THE POLITICS OF THE A‐POLITICAL
Processes of Recruitment in the Sit-in Movement
On the basis of data collected by questionaire among participants in a 'freedom ride' on US Route 40 in 1961, the role of strains in the growth of an incipient soc movement is analyzed. Although strains are positively related to intense participation in the activities of the movement, the data indicate that the most deprived are strongly underrepre...
Timing of Economic Growth and Regime Characteristics in Latin America
Prerequisites Versus Diffusion: Testing Alternative Explanations of Social Security Adoption*
Cross-national research has, with a few exceptions, dealt exclusively with hypotheses that focus on causal relations within nations. It is increasingly clear both on substantive and methodological grounds, however, that diffusion effects among nations must also be considered. The present research combines these alternative perspectives in an analys...
IMPACT OF NEW LEFT ON ESTONIA
The Communal Basis of Pre-1800 Peasant Uprisings in Western Europe
Local Government, Information Systems, and Technology Transfer: Evaluating Some Common Assertions about Computer Applica...
Technology and Urban Management
This study argues that as automated information systems in local governments are more oriented to providing top management with information, top managers gain control vis-à-vis lower level managers and staff. clients, and lay policy officials. A measure of “management oriented computing” is developed which indicates the degree computing is oriented...
Industrial Modernization and Political Change: A Latin American Perspective
The recent emergence of harshly repressive military governments in several of the industrially most advanced nations of Latin America has called into question earlier hypotheses of modernization theory regarding the links between socioeconomic modernization and democracy. Guillermo O'Donnell has made an important contribution to explaining this new...
“Effective” Number of Parties
