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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note on References, Names, Abbreviations, and Translations -- Introduction -- Part I. Setting the Stage -- Chapter 1. The Miracle of (Hot) Water: The Emergence of the Roman Public Bathhouse as a Cultural Institution -- Chapter 2. A Literary Bathhouse: Realities and Perceptions at a Roman (Jewish) Public Bath -- Chapter 3. Earliest Encounters: Archaeology, Scholarly Debate, and the Shifting Grounds of Interpretation -- Part II. Filtered Absorption -- Chapter 4. A Sinful Place? Rabbinic Laws (Halakhah) and Feelings about the Public Bathhouse -- Chapter 5. Tsni'ut (Rabbinic Modes of Modesty) in the Halls of Promiscuity: Mixed Bathing and Nudity in the Public Bathhouse -- Chapter 6. The Naked Rabbi and the Beautiful Goddess: Engaging with Sculpture in the Public Bathhouse -- Part III. Social and Cultural Textures -- Chapter 7. A Social Laboratory: Status and Hierarchy in a Provincial Roman Bathhouse -- Chapter 8. A Scary Place: The Perils of the Bath and Jewish Magic Remedies -- In Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Bibliography of Scholarly Works -- Index of Ancient Citations -- General Index.

This paper discusses a pervasive yet neglected form of social interaction, that between service staff and customers. Observational and video data from two different shop settings are used to explore three aspects of service interactions. First, queues are discussed, a mundane yet massively prevalent device for managing when and how customers are served. Queues depend on customers ability to 'work the queue', to be able to see who is queuing and their place in the queue. This rests not only on the recognition of queuing behaviour, but also its production by those queuing. Second, artefacts in shop settings have not only a material role, but are resources used in interaction. The shop counter is both a surface to place goods, and a shared interactional space between customer and staff where the placement of goods has meaning for the interaction. Third, staff and customers manage their interactions using rhetorical devices, such as using three part list display can be used to show the validity of advice being given. From these observations we draw two conclusions: Behaviour in service settings has a strong moral component in that divergences from correct behaviour (such as queue skipping) are quickly sanctioned. This morality is from those in the setting, rather than an analyst's judgement, suggesting that the morality of economic markets can be studied as an endogenous feature of those markets. Second, customer service relies upon a prevalent yet powerful 'ordinary vision' - the skills of seeing, but also producing, the predictable actions that make up the order of service.

Preliminary Material /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons -- Introduction Legal Front of the Cold War: Why? /Tatiana Iu. Borisova and William B. Simons -- Talking Across the Fence: Cold-War Academic Cooperation in the Legal Sphere /Jane Henderson -- Soviet Law and Perestroika Revisited /Albert J. Schmidt -- The New Political Polarization of the World and the Reform of State Property Management in Russia /Zlata E. Benevolenskaya -- The Relevance of the Cold War for Russian Jurisprudence: Private Law /Leena Lehtinen -- Russian International Law and Indeterminacy: Cold War and Post-Soviet Dynamics /Boris N. Mamlyuk -- Separation of Powers without Checks and Balances: The Failure of Semi-Presidentialism and the Making of the Russian Constitutional System, 1991-1993 /William Partlett -- The Impact of the Cold War on Soviet and US Law: Reconsidering the Legacy /Paul B. Stephan -- Photographs /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons -- List of Contributors /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons -- Subject-Matter Index /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons -- Name Index /Tatiana Borisova and William Simons.

AbstractChildren begin interacting less across racial lines around middle childhood, but it remains unclear why. We examine the novel possibility that, at that time, children's prejudice theories—their understanding of prejudice as a fixed or malleable attribute—begin to influence their desire for interracial affiliation. We devise immersive behavioral experiences to evaluate when and how prejudice theories affect interracial affiliation. Study 1 measured prejudice theories among 8–13‐year‐olds (N = 152; 76 White, 76 racial minority) and observed children in a newly‐developed social interaction task. In line with our hypothesis, children older than 10 years with stronger malleable‐prejudice theories exhibited more interest and affiliation in a simulated cross‐ (vs. same‐race) interaction, regardless of their preexisting prejudice level. Study 2 randomly assigned children to listen to a fixed‐ or malleable‐prejudice theory story before engaging in a real, first‐time interaction with a same‐ or cross‐race partner at a different school via live video‐stream (N = 150; 96 White, 54 racial minority). The malleable theory increased children's interest in further interaction with their cross‐race partner. These findings highlight the promise of malleable‐prejudice theories for sustaining positive interracial relationships during a critical developmental window—when the frequency of cross‐race friendships typically declines.

This article provides an empirical test of an informational model of lobbying. The model predicts when lobbyists provide useful information to policy makers and when policy makers follow lobbyists' advice. The predictions are assessed against data on the policy positions and lobbying activities of firms and other organised groups in the context of 28 policy proposals advanced by United Kingdom governments between 2001 and 2007. The results suggest that the interactions between policy makers and lobbyists are driven mainly by the expected policy costs for policy makers, providing lobbyists with strong incentives to provide correct advice to policy makers. There is little support for the expectation that lobbyists can successfully persuade policy makers to take a course of action that is beneficial to the lobbyist at the expense of wider constituencies. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractThis article provides an empirical test of an informational model of lobbying. The model predicts when lobbyists provide useful information to policy makers and when policy makers follow lobbyists' advice. The predictions are assessed against data on the policy positions and lobbying activities of firms and other organised groups in the context of 28 policy proposals advanced by United Kingdom governments between 2001 and 2007. The results suggest that the interactions between policy makers and lobbyists are driven mainly by the expected policy costs for policy makers, providing lobbyists with strong incentives to provide correct advice to policy makers. There is little support for the expectation that lobbyists can successfully persuade policy makers to take a course of action that is beneficial to the lobbyist at the expense of wider constituencies.

AbstractWe test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, canvassers supporting the candidates' list, or to a control group. While canvassers' visits increased turnout by 1.8 percentage points, candidates' had no impact on participation. Candidates increased their own vote share in the precincts they canvassed, but only at the expense of other candidates on the list. This suggests that their failure to mobilize non‐voters resulted from focusing on securing the preferences of active voters.

"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "List of Abbreviations" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Thinking with Calvinist Networks: From the â€Calvinist International" to the â€Venice Affair" (1608–1610)" -- "2 London, Nerve Centre of the Huguenot Diplomatic Network in the Later Sixteenth Century" -- "3 The Herbert Connection, the French Church and Westminster Politics, 1643–1661" -- "4 Abel Boyer and Other Huguenot Reporters of Parliament: Hansard Avant la Lettre?" -- "5 Information Professionals: Huguenot Diplomats in Later Stuart London and Their European Context" -- "6 Overcoming the Conformist/Nonconformist Divide: Huguenot Networking in Later Stuart London" -- "7 Choosing the Path to Exile: Networks, Destinations and Determinants" -- "8 Alexandre Sasserie of Paris, London and Thorpe-le-Soken: A Man of Trust in the Refuge" -- "9 Huguenot and Nonconformist Networks: Philip Dupont in Late Stuart Suffolk" -- "10 West Coast Connections: The Correspondence Network of Élie Bouhéreau of La Rochelle" -- "11 Financial Networks and the Payment of Military Pensions, 1692–1720" -- "12 The Early Huguenot Community of Dublin and Its Networks" -- "13 English Relief Activities for Continental Protestants in the Eighteenth Century: Perpetuating Religious Networks in the Age of Reason" -- "Glossary" -- "Contributors".

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How Does Success Vary? Redefining Democratic Success -- 3. Why Do Cases Vary? A Comparative Approach -- 4. Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl: Participatory Democracy or Clientelistic Participation? -- 5. León: Participation as Fragmented Inclusion -- 6. Recife: From Clientelism to Disempowering Cooption -- 7. Belo Horizonte: The Route Toward Democratic Cooperation? -- 8. Conclusion: Comparative Lessons for Participatory Democracy Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This paper uses novel electronic tools to identify the degree to which Australia was listening to Indigenous peoples in a 'national conversation' about constitutional recognition between 2015 and late 2017. The results show that while there was a superficial overlap in themes, there were important differences of framing. Recognition remained a largely formal, elite and non-Indigenous concern, with First Nations focusing on treaties, sovereignty, listening and respect. Interaction was noticeably aggressive, but not exclusively so. Non-Indigenous people avoided discussing racism, and talked more frequently about history, framing issues in the past tense; First Nations talked about the here and now. And despite more focus on everyday racism, Indigenous peoples were consistently more positive and proud, rejecting 'plight' constructions

We explore the properties of foreigner talk through word reduction. Word reduction signals that the speaker is referring to the same entity as previously and should be preserved for foreigner talk. However, it leads to intelligibility loss, which works against foreigner talk. Pairs of speakers engaged in a task where native speakers talked either to a native or non-native listener. Natives talking to non-natives performed foreigner talk for duration and intensity. Duration and intensity were reduced for native and non-native listeners equally. These results suggest that word reduction is insensitive to communicative adjustments in the context of foreign talk. ; This work was supported by grants from the Spanish Government (PSI2011-23033, Consolider Ingenio 2010 CSD2007-00012) and the Catalan government (Consolidat SGR 2009-1521). Sara RodríguezCuadrado was supported by a predoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Government (FPU 2008–2012). Cristina Baus was supported by the People Program (Marie Curie Actions, FP7- PEOPLE 2014–2016) under REA agreement n° 623845.We would like to thank Sumeer Chadha, Joanna Corey and Carlos Romero-Rivas for their assistance during data recruitment and manuscript elaboration.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration and place names -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: global environmental change and the Soviet Union -- 2 Shaping human-nature interaction: Soviet Union and the Great Acceleration -- 3 Understanding the natural environment and the growing influence of humankind on the Earth system -- 4 Measuring and assessing the natural environment -- 5 Russia and society-nature interaction in the 21st Century -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

by Li Hang-tsang, Steven. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-138). ; Abstract also in Chinese. ; List of Tables --- p.i ; List of Charts --- p.iii ; List of Diagrams --- p.iii ; Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.1 --- Global Interaction and Economic Development --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.2 --- Sociological Perspectives of Economic Development --- p.3 ; Chapter 1.3 --- Network Perspective of Global Interaction --- p.7 ; Chapter 1.4 --- Objectives and research Design --- p.9 ; Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.11 ; Chapter 2.1 --- World System Perspective and Global Interaction --- p.11 ; Chapter 2.1.1 --- Classification Scheme of World System Perspective --- p.12 ; Chapter 2.1.2 --- Global Interaction and the Operation of Capitalism --- p.13 ; Chapter 2.2 --- Global Interaction and Economic Development --- p.19 ; Chapter 2.2.1 --- Economic Business Cycle and Economic Development --- p.20 ; Chapter 2.2.2 --- Global Factors and Economic Development --- p.22 ; Chapter 2.2.3 --- Local Factors and Economic Development --- p.24 ; Chapter 2.3 --- Critiques and Limitations of World System Perspective --- p.25 ; Chapter 2.3.1 --- The Limitation of Theory Testing --- p.26 ; Chapter 2.3.2 --- Insufficient Study of Global Interaction --- p.27 ; Chapter (1) --- Interaction Among Core Countries --- p.29 ; Chapter (2) --- Interaction Between Core Country and Semi-Peripheral Country --- p.30 ; Chapter (3) --- Interaction Among Peripheral Countries --- p.31 ; Chapter (4) --- Other Unspecified Interaction --- p.31 ; Chapter 2.3.3 --- The Ignored Facets of Global Interaction --- p.32 ; Chapter (1) --- Interaction Partner --- p.32 ; Chapter (2) --- Interaction Intensity --- p.32 ; Chapter (3) --- The Combined Effect of Interaction Partner and Interaction Intensity --- p.33 ; Chapter 2.4 --- The Network Perspective and New Conception to Global Interaction --- p.35 ; Chapter Chapter 3 --- Conceptual Framework and Hypotheses --- p.39 ...

Objective: This study presents outcomes from a randomized trial of a novel Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) model for foster families. Differential effects of two intervention doses on child externalizing and internalizing symptoms are examined. Method: A sample of 102 foster children was assigned to one of three conditions—brief PCIT, extended PCIT, or wait-list control. The brief and extended groups received 2 days of PCIT training and 8 weeks of telephone consultation. The extended PCIT group received an additional booster training plus 6 more weeks of consultation. Wait-list controls received services as usual. Tests of change over time were estimated using mixed-model repeated measures analysis of covariance. Results: Compared to controls, children in both PCIT groups exhibited a greater reduction in externalizing and internalizing scores over time. Pairwise contrasts of the two PCIT conditions yielded mixed results. Conclusion: Results indicate that PCIT can be tailored efficaciously for foster families using alternative treatment modalities.