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  • 1
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401147668
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 290 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: European Studies of Population 5
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Geography ; Statistics ; Population ; Demography ; Demography. ; Population. ; Population—Economic aspects. ; Geography. ; Statistics .
    Abstract: This book is about the transition to modernity of population forecasting. In many countries interest in the future course of population was kindled by debates on the population problem since the turn of the 19th century. The debates were alternately caused by fear of the economic consequences of over-population, by anxiety regarding the strategic demographic aspects of population decline, the decline of the national elite, or by the menace of imminent race suicide. Because population debates tended to be based on emotion rather than `objective' arguments, some economists and statisticians felt the need for a better understanding of population dynamics and its effect on the development of future population. Their pursuit of objectivity in population debates resulted in the development of a forecasting methodology based on the findings of life table theory and analytical demography. The innovation of forecasting methodology was greatly helped by improved public statistics: the published data of population censuses and ever-extending time series of demographic rates. At the same time the speculative nature of the resulting studies of future population provided an obstacle to the advancement of modern population forecasting by representatives of those schools of statistics, where the focus was on the reliability and trustworthiness of public statistics in the first place. In the 1930s the innovation and propagation of knowledge of modern forecasting methodology received a new stimulus when it became clear that the new methodology could easily be applied in preliminary town planning research and urban and regional policy-making. This book recounts the history of the origin and establishment of modern population forecasting methodology and the resistance the new methodology met with. It demonstrates - using George Herbert Mead's philosophy of time - that the emergence of modern population forecasting resulted in a drastic change of the societal position of the forecaster, the consequences of which still resound today. The book uncovers the first contributions to the description and theory of the demographic transition in the publications of the early innovators of population forecasting. It lays bare the pioneering position of inter-war population forecasting in The Netherlands and clarifies why the innovative endeavours of Dutch population forecasters of that period nevertheless remained hidden in international histories. This book will be of interest to scient ...
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  • 2
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401153140
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (279 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: On 13 and 14 September 1997, municipal elections took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book extensively covers the findings of the 363 international observers on both polling days. Were the elections `free and fair'? What did the observers record about the circumstances, procedures and security measurements at the polling stations? Which parties observed the elections, and why? How did the election process and the vote count compare to the 1996 elections? This book provides a regional profile and outlines specific problems in the various types of polling stations. The observation methodology and design of the observation reports are discussed. Finally, recommendations are made for the upcoming 1998 election observations, and future missions. The book should be of interest to students, scholars and others working in the fields of observation and analysis of elections, ethnic conflicts in the Balkans, and the role of international organisations in democratisation and peace processes
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction2 Backgrounds of the elections -- Towards the municipal elections -- The 1996 elections -- Registration -- Municipal elections -- 3 Observation methodology -- Deployment plan -- Observers: who, where and when -- Data processing and analysing -- The design of the questionnaire -- 4 The observation of the vote -- Overall opinion and observed problems and irregularities -- Voters and Polling Station Committee -- People present, party representatives, security measures and disruptions -- Regular, absentee, cross-municipality and return from out-of-country polling stations -- 5 Observers’comments -- Number of comments -- Observers’ comments, 1996 and 1997 -- Categories: examples of comments -- 6 Relationships -- General assessment -- Other overall opinions -- Types of polling stations -- 7 The regional profile -- Overall opinions -- Specific problems and irregularities -- Registration -- People present, party representatives, security measures and disruptions -- Representatives of parties and coalitions -- Observers’ comments -- 8 The observation of the counting of the votes -- Overall opinions -- Duration of vote count -- Preparations for the count -- The count of the ballots -- The count of the invalid ballots -- Packing materials at the polling station -- People present and reported irregularities -- 9 Conclusions and recommendations -- References -- Annex 1 The Dayton Agreement (Annex 3) -- Annex 2 The OSCE/ODIHR statements -- Annex 3 Parties, coalitions and independent candidates in 1996 -- Annex 4 Outcomes of the 1996 elections -- Annex 5 Parties and coalitions in 1997 -- Annex 6 Outcomes of the 1997 municipal elections (distribution of seats) -- Annex 7 Report on Observation of Voting -- Annex 8 Report on Observation of Counting -- Annex 9 Report on the Opening and Closing of Polling Stations -- Annex 10 Observers’ Comments by region -- Annex 11 Observations by municipalities in 1997.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789401148603
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (LVI, 457 p) , online resource
    Edition: Revised Second Editions
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Finance ; Microeconomics ; Political science. ; Finance, Public.
    Abstract: This volume brings together and updates the classic work of the late Scottish political economist Duncan Black. It contains a revision of both The Theory of Committees and Elections and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation (with R.A. Newing) based on the notes and annotations of Duncan Black before his death in 1991. The work is then extended by the addition of five related manuscripts and a complete bibliography of this work. By publishing this work in one single volume, one can witness the tremendous contributions made by Duncan Black to public choice and social choice. This includes the median voter theory, `cyclical majorities', voting rules and strategic behavior, multidimensional spatial theory, and determining preferences from ballots. This volume should be required reading for all scholars and students of formal political science, public choice or social choice theory. `[I express] my great satisfaction at the publication of Black's writings.. thus affording scholars the opportunity of studying Duncan Black's Work.' from the Foreword by Ronald H. Coase
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 The Theory of Committees and Elections1 A Committee and Motions -- 2 Independent Valuation -- 3 Can a Motion be Represented by the same Symbol on Different Schedules? -- 4 A Committee using a Simple Majority: Single-peaked Preference Curves -- 5 A Committee using a Simple Majority: other Shapes of Preference Curves -- 6 A Committee using a Simple Majority: any Shapes of Preference Curves, Number of Motions Finite -- 7 Cyclical Majorities -- 8 When the Ordinary Committee Procedure is in use the Members’ Scales of Valuation may be Incomplete -- 9 Which is the most suitable Method of Election? -- 10 Examination of some Methods of Election in Single-member Constituencies -- 11 Proportional Representation -- 12 The Decisions of a Committee using a Special Majority -- 13 The Elasticity of Committee Decisions with an Altering Size of Majority -- 14 The Elasticity of Committee Decisions with alterations in the Members’ Preference Schedules -- 15 The Converse Problem: the Group of Schedules to Correspond to a Given Voting Matrix -- 16 A Committee using a Simple Majority: Complementary Motions -- 17 International Agreements, Sovereignty and the Cabinet -- 2 History of the Mathematical Theory of Committees and Elections (excluding proportional representation) -- 18 Borda, Condorcet and Laplace -- 19 E. J. Nanson and Francis Galton -- 20 The Circumstances in which Rev. C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) wrote his Three Pamphlets -- 21 Appendix: Text of Dodgson’s Three Pamphlets and of ‘The Cyclostyled Sheet’ -- 3 Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation -- Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation -- 4 Related Papers -- Appendix 1 On Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem -- Appendix 2 The Unity of Political and Economic Science -- Appendix 3 Transitivity and non-transitivity of Majorities -- Appendix 4 Partial Justification of the Borda Count -- Appendix 5 Arrow’s work and the Normative Theory of Committees.
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  • 4
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401145404
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 265 p. 1 illus) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Encyclopedia of Language and Education 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Education ; Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Social sciences ; Linguistics. ; Humanities. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Language and languages—Style.
    Abstract: Literacy is the second volume of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education, the first attempt to overview an area which has emerged as a coherent and exciting field of study in the last two decades. While forming part of a series of eight volumes, Literacy also stands on its own, drawing on some 25 state-of-the-art reviews of current concerns in the study of literacy prepared by leading writers and researchers. The book is organised in four main sections: Reading, Writing, The Social Context of Literacy and Literacy Teaching in Selected Regions. The approach is multidisciplinary, drawing on insights from fields as diverse as anthropology and computer science, sociolinguistics and psychology. The international flavour of the volume is reflected not only in the choice of contributors from eleven different countries but also in the emphasis throughout on the impact of globalization on our understanding of literacy
    Description / Table of Contents: Focus on Reading1. The Reading Process -- 2. The Teaching of Reading -- 3. Reading Skills: Emergent Literacy -- 4. Metalinguistic Skills in Reading Development -- 5. The Development of Literacy Difficulties -- 6. Reading in Multilingual Classrooms. Focus on Writing -- 7. Writing Systems and Orthographies -- 8. The Development of Young Children as Authors -- 9. The Teaching of Writing -- 10. Spelling and Punctuation -- 11. Handwriting -- 12. Writing in Multilingual Classrooms -- Focus on the Social Context of Literacy -- 13. The Social Psychology of Reading -- 14. Functional Literacy -- 15. Social Literacies -- 16. Critical Approaches to Literacy -- 17. Family Literacy -- 18. Adult Literacy -- 19. Sustaining Local Literacies -- 20. IT and Literacy. Focus on Selected Regions -- 21. Literacy Teaching in France -- 22. Literacy Teaching in India -- 23. Literacy Teaching in the Low Countries -- 24. Female Literacy and Life Chances in Rural Nigeria -- 25. Literacy Teaching in Norway.
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  • 5
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401144179
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 292 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Encyclopedia of Language and Education 3
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Education ; Sociolinguistics ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Oral Discourse and Education examines spoken language as a field of study, looking at the various ways in which we can both theorise the place of talk in education, and examine the way talk is actually done in educational settings. Given the centrality of literacy-based practices in schools, a book focusing on talk brings quite different and important perspectives to the study of education. Talk is something that has all too often been devalued and taken for granted. What becomes evident throughout the papers included in this volume is that talk is of central importance in establishing identities and the cultures in which those identities are located. However, because we are unused to reflexively examining the way we talk, there is a serious disjuncture between what we believe talk should achieve and what can be seen to be achieved in actual talk in educational settings. Anyone interested in teaching should read this book. Becoming more aware of the centrality of talk and what it achieves is important both for enabling us to find ways to bring our ideals more in line with our practices and for being able to recognise and reflect on the ways our talk can be achieving things quite other than what we intend. This book is relevant to teachers at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and for researchers interested in spoken language in educational contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: From the contents: Part One: Theorising TalkPart Two: Oral Language, Culture and Identity -- Index.
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  • 6
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401157384
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (152 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: On 14th September 1996, against the background of the Dayton agreement, six different elections took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This book covers in detail what was observed on the ground by 900 international observers: the voting process and the count of votes. Did the Polling Station Committee act impartially and competently? What representatives of parties or candidates were observing the elections? In which aspects do the regions in the entities Republica Srpska and the Federation Bosnia-Herzegovina differ? Did observers report specific problems in municipalities split by the Inter Entity Boundary Line? The book contributes to a clear understanding of the political climate, the role of the OSCE, and whether the elections were conducted properly. It should be of interest to students, scholars and others working in observation and analysis of elections, the political situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, ethnic conflicts, and the role of international organisations in democratisation and peace processes
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction2 Backgrounds of the elections -- Elections, parties and candidates -- Registration of voters -- Local Election Commission, Polling Station Committee and Counting Centre Committee -- The voting procedure -- 3 The observation of the vote -- Observation methodology -- Observers: who, where and when -- Overall opinion and observed irregularities -- Polling Station Committee, people present, and reported irregularities -- Security measures, disruptions and accessibility of the station to voters -- Absentee polling stations and the Inter Entity Boundary Line -- The regional profile -- Observers’ comments -- Relations between overall opinion, circumstances, procedures and comprehension -- 4 The observation of the counting of the votes -- The counting procedure -- Results of the observation of the count -- 5 Conclusions and recommendations -- Annex 1 The statements of the CIM -- Annex 2 Observation report for Elections Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Annex 3 Report on Observation of Counting Elections Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Annex 4 Parties, coalitions and individual candidates -- Annex 5 Outcomes of elections -- Annex 6 Observations by opstinas -- Annex 7 Additional information on absentee polling stations and IEBL-split opstinas -- Annex 8 Observers’ Comments by region.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9789401588577
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (256 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Population ; Economic policy ; Anthropology ; Sociology. ; Population—Economic aspects.
    Abstract: Will the European Union have its ¿single family - a ¿European family - as it will have a single currency? This is the question at the origin of this book. Studies of family behavior and the organization of private life among European citizens, as well as of family member social status (children in relation to adults/parents, women in relation to men), and of social functions of the family, for example social reproduction, reveal so much convergence among European families that the reality of a ¿European family seems inevitable, and more so if one looks at foreign studies done - in Australia, the United States or Japan - of the family in Europe. However, studies of the different judicial and public policy laws in the different European Union member countries lead one to refine this first impression. The family does not have the same legal meaning in all places, and the ways in which it is defined by law and public policy continue to differ strongly, due in particular to historical factors, cultural traditions, and conceptions of the role of the State. In order for the family to be part of the construction of a European citizenship, the pluralistic nature of its political definitions will have to be recognized. Putting the family into the context of evolving European integration has never been done before. It was made possible in this study thanks to the joint efforts of two editors with long experience in social science studies of the family and as expert advisors to the European Commission, and by the work of the best international specialists in the field. This is a book intended for specialists working in the social sciences, for social and government policy-makers in the fields of family and social policy, and for all those interested in European integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Rules of the Comparative Method in the Family Sphere. The Meaning of ComparisonDemographic Convergence beyond National Differences -- Family Law: the continuity of national characteristics -- The Uncertainties of Policy with Regard to the Family -- Sociopolitical Regulation of the Family-Work Relationship -- European Welfare States in their Relation to the Family -- Historical Foundations of Family Structures -- The Australian Family as an Expression of Modernity -- Problems of Modernity. The Uncertainties of Family Status in the United States -- The Japanese Family between Tradition and Modernity -- The Generation Question. State Solidarity versus Family Solidarity -- Cultural and Political Limits to the Transformation of Family Roles -- The Family’s Contribution to Social Reproduction: A State Concern -- From Institution to Self-regulation -- From “Privacy” to the Leviathan State. The Case of the Child -- Family Policy in Communist Europe as an Incitement to Passive Citizenship -- Europe: The Political Future of the Family.
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  • 8
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401157285
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (V, 324 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Constitutional law ; Microeconomics ; Political science.
    Abstract: Constitutional political economy is a research program that directs inquiry to the working properties of rules and institutions within which individuals interact and to the processes through which these rules and institutions are chosen or come into being. This book makes the case for an approach to constitutional political economy that is grounded in consistent, hard-nosed public choice analysis. Effective institutional design is simply not feasible unless the designers build their structures to withstand rational choice pressures from the political market place. If mean, sensual man is here to stay, then let us, in our better moments, incorporate that knowledge into the institutions that must govern his behavior. A distinguished list of public choice scholars pursue this approach against a varying backcloth of constitutional issues relevant to the United States, Canada, Western Europe, the transition economies and the third world
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The relevance of public choice for constitutional political economyPositive constitutional economics: A survey -- Constitutions for new democracies: Reflections of turmoil or agents of stability? -- Toward a new constitution for a future country -- The balanced budget amendment: Clarifying the arguments -- The prohibition-repeal amendments: A natural experiment in interest group influence -- Term limits and electoral competitiveness: Evidence from California’s state legislative races -- Choosing free trade without amending the U.S. Constitution -- Marginal cost sharing and the Articles of Confederation -- On the (relative) unimportance of a balanced budget -- Public choice in a federal system -- Federalism and the European Union: A constitutional perspective -- Subsidiarity and ecologically based taxation: A European constitutional perspective -- Rule and policy spaces and economic progress: Lessons for Third World countries.
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9789400708242
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVIII, 189 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Microeconomics ; Mathematical models. ; Political science.
    Abstract: `This is a book about a well-known writer, Lewis Carroll, and about a little-known subject, the theory of voting' (from the Editors' Introduction). This book has been edited from the manuscripts of the late Scottish economist Duncan Black. Shortly after the publication of The Theory of Committees and Elections Black started to collect material for papers and a book on Lewis Carroll's theory of proportional representation. Black's chapter plans made it clear that the book was to be in three parts, written by himself, followed by a reprint of Carroll's Principles of Parliamentary Representation and its main sources. Part I is biographical, introducing Lewis Carroll and giving relevant details of his life. Part II is Black's already published work on Lewis Carroll. Part III comprises the more detailed arguments about Carroll's reasoning, and Part IV contains reprints of rare original material on proportional representation by Carroll, James Garth Marshall, and Walter Baily. Taken together, the editors have provided a complete reference source for the theory of voting and proportional representation
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Life and Logic of Lewis Carroll1.1 Government by Logic -- 2. The Principles of Parliamentary Representation -- 2.1. An Outline of Carroll’s Argument. -- 2.2. The Central Argument in The Principles of Parliamentary Representation -- 2.3. Carroll and the Cambridge Mathematical School of PR: Arthur Cohen and Edith Denman -- 3. An Analysis of Carroll’s Argument -- 3.1. Carroll’s Scheme of Proportional Representation -- 3.2. The Desiderata: In at the Deep End -- 3.3. The Droop Quota in a Two-Party System -- 3.4. The Representation of the Droop Quota -- 3.5. Walter Baily and the Number of Voters Unrepresented -- 3.6. J G Marshall and the Two-Person Zero-Sum Game -- 3.7. Demand Curves, Maximin, and the d’Hondt Scheme of PR -- 3.8. The Fourfold Table and Carroll’s Quota, Q(s) -- 3.9. Carroll’s Practical Scheme and the Single Transferable Vote -- 3.10. Allocating Members to Districts -- 4. Reprints of Original Material -- 4.1. Lewis Carroll: The Principles of Parliamentary Representation, with Supplement and Postscript to Supplement -- 4.2. James Garth Marshall: Minorities and Majorities; Their Relative Rights -- 4.3. Walter Baily: Proportional Representation in Large Constituencies.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9789400917941
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (296p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: Duncan Black made a significant contribution to the development of public choice theory during his lifetime. Upon his death it became apparent that much of his scholarship and critique of economics was never published. Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice is a collection of Duncan Black's unpublished works, representing his continuing contribution to economics and political science. It provides an insight into Black's intellectual endeavors and introduces some new ideas and extensions of earlier work
    Description / Table of Contents: I History1 Introductory Notes -- 2 Hobbe’s Contribution to Abstract Political Science -- 3 How Expenditure of the Tax Proceeds Came to be Disregarded in the Theory of incidence -- 4 Historical Notes: Pythagoreans, Reverend C. L. Dodgson, Knut Wicksell and Lord Keynes -- 5 Some Notes on the Development Structure of the Theory of Committees -- II Epistemology -- 6 Introductory Notes -- 7 Some Important Distinctions: The Traditional Distinction Between Instrumental and Independent Actions -- 8 Rational Behavior -- 9 The Mechanism of Hedonistic Choice -- 10 The Commensurability of Intensities of Desires (Pleasures) -- 11 That the same Mathematical Model Applies in Epistemology -- 12 The Assumptions - Imperfect Knowledge, Divided Expectationsand the Discount -- III Logrolling -- 13 Introductory Notes -- 14 On-Logrolling -- 15 Logrolling -- 16 Wicksell’s Use of the Theory of Committees in Public Finance -- 17 The Geometrical Theory of a Special Majority Geometry -- 18 The Theory of an International Committee Requiring a Unanimous Decision -- 19 Dicey on Logrolling -- IV Economics -- 20 Introductory Notes -- 21 The Concept of Cost in Economics -- 22 Wicksteed’s Theorem That the Concept of Supply Could be Dispensed With and Its Narrower and Wider Implications -- V Psychology -- 23 Introductory Notes -- 24 The Theory of Relative Utility Following the Second Austrian School -- 25 Definition of Relative Weights and Hypothesis That Choice Follows the Condorcet or Borda Criterion -- 26 A Suggested Application of the Theory of Committees in Value and Probability -- Appendix I -- Curriculum Vitae of Duncan Black.
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  • 11
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    ISBN: 9789401716819
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (264 pages)
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library v.27
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Human geography ; Social sciences ; Urban geography ; Electronic books
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9789401103497
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 353 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Human-machine systems. ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Human-computer interaction. ; Information technology
    Abstract: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is an interdisciplinary research area devoted to exploring the issues of designing computer-based systems that enhance the abilities to cooperate and integrate activities in an efficient and flexible manner for people in cooperative work situations. This volume is a rigorous selection of papers that represent both practical and theoretical approaches to CSCW from many leading researchers in the field. As an interdisciplinary area of research, CSCW brings together widely disparate research traditions and perspectives from computer, human, organisational and design sciences. The papers selected reflect a variety of approaches and cultures in the field. Audience: Of interest to a wide audience because of the huge practical impact of the issues and the interdisciplinary nature of the problems and solutions proposed. In particular: researchers and professionals in computing, sociology, cognitive science, human factors, and system design
    Description / Table of Contents: Distributed Social WorldsWork, Locales and Distributed Social Worlds -- POLITeam Bridging the Gap between Bonn and Berlin for and with the Users -- Fragmented Exchange: Disarticulation and the Need for Regionalized Communication Spaces -- Cooperation and Power -- Workflow from Within and Without: Technology and Cooperative Work on the Print Industry Shopfloor -- Cooperation and Power -- Collaborative Activities -- Reconsidering the Virtual Workplace: Flexible Support for Collaborative Activity -- Contact: Support for Distributed Cooperative Writing -- CSCW for Strategic Management in Swiss Enterprises: An Empirical Study -- CSCW Mechanisms I -- Medium versus Mechanism: Supporting Collaboration Through Customisation -- The Session Capture and Replay Paradigm for Asynchronous Collaboration -- Electronic Meetings I -- Virtual Reality Tele-Conferencing: Implementation and Experience -- Can the GestureCam be a Surrogate? -- The Use of Hypermedia in Group Problem Solving: An Evaluation of the DOLPHIN Electronic Meeting Room Environment -- CSCW Mechanisms II -- The Parting of the Ways: Divergence, Data Management and Collaborative Work -- A General Multi-User Undo/Redo Model -- Supporting Cooperative Awareness with Local Event Mechanisms: The GroupDesk System -- Electronic Meetings II -- Why Groupware Succeeds: Discretion or Mandate? -- MAJIC Videoconferencing System: Experiments, Evaluation and Improvement -- Multimedia Support of Collaboration in a Teleservice Team -- Workplace Studies -- What Are Workplace Studies For? -- Chalk and Cheese: BPR and Ethnomethodologically Informed Ethnography in CSCW -- ECSCW’95 Directory: Authors and Programme Committee Members -- Index of Authors.
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  • 13
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    ISBN: 9789400964327
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 461 p) , online resource
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 The Concept of Happiness -- 2/1 The various meanings of the word happiness -- 2/2 Happiness defined -- 2/3 Components of happiness -- 2/4 Adjacent concepts -- 2/5 Synonyms of happiness -- 2/6 Summary -- 3 Can Happiness be Measured? -- 3/1 Validity problems -- 3/2 Reliability problems -- 3/3 Problems of comparison -- 3/4 Summary -- 4 Indicators of Happiness -- 4/1 Indicators of overall happiness -- 4/2 Indicators of hedonic level of affect -- 4/3 Indicators of contentment -- 4/4 Composites -- 4/5 Do the three kinds of indicators tap different phenomena? -- 4/6 Summary -- 5 Gathering the Available Data -- 5/1 Searching empirical happiness studies -- 5/2 The studies found -- 5/3 Presenting the findings -- 5/4 Limitations of the data -- 5/5 Summary -- 6 Happiness and Living Conditions -- 6/1 Happiness and society -- 6/2 Happiness and one’s place in society -- 6/3 Happiness and work -- 6/4 Happiness and intimate ties -- 6/5 Summary -- 7 Happiness and Individual Characteristics -- 7/1 Happiness and personal resources -- 7/2 Happiness and some personality traits -- 7/3 Happiness and lifestyle -- 7/4 Happiness and longings -- 7/5 Happiness and convictions -- 7/6 Happiness and appreciations -- 7/7 Summary -- 8 Antecedents of Happiness -- 8/1 Happiness and earlier living conditions -- 8/2 Happiness and earlier personal characteristics -- 8/3 Summary -- 9 Conclusions -- 9/1 Conditions of happiness -- 9/2 Myths about happiness -- References -- Author index.
    Abstract: This book is about the degree to which people take pleasure in life: in short 'happiness'. It tries to identify conditions that favor a positive appreciation of life. Thus it hopes to shed more light on a longstanding and intriguing ques­ tion and, possibly, to guide attempts to improve the human lot. During the preceding decades a growing number of investigations have dealt with this issue. As a result there is now a sizable body of data. Yet it is quite difficult to make sense of it. There is a muddle of theories, concepts and indicators, and many of the findings seem to be contradictory. This book attempts to bring some order into the field. The study draws on an inventory of empirical investigations which involved valid indicators of happiness; 245 studies are involved, which together yield some 4000 observations: for the main part correlational ones. These results are presented in full detail in the simultaneously published 'Databook of Happiness' (Veenhoven 1984). The present volume distils conclusions from that wealth of data. It tries to assess the reality value of the findings and the degree to which correlations reflect the conditions of happiness rather than the consequences of it. It then attempts to place the scattered findings in context. As such, this work is not a typical study of literature on happiness.
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    ISBN: 9789401730488
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 484 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 40
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: The quantitative revolution in geography has passed. The spirited debates of the past decades have, in one sense, been resolved by the inclusion of quantitative techniques into the typical geographer's set of methodological tools. A new decade is upon us. Throughout the quantitative revolution, geographers ransacked related disciplines and mathematics in order to find tools which might be applicable to problems of a spatial nature. The early success of Berry and Marble's Spatial Analysis and Garrison and Marble's volumes on Quantitative Geog­ raphy is testimony to their accomplished search. New developments often depend heavily on borrowed ideas. It is only after these developments have been established that the necessary groundwork for true innovation ob­ tains. In the last decade, geographers significantly -augmented their methodologi­ cal base by developing quantitative techniques which are specifically directed towards analysis of explicitly spatial problems. It should be pointed out, however, that the explicit incorporation of space into quantitative techniques has not been the sole domain of geographers. Mathematicians, geologists, meteorologists, economists, and regional scientists have shared the geo­ grapher's interest in the spatial component of their analytical tools.
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    ISBN: 9789401537261
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 580 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology.
    Abstract: I / Design -- 1. Purpose of the Study -- 2. The Concept of Happiness -- 3. Indicators of Happiness -- 4. Searching Empirical Happiness Studies -- 5. Presenting the Findings -- II / Excerpts -- III / Correlates -- IV / Public Happiness -- Appendix A Technical Terms Used in the Excerpts -- Appendix B Measures of Association Used in One or More of the Studies -- Appendix C Test Statistics Used in One or More of the Studies -- References -- Author Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: I / Design1. Purpose of the Study -- 2. The Concept of Happiness -- 3. Indicators of Happiness -- 4. Searching Empirical Happiness Studies -- 5. Presenting the Findings -- II / Excerpts -- III / Correlates -- IV / Public Happiness -- Appendix A Technical Terms Used in the Excerpts -- Appendix B Measures of Association Used in One or More of the Studies -- Appendix C Test Statistics Used in One or More of the Studies -- References -- Author Index.
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    ISBN: 9789401711395
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 160 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: I Theory -- 1 The Problem: Economic Analysis and the Rise of New Regulation -- 2 Ideology: An Explanation for Public Policy Making -- 3 Roll Call Voting by Congress -- II Evidence -- 4 Public Interest Lobbies -- 5 Voting on Minimum Wages -- 6 Ideology and Logrolling -- 7 Empirical Estimation of the General Equilibrium Model -- III Contributions -- 8 A Comparison of the 1972 and 1978 Elections: Role of the PACs -- 9 Some Additional Effects of Contributions -- 10 Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix: Analysis of Econometric Models with Qualitative Dependent Variables -- References.
    Abstract: In a sense, this book might seem like a strange undertaking for two economists. The material seems to be much closer to political science than to economics; our topic is the determinants of congressional voting. Legislatures and roll call voting are traditionally in the domain of political science. This introduction is intended to explain why we have found this book worth writing. Today the economy functions in a regulated framework. Whether or not there ever was a "golden age" of laissez faire capitalism is an issue for historians; such an age does not now exist. One implication of the high degree of politicization of the modern economy is that one cannot any longer study economics divorced from politics. The rise to prominence of the field of public choice is one strong piece of evidence about what many economists see as the significant influence of the political sector over what would seem to be purely economic variables. A more homey example may also be used to il­ lustrate the phenomenon of increased politicization of the economy. All economists have had the experience of lecturing on the unemployment­ creating effects of a minimum wage or on the shortage-creating implications of price controls, only to have a student ask: "But if that is so, why do we have those laws?" One way of viewing this book is as an attempt to answer that question.
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 445 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Security systems.
    Abstract: Table of Contents (Part Two) -- 1. Strategic Systems and War Games -- 1.1. U.S. Strategic Systems -- 1.2. The Game -- 1.3. Game Strategies -- 1.4. Systems Evaluation -- References -- 2. ABM Defense -- 2.1. Safeguard System -- 2.2. Radar Operations -- 2.3. Computer Operations -- 2.4. Interceptor Operations -- References -- 3. ABM System Design and Performance -- 3.1. System Requirements -- 3.2. The Radar Design Problem -- 3.3. Error Analysis -- 3.4. Smoothing of Position and Velocity Data -- 3.5. Noise Reduction -- 3.6. Error Model -- 3.7. Design Procedure -- References -- 4. ABM System Survivability Analysis -- 4.1. Survivability with respect to ECM -- 4.2. Survivability with respect to Nuclear Bomb Effects -- 4.3. Survivability with respect to Chemical, Biological Radiological Warfare, and Sabotage (CBR&S) -- 4.4. Summary -- References -- 5. Radar Counter-Counter-Measures -- 5.1. Effects of Jamming -- 5.2. ECCM Design -- 5.3. ECCM Techniques -- References -- 6. Bomber Defense -- 6.1. U.S. Bomber Defenses -- 6.2. Russian Bomber Defense -- 6.3. Multipurpose Weapons -- References -- 7. Surveillance and Reconnaisance -- 7.1. Advanced Surveillance -- 7.2. Treaty Verification -- References -- 8. Command Control and Communications -- 8.1. Warning -- 8.2. Command and Control -- 8.3. Communications -- References -- Appendices. Electromagnetic Propagation Effects -- A1. Attenuation of RF Waves by Absorption -- A2. Attenuation of RF Waves by Precipitation -- A3. Refraction of RF Waves by the Ionosphere.
    Abstract: The purpose of this book is to provide graduate students, professional engineers, military officers, and weapons-systems planners with a comprehensive grounding in the technology, evolution, functions, costs, impacts on society, utility, and limi­ tations of modern strategic weapons systems. Since the subject is often left to the specialists, this work should introduce the general reader to the fundamentals of such systems in an informed manner. Nowadays the intense interaction of means and ends sym­ bolized by strategic weapons has stimulated a changing dis­ cipline in which new missile systems and the intricate logic of nuclear force and counterforce hold the stage alongside the truths of conflict, alliances, fears, games, and subtle gains and losses. Many readers with new personal interest or public responsibility in this complex field will require an overall guide to it. This book will not prepare the reader to become an expert in the vast subject of strategic weapons systems. It will, however, enable him to understand, evaluate, and form reasonable opinions about these systems, their capabilities and effective­ ness. The subject is dealt with more from the viewpoint of the user (investor) rather than the architect (systems engineer) and builder (design engineer). While the user will be concerned with both political as well as technical options which may be available to solve a problem, the systems and design engineers are concerned with analyzing and building technological weapons devices once their requirements are generally known.
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    ISBN: 9789400981621
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (192p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion.
    Abstract: 1 Human Nature and Justice -- 2 The Historical Dimension of Justice -- 3 Values and Rights Underlying Social Justice -- 4 Justice as Desert -- 5 Equality of Opportunity -- 6 Equal Treatment and Reverse Discrimination -- 7 A Confrontation between the Theory of Social Choice and the Theory of Democracy -- 8 Men, Monkeys, and Morals: A Property Rights Theory of Social Justice -- 9 Social Justice and the Urban Predicament: The New York City Transit Strike of 1980 -- About the Contributors.
    Abstract: The Conference on Social Justice was the second in the series of con­ ferences organized under the auspices of the Departments of Eco­ nomics, Philosophy, and Political Science of The City College of The City University of New York. This conference was made possible under a generous grant from the Morton Globus Fund. Its success was assured by the participation of distinguished scholars and edu­ cators from the organizing departments as well as from a number of other American institutions of higher learning. Not all who partici­ pated are included in this volume drawn from the conference, but we are grateful to all, equally, for their contribution as discussants. On behalf of the chairmen and members of the participating de­ partments, I would like to express thanks to the panelists for making their papers available for publication. I would also like to express my gratitude to Mr. Morton Globus for his generosity and to Acting President Arthur Tiedemann and Professor Jerome Siegel, the Acting Dean of the Social Science Division of The City College, for their consistent support of this project. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to the publisher, Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, for its patience and cooperation and to my wife, Elizabeth Braham, for her ~dvice and editorial assistance.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Human Nature and Justice2 The Historical Dimension of Justice -- 3 Values and Rights Underlying Social Justice -- 4 Justice as Desert -- 5 Equality of Opportunity -- 6 Equal Treatment and Reverse Discrimination -- 7 A Confrontation between the Theory of Social Choice and the Theory of Democracy -- 8 Men, Monkeys, and Morals: A Property Rights Theory of Social Justice -- 9 Social Justice and the Urban Predicament: The New York City Transit Strike of 1980 -- About the Contributors.
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    ISBN: 9789400987456
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    Abstract: 1 The First New Society -- 2 Public Authority and Social Structure -- 3 Pathways to Satisfaction -- 4 The “Ordinary” Civil Servant: Soft Activist -- 5 Managing Politics and Politicians -- 6 Images of Society and Power -- 7 Sweden Compared -- 8 No Place to Hide: Political Skill and the Social Psychology of Consensus -- 9 Postscript: On the Politics of Accommodation -- Appendix A: Sample Selection -- Notes.
    Abstract: Several years ago, freshly returned from a year in Stockholm but deeply en­ meshed in the American Malaise of the late 1960's, I sketched out an image of Swedish policy-making that defined a generalized policy-making role and sought to relate that role to both citizen attitudes and the elite political culture 1 in Sweden. Although that sketch seems to have been taken seriously by other foreigners, I think it is fair to say that the principal reaction of my Swedish friends and colleagues was amusement. When I later (1970-71) returned for another year in Stockholm, I found myself being introduced at parties as the man who had written ''that marvelously out-of-date sketch of how Swedish politics used to work-hah, hah. " Or, I would be referred to as the American who, like Marquis Childs some years earlier, "believed our propaganda. " By 1970-71, of course, the Swedish political environment had become more boisterous than it had been in 1967-68. Indeed, during the course of that year my amused colleagues found themselves enmeshed in a strike action against the government that was part of an emotional series of such actions that some observers thought would bring most public services to a halt. If my earlier portrait had been influenced (too much, they thought) by the American Malaise in which I was implicated, so must their later reaction to my portrait have been influenced (too much, I thought) by the Swedish Turmoil of 1970 and 1971.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 The First New Society2 Public Authority and Social Structure -- 3 Pathways to Satisfaction -- 4 The “Ordinary” Civil Servant: Soft Activist -- 5 Managing Politics and Politicians -- 6 Images of Society and Power -- 7 Sweden Compared -- 8 No Place to Hide: Political Skill and the Social Psychology of Consensus -- 9 Postscript: On the Politics of Accommodation -- Appendix A: Sample Selection -- Notes.
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    ISBN: 9789400989313
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    Abstract: The Union of Utrecht, its Genesis and Consequences -- Centralisation et décentralisation aux Pays-Bas à l’époque contemporaine -- The Dutch Republic and Antiquity -- The Example of the Dutch Republic for American Federalism -- Federalism: USA Style -- Essai de synthese de l’évolution de la réforme de l’état en Belgique de 1961 à 1979 -- Der Föderalismus in der deutschen Geschichte -- Der Föderalismus in der Schweiz. Entwicklungstendenzen im 19./20. Jahrhundert -- Ex Uno Plura? The British Experience -- La révolution française et la perception de l’espace national: fédérations, fédéralisme et stéréotypes régionaux -- Conscience nationale et conscience régionale en France de 1815 à nos jours -- The Regional Problem in Spain -- Der russische Vielvölkerstaat zwischen Zentralismus und Föderation.
    Abstract: The commemoration of the formation of the Union of Utrecht, four hundred years ago on 23 January 1579, was celebrated by many different events. One of these, certainly not the least important to historians, was the holding of an inter­ national congress in Utrecht and Zeist on 8, 9 and 10 May 1979, organized by the Dutch Historical Association. This Association had decided to select a theme which fitted well in the framework of the Union celebrations: federalism, history and current significance of a form of government. For the Union of Utrecht con­ stituted the legal foundation, even the constitution, it is claimed, of the Republic of the United Netherlands, and that commonwealth can undoubtedly be regard­ ed as a very interesting example of a federal form of government. As is evident from the formulation of the congress theme the intention of the or­ ganizers was that attention should be given not only to federal and regional struc­ tures and tendencies in the past but also in the contemporary world. Historical phenomena needed (necessarily) to be viewed in present-day perspective, current problems ought if possible to be seen in historical perspective. There is no doubt that the prevailing view today, at least in the Western World, is to a great extent characterized by a growing dislike of the modern Leviathan, the highly centraliz­ ed, bureaucratic welfare State.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Union of Utrecht, its Genesis and ConsequencesCentralisation et décentralisation aux Pays-Bas à l’époque contemporaine -- The Dutch Republic and Antiquity -- The Example of the Dutch Republic for American Federalism -- Federalism: USA Style -- Essai de synthese de l’évolution de la réforme de l’état en Belgique de 1961 à 1979 -- Der Föderalismus in der deutschen Geschichte -- Der Föderalismus in der Schweiz. Entwicklungstendenzen im 19./20. Jahrhundert -- Ex Uno Plura? The British Experience -- La révolution française et la perception de l’espace national: fédérations, fédéralisme et stéréotypes régionaux -- Conscience nationale et conscience régionale en France de 1815 à nos jours -- The Regional Problem in Spain -- Der russische Vielvölkerstaat zwischen Zentralismus und Föderation.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology
    Abstract: Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. Preliminary Survey -- III. Consideration of some previous works on Minangkabau and Negri Sembilan -- IV. Theory -- V. Minangkabau Social Organisation -- VI. Minangkabau Political Organisation -- VII. Modern trends in Minangkabau -- VIII. Negri Sembilan Social Organisation -- IX. Negri Sembilan Political Organisation -- X. Modern trends in Negri Sembilan -- XI. Comparison -- XII. Summary, and some wider implications -- Map 1. Minangkabau and Negri Sembilan -- Map 2. Minangkabau and its surroundings -- Map 3. Negri Sembilan and its surroundings -- Map 4. Minangkabau -- Map 5. Negri Sembilan -- Map 6. The distribution of the two adat in Minangkabau -- XIII. Supplementary notes (1980 edition) -- Errata.
    Abstract: As soon as one has to decide on a system of transliteration for the languages spoken in Minangkabau and Negri Sembilan, one is faced by peculiar difficulties. In the first place, one has the choice between adopting the Dutch system, the Indonesian (which is derived from it), the British or a scientifically satisfactory one. Then, should one spell the Minangkabau words according to their pronunciation, or in their Malaicised form, as the Minangkahau themselves do, ,at least when writing in Arabic characters? Further there is the difficulty that we do not really know what the language of Negri Sembilan is like ; from the scattered data one gets the impression that it should rather be considered a form of Minangkabau than a form of Malay, but European writers on this State have diligently "corrected" the native words and expressions, giving them, as much as possible, a Malay appearance. After some hesitation we adopted the following principles of trans­ literation : A. We shall spell the Minangkabau words in accordance with their pronunciation, as is customary when Minangkabau texts are published in their Romanised form. B. Negri Sembilan words will be given in their Malay form, al­ though there is reason to suppose that in the actual spoken language these words may differ quite considerably from the way they have been rendered here. C. For both the Sumatran and the Peninsular words we shall follow the official spelling of the Indonesian Republic.
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceI. Introduction -- II. Preliminary Survey -- III. Consideration of some previous works on Minangkabau and Negri Sembilan -- IV. Theory -- V. Minangkabau Social Organisation -- VI. Minangkabau Political Organisation -- VII. Modern trends in Minangkabau -- VIII. Negri Sembilan Social Organisation -- IX. Negri Sembilan Political Organisation -- X. Modern trends in Negri Sembilan -- XI. Comparison -- XII. Summary, and some wider implications -- Map 1. Minangkabau and Negri Sembilan -- Map 2. Minangkabau and its surroundings -- Map 3. Negri Sembilan and its surroundings -- Map 4. Minangkabau -- Map 5. Negri Sembilan -- Map 6. The distribution of the two adat in Minangkabau -- XIII. Supplementary notes (1980 edition) -- Errata.
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    ISBN: 9789401728003
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 455 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 86
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology.
    Abstract: One: Basic Assumptions and Hypotheses -- Two: Socio-Political Organization in Minangkabau -- Three: The Pluralistic Situation -- Four: The Level of Meaning: Systems of Property Relationships in Minangkabau -- Five: The Level of Performance I: The Fulfilment of the Function -- Six: The Level of Performance II: The Production of Legal Conceptions in Historical Perspective -- Seven: Conclusions -- Notes.
    Abstract: Learn the laws of inheritance and teach them to the people; for they are one half of useful knowledge. t·1ohannned (Fyzee 1955: 329) When the prophet created this aphorism he had in mind the rules of in­ heritance law revealed to him by Allah. We could apply it to social an­ thropology as well sincethe inheritance of property and the succession to positions of socio-political authority are among the most important elements of social organization. They are the vehicles of continuity which maintain property and authority through time. In many societies, and particularly in those generally studied by anthropologists, inherit­ ance and succession are closely interconnected with kinship and descent and provide the economic and political substance for the existence and continuity of kinship- or descent-based social groups. They are, as it were, the flesh on the bare bones of kinship relations. The importance of inheritance has, of course, not escaped the notice of social and legal anthropologists, and in recent years several studies have ably demonstrated the point (Radcliffe-Brown 1952, Goodenough 1951, Leach 1961 b, Goody 1962, Lloyd 1962, Gray and Gulliver (eds. ) 1964, Derrett (ed. ) 1965, Gluckman 1972, Moore 1969, Burling 1974). Yet in general, property and inheritance have rather been treated as an appendix to economic and kinship studies.
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    Abstract: Courts and Tribunals: Partners in Justice -- Two International Organizations of the Third World -- The Future of World Order -- The World Bank’s Impact on International Law-A Case Study in the International Law of Cooperation -- Some Legal Aspects of the Andean Economic Integration -- The International Monetary System and Change: Relations Between the Mode of Negotiation and Legal Technique -- Non-Identification of the Majority and Minority in the Practice of the International Court of Justice -- The General Welfare as A Legal Interest -- Treaties as “Legislation” -- The Jurisprudence of Contracts -- Force Majeure Et Contrats Internationaux De Longue Durée -- Strikes and the Law — Some Recent Developments in Western Europe -- Conventional International Law and the Domestic Law of Canada -- Some Legal Aspects of International and Multinational Enterprises -- Principles of International Social Justice -- Voting Procedure In International Conferences for the Codification of International Law, 1864–1930 -- Conscience, Law, Force and the General Assembly -- The New System Of International Law -- A Bibliography of the Writings of Wolfgang Friedmann.
    Abstract: When Wolfgang Friedmann died there was a great outpouring of grief, affection and admiration from his friends all over the world. These deeply felt sentiments were soon channelled into a number of projects to honor him. The initiative towards the preparation of this volume in tribute to Wolfgang Friedmann was taken by his colleague, Hans Smit, of Columbia University, who also arranged for its publication. Judge Philip C. Jessup was the chairman, and Professors John N. Hazard, Louis Henkin, Oliver Lissitzyn, Willis L. M. Reese and Hans Smit of Columbia University Law School, A. A. Fatouros of Indiana University Law School (Bloomington), and Gabriel M. Wilner of the University of Georgia Law School were members of the editorial committee. The authors of the essays are a group of distinguished legal scholars from many countries and who hold widely diverse views. All of them had many ties with Professor Friedmann, including those of friendship and shared interest in problems that were of the greatest concern to him. The number of eminent jurists from countries around the world, and particularly from the United States, who would have wished to participate in this tribute to Wolfgang Friedmann is large; however, several important considerations made it necessary to limit the number of contributions. Thus, for example, the work of several members of the editorial committee is not represented in the volume.
    Description / Table of Contents: Courts and Tribunals: Partners in JusticeTwo International Organizations of the Third World -- The Future of World Order -- The World Bank’s Impact on International Law-A Case Study in the International Law of Cooperation -- Some Legal Aspects of the Andean Economic Integration -- The International Monetary System and Change: Relations Between the Mode of Negotiation and Legal Technique -- Non-Identification of the Majority and Minority in the Practice of the International Court of Justice -- The General Welfare as A Legal Interest -- Treaties as “Legislation” -- The Jurisprudence of Contracts -- Force Majeure Et Contrats Internationaux De Longue Durée -- Strikes and the Law - Some Recent Developments in Western Europe -- Conventional International Law and the Domestic Law of Canada -- Some Legal Aspects of International and Multinational Enterprises -- Principles of International Social Justice -- Voting Procedure In International Conferences for the Codification of International Law, 1864-1930 -- Conscience, Law, Force and the General Assembly -- The New System Of International Law -- A Bibliography of the Writings of Wolfgang Friedmann.
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    Abstract: et Vues D’Ensemble sur L’Europe -- Genese, Caracteristiques et Contextes Moraux du Present Ouvrage -- L’Europe Anthropologique -- L’Europe Linguistique -- L’Europe Culturelle -- L’Europe Religieuse -- L’Europe Politique -- Les Types et La Repartition des Psychologies Collectives des Populations Europeennes -- Articles Descriptifs -- Presentation Generale.
    Description / Table of Contents: et Vues D’Ensemble sur L’EuropeGenese, Caracteristiques et Contextes Moraux du Present Ouvrage -- L’Europe Anthropologique -- L’Europe Linguistique -- L’Europe Culturelle -- L’Europe Religieuse -- L’Europe Politique -- Les Types et La Repartition des Psychologies Collectives des Populations Europeennes -- Articles Descriptifs -- Presentation Generale.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Roots of Abrasa -- 3. Nationalism, Cultural Mobilization, and the Emergence of Political Parties (1942–1948) -- 4. The Struggle for Power in the New Regime (1949–1954) -- 5. Verbroedering: Rejection and Approval (1955–1967) -- 6. Flying with a Clipped Wing (1967–1973) -- 7. The Struggle for Independence (1973–1975) -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: In the months immediately preceding Surinam's independence, November 25, 1975, warning signals went up on both sides of the Atlantic. This small, ethnically plural society was torn by severe political conflict. Elections in November 1973 had brought an end to political collaboration between Creoles and Hindustanis, the country's two largest ethnic groups; and the Creoles, now in control of the government, were resolutely pushing (over Hindustani opposition) to sever their colonial ties with the Netherlands. But defections from the Creole benches during the summer of 1975 had produced a virtual stalemate in the legislature, heightening fears that the government would act unilaterally. The failure of Creole and Hindustani leaders to resolve their differences led many observers in both the Netherlands and Surinam to predict a collapse of democracy and/or violent conflict once independence was proclaimed. Ironically, the dramatic, last-minute resolution of the struggle precipitated not only general jubilation and relief, but also self-congratulation, as the leaders of Surinam's multiethnic society, long priding themselves on achieve­ ments in harmonious understanding, pulled out all stops in their indepen­ dence day oratory. No-one could forget the nightmare of the preceding few years. But neither could anyone familiar with Surinam's historical develop­ ment flatly reject the rhetoric as being without some foundation. In fact, Surinam, while severely tested by the most complex multi-ethnic population in the Caribbean, does have a record of which she can be proud and which deserves to be more widely known.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction2. The Roots of Abrasa -- 3. Nationalism, Cultural Mobilization, and the Emergence of Political Parties (1942-1948) -- 4. The Struggle for Power in the New Regime (1949-1954) -- 5. Verbroedering: Rejection and Approval (1955-1967) -- 6. Flying with a Clipped Wing (1967-1973) -- 7. The Struggle for Independence (1973-1975) -- 8. Conclusion.
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    ISBN: 9789400996748
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 256 p) , online resource
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences
    Abstract: 1 The English People and War in the Early Sixteenth Century -- 2 Holland’s Experience of War during the Revolt of the Netherlands -- 3 The Army Revolt of 1647 -- 4 Holland’s Financial Problems (1713–1733) and the Wars against Louis XIV -- 5 Municipal Government and the Burden of the Poor in South Holland during the Napoleonic Wars -- 6 The Sinews of War: The Role of Dutch Finance in European Politics (c. 1750–1815) -- 7 Britain and Blockade, 1780–1940 -- 8 Away from Impressment: The Idea of a Royal Naval Reserve, 1696–1859 -- 9 Problems of Defence in a Non-Belligerent Society: Military Service in the Netherlands during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 10 World War II and Social Class in Great Britain -- 11 The Second World War and Dutch Society: Continuity and Change.
    Abstract: War has ever exercised a great appeal on men's minds. Oscar Wilde's witticism notwithstanding this fascination cannot be attri­ buted simply to the wicked character of war. The demonic forces released by war have caught the artistic imagination, while sages have reflected on the enigmatic readiness of each new generation to wage war, despite the destruction, disillusion and exhaustion that war is known to bring in its train. If there never was a good war and a bad peace why did armed conflicts recur with such distressing regularity ? Was large-scale violence an intrinsic condition of Man? The answers given to such questions have differed widely: it has even been suggested that the states of war and peace are not as far removed from one another as is usually supposed. The causes of war and the interaction between war and society have long been the subject of philosophical enquiry and historical analysis. Accord­ ing to Thucydides no one was ever compelled to go to war; Cicero remarked how dumb were the laws in time of war, while Clausewitz's profound observation concerning the affinity between war and politics has become almost a commonplace. War being the severest test a society or state can experience historians have naturally been concerned to investigate their rela­ tionship.
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401767880
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 355 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Institut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Developmental psychology ; Anthropology ; Sex. ; Ethnology. ; Culture.
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    ISBN: 9789401013642
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (239p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology
    Abstract: I Jurisdiction -- 1: Political Jurisdiction -- 2: Distribution and Concurrence of Jurisdictions in International Law -- II Preliminary Objections -- 3: Categories of Preliminary Objections and their Legal Foundation -- 4: Objection Ultra Vires -- 5: Objection Conditio Sine Qua Non -- 6: Objection Electa Una Via -- 7: Objection Lis Pendens -- 8: Objection Res Judicata -- III Final Determination -- 9: Determination of the Validity of Preliminary Objections -- 10: Procedural Questions Related to Preliminary Objections -- Table of cases -- Index of subjects -- Index of countries and other territories -- Index of names -- Articles -- Resolutions -- Commissions and committees -- Reports.
    Description / Table of Contents: I Jurisdiction1: Political Jurisdiction -- 2: Distribution and Concurrence of Jurisdictions in International Law -- II Preliminary Objections -- 3: Categories of Preliminary Objections and their Legal Foundation -- 4: Objection Ultra Vires -- 5: Objection Conditio Sine Qua Non -- 6: Objection Electa Una Via -- 7: Objection Lis Pendens -- 8: Objection Res Judicata -- III Final Determination -- 9: Determination of the Validity of Preliminary Objections -- 10: Procedural Questions Related to Preliminary Objections -- Table of cases -- Index of subjects -- Index of countries and other territories -- Index of names -- Articles -- Resolutions -- Commissions and committees -- Reports.
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401016407
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (127p) , online resource
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: I. The Roots of Peacetime Propaganda -- II. The Official Information Services -- III. The Central office of Information -- IV. The British Council -- V. The BBC External Services -- VI. Supervision of British Propaganda Programmes -- VII. Comparing Approaches: the United Kingdom and the United States -- Appendix. Estimated Cost of Overseas Information Services 1973-74 -- selected Bibliography.
    Abstract: The systematic use of propaganda is very much a phenomenon of the 20th century. Through the years, kings, political leaders, and statesmen have often made use of what might now be called "propaganda tech­ niques" but it is only within the present century that the use of pro­ paganda has been developed as a systematic instrument of national and foreign policy. Nonetheless, since World War II propaganda has become a regular peacetime instrument of foreign policy for most states, be they large or small. While some considerable attention has been given to the propaganda organisations and activities of the United States and certain Com­ munist nations, especially the U.S.S.R., relatively little has been done on the British approach to propaganda. The present study attempts to at least partially fill that vacuum. A history of the overseas Informa­ tion Services is not undertaken and I will leave that important task to future scholars. Instead I have examined the British approach to the organisation of propaganda and the mechanics they have developed to utilize this instrument of foreign policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: I. The Roots of Peacetime PropagandaII. The Official Information Services -- III. The Central office of Information -- IV. The British Council -- V. The BBC External Services -- VI. Supervision of British Propaganda Programmes -- VII. Comparing Approaches: the United Kingdom and the United States -- Appendix. Estimated Cost of Overseas Information Services 1973-74 -- selected Bibliography.
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401016513
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (197p) , online resource
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Thomas Mann’s Dialectics -- 2. The Female Principle in a Woman: Clavdia Chauchat -- 3. An Early View of the Male Realm: Gustave Aschenbach -- 4. Doctor Faustus: Culmination of the Male World -- 5. Male and Female in Actual Artists—Mann on Goethe and Schiller -- 6. Double Image as a Dialectical Device -- 7. Love: A Possible Synthesis -- 8. Conclusion.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Thomas Mann’s Dialectics2. The Female Principle in a Woman: Clavdia Chauchat -- 3. An Early View of the Male Realm: Gustave Aschenbach -- 4. Doctor Faustus: Culmination of the Male World -- 5. Male and Female in Actual Artists-Mann on Goethe and Schiller -- 6. Double Image as a Dialectical Device -- 7. Love: A Possible Synthesis -- 8. Conclusion.
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    ISBN: 9789401013611
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1 The Political Myth -- 2 Dutch Privileges, Real and Imaginary -- 3 The Black Legend during the Eighty Years War -- 4 Queen and State: the Emergence of an Elizabethan Myth -- 5 The Batavian Myth during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 6 ‘No Popery’ in the Reign of Charles II -- 7 The Myth of ‘Patriotism’ in Eighteenth-Century English Politics -- 8 Oliver Cromwell’s Popular Image in Nineteenth-Century England -- 9 The Rise and Progress of Tory Democracy -- 10 Mythical Aspects of Dutch Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century.
    Abstract: AS Dr. Coen Tamse points out in the introductory essay specially written for this volume, what we call myths are all too often the errors and misconceptions of others. Time being short and human un­ derstanding imperfect, it is wise to suppose that posterity will convict us all of thinking and acting in some sort within mythological uni­ verses; only a dead myth is by common consent recognized as a false reading of reality. And yet, in our troubled century, we have witnessed the deliberate fabrication of mythologies, apart from the inheritance of earlier growths like those which still feed nationalism and anti­ Semitism. It almost looks as if mass democracies positively require neatly packaged and emotionally charged explanations of the social and political environment as a substitute for religion. At all events, the modern science of public relations has advanced far enough for cer­ tain regimes, or for those who seek to overthrow them, to make a calculated appeal to the vanities, anxieties and frustrations of ordinary people by offering highly simplified explanations of a baffling world, often in easily grasped pictorial or dramatic forms, whether the object is to condition obedience or incite to 'struggle'. The advent of the mass media is generally, if unfairly, taken to have opened limitless new op­ portunities for the manipulation of our thought-processes, even below the threshold of consciousness.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 The Political Myth2 Dutch Privileges, Real and Imaginary -- 3 The Black Legend during the Eighty Years War -- 4 Queen and State: the Emergence of an Elizabethan Myth -- 5 The Batavian Myth during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 6 ‘No Popery’ in the Reign of Charles II -- 7 The Myth of ‘Patriotism’ in Eighteenth-Century English Politics -- 8 Oliver Cromwell’s Popular Image in Nineteenth-Century England -- 9 The Rise and Progress of Tory Democracy -- 10 Mythical Aspects of Dutch Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century.
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