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Learning from a century of planning politics -- Planning politics -- On wedges and corridors -- Retrofitting suburbia -- The death and life of Silver Spring -- The end of suburbia? -- Trials in corridor city planning -- Errors in corridor city planning -- The agricultural reserve -- Growth pains and policy -- The public interest -- The importance of planning and politics

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Transformed from a rural hinterland into the home a million people and a half-million jobs, Montgomery County built a national reputation for innovation in land use policy—including inclusive zoning, linking zoning to master plans, preservation of farmland and open space, growth management, and transit-oriented development. A pervasive theme of Suburb involves the struggle for influence over land use policy between two virtual suburban republics. Developers, their business allies, and sympathetic officials sought a virtuous cycle of market-guided growth in which land was a commodity and residents were customers who voted with their feet. Homeowners, environmentalists, and their allies saw themselves as citizens and stakeholders with moral claims on the way development occurred and made their wishes known at the ballot box. In a book that will be of particular interest to planning practitioners, attorneys, builders, and civic activists, Hanson evaluates how well the development pattern produced by decades of planning decisions served the public interest.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Ideal and the Real in the Reform of Metropolitan Governance -- 1. Land Development and Metropolitan Reform -- 2. Fiscal Issues in the Reform of Metropolitan Governance -- 3. Environmental Imperatives and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of Boston -- 4. A British Approach to the Reform of Metropolitan Governance: The Redcliffe-Maud Report, 1966-1969

This book explores small town austere Britain. The text argues for a return to both dialectical thinking and politicized community research, in light of the current 'austere' landscape, in order to intellectually militate against centre-right think tanks. It also urges for a kind of epistemological anarchism, which refuses to view the small towns which are the subject of the book through existing 'common sense' paradigms, particularly those of state and capital, but also those of cosy localism.

Too Weak to Govern investigates the power of the majority party in the United States Senate through a study of the appropriations process over a period of nearly four decades. It uses quantitative analysis, case studies, and interviews with policy makers to show that the majority party is more likely to abandon routine procedures for passing spending bills in favor of creating massive 'omnibus' spending bills when it is small, divided, and ideologically distant from the minority. This book demonstrates that the majority party's ability to influence legislative outcomes is greater than previously understood but that it operates under important constraints. However, the majority generally cannot use its power to push its preferred policies through to approval. Overall, the weakness of the Senate majority party is a major reason for the breakdown of the congressional appropriations process over the past forty years

Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev''s clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very heart of the Russian story in the twentieth century. Economic issues were the cornerstone of soviet ideology and the soviet system, and economic issues brought the whole system crashing down in 1989-91. This book is a

How did the conduct of business come to be so different in different countries? Why are some less developed countries in the process of rapid industrialization while so many others remain poor? Analysts often point to national differences in the cultures of business to explain these patterns. What then, accounts for these differences in culture? We can gain some insights into these issues by considering the incentives that are likely to shape the behaviors of upwardly mobile sub-elites. Patterns of elite initiatives in the early years of industrialization have an enduring impact on the subsequent conduct of business. Understanding the impact of history can provide important insights into contemporary business practices. Viewed from the perspective of developmental history, apparently independent phenomena can often be seen as different aspects of a common pattern. Questions about the relation between our collective past experiences and future performances are also relevant for our understanding of democratic self-governance. Governments are generally engaged in nation building. What works? Why? Where are we collectively headed? This volume suggests some answers. Author David Hanson develops an analysis that focuses on governing elites, the need for security, and the search for status. His analysis rests on considerations of social structure, conflict, and psychology rather than on resources, markets and economics. The result is a book to offer international managers an understanding of history's critical role in fully understanding the societies in which they operate.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations of Works by Kierkegaard -- Introduction -- Part 1. Beginnings and Method -- The Elusive Reductions of Søren Kierkegaard -- Kierkegaard Between Fundamental Ontology and Theology:Phenomenological Approaches to Love of God -- Part 2. Self-Consciousness and Self-Givenness -- Divine Givenness and Self-Givenness in Kierkegaard -- Freedom Through Despair: Kierkegaard's Phenomenological Analysis -- Self-Givenness and Self-Understanding: Kierkegaard and the Question of Phenomenology -- Part 3. God and Experience -- A Phenomenological Proof? The Challenge of Arguing for God in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship -- Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Temptation -- The Meaning of "Negative Phenomena" in Kierkegaard's Theory of Subjectivity -- Part 4. Conclusions and Questions -- Kierkegaard: Reenchanting the Lebenswelt -- Kierkegaard and the Limits of Phenomenology -- Contributors

- First things first -- Signposts and landmarks -- The contexts of law : sketches of the stories of law -- Reading and understanding legislation -- Reading and understanding law reports -- Reading texts about law -- The anatomy of argument -- Legal reasoning -- Writing the law -- Speaking the law -- Exam strategies