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Continuing a three-decade tradition, The State of the Parties 7th
edition brings together leading experts to evaluate change and
continuity in American electoral politics. Political parties in
America have never been more contentious and divided than they are
right now. Even splits within the parties themselves have the power
to elevate relatively unknown candidates to power and topple
established incumbents. With sections devoted to polarization and
the electorate, polarization and political elites, tea party
politics, super PACS, and partisan resources and partisan
activities, the contributors survey the American political
landscape. They pay special attention to polarization between and
within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election,
demographic changes to America's political parties, the effects of
new media and campaign finance laws on national and local electoral
results, the Tea Party's rise and, as always, the implications of
all these factors on future policymaking and electoral prospects.
The State of the Parties 7th edition offers an indispensable guide
to American politics for scholars, students, and practitioners.
Contributions by: Alan Abramowitz, Paul A. Beck, Michael John
Burton, Edward G. Carmines, Daniel J. Coffey, William F. Connelly,
Jr., Meredith Dost, Diana Dwyre, Michael J. Ensley, Peter L.
Francia, Erik Heidemann,,Shannon Jenkins, Caitlin E. Jewitt, David
C. Kimball, Robin Kolodny, Thad Kousser, David B. Magleby, Seth
Masket, William G. Mayer, Eric McGhee, William J. Miller, Jonathan
S. Morris, Ronald Rapoport, Douglas D. Roscoe, Dante Scala, Daniel
M. Shea, Boris Shor, Walter Stone, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Eric C.
Vorst, Michael W. Wagner
Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of
cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the
concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968,
the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal
manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is under attack for its
relativizing, particularist, and essentializing implications. The
essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the
multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late
Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally
coded social spaces can be described and understood historically
without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the
definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or
homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism
today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding
multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of
politically exploited concepts of social spaces.
Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of
cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the
concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968,
the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal
manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is under attack for its
relativizing, particularist, and essentializing implications. The
essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the
multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late
Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally
coded social spaces can be described and understood historically
without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the
definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or
homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism
today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding
multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of
politically exploited concepts of social spaces.
The 37th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 1-5, 1988, at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and
Conference Center, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As usual,
alternating with x-ray diffraction, the emphasis this year was
x-ray fluorescence, but as has been the pattern for several
occasions over the last few years, the Plenary Session did not deal
with that subject, specifically. In an attempt to introduce the
audience to one of the new developments in x-ray analysis, the
title of the session was "High Brilliance Sources/Applications,"
and dealt exclusively with synchrotron radiation, a topic which has
made a very large impact on the x-ray community over the last
decade. As the organizer and co-chairman of the Plenary Session
(with Paul Predecki), it is my responsibility to report on that
session here. The Conference had the privilege of obtaining the
services of some of the preeminent practitioners of research using
this remarkable x-ray source; they presented the audience with
unusually lucid descriptions of the work which has been
accomplished in the development and application of the continuous,
high intensity, tunable, polarized and collimated x-rays available
from no facility other than these specialized storage rings. The
opening lecture (and I use that term intentionally) was an
enthusiastic description of "What is Synchrotron Radiation?" by
Professor Boris Batterman of Cornell University and the Cornell
High Energy Synchrotron Sourc(! (CHESS).
The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth
centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and
their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited
merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and decor.
Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential for grandeur that
were inherent in the baroque style developed in close interaction
with the need and desire of post-Reformation Europeans to find
visual expression for the new political, confessional, and societal
realities. Highly illustrated, this volume examines these complex
interrelationships among architecture and art, power, religion, and
society from a wide range of viewpoints and localities. From Krakow
to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured
visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its
political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among
constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary
citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were
transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval
and arrived on the threshold of the modern.
Rejecting simplified notions of 'civilizational clashes', this book
argues for a new perspective on Hindu, Muslim, and colonial power
relations in India. Using archival sources from London, Delhi, and
Hyderabad, the book makes use of interviews, private family records
and princely-colonial records uncovered outside of the archival
repositories.
With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries
are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for
environmental protection and sustainable development. In this
ongoing process, global economic liberalization, regulatory policy,
conservation, and lifestyle issues are all involved, and creative
solutions will have to be found. Historians, geographers,
economists, ecologists, business management experts, public policy
specialists, and community organizers have come together in this
volume and examine, for the first time, environmental issues
ranging from national and regional policy and macroeconomics to
local studies in community regeneration. The evidence suggests
that, far from being mere passive recipients of instruction and
assistance from outside, the people of Central and East Central
Europe have been engaged actively in working out solutions to these
problems. Several promising cases illustrate opportunities to
overcome crisis situations and offer examples of good practices,
while others pose warnings. The experiences of these countries in
wrestling with issues of sustainability continue to be of
importance to policy development within the EU and may serve also
as examples for both developed and developing countries worldwide.
Zbigniew Bochniarz, is affiliated to the Evans School of Public
Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle. He spent over
twenty years at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute
where he founded a Center for Nations in Transition. The Center
became an international leader in delivering foreign assistance for
Central and Eastern Europe. His work focuses on economic,
environmental, and social aspects of sustainability of transforming
economies. He is the author, co-author and/or editor of over 100
publications. Gary B. Cohen, has been director of the Center for
Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities, since 2001. He teaches and publishes on
modern Central European social and political history. He is the
author of numerous articles and essays as well as two books, The
Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (first
edition, Princeton Univ. Press,1981; rev. 2nd ed., Purdue Univ.
Press, 2005) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial
Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue Univ. Press, 1996).
What if it were possible to avert needless declines in performance
and to divert the energy toward positive change? What if it were
possible to reverse declining performance by achieving significant
gains of 25, 50, 100 per cent or more in a matter of months? What
if such gains were attained, not by adding new technology,
allocating more capital or launching yet another change program,
but by tackling obvious opportunities using existing resources?
What if the improvements could be achieved faster by replacing
conventional methods with new practices that work better and are
less labor intensive? Such opportunities do exist, are readily
available and proven. The Dinosaur in the Living Room answers many
of the What if questions posed above; and provides clear-cut
strategies for achieving positive change and results.
Like their librarian colleagues, reference archivists mediate
between the user and the source material. However, given the nature
of archival materials and of their holding repositories, unique
issues arise. While such matters as provenance and original order
and access and security continue to be vital underpinnings of their
work, a myriad of other issues comes into play as reference
archivists attempt to balance the competing demands of donors,
researchers, the public, and the press. From the creation and
dissemination of finding aids for electronic resources to the
implementation of marketing strategies to increase support and
strengthen service, Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts
shows you how to thrive in the changing world of archival
reference. Intended to foster an appreciation of the issues both
within and beyond the field of archives, Reference Services for
Archives and Manuscripts reveals that today's archivist is
straddling the world of the traditional with the world of the new.
The book establishes its value as it guides you through new
concerns such as how to: take advantage of technological
developments in appraisal, accession, and preservation address
copyright, privacy, and funding issues for electronic resources
mount archival cataloging records on local and wide-area databases
create a publicly available site on the Internet improve in-house
access tools, professional abilities, and the caliber of public
service address security issues and respond to theftReference
Services for Archives and Manuscripts also helps you by preparing
you for changes in the relationship between archivist and
researcher that will inevitably occur with further changes in
technology. Other vital issues discussed are improved access for
unserved and underserved groups, a revision in ethical codes, and
the ability of archivists to become more customer-centered.
The State of the Parties 2022 brings together leading scholars of
parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable
overview of American political parties today. The 2020 presidential
election was extraordinary. What role did political parties play in
these events? How did the party organizations fare? What are the
implications for the future? Scholars and practitioners from
throughout the United States explore the current state of American
party organizations, constituencies and resources at the national,
state and local level.
Using an innovative methodological approach combining field
experiments, case studies, and statistical analyzes, this book
explores how the religious beliefs and institutions of Catholics
and Muslims prompt them to be generous with their time and
resources. Drawing upon research involving more than 1,000
Catholics and Muslims in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, the
authors examine Catholicism and Islam in majority and minority
contexts, discerning the specific factors that lead adherents to
help others and contribute to social welfare projects. Based on
theories from political science, economics, religious studies and
social psychology, this approach uncovers the causal connections
between religious community dynamics, religious beliefs and
institutions, and socio-political contexts in promoting or
hindering the generosity of Muslims and Catholics. The study also
provides insight into what different religious beliefs mean to
Muslims and Catholics, and how they understand those concepts.
The State of the Parties 2018 brings together leading scholars of
parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable
overview of American political parties today. The 2016 presidential
election was extraordinary, especially the unexpected nomination
and election of Donald Trump to the White House. What role did
political parties play in these events? How did the party
organizations fare? What are the implications for the future?
Scholars and practitioners from throughout the United States
explore the current state of American party organizations,
constituencies and resources at the national, state and local
level. Contributions by Alan Abramowitz, Joseph Anthony, Julia R.
Azari, Paul A. Beck, Edward G. Carmines, Tyler Chance, Daniel J.
Coffey, David B. Cohen, Diana Dwyre, Michael J. Ensley, John C.
Green, Richard Gunther, Jennifer A. Heerwig, Paul S. Herrnson,
Caitlin E. Jewitt, David C. Kimball, Robin Kolodny, Drew Kurlowski,
Seth Masket, Erik C. Nisbet, Sam Rosenfeld, Daniel Schlozman,
Mildred A. Schwartz, Daniel M. Shea, Doug Spencer, Wayne Steger,
Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Eric C. Vorst, Michael W. Wagner, and Steven
W. Webster.
For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of
a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship,
and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50,
leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy,
and history offer a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of
these programs and their impact on society - from their origins in
the Great Society era to the current battles over the Affordable
Care Act ("Obamacare"). These highly accessible essays examine
Medicare and Medicaid from their origins as programs for the
elderly and poor to their later role as a safety net for the middle
class. Along the way, they have served as touchstones for heated
debates about economics, social welfare, and the role of
government. Medicare and Medicaid at 50 addresses key questions for
understanding the past and future of health policy in America,
including: DT What were the origins for these initiatives, and how
were they transformed over time? DT What marks have Medicare and
Medicaid left on society? DT In what ways have these programs
produced innovation, even in eras of retrenchment? DT How did
Medicaid, once regarded as a poor person's program, expand its
benefits and coverage over the decades to become the platform for
the ACA's future expansion? The volume's contributors go on to
examine the powerful role of courts in these transformations, along
with the shifting roles of Congress, public opinion, and state
governors in the programs' ongoing evolution. From Lyndon Johnson
to Barack Obama on the left, and from Ronald Reagan to George W.
Bush on the right, American political leaders have tied their
political fortunes to the fate of America's entitlement programs;
Medicare and Medicaid at 50 helps explain why, and how those
ongoing debates are likely to shape the future of the Affordable
Care Act.
In Europe and around the world, social policies and welfare
services have faced increasing pressure in recent years as a result
of political, economic, and social changes. Just as Europe was a
leader in the development of the welfare state and the supportive
structures of corporatist politics from the 1920s onward, Europe in
particular has experienced stresses from globalization and striking
innovation in welfare policies. While debates in the United
Kingdom, Germany, and France often attract wide international
attention, smaller European countries-Belgium, Denmark, Austria, or
Finland-are often overlooked. This volume seeks to correct this
unfortunate oversight as these smaller countries serve as models
for reform, undertaking experiments that only later gain the
attention of stymied reformers in the larger countries.
Early modern Central Europe was the continent's most decentralized
region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally.
With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe's most
religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in
terms of confessional conflict and war. Focusing on the Holy Roman
Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this volume examines
the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in
Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of
tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a
facet of the complex dynamic between the state and the region's
Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Utraquist, and Jewish communities.
The development of religious toleration-one of the most debated
questions of the early modern period-is examined here afresh, with
careful consideration of the factors and conditions that led to
both confessional concord and religious violence.
This book describes European and Japanese nontariff barriers (NTBs)
in areas of high-technology trade and discusses their impact on the
international behavior of U.S. firms. This study was prompted by
the rising incidence of nontariff measures in high-technology
sectors, as governments increasingly attempt to promote the growth
of new industries th
With the enlargement of the European Union, the accession countries
are coming under pressure to develop and meet EU standards for
environmental protection and sustainable development. In this
ongoing process, global economic liberalization, regulatory policy,
conservation, and lifestyle issues are all involved, and creative
solutions will have to be found. Historians, geographers,
economists, ecologists, business management experts, public policy
specialists, and community organizers have come together in this
volume and examine, for the first time, environmental issues
ranging from national and regional policy and macroeconomics to
local studies in community regeneration. The evidence suggests
that, far from being mere passive recipients of instruction and
assistance from outside, the people of Central and East Central
Europe have been engaged actively in working out solutions to these
problems. Several promising cases illustrate opportunities to
overcome crisis situations and offer examples of good practices,
while others pose warnings. The experiences of these countries in
wrestling with issues of sustainability continue to be of
importance to policy development within the EU and may serve also
as examples for both developed and developing countries worldwide.
Continuing a three-decade tradition, The State of the Parties 7th
edition brings together leading experts to evaluate change and
continuity in American electoral politics. Political parties in
America have never been more contentious and divided than they are
right now. Even splits within the parties themselves have the power
to elevate relatively unknown candidates to power and topple
established incumbents. With sections devoted to polarization and
the electorate, polarization and political elites, tea party
politics, super PACS, and partisan resources and partisan
activities, the contributors survey the American political
landscape. They pay special attention to polarization between and
within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election,
demographic changes to America's political parties, the effects of
new media and campaign finance laws on national and local electoral
results, the Tea Party's rise and, as always, the implications of
all these factors on future policymaking and electoral prospects.
The State of the Parties 7th edition offers an indispensable guide
to American politics for scholars, students, and practitioners.
Contributions by: Alan Abramowitz, Paul A. Beck, Michael John
Burton, Edward G. Carmines, Daniel J. Coffey, William F. Connelly,
Jr., Meredith Dost, Diana Dwyre, Michael J. Ensley, Peter L.
Francia, Erik Heidemann,,Shannon Jenkins, Caitlin E. Jewitt, David
C. Kimball, Robin Kolodny, Thad Kousser, David B. Magleby, Seth
Masket, William G. Mayer, Eric McGhee, William J. Miller, Jonathan
S. Morris, Ronald Rapoport, Douglas D. Roscoe, Dante Scala, Daniel
M. Shea, Boris Shor, Walter Stone, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Eric C.
Vorst, Michael W. Wagner
Bridging the chasm between the disabled and a just and fair society
takes skill, dedication, and a deep understanding of the issues.
Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues
presents leading social work experts providing insightful,
effective strategies to address the current gaps in the system
between social work and those individuals with disabilities.
Diverse perspectives on all levels of social work practice are
integrated with the basic tenets of social justice, accessibility
to services, and human rights. Specific challenges and issues are
addressed in work with disabled populations. Disability and Social
Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues examines the social
construction of disability that connotes inferiority and highlights
practical strategies for change. This creative resource gives
social work educators, students, and practitioners the opportunity
to embrace diverse and creative ways for integrating a generalist
social work model in their work with various size systems that are
related to disability. Chapters include extensive references,
appendixes, tables, and figures to clearly illustrate topics.
Topics in Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy
Issues include: model curriculum on disabilities that incorporates
diverse perspectives of social work practice with individuals who
have physical, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities protecting
the legal rights of children and the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) empowering disabled individuals for civil
rights to have access to community living the academic process of
helping students who are disabled achieve their academic goals
components of the Americans with Disabilities Act-and key decisions
made by the Supreme Court strategies of intervention for macro
change historical overview of family policy and practice as it
relates to children and adolescents who are disabled the
biopsychosocial framework as an assessment tool to develop
interventions the use of the therapeutic relationship and
psychodynamic and ecological approaches to social work practices
helping clients with disabilities develop adaptive religious and
spiritual beliefs disability protests and movements and their
implications on social work practice the Capacity Approach and the
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
as social work tools basic guidelines for undertaking research
about and with people who have disabilities Disability and Social
Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues is a valuable, unique
resource for social work educators, students, and practitioners.
Bridging the chasm between the disabled and a just and fair society
takes skill, dedication, and a deep understanding of the issues.
Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues
presents leading social work experts providing insightful,
effective strategies to address the current gaps in the system
between social work and those individuals with disabilities.
Diverse perspectives on all levels of social work practice are
integrated with the basic tenets of social justice, accessibility
to services, and human rights. Specific challenges and issues are
addressed in work with disabled populations. Disability and Social
Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues examines the social
construction of disability that connotes inferiority and highlights
practical strategies for change. This creative resource gives
social work educators, students, and practitioners the opportunity
to embrace diverse and creative ways for integrating a generalist
social work model in their work with various size systems that are
related to disability. Chapters include extensive references,
appendixes, tables, and figures to clearly illustrate topics.
Topics in Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy
Issues include: model curriculum on disabilities that incorporates
diverse perspectives of social work practice with individuals who
have physical, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities protecting
the legal rights of children and the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) empowering disabled individuals for civil
rights to have access to community living the academic process of
helping students who are disabled achieve their academic goals
components of the Americans with Disabilities Act-and key decisions
made by the Supreme Court strategies of intervention for macro
change historical overview of family policy and practice as it
relates to children and adolescents who are disabled the
biopsychosocial framework as an assessment tool to develop
interventions the use of the therapeutic relationship and
psychodynamic and ecological approaches to social work practices
helping clients with disabilities develop adaptive religious and
spiritual beliefs disability protests and movements and their
implications on social work practice the Capacity Approach and the
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
as social work tools basic guidelines for undertaking research
about and with people who have disabilities Disability and Social
Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues is a valuable, unique
resource for social work educators, students, and practitioners.
This book describes European and Japanese nontariff barriers (NTBs)
in areas of high-technology trade and discusses their impact on the
international behavior of U.S. firms. This study was prompted by
the rising incidence of nontariff measures in high-technology
sectors, as governments increasingly attempt to promote the growth
of new industries through various domestic subsidy policies and
import protection. As applied in high-technology sectors,
protectionism typically includes discriminatory government
procurement, incompatible standards and product certification
procedures, performance requirements, import licensing, and a
failure to protect intellectual property. The authors use case
histories to explore the incidence and impacts of these nontariff
measures. Impacts are described in company-specific terms and
include, for example, company efforts to redeploy research and
development activities within the protected market, thus
stimulating increased transfer of technology; alteration of product
characteristics and the direction of research and development to
satisfy local specifications; joint venturing with local partners,
as well as with larger U.S. firms with an established market
position; and abandoning the market entirely. The book includes a
number of policy recommendations designed to reorient international
trade negotiations toward the wide range of nontariff barrier
impacts and the particular difficulties that smaller firms have in
dealing with import restrictions.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose
marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and
whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British
Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals. In April
1892, a damning pamphlet circulated in the south Indian city of
Hyderabad, the capital of the largest and wealthiest princely state
in the British Raj. An anonymous writer charged Mehdi Hasan, an
aspiring Muslim lawyer from the north, and Ellen Donnelly, his
Indian-born British wife, with gross sexual misconduct and
deception. The scandal that ensued sent shock waves from Calcutta
to London. Who wrote this pamphlet, and was it true? Mehdi and
Ellen had risen rapidly among Hyderabad's elites. On a trip to
London they even met Queen Victoria. Not long after, a scurrilous
pamphlet addressed to "the ladies of Hyderabad" charged the couple
with propagating a sham marriage for personal gain. Ellen, it was
claimed, had been a prostitute, and Mehdi was accused of making his
wife available to men who could advance his career. To avenge his
wife and clear his name, Mehdi filed suit against the pamphlet's
printer, prompting a trial that would alter their lives. Based on
private letters, courtroom transcripts, secret government reports,
and scathing newspaper accounts, Benjamin Cohen's riveting
reconstruction of the couple's trial and tribulations lays bare the
passions that ran across racial lines and the intimate betrayals
that doomed the Hasans. Filled with accusations of midnight trysts
and sexual taboos, An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad is a
powerful reminder of the perils facing those who tried to rewrite
society's rules. In the struggle of one couple, it exposes the
fault lines that would soon tear a world apart.
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