George Megalogenis-" Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era " ( 2010 )

Among his books are Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression ( 1983 ), which won the National Book Award ; " The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War " ( 1995 ); " Liberalism and its Discontents " ( 1998 ); and " The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century " ( 2010 ), which won the Ambassador Book Prize and the Sperber Prize, as well as being a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

* 1995, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War

The 1975 Jackson Amendment to the Trade Reform Act linked granting the USSR ' most favored nation ' status to liberalization of Soviet emigration laws.

He was also involved in debates over U. S .- Soviet relations, Central America policy, the War Powers Act, NATO expansion and the investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, and sponsored the United Nations Reform Act of 2005, a bill that ties payment of U. S. dues for United Nations operations to reform of the institution's management.

The WZO today consists of the following institutions: The World Zionist Unions, international Zionist Federations ; and international organizations that define themselves as Zionist, such as WIZO, Hadassah, Bnai-Brith, Maccabi, the International Sephardic Federation, the three streams of world Judaism ( Orthodox, Conservative, Reform ), delegation from the CIS – Commonwealth of Independent States ( former Soviet Union ), the World Union of Jewish Students ( WUJS ), and more.

Originally published in People and the Land: Pathways to Reform in Post Soviet Siberia, Dietrich Reimer Verlag.

Russia's agricultural privatisation programme can be traced back to 1989 – 90, when Soviet legislation under Gorbachev allowed, first, the creation of non-state business enterprises in the form of cooperatives ; and second, legalized private ownership of land by individuals ( the November 1990 Law of Land Reform ).

Reform initiatives launched by the Soviet Union during the East-West antagonism in the 1950s to curtail the independence of the Secretariat by replacing the post of Secretary-General with a troika, including a representative from the socialist states.

* Can the Soviet System Survive Reform?

* Co-written with John Erickson Soviet Union 2000: Reform or Revolution ?, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990 ISBN 0-312-04425-9.

Theodore Taranovski, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-521-45177-9 ( Papers from a conference entitled " Reform in Russian and Soviet History -- Its Meaning and Function " held May 5-May 7, 1990, organized by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ), p. 73-74

Theodore Taranovski, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-521-45177-9 ( Papers from a conference entitled " Reform in Russian and Soviet History -- Its Meaning and Function " held May 5-May 7, 1990, organized by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars )

* State Commission for Public Sector Reform ;

* Émile Zuccarelli – Minister of Civil Service, Reform of the State, and Decentralization

Michel Sapin succeeds Zuccarelli as Minister of Civil Service and Reform of the State.

As documented by The Sentencing Project in Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997-2010, 23 states enacted reforms to their disenfranchisement policies and practices between 1997 – 2010.

Following the Fifth State Reform in 2001, the responsibility for the composition, the organisation, the competences and the activities of the municipal institutions were devolved to the Regions, as well as the responsibility for the provincial institutions.

On 3 October 2008 Peter Mandelson, at the time of appointment not a member of either House, became Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and was immediately made a life peer.

* Jean-Paul Delevoye – Minister of Civil Service, Reform of the State, and Regional Planning

* Jean-Paul Delevoye – Minister of Civil Service, Reform of the State, and Regional Planning

* Renaud Dutreil – Minister of Civil Service and Reform of the State

* Anderson, Gregory M. " Racial Identity, the Apartheid State, and the Limits of Political Mobilization and Democratic Reform in South Africa: The Case of the University of the Western.

Many members of the family had enjoyed successful political careers based on reform, including to colonial policies ; Grey's grandfather, while prime minister, championed the Reform Act 1832 and in 1846, Grey's uncle, the third Earl Grey, as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies during the first ministry of the Earl Russell, was the first to suggest that colonies should be self-sustaining and governed for the benefit of their inhabitants, instead of for the benefit of the United Kingdom .< ref name = GG >

The plan to abolish the office, however, was later abandoned though it was partially reformed in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and is now used as a secondary title to the Secretary of State for Justice.

European and U. S. reformers exposed the conditions in the Congo Free State to the public through the Congo Reform Association.

The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, Division G of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999,, abolished the U. S. Information Agency effective October 1, 1999, when its information ( but not broadcasting ) and exchange functions were folded into the Department of State under the newly created Under Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy.

Amongst his economic works may be mentioned Money and the Mechanism of Exchange ( 1875 ), written in a popular style, and descriptive rather than theoretical, but wonderfully fresh and original in treatment and full of suggestiveness, a Primer on Political Economy ( 1878 ), The State in Relation to Labour ( 1882 ), and two works published after his death, namely, Methods of Social Reform and Investigations in Currency and Finance, containing papers that had appeared separately during his lifetime.

## Tim Uppal, Minister of State ( Democratic Reform ) ( May 18, 2011 )

* The Welfare State – Never Ending Reform Brief history of the Welfare State by Frank Field ( BBC website )

" Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot's Path to Progressive Reform " Environmental History 2002 7 ( 2 ): 198 – 225.

Unlike the responsibilities of other Secretaries of State, which can be transferred from one department to another by an order-in-council, several functions of the Lord Chancellor are linked to the office of Lord Chancellor as a matter of statute law, even after the adoption of the Constitutional Reform Act.

Lord Robert Cecil was first elected to the House of Commons in 1854 and served as Secretary of State for India in Lord Derby's Conservative government from 1866 until his resignation in 1867 over its introduction of Benjamin Disraeli's Reform Bill that extended the suffrage to working-class men.

The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills ( formerly the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and previously Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ) is a cabinet position in the United Kingdom government.

; Assaulting a person designated or accredited under sections 38 or 39 or 41 or 41A of the Police Reform Act 2002: This offence is created by section 46 ( 1 ) of the Police Reform Act 2002.

At Paris, he was influenced by the Gregorian Reform ideals of churchly independence from Monarchical rule.

Appointed by Clinton, the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform recommended reducing legal immigration from about 800, 000 people a year to about 550, 000.

His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.

After engineering the defeat of a Liberal Reform Bill introduced by Gladstone in 1866, Disraeli and Derby introduced their own measure in 1867.

This was primarily a political strategy designed to give the Conservative party control of the reform process and the subsequent long-term benefits in the Commons, similar to those derived by the Whigs after their 1832 Reform Act.

The Reform Act 1867 extended the franchise by 938, 427 – an increase of 88 % – by giving the vote to male householders and male lodgers paying at least 10 pounds for rooms and eliminating rotten boroughs with fewer than 10, 000 inhabitants, and granting constituencies to fifteen unrepresented towns, and extra representation in parliament to larger towns such as Liverpool and Manchester, which had previously been under-represented in Parliament.

After a brief Conservative interlude ( during which the Second Reform Act was passed by agreement between the parties ), Gladstone won a huge victory at the 1868 election and formed the first Liberal government.

Among the consequences of the Third Reform Act ( 1884 – 85 ) was the giving of the vote to the Catholic peasants in Ireland, and the consequent creation of an Irish Parliamentary Party led by Charles Stewart Parnell.

While many ancient boroughs remained as municipal boroughs, they were disenfranchised by the Reform Act.

Contrarily, the 1996 Constitutional Reform designates the President of the Senate as constitutional successor ; but the Senate ( provided for by 1996 Reform ) does not exist.

Guangxu Emperor and the reformists then launched a more comprehensive reform effort, the Hundred Day's Reform ( 1898 ), but it was shortly overturned by the conservatives under Empress Dowager Cixi in a military coup.

Psychological coercion – along with the other varieties-was extensively and systematically used by the government of the People ’ s Republic of China during the “ Thought Reform ” campaign of 1951-1952.

Conservative Judaism has its roots in the school of thought known as Positive-Historical Judaism, developed in 1850s Germany as a reaction to the more liberal religious positions taken by Reform Judaism.

Rather, it is sometimes employed by unaffiliated groups to indicate a range of beliefs and practices more liberal than is affirmed by the Orthodox, and more traditional than the more liberal Jewish denominations ( Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism ).

Like Reform Judaism, the Conservative movement developed in Europe and the United States in the 19th century, as Jews reacted to the changes brought about by the Enlightenment and Jewish emancipation, a confluence of events that lead to Haskalah, or the Jewish Enlightenment.

Conservative Jews believe that movements to its left, such as Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism, have erred by rejecting the traditional authority of Jewish law and tradition.

Conservative Judaism views the process by which Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism make changes to Jewish tradition as potentially invalid.

Conservatism thus rejects patrilineal descent, which is accepted by the Reform movement.

It should be noted, however, that the Class Action Fairness Act contains carve-outs for, ' inter alia ', shareholder class actions covered by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and those concerning internal corporate governance issues ( the latter typically being brought as shareholder derivative actions in the state courts of Delaware, the state of incorporation of most large corporations ).