Protest and the politics of blame

the russian response to unpaid wages

The wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather ...

The morality of laughter

Volatile states

institutions, policy, and the performance of American state economies

Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. Delving deeply into the historical ...

The challenge of hegemony

grans strategy, trade, and domestic politics

Is rational choice theory all of social science?

Advocates of rational choice theory in political science have been perceived by their critics as attempting to establish an intellectual hegemony in contemporary social science, to the detriment of alternative methods of research. The debate has gained a nonacademic audience, hitting the pages of the ...

Electoral democracy

Capitalism, not globalism

capital mobility, central bank independence, and the political control of the economy

While much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not fundamentally changed in the postwar period. In Capitalism, Not Globalism, William Roberts Clark challenges both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists in his assertion ...

Communities and Law

politics and cultures of legal identities

The role of the judge in international trade regulation

experience and lessons for the WTO

Changing paths

international development and the new politics of inclusion

Politics, Policy, and Organisations Frontiers in the Sicientific Study of Bureaucracy

The taste for nothingness

a study of Virtus and related themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile

The limits to union

same-sex marriage and the politics of Civil Rights

From its legal recognition in Hawaii in 1993, the idea and possibility of same-sex marriage has been a fuse that has ignited political controversy across the United States to the world. This controversy sets forces championing the expansion of court-ordered rights against conservative and religious ...

Inside appellate courts

the impact of court organization on judicial decision making in the United States Courts of Appeals

Inside Appellate Courts is a comprehensive study of how the organization of a court affects the decisions of appellate judges. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy federal appellate judges and law clerks, Jonathan M. Cohen challenges the assumption that increasing caseloads and bureaucratization have ...

Economics as a social science

an approach to nonautistic theory

Rescues economic theory from mathematics, restoring a realistic approach to human motivations and behavior in the real world economy.

Legislatures

Comparative Perspectives on Representative Assemblies.

Reading medieval images

the art historian and the object

This unusual anthology focuses attention on art-historical practice. Each of the eighteen distinguished contributors--medievalists specializing in western European, Byzantine, and Islamic art--offers an interpretation of a single object, and in the process demonstrates how art historians go about describing, analyzing, and contextualizing works of art ...

Tangled Loyalties

Conflict of interest in Legal Practice.

Listening to Homer

tradition, narrative, and audience

The Homeric poems were not intended for readers but for a listening audience. The stories, traditional in their basic elements, were learned by oral poets from earlier poets and re-created at every performance. Individual nuances, tailored to the audience and its particular preferences, could creep ...

Technological change in health care

a global analysis of heart attack

The Narcissis and the pomegranate

an archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Offering a new understanding of the Hymn to Demeter, Ann Suter provides an analysis of methodological approaches, reconciling the seemingly disparate pieces of the complex narrative of the hymn. Examining evidence from other versions of the hymn's myths, as well as from Greek religion ...

Shared land - conflicting identity

trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian symbol use

Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and now the Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what ...