The CUNY Remediation Debate and Coalitions: Information Matters

2020 ◽  
pp. 089590482098193
Author(s):  
Tara L. Parker ◽  
Christine G. Shakespeare ◽  
Elena Quiroz-Livanis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Single Case ◽  
System Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Advocacy Coalition ◽  
Baccalaureate Degrees ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

This single case study uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Multiple Streams Framework to understand the ways higher education policy actors at the city-, state-, and system-level used information to build coalitions and change admission standards during the remediation debate at the City University of New York. By examining what information was used, when it was presented, by whom, and for what purposes, this study helps improve our understanding of the policymaking process and the role information can play in high-stakes debates with major consequences, including limiting student access to baccalaureate degrees. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.

Varieties of Drug Trafficking Organizations: A Typology of Cases Prosecuted in New York City

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mangai Natarajan ◽  
Mathieu Belanger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
York City ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Drug Trafficking Organizations

This paper examines a sample of 39 drug trafficking organizations prosecuted in New York City federal courts. Using a new two-dimensional typology based on organizational structure and tasks/roles, a considerable variety of organizational types was found. This result has important implications for future research. In particular it suggests the need for caution in generalizing from the findings of single case studies. These studies need to be located in the broader framework provided by the typology. The typology also permits the systematic sampling of trafficking organizations for detailed study. This is particularly important for policy since interventions must be closely tailored to the nature of criminal enterprises.

New York City Election

1918 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Edgar Dawson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Appreciable Effect ◽  
Democratic Candidate ◽  
Group Type ◽  
Tammany Hall ◽  
The City

In 1913 a Fusion committee of Republicans and independent Democrats nominated and secured the election of the recent New York City administration. Mr. Mitchel, the mayor, was elected by a large majority partly because of the death of one of his opponents, Mr. Gaynor, just before the election took place. It is probable that Mitchel would have been beaten but for this event. On November 6 last, the city voted to substitute for this Fusion administration one made up wholly of Democrats, and almost wholly of the nominees of Tammany Hall. Hylan, the Democratic candidate, received 297,000 votes; Mitchel, 149,000; Hillquit, Socialist, 142,000; and Bennett, organization Republican, 53,000. The ballot used was of the office group type, with party emblems. Twenty-two other offices, in addition to that of the mayor, were filled at the same election, and the voting for other offices seems to have been fairly consistent with the support of the candidates for the post of mayor. The form of the ballot does not seem to have had any appreciable effect on the result; and it is doubtful whether preferential voting in this case would have changed the result in a single case.

MARY ANN TÉTREAULT, Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Pp. 318. $18.50 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-663
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
City State

In her pivotal work on Kuwaiti politics, Mary Ann Tétreault provides an “insider's guide” to the private and public spaces in which struggles over communal power are pursued by the government, the Parliament, and the people of Kuwait. Tétreault is careful to call her text “Stories of Democracy,” as she realizes the reflexive nature of what democracy means at different periods in history (before oil, after oil, under Iraqi occupation, in post-Liberation Kuwait); for different people in Kuwait (women, the merchants, government officials, tribal leaders, service politicians, opposition leaders); and in different contexts (the mosque, the diwaniyya or men's social club, the civic association, Parliament, the government). With this in mind, she argues that “democracy” is a “concept that ‘moves' depending on one's assumptions” (p. 3). Her basic message is that Kuwaiti politics resembles the politics of the Greek city-state, and she relies on various forms of Aristotelian comparison to explore this concept. Moreover, Tétreault illustrates that much of Kuwaiti politics resembles a high-stakes soap opera. For example, she calls the bad debt crisis “one of the longest running soap operas in Kuwaiti politics” (p. 164). In Chapter 4, she labels Kuwaiti politics “a family romance, whose grip on political actors constrains their choices” (p. 67). Toward the end of her text in chapter 8, Tétreault combines these metaphors when she observes that in the city-state that is Kuwait, politics are “the product of a domestic public life that seems all too often like life in a large and contentious family” (p. 206).

scholarly journals Case Study on Hurricane Sandy Survivors Experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
DONNA TENNYSON ◽  
IFY DIALA
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Management Decision Making

The goal of this qualitative single-case study was to investigate the problem with more than 50% of Americans admitting they are not prepared for natural disasters before they occur. The sample for this study was 24 purposively selected Hurricane Sandy survivors in New York and New Jersey who were 25 years of age or older. Data was collected through ten open-ended interview questions presented during telephone interviews. This study was guided by the theoretical framework of normative risk management decision making. Thematic analysis was used to code and analyze the data collected. This study was focused on answering two broad research questions related to why more than 50% of Americans are not prepared for natural disasters before they occur and the factors that prevent them from preparing. The major recommendations for future research and practice were related to the lack of a distinction between individuals who perceive they are prepared (who are deemed unprepared according to regulatory guidelines) and the possibility they are included with the more than 50% of Americans who are not prepared although they require modification of preparedness behavior while individuals who are not prepared require adoption of preparedness behavior. The other recommendations describe the factors that prevent individuals from preparing as lack of notification and signaling communications that indicate a natural disaster is imminent and expected to be severe; and individual disbelief in the validity of the communications. This study contributes to filling the gap in the literature related to the lived experience with natural disasters.

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