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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures and Tables -- General Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Agriculture and Economic Development -- A Pattern of Economic Development -- Return to Agricultural Resources -- Conclusion -- 2 The Development of Modern Agriculture: Problems and Policies -- Open Fields -- Protection -- Government Intervention -- The Economic and Social Conflict -- 3 The Development of the Common Agricultural Policy -- West European Integration -- The First Decade of the EEC, 1958-67 -- The Second Decade of the EEC, 1968-77 -- Appendix 3.1: Institutional and Financial Arrangements of the Community -- Appendix 3.2: Methods of Support Used by the CAP -- 4 Monetary Problems -- Units of Account -- Green Currencies -- Monetary Compensatory Amounts -- Uncommon Prices -- Green Currencies and National Policies -- Attempts to Regain Common Prices: Removal of MCAs -- Economic and Monetary Union -- Conclusion -- Appendix 4.1 Units of Account -- 5 Mountains and Lakes: The Problem of Surpluses -- Agricultural Progress and Surpluses -- The Prevention and the Disposal of Surpluses -- Subsidized Food Exports and Third Countries -- Costs of the CAP -- Resource Misallocation -- Conclusion -- 6 Common Financing -- Financing the CAP -- International Transfers -- Common Financing and Surpluses -- Disputes Over Financial Arrangements -- Conclusions -- Appendix 6.1: Temporary Solution to the Budget Problem, 1980-2 -- 7 Achievements of the Common Agricultural Policy -- Appraisal of the CAP in Terms of Article 39 -- Appraisal of the CAP in Terms of Article 110 -- Appraisal of the CAP in Terms of the Treaty of Rome -- State Aids -- Conclusions -- 8 Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Even in local elections, money matters—but just how much? Drawing on multifaceted data from more than 700 races featuring 2,800 candidates, Brian Adams comprehensively investigates the role of money and the effects of campaign finance reforms at the local level. Adams covers mayoral and city council races across several election cycles, offering analysis of cities representing a range of forms of government, demographic profiles, and approaches to the regulation of campaign finance. Throughout, he evaluates claims about the costs and benefits of changes to the financing rules and also relates his findings to broader concerns about citizen participation in self-governance at the local level

General introduction : the importance of insects -- Climate and an introduction to plant pest -- The pests of roots, tubers, and sown seed -- The pests of plant stems -- Pests of foliage -- The insect pests of flowers and fruits -- Medical and veterinary pests -- Beneficial insects -- The principles of insect autecology 1 : some key concepts -- The principles of insect autecology 2 : innate attributes and environmental factors -- The dynamics of insect numbers 1 : history, classical -- The dynamics of insect numbers 2 : pattern and process -- Applied ecology and methods of control.

This book serves three basic purposes: (1) a tutorial-type reference for complex systems engineering (CSE) concepts and associated terminology, (2) a recommendation of a proposed methodology showing how the evolving practice of CSE can lead to a more unified theory, and (3) a complex systems (CSs) initiative for organizations to invest some of their resources toward helping to make the world a better place. A wide variety of technical practitioners--e.g., developers of new or improved systems (particularly systems engineers), program and project managers, associated staff/workers, funders and overseers, government executives, military officers, systems acquisition personnel, contract specialists, owners of large and small businesses, professional society members, and CS researchers--may be interested in further exploring these topics. Readers will learn more about CS characteristics and behaviors and CSE principles and will therefore be able to focus on techniques that will better serve them in their everyday work environments in dealing with complexity. The fundamental observation is that many systems inherently involve a deeper complexity because stakeholders are engaged in the enterprise. This means that such CSs are more difficult to invent, create, or improve upon because no one can be in total control since people cannot be completely controlled. Therefore, one needs to concentrate on trying to influence progress, then wait a suitable amount of time to see what happens, iterating as necessary. With just three chapters in this book, it seems to make sense to provide a tutorial introduction that readers can peruse only as necessary, considering their background and understanding, then a chapter laying out the suggested artifacts and methodology, followed by a chapter emphasizing worthwhile areas of application.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Author -- 1. Introduction - A Tutorial of Sorts -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Complexity Terms -- System Terms -- Engineering Terms -- Elaborations on Some Defined Systems and Their Nuances -- System of Systems -- Non-Technological SoS Factors -- SoS Leadership and Management -- SoS Engineering -- SoS Interoperability -- SoS Architecting -- SoS Modeling and Simulation -- SoS Summary -- Enterprises -- The Enterprise as a System -- Complex Systems -- Degrees of Complexity -- Extremely Complex Problems -- Complex Architecture Considerations -- Description a -- Description b -- Description c -- Description d -- Description e -- Description f -- Description g -- Other Questions -- Requirements Complexity -- Requirements Difficulty -- Cognitive Fog -- Stable Stakeholder Relationships -- Sensitivity to Initial Conditions -- Self-Organization -- Leadership (also, see [24] from Chapter 3) -- Co-Evolution -- Opportunity and Risk -- Modularity -- Complex Systems Engineering -- Interpreting Scale (or View) and Emergence in Complex Systems Engineering -- Practice Drives Theory -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 2. Evolution of Practice - Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems Engineering -- Introduction -- Complexity and Complex Systems -- Complexity Characteristics -- Complex System Behaviors -- Complex System Examples -- Complex System Profilers -- Stakeholders -- Complex Systems Engineering -- CASE Methodology (Early Version) -- Activity 1: Create Climate for Change -- Activity 2: Architect a Strategy -- Activity 3: Target Outcome Spaces -- Activity 4: Reward Results -- Activity 5: Formulate Decision-Making Heuristics -- Activity 6: Stimulate Natural Processes -- Activity 7: Develop in Operational Environs.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Why Study War and Peace? -- The Use of Sociology -- Our Involvement in War -- Chapter Summary -- Questions for Review -- For Further Research -- 2 The Social Structure of War and Peace -- What's Social About War? -- The Social Structure of Peace -- Chapter Summary -- Questions for Review -- For Further Research -- 3 Explaining War -- The Cultural Evolution of War -- Approaches to Explaining War -- Chapter Summary -- Questions for Review -- For Further Research -- 4 Militarism: Making War Possible -- Militarism in Everyday Life -- The Post-Cold War Era -- Chapter Summary -- Questions for Review -- For Further Research -- 5 The Military-Industrial Complex -- Scope of the Military Establishment -- Explaining the High Cost of the Military -- Chapter Summary -- Questions for Review -- For Further Research -- 6 Methods of Avoiding War -- Deterrence -- Arms Control -- Collective Security -- Empire -- World Order -- The Limits of Sovereignty -- Nonsovereign Options -- Chapter Summary -- Questions for Review -- For Further Research -- 7 Methods of Promoting Peace -- The Peace-Justice Connection -- The Creation of Peace -- Chapter Summary -- Questions for Review -- For Further Research -- 8 Epilogue: People and Peacemaking -- Chapter Summary -- For Further Research -- References -- Index.

"Our Germans is a highly engaging history of one of the United States' most controversial intelligence operations during the early Cold War. Project Paperclip brought fifteen hundred German scientists and their dependents to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment and documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the "German brains" who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other "wonder weapons" for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America's emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state."--Provided by publisher

In examining the similarities and differences between Nazi Germany and America today, Fogarty find many reasons for hope that Americans will not fall victim to such chauvinistic appeal, but he also finds plenty to worry about. He points out that comptemporary Americans and Germans of the 1920s and 1930s share many similar values, ideals, fears, and beliefs. Fogarty's strong words of caution will resonoate with anyone concerned about America's political future and the freedoms we too often take for granted. -- Provided by publisher

"The Supreme Court is seen today as the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution. Once the Court has spoken, it is the duty of the citizens and their elected officials to abide by its decisions. But the conception of the Supreme Court as the final interpreter of constitutional law took hold only relatively recently. Drawing on the pragmatic ideals characterized by Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, Charles Sabel, and Richard Posner. Brian E. Butler shows how this conception is inherently problematic for a healthy democracy. Butler offers an alternative democratic conception of constitutional law, "democratic experimentalism," and applies it in a thorough reconstruction of Supreme Court cases across the centuries, such as Brown v. Board of Education, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, and Lochner v. New York. In contrast to the traditional tools and conceptions of legal analysis that see the law as a formally unique and separate type of practice, democratic experimentalism combines democratic aims and experimental practice. Butler also suggests other directions jurisprudential roles could take: for example, adjudication could be performed by primary stakeholders with better information. Ultimately, Butler argues persuasively for a move away from the current absolute centrality of courts toward a system of justice that emphasizes local rule and democratic choice."--Publisher's website

Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938 explores how German World War I veterans from different social and political backgrounds contributed to antisemitic politics during the Weimar Republic. The book compares how the military, right-wing veterans, and Jewish veterans chose to remember their war experiences and translate these memories into a political reality in the postwar world. Brian E. Crim reveals that contested legacies of World War I influenced the growth and content of German antisemitism prior to the Third Reich.

This volume focuses on democratic experimentalism, gathering a collection of original and previously unpublished essays focusing upon its major outlines, as well as specific aspects - both promising and troublesome - of this theoretical approach. Together these essays offer conceptions of democracy and democratic governance that emphasize and highlight experimentalist aspects of pragmatic thought, particularly Deweyan pragmatism, and its relationship to instantiation in concrete social and political institutions. Issues of democratic governance, political organization and the relationship of law to democracy are analyzed.

Citizen Lobbyists explores how U.S. citizens participate in local government. Although many commentators have lamented the apathy of the American citizenry, Brian Adams focuses on what makes ordinary Americans become involved in and attempt to influence public policy issues that concern them. It connects theory and empirical data in a new and revealing way, providing both a thorough review of the relevant scholarly discussions and a detailed case study of citizen engagement in the politics of Santa Ana, a mid-sized Southern California city. After interviewing more than fifty residents, Adams found that they can be best described as "lobbyists" who identify issues of personal importance and then lobby their local government bodies. Through his research, he discovered that public meetings and social networks emerged as essential elements in citizens' efforts to influence local policy. By testing theory against reality, this work fills a void in our understanding of the actual participatory practices of "civically engaged" citizens