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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It has frustrated many, with federalism seeming to matter in all sorts of combinations with all sorts of issues, from nationalism to racism to intergovernmental competition. The diffuse federalism literature has not come to compelling answers for very basic questions....
Series
Philanthropic studies volume 18
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (v, 314 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"This volume, which grows out of a research project on women and philanthropy sponsored by the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the City University of New York, expands our understanding of female beneficence in shaping diverse political cultures ... As in the United States, this activity often enabled women to create parallel power structures that resembled, but rarely replicated, the commercial and political arenas of men. From nuns who managed...
Series
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
Language
English
Description
Teen gangs are a hot issue in the United States. This volume shows the international scope of the phenomenon today. Gang activity in 14 countries, including the United States, is discussed within the larger framework of social and economic conditions. Each chapter explains the nature of the gang activity in that country; touches on the causes, such as poverty, marginalization, and self-identity problems; and heavily emphasizes the responses, including...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
©2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 279 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
The articles in this volume look at adoption practices from around the world, including examples of societies in which children are routinely separated from their biological parents. The text illustrates the range & flexibility of child-rearing practicesthat approximate to the Western term 'adoption'.
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume).
Language
English
Description
This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors.
Author
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey International
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
Introduction -- Diversity in China -- Diversity in Egypt -- Diversity in India -- Diversity in Japan -- Diversity in Mexico -- Diversity in Russia -- Diversity in the United Kingdom -- Diversity in the United States -- Conclusion: Moving from knowledge to action.
Author
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Pub
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"This book reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural studies of the relative importance of different psychological traits in 20 countries and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of 10 countries. While the work is devoted primarily to professionals and advanced students in the social sciences, the relatively nontechnical style employed should make the book comprehensible to anyone with a general grasp of the concepts and...
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC license. Reports on the innovative, transdisciplinary co-production on sustainable urbanisation being undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures, a highly influential research centre based in Sweden, this book makes a significant contribution to evolving theory about comparative urban research.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 343 pages)
Language
English
Description
The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many more multinational companies. The potential for problems as companies operate across borders and managers manage in countries which have different values, norms and cultural behaviors is great. By looking at organizational psychology in a cross-cultural context, we can gain an understanding of the...
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, ges)
Language
English
Description
"Strategic voting is classically defined as "voting for one's second preferred option to prevent one's least preferred option from winning when one's first preference has no chance." Voters want their votes to be effective, and casting a ballot that will have no influence on an election is undesirable--therefore, some voters cast a strategic ballot when they decide it is useful. This edited volume includes case studies of strategic voting behavior...
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages)
Language
English
Description
Annotation Teacher educators from ten institutions and programs in the United States, Canada, and Germany describe the ways in which they have changed teacher preparation to more fully incorporate cooperative learning concepts. Analytical commentaries on the programs highlight the learning experience of these programs as well as underlying issues of needed reforms in teacher education. Included among best practices in education, cooperative learning...
Publisher
Brunner-Routledge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 244 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book fills the widening gap in multicultural literature by providing specific culture-centered interventions. The first section of the text highlights culturally based interventions.
Publisher
Wits University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This book provides an overview of the research related to psychological assessment across South Africa. The thirty-six chapters provide a combination of psychometric theory and practical assessment applications in order to combine the currently disparate research that has been conducted locally in this field. Existing South African texts on psychological assessment are predominantly academic textbooks that explain psychometric theory and provide brief...
Series
Contributions in sociology volume no. 135
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 316 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 193 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book is for teachers and academic researchers in a range of disciplines. In addition, it would be highly suitable for use by doctoral research students, EdD students and MA students in Education, History, Sociology, Policy Studies, Social and Cultural Geography and Comparative education. Spaced Out: Policy, Difference and the Challenge of Inclusive Education makes an original contribution to understanding the varied and complex ways inclusion...
Publisher
Verlag Barbara Budrich
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (278 pages)
Language
English
Description
How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing together disparate yet critical writings, Doing Tolerance examines the production of space, urban struggles and tactics of power from an interdisciplinary perspective....
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
©2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxxi, 246 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"In today's global business environment, negotiators who understand how culture affects negotiation fundamentals have a decided advantage at the bargaining table. Negotiators' interests, their assumptions about strategy, and the economic, social, legal, and political context of negotiation all vary with culture." "Negotiating Globally shows how to successfully navigate across boundaries of national culture when negotiating deals, resolving disputes,...
Author
Publisher
UCL Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Language
English
Description
In Rethinking Class Size, the world's leading researchers into class size effects counter the dominant view that class size has no impact on pupil outcomes. Peter Blatchford and Anthony Russell reveal the influence of class size on all relationships and interactions in the classroom. They develop a new social pedagogical model of how class size influences work, and identify policy conclusions and implications for teachers and schools. The book is...
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