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Bringing Down the Educational Wall studies the causes of educational expansion in a global sample of developing and developed countries from 1960 to 2005. The book explores how the interaction between the economic context of nations (economic development and inequality) and political factors (the type of political regime and the ideology of dictatorships) influences countries' educational outcomes. The book's main contributions are the exploration of ideological differences between autocratic regimes and the tracing of changes in different parts of the income distribution, which accounts for education expanding to broad sectors of the population. Bringing Down the Educational Wall introduces a new database on the ideology of dictatorships and uses quantitative methods and case analyses to test its theoretical arguments. This work will help students in comparative politics and political economy courses to develop their understanding of redistributive policies and the effects of political factors on the expansion of education.

Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' as having a special, sovereign power. Despite the centrality of this idea in our thinking, we have little understanding of why it has such importance. Imagined Sovereignties probes the considerable force that 'the people' exercises on our thought and practice. Like the imagined communities described by Benedict Anderson, popular politics is formed around shared, imaginary constructs rooted in our collective imagination. This book investigates these 'imagined sovereignties' in a genealogy traversing the French Enlightenment, the Haitian Revolution, and nineteenth-century Haitian constitutionalism. It problematizes taken-for-granted ideas about popular politics and provokes new ways of imagining the power of the people.

Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 The Idea of the City of Refuge -- 2 The Sacred Squareness of Cities -- 3 The Protestant Tempering of Utopia -- 4 Christianopolis -- 5 The Lord's Grove -- 6 Harmony -- 7 Economy -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgments.

A personal note -- The meaning of development -- Meaning of sustainable development -- Culture and society -- Development of human societies -- Economy and society -- Economy and globalization -- Perspectives on development -- Cultural theory of development -- Obstacles to development -- Education and development -- Stages of sociocultural transformation -- Toward sustainable development -- A world in transition -- Concluding remarks

"Glaciers is a volume about the role glaciers play in our daily lives (often without us knowing), the risks posed to glaciers from natural and anthropogenic activity (including climate change and industrial pollution), and policies and practices that should be employed to protect this fundamental hydrological reserve"--

Today's overextended families are always on the go-even eating in the car. But research shows that family dinners (with people actually gathered at the table) offer benefits far beyond nutrition. Sharing meals and conversation helps everyone unwind, connect, and develop a sense of who they are as a family. Studies have linked regular family dinners with increased resiliency and self-esteem, higher academic achievement, a healthier relationship to food, and even reduced risk of substance abuse and eating disorders. What else takes just an hour a day and packs such a punch? Written by a family t