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Technology is even more than our world, our form of life, our civilization. Technology interacts with the world to change it. Philosophers need to ...

The American South has long been a subject of endless scholarly fascination. Historians and social scientists have endeavored to decipher the "enig...

This is the first major assessment of the role of the presidency in Russia's difficult transition form communist rule. Huskey analyzes the establis...

Why are inter-state differences in human development in India so high? What explains regional patterns where overall the southern region has some o...

Counting Matters examines the ways in which the rise of gender equality measurement contributes to, but falls short of, effective gender equality p...

Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in...

Essentials of American Politics is an undergraduate text with a novel analytical and comparative focus. It takes as a central theme the increasing ...

This comprehensive study of the Great Recession and its consequences provides comparative analyses of the extent to which social concertation betwe...

Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in...

"While demographic forces make it inevitable that social institutions that encouraged workers to retire in their early sixties must change, this bo...

When it comes to voting, taxes, environmental regulations, social services, education, criminal justice, political parties, property rights, gun co...

This is the first major assessment of the role of the presidency in Russia's difficult transition form communist rule. Huskey analyzes the establis...

In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congression...

From birth to adulthood, children now find themselves navigating a network of surveillance devices that attempt to identify, quantify, sort and tra...

This book presents contributions from migration sociologists inspired by Florian Znaniecki’s theory and the results of his studies to conduct their...

A comparative survey of the emergence and development of Parliaments in Catholic Christendom from the thirteenth century, the chief focus of this w...

Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evi...

"Woven through this text is the unifying theme that American politics represents “conflict and compromise,” in direct opposition to the increasingl...

Written in a friendly, how-to manner, Social Experiments provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how t...

Controls on the bureaucracy through administrative due process and presidential and congressional prerogatives are the focus of this book. The auth...

Sir Geoffrey Vickers taught us that a value-free judgment would be literally worthless. Human systems become recognizable as more than machines onl...

Established in 1935 in the midst of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the most ambitious federal jobs progra...