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Normalizing Relations With The People's Republic Of China: Problems, Analysis And Documents, Hungdah Chiu
Normalizing Relations With The People's Republic Of China: Problems, Analysis And Documents, Hungdah Chiu
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
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Contemporary Peace Research: From Utopia To Feasibility, William O. Peterfi
Contemporary Peace Research: From Utopia To Feasibility, William O. Peterfi
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
This paper proposes to bring into focus some major problems confronting the discipline of peace politics. There appears to be an urgent need for systematic analysis of the many diverse areas and approaches currently lumped together in the general scope of so-called peace research.
New Towns As Laboratories Of Democracy: Early American And British Experience, Robert A. Barrett
New Towns As Laboratories Of Democracy: Early American And British Experience, Robert A. Barrett
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
New Towns have received attention as significant fields for study of urban systems and urban problems. Their early development in Great Britain and more recent development in the United States is a subject of public and private interest, yet little attention has been directed to their potential for improving the urban democratic process as well as dealing with housing, transportation, employment, planning, recreation, and other urban systems. This paper examines the potential of New Towns with reference to British experiences in improving urban democratic systems.
Social Control Or Social Wage: On The Political Economy Of The "Welfare State", Paul Adams
Social Control Or Social Wage: On The Political Economy Of The "Welfare State", Paul Adams
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Discussion between liberal apologists for the "welfare state" and their radical critics has tended in recent years to focus on the question of "social control." In this area the corporate liberals and social democrats (the "welfare statists") are weak. They talk of the "welfare state" as if, at least in principle, it represented the collective assumption by society of responsibility for the basic needs and dependencies of its members. Insofar as "social control" is relevant for them, it has to do with society's exercise of restraint over the selfish pursuit of private profit.1 Radical critics of the "welfare state," on …
A Political Economy Critique Of The American Welfare State, Gerben Dejong
A Political Economy Critique Of The American Welfare State, Gerben Dejong
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Despite its rapid expansion over the last decade, the American welfare state appears unable to remedy many of the social problems it has been designated to solve. In many instances, the welfare state has become as much a part of the problem as the solution. Unfortunately, most proposals to reform the welfare state do not go beyond the liberalconservative conception of the welfare state as a backup to the capitalist market system. This conception of the welfare state is part of a larger comitment to a free market-pluralist ideology that singles out certain social phenomena as problematic and limits the …