Name: Kevin Bronner
Section: History and Politics
Professional Email: kbronner@albany.edu
Professional Status: Adjunct Professor
Institution: Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at ALbany
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Paper Title:  Executive Budgeting Literature and Lessons 1899-1929
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The paper examines the early literature associated with the public sector executive budgeting reform movement from 1899-1929. A total of 12 works are discussed in the paper. The paper develops a series of five recommendations that should be worked into the current public budgeting systems used in the public sector.

Name: Diane Cypkin
Section: American Politics
Professional Email: dcypkin@pace.edu
Professional Status: Full Professor
Institution: Pace University
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Paper Title:  Marching for the Jews of Europe, Washington, DC, October 6, 1943, or the Consequences of the First Jewish Public Relations Campaign in America
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On October 6, 1943, hundreds of “black-clad” Orthodox Rabbis “chanting from the book of Psalms,” marched on the nation’s Capitol. Their mission: To present the president with a petition and to deliver a holy message and appeal. Among other things, they called for the creation of a “special intergovernmental agency to save the remnant of Israel in Europe” from Nazi murder, even as they reminded the Judeo-Christian society of its responsibility one to another as fellow human beings. This essay will argue that the march--the unique and dramatic grand finale of the first Jewish public relations campaign in America, organized by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe and led by Peter Bergson, a public relations man —was ultimately instrumental in creating the “climate” that led to the president’s creation of the War Refugee Board. To understand how this happened, the historical environment, a study of the organizers of the march, their innovative media campaign, an investigation of those who participated in the march, the march, and, the consequences of the march will be closely examined.

Name: Clyde Daines
Section: History and Politics
Professional Email: clyde.daines@westpoint.edu
Professional Status: Assistant Professor
Institution: United States Military Academy
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Paper Title: "Tacitus and dark times"
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The works of Tacitus are relevant today because they deal with political and moral decline. As Tacitus shows, the degeneration of speech and deed is related to the character of a regime’s leaders, not only but especially the leaders of average intellect, familiar mediocrity, and high-styled criminality. Since leaders of this type are relatable to a certain kind of mass intellect and pettiness, the degeneration of both leaders and masses occurs in tandem. Key components of this degeneration are dissimulation, greed, and fragile narcissism. Lying becomes normal and the future is sacrificed to an anxious immediacy marked by materialism and simulated grievance. Rage and meaninglessness are figured as entitlements and both resound between the mob and demagogues. “Just as truth has been broken by many means… so has the care for posterity between both the enraged and the guilty” (Hist I.1). What can be done against this social, political, and characterological corruption, especially since the most base and corrupt rally together and pose as victims? Tacitus suggests two different things. In the first place, singular leaders with some kind of uncommon virtue and ancient (antiquo) cultivation must join with peoples at the "edges" or "borderlands" of the political association (Ann III.26; Hist I.3). Together and uncorrupted by greed and narcissism, these can create a political force able to hold the line against or at least delay further decay. Secondly, Tacitus reminds both the leaders of uncommon virtue as well as their moderate allies that the good must actively combat evil and injustice. It is not sufficient to be good and do nothing. Aloofness is both fatal and irresponsible (Ann I.13). On the other hand, it is also irresponsible to be good and obstinate or unbending. Senseless martyrdom, like aloofness, achieves nothing (Ann XIV.12; cf. IV.20). This paper considers these recommendations more fully, trying to understand them both in the context of historical and political time (i.e., regime-cycle; cf. Skowronek 1993). It also asks how these recommendations comport with other, similar histories of cataclysm (Thucydides) or lying and dark times (Arendt). How is the trivial, yet bloody mediocrity of a Tiberius contrasted against the banal evil of an Eichmann? Where in Thucydides is the leader that Tacitus identifies as embodying uncommon, holy, and ancient virtue, and likewise where are those that Tacitus finds occupying some kind of in-between, borderland space?

Name: Kleant Karreci
Section: History and Politics
Professional Email: kleant1987@hotmail.com
Professional Status: Graduate Student
Institution: History And Archiology
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Paper Title:  Globalization
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GLOBALIZATION: THE GLOBALIZATION OF FOUR ANTINOMY Full Name : Kleant Karreci Occupation : Municipal Police Degree :History And Archilogy E-mail : Kleant1987@hotmail.com Tel: +355 685647755 There is a definition of globalization as the definitions do not exist anymore. "The success of the term globalization depends in large part by the fact that allows us to bring together in a single word the chaos that followed the end of bipolarity. It presents itself as a concept that makes possible a gigantic waste recycling and fragments of early modern - think colonial expansion (there is a link between the position of Arabs in France and the war in Algeria), to huge migrations that accompanied industrialization, the geopolitical consequences of the Cold War, the residues of which - including the Islamic terrorism - the industrial West has never sought to remove after 1989. The all-purpose word "globalization" allows you to remix in a new "meta-narrative" unifying, providing legitimacy to policies to reduce the rights of citizens, such as labor market flexibility in the dismantling of the post-war welfare state, presented as a new " historical necessity ". The term "globalization" is opposed in this way to the post-modern versions of the world, focusing instead on the dissolution of the great meta-narratives on which the mandatory modern order drew its legitimacy and power expansion. Like all the basic concepts of human sciences, the concept of globalization has a dimension analytical / descriptive, and a political / legislation. The "globalization" indicates, first, the coming of an era in which men are condemned to become "stewards of the Earth", to negotiate, that is, political pacts to secure an air breathing, socially sustainable mobility, compatible with a climate biological limits of human survival, flexibility, compatible with the anthropological bases of existence. Keywords: Globalization, analytical / descriptive, technological environment, collective action, public goods, capital, complexity, cost, transactional, deregulatio

Name: Dan Ziebarth
Section: History and Politics
Professional Email: dziebarth@fordham.edu
Professional Status: Graduate Student
Institution: Fordham University
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Paper Title:  John Winthrop, Puritan Politics, and Natural Law in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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John Winthrop, serving as a prominent political leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from its founding in 1630 to his death in 1649, established a clear vision of his theory for governance. Winthrop’s Model of Christian Charity outlined, theoretically, the model for which he believed would develop the most pious and prosperous community. I will begin by presenting a background on the historical establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, followed by an examination of Winthrop’s Model of Christian Charity to illuminate how his outline for governance is shaped by his thought concerning natural and positive law in relation to the political community. I will then utilize historical records concerning issues of governance in the Massachusetts Bay Colony faced by John Winthrop, political officials, church leaders, and community members. This analysis of historical events will allow for the evaluation of Winthrop’s theory of governance put into practice in the Puritan community of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which will elucidate the significant interplay between natural and positive law, particularly concerning church-state relations, in the first two decades of Puritan settlement in Massachusetts Bay Colony.