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Liberalism and Sovietism
Title
Liberalism and Sovietism.
Creator
Lewis, Alfred Baker
Date Issued
1946
Identifier
1927460, CFDT1927460, ucf:4843
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927460
civil war in Spain
Title
The civil war in Spain.
Creator
Morrow, Felix
Date Issued
1936
Identifier
671278, CFDT671278, ucf:5528
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671278
India's revolution, its challenge and meaning
Title
India's revolution, its challenge and meaning.
Creator
Symes, Lillian, Socialist Labor Party
Date Issued
1943
Identifier
2683210, CFDT2683210, ucf:5036
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683210
Russia--democracy or dictatorship?
Title
Russia--democracy or dictatorship?.
Creator
Thomas, Norman Mattoon, Seidman, Joel Isaac
Date Issued
1939
Identifier
370504, CFDT370504, ucf:5504
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370504
Shadow over Asia
Title
Shadow over Asia: The rise of militant Japan.
Creator
Bisson, T. A. (Thomas Arthur), Graphic Associates
Date Issued
1941
Identifier
2683242, CFDT2683242, ucf:5052
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683242
Manifesto of the Fourth International to the workers and peasants of India.
Title
Manifesto of the Fourth International to the workers and peasants of India.
Creator
Fourth International, Socialist Workers Party
Date Issued
1942
Identifier
2669153, CFDT2669153, ucf:4996
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2669153
The Cuban episode and the American press: April 9-23, 1961
Title
The Cuban episode and the American press: April 9-23, 1961.
Creator
Mintz, Norbert L
Date Issued
1961
Identifier
2660249, CFDT2660249, ucf:4972
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2660249
China and the U. S. A
Title
China and the U. S. A.
Creator
Browder, Earl Russell
Date Issued
1937
Identifier
361645, CFDT361645, ucf:5264
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/361645
From socialism to communism in the Soviet Union: Report on the work of the Central Committee to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delivered March 10, 1939
Title
From socialism to communism in the Soviet Union: Report on the work of the Central Committee to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delivered March 10, 1939.
Creator
Stalin, Joseph, T︠S︡K KPSS
Date Issued
1939
Identifier
2180034, CFDT2180034, ucf:4933
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2180034
Problems of the development of the U. S. S. R.: Draft of the thesis of the International left opposition on the Russian question
Title
Problems of the development of the U. S. S. R: Draft of the thesis of the International left opposition on the Russian question.
Creator
Trotsky, Leon, Lewitt, Morris, Shachtman, Max
Date Issued
1931
Identifier
367857, CFDT367857, ucf:5364
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367857
The New phase in the Soviet Union: Report to the enlarged Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, February 25, 1930
Title
The New phase in the Soviet Union: Report to the enlarged Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, February 25, 1930.
Creator
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, Communist International Executive Committee
Date Issued
1931
Identifier
369422, CFDT369422, ucf:5445
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369422
THE INFLUENCE OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS ON PROPORTIONALITY OF REPRESENTATION IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS
Title
THE INFLUENCE OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS ON PROPORTIONALITY OF REPRESENTATION IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
Creator
Cox, Jamesha, Jewett , Aubrey, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
There are proportionally fewer Hispanic Americans, African Americans and women in Congress than in the United States population. Existing literature prescribes a variety of explanations for this disparity including skewed nominations procedures, differing participation rates, racial gerrymandering, voting biases, and funding inequities. This study revisits one aspect of the underrepresentation issue: campaign contributions. Money has been an integral component of the electoral process since...
Show moreThere are proportionally fewer Hispanic Americans, African Americans and women in Congress than in the United States population. Existing literature prescribes a variety of explanations for this disparity including skewed nominations procedures, differing participation rates, racial gerrymandering, voting biases, and funding inequities. This study revisits one aspect of the underrepresentation issue: campaign contributions. Money has been an integral component of the electoral process since before the American Revolution and its impact on the current composition of Congress ought to be explored to a greater extent. Previous research shows that contributors rarely, if at all, discriminate on the basis of gender. This study intends to further investigate the congressional campaign funding of African Americans and provide some much needed insight regarding the campaign financing of Hispanic American candidates. Using financial and biographical data from each candidate within the 2004 and 2008 election cycles, a multiple regression model will be employed to evaluate the extent to which gender and minority status determine the distribution of congressional campaign funds independent of other electability traits considered influential by contributors (the percentage of vote received in the last election, incumbency, and the leadership position held are indications of candidate strength that affect campaign contributions). The magnitude and statistical significance of these coefficients provides further understanding into funding inequities.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFH0004484, ucf:45076
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004484
Essays on the Effect of Excess Compensation and Governance Changes on Firm Value
Title
Essays on the Effect of Excess Compensation and Governance Changes on Firm Value.
Creator
Dah, Mustafa, Frye, Melissa, Whyte, Ann, Gatchev, Vladimir, Schnitzlein, Charles, Campbell, Terry, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This dissertation consists of three essays on the effect of excess compensation and corporate governance changes on the firm's performance. The first paper utilizes a cost minimization stochastic frontier approach to investigate the efficiency of director total compensation. Our findings suggest that board members are over compensated. We show that, on average, the director actual compensation level is above the efficient compensation level by around 63%. Our results suggest that an increase...
Show moreThis dissertation consists of three essays on the effect of excess compensation and corporate governance changes on the firm's performance. The first paper utilizes a cost minimization stochastic frontier approach to investigate the efficiency of director total compensation. Our findings suggest that board members are over compensated. We show that, on average, the director actual compensation level is above the efficient compensation level by around 63%. Our results suggest that an increase in director excess compensation decreases the likelihood of CEO turnover, reduces the turnover-performance sensitivity, and increases managerial entrenchment. Thus, the surplus in director compensation is directly associated with managerial job security and entrenchment. Furthermore, although director excess compensation is not significantly inversely related to the firm's future performance, it has an indirect negative effect on future performance through its impact on the entrenchment-performance relationship. Therefore, this essay proposes that the overcompensation of directors is directly associated with a board culture predicated by mutual back-scratching and collusion between the CEO and the board members. The second essay tests the effect of an exogenous shock, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002, on the structure of corporate boards and their efficiency as a monitoring mechanism. The results suggest an increase in the participation of independent directors at the expense of insiders. Consequently, we investigate the implications of board composition changes on CEO turnover and firm value. We document a noticeable reduction in CEO turnover in the post-SOX period. We also demonstrate that, after SOX, a board dominated by independent directors is less likely to remove a CEO due to poor performance. Finally, we highlight a negative association between the change in board composition and firm value. We propose that our findings are predicated on an off equilibrium result whereby firms were forced to modify their endogenously chosen board composition. Therefore, contrary to the legislators' objectives, we suggest that the change in board structure brought about inefficient monitoring and promoted an unfavorable tradeoff between independent directors and insiders. The third essay examines the relationship between the firm's governance structure and its value during different economic conditions. We show that both relative industry turnover and CEO entrenchment increase during economic downturns. We also find that relative industry turnover and managerial entrenchment have opposite impacts on the value of the firm throughout the recessionary period. While industry turnover leads to an appreciation in firm value, managerial entrenchment reduces shareholders' wealth. The negative impact of managerial entrenchment on firm value, however, outweighs the positive impact of industry turnover. Accordingly, we propose that a recession provides managers with a good opportunity to camouflage their behavior and extract more private benefits and, thus, blame the poor performance on bad economic conditions.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004202, ucf:49029
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004202
world situation, the internal and international position of the Soviet Union
Title
The world situation, the internal and international position of the Soviet Union.
Creator
TSK KPSS, Stalin, Joseph, Kommunisticheskaiia  partiia  Sovetskogo Soiuza
Date Issued
1934
Identifier
369238, CFDT369238, ucf:5407
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369238
History will absolve me.
Title
History will absolve me.
Creator
Castro, Fidel
Date Issued
1961
Identifier
677395, CFDT677395, ucf:5600
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/677395
war in Vietnam
Title
The war in Vietnam.
Creator
Deane, Hugh
Date Issued
1963
Identifier
2660257, CFDT2660257, ucf:4976
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2660257
Geneva: Road to peace
Title
Geneva: Road to peace.
Creator
Clark, Joseph
Date Issued
1955
Identifier
360083, CFDT360083, ucf:5241
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/360083
Belgrade
Title
Belgrade: The Conference of Non-aligned States.
Creator
Jack, Homer Alexander
Date Issued
1961
Identifier
1927616, CFDT1927616, ucf:4871
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927616
Rifle rule in Cuba
Title
Rifle rule in Cuba.
Creator
Beals, Carleton, Odets, Clifford, Provisional Committee for Cuba
Date Issued
1935
Identifier
886194, CFDT886194, ucf:5605
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/886194
Heroic China, fifteen years of the Communist party of China
Title
Heroic China, fifteen years of the Communist party of China.
Creator
Mif, P. (Pavel)
Date Issued
1937
Identifier
370345, CFDT370345, ucf:5478
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370345

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