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Argues that the principle of subsidiarity refers not only to the competence of different levels of government, but also attributes a critical role to employers and unions in employment and social policy. Suggests that the institutional framework for policy will remain essentially national in character, and increasingly informed by practice in other member states. (Abstract amended)

There is no dearth of literature on the politics of LGBTQ social movements across the globe. The book under review focuses on the United States of America, dealing with the prolonged and dramatic s...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward behavioral computational social science -- 1.1 Research strategies in CSS -- 1.2 Why behavioral CSS -- 1.3 Organization of the book -- PART I CONCEPTS AND METHODS -- Chapter 2 Explanation in computational social science -- 2.1 Concepts -- 2.1.1 Causality -- 2.1.2 Data -- 2.2 Methods -- 2.2.1 ABMs -- 2.2.2 Statistical mechanics, system dynamics, and cellular automata -- 2.3 Tools -- 2.4 Critical issues: Uncertainty, model communication -- Chapter 3 Observation and explanation in behavioral sciences -- 3.1 Concepts -- 3.2 Observation methods -- 3.2.1 Naturalistic observation and case studies -- 3.2.2 Surveys -- 3.2.3 Experiments and quasiexperiments -- 3.3 Tools -- 3.4 Critical issues: Induced responses, external validity, and replicability -- Chapter 4 Reasons for integration -- 4.1 The perspective of agent-based modelers -- 4.2 The perspective of behavioral social scientists -- 4.3 The perspective of social sciences in general -- PART II BEHAVIORAL COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE IN PRACTICE -- Chapter 5 Behavioral agents -- 5.1 Measurement scales of data -- 5.2 Model calibration -- 5.2.1 Single decision variable and simple decision function -- 5.2.2 Multiple decision variables and multilevel decision trees -- 5.3 Model classification -- 5.4 Critical issues: Validation, uncertainty modeling -- Chapter 6 Sophisticated agents -- 6.1 Common features of sophisticated agents -- 6.2 Cognitive processes -- 6.2.1 Reinforcement learning -- 6.2.2 Other models of bounded rationality -- 6.2.3 Nature-inspired algorithms -- 6.3 Cognitive structures -- 6.3.1 Middle-level structures -- 6.3.2 Rich cognitive models -- 6.4 Critical issues: Calibration, validation, robustness, social interface -- Chapter 7 Social networks and other interaction structures.

Chapter 1: "Instrumentalism" and Friedman's Methodology: A Short Objection -- Chapter 2: A Sort of Paretian Liberalism -- Chapter 3: Liberty, Equality, and Impossibility: Some General Results in the Space of "Soft" Preferences -- Chapter 4: The Arrow Paradox with Fuzzy Preferences -- Chapter 5: Equality, Priority, and Distributional Judgements -- Chapter 6: Two Logical and Normative Issues Relating to Measurement in the Social Sciences -- Chapter 7: Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement -- Chapter 8: Reckoning Sub-Group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty -- Chapter 9: Poverty Measurement in the Presence of a "Group Affiliation Externality" -- Chapter 10: Revisiting the Normalization Axiom in Poverty Measurement -- Chapter 11: The Focus Axiom and Poverty: On the Co-existence of Precise Language and Ambiguous Meaning in Economic Measurement -- Chapter 12: Assessing Inequality in the Presence of Growth -- Chapter 13: Revisiting an Old Theme in the Measurement of Inequality and Poverty -- Chapter 14: Inequality Measurement with Subgroup Decomposability and Level-Sensitivity.5500 |s| |a|Behavioral economics.