This long-term study characterizing voting information from every district in Indonesia, is based on data spanning eight elections from 1955 to 1999. Author Dwight Y. King (political science and South
In 1924 America passed legislation that effectively outlined which immigrants were to be considered beneficial to the national body and which were not. Albert Johnson, a Washington State Congressman,
This edited collection examines various aspects of the explosive abortion issue in the United States and Canada. In both countries, decisions of the national supreme court have made access to legal ab
Fife and Miller (both professors of public affairs at Indiana U. Purdue U. Fort Wayne) support the hypothesis that the political culture of states has an impact on their voting systems and examine the
Italy emerged from World War I triumphant but ostracized from the comity of victors, which led to the notion in Italy that a war had been won but a peace lost. The Legend of the Mutilated Victory demo
The America First Committee, founded in September 1940 to keep the United States out of what became the Second World War, was the largest antiwar organization in American history. Its 800,000 members
Africa is currently experiencing sociopolitical and economic changes of unprecedented proportions. New leaders, institutions, discourses, and methods of political organization and action are shaping a
Nemeth (communications, Purdue U.) presents case studies, discussing such aspects as the news ombudsman as internal and external critic at the Washington Post and as complaint manager and weekly col
Maxcy develops a democratic, participatory model of administration and teaching that emphasizes the value of present trends toward decentralization and the need for teacher empowerment through shared
Sicker, a private consultant and lecturer who has written extensively on political science and international affairs, considers the essential features of the properly ordered or orthocratic state. He
"Voters remain steamed" in the wake of recent U.S. elections, says Farnsworth (political science and international affairs, Mary Washington College), as he seeks to discover the causes and consequence
Wasburn (sociology, Purdue U.) offers a series of case studies that draw a portrait of the way the American media reports on domestic matters and conflicts between and within foreign countries, as wel
From Trust to Tragedy is Nolting's frank and perceptive account of the events in Vietnam and Washington that culminated in the overthrow of the Diem government in November 1963. It is the story of how
"Interpreting The Constitution" doesn't fit neatly into the extensive literature on judicial review and constitutional interpretation that reconciles judicial review with democracy defined as majority
This interdisciplinary book is a comprehensive inquiry into the rehabilitation of criminal offenders and is based on extensive cross-cultural research on legal, ethical, philosophical, psychological,
In this provocative volume, a pioneering organizational psychologist explains that the failure of many human resource programs in business, education, and government is largely due to their mechanisti
In this book, author Jinghao Zhou uses for the first time the prism of "public philosophy" to examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole. Challenging convent
Understanding the impact of constitutional rights in the real world depends on understanding the law of constitutional remedies for their violation. Integrating the history, doctrine, and policy of co
Presents a structural model of information system implementation and tests that model with data from several independent system implementation efforts. The book includes a detailed review of past rese
The demise of the newspaper has long been predicted. Yet newspapers continue to survive globally despite competition from radio, television, and now the Internet, because they serve core social functi
To complement a previous anthology on frontiers of competitive intelligence, contributors primarily from marketing and business, consider some of the issues that still need to be addressed as the fiel
As we enter the 21st century, regional development planning takes center stage in developing countries. Issues likely to shape the form and content of future regional planning include the significance
This unique book presents a comparative study of foreign news coverage in regional newspapers in the United States, Britain, and France. Journalistic images are quite distinct in these countries, but
This scholarly work deals specifically with the important changes in popular journalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pioneering study in the history of journalism, it focuse
The crucial nature of developmental theory is the question of relationship between cultural and personal facets of human development. Dialogue is a useful concept to specify this relationship from a p
Nine in ten Americans believe the media are biased. Trust in journalists ranks beneath that in lawyers, and even the media themselves regularly portray their own industry as slanted toward Democrats a
Known primarily as the composer of The Nutcracker Suite and other legendary pieces, Tchaikovsky was also a noted musical dramatist. Here, in the first book devoted to the subject, his operas are explo
Echoing the old saw about generals always fighting the last war, Lecquement (U.S. Naval War College) argues that the U.S. military, in terms of force structure and doctrine, is still fighting the Cold
This is a complete update and revision of Stoetzer's classic reference work on the Organization of American States (OAS), first published by Praeger in 1965. The work will provide the reader with an u
"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) pro
"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) pr
