"The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918 mark one of the most controversial moments in American history. Even as President Woodrow Wilson justified US entry into World War I on the grounds that it would 'make the world safe for democracy, ' the act curtailed civil liberties…
Enter an ethnographically surreal work located in a fictive Latin American country: The Magic of the State focuses on the theater of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead - Blacks and Indians, Europe's fetishized others - pass into the bodies of…
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This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and attitudes. What are the political effects when a person is discontent with some aspect of, say, the particular health services or the public kindergartens tha…
"In this close examination of the interplay between welfare state institutions and the evolution of public opinion, Kumlin advances our understanding of how citizens' attitudes toward the welfare state and the political system develop. Kumlin's theoretical framework incorporates…
In this close examination of the interplay between welfare state institutions and the evolution of public opinion, Kumlin advances understanding of how and why support for or opposition to the welfare state develops. Kumlin's theoretical framework incorporates insights from a mu…
"In this close examination of the interplay between welfare state institutions and the evolution of public opinion, Kumlin advances our understanding of how citizens' attitudes toward the welfare state and the political system develop. Kumlin's theoretical framework incorporates…
This text examines why and how the Roman empire lasted so long. In studying the bureaucracy behind it, the author argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified.
