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The Great Tranformation
By Robert Marsh. 1996
This study of the effects and directions of social change in Taiwan examines questions such as: what was the society…
of Taiwan like before the current period of economic growth?; how has it changed?; and are there aspects that did not change, despite the significant transformation in some spheres.The State, Bureaucracy, And The Cuban Schools: Power And Participation
By Sheryl L. Lutjens. 1996
In the mid-1980s Cuba began a process of ‘rectificacion’—a reform process that has bucked the trends of economic and political…
liberalization that are reshaping the global order. Sustaining an official commitment to socialism in the face of economic crisis and international pressures, Cuba's survival seems puzzling indeed. Sheryl Lutjens uses the CBuilding Sustainable Societies: A Blueprint for a Post-industrial World
By Dennis Clark Pirages. 1996
A collection of articles addressing the issue of whether the industrial model of human progress can be sustained in the…
long term. It asks what the social, political, economic and environmental implications as well as potential solutions to the problem of resource-intensive growth are.The Bridge Builder's Story: A Novel (Large Print Ser.)
By Howard Fast. 1996
Comparativists evaluate democratization by looking at regimes in the transition and consolidation phases of democracy without considering the essence of…
democracy. This book argues the need to consider democracy as a combination of rights and virtues, and that problems of democraticization are those of balance.Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship, And Society In Latin America
By Elizabeth Jelin. 1996
In this pathbreaking contribution to debates about human rights, democracy, and society, distinguished social scientists from Latin America and the…
United States move beyond questions of state terror, violence, and similar abuses to embrace broader concepts of human rights: citizenship, identity, civil society, racism, gender discrimination, and poCapital, The State, And Late Industrialization: Comparative Perspectives On The Pacific Rim
By Jomo K. S., John Borrego, Alejandro Alvarez Bejar. 1996
This book explores the foundation and nature of the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the state in East Asia and…
Latin America that has profoundly influenced industrialization and macroeconomic performance. Scholars from both sides of the Pacific offer critical perspectives on the differing fates of the two regions, especially over tSociety on the Run: A European View of Life in America
By W. Peters. 1996
A study of the United States and its political culture. The author contends that democracy exists at the level of…
political institutions and processes in the US as well as in its private sector.In Defense of Decadent Europe
By Raymond Aron. 1996
Raymond Aron's In Defense of Decadent Europe was first conceived at a time of great uncertainty for the Western democracies.…
The postwar economic boom had been interrupted by "stagflation," while communist and socialist parties in Italy and France were powerful factors in Europe's political landscape. Aron's book has a threefold purpose: the analysis of the Soviet Russian regime and its Marxist-Leninist theoretical foundation; the detailed empirical comparison between liberal democracies and collectivist regimes of the East; and, above all, the exploration of what might be termed the "problem" of democracy the tendency of democratic regimes to undermine themselves unless checked in their most extreme tendencies.Aron denounces the clash between democracy and the Marxist-Leninist mystification and explains how Marxism leads to Soviet-style ideology. The second part of the book constitutes a defense of liberal Europe. The author makes comparisons in terms of productivity, technical innovation, living standards, scientific progress, and human freedom. But Aron also notes there are important ways in which the West must put her house in order by cultivating authority in the church, in universities, in business, and even in the army. This paradox is conveyed by the title of the book, the juxtaposition of the words In Defense of and Decadent Europe.In the new introduction, Daniel Mahoney and Brian Anderson discuss the disenchanted conservative liberalism of Raymond Aron that set him apart. Among the topics they cover are: the challenge of ideocracy, the decadence of democracy, and Aron as a civic philosopher. In Defense of Decadent Europe combines ideological debate with economic and social analysis. Its thorough examination of Western freedom versus the Eastern communism of the recent past extends well beyond parochial debates into a basic vision of Western societies. The book will be compelling for historians, political scientists, economists, and philosophers.Local Democracy And The Processes Of Transformation In East-central Europe
By Harald Baldersheim, Michal Illner, Audun Offerdal, Lawrence Rose, Paweł Swianiewicz. 1996
This book focuses on one particular aspect of the post-communist transformations in the East-Central European countries. In studying the local…
government reforms, it evaluates achievements with the traditional yardsticks for local government performance: democracy, efficiency, and autonomy.Women and Politics in the Third World (Women And Politics Ser.)
By Haleh Afshar. 1996
Women and Politics in the Third World is the first comprehensive textbook on women's political activities in the third world.…
It provides a feminist analytical perspective on the specific forms of resistance, organisation and negotiation by women in third world states. Using case studies, the book focuses on difference as a theoretical basis for investigating feminine political activism. Though Western analysts have attributed weakness to terms such as motherhood, marriage and domesticity, as choices made by non-Western women, the contributors show that such strategies are used by women to pursue particular goals such as seeking resources, welfare or freedom from oppression for their children. These strategies, the book suggests, should not be classified as unimportant or temporary and can be highly effective even within such discourses as Islamic fundamentalism.The contributors highlight differing political approaches in regions as diverse as Latin America, South East Asia, China and the Middle East.Permitted And Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, And Censorship In Japan
By Anne Allison. 1996
Desire is both of and beyond the everyday. In an ad for running shoes, for example, the figure of a…
man jogging at dawn on the Serengeti Plain both evokes a fantasyof escape and invokes a disciplinary norm to stay fit. The bottom line for thead, of course, is to create a desire to consume, the promise being that with thepurchase of these shoes, the consumer can realize yet also transcend the daily exhortationto perform.To say this differently, there is something both real and phantasmic about desire.Yet this notion seems contradictory. Isn't there a difference between the desireto be fit, for example, which is realizable, realistic, and, in these senses, realand the desire to escape routine everydayness, which, for most of us, is inescapablemost of the time? But is exercise real or phantasmic? Certainly noteveryone works out, and even those who make exercise a part of their reality maydo so in order to pursue a fantasy about themselves. And are escapes from dailyroutines phantasmic or real? An escape from the everyday is far more realizablefor some people than even fitness. But here too what is fantasy blends into (andbecomes indistinguishable from) the real: A vacation away from work may be ameans of ensuring a higher level of work performance when one returns.Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship and the State
By David Trend. 1996
Radical Democracy addresses the loss of faith in conventional party politics and argues for new ways of thinking about diversity,…
liberty and civic responsibility. The cultural and social theorists in Radical Democracy broaden the discussion beyond the conventional and conservative rhetoric by investigating the applicability of radical democracy in the United States. Issues debated include whether democracy is primarily a form of decision making or an instrument of popular empowerment; and whether democracy constitutes an abstract ideal or an achievable goal.John Randolph
By Guy B Adams, Robert McColley. 1996
This work, originally written in 1882, provides a biography of John Randolph, a prominent figure in American national politics in…
the early 1800s. Presenting relevant letters by Randolph, the book covers his relations with the Jeffersonians and Jacksonians.The Dark Side of Japanese Business: Three Industry Novels
By Gail Johnson, Ikko Shimizu, Tamae K. Prindle. 1996
"(The novels) depict Japanese business as nasty and businessmen as villains. As the books sell in large numbers in Japan…
this is presumably how ordinary Japanese view the driving force of the world's second biggest economy". -- The EconomistThe Making of Modern Tibet
By A. Tom Grunfeld. 1996
An account of Tibet and the Tibetan people that emphasises the political history of the 20th century. This book attempts…
to reach beyond the polemics by considering the various historical arguments, using archival material from several nations and drawing conclusions focused on available documents.The Socio-economics of Conversion from War to Peace (Studies In Socio-economics)
By Amitai Etzioni, Lloyd J. Dumas. 1996
Culture and Social Theory
By Aaron Wildavsky. 1996
Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied…
it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate, but related, areas: the social construction of meaning, normative/analytic political philosophy, and a theory of rational choices. This book is the first in a series of Aaron Wildavsky's collected writings being published posthumously by Transaction. Wildavsky selected, sequenced, and grouped all but three of the essays included in Culture and Social Theory prior to his death. Some are presented here for the first time. Wildavsky's cultural theory provides ways to organize and interpret the world.In the first section, he shows how social scientists, particularly economists and sociologists, apply the theory. Wildavsky argues that concepts such as externalities, public goods, altruism, and even risk and rape are tools of rival, ubiquitous cultures engaged in perpetual struggle with one another. The second section deals with cultural theory as a way to interpret the works of normative and analytic political philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill, on competing human objectives. Wildavsky argues that particular types of interaction among a society's cultures are necessary for effective realization of basic concepts such as democracy. In the third section, Wildavsky applies cultural theory in conjunction with instrumental rationality, the former as a theory of preference formation, the latter as a device for realizing preferences efficiently. High-priority objectives, and thus the character of norms and rational action, shift across cultures. The world and its various elements comprise a complex, frequently changing, and thus ambiguous reality, nowhere more so than in the dynamic contours of the United States. For cultural theory, individualistic, hierarchical, and egalitarian interpretations of the world are the only ones capable of forming and sustaining institutions and related patterns of social relations that will support human social groups.Wildavsky's central objective is to strip away the camouflage and to reveal varying domains of social life as fields of cultural competition. Culture and Social Theory will be a necessary addition to the libraries of political scientists, economists, and policymakers, not to mention all those who admire Aaron Wildavsky and his work.Weems helped to fabricate the image of Washington that has since dominated the American historical imagination and which in its…
time, secured Washington's fame. This edition includes documents that provide an insight into the construction of American national identity.Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth (Cassell Global Issues Ser.)
By Peter Marshall. 1996
This powerful book provides the first comprehensive overview of the intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from ancient…
religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics - and synthesizes them into a new philosophy of nature in which to ground our moral values and social action. It traces the origins and evolution of the dominant worldview that has built our industrial, technocratic, man-centered civilization, and brought us to the current ecological crisis. At the same time, it uncovers an alternative cultural tradition in the world's different religions and philosophies and describes how these ideas are now surfacing and coalescing to form an ecological sensibility and a new vision of nature which recognizes the inter-relatedness of all living things. Finally, this book integrates these varied traditions with modern physics and the science of ecology into a larger philosophical whole that provides the environmental movement with a comprehensive vision of an organic and sustainable society in harmony with nature. As ecological disasters continue to threaten our planet, becoming worse with every passing moment of indifference, it has become clear that we must take action. We must change our relationship with nature, and return to the days when our lives were intimately connected to and dependent upon the natural world. Nature's Web lays the foundations for that change by explaining where our complex ideas about nature come from, why they are wrong, and what we can do to change them.