Policy Choices and Constraints
In: Reforming Public Pensions, S. 97-205
In: Reforming Public Pensions, S. 97-205
Part Part One: Personality -- chapter I The Humanization of Infants -- chapter II The Oedipus Complex -- chapter III Who is Normal? -- chapter IV Sex, Repression, and Beyond -- chapter V Treatment -- chapter VI The Family as an Industry -- part Part Two: Society -- chapter VII Groups -- chapter VIII The Basic Tension of Group Membership -- chapter IX Rivalry, Competition, and Conflict -- chapter X Leadership, Authority, and Power -- chapter XI Culture, Passion, and Affectations -- chapter XII The Conflict between Economic Progress and Social Well-Being -- chapter XIII Class, Estate, and Caste -- chapter XIV Expansion, Mobility, and the Class System -- chapter XV Democracy and Elites -- chapter XVI Roles and the Prestige of Histrionies -- chapter XVII Snobbery (and the Supreme Court's Prescription) -- part Part Three: Popular Culture -- chapter XVIII Why Is the Crowd Lonely? -- chapter XIX Of Happiness and of Despair We Have No Measure -- part Part Four: The Proper Study of Mankind -- chapter XX Man as an Object of Science.
In: Historical materialism: research in critical marxist theory, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 185-206
ISSN: 1569-206X
A position joining critical theory with the Marxist critique of imperialism informs the following discussion on the perceived shortcomings of Chibber's study in its avowed claim to disavow postcolonial theory. Chibber's insistence on reading Subaltern Studiesaspostcolonial theory is unsustainable in that it fails to address the epistemological premises of a theory adopted and not initiated by the project. Whereas Chibber does ably contest assertions made by Subaltern Studies concerning the special conditions of India halting capitalism's universalising drive, his concentrated but narrowly-focused and repetitive criticism disregards prior work contiguous to his own specialism as well as disciplines other than the social sciences. Thus the explanatory power of Uneven and Combined Development in understanding the internal conditions of societies conscripted into capitalism is cast aside, as are the resources of Marxist cultural criticism in writing a metanarrative of these consequences inallof their aspects: economic, social, cultural and experiential – omissions that paradoxically are to the fore in postcolonial theory.
In: How the Chinese Economy Works, S. 85-123
In: Local Politics in Afghanistan, S. 163-176
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In: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times, S. 1-20
In: A Measure of Freedom, S. 219-245
In: Peace and conflict: journal of peace psychology ; the journal of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 383-397
ISSN: 1532-7949
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 171-192
ISSN: 0304-4130
The rational choice assumption is already disputable at the individual level of decision-making. At the level of collective decision-making unitary rational action is an unrealistic assumption. It neglects the transitivity of collective preferences issue, the logic of collective action and freeriding, the agency problem, and the human tendency to agree with each other irrespective of the facts. While unitary rational action is rejected as a basis for theorizing on international relations and war, the idea of decision-making under constraints seems as valid in the interstate context as in economics. The most important constraints on national security decision-making are the anarchical character of the international system and the corresponding need for self-help, the security and the territorial delimitation dilemmas, the presence or absence of plausible blueprints for victory, and the presence or absence of domestic constraints on bellicosity. A simple explanatory model of war built on these ideas is suggested and tested with dyadic data for the 1962-1980 period. In addition, there is some discussion of why collective security is doomed to fail, and why hegemony rather than balance improve the prospects of peace. (European Journal of Political Research / AuD)
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In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 62, Heft Apr-Jun 91
ISSN: 0032-3179
Examines the party's position on ERM, the Social Charter, fiscal and foreign policies. The next British government will be more constrained in its actions by the EC than any of its predecessors. (SJK)