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| | A Nepotism That Insists on Worth |
 | | Nepotism is a practice the United States was founded to oppose. | | | Bellow has written a brief in nepotism's defense. | | | The United States, he says, is undergoing a vast revival of what he calls "the hereditary principle," or, more bluntly, nepotism. |
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| | Jerry Moore's School Talk: Nepotism & Cronyism |
| | Typically, the case in states that do not prohibit nepotism. | | | "We noted that waste and mismanagement could include improper nepotism, favoritism and misallocation of school monies and that if such inadequacies exist, they must be eliminated," Justice William Graves said in the unanimous decision of the seven-member high court. | | | Some states, but not Pennsylvania, prohibit nepotism or limit certain forms of it. |
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| | National Review: Thicker Than Water - "In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History" - Book Review |
| | As he points out, many forms of nepotism are legitimized by constitutional custom, or even statute. | | | No nation, he argues, has set its face more fiercely against nepotism than the United States. | | | Bellow has no difficulty showing that anti-nepotism regulations-of which America has endless examples, public and private-are cumbersome, often unjust and cruel, and ineffective. |
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| | New Statesman |
| | None of which is to say that nepotism of one form or another is not an issue. | | | Academia is in any case less promising ground for "name nepotism". | | | Nepotism in this narrow sense, of placing ill-suited relatives into plum positions, is not much in evidence, at least in the United Kingdom. |
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| | Nepotism |
| | The BYU Electronic Handbook states: “Colleges/departments may not employ a person or contract for services with an individual in a position within the administrative scope of control of a near relative. | | | Hiring relatives in the same work unit, even when complying with the provisions of existing nepotism policies, can limit flexibility and the ability to promote individuals in the future. | | | Anti-nepotism policies are in place in most major universities, state and local governments, and federal government agencies. |
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| | In college football coaching fraternity, it's all relative |
| | More often than not, however, individual institutions are chiefly responsible for creating and enforcing nepotism policies and not states' attorney general offices. | | | While the United States was founded on the notion of eliminating the aristocracy and inherited titles, containing the influence of the wealthy and powerful has never been easy. | | | The Pendleton Act of 1883 was the U.S.'s first attempt to reduce nepotism in the federal government, and all 50 states have laws, guidelines or agencies that address nepotism or conflicts-of-interest. |
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| | AlterNet: In Praise of Nepotism? |
| | Many Americans see nepotism as a way for the rich to protect their privilege at the expense of the less affluent. | | | 1) Don't embarrass me, meaning nepotism is a privilege, not a right. | | | Given the criticism over President Bush picking his personal lawyer to fill the shoes of Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S Supreme Court, the word for this week is "nepotism." |
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| | The nepotism policy shall not be used or considered in the granting of tenure. | | | Such decisions include, but shall not be limited to, initial hiring, retention, promotion, salary adjustments, leaves of absence and termination. |
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| | Sample Nepotism Policies |
| | A number of cities and towns in the state of Washington have adopted a regulation -- most often in the form of an ordinance -- prohibiting nepotism in some degree. | | | Persons who want formal guidance may petition the commission for a declaratory ruling under RCW 34.04.080 and WAC 162-08-620. | | | Olympia Administrative Guidelines, section 8, May 1990- Nepotism |
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| | Anti-Nepotism and Loss of Privacy |
| | As such, anti-nepotism policies have been written to protect public organizations from adverse lawsuits. | | | "Issue: Whether Nepotism Constitutes a Conflict of Interest Under the Code of Ethics?" Advisory Opinion 95-11-1133. | | | Many anti-nepotism policies vie that while management has an affirmative obligation to address nepotism when it occurs in the workplace, management may also not be aware of specific family or domestic partnership relationships – that of which may create situations where nepotism occurs. |
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| | North Dakota University System : Policies and Procedures |
| | Accordingly, an officer or employee may not, except as permitted by law, serve in a supervisory capacity over, or enter into a personal services contract with, a member of the officer's or employee's immediate family. | | | University system officers and employees shall comply with NDCC § 44-04-09, relating to nepotism. |
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| | Nepotism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Paul also engaged in nepotism, appointing, for instance, two nephews (aged fourteen and sixteen) Cardinals. | | | Recently, U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski, when elected Governor of Alaska, appointed his daughter, State Representative Lisa Murkowski, to fill the remaining two years of his seat and was accused of nepotism. | | | The current record for nepotism and cronyism amongst leaders of states is held by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of the Maldives, who at the last count had at least eleven family members, in-laws and cronies in his cabinet, plus numerous close relatives and friends in the highest government posts. |
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| | Macomb Daily : Sports : Voters have power to end some nepotism 09/08/04 |
| | It's nepotism if you notice that one of the applicants is your nephew, and you hire him without considering anyone else (in fact, "nepotism" came from the word "nephew"). | | | Viviano was accompanied to the event by his father, Circuit Judge Antonio Viviano. | | | Now, no one is accusing the Vivianos of nepotism or cronyism. |
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| | Adam Bellow on Nepotism, Cronyism & Harriet Miers on National Review Online |
| | In all such cases, merit, and patronage were deeply intertwined, since (as I argue in my book on the subject) the informal and unwritten "rules of nepotism" require that patronage be bestowed with discretion on those who will not bring discredit on the patron. | | | This stands to reason insofar as Lincoln, a man without family, rose to prominence through his talent for forming friendships. | | | Like Bonaparte, the same dynastic habits that brought him to power may bring him down again. |
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History - Adam Bellow - Hardcover |
| | Particular emphasis, of course, is given to the United States, from its beginnings up through the 20th-century ''war on nepotism'' and on to the present day. | | | For more than two centuries, a campaign has been waged against it in the name of fairness and equality in the courts, the legislatures, and in the public and private arenas — a campaign that has been only partly successful. | | | And since it is not going away anytime soon, he makes the case for dealing with nepotism openly and treating it as an art that can be practiced well or badly. |
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| | Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: nepotism |
| | Favoritism shown to members of one's family, as in business; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim. | | | Nepotism derives from Latin nepot-, nepos, "grandson, nephew." It is related to nephew, which comes from the Latin via Old French neveu. | | | Some custodians have worked their way around more recent nepotism rules by hiring each other's relatives. |
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| | Spoils System, in the United States, practice of making appointments to public office and of giving employment in the public service on the basis of political affiliation or personal relationship (nepotism) rather than on the fitness or merit of the appointees. | | | I asked a state representative once just before a talk show we were about to do on WXVI about nepotism. | | | It constitutes an extensive form of political patronage. |
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| | Winds of Change.NET: A Setting Son |
| | And there never would have been crime without the Welfare State. | | | This is what distinguishes the new nepotism from the old: other people must prove their merit before the fact, but nepotees must prove it after. | | | But if nepotism is in some respects a two-way street, it is also a one-way transaction. |
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| | William McGowan on Media Legacies on National Review Online |
| | It should be noted here that the nepotism issue is largely a liberal thing. | | | It would be wrong, too, to make any generalizations about the competence or credibility of the individual journalists I've noted, or of this group as a whole. | | | The coverage has showcased a rising generation of talented, intrepid combat correspondents, some of whom have died on the battlefield. |
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| | VDARE.com: 10/03/04 - Where Dawkins Fears To Tread: Ethnic Nepotism And The Reality Of Race |
| | You may not have ever heard of ethnic nepotism before. | | | So, 12.5% times two is 25%, which is the degree of relatedness between an uncle and his nephew
which, after all, is where the word "nepotism" comes from! | | | It does not favor a generalization of nepotism towards millions of other people who happen to be the same color as you. |
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| | Ripples: post-corporate adventures: How important is nepotism? |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference How important is nepotism? | | | But nepotism requires that one build it on the backs of others who will never be treated fairly. | | | Nepotism probably springs from the natural desire of a short-sighted company founder to provide a secure future for his children and family members. |
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| | Managing Nepotism and Consensual Relationships |
| | This change was made to make this policy and procedure easier to find. | | | The Board of Regents Policy on Nepotism and Consensual Relationships requires that a member of the University community may not directly influence the University employment or academic progress of a University member with whom he or she has a personal relationship. | | | A power disparity usually exists when an persons position or status allows the individual to influence the U employment or academic progress of another member of the U community. |
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| | In Praise of Nepotism |
| | Copyright © 2003 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. | | | Americans censure nepotism on the one hand and practice it as much as they can on the other. | | | This article has been adapted from his book, In Praise of Nepotism, to be published in July by Doubleday. |
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| | Lisa Murkowski - Nepotism |
| | The 22-year senator gave his seat to his daughter after the Legislature changed state law to allow the new governor and not the incumbent -- Knowles in this case -- to fill Senate vacancies. | | | Miller, a former state senator who plays to the conservative wing of the state party, said several Republican stalwarts asked him to consider a run against the moderate Murkowski. | | | The law passed after Murkowski appointed his daughter, then state Rep. Lisa Murkowski, to fill his Senate seat following his election as governor in 2002. |
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| | Pakistan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pakistan |
| | In January 1997, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of President Leghari's dismissal of the Bhutto government, accepting the president's case that it had been characterized by nepotism, corruption, and misrule, and had been responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial killings in Karachi. | | | The president also dissolved the national and provincial assemblies. |
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| | She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm. |
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| | This just in: Son of Nobel Prize winner supports nepotism csmonitor.com |
| | Bellow may want to see "good nepotism" in the actions of parents who sacrifice to send their children to college, but that is not what the term commonly signifies. | | | It is also his contention that Americans harbor an unreasonable fear of nepotism. | | | The trouble is, he ends up defining the term so broadly as to render it meaningless. |
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| | In Praise of Nepotism - New York Book Review |
| | Bellow’s final peroration on the virtues of hiring one’s cousins and the uses and abuses of nepotism is well-delivered, but it’s not a speech that’s liable to generate much fervor. | | | This is nepotism’s eye-for-an-eye, the flip side of privilege, although of course it’s unfair to judge Bellow by the standards of his illustrious ancestor (and what a burden it would be to be the child of a genius—it’s not the sort of thing you can pass on). | | | Nepotism is about being known, and being known is being measured, and being envied. |
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| | 33.03 Nepotism |
| | 3. Although the definition of "public official" in the state laws on nepotism does not include employees of institutions of higher education, it is the policy of The Texas AandM University System that employees who have authority to make or confirm appointments be held to the standard described in paragraph 1 of this policy. |
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| | Meritocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Another example is the 19th century Finland, which was formally ruled by an autocrat, though in practice governing was left to the educated class. | | | The most famous and oft-cited example of Singapore's alleged nepotism is that of Temasek Holdings, Inc. the managing director of which the daughter-in-law of Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, Ho Ching, became when there was no shortage of other, better qualified candidates. |
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Numerous other examples of nepotism and cronyism in the Afghan government exist. | | | They say almost every Afghan minister, governor, or organization chief tries to give key positions to family, friends or other people who owe them loyalty. | | | Afghan Reconstruction Minister Mir Mohammad Amin Farhang acknowledges that nepotism and cronyism do exist in Afghanistan's government. |
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| | Bush keeps it all in the family |
| | Bush also nominated David Bunning, the son of Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. to be a federal judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky. | | | Thurmond defended the appointment, arguing that "it's only nepotism when you hire your kin." | | | A Washington Post editorial noted that the younger Thurmond, out of law school for only three years, has been put in charge of a 60-person office. |
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| | Adult ed nepotism inquiry started small ajc.com |
| | He promised the presidents there would be new policies by later this summer and a quick resolution of the other problems. | | | Among them was Robin W. Hoffman, president of DeKalb Tech, whose daughter was forced to resign even though she had worked at the college two years before Hoffman became president. | | | College presidents have admitted hiring spouses, children and sisters. |
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| | The Big Murkowski |
| | THE EVIDENCE IS EVERYWHERE that nepotism is becoming a major issue in American life. | | | You would be in transition from a world in which the Senate majority leader is the husband of one of the mightiest lobbyists in Washington (Linda Daschle) to a world in which the Senate majority leader is a major shareholder in one of the country's great hospital empires (the Frist family's | | | And, of course, to assemble a full archive of Democratic congressional legacies--the various Pelosis and Kennedys and Udalls and Bentsens--would require a new hard drive for your computer. |
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| | Amicone defends aide, nepotism |
| | The mayor also defended the practice of offering government or school jobs to qualified friends and relatives of city and school officials, so long as they met the right criteria and the city or district followed proper hiring procedures. | | | Parents and teachers said yesterday that they weren't surprised by evidence of further nepotism in the school district in the new report. | | | A Westchester County grand jury indicted Petrone and then-district Finance Director Frank Lutz in June, four months after another Zisman report criticized their roles in the school board's hiring of Pietro Barberi, a close friend of Laine Petrone's, to a high-ranking school district post for which he was unqualified. |
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| | National Interest, The: Revolutionary nepotism - Book Review |
| | The recent book In Praise of Nepotism by Adam Bellow (son of Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow) documents how the great English biologist William D. Hamilton's 1964 elucidation of the genetic reasons behind altruism toward kin formed the plinth upon which the field of sociobiology was built. | | | As ferociously exemplified by The Mighty Manslayer, this urge to help copies of one's genes survive and spread is the basis of nepotism, which biologists define as altruism toward kin. | | | That's a level of dynastic success, in the Darwinian sense of the term, approaching one million times greater than that of the typical man who was alive back then. |
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| | Ants Practice Nepotism, Study Finds |
| | Scientists have often wondered if evidence for nepotism is present in such a complex social environment. | | | But evidence for ant nepotism has been difficult to find. | | | As a result, they could not predict which ants should favor others if nepotism were indeed taking place. |
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| | The presiding overseer abstained from the vote to recommend his son as an elder in order to avoid influencing others to make a decision based on nepotism. | | | The position of those who do not take sides with or give support to either of two or more contending parties; the stand that Christians take toward affairs of this world. | | | Remarkably, although this is rarely a problem among Jehovah's Witnesses, who are known universally for their fairness and impartiality, one European brother tells me an entire congregation in his city was dissolved because of nepotism some years ago. |
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| | CNN.com - Nepotism uncovered in ant colonies - Feb. 28, 2003 |
| | This nepotistic behavior indicates that ant workers are able not only to detect kin relationships, but also to pursue their selfish genetic interests if the costs to their colony are not prohibitive. | | | Worker ants in the species favored their own relatives when caring for eggs and larvae, which researchers said implied they capitalized on their ability to discriminate. | | | Until now there has been little evidence of nepotism in insects, apart from in the honeybee. |
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| | Other champions argue that nepots are often steeped in a family business from childhood, work like demons to avoid embarrassing the folks, and in many cases have inherited the traits that made their patrons so successful. | | | “Nepotism!” cried institutional investors, who feared that James would act in his father’s interest, not theirs. | | | A parent would not turn over a business to someone who couldn’t keep his (or her) room clean, deferred homework until the last minute, and spent hours in a zombie-like stupor in front of the TV. |
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| | Nepotism problems expand at colleges ajc.com |
| | Vollmer called the school presidents together Friday and demanded, as part of a broadening investigation of nepotism, that they disclose it if they have any immediate relatives on their staff. | | | Four more presidents of Georgia's 34 technical colleges have acknowledged having at least one close family member on the payroll. | | | The others will be expected to "fix it, and fix it soon," Mike Vollmer, commissioner of the state Department of Technical and Adult Education, said Monday. |
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| | Dienekes' Anthropology Blog: Kin Selection and Ethnic Nepotism |
| | You may cite, quote, or reproduce articles on this site for non-commercial purposes, provided that you attribute them to Dienekes Pontikos and provide a link either to the main page of this blog (http://dienekes.blogspot.com) or to the individual blog entry you are referring to. | | | The analogy between the degree of relatedness between a person and their cousin (against an ethnic group genetic background) and a person and members of their ethnic groups (against the genetic background of the species) is accurate, but potentially misleading. | | | Genetic ethnic nepotism predisposition (if it exists) is a much weaker force than kin nepotism predisposition. |
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| | The Hollywood Nepotism Page |
| | While often resembling their famous folks, usually these actors just miss the mark in the acting department and are forced to make low-budget flicks. | | | Welcome to The Hollywood Nepotism Page, the page that pays homage to those infamous actors/actresses who only made it into showbiz because of their famous relatives. | | | The list below represents only a fraction of those shameless actors/actresses who practice Hollywood Nepotism. |
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| | Campaign committee nepotism under fire |
| | Kent Cooper, co-founder of the nonpartisan PoliticalMoneyLine watchdog group for political spending, said there have been no studies on how widespread nepotism is in campaigns, but "it's unusual to have a candidate's wife on the payroll." Most politicians steer clear because voters may consider it improper, regardless of its legality, he said. | | | Renzi and Franks echoed Shadegg's comments on fair pay for real work, while the other Republicans did not elaborate. | | | As Grijalva sees it, "You are asking people to give you campaign money, and then you're feathering your own family's nest. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Urban VIII |
| | Finally, tormented with scruples concerning his nepotism, Urban twice appointed a special committee of theologians to investigate whether it was lawful for his nephews to retain their possessions, but each time the committee decided in favour of his nephews. | | | A third nephew of Urban, Taddeo Barberini, was made Prince of Palestrina and Prefect of Rome. | | | It is scarcely credible what immense riches accrued to the Barberini family through Urban's nepotism. |
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| | As a result, she will clearly fail to create her own nepotism. | | | Once you've gained the access and care that you'll need, then, and only then, does skill come into play. | | | Ever heard that hard work leads to success? |
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