Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to policy decision making. Meanwhile, the intergovernmental nature of political and policy governance has been ignored. Whether it is Canada, the United States, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Japan, or any other industrial country, the governmental structure is essentially a web of interrelated...
Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and project...
On the occasion of the sixty-fifth birthday of I. L. Horowitz, a group of his mentors, colleagues, and students have come together to examine his work, and also engage in his writings. The work is divided into the major areas of Horowitz's efforts: Theory of Social Practice, The Sociology of Politics, Social Research and Professional Ethics, Nation-Building and Development, Cuba, the Caribbean and Communism; Religion, Culture and the Jewish Enigma, and a final segment on Publishing and the Craft of Writing. For more information, click here to go to the International Evaluation Research...
On the occasion of the sixty-fifth birthday of I. L. Horowitz, a group of his mentors, colleagues, and students have come together to examine his w...
Discusses governmental responsibilities and individual liberties, ethical problems of moral judgement, and legal considerations in defining and suppressing obscene material.
Discusses governmental responsibilities and individual liberties, ethical problems of moral judgement, and legal considerations in defining and suppre...
Structured schools, free schools, graded schools, ungraded schools, no schools at all--the conflicts over public education in America rage on, for contemporary schools have not lived up to our expectations. The essence of the criticism reflected in the essays in this volume is that America's dual educational goals--free inquiry and social mobility-are not being met. Instead of producing enlightened citizens capable of high social and economic mobility, our schools have become warehouses of children stored as commodities, docile and immobile.
Structured schools, free schools, graded schools, ungraded schools, no schools at all--the conflicts over public education in America rage on, for ...
