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Field Experiments And Their Critics - Essays On The Uses And Abuses Of Experimentation In The Social Sciences

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 In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. This title offers a collection of essays by the influential figures on every side of this debate reveals its most important stakes and can provide useful guidance to students and scholars in many disciplines.
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Progressives' Century - Political Reform, Constitutional Government, And The Modern American State

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 A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives criticizes Progressivism as having abandoned America’s founding values and miring the government in institutional gridlock. In this paradigm-shifting book, renowned contributors examine a broad range of issues, including Progressives’ interpretation of the Constitution, their expansion and redistribution of individual rights, and reforms meant to shift power from political parties to ordinary citizens.
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Mobilizing Inclusion - Transforming The Electorate Through Get-Out-The-Vote Campaigns

by Garcia Bedolla Lisa Garcia Bedolla e Michelson Melissa R. Michelson

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 Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others don’t.Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts targeting ethnoracial voters, Lisa García Bedolla and Melissa R. Michelson present a new theoretical frame—the Social Cognition Model of voting, based on an individual’s sense of civic identity—for understanding get-out-the-vote effectiveness. Their book will serve as a useful guide for political practitioners, for it offers concrete strategies to employ in developing future mobilization efforts.
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Race, Poverty, And Domestic Policy

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 What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? A distinguished group of scholars analyzes the long, complex structural and environmental causes of discrimination and their effects on African-Americans. The authors examine the impact of poverty, poor health, poor schools, poor housing, poor neighborhoods, and few job opportunities—and demonstrate how multiple causes reinforce each other and condemn African-Americans to positions of inferiority and poverty.Some of the contributors examine policies designed to correct problems, while others look at the changing racial and ethnic composition in America and its implications for African-Americans, as other minorities surpass them in numbers and claim political, economic, and social attention. The late James Tobin has contributed a foreword to this important collection.
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Market System - What It Is, How It Works, And What To Make Of It

by Lindblom Charles E. Lindblom

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 An overview of the market system, explaining how it works and what it can and cannot do. Charles E. Lindblom addresses questions such as: is the market system efficient?; is it democratic?; does it despoil the environment?; does it perpetuate inequalities; and more.
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Partisan Hearts And Minds - Political Parties And The Social Identities Of Voters

by Green Donald Green, Palmquist Bradley Palmquist e Schickler Eric Schickler

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 In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities.The authors maintain that individuals form partisan attachments early in adulthood and that these political identities, much like religious identities, tend to persist or change only slowly over time. Scandals, recessions, and landslide elections do not greatly affect party identification; large shifts in party attachments occur only when the social imagery of a party changes, as when African Americans became part of the Democratic Party in the South after the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Drawing on a wealth of data analysis using individual-level and aggregate survey data from the United States and abroad, this study offers a new perspective on party identification that will set the terms of discussion for years to come.
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Quantitative Evaluation Of Hiv Prevention Programs

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 This text addresses the quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programmes, assessing several different quantitative methods of evaluation. It includes an overview of HIV prevention programmes in developing countries, economic analyses, case studies, and new methodologies.
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City - Urbanism And Its End

by Rae Douglas W. Rae

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 How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early "urbanist" decades of the twentieth century. Rae’s subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities.City: Urbanism and Its End begins with a richly textured portrait of New Haven in the early twentieth century, a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its end of urbanism first during the Depression, and then very aggressively during the mayoral reign of Richard C. Lee (1954-70), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending. But government spending has repeatedly failed to restore urban vitality. Rae argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work.
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Women, Work, And Politics - The Political Economy Of Gender Inequality

by Iversen Torben Iversen e Rosenbluth Frances Mccall Rosenbluth

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Electoral Realignments - A Critique Of An American Genre

by Mayhew David R. Mayhew

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 In this work a political scientist argues that the essential claims of realignment theory are wrong - that American elections, parties and policy-making are not, and never were, reconfigured according to the realignment calendar. David Mayhew examines 15 key claims of realignment theory in detail.
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Seeing Like A State - How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed

by Scott James C. Scott

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 Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry?In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not-and cannot-be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large- scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
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Moral Foundations Of Politics

by Shapiro Ian Shapiro

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 When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro investigates this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book.Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions over the past four centuries. Showing how these political philosophies have all been decisively shaped by the core values of the Enlightenment, he demonstrates that each one contains useful insights that survive their failures as comprehensive doctrines and that should inform our thinking about political legitimacy. Shapiro then turns to the democratic tradition. Exploring the main arguments for and against democracy from Plato’s time until our own, he argues that democracy offers the best resources for realizing the Enlightenment’s promise and managing its internal tensions. As such, democracy supplies the most attractive available basis for political legitimacy.
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Partisan Hearts And Minds - Political Parties And The Social Identities Of Voters

by Bradley Palmquist, Donald Green e Eric Schickler

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 Three political scientists demonstrate that identification with political parties powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots.
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Visions Of Schooling - Conscience, Community, And Common Education

by Rosemary C. Salomone

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 In this work, Rosemary Salomone sets aside the ideological and inflammatory rhetoric that surrounds debates about public education. Instead she seeks to offer a fair-minded examination of education for democratic citizenship in a society that values freedom of conscience and religious pluralism.
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America'S Congress - Actions In The Public Sphere, James Madison Through Newt Gingrich

by David R. Mayhew

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 In this study, David R. Mayhew, a political scientist, examines the actions of members of Congress throughout American history. He assesses their patterns and importance and their role in the US system of separation of powers.
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The American Century - The Rise And Decline Of The United States As A World Power

by Donald W. White

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 An intellectual and cultural history of America's evolving status as a world power in the 20th century. It addresses questions such as why the United States assumed a pre-eminent world role after World War II, and why its role has declined since the Vietnam War.
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The Progressives' Century - Political Reform, Constitutional Government, And The Modern American State

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Quantitative Evaluation Of Hiv Prevention Programs

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 This text addresses the quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programmes, assessing several different quantitative methods of evaluation. It includes an overview of HIV prevention programmes in developing countries, economic analyses, case studies, and new methodologies.
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Blackhearts - Ecology In Outback Australia

by Richard Symanski

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 A firsthand account of the adventures of an ornithological field team studying long-tailed finches in outback Australia. It provides an insight into the demands of professor-student-based fieldwork, particularly when generational conflicts and differing expectations complicate "doing" science.
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Farewell To An Idea - Episodes From A History Of Modernism

by T. J. Clark e Timothy J. Clark

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 In this volume, art historian T.J. Clark offers a vision of the art of the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly, in extreme terms, to the ongoing disaster called "modernity".
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Edlis/Neeson Collection - The Art Institute Of Chicago

by James Rondeau

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Electoral Realignments - A Critique Of An American Genre

by David R. Mayhew

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 A political scientist argues that the essential claims of realignment theory are wrong - that American elections, parties and policy-making are not, and never were, reconfigured according to the realignment calendar. David Mayhew examines 15 key claims of realignment theory in detail.
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Race, Poverty, And Domestic Policy

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Field Experiments And Their Critics - Essays On The Uses And Abuses Of Experimentation In The Social Sciences

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 In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. This title offers a collection of essays by the influential figures on every side of this debate reveals its most important stakes and can provide useful guidance to students and scholars in many disciplines.
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