As a fiscal document recording the spending, taxing, and borrowing policies for the coming year, the U.S. budget continues to be a model for other nations. This book focuses on the various phases of budget making, its historical background in fiscal and monetary terms, and special budgetary issues, including the budget balance, credit activities of Government-Sponsored Enterprises, the future health of Social Security, and the budget's relationship to the financial and "public goods" aspects of the international environment. Covering major changes in the structure and process of budgeting since 1989, when the book was first published, this volume covers new ground in many aspects of fiscal and financial policy, domestically and internationally. Each section of the book is devoted to a different aspect of U.S. budgeting, ranging from the foundations of the present policies, to the annual budget cycle, to the actual methods of accomplishment, and the containment of those policies in the global framework. One section focuses on high visibility issues-Social Security, surpluses, federal debt, and entitlement programs. The book provides a valuable overview for those wishing to understand the budget process and its foundations while aspiring to help improve that process.

Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change is a guide to successfully integrating science into urban, regional, and coastal planning activities to build truly sustainable communities that can withstand climate change. It calls for a shift in academic researchers' traditional thinking by working across disciplines to solve complex societal and environmental problems, focusing on the real-world human impacts of climate change, and providing an overview of how science can be used to advocate for institutional change. Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change appeals to a wide variety of audiences, including university administrators looking to create and sustain interdisciplinary research groups, community and state officials, non-profit and community advocates, and community organizers seeking guidance for generating and growing meaningful, productive relationships with university researchers to support change in their communities.

"Machiavellismus" bezeichnet seit dem 16. Jahrhundert die rucksichtslose Politik der Machterhaltung. Wie kann man aber jenseits dieses Schlagworts historisch vertieft die Rezeption Machiavellis, seiner Methode wie seiner Inhalte erfassen? Im vorliegenden Band werden fur den deutschen Sprachraum Schlaglichter auf den Umgang mit Machiavelli vom 16. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert geworfen - und Machiavelli als Politikwissenschaftler, als fruher Soziologe, als Republikaner, als Symbol des deutschen Sonderwegs, schliesslich gar als Stichwortgeber der Antiglobalisierungs-Bewegung entdeckt. Beitrage von Lucia Bianchin, Roberto De Pol, Francesco Ingravalle, Thomas Maissen, Corrado Malandrino, Thierry Menissier, Annette Meyer, Martin Mulsow, Merio Scattola, Rosanna Schito, Winfried Schulze, Michel Senellart, Bernhard Taureck, Federico Trocini, Ralf Walkenhaus, Cornel Zwierlein"

- Fruhe Neuzeit vom Ende des Dreissigjahrigen Krieges bis zur Franzosischen Revolution - Aufklarung - abgeschlossene Epoche oder offenes politisches Projekt? - Erweiterung des Horizonts und Erfahrung der Welt: Bewusstseinswandel am Beginn der Moderne - Entstehung der Wissensgesellschaft - Veranderungen der historisch-politischen Konstellation: Staatensysteme, Kolonialismus, Diskurse von Macht und Herrschaft - Orte, Protagonisten und Denkfiguren der europaischen Aufklarung"

In the 18th century, the science of man opened up the conceptual framework for re-interpreting the origins and development of the human species itself. It was the ever more popular reports of 'savages' which had led to a questioning of the biblical account of Creation. Borrowing from scientific methods, the Scottish Enlightenment developed a model of hypothesis-led empirical research into humankind. German popular philosophy in particular carried this conception forward in a variety of ways, but their ability to establish connections and their creativity fell into oblivion as a result of the specialisation and disciplining of the field at the beginning of the 19th century.