The typical post-Bretton Woods era development growth, and public sector size. But decentralization is approach that emphasized central government-led surprisingly difficult to measure. Nearly all cases development efforts has changed dramatically, and local examining the relationship between decentralization and governments have clearly emerged as players in macroeconomic performance have reli...

“What do you think of ‘our turban-heads’ (women de chantou)?” the taxi driver wondered, nodding out window at a Uyghur pedestrian. I stared him blankly. Not waiting for my response, he continued, wanting to get thoughts on how United States's war in Iraq was going. He had heard that it going affect oil prices. It 2010, and President Barack Obama just been elected, so mumbled something about new...

This article advances a framework aimed at capturing the political life of ethical intensity by putting autonomist theory in resonance with ethnographic material pertaining to quietist Muslim milieus post-Soviet Russia. The emancipatory and prefigurative potential collective projects self-legislation – this case, ‘halal living’ are explored through notions form Rule/Law. It will be argued that ...

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This content analytic study investigated the approaches of two mainstream newspapers—The New York Times and theChicago Tribune—to cover the gay marriage issue. The study used the Massachusetts legitimization of gay marriage as a dividing point to look at what kinds of specific political or social topics related to gay marriage were highlighted in the news media. The study examined how news sour...

We challenge the standard argument whach treats collective violence as an expression of the dissatisfactions felt by populations experiencing hardship after periods of relative well-being. We propose an alternative explanation in which struggles for political power are the central features. Tfme-series analysis of year-to-year fluctuations of collective violence in France from 1830 through 1960...

Rather than a new feature of modern industrial society, we argue that the much-discussed problem of "risk" represents only a modern conceptual language for discussing the age-old problems of uncertainty and control. What is different about the worries of the present day is not the number of hazards we face or the degree of uncertainty we feel about our lives, but rather it is the language we us...

Substantial work in social psychology has focused on reducing intergroup conflict and promoting positive intergroup attitudes. These interventions to reduce intergroup bias frequently emphasize the importance of inclusiveness and overarching commonalities among groups. However, a strict focus on harmony may sometimes have the unintended consequence of decreasing motivation for social change and...

The study of globalisation carries important conceptual insights into the contemporary security agenda following the events of 9/11. This article argues that globalisation can be defined in a variety of ways, ranging from liberalisation to Westernisation, and can also be extended into concepts of supra-territorialisation. In combination, these definitions help to explain the generation of 9/11 ...

The ground-zero premise (so to speak) of the biological sciences is the assumption that survival and reproduction is the basic, continuing, inescapable problem for all living organisms; life is at bottom a “survival enterprise.” Whatever may be our perceptions, aspirations, or illusions, this tap-root assumption is applicable to the human species as well. Survival is the “paradigmatic problem” ...