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This article presents the results ofa study to design and assess the feasibility of conducting a national Medicaid Access Survey to generate timely, state-specific estimates of access to care for Medicaid enrollees. State-specific data on Medicaid access is especially relevant because state programs and environments vary considerably and are changing rapidly in ways that could influence access. We analyze (1) basic survey design parameters and instrument content, (2) alternative sampling approaches and their feasibility, (3) pilot test results, (4) the feasibility of using existing national surveys to generate comparison estimates for state-based surveys, and (5) estimates of the required sample size and costs for such a national Medicaid Access Survey. We conclude that a survey generating timely, state-speafic estimates of Medicaid access is both feasible and affordable if attention is paid to key design challenges while keeping objectives and design simple.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Nation-States in History -- PART 1. NATIONAL IDENTITIES -- Chapter 1. Nationalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Liberal Democratic State -- Chapter 2. What States Can Do with Nations: An Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation? -- Chapter 3. A State without a Nation? Russia after Empire -- Chapter 4. The Return of the Coercive State: Behavioral Control in Multicultural Society -- PART 2. STATE SECURITY -- Chapter 5. States, Security Function, and the New Global Forces -- Chapter 6. States and War in Africa -- PART 3. STATE AUTONOMY -- Chapter 7. National Legislatures in Common Markets: Autonomy in the European Union and Mercosur -- Chapter 8. The Tax State in the Information Age -- Chapter 9. States, Politics, and Globalization: Why Institutions Still Matter -- Chapter 10. Globalization, the State, and Industrial Relations: Common Challenges, Divergent Transitions -- PART 4. STATE CAPACITY -- Chapter 11. The State after State Socialism: Poland in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 12. Rotten from Within: Decentralized Predation and Incapacitated State -- Conclusion. What States Can Do Now -- Contributors -- Index

The sexuality and sexual behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) is one of the most complex and unresolved issues faced by service providers. Despite much evidence suggesting the disproportionately high risks faced by men with IDs who have sex with men, no epidemiological research has been conducted on the prevalence of HIV within this population. Current thinking suggests that self‐help groups are efficacious in helping participants to develop positive sexual identities and to share information about safer sexual practices. The present study is a qualitative evaluation of a pilot support group for men with IDs who have sex with men. Themes relating to the formation of sexual identity and safety issues were extrapolated using content analysis from a transcript of the final group session. The implications for service delivery are discussed. The evaluation was conducted by a clinical psychologist external to the group and the members of the group.

Abstract Background The mental health of the Armed Forces is an important issue of both academic and public interest. The aims of this study are to: a) assess the prevalence and risk factors for common mental disorders and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, during the main fighting period of the Iraq War (TELIC 1) and later deployments to Iraq or elsewhere and enlistment status (regular or reserve), and b) compare the prevalence of depression, PTSD symptoms and suicidal ideation in regular and reserve UK Army personnel who deployed to Iraq with their US counterparts. Methods Participants were drawn from a large UK military health study using a standard two phase survey technique stratified by deployment status and engagement type. Participants undertook a structured telephone interview including the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and a short measure of PTSD (Primary Care PTSD, PC-PTSD). The response rate was 76% (821 participants). Results The weighted prevalence of common mental disorders and PTSD symptoms was 27.2% and 4.8%, respectively. The most common diagnoses were alcohol abuse (18.0%) and neurotic disorders (13.5%). There was no health effect of deploying for regular personnel, but an increased risk of PTSD for reservists who deployed to Iraq and other recent deployments compared to reservists who did not deploy. The prevalence of depression, PTSD symptoms and subjective poor health were similar between regular US and UK Iraq combatants. Conclusion The most common mental disorders in the UK military are alcohol abuse and neurotic disorders. The prevalence of PTSD symptoms remains low in the UK military, but reservists are at greater risk of psychiatric injury than regular personnel.

This conversation, transcribed from an Apr 2002 conference entitled, "The Next Great Transformation? Karl Polanyi & the Critique of Globalization," is intended to illuminate current debates about the use & abuse of the embeddedness concept in economic sociology. 26 References. Adapted from the source document.

INTRODUCTION. - Sustaining Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy. - Jeremi Suri and Benjamin Valentino. - SECTION I: RECALIBRATING NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY. - 1. Dollar Diminution and New Macroeconomic Constraints on American Power. - Jonathan Kirshner. - 2. Does American Military Power Attract Foreign Investment?. - Daniel Drezner and Nancy Hite-Rubin. - 3. Preserving National Strength in a Period of Fiscal Restraint. - Cindy Williams. - 4. State Finance and National Power: Great Britain, China, and the United States in Historical Perspective. - Jeremi Suri. - 5. Reforming American Power: Civilian National Security Institutions in the Early Cold War and Beyond. - William Inboden. - 6. To Starve an Army: How Great Power Armies Respond to Austerity. - John W. Hall. - 7. Climate Change and US National Security: Sustaining Security Amidst Unsustainability. - Joshua William Busby. - SECTION II: REGIONAL SECURITY COMMITMENTS. - 8. At Home Abroad: Public Attitudes towards America's Overseas Commitments. - Benjamin Valentino. - 9. The Right Choice for NATO. - William Wohlforth. - 10. The United States and the Middle East: Interests, Risks, and Costs. - Daniel Byman and Sara Bjerg Moller. - 11. Keep, Toss, or Fix? Assessing US Alliances in East Asia. - Jennifer Lind. - 12. Terminating the Interminable?. - Sumit Ganguly. - 13. Neutralizing the Problem of Afghanistan. - Audrey Kurth Cronin. - CONCLUSION. - Jeremi Suri and Benjamin Valentino

Vol. 4, no. 1, includes "a supplement containing an abridgment of the laws of Maryland for the year 1809 (containing those general laws which are omitted in Maxcy's edition) and the acts of general interest passed in 1810, and the commencement of 1811" ; Vol. 3, nos. 11-12: A treatise on the law of war / tr. from the original Latin of Cornelius van Bynkershoek ; being the first book of his Quæstiones juris publici ; with notes by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau . Philadelphia : Farrand & Nicholas, 1813; v. 5, no. 17: The proceedings of the government of the United States : in maintaining the public right to the beach of the Mississippi, adjacent to New-Orleans, against the intrusion of Edward Livingston / prepared for the use of counsel, by Thomas Jefferson .; v. 5, no. 18: An answer to Mr. Jefferson's justification of his conduct in the case of the New Orleans batture / by Edward Livingston ; Vol. 4 has imprint: Philadelphia : M. Thomas, 1813 ; Vols. 4-5 (published in Baltimore) called also v. 1-2 of a new series ; No numbers issued during 1811-1812? 1815-1816 ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Vols. 1-3 have title: The American law journal and miscellaneous repertory ; Superseded by the Journal of jurisprudence in 1821

Portrait engraved by John Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds. ; Imprint varies. ; V. 1. Life. Poems. Irene, a tragedy -- v. 2. Philological tracts. Political and miscellaneous essays -- v. 3. Dissertation on Greek comedy fr. Brumoy. Observations on Macbeth. Adventurer. Rasselas -- v. 4-6. Rambler -- v. 7 Idler -- v. 8. Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. Journal to western islands of Scotland -- v.9-11. Lives of English poets -- v. 12. Lives of eminent persons. Letters. Prayers. Index. ; Fleeman, J.D. Johnson, ; Mode of access: Internet.

What are the limits of design in addressing the political and/or when has design not been enough? A collection of thought pieces written by Theatrum Mundi's Designing Politics Working Group following a workshop at the Villa Vassilieff in Paris on 25th May 2016. This working group is supported by the Global Cities Chair at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris.

This fascinating study pays tribute to the life and work of the Brazilian essayist, thinker and diplomat José G. Merquior, who died prematurely in 1991. Part I concentrates on Merquiorian thought itself and examines Merquior's own incisive review of the rebirth of the liberal idea. Part II ranges more widely: here, such distinguished contributors as John Hall, Ernest Gellner and Norberto Bobbio develop some of Merquior's favourite themes – liberalism as it relates to social cohesion, political stability, morality, republicanism and democracy, and the relativeness and scepticism that characterize postmodern thinking. The book's application to two regions of the world – to Merquior's own Latin America and to Central and Eastern Europe – is direct and obvious

"Civil Society" has been experiencing a global renaissance among social movements and political thinkers during the last two decades. This collection of original papers by junior and senior scholars offers an important comparative-historical dimension to the debate by examining the historical roots of civil society in Germany and Britain from the seventeenth-century revolutions to the beginning of the welfare state