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This, the seventeenth volume of the "Index to International Public Opinion" provides data from opinion surveys conducted in 69 countries. Approximately 97 countries and geographical areas are referenced in these studies. The data were contributed by 154 research firms. As has been the case with previous volumes, all tables contain total sample results and many include breakdowns by various population subgroups such as gender, political party affiliation, age, and level of formal education. As in the past, poll questions deal with a broad mix of social, political, and economic issues of...

Scholars attempting to place Veblen in a particular intellectual tradition will only succeed in reaping frustration and confusion until it is recognized that he was primarily DEGREESIsui generis DEGREESR and eclectic. This is the recurring theme that is made explicit in the introduction, conclusion, and some of the chapters of this work. Veblen was a thinker of such depth and power that he was able to create his own intellectual paradigm. The result of his endeavors is that more than a few intellectuals including his followers, the institutional economists, have spent their careers trying...

The 1998-1999 volume of the "Index to International Public Opinion" continues to provide the most comprehensive information available for public opinion data throughout the world. Surveys from 73 countries are included, and 167 countries and regions are referenced in these studies. Twenty-one multinational surveys are included as well. Data compiled by 169 research firms makes this the one essential source for public opinion research.

Like its predecessors, the volume is organized initially by major topic categories, each of which is subdivided into more specific subject groups. In...

Challenging pluralist theory and the incremental model of policy making, Paul Schulman argues that many public policy undertakings may fail because of critical mismatches between the scale requirements of an objective and the political and organizational resources actually applied to its pursuit. At the same time, the book explores some of the special risks and hazards associated with large-scale policy frameworks.

This book presents historical perspectives on single mothers and antipoverty strategies in the US and several other industrial societies. The authors, specialists in family policy, discuss family and personal life of single mothers, their work and income (usually low), and issues such as child care, housing, and stress. The experiences of different types of mothers-only families are examined, and societal concerns for improvement of the situation of such families are addressed. Kamerman and Kahn analyze various policy options and, following a holistic approach, they propose a...

This book examines the phenomenal wave of revivals which swept the early nineteenth century, and shows the impact they had on several ideological movements. This study asks whether religious beliefs genuinely influence people's political positions or whether, instead, what appear to be religious motivations for political behavior are merely an outgrowth of their social positions. This book establihes the influence of religious beliefs and the revivalist movement on the political behavior of the past century.

Each of the chapters in this volume devotes considerable attention to defining and elaborating the notion of the frame problem-one of the hard problems of artificial intelligence. Not only do the chapters clarify the problems at hand, they shed light on the different approaches taken by those in artificial intelligence and by certain philosophers who have been concerned with related problems in their field. The book should therefore not be read merely as a discussion of the frame problem narrowly conceived, but also as a general analysis of what could be a major challenge to the design of...

In this thought-provoking new book, Neala Schleuning searches for the meaning of work in our society. Compellingly written, "Idle Hands and Empty Hearts" studies the politics and economics, as well as the philosophy and art, of work. Schleuning seeks to find out what work is, what it used to be, why we work, and what is wrong with work today. She places ideas about work in their history and culture and offers new ideas about what work should be, and what role it should play in our lives.

Schleuning distills all of the central questions having to do with work in our time: why do human...