Why did the nation-state proliferate across the world over the past 200 years, replacing empires, kingdoms, city-states, and the like? Using a new dataset with information on 145 of today’s states from 1816 to the year they achieved nation-statehood, we test key aspects of modernization, world polity, and historical institutionalist theories. Event history analysis shows that a nation-state is ...

In 1981, a profound crisis of authority was transforming the American health polity. Changing priorities between infectious and chronic diseases, communal and individual responsibilities for health, and comprehensive services and cost control created a fragmented health polity, leaderless and ill-equipped to address the AIDS epidemic. The American health polity may best serve the public interes...

Key concepts of Risk Society as elaborated by Ulrich Beck and others (Beck, U., 1992 (trans. Mark Ritter). The Risk Society. Sage Publications, London. Beck, U., 1995, Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk. Polity Press, Cambridge. Beck, U., 1999, World Risk Society. Polity Press, Cambridge. Giddens, A., 1994, Beyond Left and Right. Polity Press, Oxford. Beck, U., Giddens, A. and Lash, S., 199...

Books focused on in this review: Easterly, William. 2001. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Pogge, Thomas. 2002. World Poverty and Human Rights. Cambridge UK: Polity. Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2002. Globalization and Its Discontents. NY NY: Norton. Stone, Randall. 2002. Lending Credibility: The IMF and the Post-Communist Tr...

Language planning, in one way or another, is as old as human civilization. Every time that one polity  invaded  the  territory  of  another,  the  language  of  the  conqueror  was  imposed  on  the conquered. The Romans imposed their language across the civilized world as they  knew it. In the  21st  century,  the  practice  of  language  planning  has  become  increasingly  sophisticated. Eng...

Civic virtue is generally understood as relating to a specific polity and in that way to be distinct from virtues appropriate to a human being as such, the subject matter of most "virtue theory." This conception does not rule out "universal" civic virtues-ones appropriate to membership in a "world community"-and some theorists speak of and advocate some form of such "world citizenship." Neverth...

Quantification of historical sociological processes have recently gained attention among theoreticians in the effort of providing a solid theoretical understanding of the behaviors and regularities present in socio-political dynamics. Here we present a reliability theory of polity processes with emphases on individual political dynamics of African countries. We found that the structural propert...

We examine the origins of voluntary associations devoted to environmental protection. We argue that national resources and political institutions generate opportunities and constraints that shape domestic environmental association. Moreover, we develop and extend neoinstitutional ‘world polity’ arguments to account for domestic associations around the globe. We use event history and dynamic pan...

according to the third-development program in 1379, government was obliged to design a suitable social security polity and submit it to the parliament for final approval. during recent weeks and after nearly a two-year delay, a bill was edited by government and sent to the islamic parliament. this long - term delay indicates the serious differences in the field of law - making and necessary fra...