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"Prepared and edited by Clyde Lyndon King"--P. [viii]. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ; pt. 1. Types of county government -- pt. 2. Typical problems in county government -- pt. 3. Plans for the reorganization of county government. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Between 1980 and 1985 representatives of academic science changed their policy positions, moving from veneration of basic or fundamental research to promotion of entrepreneurial science. This change is examined through research university presidents' testimony before the U.S. Congress. The presidents' move from "fruits of research" narratives that emphasize the benefits of basic science to narratives that celebrate technology based on fundamental research in "orders of magnitude more production from the efforts of orders of magnitude less workers. " This change reflects presidents' endorsement of conservative policy initiatives that depend on privatization, deregulation, and commercialization of science. These policies will probably result in major realignments within research universities, with institutional managers, scientists, and graduate students in the physical sciences involved in entrepreneurial activity receiving privileges and rewards that other faculty and students do not.

У статті досліджено методи використання інформаційно-комунікаційних технологій у процесі викладання політології. Доведено, що впровадження новітніх технологій активізує пізнавальну діяльність та підвищує мотивацію студентів технічних вищих навчальних закладів до вивчення дисциплін соціально- гуманітарного профілю. ; The main goal of this article is to examine the methods of the information and communication technologies used in political science teaching. The author shows that the introduction of the latest technologies improves cognitive activity and increases the motivation of technical higher education school students to the studying of social and humanitarian disciplines.

The article is devoted to history of periodicals in Great Britain in a context of evolution of democratic institutes of the British society. The problem is considered on an example of one of bright episodes of history of the British parliamentarism of 1875. Work is based on materials of the British parliament, the press, memoirs.

Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science

This commentary focuses on the politics of public space in democracy and dictatorship. It delves into what Peter Winn calls the revolution 'from below' from the perspective of urban conflict, suggesting a political history that attends to urban and visual culture as a crucial arena of political practice. It suggests that the often-conflictive battle over public spaces was, and continues to be, a mechanism by which an unprecedented range of citizens entered into an ongoing debate over the boundaries of citizenship, practice, politics and that this practice was adapted, transformed and reimagined over the last five decades. The struggle over streets and walls continues to be central to Chilean political history, and urban space remains a field of ongoing contest and debate: the estallido of social unrest in contemporary Chile connected a new generation of activists to this longer history of creative politics of protest and protest art and gave them the opportunity to articulate new forms of intersectional political thought in public space, even in the face of state-sponsored violence. Studying these forms of unrest reveals that theirs is an incisive, intersectional critique of the limits of the 'transition to democracy', of neoliberal democracies and of the legacies of dictatorship.

Reviews Revolution in Science, I. Bernard Cohen, (Cambridge, Mass and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987). Suggests that given the current historiography of scientific revolution and the enormous range of Cohen's book it is inconceivable that it will not be at the top of everyone's list when pondering this subject. (JLN)

During the last twenty years Business History has become one of Economic History's most important subdivisions. This has been partly, but certainly not altogether, the result of prosperity. With highlevel employment and income the general attitude toward the businessman has changed. He is no longer popularly regarded as the personification of viliainy. In the "new Business History" he has fared very well indeed. He has not been restored to a place among the saints, but he certainly is back among the choir boys. There are two points of view on this whole development. One is to condemn the new Business History as a sinister plot on the part of Big Business to bamboozle the American public. The other is to regard the new Business History as the most promising of the three major developments that have taken place in Economic History during the last thirty years.

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The waxing and waning of faith in science -- Scientific ideology and "value free" science -- What is ethics? -- Ethics and research on human beings -- Animal research -- Biotechnology and ethics: is genetic engineering intrinsically wrong? -- Biotechnology and ethics II: rampaging monsters and suffering animal -- Biotechnology and ethics III: cloning, xenotransplantation and stem cells -- Pain and ethics -- Ethics in science.

Originally published in 1953, this was the first post-War study in either English or French of the institutions and law relating to French local government and on the practice of French local administration. It is a study in political science and therefore, although the basic laws governing local institutions are dealt with in some detail, the aim is to give a picture of those institutions at work in the middle of the 20th Century. The book assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and will be of interest to students of French government and comparative political institutions.

The project of public-reason liberalism faces a basic problem: publicly justified principles are typically too abstract and vague to be directly applied to practical political disputes, whereas applicable specifications of these principles are not uniquely publicly justified. One solution could be a legislative procedure that selects one member from the eligible set of inconclusively justified proposals. Yet if liberal principles are too vague to select sufficiently specific legislative proposals, can they, nevertheless, select specific legislative procedures? Based on the work of Gerald Gaus, this article argues that the only candidate for a conclusively justified decision procedure is a majoritarian or otherwise 'neutral' democracy. If the justification of democracy requires an equality baseline in the design of political regimes and if justifications for departure from this baseline are subject to reasonable disagreement, a majoritarian design is justified by default. Gaus's own preference for super-majoritarian procedures is based on disputable specifications of justified liberal principles. These procedures can only be defended as a sectarian preference if the equality baseline is rejected, but then it is not clear how the set of justifiable political regimes can be restricted to full democracies. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]