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Abstract: The antitrust premerger review process does not accomplish the goals Congress asserted when promulgating the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (“HSR Act”). My argument considers how current practice has been adversely affected by the rise of electronic document discovery and now falls far from the goals of the HSR Act. I propose streamlining the process in a manner that capitalizes on the benefits of a technologically sophisticated environment. I apply first principles of corporate strategy (such as predictability of outcomes, and cost/benefit analysis) to examine the optimal distribution sequence for merging companies to best maximize the value of the merger while complying with regulatory goals.

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Abstract: This Paper examines the Second Chance Act and evaluates the legislation, objectives and implementation since its initial passage in 2004.

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Abstract: Can we have a historical and scientific approach to thinking about change and continuity in international relations? IR theory in general has been uneasy about this connection, arguably due to the notion of positivism being the central theory of science. What might an anti-positivist account of science look like, and what might it entail for historical sociology?The argument advanced in this paper is that there are two key benefits to be gained from an engagement with anti-positivist approaches to science for historical sociology. Firstly, a non-reductionist social ontology can help us better specify the actors and structures of particular social changes. While not anathema to existing social theories behind historical sociology, better specifying the ontological presuppositions of historical sociology will make for better empirical analysis, and better social science. Secondly, the use of causal mechanisms as a key point of analysis in American comparative historical analysis is highly fruitful, but is rather too embedded in the impasse in American political science between institutionalism and rational choice. These approaches would do well to broaden their conception of causation to include a strategic-relational account of causal complexes (not as universal laws) in order to better contextualise causal mechanisms within a broader social ontology. Overall, history needs science and science needs history.

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Abstract: This analysis builds on existing research regarding media objectivity and war coverage. It specifically looks to see how (and if) objectivity changed between the New York Times and the London Times newspapers during the current Iraq war, and the effect the July 7th subway bombings had on objectivity in the London Times. This content analysis finds that both papers tended to present a more objective – meaning the non-Coalition Forces side of the confliction – with the London Times often providing the more objective account. Further, the subway bombings proved to have a negligible, at best, effect on the London Times’s coverage.

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Abstract: The movement of people across national borders, whether as labor migrants, refugees, or tourists, is one of the most remarkable and visible features of globalization. In this paper I use Philadelphia (US) and Manchester (UK) as examples of what I propose to be a distinctive type of migrant-receiving city: the second city. I explore the distinctive migration patterns that distinguish second from global cities. First, sources for international migration concentrate in just a few countries. Second, internal migration is relatively more important for second cities; the proportions of internal to international migration are higher than in global cities. Furthermore, this internal migration is often rural-to-urban migration by people from an ethnically distinct background subject to substantial discrimination.