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Provides an image of how our knowledge and understanding of democratization could be improved by viewing the topic through a multidisciplinary lens and from the perspective of broadly-based comparative analyses. This book offers an understanding of democratization as a process taking many forms rather than just as a political phenomena.

Offers a series of arguments in support of the view that fair and equal treatment of groups is best defended on the basis of a theory of public deliberation. Such a theory has both a normative and institutional dimension. This work provides a framework for the normative justification of state policies toward socially disadvantaged groups.

Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdowns? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences. And even when the consequences of violence are studied, its effects are usually limited to consideration of preexisting conflict that originally spawned the violence. In Terrorism and Democratic Stability, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stability, terrorism and state responses to terrorism must be studied together. Her innovative approach identifies citien support as a key factor in the states ability to sustain democracy and achieve stability. Her focus is Uruguay, Peru, and Spain.

An array of subject matter is subjected to analysis, comment, and speculation by fifteen contributors representing three separate disciplines.

Brings together the major theories about the satirist to provide a summary of the problems that specialists have examined in books and articles. It also explores the beliefs of satirists and their relation to the environment within which they function, particularly in the contexts of politics, religion, and philosophy.

Presents an outlook on the common law tradition. This book is a collective portrait of five scholars who epitomize the tradition. The focus is Chicago in the 1960s. The five figures considered are Edward H Levi, Harry Kalven, Jr, Karl Llewellyn, Philip Kurland, and Kenneth Culp Davis, who did much to broaden the perspectives of the legal academy.

Asks fundamental questions, including what is new and what is old about the phenomenon. The authors discuss the mediating role of political consumerism in the problematic relationship between markets and morality. They investigate the relationship between globalization and political consumerism.

This history of conservatism by a renowned historian and social critic attempts to provide a concise, balanced picture of conservative thought in all its different shadings and cultural contexts. In this book, after each main conservative thesis, the anti-conservative rebuttal is summarized, and the reader is allowed to reach his own conclusions.

This definitive biography of the life and work of Elton Mayo (1880-1949) is the accurate account of his activities and his intimate life; it traces the origins of his ideas. Mayo, who established the scientific study of organizational behavior, was highly influential in American social science and business management theory.

Included in this volume are the contributions of distinguished development practitioners on issues such as: the links between good performance and policy change; how windows of opportunity can best be used to promote reform; and how developed country policies can be improved to create a better global environment for development.

Bridges conventional methodological divides, bringing together political scientists, sociologists, demographers, and ethnographers. It explores the reality behind assumptions about global migration trends and emphasizes on the differences between the regional contexts of migration in Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific.

Assassination as a political act has a long history. Combining existing historical evidence with years of personal interviews with terrorists in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, the author writes about contemporary political murder from the perspective of one who has studied the subject of political violence for decades.

Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, this book explores how ideas move across and between expressive forms. The volume explores how media intertextuality creates overlapping repertoires for understanding the past and the present.

Drawing on data collected during his fieldwork among the Bisa continuing since the 1960s, Stuart Marks describes the changes that have occurred in hunting patterns, the sociological variables that govern an individual's decision to become a hunter, and the common cosmological convictions that hunters bring to their profession.

In this 60th anniversary edition of "The Idea of Nationalism", Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that first brought prominence to this defense of the national ideal in the modern West.

This book illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America's classic 19th-century writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Harold Kaplan suggests that these major figures' works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture.

The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This volume reflects major research focuses across religion, race, gender, culture, and of course, politics.

The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing his life, and his discovery, in the context of his times.

Memories continue to shape the present, in almost all families throughout the world. A life-story approach to family memories can provide a new key to research on the dynamics of the family and on social change.

Despite being the world's first democracy with a written constitution and Bill of Rights, the United States has threatened the liberties of other peoples. This volume explores the contradiction.

'Character and Opinion in the United States' is his comprehensive critique of American thought and civilization and reflects the detached cosmopolitan perspective that lent his criticism its characteristic objectivity and strength. Santayana's subject here is the conflict of materialism and idealism in American life.

With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly disillusioned with the quality of care. Rich in anecdote as well as science Doctors and Their Patients describes how both have arrived at this sad shape.

Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined

In reviewing this book in The Economic Journal, S.G. Checkland said that it should be read as a vigorous attempt to relate economics to general thinking and as a challenge to those who are practitioners or elaborators of narrowly prescribed techniques.

MTV is the third major breakthrough in music broadcasting, and the first since the late 1960s. "Top Forty" radio was initiated in the 1950s, and along with "free form" or "progressive" rock molded rock music exposure for nearly twenty years. Many observers credit MTV with resurrecting the music industry from the throes of the Great Depression of 1979. Few would dispute its impact on contemporary film, fashion, and radio.Inside MTV examines the world of cablecasting, the evolution of WASEC, MTV, VH-1, and some of their competitors. The strategies, personalities, promotions, and the contents that placed MTV on the road to its dominant position are described. The many controversies surrounding the channel are thoroughly detailed, and a good deal of the misinformation on the subject is corrected.

What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies

This book deals with a variety of issues including matters of method, particularly John R. Commons' pragmatism, the role of scarcity and conflict in economics as opposed to a presumed harmony of interest, and the importance of custom and common law as opposed to individual pleasures and pains.

Jane Addams is well known for her leadership in urban reform, social settlements, pacifism, social work, and women's suffrage

On its original publication in 1919, The Place of Science in Modern Civilization was recognized as a major contribution, and today Veblen continues to command attention and respect

The emphasis on organizational change in the corporate life of recent years-including job redesign, autonomous groups, high performance work systems, and the redesign of control systems-owes a great deal to the pioneering work of Chris Argyris