Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter traces the events leading to the founding of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). On 4 August 1894, Sidney Webb came down for breakfast at Borough Farm near ...
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This chapter traces the events leading to the founding of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). On 4 August 1894, Sidney Webb came down for breakfast at Borough Farm near Godalming in Surrey where he met his wife Beatrice, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw. The three men had known each other for over ten years as fellow radicals and intellectual protagonists of reform, not least as members of the political club-cum-‘think-tank’ founded in 1883 under the name Fabian Society. That morning, Webb told his friends of a letter he received from a solicitor informing him that their mutual friend, Henry Hunt Hutchinson, had taken his own life. In his will Hutchison appointed Webb as one of his executors and stipulated that the major part of what turned out of be 20,000 pounds sterling be applied ‘at once gradually and at all events within ten years to the propaganda and other purposes of the Fabian Society, and its Socialism, and to advancing its projects in any way the executors deem advisable’. Webb proposed that the money be used to create a permanent institution, a London School of Economics and Political Science.Less
This chapter traces the events leading to the founding of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). On 4 August 1894, Sidney Webb came down for breakfast at Borough Farm near Godalming in Surrey where he met his wife Beatrice, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw. The three men had known each other for over ten years as fellow radicals and intellectual protagonists of reform, not least as members of the political club-cum-‘think-tank’ founded in 1883 under the name Fabian Society. That morning, Webb told his friends of a letter he received from a solicitor informing him that their mutual friend, Henry Hunt Hutchinson, had taken his own life. In his will Hutchison appointed Webb as one of his executors and stipulated that the major part of what turned out of be 20,000 pounds sterling be applied ‘at once gradually and at all events within ten years to the propaganda and other purposes of the Fabian Society, and its Socialism, and to advancing its projects in any way the executors deem advisable’. Webb proposed that the money be used to create a permanent institution, a London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the development of social science education at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) during the Beveridge Years (1919–1937). It details the establishment ...
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This chapter discusses the development of social science education at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) during the Beveridge Years (1919–1937). It details the establishment of the Department of Social Science and Administration in 1912 and how the unfolding of social sciences is bound up with the history of LSE. It also describes how at LSE the great men and women were the teachers, who were both models of public speaking and caring mentors to their students.Less
This chapter discusses the development of social science education at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) during the Beveridge Years (1919–1937). It details the establishment of the Department of Social Science and Administration in 1912 and how the unfolding of social sciences is bound up with the history of LSE. It also describes how at LSE the great men and women were the teachers, who were both models of public speaking and caring mentors to their students.
Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The London School of Economics and Political Science — the LSE — is one of the most famous academic institutions in the world. This history provides a lively account of the first century of a ...
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The London School of Economics and Political Science — the LSE — is one of the most famous academic institutions in the world. This history provides a lively account of the first century of a university that, from its beginnings has captured not only the minds of social scientists, but also the imagination of a wider public. It is the biography of an institution. The book places the School in the context of the drama of the 20th century and it does so through a mirror, the mirror of the social sciences. The book traces the story of the LSE from its ‘invention’ by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw, and Graham Wallas at a breakfast in August 1894, through its foundation in 1895, the travails of its early years, the triumphs of the Beveridge years between the wars, the great expansion of the post-war period, and the changing moods of the succeeding decades, including the ‘troubles’ of 1968. The individuals and the events of the LSE's century of existence have been memorable, yet the School has always been more than the sum of its parts. Its base was London, and its home the world.Less
The London School of Economics and Political Science — the LSE — is one of the most famous academic institutions in the world. This history provides a lively account of the first century of a university that, from its beginnings has captured not only the minds of social scientists, but also the imagination of a wider public. It is the biography of an institution. The book places the School in the context of the drama of the 20th century and it does so through a mirror, the mirror of the social sciences. The book traces the story of the LSE from its ‘invention’ by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw, and Graham Wallas at a breakfast in August 1894, through its foundation in 1895, the travails of its early years, the triumphs of the Beveridge years between the wars, the great expansion of the post-war period, and the changing moods of the succeeding decades, including the ‘troubles’ of 1968. The individuals and the events of the LSE's century of existence have been memorable, yet the School has always been more than the sum of its parts. Its base was London, and its home the world.
Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter details the early years of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Topics discussed include the appointment of Halford Mackinder as Director of LSE, the establishment ...
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This chapter details the early years of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Topics discussed include the appointment of Halford Mackinder as Director of LSE, the establishment of the Coefficients Club, Mackinder's contributions to ‘geopolitics’, and the LSE's academic development.Less
This chapter details the early years of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Topics discussed include the appointment of Halford Mackinder as Director of LSE, the establishment of the Coefficients Club, Mackinder's contributions to ‘geopolitics’, and the LSE's academic development.
Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) during the Beveridge Years (1919–1937). Specifically, it focuses on the accomplishments of Sir William Beveridge as ...
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This chapter discusses the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) during the Beveridge Years (1919–1937). Specifically, it focuses on the accomplishments of Sir William Beveridge as Director of LSE including the offering of the commerce degree and creation of a coat of arms and motto for the school. Beveridge also tried hard to increase the involvement of both teachers and Governors in the running of the school. He activated the largely dormant Professional Council and gave it a Standing or Office Committee. Three members of the Professional Council were given seats at the Court of Governors. Thus, the structure of governance began to emerge.Less
This chapter discusses the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) during the Beveridge Years (1919–1937). Specifically, it focuses on the accomplishments of Sir William Beveridge as Director of LSE including the offering of the commerce degree and creation of a coat of arms and motto for the school. Beveridge also tried hard to increase the involvement of both teachers and Governors in the running of the school. He activated the largely dormant Professional Council and gave it a Standing or Office Committee. Three members of the Professional Council were given seats at the Court of Governors. Thus, the structure of governance began to emerge.
Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses how the political climate of the 1930s affected the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The 1930s (and 1940s) were one of those deeply unhappy periods of ...
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This chapter discusses how the political climate of the 1930s affected the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The 1930s (and 1940s) were one of those deeply unhappy periods of history in which politics encroached on individual lives and institutions virtually all the time. Gone were the days in which, apart from occasional forays by individuals into parliamentary politics, the School could concentrate its energies on developing the social sciences and teaching them to students who were prepared to learn about the causes of things before they went out to transform them. Now, even those who refused to by drawn in had taken a stance.Less
This chapter discusses how the political climate of the 1930s affected the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The 1930s (and 1940s) were one of those deeply unhappy periods of history in which politics encroached on individual lives and institutions virtually all the time. Gone were the days in which, apart from occasional forays by individuals into parliamentary politics, the School could concentrate its energies on developing the social sciences and teaching them to students who were prepared to learn about the causes of things before they went out to transform them. Now, even those who refused to by drawn in had taken a stance.
Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter focuses on the changes affecting the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1937–1995. By the departure of William Beveridge in 1937, the work of creation and ...
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This chapter focuses on the changes affecting the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1937–1995. By the departure of William Beveridge in 1937, the work of creation and establishment had been done. From now on, LSE would be faced with different challenges originating partly in the vagaries of the times, and partly in persistent pressures for growth. The decades following Beveridge's resignation were full of incident — the wartime evacuation of Cambridge, the two waves of post-war university expansion, and from the 1970s an environment increasingly hostile to higher education in general and the social sciences in particular. In Alexander Carr-Saunders, the School found a safe pair of hands to direct it through the transition from its heroic age to normality, and more particularly through the upheavals of the war and reconstruction. His character helped bring about the steadying influence that he exerted on the troubled institution he had inherited, and which was much needed in the turbulent times that would soon engulf it.Less
This chapter focuses on the changes affecting the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1937–1995. By the departure of William Beveridge in 1937, the work of creation and establishment had been done. From now on, LSE would be faced with different challenges originating partly in the vagaries of the times, and partly in persistent pressures for growth. The decades following Beveridge's resignation were full of incident — the wartime evacuation of Cambridge, the two waves of post-war university expansion, and from the 1970s an environment increasingly hostile to higher education in general and the social sciences in particular. In Alexander Carr-Saunders, the School found a safe pair of hands to direct it through the transition from its heroic age to normality, and more particularly through the upheavals of the war and reconstruction. His character helped bring about the steadying influence that he exerted on the troubled institution he had inherited, and which was much needed in the turbulent times that would soon engulf it.
Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter begins with a discussion of the decade of Sir Sydney Caine's directorship of LSE from 1957 to 1967 that were, at least until the mid-1960s, uneventful. It then considers LSE's ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the decade of Sir Sydney Caine's directorship of LSE from 1957 to 1967 that were, at least until the mid-1960s, uneventful. It then considers LSE's internationalism as evidenced by the curricula vitae of its Directors as well as the origins of its students. It examines the influence of the LSE on the world that emerged after the Second World War.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of the decade of Sir Sydney Caine's directorship of LSE from 1957 to 1967 that were, at least until the mid-1960s, uneventful. It then considers LSE's internationalism as evidenced by the curricula vitae of its Directors as well as the origins of its students. It examines the influence of the LSE on the world that emerged after the Second World War.
Ralf Dahrendorf
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202400
- eISBN:
- 9780191675331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter focuses on the changes at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from the 1970s onwards. It argues that the LSE has become a precious asset for London, for Britain, ...
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This chapter focuses on the changes at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from the 1970s onwards. It argues that the LSE has become a precious asset for London, for Britain, for the social sciences, and for a world in need of change. LSE made a difference to the lives of those who studied, taught, and worked there, and made a difference to the world at large.Less
This chapter focuses on the changes at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from the 1970s onwards. It argues that the LSE has become a precious asset for London, for Britain, for the social sciences, and for a world in need of change. LSE made a difference to the lives of those who studied, taught, and worked there, and made a difference to the world at large.
Robert Adcock
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199333622
- eISBN:
- 9780199370146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199333622.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines the growth of universities and developments within the nascent domain of political science in the post-Civil War decades. It contrasts the ways in which Andrew D. White and ...
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This chapter examines the growth of universities and developments within the nascent domain of political science in the post-Civil War decades. It contrasts the ways in which Andrew D. White and William Graham Sumner each departed from a shared starting point in Lieber’s conception of “political science,” and relates these to alternative understandings of political science at the Columbia School of Political Science, opened in 1880. The second half of the chapter focuses on White’s and Sumner’s views in political economy. It follows how moderate and uncompromising variants of classical liberal political economy were articulated in discussions of free trade and laissez-faire in the 1860s and 1870s, and closes by spotlighting abrupt shifts on both sides of this divide in the early 1880s.Less
This chapter examines the growth of universities and developments within the nascent domain of political science in the post-Civil War decades. It contrasts the ways in which Andrew D. White and William Graham Sumner each departed from a shared starting point in Lieber’s conception of “political science,” and relates these to alternative understandings of political science at the Columbia School of Political Science, opened in 1880. The second half of the chapter focuses on White’s and Sumner’s views in political economy. It follows how moderate and uncompromising variants of classical liberal political economy were articulated in discussions of free trade and laissez-faire in the 1860s and 1870s, and closes by spotlighting abrupt shifts on both sides of this divide in the early 1880s.
Stein Ringen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888208937
- eISBN:
- 9789888313877
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208937.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving.
Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive ...
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The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving.
Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, the author concludes that under the new leadership of Xi Jinping, the system of government has been transformed into a new regime radically harder and more ideological than the legacy of Deng Xiaoping. China is less strong economically and more dictatorial politically than the world has wanted to believe.
By analysing the leadership of Xi Jinping, the meaning of ‘socialist market economy’, corruption, the party-state apparatus, the reach of the party, the mechanisms of repression, taxation and public services, and state-society relations, the book broadens the field of China studies, as well as the fields of political economy, comparative politics, development, and welfare state studies.Less
The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving.
Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, the author concludes that under the new leadership of Xi Jinping, the system of government has been transformed into a new regime radically harder and more ideological than the legacy of Deng Xiaoping. China is less strong economically and more dictatorial politically than the world has wanted to believe.
By analysing the leadership of Xi Jinping, the meaning of ‘socialist market economy’, corruption, the party-state apparatus, the reach of the party, the mechanisms of repression, taxation and public services, and state-society relations, the book broadens the field of China studies, as well as the fields of political economy, comparative politics, development, and welfare state studies.
Benjamin H. Bratton
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029575
- eISBN:
- 9780262330183
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029575.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Planetary-scale computation presents a fundamental challenge to Modern geopolitical architectures. As calculative reason and as global infrastructure, it not only deforms and distorts Westphalian ...
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Planetary-scale computation presents a fundamental challenge to Modern geopolitical architectures. As calculative reason and as global infrastructure, it not only deforms and distorts Westphalian political geography it creates new territories in its own image, ones that don’t necessarily replace the old but which are superimposed on them, each grinding against the other. These thickened and noisy jurisdictions are our new normal. They are the scaffolds through which our cultures evolve through them, and they represent our most difficult and important design challenge. Computation is changing not only how governments govern, but what government even is in the first place: less governance of computation than computation as governance. Global cloud platforms take on roles that have traditionally been the domain of States, cities become hardware/software platforms organized by physical and virtual interfaces, and strange new political subjects (some not even human) gain unforeseen sovereignties as the users of those interfaces. To understand (and to design) these transformations, we need to see them as part of a whole, an accidental megastructure called The Stack. This book examines each layer of The Stack–Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, and User—as a dynamic technology that is re-structuring some part of our world at its particular scale and as part of the whole. The Stack is a platform, and so combines logics of both States and Markets, and produces forms of sovereignty that are unique to this technical and institutional form. Fortunately, stack platforms are made to be re-made. How the Stack-we-have becomes the Stack-to-come depends on how well we understand it as a totality, By seeing the whole we stand a better chance of designing a system we will want to inhabit. To formulate the “design brief” for that project, as this book does, requires a perspective that blends philosophical, geopolitical and technological understandings and methods.Less
Planetary-scale computation presents a fundamental challenge to Modern geopolitical architectures. As calculative reason and as global infrastructure, it not only deforms and distorts Westphalian political geography it creates new territories in its own image, ones that don’t necessarily replace the old but which are superimposed on them, each grinding against the other. These thickened and noisy jurisdictions are our new normal. They are the scaffolds through which our cultures evolve through them, and they represent our most difficult and important design challenge. Computation is changing not only how governments govern, but what government even is in the first place: less governance of computation than computation as governance. Global cloud platforms take on roles that have traditionally been the domain of States, cities become hardware/software platforms organized by physical and virtual interfaces, and strange new political subjects (some not even human) gain unforeseen sovereignties as the users of those interfaces. To understand (and to design) these transformations, we need to see them as part of a whole, an accidental megastructure called The Stack. This book examines each layer of The Stack–Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, and User—as a dynamic technology that is re-structuring some part of our world at its particular scale and as part of the whole. The Stack is a platform, and so combines logics of both States and Markets, and produces forms of sovereignty that are unique to this technical and institutional form. Fortunately, stack platforms are made to be re-made. How the Stack-we-have becomes the Stack-to-come depends on how well we understand it as a totality, By seeing the whole we stand a better chance of designing a system we will want to inhabit. To formulate the “design brief” for that project, as this book does, requires a perspective that blends philosophical, geopolitical and technological understandings and methods.
Nadya Hajj
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231180627
- eISBN:
- 9780231542920
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231180627.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
The right to own property is something we generally take for granted. For refugees living in camps, in some cases for as long as generations, the link between citizenship and property ownership ...
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The right to own property is something we generally take for granted. For refugees living in camps, in some cases for as long as generations, the link between citizenship and property ownership becomes strained. How do refugees protect these assets and preserve communal ties? How do they maintain a sense of identity and belonging within chaotic settings? Protection Amid Chaos follows people as they develop binding claims on assets and resources in challenging political and economic spaces. Focusing on Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, it shows how the first to arrive developed flexible though legitimate property rights claims based on legal knowledge retained from their homeland, subsequently adapted to the restrictions of refugee life. As camps increased in complexity, refugees merged their informal institutions with the formal rules of political outsiders, devising a broader, stronger system for protecting their assets and culture from predation and state incorporation. For this book, Nadya Hajj conducted interviews with two hundred refugees. She consults memoirs, legal documents, and findings in the United Nations Relief Works Agency archives. Her work reveals the strategies Palestinian refugees have used to navigate their precarious conditions while under continuous assault and situates their struggle within the larger context of communities living in transitional spaces.Less
The right to own property is something we generally take for granted. For refugees living in camps, in some cases for as long as generations, the link between citizenship and property ownership becomes strained. How do refugees protect these assets and preserve communal ties? How do they maintain a sense of identity and belonging within chaotic settings? Protection Amid Chaos follows people as they develop binding claims on assets and resources in challenging political and economic spaces. Focusing on Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, it shows how the first to arrive developed flexible though legitimate property rights claims based on legal knowledge retained from their homeland, subsequently adapted to the restrictions of refugee life. As camps increased in complexity, refugees merged their informal institutions with the formal rules of political outsiders, devising a broader, stronger system for protecting their assets and culture from predation and state incorporation. For this book, Nadya Hajj conducted interviews with two hundred refugees. She consults memoirs, legal documents, and findings in the United Nations Relief Works Agency archives. Her work reveals the strategies Palestinian refugees have used to navigate their precarious conditions while under continuous assault and situates their struggle within the larger context of communities living in transitional spaces.
W. E. B. DU BOIS
Nahum Dimitri Chandler (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823254545
- eISBN:
- 9780823260843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823254545.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
This chapter describes events during the Forty-fourth Scientific Session of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Charles C. Harrison, ...
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This chapter describes events during the Forty-fourth Scientific Session of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Charles C. Harrison, LL.D., presided at the meeting, which included an address by Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois on “The Study of the Negro Problems.” Other speakers discussed topics such as the need of accuracy in statistics relating to the mortality of the Negro, and the varied aspects in which the Negro problem may be viewed in different localities. At the end of the meeting, a communication was read from the Negro Educational League, an organization to aid and encourage certain colored schools in the South.Less
This chapter describes events during the Forty-fourth Scientific Session of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Charles C. Harrison, LL.D., presided at the meeting, which included an address by Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois on “The Study of the Negro Problems.” Other speakers discussed topics such as the need of accuracy in statistics relating to the mortality of the Negro, and the varied aspects in which the Negro problem may be viewed in different localities. At the end of the meeting, a communication was read from the Negro Educational League, an organization to aid and encourage certain colored schools in the South.
Edward T. O’Donnell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231120005
- eISBN:
- 9780231539265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231120005.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This epilogue focuses on Henry George's last days. The disastrous United Labor Party (ULP) campaign of 1887 marked the end of one phase of George's public life and the dawning of another. For the ...
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This epilogue focuses on Henry George's last days. The disastrous United Labor Party (ULP) campaign of 1887 marked the end of one phase of George's public life and the dawning of another. For the next ten years, George focused on winning the hearts of the American middle class to his single tax program. He traveled to different parts of the world to speak about the single tax and tariff reform, receiving honors and accolades from land reform advocates along the way. He then began writing another book, The Science of Political Economy, a summation of his philosophy of economics and morality. By 1892, George had withdrawn almost completely from the national single tax movement. On October 5, 1897, he accepted the nomination of The Party of Thomas Jefferson, a coalition of united reform groups, as candidate for mayor of New York City. On October 29, 1897, however, he suffered a stroke and he died, surrounded by his wife, sons, and close friends.Less
This epilogue focuses on Henry George's last days. The disastrous United Labor Party (ULP) campaign of 1887 marked the end of one phase of George's public life and the dawning of another. For the next ten years, George focused on winning the hearts of the American middle class to his single tax program. He traveled to different parts of the world to speak about the single tax and tariff reform, receiving honors and accolades from land reform advocates along the way. He then began writing another book, The Science of Political Economy, a summation of his philosophy of economics and morality. By 1892, George had withdrawn almost completely from the national single tax movement. On October 5, 1897, he accepted the nomination of The Party of Thomas Jefferson, a coalition of united reform groups, as candidate for mayor of New York City. On October 29, 1897, however, he suffered a stroke and he died, surrounded by his wife, sons, and close friends.
Kevin C. Dunn
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496802217
- eISBN:
- 9781496802262
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496802217.003.0016
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This essay considers the classroom, and in his essay, Kevin C. Dunn elaborates how he has taught Safe Area Goražde in an introductory International Relations course. This essay should be of interest ...
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This essay considers the classroom, and in his essay, Kevin C. Dunn elaborates how he has taught Safe Area Goražde in an introductory International Relations course. This essay should be of interest not just for its pedagogical argument, but also for its demonstration of how Sacco’s work resonates beyond discourses more familiar to scholars in the humanities.Less
This essay considers the classroom, and in his essay, Kevin C. Dunn elaborates how he has taught Safe Area Goražde in an introductory International Relations course. This essay should be of interest not just for its pedagogical argument, but also for its demonstration of how Sacco’s work resonates beyond discourses more familiar to scholars in the humanities.
Francis Vérillaud and Agueda Perez Muñoz
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846316630
- eISBN:
- 9781846316777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316777.004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Sciences Po is an institution that has been one of the pioneers of internationalisation in France. This chapter focuses on what Sciences Po's international strategy has been with regard to recruiting ...
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Sciences Po is an institution that has been one of the pioneers of internationalisation in France. This chapter focuses on what Sciences Po's international strategy has been with regard to recruiting graduates in the United Kingdom. It also describes Sciences Po's collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Oxford University, which lie at the heart of its international strategy.Less
Sciences Po is an institution that has been one of the pioneers of internationalisation in France. This chapter focuses on what Sciences Po's international strategy has been with regard to recruiting graduates in the United Kingdom. It also describes Sciences Po's collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Oxford University, which lie at the heart of its international strategy.
Stein Ringen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888208937
- eISBN:
- 9789888313877
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208937.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
Today’s rulers have two main strategies of self-preservation. With one hand they purchase legitimacy in the eyes of the ruled; with the other hand they keep down anything that can threaten their hold ...
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Today’s rulers have two main strategies of self-preservation. With one hand they purchase legitimacy in the eyes of the ruled; with the other hand they keep down anything that can threaten their hold on power. The way the regime deals with society is through an intricate good-cop, bad-cop act.Less
Today’s rulers have two main strategies of self-preservation. With one hand they purchase legitimacy in the eyes of the ruled; with the other hand they keep down anything that can threaten their hold on power. The way the regime deals with society is through an intricate good-cop, bad-cop act.
Jedidiah J. Kroncke
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190233525
- eISBN:
- 9780190233549
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190233525.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 6 shows how the fusion of missionary idealism with the standardization of American law expressed itself through a progressive secularization of American legal reform work in China. The fall ...
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Chapter 6 shows how the fusion of missionary idealism with the standardization of American law expressed itself through a progressive secularization of American legal reform work in China. The fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and the declaration of a Chinese Republic fueled belief that China was open and ready for Americanization. This new fervor gripped the whole gambit of American civil society institutions, from philanthropic foundations to professional academic societies. Increasingly, legal reform work distanced itself conceptually from religious missionary activity even though it was still heavily dependent on the missionary infrastructure in China, and, most telling, had already absorbed its basic vision of catalytic social change through transplantation.Less
Chapter 6 shows how the fusion of missionary idealism with the standardization of American law expressed itself through a progressive secularization of American legal reform work in China. The fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and the declaration of a Chinese Republic fueled belief that China was open and ready for Americanization. This new fervor gripped the whole gambit of American civil society institutions, from philanthropic foundations to professional academic societies. Increasingly, legal reform work distanced itself conceptually from religious missionary activity even though it was still heavily dependent on the missionary infrastructure in China, and, most telling, had already absorbed its basic vision of catalytic social change through transplantation.
Simon Waldman and Emre Caliskan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190668372
- eISBN:
- 9780190848538
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190668372.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
The Turkey of today little resembles that of recent decades. Its economy has expanded, new political elites have emerged, and the once powerful Kemalist military is no longer a potent and dominant ...
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The Turkey of today little resembles that of recent decades. Its economy has expanded, new political elites have emerged, and the once powerful Kemalist military is no longer a potent and dominant political player. Meanwhile, new prosperity has had many unexpected social and political repercussions, pre-eminent among which is the advent of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which first came to power in 2002 by downplaying its Islamist leanings and marketing itself as a center-right party.
After several terms in office, and amid unprecedented popularity, the conduct of the AKP and its leading cadres has faced growing criticism. Turkey has yet to solve its Kurdish question, and its foreign policy is increasingly under threat as it balances relations with Iran, Israel, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds, to name only a few of its more demanding interlocutors. Widespread domestic protests gripped the country in 2013. The government is now perceived by many to be corrupt, unaccountable, intimidating of the press and intolerant of alternative political views and criticism. Has this once promising democracy descended into a tyranny of the majority led by a charismatic leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan? Is Turkey more polarized now than ever in its recent history? These are among the questions posed in this timely primer on a rising economic power.Less
The Turkey of today little resembles that of recent decades. Its economy has expanded, new political elites have emerged, and the once powerful Kemalist military is no longer a potent and dominant political player. Meanwhile, new prosperity has had many unexpected social and political repercussions, pre-eminent among which is the advent of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which first came to power in 2002 by downplaying its Islamist leanings and marketing itself as a center-right party.
After several terms in office, and amid unprecedented popularity, the conduct of the AKP and its leading cadres has faced growing criticism. Turkey has yet to solve its Kurdish question, and its foreign policy is increasingly under threat as it balances relations with Iran, Israel, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds, to name only a few of its more demanding interlocutors. Widespread domestic protests gripped the country in 2013. The government is now perceived by many to be corrupt, unaccountable, intimidating of the press and intolerant of alternative political views and criticism. Has this once promising democracy descended into a tyranny of the majority led by a charismatic leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan? Is Turkey more polarized now than ever in its recent history? These are among the questions posed in this timely primer on a rising economic power.
