The Private Roots Of Public Action

Author : Nancy Burns,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Sidney Verba
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674029088

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The Private Roots of Public Action by Nancy Burns,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Sidney Verba Pdf

Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? Why are they less likely to seek public office or join political organizations? The Private Roots of Public Action is the most comprehensive study of this puzzle of unequal participation. The authors develop new methods to trace gender differences in political activity to the nonpolitical institutions of everyday life--the family, school, workplace, nonpolitical voluntary association, and church. Different experiences with these institutions produce differences in the resources, skills, and political orientations that facilitate participation--with a cumulative advantage for men. In addition, part of the solution to the puzzle of unequal participation lies in politics itself: where women hold visible public office, women citizens are more politically interested and active. The model that explains gender differences in participation is sufficiently general to apply to participatory disparities among other groups--among the young, the middle-aged, and the elderly or among Latinos, African-Americans and Anglo-Whites.

Author : S.M. Meng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1962-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171446

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The Tsungli Yamen by S.M. Meng Pdf

The Tsungli Yamen was the government organization in charge of foreign policy in imperial China during the late Qing dynasty. This monograph including chapters on the establishment, organization, procedures of the Tsungli Yamen, its role in the modernzation of China, and describes how foreign affairs were handled prior to its establishment.

Author : Heinz Eulau
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674687604

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Politics, Self, and Society by Heinz Eulau Pdf

How to deal with the relationship between the individual and society as it reveals itself through politics is the large theme of these erudite and stylish essays by a leading scholar whose lifelong concerns have included political behavior, decision-making by groups, and legislative deportment. Truly interdisciplinary in his approach, Heinz Eulau has drawn on all the social sciences in his thirty years of research into the political behavior of citizens in the mass and of legislative elites at the state and local levels of government. Utilizing a variety of social and political theories--theories of reference group behavior, social role, organization, conflict, exchange functions and purposive action--he enriches the methodology of political science while tackling substantive issues such as social class behavior in elections, public policies in American cities, the structures of city councils, and the convergence of politics and the legal system. Eulau is ranked among the few scholars who have shaped the agenda of political science, and his latest work should also prove valuable for sociologists, social psychologists, and theorists of the social sciences.

Author : Sidney Verba,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Henry E. Brady
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674942930

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Voice and Equality by Sidney Verba,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Henry E. Brady Pdf

This book confirms the idea put forth by Tocqueville that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism—citizens’ involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists. The authors analyze civic activity with a massive survey of 15,000 people.

Author : Jennifer L. Hochschild
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674950879

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What's Fair? by Jennifer L. Hochschild Pdf

Using a long questionnaire and in-depth interviews, Hochschild examines the ideals and contemporary practices of Americans on the subject of distributive justice, and discovers neither the rich nor the nonrich support the downward redistribution of wealth.

Author : Joel D. ABERBACH,Robert D. Putnam,Bert A. Rockman,Joel D Aberbach
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674020047

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Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies by Joel D. ABERBACH,Robert D. Putnam,Bert A. Rockman,Joel D Aberbach Pdf

In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings. One of the authors' most significant findings is that the worlds of these two elites overlap much more in the United States than in Europe. But throughout the West bureaucrats and politicians each wear special blinders and each have special virtues. In a well-ordered polity, the authors conclude, politicians articulate society's dreams and bureaucrats bring them gingerly to earth.

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 0674854012

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Suffer the Future, Policy Choices in Southern Africa by Robert I. Rotberg Pdf

Will southern Africa explode? Are there alternatives to violent revolution? Can other countries assist South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe in achieving majority rule? Or can the problems be solved only by the peoples of each nation? And what should be done by the West to aid development, encourage racial harmony, and promote the general welfare? For more than a generation Robert Rotberg has visited and written about southern Africa. He has not only studied the history and politics of the area but also has steeped himself in the economic, environmental, and geographic factors that have helped create conflict there. Rotberg has blended sophisticated political knowledge with personal experience to recount the past and make possible an understanding of the future. The result is a timely, wise, and lucid portrait of three nations in search of a destiny. Suffer the Future is a balanced account aimed at making general readers, as well as students of international problems, aware of the realistic alternatives for policy in and toward southern Africa.

Author : Douglas W. Rae,Douglas Yates
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674259807

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Equalities by Douglas W. Rae,Douglas Yates Pdf

Discusses the nature of equality and looks at examples related to medical care, employment, political rights and religion.

Author : William Ascher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674790855

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Scheming for the Poor by William Ascher Pdf

Comparison of political aspects of economic policy aiming at income redistribution in Argentina, Chile and Peru - focuses on the policy- making process, comparing the approaches of populist, reformist and radical political leadership; discusses inflation and investment policy, trade policy, balance of payments, tax reform, land reform, wage policy, public expenditure on social services, etc.; considers trade union attitudes and landowners, rural workers, entrepreneurs and employers attitudes, and armed forces political opposition.

Author : Katherine Tate
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0674325400

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From Protest to Politics by Katherine Tate Pdf

The struggle for civil rights among black Americans has moved into the voting booth. How such a shift came about--and what it means--is revealed in this timely reflection on black presidential politics in recent years. Since 1984, largely as a result of Jesse Jackson's presidential bid, blacks have been galvanized politically. Drawing on a substantial national survey of black voters, Katherine Tate shows how this process manifested itself at the polls in 1984 and 1988. In an analysis of the black presidential vote by region, income, age, and gender, she is able to identify unique aspects of the black experience as they shape political behavior, and to answer long-standing questions about that behavior. How, for instance, does the rise of conservatism among blacks influence their voting patterns? Is class more powerful than race in determining voting? And what is the value of the notion of a black political party? In the 1990s, Tate suggests, black organizations will continue to stress civil rights over economic development for one clear, compelling reason: Republican resistance to addressing black needs. In this, and in the friction engendered by affirmative action, she finds an explanation for the slackening of black voting. Tate does not, however, see blacks abandoning the political game. Instead, she predicts their continued search for leaders who prefer the ballot box to other kinds of protest, and for men and women who can deliver political programs of racial equality. Unique in its focus on the black electorate, this study illuminates a little understood and tremendously significant aspect of American politics. It will benefit those who wish to understand better the subtle interplay of race and politics, at the voting booth and beyond.

Author : William F. Woehrlin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674113853

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Chernyshevskii: the Man and the Journalist by William F. Woehrlin Pdf

Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), a pivotal figure in the Russian protest movement after the Crimean War, was esteemed by Marx and Lenin. This first thorough treatment of Chernyshevskii in English is a biography and a presentation of his views on philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, economics and social relations, politics and revolution.

Author : Douglas J. Macdonald,Robert James Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0674005775

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Adventures in Chaos by Douglas J. Macdonald,Robert James Nelson Pdf

Can--or should--the United States try to promote reform in client states in the Third World? This question, which reverberates through American foreign policy, is at the heart of Adventures in Chaos. A faltering friendly state, in danger of falling to hostile forces, presents the U.S. with three options: withdraw, bolster the existing government, or try to reform it. Douglas Macdonald defines the circumstances that call these policy options into play, combining an analysis of domestic politics in the U. S., cognitive theories of decision making, and theories of power relations drawn from sociology, economics, and political science. He examines the conditions that promote the reformist option and then explores strategies for improving the success of reformist intervention in the future. In order to identify problems in this policy--and to propose solutions--Macdonald focuses on three case studies of reformist intervention in Asia: China, 1946-1948; the Philippines, 1950-1953; and Vietnam, 1961-1963. Striking similarities in these cases suggest that such policy dilemmas are a function of the global role played by the U.S., especially during the Cold War. Though this role is changing, Macdonald foresees future applications for the lessons his study offers. A challenge to the conventional wisdom on reformist intervention, Adventures in Chaos--through extensive archival research--displays a theoretical and historical depth often lacking in treatments of the subject.

Author : Robert B. Reich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 0674695909

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The Power of Public Ideas by Robert B. Reich Pdf

Author : Robert A. Scalapino
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0674687574

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The Politics of Development by Robert A. Scalapino Pdf

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0674630254

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Obligations by Michael Walzer Pdf

In this collection of essays, Michael Walzer discusses how obligations are incurred, sustained, and (sometimes) abandoned by citizens of the modern state and members of political parties and movements as they respond to and participate in the most crucial and controversial aspects of citizenship: resistance, dissent, civil disobedience, war, and revolution. Walzer approaches these issues with insight and historical perspective, exhibiting an extraordinary understanding for rebels, radicals, and rational revolutionaries. The reader will not always agree with Walzer but he cannot help being stimulated, excited, challenged, and moved to thoughtful analysis.