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First published in 1984, this book considers, from the vantage point of the authors considerable experience of a wide range of evaluation, the ways in which they, and others, have coped with ethical and political problems that inherently arise during the evaluation process, particularly that of the responsive or democratic type.

"This classic text argues that the institutional rules of the presidential election process, in combination with the behavior of the mass electorate, structure the strategic choices faced by politicians. Thoroughly revised and updated, this 16th edition provides everything students need to know about presidential elections going into the 2024 cycle"--

The Soviet Union and Terrorism (1984) examines the extent of Soviet involvement in international terrorism, and the aims and objectives of Soviet foreign policy. It looks at the evidence of changing Soviet attitudes to terrorism from 1917 to the 1980s, and from the field of terrorist operations.

Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own constitutional texts. It contains the texts of all four Soviet constitutions, and a chapter of commentary precedes each text. An overall assessment of Soviet constitutional development is offered in the concluding chapter.

Originally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer. It advocates scientific research seeking out changes which are already taking place within the smallholder farming sector and building on local initiatives. Drawing on his experience of West Africa, the author demonstrates that many of the most successful innovations in food-crop production during the 20th century have indigenous roots and that there should therefore be less emphasis on teaching' farmers how to farm and more emphasis on how to foster and support local adaptation and inventiveness. This book will be of interest to students of agriculture, environmental studies and rural development as well as those working with relief and development agencies.

This re-issue makes a classic text widely available again for a new generation of students of international organizations. It discusses with great sophistication three evergreen legal issues: the position of international organizations in public and private international law; issues of membership and representations; and standard-setting.

"Sir Karl Popper was a major thinker of the twentieth century, one who - as Anthony O'Hear writes in his new Foreword - "has had a beneficent influence on those who have come under the spell of his thought and of the inimitable prose in which he articulates it". It is now 25 years since Popper died, and thus seems - after a quarter of a century - an apposite moment to revaluate his impact, significance and influence. The several chapters in this classic volume focus on many key elements of Popper's thought and philosophy. They are by no means uncritical, but afford Popper the respect due to a philosopher who wrote always with a degree of clarity, precision and directness rare in the academic world of his time, and - as O'Hear puts it - "even rarer subsequently". This important book constitutes an essential introduction to some the most esteemed philosophical writing of our times. Anthony O'Hear, OBE, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham. He is an Honorary Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Editor of the Institute's journal Philosophy"--

In General Practice Revisited, originally published in 1981, Ann Cartwright and Robert Anderson compare the experiences and views described in an earlier study, carried out in 1964, published in Cartwright's book Patients and their Doctors (1967), with those revealed by a second survey in 1977.

First published in 1984, Women who do and women who don't join the women's movement asks a variety of women - some of whom chose to align themselves with the women's movement, others who chose not to - to write about their lives and the reasons for choices they have made.

Communism in Transition (1993) examines the mainstays of Communist ideology, and goes on to look at the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe. It also analyses Asian and Latin American Communist systems and their challenges to the non-Communist world, and concludes by evaluating the democratic revolutions in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe, their possible effect on other Communist states, why the revolutions surprised Western pundits, and the implications of these events for world peace.

First published in 1984, the title looks at the field of elderly care and domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with early influences that helped shape the development of Domiciliary Services, the author goes on to look at how the service has developed over the years and where it falls short.