have developed rigid ideals dictating who is worthy of experiencing pleasure, and who is worthy of being an object of another's pleasure. More specifically, double standards have developed in American culture concerning men's and women's pleasure. Men are expected to pursue pleasure; women who pursue pleasure become morally suspect.
While feminist writers have deconstructed patriarchal constructs of pleasure, as well as the power dynamics involved with pleasure among men and women, one critical voice seems to be missing in literature, in the media, and in the church: what are women's experiences of pleasure? Is pleasure a powerful experience for women? How are pleasure and power related? How is it that, underneath the complex layers of suspicion built up around the word, pleasure sometimes describes, in a reverently sacred manner, the very essence of what it means to be alive; what it means to be human?
This research illustrates how many of society's ideas—and fears—regarding pleasure have been constructed in response to men's experiences of pleasure, and men's behaviors regarding pleasure. Men have traditionally been conditioned to experience power as being pleasurable; the more power one has, the more pleasure one will experience. Such power, defined by the ability to control others or to control one's environment, to hold unilateral authority over others, or to use force or coercion to affect one's will, has historically been oppressive to marginalized members of society. This danger, along with the projection of sexual and immoral temptations onto women, resulted in the historical demonization of both pleasure and women, and especially women's pleasure.
The true "danger" of women experiencing pleasure may well have been (and may still be) direct access to embodied epistemological information, or a woman's way of knowing. This phenomenological research project draws on the interviews often women to develop new definitions of pleasure and power that benefit both the individual and the larger community; which differ significantly from mainstream definitions. It offers insight into how the different genders may experience these two phenomena differently. These women describe pleasure as an experience of comfort, emotional stimulation, alleviation of everyday stress, self-realization, and connecting with another. They describe power as an experience of self-determination, improving a relationship, accomplishment, and the ability to surrender to something beyond the self. What in either of these descriptions could possibly be. construed as being dangerous or suspect?
In exploring women's experiences of pleasure and power, we begin to recognize the need for exoneration of some pleasures and their pursuits. We begin to question why pain—in the form of menstrual pain, birthing pain, emotional pain, pain from uncomfortable clothes, etcetera—has become an expected norm for us, and why "indulging" in "guilty" pleasures requires justification. We begin to perceive how these marginalized experiences and perceptions of pleasure and power have the potential to change the world for the better—much, much better
Translation and Interpreting Pedagogy in Dialogue with Other Disciplines
No full textThis volume offers a collection of original articles on the teaching of translation and interpreting, responding to the increased interest in this area not only within translation and interpreting studies but also in related fields. It contains empirical, theoretical and state-of-the-art original pieces that address issues relevant to translation and interpreting pedagogy, such as epistemology, technology, language proficiency, and pedagogical approaches (e.g., game-based, task-based). All of the contributors are researchers and educators of either translation or interpreting – or both. The volume should be of interest to researchers and teachers of translation and interpreting, second language acquisition and language for specific purposes. An introduction by the editors – both distinguished scholars in translation & interpreting pedagogy – provides the necessary context for the contributions. Originally published as a special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 10:1 (2015), edited by Brian James Baer and Christopher D. Mellinger
Translation and Interpreting Pedagogy in Dialogue with Other Disciplines
No full textThis volume offers a collection of original articles on the teaching of translation and interpreting, responding to the increased interest in this area not only within translation and interpreting studies but also in related fields. It contains empirical, theoretical and state-of-the-art original pieces that address issues relevant to translation and interpreting pedagogy, such as epistemology, technology, language proficiency, and pedagogical approaches (e.g., game-based, task-based). All of the contributors are researchers and educators of either translation or interpreting – or both. The volume should be of interest to researchers and teachers of translation and interpreting, second language acquisition and language for specific purposes. An introduction by the editors – both distinguished scholars in translation & interpreting pedagogy – provides the necessary context for the contributions. Originally published as a special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 10:1 (2015), edited by Brian James Baer and Christopher D. Mellinger
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