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In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others.

Only some Americans fully exercise their rights as citizens, and they usually come from the more advantaged segments of society. Those who enjoy higher incomes, more occupational success, and the highest levels of formal education are the ones most likely to participate in politics and make their needs and values known to government officials. Our review of research on inequality and political participation as well as other components of American political life demonstrates an extraordinary association between economic and political inequality.

In the article questions of voting of one-company towns of the Republic of Karelia on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation are investigated in the summer of 2020. The interest of the appeal to a single case is caused by low values of electoral turnout in the region. The analysis of the results of the referendum in single-profile municipalities of the Republic is due to low socio-economic indicators in comparison with the rest of the Russian Federation. The paper contains a table that provides information on the percentage of voter turnout and the distribution of responses to constitutional amendments for each polling station in 11 single-industry towns in Karelia. The study identified two groups of factors that influenced the results of the constitutional referendum in single-industry municipalities in the region. The first category included circumstances that are typical for all regions of the Russian Federation: psychological fatigue from information about the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of voting for the summer vacation period. The second included specific indicators typical of Karelian single-industry towns: the combination of elements of patriarchal and national political culture in the practice of electoral participation, the geographical location of singleindustry towns on the territory of the Republic, their distance from the center and proximity to European borders.

Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis, edited by Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman, and Sanford Schram, is an interesting read in the context of the current assault on both the scientific status and the practical utility of social science in general and political science specifically. In it, the editors collect examples of social scientific work that embrace what Flyvbjerg and others have described as phronetic social science. This approach makes creative use of the Aristotelian intellectual virtue of phronesis, or practical wisdom, which the editors identify with the knowledge of how to address and act on social problems in a particular context. Rather than emphasizing the universal truth (episteme) that has traditionally been the summum bonum of social scientific inquiry, or fixating on the know-how (techne) that is characteristic of methodologically driven approaches, Flyvbjerg, Landman, and Schram present examples of social scientific research where contextual knowledge, deep understanding of embedded power dynamics, and immediate relevance to political reality take center stage. In so doing they give the lie to those who would deny the practical relevance of social research. At the same time, however, the editors develop an understanding of phronesis that marginalizes valuable elements of Aristotle's understanding of the intellectual virtue, most notably its basis in self-examination, while simultaneously bringing phronesis much closer to techne by seeking to develop their phronetic social science along methodological lines.

The rise of scientific thinking in finding, catching, and convicting criminals-and, just as important, freeing the innocent-has transformed society's assault on crime. Before scientific detective work, early attempts to maintain public safety relied on the severity of punishment rather than any probability of apprehension. But with the rapid development of the sciences in the nineteenth century, some techniques began to spill over into more effective police work. Michael Kurland's engrossing history of forensic science recounts this remarkable progress, which continues to the prese

The measurement of science and technology (S&T) is now fifty years old. It owes a large part of its existence to the work of the National Science Foundation and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in the 1950s and 1960s. Given the centrality of S&T statistics in science studies, it is surprising that no history of the measurement exists in the literature. This article outlines such a history. The history is cast in the light of social statistics. Like social statistics, S&T indicators are produced mainly by governments but differ in a number of aspects. First, they have not been developed to control individuals. Second, they have taken shape from the start at the international level. Third, they reflect a consensus among states and their organizations. This article shows that this specificity is due to the sociopolitics that drives S&T measurement.

Vols. 1-21 edited by H. B. Adams. ; Some volumes issued in reprint editions. ; Vol. 23 called ser. 20, extra number. ; Vol. 22 issued without series numbering and title. ; Vol. 5 never published. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Significant analytical improvements have occurred since glycated haemoglobin (GHb), measured as total HbA1, was first used in routine clinical laboratories around 1977. Following the publication of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) study in 1993 the issue of international standardisation became an important objective for scientists and clinicians. The lack of international standardisation led several countries to develop national standardisation programs. The International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) Working Group on Standardisation of HbA1c established a true international reference measurement system for HbA1c and the successful preparation of pure HbA1c calibration material that should lead to further improvements in inter-method and inter-laboratory variability. Reporting of HbA1c has been agreed using the units of mmol/mol (IFCC) and percent (National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program, NGSP).

"V-7125T"--Cover. ; Includes index. ; Shipping list no.: 2003-0045-P. ; "Published 2002"--P. ii. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.