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The main goal of this chapter is to use an extensive body of comparative survey research to map patterns and forms of political support across a wide range of political conditions. While the goal is primarily descriptive, at least two themes emerge: first, there are no major trends suggesting a decline in support for democracy as a form of government in the abstract or as applied to existing democratic experience, and certainly, no evidence of a crisis of democracy; second, the fact of dissatisfaction does not imply danger to the persistence or furtherance of democracy. A significant number of people around the world can be labelled ‘dissatisfied democrats’, they clearly approve of democracy as a mode of governance, but they remain discontented with the way their own system is currently operating. This chapter exploits the resources of the World Values Surveys to map certain key elements of political support among the mass publics in established, consolidating, and non‐democracies. Specifically, it develops indices fitted reasonably well to three forms of support: for the political community; for regime principles or democracy as an ideal form of government; and approval of the regime's performance. Attitudes towards these three dimensions are examined through cross‐national surveys.

This brief final chapter entertains the question: What might Jesus do about migrant deaths, illegal immigration, and the U.S.–Mexico border. The question is particularly important since many of the groups and individuals highlighted throughout the book, on all ideological sides, identify with being Christian, although not all agree on how Jesus might answer the question.

This chapter introduces modal verbs, reveals the specific rules to follow and demonstrates how modals influence other verb forms. The chapter also addresses the problems encountered when using the verb ‘to do’ and this verb’s relationship with questions.

This chapter presents some concluding remarks and directions for future inquiries. The goal of this book has been to give a compositional analysis of would-conditionals that will explain English speakers’ intuitions of truth and felicity. In doing so, it has also attempted to account for the cross-linguistically robust generalization that would-conditionals and their counterparts in other languages are marked by one or two layers of past morphology (one being the past on would itself in English). The book proposed that one or two layers of past are interpreted outside the bare conditional; that is, they c-command the tripartite woll+antecedent+consequent structure.

The Improving Selection to the Foundation Programme (ISFP) project does not believe that it is possible to be ‘coached’ through the SJT. This is generally true. Knowing the ‘right thing to do’ in any given situation is a matter of internalized values and intuition. However, no one seriously accepts that candidates are born with a fixed level of situational judgement. This is clearly something that develops over time and therefore can change. In addition, the SJT does not set out to test your values but whether you understand the values and attitudes expected of an FY1 doctor. This is why you are instructed to answer questions as you ‘should’, not as you ‘would’. The principles on which foundation doctors should base their behaviour are learnt and internalized throughout medical school. However, knowledge of these principles can clearly be learnt in the same way as any other part of the medical school curriculum. Most final- year medical students are satisfied with the FY1 posts to which they are allocated. For 2017 entry, 74% were appointed to their firstchoice foundation school, and 94% to one of their top five preferences. Those who were not initially pleased often look back in retrospect and are satisfied with their allocations. Your score on the SJT is unlikely to make or break your career. However, the same can be said of medical school finals. You will almost certainly pass finals— upwards of 95% of final- year students do so— and your ultimate career destination is unlikely to hinge on your cumulative examination score. But this is not a reason to go into finals unprepared. The truth is that every point on the SJT, as in finals, could mean the difference between your chosen outcome and something different. A point lost on the SJT could result in your leaving your first- choice foundation school and moving across the country for work, or not having a high enough score to capture your chosen specialty as a Foundation Programme rotation. Increasing competition for FY1 posts means that not everyone can be appointed.

This chapter focuses on a remarkable piece of Scripture that places such demands on would-be disciples that it is amazing that Luke included it in a gospel meant to increase the size of the church. In year 6 of the Common Era, when Jesus was still a boy, the Roman governor Varus crucified two thousand Jewish rebels in the Galilee. The region already had a rich reputation by then for bucking Roman occupation. Ezekias the Galilean and his followers had been put to death decades earlier. That did not stop his son Judah the Galilean from leading a major tax revolt. By the time Jesus the Galilean was grown up, Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea, which he ruled without concealing his contempt for the religion of the Jews.

This chapter provides a critical analysis of the literary work of nineteenth-century Californiana author, María Amparo Ruíz de Burton. Through a detailed examination of her novels, Who Would Have Thought It? (1872) and The Squatter and the Don (1885), the chapter addresses the ways in which Mexican American women used literature to archive their collective memories, or testimonios. Ruiz de Burton's narrative approach is the first in a series of novels written by Mexican American women to document nineteenth-century Borderlands history. The chapter argues that Ruiz de Burton uses testimonio in her first novel to reveal the ways in which women of Mexican/Spanish descent were subject to both material and cultural loss post-1848, while her second novel serves as a personal testimony and collective history of Californio dispossession at the hands of enterprising Euro Americans.

This chapter considers a reply to the previous chapter, a reply according to which although we can never have false justified beliefs, we can have excusable (or reasonable) false beliefs. The chapter starts by arguing that any view according to which there cannot be false justified beliefs must face two problems: the demarcation problem and the suspension problem. While the excuses maneuver may help with the demarcation problem, it cannot help with the suspension problem. The chapter then examines two particular instatiations of the excuses maneuver: Williamson’s (briefly) and Lasonen-Aarnio’s (in more detail). Finally, the chapter also examines attempts at defining justification as “would-be knowledge,” and finds them wanting as well.

The effective implementation of European Union environmental policy depends upon the efficient cooperation and coordination of various administrative levels and actors. Key to this are the sharing of environmentally relevant information, mutual support, and common agreement aimed at the ‘high level of protection’ of the environment sought by the Union. The transboundary nature of environmental issues, whether through emissions, transterritorial waste transport, or management of shared water resources, or of climate and nature resources, and administrative action related to such matters, pose particular challenges. Were there insufficient collaborative interaction of all the relevant actors in the field of EU environmental protection, and were this field to be characterized primarily by Member States’ acting on their own, the fate of environmental protection in Europe would be bleak. The generation, management, and sharing of information play here a vital, perhaps even dominant, role. The concept of a highly (inter-)networked, indeed integrated, European administration can thus be illustrated very strikingly through a consideration of this policy sector. Indeed, a great deal of EU environmental administration, while not alone within the general setting of Union administration, appears characterizable only through the epithet ‘integrated’.