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A MODEL OF BUREAUCRATIC BENHAVIOR IS APPLIED TO THE PROBLEM OF CONSOLIDATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT. IT CAN BE PREDICTED THAT CONSOLIDATION WILL BE PROMOTED BY REDUCTIONS IN MLGRATION COSTS, BY THE BREAKDOWN OF FAMILY AND PERSONAL TIES, AND BY INCREASED PERSONAL MOBILITY; MORE CONSOLIDATION WILL TAKE PLACE IN THOSE PUBLIC GOODS WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO LOW MIGRATION COST.

EXPLORES FUNCTIONS OF ELECTIONS IN A ONE-PARTY STATE, WITH PARTICULAR AITENTION TO AIMS OF TANZANIAN LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZING ELECTIONS 1965-70. STUDIES ELECTORAL MACHINERY. CONSIDERS HYPOTHESES ON PURPOSES, INCLUDING LEGITIMIZATION, MASS MOBILIZATION, POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION, AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION. SHOWS HOW ELECTIONS PROVIDE A SYMBOLIC LAN GUAGE, OF VARYING MEANINGS ON EACH LEVEL OF SOCIETY.

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism Controversy to defend the philosophical legacies of Spinoza and Leibniz against F. H. Jacobi's philosophy of faith, captured the attention of a young Leo Strauss and played a critical role in the development of his thought on one of the fundamental themes of his life's work: the conflicting demands of reason and revelation.Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn is a superbly annotated translation of ten introduct

1. Religion and urban theory -- 2. Discourses of diversity -- 3. The two towers -- 4. Religion in a context of super-diversity -- 5. Taking to the streets -- 6. The year of the golden pig -- 7. Urban memory -- 8. Managing discourses of religious diversity.

"John Rawls was the most influential political thinker of the twentieth century. This book applies his theory of justice to four perennial matters of concern that remain contested in the twenty-first century. Drawing surprising implications, this book deepens our understanding of these issues and points the way toward rational, just policy reform"--

Gustav Radbruchs staatstheoretisches und staatsrechtliches Werk tritt in der Wahrnehmung - nicht jedoch in seiner Bedeutung - hinter seinem rechtsphilosophischen und strafrechtlichen Werk zurück. Diesem Befund tritt die vorliegende Arbeit entgegen und stellt das verfassungsrechtliche Denken Radbruchs umfassend in einer übergreifenden Perspektive dar. Dabei werden Biographie, rechtsphilosophische Grundlegung und staatsrechtliche Ansätze in den Blick genommen, um die verschiedenen Arbeiten zusammenzufügen, Zusammenhänge aufzuzeigen und Radbruchs Konzept eines demokratischen Parteienstaates in se

On defining religion -- On ethnography -- Of requiems and reincarnation -- Of graveyards and kitchens -- Of starsigns and soap operas -- On gender -- On the elementary form of religious life