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Information Age Publishing The Cultural Psyche: The Selected Papers of
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Information Age Publishing Deep Loyalties: Values in Military Lives
Book SynopsisCultural practices and artifacts, in their multiple and varied forms, are grounded on values, which are so deeply internalized by people that usually remain in the background, as taken-for-granted guides for interpretations and decisions in everyday life. Shaping individual moral horizons is at the core of socialization processes, through which older generations aim to disseminate their culturally established values to the new ones, making use of suggestions mainly implicit in daily experiences and interactions.Despite the strength of these processes of cultural canalization, people find particular ways of positioning and interpreting social suggestions, drawing singular life trajectories and developing themselves as unique beings. This is truthful also in case of highly institutionalized settings like the military, in which people play in many forms an agentic role in their own development, being prepared to perform their professional duties in very complex and challenging activity contexts.This book is an invitation to dive deeper into human experiences lived in the military through qualitative and in-depth approaches, observing their affective qualities, the meanings they acquire and how they shape individuals' identities, fostering the development and try-out of specific ethical and moral values.The present work can contribute to research and professional practice in fields related to human development, social processes, education and people management in the military, as well as in other institutional contexts, especially by highlighting the affective, meaningful and moral-ethical dimensions of cultural experiences.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Deep Loyalties: Values in Military Lives
Book SynopsisCultural practices and artifacts, in their multiple and varied forms, are grounded on values, which are so deeply internalized by people that usually remain in the background, as taken-for-granted guides for interpretations and decisions in everyday life. Shaping individual moral horizons is at the core of socialization processes, through which older generations aim to disseminate their culturally established values to the new ones, making use of suggestions mainly implicit in daily experiences and interactions.Despite the strength of these processes of cultural canalization, people find particular ways of positioning and interpreting social suggestions, drawing singular life trajectories and developing themselves as unique beings. This is truthful also in case of highly institutionalized settings like the military, in which people play in many forms an agentic role in their own development, being prepared to perform their professional duties in very complex and challenging activity contexts.This book is an invitation to dive deeper into human experiences lived in the military through qualitative and in-depth approaches, observing their affective qualities, the meanings they acquire and how they shape individuals' identities, fostering the development and try-out of specific ethical and moral values.The present work can contribute to research and professional practice in fields related to human development, social processes, education and people management in the military, as well as in other institutional contexts, especially by highlighting the affective, meaningful and moral-ethical dimensions of cultural experiences.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Intimacy: The Shared Part of Me
Book SynopsisThe concept of intimacy puts forth important challenges to contemporary cultural psychology. Intimacy refers to a felt experience of interiority that although is intuitively comprehensible, does not have rigorously defined limits. Intimacy can refer to a content, an object, a person, ownership, or even a part of one's own body.A potentially problematic issue for cultural psychology is that acknowledging intimacy seems to bound the Self to areas disjointed from the social sphere. In a globalized world, we witness a developmental process where social life becomes sectioned, where people are involved in an identity search by foregrounding certain social roles. With this backdrop in mind, people redefine and rebuild their intimacy spaces and the ways they roam from these to the public and collective realm.Exploring the current historical situation leads us to consider intimacy as culture in the making; certainly, in the way it manifests itself, but particularly in how we approach and understand it. The lived (experienced) dimension of intimacy becomes truly important, since it casts new light on what we mean by intimacy in different spheres of the self's life, as well as life with others.
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Information Age Publishing Intimacy: The Shared Part of Me
Book SynopsisThe concept of intimacy puts forth important challenges to contemporary cultural psychology. Intimacy refers to a felt experience of interiority that although is intuitively comprehensible, does not have rigorously defined limits. Intimacy can refer to a content, an object, a person, ownership, or even a part of one's own body.A potentially problematic issue for cultural psychology is that acknowledging intimacy seems to bound the Self to areas disjointed from the social sphere. In a globalized world, we witness a developmental process where social life becomes sectioned, where people are involved in an identity search by foregrounding certain social roles. With this backdrop in mind, people redefine and rebuild their intimacy spaces and the ways they roam from these to the public and collective realm.Exploring the current historical situation leads us to consider intimacy as culture in the making; certainly, in the way it manifests itself, but particularly in how we approach and understand it. The lived (experienced) dimension of intimacy becomes truly important, since it casts new light on what we mean by intimacy in different spheres of the self's life, as well as life with others.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Real Talk: Promoting Social Justice in Education
Book SynopsisAs divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing divisions and making transformative change for a more just society. Decades of social science research on meaningful human exchanges can help make sure you not only engage in a difficult dialogue, but that you can engage authentically for the desired goal of transformative change.A difficult dialogue is an exchange between two or more individuals that are likely to disagree or clash. This book will provide a solid foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues. As you traverse through the pages, you will develop a better understanding of how desires for power and belonging shape each unique difficult dialogue and recognize how experiences with motivation and defensiveness impact difficult dialogues. Further, you will read about case studies of successful dialogues between children and adults and discover the positive benefits of engaging in difficult dialogues with the youth in your life. Finally, you will be given the opportunity to learn about and practice specific skills to prepare for, engage in, and move forward before, during, and after a difficult dialogue. Given the intellectual foundation you will construct while reading this book, this book includes a workbook section to put your newfound skills to work.If you are left wondering "If difficult dialogues are difficult by nature, is it really worth engaging in one?" This book will shed light on the power dialogue grants you to inspire transformative change. Difficult dialogues show us that very few people are truly "too far gone" to communicate, reflect, transform, and act. We have all bore witness to both massive societal issues and their proliferating repercussions. However, there is hope in that each can begin to be solved and dismantled with the comparatively small task of engaging in authentic difficult dialogues. To address societal ills - to grow - we must be courageous, we must be vulnerable, and we must have authentic difficult dialogues. We must do this for a better world, for a more just world, and this book may serve as a foundation and a reference as you progress in your journey.
£45.60
Information Age Publishing Real Talk: Promoting Social Justice in Education
Book SynopsisAs divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing divisions and making transformative change for a more just society. Decades of social science research on meaningful human exchanges can help make sure you not only engage in a difficult dialogue, but that you can engage authentically for the desired goal of transformative change.A difficult dialogue is an exchange between two or more individuals that are likely to disagree or clash. This book will provide a solid foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues. As you traverse through the pages, you will develop a better understanding of how desires for power and belonging shape each unique difficult dialogue and recognize how experiences with motivation and defensiveness impact difficult dialogues. Further, you will read about case studies of successful dialogues between children and adults and discover the positive benefits of engaging in difficult dialogues with the youth in your life. Finally, you will be given the opportunity to learn about and practice specific skills to prepare for, engage in, and move forward before, during, and after a difficult dialogue. Given the intellectual foundation you will construct while reading this book, this book includes a workbook section to put your newfound skills to work.If you are left wondering "If difficult dialogues are difficult by nature, is it really worth engaging in one?" This book will shed light on the power dialogue grants you to inspire transformative change. Difficult dialogues show us that very few people are truly "too far gone" to communicate, reflect, transform, and act. We have all bore witness to both massive societal issues and their proliferating repercussions. However, there is hope in that each can begin to be solved and dismantled with the comparatively small task of engaging in authentic difficult dialogues. To address societal ills - to grow - we must be courageous, we must be vulnerable, and we must have authentic difficult dialogues. We must do this for a better world, for a more just world, and this book may serve as a foundation and a reference as you progress in your journey.
£81.60
Information Age Publishing Integrating Experiences: Body and Mind Moving
Book SynopsisCultural Psychology studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. It is premised on the idea that culture is within us—in every moment in which we live our human lives, in the meaningful worlds we have created ourselves. In this perspective, encounters with others fundamentally transform the way we understand ourselves. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. No longer can we ignore questions about how our cultural traditions, practices, beliefs, artifacts and other people constitute how we approach, understand, imagine and remember the world. The Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology series aims to highlight and develop new ideas that advance our understanding of these issues.This second volume in the series features an address by Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie, which is followed by commentary chapters and their response to them. In their lecture, Zittoun and Gillespie propose a model of the relation between mind and society, specifically the way in which individuals develop and gain agency through society. They theorise and demonstrate a two-way interaction: bodies moving through society accumulatedifferentiated experiences, which become integrated at the level of mind, enabling psychological movement between experiences, which in turn mediates how people move through society. The model is illustrated with a longitudinal analysis of diaries written by a woman leading up to and through the Second World War. Commentators further elaborate on the issues of (1) context and history, (2) experience, time and movement, and (3) methodologies for cultural psychology.
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Information Age Publishing Integrating Experiences: Body and Mind Moving
Book SynopsisCultural Psychology studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. It is premised on the idea that culture is within us—in every moment in which we live our human lives, in the meaningful worlds we have created ourselves. In this perspective, encounters with others fundamentally transform the way we understand ourselves. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. No longer can we ignore questions about how our cultural traditions, practices, beliefs, artifacts and other people constitute how we approach, understand, imagine and remember the world. The Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology series aims to highlight and develop new ideas that advance our understanding of these issues.This second volume in the series features an address by Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie, which is followed by commentary chapters and their response to them. In their lecture, Zittoun and Gillespie propose a model of the relation between mind and society, specifically the way in which individuals develop and gain agency through society. They theorise and demonstrate a two-way interaction: bodies moving through society accumulatedifferentiated experiences, which become integrated at the level of mind, enabling psychological movement between experiences, which in turn mediates how people move through society. The model is illustrated with a longitudinal analysis of diaries written by a woman leading up to and through the Second World War. Commentators further elaborate on the issues of (1) context and history, (2) experience, time and movement, and (3) methodologies for cultural psychology.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of recursive Processes
Book SynopsisCultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics, this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the diverse chapters in this book is that recursion and recursive processes are at the core of complex social and psychological processes. Recursion is bound up with the notion of re-turning, re-examining, reflecting and circling back, and these processes allow for human beings to simultaneously distance themselves from the here-and-now settings (by imaging the past and future) while being immersed in them. The objective of this book is not simply to celebrate the complexity of human living, but to extend the notion of recursion, recursivity and recursive processes into the realm of social and psychological processes beyond the arenas in which these ideas have currently thrived.Cultural Psychology of Recursivity shows that in spite of the difficulty in defining recursivity, self-referencing (looping), transformation (generativity), complexity, and holism constitute its core characteristics and provide the basis for which authors in this book explore and elaborate this concept. Still, each contribution has its own unique take on recursivity and how it is applied to their phenomenon of investigation. Chapters in this book examine how recursive processes are related to and basic aspects of play and ritual, imitation, identity exploration, managing stigma, and commemorative practices. This book is intended for psychologists, sociologists, and mathematicians. Use of the book in post-graduate and graduate level of university teaching is expected in seminar format teaching occasions.
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Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of recursive Processes
Book SynopsisCultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics, this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the diverse chapters in this book is that recursion and recursive processes are at the core of complex social and psychological processes. Recursion is bound up with the notion of re-turning, re-examining, reflecting and circling back, and these processes allow for human beings to simultaneously distance themselves from the here-and-now settings (by imaging the past and future) while being immersed in them. The objective of this book is not simply to celebrate the complexity of human living, but to extend the notion of recursion, recursivity and recursive processes into the realm of social and psychological processes beyond the arenas in which these ideas have currently thrived.Cultural Psychology of Recursivity shows that in spite of the difficulty in defining recursivity, self-referencing (looping), transformation (generativity), complexity, and holism constitute its core characteristics and provide the basis for which authors in this book explore and elaborate this concept. Still, each contribution has its own unique take on recursivity and how it is applied to their phenomenon of investigation. Chapters in this book examine how recursive processes are related to and basic aspects of play and ritual, imitation, identity exploration, managing stigma, and commemorative practices. This book is intended for psychologists, sociologists, and mathematicians. Use of the book in post-graduate and graduate level of university teaching is expected in seminar format teaching occasions.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Psychology in Black and White: The Project of a
Book SynopsisThis book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century. Here we can observe a creative solution to integrating cultural psychology with the rich traditions of psychodynamic perspectives, without repeating the conceptual impasses in which many psychoanalytic perspectives have become caught.CONTENTSSeries Editor's Preface. New Synthesis: A dynamic theory of Sense-Making Introduction. Psychology as the science of the explanandum PART I – MICRO-PHYSICS OF SENSEMAKING Chapter 1. The meaning of our discontent. Chapter 2. The Semio-Dynamic Model of Sensemaking (SDMS). Chapter 3. Micro-dynamic of sensemaking. Chapter 4. The semiotic Big Bang. PART II. THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS Chapter 5. The contextuality of mind. Chapter 6. Beyond subject and object. Chapter 7. Affect and desire as semiotic processes. Chapter 8. Exercises of semiotic reframing. PART III. A NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH Chapter 9. Field dependency and abduction. Chapter 10. The modelling of sensemaking. Chapter 11. Models and strategies of empirical investigation. Chapter 12. Studies of sensemaking. Epilogue. References.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Psychology in Black and White: The Project of a
Book SynopsisThis book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century. Here we can observe a creative solution to integrating cultural psychology with the rich traditions of psychodynamic perspectives, without repeating the conceptual impasses in which many psychoanalytic perspectives have become caught.CONTENTSSeries Editor's Preface. New Synthesis: A dynamic theory of Sense-Making Introduction. Psychology as the science of the explanandum PART I – MICRO-PHYSICS OF SENSEMAKING Chapter 1. The meaning of our discontent. Chapter 2. The Semio-Dynamic Model of Sensemaking (SDMS). Chapter 3. Micro-dynamic of sensemaking. Chapter 4. The semiotic Big Bang. PART II. THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS Chapter 5. The contextuality of mind. Chapter 6. Beyond subject and object. Chapter 7. Affect and desire as semiotic processes. Chapter 8. Exercises of semiotic reframing. PART III. A NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH Chapter 9. Field dependency and abduction. Chapter 10. The modelling of sensemaking. Chapter 11. Models and strategies of empirical investigation. Chapter 12. Studies of sensemaking. Epilogue. References.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Amerindian Paths: Guiding Dialogues With
Book SynopsisThis book comes as part of a broader project the editor is developing aiming critically to articulate some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples.As such, the project – of which the present book is part – concerns to a meta-theoretical reflection aiming to bring in new theoretical-methodological and ethical reflections to Cultural Psychology. From this meta-theoretical reflection we have been developing the notion of dialogical multiplication as it implies the diversification (differentiation and dedifferentiation) of semiotic trajectories in interethnic boundaries.
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Information Age Publishing Amerindian Paths: Guiding Dialogues With
Book SynopsisThis book comes as part of a broader project the editor is developing aiming critically to articulate some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples.As such, the project – of which the present book is part – concerns to a meta-theoretical reflection aiming to bring in new theoretical-methodological and ethical reflections to Cultural Psychology. From this meta-theoretical reflection we have been developing the notion of dialogical multiplication as it implies the diversification (differentiation and dedifferentiation) of semiotic trajectories in interethnic boundaries.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of Musical Experience
Book SynopsisThis book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and psychology.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of Musical Experience
Book SynopsisThis book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and psychology.
£87.40
Wits University Press The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on
Book SynopsisWhat does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African – with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a textbook on African-centred psychology look like? How do researchers and practitioners engage in African social psychology, African-centred child development, African neuropsychology, or any area of psychology that situates African realities at the centre?Questions such as these are what eminent professor of psychology Kopano Ratele grapples with in this lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise on practising African psychology in a decolonised world view. Employing a style common in philosophy but rarely used in psychology, the book offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. While Setting out a framework for researching, teaching and practicing African psychology, the book in part coaxes, in part commands and in part urges students of psychology, lecturers, researchers and therapists to reconsider and reach beyond their received notions of African psychology.Trade ReviewThis book builds a case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa. Its strength lies in the author’s arguments on psychology as a colonial discipline and what it does as it is transported to the African continent. — Floretta Boonzaier, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town Ratele is the kind of scholar whose experience means he can jettison old ways of doing things in favour of experimentation and breaking boundaries. He insists on meddling with and poking at accepted ways of knowing and doing. Innovative in both form and content, the book is an important contribution to our scholarship. — Hugo Canham, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Wits University Press The World Looks Like This from Here: Thoughts on
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Wits University Press Becoming Men: Black masculinities in a South
Book SynopsisBecoming Men is the story of 32 boys from Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's largest townships, over a period of twelve seminal years in which they negotiate manhood and masculinity. Psychologist and academic Malose Langa documents in close detail what it means to be a young black man in contemporary South Africa.The boys discuss a range of topics including the impact of absent fathers, relationships with mothers, siblings and girls, school violence, academic performance, homophobia, gangsterism, unemployment and, in one case, prison life.Deep ambivalence, self-doubt and hesitation emerge in their approach to alternative masculinities premised on non-violent, non-sexist and non-risk-taking behaviour. Many of the boys appear simultaneously to comply with and oppose the prevalent norms, thereby exposing the difficulties of negotiating the multiple voices of masculinity.Providing a rich interpretation of how emotional processes affect black adolescent males, Langa suggests interventions and services to support and assist them, especially in reducing high-risk behaviours generally associated with hegemonic masculinity. This is essential reading for students, researchers and scholars of gender studies who wish to understand manhood and masculinity in South Africa. Psychologists, youth workers, lay counsellors and teachers who work with adolescent boys will also find it invaluable.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 What makes a man a man? Chapter 2 Reshaping masculinities - Understanding the lives of adolescent boys Chapter 3 Backdrop to Alex - South African townships and stories in context Chapter 4 Absent fathers, present mothers Chapter 5 Pressures to perform - Tsotsi boys vs academic achievement Chapter 6 Double standards - Dating, sex and girls Chapter 7 Defying homophobia: 'This is who I am, finish and klaar' Chapter 8 Young fathers and the world of work Chapter 9 'Im still hopeful, still positive' - Holding onto a dream Chapter 10 Safe spaces - Listening, hearing, action Bibliography Notes Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second
Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition brings together leading scholars in the field of political economy to introduce readers to the latest research in public choice.The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance, and to modeling and predicting the behavior of international organizations and transnational terrorism.With broad and up-to-date coverage, this second edition will appeal to politicians and policymakers, academics and researchers in public and social choice and political science as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.Contributors include: D.G. Arce M., A. Batinti, F. Bose, G. Brennan, M. Brooks, U. Cantner, R.D. Congleton, C.J. Coyne, N.V. Crain, W.M. Crain, R.B. Ekelund Jr, J.S. Ferris, R.K. Fleck, A. Glazer, A. Hamlin, F.A. Hanssen, A.L. Hillman, R.G. Holcombe, L.W. Kenny, Y. Kim, M.S. Kimenyi, K.M. Larkin-Wong, J.G. Matsusaka, F.S. McChesney, R.R. McGregor, D.C. Mueller, M.C. Munger, F. Padovano, A. Pellillo, R. Pietrantonio, A. Razo, L. Razzolini, M. Reksulak, C.K. Rowley, P.H. Rubin, J.M. Shepherd, W.F. Shughart II, R.S. Sobel, T. Stratmann, O. Taiwo, R.D. Tollison, R. Vaubel, M. WohlgemuthTrade Review‘This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students.’ -- Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US‘Co-Editors Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini, and William Shughart have assembled a fine extension of the first Elgar Companion to Public Choice that was published in 2003 (Shughart and Razzolini 2003). . . Overall, the 2013 Companion is useful to scholars both as specialists in the specific topics covered and as generalists interested in surveying the field.’ -- Edward J. Lopez, Journal of Public Finance & Public ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition PART I: THE CHOICE IN PUBLIC CHOICE 1. Individual Choice and Collective Choice: An Overview Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II 2. Public Choice: The Origins and Development of a Research Program Charles K. Rowley 3. Political Science and Public Choice Michael C. Munger PART II: THE FRAMEWORK OF GOVERNMENT 4. The Origins of the State Dennis C. Mueller 5. Constitutional Political Economy Alan Hamlin 6. Autocrats and Democrats Armando Razo PART III: SYSTEMS OF COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING 7. Expressive Voting Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks 8. Direct Democracy John G. Matsusaka 9. Legislatures Nicole V. Crain and W. Mark Crain 10. Parliaments Fabio Padovano 11. Federal Systems Randall G. Holcombe 12. Tribal Systems Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Olumide Taiwo PART IV: PUBLIC CHOICE ANALYSES OF THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT 13. The Politics of Elections and Congressional Oversight Russell S. Sobel and Adam Pellillo 14. Judges: Why do they Matter? Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen 15. Monetary Policy Rob Roy McGregor 16. Fiscal Policy J. Stephen Ferris 17. Regulatory Policy Amihai Glazer 18. The Public Choice Perspective on Antitrust Law Fred S. McChesney and Katherine M. Larkin-Wong PART V: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED 19. Rent Seeking Arye L. Hillman 20. Campaign Finance Thomas Stratmann 21. Public Choice and the Law Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd 22. Public Choice and the Modern Welfare State Roger D. Congleton with Alberto Batinti, Feler Bose, Youngshin Kim and Rinaldo Pietrantonio 23. Public Choice and Public Education Lawrence W. Kenny 24. Public Choice and Religion Robert B. Ekelund Jr and Robert D. Tollison 25. Experimental Public Choice Laura Razzolini 26. Evolutionary Public Choice Uwe Cantner and Michael Wohlgemuth PART VI: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ACTORS 27. International Organizations Roland Vaubel 28. The Political Economy of War and Peace Christopher J. Coyne and Adam Pellillo 29. Collective Action and (Counter) Terrorism Daniel G. Arce M. References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research Methods on Trust: Second
Book SynopsisAcclaim for the first edition:'A tour-de-force of trust research methodologies, from survey methods to critical incidents to hermeneutics... will prove invaluable to trust researchers of every stripe.'- Aks Zaheer, University of Minnesota'This book fills an important gap. The burgeoning field of trust research has employed a wide variety of definitions and methods, but until the appearance of this Handbook there was no comprehensive overview of them. Its contributions, many written by leading international experts, cover conceptual issues as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. The editors are all working at the frontiers of trust research and in this Handbook they have compiled an indispensable source of reference for years to come.'- John Child, University of Birmingham, UK'This is the right book at the right time. Central to the advancement of research on trust is the need to address a host of methodological, empirical, and analytical challenges. This Handbook provides a vital resource for doing so and holds the promise of infusing the literature with novel and enhanced approaches for studying and understanding trust. Researchers new to the field as well as established experts will find a wealth of insights contained herein.'- Bill McEvily, University of Toronto, CanadaDrawing together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume, this book provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences.This second edition of the Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides a fully updated and extended account of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods for empirical research. While many researchers have already drawn inspiration and insight from the previous edition, the dynamic development of trust research calls for further and deeper engagement with methodological issues, particular methods, practical research experience, and current challenges and innovations as offered by this new edition.Identifying innovative methods for researching trust, this important handbook will prove invaluable for students and academics in the social sciences who are interested in trust, particularly postgraduates planning empirical research on trust, undergraduates researching issues of trust, faculty teaching research-based courses on trust and related topics, and experienced trust researchers looking for reflection, discussion and inspiration.Contributors: S.J. Addison, N. Alex, M.J. Ashleigh, R. Bachmann, D. Barrera, K.M. Bijlsma-Frankema, M.C. Bligh, B.F. Blumberg, G. Breeman, C. Brinsfield, C. Burns, V. Buskens, J.S. Carroll, S.M. Conchie, D.L. Ferrin, D.E. Gibbons, N. Gillespie, C. Goodall, J.C. Kohles, R.M. Kramer, T.M. Kühlmann, A. Langley, V. Le Gall, R.J. Lewicki, E. Meyer, M. Muethel, R. Münscher, B. Nooteboom, J.M. Peiró, A. Pentland, R.L. Priem, W. Raub, R.A. Roe, D.M. Rousseau, R.H. Searle, M. Tillmar, E.M. Uslaner, B. Waber, A.A. Weibel, F. Welter, M. Williams, R. ZolinTrade ReviewAs any field of academic study matures, researchers refine methods for investigating the phenomenon of interest. For research on trust, this Handbook Second Edition reflects where the trust literature has been, where it is now, and where it is going with respect to research methods. If you are a mature trust scholar, or someone starting research on trust, the Handbook is an indispensable resource for evaluating the full range of methods that may be appropriate for your study. --Steven C. Currall, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction. Researching Trust: The Ongoing Challenge of Matching Objectives and Methods Fergus Lyon, Guido Möllering and Mark N.K. Saunders PART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2. Pursuing Ecological Validity in Trust Research: Merits of Multi-Method Research Roderick M. Kramer 3. An Abductive Approach to Investigating Trust Development in Strategic Alliances Véronique Le Gall and Ann Langley 4. Trust Research: Measuring Trust Beliefs and Behaviors Roy J. Lewicki and Chad Brinsfield 5. Agent-Based Simulation of Trust Bart Nooteboom 6. Researching Trust in Different Cultures Friederike Welter and Nadezhda Alex 7. Trust and Social Capital: Challenges for Studying their Dynamic Relationship Boris F. Blumberg, Jose M. Peiró and Robert A. Roe 8. Measuring Generalized Trust: In Defense of the ‘Standard’ Question Eric M. Uslaner PART II QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 9. Access and Non-Probability Sampling in Qualitative Research on Trust Fergus Lyon 10. Working With Difficult to Reach Groups: A ‘Building Blocks’ Approach to Researching Trust in Communities Christine Goodall 11. Cross-Cultural Comparative Case Studies: A Means of Uncovering Dimensions of Trust Malin Tillmar 12. Using Mixed Methods-Combining Card Sorts and In-Depth Interviews Mark N.K. Saunders 13. Mixed Methods Application in Trust Research: Simultaneous Hybrid Data Collection in Cross-Cultural Settings Using the Board-Game Method Miriam Muethel 14. Using Scenarios as Part of a Concurrent Mixed Methods Design Susan J. Addison 15. Utilising Repertory Grids in Macro-Level Comparative Studies Reinhard Bachmann 16. Deepening the Understanding of Trust: Combining Repertory Grid and Narrative to Explore the Uniqueness of Trust Melanie J. Ashleigh and Edgar Meyer 17. Studying Trust Relationships using Social Network Analysis Roxanne Zolin and Deborah E. Gibbons 18. Hermeneutic Methods in Trust Research Gerard Breeman 19. Using Critical Incident Technique in Trust Research Robert Münscher and Torsten M. Kühlmann PART III QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES 20. Survey Measures of Trust in Organizational Contexts: An Overview Nicole Gillespie 21. The Actor–Partner Interdependence Model: A Method for Studying Trust in Dyadic Relationships Donald L. Ferrin, Michelle C. Bligh and Jeffrey C. Kohles 22. Embedded Trust: The Analytical Approach in Vignettes, Laboratory Experiments and Surveys Davide Barrera, Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub 23. Measuring the Decision to Trust Using Metric Conjoint Analysis Richard L. Priem and Antoinette A. Weibel 24. Diary Methods in Trust Research Rosalind H. Searle 25. Measuring Implicit Trust and Automatic Attitude Activation Calvin Burns and Stacey M. Conchie 26. A Voice is Worth a Thousand Words: The Implications of the Micro-Coding of Social Signals in Speech for Trust Research Benjamin Waber, Michele Williams, John S. Carroll and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland 27. It Takes a Community to Make a Difference: Evaluating Quality Procedures and Practices in Trust Research Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema and Denise M. Rousseau Index
£158.00
Collective Ink Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption
Book SynopsisWorking the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures - including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to 'work the aisles'. Moving back and forth through time, like a novelist, indeed in something of a memoirist tour de force, the book develops the story of struggle, of poverty and depression, but also of gaiety and desire, of a will to live in spite of it all, and to keep working the aisles. It moves the reader through highs and lows, through episodes of ecstasy and thoughts about suicide, and tells how this particular Everyman ended up sane but sorry.Trade ReviewThis exploration of our desires, commercial and otherwise, and how we are manipulated by them and how we manipulate, reaches far beyond the shopping mall critique: Mr Appelbaum ranges from the highly intellectual social psychology and literary deconstruction to a highly personal narrative, with dramatic scenes of arrest and odd love encounters and vivid details from the United States, England, and France. Covering roughly 50 years, from 1960 till a few years ago, Working the Aisles paints a telling picture of the astounding economic and social changes of the half century. This is a very entertaining and at the same time melancholy and thoughtful novel-like trip into our ever-growing appetites. It should satisfy reading appetites of nearly everybody: rigorous scholars and those looking for a good and fresh story. Mr Appelbaum will keep you lively company for a couple of nights. You might even want to light a pipe. --Josip Novakovich, finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, author of April Fool's Day and Shopping for a Better Country
£12.99
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Responsible Deliberation, between Conversation
Book SynopsisCommunication is a crucial issue in our complex societies tinted by distrust. It is the core of democratic life and almost all human and social actions. Therefore it is essential for communication to be responsible. But responsible communication cannot only be conceived as a deontological issue, framed by ethical compliance requirements or good practices promotion. It should be considered with all the virtualities of communication, from conversation to consideration, going through narrative, interpretation and argumentation. Indeed each of these communicational capacities has its properties, assets, complementarities and limitations. They constitute different ways to be responsive. This book offers a contribution to the debate of Theory of Deliberative Theory (TDD), reexamined here within its different inspiration sources, notably the opposition between communicational turn and system, the fact of moral pluralism and the public reason.Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Part 1 As Many Critiques as There Are Deliberations 1 Chapter 1 From Defiant Critical Citizenship to Pluralist Political Critique 5 1.1 Testing critical citizenship 7 1.2 Critique as defiance 8 1.2.1 Relational critique 8 1.3 Stealth democracy versus sunshine democracy 11 1.4 From reactive critique to pluralist political critique 14 1.5 The critique of common sense 18 1.6 Intensity of critique towards democracy and propensity to engage 20 1.7 Comparative attractiveness of five features of democracy 25 1.8 From critical citizenship to citizenship critique 26 1.8.1 Democracy, citizenship and types of critique 27 1.8.2 Beyond the four types of critique: communication, responsibility and burdens of judgment 29 1.9 An unusual debate to tame the critics’ 34 Chapter 2 Multiple and Conflicting Origins of Deliberative Democracy 43 2.1 Recent and deflationary definition of deliberative democracy 46 2.2 The sources of deliberative democracy 48 2.2.1 Eight phases in the evolution of a conflict theory 48 2.2.2 Late arrival of philosophy? 51 2.2.3 Three additional steps in the history of TDD 53 2.2.4 A division into two generations 59 2.3. Questionable developments, remaining problems and the promise of theory 60 2.4 TDD from three other perspectives 63 2.5 Contested deliberation and probation 68 Part 2 Disseminated Deliberation between Empirical Analyses and Theoretical Disputes 77 Chapter 3 Deliberation, Argumentation, Multiscale Agreement Modes 79 3.1 Fragmented deliberations under institutional constraints 80 3.2 Access to the agreements 85 3.3 Philosophy and practical deliberations 92 3.3.1 Theory and empirical differences 92 3.3.2 Constructive or critical philosophy 94 3.3.3 Mobilization of philosophy for empirical work 97 3.4 Guaranteed or “unfiltered” deliberation? 102 Chapter 4 More than a “Familial Dispute” at the Foundation of Deliberative Democracy 109 4.1 Between Rawls and Habermas, incompatible perspectives 111 4.1.1 Disputes about the limits of politics and the instruments of representation (Rawlsian division) 114 4.1.2 Playing Rawls against Rawls (Habermasian reconstruction) 114 4.2 Disagreements at the heart of deliberative tools: reflective equilibrium and argumentation 116 4.2.1. The equilibrium control of the conjecture of the original position (Rawls) 116 4.2.2 Reflective equilibrium well understood (Habermas) 118 4.2.3 Theory of incomplete argumentation (Rawls) 119 4.3 Challenges of pluralism and limits of reflective equilibrium 120 4.3.1 Pluralism at the heart of the judgment 121 4.4 Reflective equilibriums put to the test 125 4.4.1 Recomposition of the burdens of judgment 126 4.4.2 Burdens of judgment in search of equilibrium 128 4.5 The law at the risk of democratic debate 130 Part 3 Embodied Rhetoric and Complex Political System 135 Chapter 5 Argumentation Put Into Question 143 5.1 Argumentation, the key to saving communicative rationality 144 5.1.1 Problems of the relationship between reasons and validity 147 5.1.2 Importance of the relationship between reasons and validity 150 5.2 Enigmatic Habermasian additions on argumentation 152 5.3 Expectations and disappointed promises of argumentative hopes 158 5.4 Give up? 160 5.5 Venturing out as the situation requires 163 5.6 Types of questions and components of the argument 165 5.7 The frameworks of argumentation 169 5.8 Arguing, from law to politics 172 5.9 Argumentation, legal methodology, social justice 174 Chapter 6 From Conversation to Consideration 183 6.1 Communication capacities 183 6.1.1 Narration 186 6.1.2 Interpretation 186 6.1.3 Combinations of communication capacities 187 6.2 Conversation 189 6.3 Consideration 194 6.4 Issues, circumstances and responsibilities 198 6.4.1 General issues (hexameter) fixing the circumstances 199 6.4.2 Detailed responsibilities 200 6.4.3 The will is not only a matter of conflicting desires 201 6.4.4 Communicating, from circumstances to political responsibilities 204 6.5 Rhetoric, as essence and perfection of language 206 6.6 System of deliberative systems 212 6.6.1 System functions and levels of pluralism 214 6.6.2 From social deliberation to deliberative systems 216 6.7 Deliberative stage system and expertise 218 Conclusion 225 References 237 Index 251
£113.40
Collective Ink Healthy Models for Relationships: The Basic
Book SynopsisWhat do healthy relationships look like? Most of the difficulties we face on a daily basis have to do with our relationships - be it with our partners, families, children, parents - or with our friends, neighbors or colleagues at work. This is why most of us really want to know how we can best get along with other people. What do healthy couple relationships look like? What do healthy families look like? What are the characteristics of respectful, constructive conversations? How can we best navigate through the challenges we meet in our daily lives and disagree with our friends, colleagues and families in a respectful way without running away or going on the attack? Is it possible to speak respectfully and reach compromises which function for everyone involved? In short, what do healthy relationships look like? Barbara Berger’s answer to these important questions are her Healthy Models which describe what healthy relationships look like in practice. The value of these Healthy Models is that when we have clear models of how healthy behavior looks, we can then compare our own relationships to these models and identify what is not working in our relationships. And this can be a big help because then we can begin to work to improve our relationships. The book is packed with practical techniques and exercises.
£18.99
Cognella, Inc Social Psychology: Learning through Case Studies
Book SynopsisSocial Psychology: Learning through Case Studies introduces readers to key concepts within the field through a collection of engaging real-life scenarios. It covers a broad range of topics, including the concept of self, cognitive dissonance, social influence, group processes, prosocial behaviour, aggression, prejudice, and more.Each chapter introduces a specific topic within the realm of social psychology, followed by relevant case studies and questions designed to encourage critical thinking and practical application. Discussion questions following each individual case and key takeaways at the end of each chapter encourage student engagement and retention of the material.Social Psychology is an exceptional resource for courses and programs in social psychology, as well as interdisciplinary studies, especially those that emphasize human behaviour, social interactions, and real-world applications of psychological theories.
£42.46
Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook of Trust and Social Psychology
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Trust and Social Psychology highlights the crucial importance of trust in a wide variety of contexts, such as individual well-being, societal stability and personal and professional relationships. This Handbook is a testament to the profound impact of Ken J. Rotenberg's work on developmental and social psychology.
£180.50
Emerald Publishing Limited Subjectivity and Development in Rural Contexts
£71.25
Emerald Publishing Limited Subjectivity and Development in Rural Contexts
£40.00
Emerald Publishing Limited From ProblemSolving to Responsible DecisionMaking
£65.00
Emerald Publishing Limited From ProblemSolving to Responsible DecisionMaking
£35.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook addresses a wide variety of methodological approaches adopted and developed by behavioural economists, exploring the implications of such innovations for analysis and policy. Presenting analytical narratives from renowned economists and economic psychologists, the Handbook applies a broad array of methodological perspectives to behavioural economics. These span from bounded rationality, asymmetric information, and heuristics and biases to fast and frugal heuristics, rational agents and smart decision-makers, and capabilities improvements and institutional design. Chapters further explore diverse areas such as public policy, micro and macroeconomics, labour economics, the firm, decision-making, preference formation, punishment, love, altruism, trust, the environment, money and finance, health, and sports. Providing a pluralistic approach to behavioural economics, the Handbook ultimately introduces readers to an array of possible methodologies that can be adopted to address topical economic issues, as well as facilitating an enriched and nuanced understanding of human behaviour in an economic context. Comparing and contrasting different methodologies within behavioural and neoclassical economics, this dynamic Handbook will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in economics, social psychology, and marketing courses. Policymakers will also benefit from its examination of the implications of behavioural economics for real-world decision making and policy.Trade Review‘The chapters of this Handbook take us beyond the now familiar areas of behavioural economics research and give attention to a wider range of methods and further applications of the findings – a much needed help in the many fields, such as environmental and health economics, in which the usefulness of these findings is just beginning to be realized.’ -- Jack L. Knetsch, Simon Fraser University, Canada‘Behavioral economics needs to go beyond documenting deviations from neoclassical norms and interpreting these as flaws in humans rather in the theory. We need to take uncertainty seriously, take heuristics seriously, and study how people actually make decisions instead of building as-if models. This excellent collection of approaches offers many ways to rethink behavioral economics and equip it with a fresh vision.’ -- Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany‘Morris Altman succeeds in assembling experts from various scholarly disciplines who present the arsenal of research methods in behavioral economics and their potential in applied social research. This is an excellent comprehensive Handbook that is of interest to students and scholars, committed to understanding economic behavior which is often driven by a-rationality and irrationality rather than the capacity to rationally maximize one’s own utility.’ -- Erich Kirchler, University of Vienna, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Morris Altman: Introduction PART I BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS METHODS IN GENERAL 2. Gerrit Antonides: Behavioral economic methods 3. Steve J. Bickley , and Benno Torgler: Behavioural Economics, What Have We Missed?” 4. Exploring “Classical” Behavioural Economics Roots in AI, Cognitive Psychology, and Complexity Theory 5. Beryl Chang: Assumptions in Economic Modeling: How Behavioral Economics Can Enlighten PART II REAL WORLD ECONOMICS 6. Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters: RealEconomik: Using the messy human experience to drive clean theoretical advance in economics 7. Pascal Moliner and Patrick Rateau: The common-sense economy PART III BEHAVIOURAL MACROEOCNOMICS 8. Michelle Baddeley: Behavioural Methods for Macroeconomics: Modelling Investment 9. Tobias F. Rötheli: The Business Cycle and the Cycles of Behavioral Economics PART IV BEHAVIOURAL LABOUR ECONOMICS AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM 10. Morris Altman: Behavioural Labour Economics 11. Sodany Tong: Some Implications of X-efficiency Theory for the Role of Managerial Quality as a Key Determinant of Firm Performance and Productivity 12. Morris Altman: Behavioural Theories of the Firm with a Focus on X-Efficiency and Effort Discretion: Implications for Analysis PART V MONEY AND BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS 13. Agata Gasiorowska & Tomasz Zaleskiewicz: The Psychology of Money 14. Tomasz Zaleskiewicz & Agata Gasiorowska: Taking Financial Advice: Going Beyond Making Good Decisions PART VI BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH ECONOMICS 15. Hannah Rachel Josepha Altman and Morris Altman; Bounded Rationality, Imperfect and Costly Information and Sub-optimal Outcomes in the Sports and Health and Fitness Industries 16. Nazmi Sari: Empirical methods and methodological developments in economics of health and health behavior: A discussion of theory and applications 17. David A. Savage and Derek Friday: The Behavioural Impact of Pandemics: Incomplete Markets and the Supply Chain PART VII ‘EMOTIONS’ AND MORALS, AND BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS 18. Jefferson Arapoc: Economics of Trust: its nature, measures, determinants, and application 19. Roger Frantz: Intuition and Behavioral Economics. A Very Brief History 20. Natalia V. Czap and Hans J Czap: Conserve the Planet, NOT Empathy! Revising the Empathy Conservation Framework 21. Shinji Teraji: Behavioral Economics of Morality and Sustainability 22. Alexis V. Belianin: Antisocial punishment PART VIII EVALUATION AND FORMATION OF BELIEFS AND PREFERENCES 23. Fang-Fang Tang : Auction Methods of Valuation and the Endowment Effect 24. David Leiser: Statistical approaches to the analysis of belief patterns 25. Matthew G. Nagler: Motivated Preferences 26. Mina Mahmoudi, Mark Pingle, Rattaphon Wuthisatian: Might Ambiguity Exist When None Seems to Exist? PART IX BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES TO POLICY 27. Irene Mussio and Angela C.M. de Oliveira: Norms, networks, nudges: non-traditional approaches to improve healthy behaviors 28. Noah V. Peters and Lucia A. Reisch: Bridging Psychology and Sociology: Towards a Socio- ecological Perspective in Behavioural Economics and Policy Index
£220.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Public Goods and Private Wants: A Psychological
Book SynopsisHow valuable to us are the activities of government? Public Goods and Private Wants explores psychological approaches to public economics in order to answer this question. The contributions of economists and political scientists to the study of government spending are discussed, and subjective measures, largely derived from psychology, that could be used to evaluate government spending are considered. The author then uses empirical studies to explain how people value government goods and services, and what they appear to want the government to do. The results have implications for methods of valuing government services, the way people think about government spending and political processes.This accessible and thought-provoking volume will be of interest to academics in the areas of economics, psychology and political science. Those concerned with government decision making will also find it of great value.Trade Review'This is a highly readable account of individual attitudes towards government services written from a psychological perspective.' -- Alistair Munro, Journal of Economic Psychology'Kemp's work is readily accessible to economists. He bridges the gap between psychology and economics with his expertise in both fields, and hopefully his innovative survey research will be taken up.' -- A. Stutzer, Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie'In democracy, we ask people whom they would like to govern them. Simon Kemp shows how and why the same principle applies to the types and amounts of public goods that governments supply. If you seek solutions to public-sector supply-demand mismatch - read Kemp's lively, topical treatise.' -- Shlomo Maital, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IsraelTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Economics and Public Goods 3. Government Spending in Democracies 4. Quality of Life 5. Methods of Assessing Value 6. Psychophysical Scaling of Value 7. Taxation and its Relationship to Spending 8. Valuation and Knowledge of Cost 9. What Do People Want the Government to Undertake? 10. Conclusions References Index
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Elgar Companion to Public Choice
Book SynopsisThis authoritative and encyclopaedic reference work provides a thorough account of the public choice approach to economics and politics. The Companion breaks new ground by joining together the most important issues in the field in a single comprehensive volume. It contains state-of-the-art discussions of both old and contemporary problems, including new work by the founding fathers as well as contributions by a new generation of younger scholars.The book reviews the literature of public choice, highlighting the common ground between all rational choice approaches to politics. It demonstrates the important impact of public choice on economics, political science, philosophy and sociology. It will be an indispensable source of reference for many years to the ideas, analytical methods and empirical research in the field.The Companion will serve as the standard reference work for all those engaged in the field of public choice and will be essential reading for politicians and policymakers, scholars in political science, public and social choice, as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.Trade Review'. . . this compendium offers a solid introduction into an economic field that is gaining in influence.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Public Choice at the Millennium Part I: Methodology Part II: The Constitutional Framework Part III: Institutions and Mechanisms of Collective Choice Part IV: Public Choice Perspectives on Government and the Economy Part V: The Public Choice Revolution References Index
£71.20
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka
Book SynopsisWhat makes despotic leaders tick? How do they become despots? On a lesser (but far more common) scale: why are some people ruthlessly abrasive in the workplace? Why do some business leaders appear to lose their sense of humanity? How and why do they create a culture of fear, uncertainty and doubt in their companies?Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in order to help us understand the psychology of power and terror. During his short reign, Shaka Zulu established one of the most successful regimes based on terror that has ever existed, from which the traits of despotic leaders are illustrated. Shaka's life history is a study in the psychology of terror, and he can be a proxy for the behavior of any despot, be it from antiquity or modern times. From his leadership behavior fifteen cautionary lessons are derived, offering valuable principles for contemporary leaders.The book also explores the characteristics of totalitarian states, and discusses what can be done to prevent despotic leaders from coming to the fore. Clear parallels are drawn between Shaka's behavior and that of other, more contemporary, leaders including Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein.This fascinating and highly original book will be of enormous interest to a broad audience - from students and academics focusing on leadership, political science, and political psychology, to practitioners such as managers, executives, consultants, and leadership coaches.Trade Review'A serious, but readable, study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- International Journal of Strategic Management'A serious but readable study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- Long Range Planning'This book is the most up-to-date available investigation of the understanding of tyranny and terror that psychologists, psychoanalysts and experts on group and institutional behaviour can provide. Manfred Kets de Vries has produced a masterpiece. He draws on a wealth of published research in the field and relates it in an academically excellent, yet eminently readable, way to the premier problem of the beginning of the 21st century. I strongly recommend it.' -- Anton Obholzer, formerly Tavistock Centre London, Psychoanalyst and Organizational Consultant'From constructive narcissism to reactive narcissism, we are but one step away from megalomania and terror. Professor Kets de Vries traces the origin of leadership by terror to early childhood in this case study of Shaka Zulu. A gruesome story warns us that terror may be inherent in the human condition.' -- Abraham Zaleznik, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: The Historical Context 1. A School for Tyranny: Learning from Hardship, Betrayal and Humiliation 2. The Making of a Military State: Honing the Assegai 3. Ruling by Fear: Bringing Enemies and Allies Alike to Submission Part II: The Question of Character 4. The Inner Theatre of the King: Acting Out Personal Concerns on a Public Stage 5. Monte Cristo in Africa: Seeking Revenge for Past Wrongs 6. The Nature of Relationships: Being Unable to Establish Real Intimacy 7. Paranoia – The Disease of Kings: Exercising Caution Beyond the Bounds of Danger 8. The Terrorist Mind: Protecting the Self by Victimizing Others Part III: Leadership by Terror 9. Following the Leader: Colluding in Cruelty 10. Lessons in Leadership: Teaching by Example and Omission Part IV: Deconstructing Totalitarianism 11. A Throne of Blood: Deploying the Tools of Tyranny 12. Dancing with Vampires: Preventing Tyranny through Effective Governance Bibliography Index
£94.00
Liverpool University Press Society and the Absurd: A Sociology of
Book SynopsisThere is an unbridgeable controversy between the functionalist sociologist who anchors his theories on society and the group, and the existentialist who bathes his thoughts on the individual. Durkheim and Parsons, as well as many contemporary American sociologists, are adjustment based in the sense that all those individuals who rock the boat even if they are creative innovators would be labelled deviant or mad. The existentialists, from Kierkegaard to Buber, regard the individual as the focus of life; they see philosophy and society as at best a curbing control-structure and at worst coercing, stigmatizing and ostracizing. The present volume treads in the giant footsteps of Albert Camus who saw the absurd as the conflictual encounter between the individual and society. Society and the Absurd attempts to overcome this deep sociological controversy by investigating absurdity through the prism of an interdisciplinary theory of personality.Trade Review"Society and the Absurd portrays the norms of madness as well as legally expectable behavior and the reality of those who reject normative standards. It stresses that every man can achieve truth and self-determination by recognizing that the outside norms are totally lacking justification. This confrontation at last is now available to those who read this succinct scholarly and forthright treatise..." -- Harold Laswell and Lawrence Freedman, The University of Chicago."Prof. Shoham is at once avant-garde and traditional, revolutionary and sensitive to everything sound and yet not hackneyed in the established body of academic usages. This book is likely to play an important role in the world-wide effort to take the true measure of and deal effectively with the human condition..." -- Zigmund Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: A Fragile Peace: Could a 'Race to the Bottom' Have Been Avoided?; The Pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Retrospective; Ending the Conflict: Can the Parties Afford It?; Domestic Israeli Politics and the Conflict; Foundering Illusions: The Demise of the Oslo Process; Islamic Perspectives on the Oslo Process; From Oslo to Taba: What Went Wrong?; Why Did Oslo Fail?: Lessons for the Future; The Oslo Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown; The Middle East Peace Process -- Where to Next?; A Fragile Peace: Are There Only Lessons of Failure?; The Contributors; Index.
£27.06
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka
Book SynopsisWhat makes despotic leaders tick? How do they become despots? On a lesser (but far more common) scale: why are some people ruthlessly abrasive in the workplace? Why do some business leaders appear to lose their sense of humanity? How and why do they create a culture of fear, uncertainty and doubt in their companies?Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in order to help us understand the psychology of power and terror. During his short reign, Shaka Zulu established one of the most successful regimes based on terror that has ever existed, from which the traits of despotic leaders are illustrated. Shaka's life history is a study in the psychology of terror, and he can be a proxy for the behavior of any despot, be it from antiquity or modern times. From his leadership behavior fifteen cautionary lessons are derived, offering valuable principles for contemporary leaders.The book also explores the characteristics of totalitarian states, and discusses what can be done to prevent despotic leaders from coming to the fore. Clear parallels are drawn between Shaka's behavior and that of other, more contemporary, leaders including Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein.This fascinating and highly original book will be of enormous interest to a broad audience - from students and academics focusing on leadership, political science, and political psychology, to practitioners such as managers, executives, consultants, and leadership coaches.Trade Review'A serious, but readable, study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- International Journal of Strategic Management'A serious but readable study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- Long Range Planning'This book is the most up-to-date available investigation of the understanding of tyranny and terror that psychologists, psychoanalysts and experts on group and institutional behaviour can provide. Manfred Kets de Vries has produced a masterpiece. He draws on a wealth of published research in the field and relates it in an academically excellent, yet eminently readable, way to the premier problem of the beginning of the 21st century. I strongly recommend it.' -- Anton Obholzer, formerly Tavistock Centre London, Psychoanalyst and Organizational Consultant'From constructive narcissism to reactive narcissism, we are but one step away from megalomania and terror. Professor Kets de Vries traces the origin of leadership by terror to early childhood in this case study of Shaka Zulu. A gruesome story warns us that terror may be inherent in the human condition.' -- Abraham Zaleznik, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: The Historical Context 1. A School for Tyranny: Learning from Hardship, Betrayal and Humiliation 2. The Making of a Military State: Honing the Assegai 3. Ruling by Fear: Bringing Enemies and Allies Alike to Submission Part II: The Question of Character 4. The Inner Theatre of the King: Acting Out Personal Concerns on a Public Stage 5. Monte Cristo in Africa: Seeking Revenge for Past Wrongs 6. The Nature of Relationships: Being Unable to Establish Real Intimacy 7. Paranoia – The Disease of Kings: Exercising Caution Beyond the Bounds of Danger 8. The Terrorist Mind: Protecting the Self by Victimizing Others Part III: Leadership by Terror 9. Following the Leader: Colluding in Cruelty 10. Lessons in Leadership: Teaching by Example and Omission Part IV: Deconstructing Totalitarianism 11. A Throne of Blood: Deploying the Tools of Tyranny 12. Dancing with Vampires: Preventing Tyranny through Effective Governance Bibliography Index
£29.95
Equinox Publishing Ltd Face, Communication and Social Interaction
Book SynopsisIt is an enduring theme of humanity that people are concerned about what others think of them. The notion of face has thus become firmly established as a means of explaining various social phenomena in a range of fields within the social sciences, including anthropology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and psychology. Yet face has also become increasingly entrenched in the literature as a kind of pre-existing sociocultural construct. This book offers an alternative in focusing on the ways in which face is both constituted in and constitutive of social interaction, and its relationship to self, identity and broader sociocultural expectations. There are three main themes explored in this volume. Part I, 'Face in interaction', encompasses contributions that deal with face as it emerges in interaction in various institutional and non-institutional settings. In Part II, the relationship between self, identity and face is investigated in the context of interpersonal communication. The final part considers various approaches to establishing links between individual interactions (the so-called micro) and broader sociocultural expectations or 'norms' that interactants bring into interactions (the so-called macro).Table of Contents1. Face and interaction (Michael Haugh) Part I: Face in interaction 2. Face as emergent in interpersonal communication: An alternative to Goffman (Robert B. Arundale, University of Alaska) 3. How to get rid of a telemarking agent? Facework strategies in an intercultural service call (Rosina Marquez-Reiter, University of Surrey) 4. Analysing Japanese 'face-in-interaction': insights from intercultural business meetings (Michael Haugh and Yasuhisa Watanabe, Queensland University of Technology) 5. That's a mythA": Linguistic avoidance as face-saving strategy in broadcast interviews (Eric Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth) 6. Two Sides of the same coin: How the notion of 'face' is encoded in Persian communication (Sofia A. Koutlaki ) Part II: Face, identity and self 7. Face, identity and interactional goals (Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick) 8. Evoking face in self and other presentation in Turkish (A ukriye Ruhi, Middle East Technical University, Turkey) 9. Face and self in Chinese communication (Gao Ge, San Jose State University) 10. Face, politeness and interpersonal variables: implications for language production and comprehension (Thomas Holtgraves, Ball State University) 11. In the face of the other: Between Goffman and Levinas (Alexander Kozin, Freie Universitat Berlin) Part III: Face, norms and society 12. Facework collision in intercultural communication (Stella Ting-Toomey, California State University at Fullerton) 13. Face in the holistic and relativistic society (Tae-Seop Lim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 14. Finding face between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft: Greek perceptions of the in-group (Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois) 15. Significance of 'face' and politeness in social interaction as revealed through Thai 'face' idioms (Margaret Ukosakul, Payap University, Thailand) 16. Facing the future: some reflections (Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini)
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research Methods on Trust
Book Synopsis'A tour-de-force of trust research methodologies, from surveys methods to critical incidents to hermeneutics. . . will prove invaluable to trust researchers of every stripe.- Aks Zaheer, University of Minnesota, US 'This book fills an important gap. The burgeoning field of trust research has employed a wide variety of definitions and methods, but until the appearance of this Handbook there was no comprehensive overview of them. Its contributions, many written by leading international experts, cover conceptual issues as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. The editors are all working at the frontiers of trust research and in this Handbook they have compiled an indispensable source of reference for years to come.'- John Child, University of Birmingham, UK 'This is the right book at the right time. Central to the advancement of research on trust is the need to address a host of methodological, empirical, and analytical challenges. This Handbook provides a vital resource for doing so and holds the promise of infusing the literature with novel and enhanced approaches for studying and understanding trust. Researchers new to the field as well as established experts will find a wealth of insights contained herein.' Bill McEvily, University of Toronto, CanadaThe Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. As this topic has matured, a growing number of practical approaches and techniques has been utilized across the broad, multidisciplinary community of trust research, providing both insights and challenges. This unique Handbook draws together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume. The contributors examine different methodological issues and particular methods, as well as share their experiences of what works, what does not work, challenges and innovations. Identifying innovative methods for researching trust, this important Handbook will prove invaluable for students and academics in the social sciences that are interested in trust, particularly postgraduates planning empirical research on trust, undergraduates researching issues of trust, faculty teaching research-based courses on trust and related topics, and experienced trust researchers looking for reflection, discussion and inspiration.Trade ReviewA tour-de-force of trust research methodologies, from surveys methods to critical incidents to hermeneutics. . .will prove invaluable to trust researchers of every stripe. - Aks Zaheer, University of Minnesota, US This book fills an important gap. The burgeoning field of trust research has employed a wide variety of definitions and methods, but until the appearance of this Handbook there was no comprehensive overview of them. Its contributions, many written by leading international experts, cover conceptual issues as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. The editors are all working at the frontiers of trust research and in this Handbook they have compiled an indispensable source of reference for years to come. - John Child, University of Birmingham, UK This is the right book at the right time. Central to the advancement of research on trust is the need to address a host of methodological, empirical, and analytical challenges. This Handbook provides a vital resource for doing so and holds the promise of infusing the literature with novel and enhanced approaches for studying and understanding trust. Researchers new to the field as well as established experts will find a wealth of insights contained herein. - --Bill McEvily, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Variety of Methods for the Multi-faceted Phenomenon of Trust Fergus Lyon, Guido Möllering and Mark N.K. Saunders PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2. Moving between Laboratory and Field: A Multi-method Approach for Studying Trust Judgments Roderick M. Kramer 3. Measuring Trust Beliefs and Behaviours Roy J. Lewicki and Chad Brinsfield 4. Agent-based Simulation of Trust Bart Nooteboom 5. Researching Trust in Different Cultures Friederike Welter and Nadezhda Alex 6. Trust and Social Capital: Challenges for Studying their Dynamic Relationship Boris F. Blumberg, José M. Peiró and Robert A. Roe 7. Measuring Generalized Trust: In Defense of the ‘Standard’ Question Eric M. Uslaner PART II: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 8. Access and Non-probability Sampling in Qualitative Research on Trust Fergus Lyon 9. Working with Difficult to Reach Groups: A ‘Building Blocks’ Approach to Researching Trust in Communities Christine Goodall 10. Cross-cultural Comparative Case Studies: A Means to Uncovering Dimensions of Trust Malin Tillmar 11. Combining Card Sorts and In-depth Interviews Mark N.K. Saunders 12. Mixed Method Applications in Trust Research: Simultaneous Hybrid Data Collection in Cross-cultural Settings Using the Board Game Method Miriam Muethel 13. Utilising Repertory Grids in Macro-level Comparative Studies Reinhard Bachmann 14. Deepening the Understanding of Trust: Combining Repertory Grid and Narrative to Explore the Uniqueness of Trust Melanie J. Ashleigh and Edgar Meyer 15. Hermeneutic Methods in Trust Research Gerard Breeman 16. Using Critical Incident Technique in Trust Research Robert Münscher and Torsten M. Kühlmann PART III: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES 17. Measuring Trust in Organizational Contexts: An Overview of Survey-based Measures Nicole Gillespie 18. The Actor–Partner Interdependence Model: A Method for Studying Trust in Dyadic Relationships Donald L. Ferrin, Michelle C. Bligh and Jeffrey C. Kohles 19. Embedded Trust: The Analytical Approach in Vignettes, Laboratory Experiments and Surveys Davide Barrera, Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub 20. Measuring the Decision to Trust Using Metric Conjoint Analysis Richard L. Priem and Antoinette A. Weibel 21. Diary Methods in Trust Research Rosalind H. Searle 22. Measuring Implicit Trust and Automatic Attitude Activation Calvin Burns and Stacey Conchie 23. A Voice is Worth a Thousand Words: The Implications of the Micro-coding of Social Signals in Speech for Trust Research Benjamin Waber, Michele Williams, John S. Carroll and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland 24. It Takes a Community to Make a Difference: Evaluating Quality Procedures and Practices in Trust Research Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema and Denise M. Rousseau Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second
Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition brings together leading scholars in the field of political economy to introduce readers to the latest research in public choice.The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance, and to modeling and predicting the behavior of international organizations and transnational terrorism.With broad and up-to-date coverage, this second edition will appeal to politicians and policymakers, academics and researchers in public and social choice and political science as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.Contributors include: D.G. Arce M., A. Batinti, F. Bose, G. Brennan, M. Brooks, U. Cantner, R.D. Congleton, C.J. Coyne, N.V. Crain, W.M. Crain, R.B. Ekelund Jr, J.S. Ferris, R.K. Fleck, A. Glazer, A. Hamlin, F.A. Hanssen, A.L. Hillman, R.G. Holcombe, L.W. Kenny, Y. Kim, M.S. Kimenyi, K.M. Larkin-Wong, J.G. Matsusaka, F.S. McChesney, R.R. McGregor, D.C. Mueller, M.C. Munger, F. Padovano, A. Pellillo, R. Pietrantonio, A. Razo, L. Razzolini, M. Reksulak, C.K. Rowley, P.H. Rubin, J.M. Shepherd, W.F. Shughart II, R.S. Sobel, T. Stratmann, O. Taiwo, R.D. Tollison, R. Vaubel, M. WohlgemuthTrade Review‘This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students.’ -- Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US‘Co-Editors Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini, and William Shughart have assembled a fine extension of the first Elgar Companion to Public Choice that was published in 2003 (Shughart and Razzolini 2003). . . Overall, the 2013 Companion is useful to scholars both as specialists in the specific topics covered and as generalists interested in surveying the field.’ -- Edward J. Lopez, Journal of Public Finance & Public ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition PART I: THE CHOICE IN PUBLIC CHOICE 1. Individual Choice and Collective Choice: An Overview Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II 2. Public Choice: The Origins and Development of a Research Program Charles K. Rowley 3. Political Science and Public Choice Michael C. Munger PART II: THE FRAMEWORK OF GOVERNMENT 4. The Origins of the State Dennis C. Mueller 5. Constitutional Political Economy Alan Hamlin 6. Autocrats and Democrats Armando Razo PART III: SYSTEMS OF COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING 7. Expressive Voting Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks 8. Direct Democracy John G. Matsusaka 9. Legislatures Nicole V. Crain and W. Mark Crain 10. Parliaments Fabio Padovano 11. Federal Systems Randall G. Holcombe 12. Tribal Systems Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Olumide Taiwo PART IV: PUBLIC CHOICE ANALYSES OF THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT 13. The Politics of Elections and Congressional Oversight Russell S. Sobel and Adam Pellillo 14. Judges: Why do they Matter? Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen 15. Monetary Policy Rob Roy McGregor 16. Fiscal Policy J. Stephen Ferris 17. Regulatory Policy Amihai Glazer 18. The Public Choice Perspective on Antitrust Law Fred S. McChesney and Katherine M. Larkin-Wong PART V: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED 19. Rent Seeking Arye L. Hillman 20. Campaign Finance Thomas Stratmann 21. Public Choice and the Law Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd 22. Public Choice and the Modern Welfare State Roger D. Congleton with Alberto Batinti, Feler Bose, Youngshin Kim and Rinaldo Pietrantonio 23. Public Choice and Public Education Lawrence W. Kenny 24. Public Choice and Religion Robert B. Ekelund Jr and Robert D. Tollison 25. Experimental Public Choice Laura Razzolini 26. Evolutionary Public Choice Uwe Cantner and Michael Wohlgemuth PART VI: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ACTORS 27. International Organizations Roland Vaubel 28. The Political Economy of War and Peace Christopher J. Coyne and Adam Pellillo 29. Collective Action and (Counter) Terrorism Daniel G. Arce M. References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY
Book SynopsisThis major reference collection presents in three volumes the key articles and papers on social choice theory.Volume One centres attention on key aspects of the debate on Arrow's impossibility theorem, carefully counter-poising differing viewpoints and embracing competing methodologies. In a field prone to the excessive use of mathematics and of arcane high theory, Charles Rowley skilfully presents a literature which is accessible to non-mathematicians and yet which offers full coverage of all the major debates. Volumes two and three extend the coverage of social choice theory to review the attempts of leading scholars to resolve the ageless problems of determining social goals and reconciling apparent inconsistencies among such goals. Professor Rowley carefully guides the reader through a litany of approaches, both methodological individualist and social engineering, ends-related and process-related in nature. Volume two reprints leading contributions to the utilitarian and contractarian ethics while volume three completes this exercise with material on the social justice and contractarian ethics. Professor Rowley's own introductory essay exposes the social choice research programme to his own Virginian critique, while integrating a large, diffuse literature into a unified whole.Trade Review'Charles Rowley has given us an excellent collection of well-chosen papers from different fields in social choice theory. The selections are informed by Professor Rowley's broad command over the discipline. He has put social choice theorists in particular (and economists, political theorists and moral philosophers generally) much in his debt by providing this extremely useful collection.' -- Amartya Sen, Harvard University, US'Public choice researchers will find that the collection of articles provides a magnificent perspective on the on the breadth and scope of formal political economy.'– Michael Cain, Public ChoiceTable of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION VOLUME I: THE AGGREGATION OF PREFERENCE PART I: FOUNDATIONS A. Bergson (1938), ‘A Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics’ H. R. Bowen (1943), ‘A Reformulation of Voting in the Allocation of Economic Resources’ D. Black (1948), ‘On the Rationale of Group Decision-making’ K. J. Arrow (1950), ‘A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare’ PART II: COLLECTIVE RATIONALITY, VOTING AND STRATEGY-PROOFNESS I. M. D. Little (1952), ‘Social Choice and Individual Values’ J. H. Blau (1957), ‘The Existence of Social Welfare Functions’ K. J. Arrow (1959), ‘Rational Choice Functions and Orderings’ J. de V. Graaff (1962), ‘On Making a Recommendation in a Democracy’ G. Tullock (1964), ‘The Irrationality of Intransitivity’ A. K. Sen (1964), ‘A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions’ G. Tullock (1967), ‘The General Irrelevance of the General Impossibility Theorem’ A. K. Sen and P. K. Pattanaik (1969), ‘Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under Majority Decision’ K. J. Arrow (1969), ‘Tullock and an Existence Theorem’ K. J. Arrow (1967), ‘Values and Collective Decision-making’ A. Gibbard (1973), ‘Manipulation of Voting Schemes: A General Result’ C. R. Plott (1973), ‘Path Independence, Rationality and Social Choice’ C. R. Plott (1976), ‘Axiomatic Social Choice Theory: An Overview and Interpretation’ M. A. Satterthwaite (1975), ‘Strategy-proofness and Arrow’s Conditions: Existence and Correspondence Theorems for Voting Procedures and Social Welfare Functions’ A. K. Sen (1977), ‘Social Choice Theory” A Re-examination’ PART II: CRITIQUES OF ‘SOCIAL CHOICE AS SOCIAL ENGINEERING’ L. Von Mises (2944), ‘The Treatment of “Irrationality” in the Social Sciences’ F. A. Hayek (1945), ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’ J. M. Buchanan (1954), ‘Social Choice, Democracy and Free Markets’ J. M. Buchanan (1954), ‘Individual Choice in Voting and the Market’ J. M. Buchanan (1964), ‘What should Economists Do?’ R. Sugden (1978), ‘Social Choice and Individual Liberty’ A. Sen (1978), ‘Liberty as Control: An Appraisal; PART IV: ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE FROM THE SOCIAL CHOICE DIFFICULTY J. C. Harsanyi (1955), ‘Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility’ T. Grooves and J. Ledyard (1977), ‘Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the “Free-rider” Problem’ T. N. Tideman and G. Tullock (1976), ‘A New and Superior Process for Making Social Choices’ W. H. Riker (1979), ‘Is “A New and Superior Process” Really Superior?’ A. Sen (1977), ‘On weights and Measures: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis’ VOLUME II: SOCIAL GOALS PART I: UTILITARIAN ETHIC W. Vickrey (1945), ‘Measuring Marginal Utility by Reactions to Risk’ M. Fleming (1952), ‘A Cardinal Concept of Welfare’ J. C. Harsanyi (1953), ‘Cardinal Utility in Welfare Economics and in the Theory of Risk-taking’ W. Vickrey (1960), ‘Utility, Strategy and Social Decision Rules’ P. A. Diamond (1967), ‘Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal comparisons of Utility: Comment’ R. A. Posner (1979), ‘Some Uses and Abuses of Economics in Law’ R. A. Posner (1979), ‘Utilitarianism, Economics and Legal Theory’ R. A. Posner (1979), ‘The Ethical and Political Basis of the Efficiency Norm in Common Law Adjudication’ J. L. Coleman (1980), ‘Efficiency, Utility and Wealth Maximization’ R. A. Posner (1981), ‘A Reply to Recent Criticisms of the Efficiency Theory of the Comment Law’ J. C. Harsanyi (1980), ‘Rule Utilitarianism, Rights, Obligations and the Theory of Rational Behavior’ A. K. Sen (1979), ‘Utilitarianism and Welfarism’ PART II: THE CONTRACTARIAN ETHIC J. M. Buchanan (1975), ‘A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory’ S. Gordon (1976), ‘The New Contractarians’ N. P. Barry (1984), ‘Unanimity, Agreement and Liberalism: A Critique of James Buchanan’s Social Philosophy’ L. B. Yeager (1985), ‘Rights, Contract and Utility in Policy Espousal’ C. K. Rowley (1987), ‘The Economic Philosophy of James McGill Buchanan’ A. Sandmo (1990), ‘Buchanan on Political Economy: A Review Article’ T. M. Scanlon (1982), ‘Contractualism and utilitarianism’ VOLUME III PART I: THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ETHIC J. Rawls (1958), ‘Justice as Fairness’ J. Rawls (1974), ‘Some Reasons for the Maximum Criterion’ J. Rawls (1975), ‘A Kantian Conception of Equality’ J. Rawls (1985), ‘Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical’ J. M. Buchanan (1972), ‘Rawls on Justice as Fairness’ H. L. A. Hart (1973), ‘Rawls on Liberty and Its Priority’ S. Gordon (1973), ‘John Rawls’s Difference Principle, Utilitarianism and the Optimum Degree of Inequality’ T. Nagel (1973), ‘Rawls on Justice’ J. M. Buchanan (1976), ‘A Hobbesian Interpretation of the Rawlsian Difference Principle’ J. C. Harsanyi (1975), ‘Can the Maximum Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of john Rawls’s Theory’ H. R. Varian (1975), ‘Distributive Justice, Welfare Economics and the Theory of Fairness’ C. K. Rowley and A. T. Peacock (1975), ‘Justice’ A. Sen (1990), ‘Justice: Means versus Freedoms’ PART II: THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL ETHIC A. Sen (1970), ‘The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal’ Y. K. Ng (1971), ‘The possibility of a Paretian Liberal: Impossibility Theorems and Cardinal Utility’ A. T. Peacock and C. K. Rowley (1972), ‘Pareto Optimally and the Political Economy of Liberalism’ R. Nozick (1973), ‘Distributive Justice’ A. Gibbard (1974), ‘A Pareto-Consistent Libertarian Claim’ P. Bernholz (1974), ‘Is a Paretian Liberal Really Impossible?’ J. H.Blau (1975), ‘Liberal Values and Independence’ M. J. Farrell (1976), ‘Liberalism in the Theory of Social Choice’ A. Sen (1976), ‘Liberty, Unanimity and Rights’ C. K. Rowley (1978), ‘Liberalism and Collective Choice: A Return to Reality?’ A. Sen (1979), ‘Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: Or What’s Wrong with Welfare Economics’ P. Bernholz (1980), ‘A General Social Dilemma: Profitable Exchange and Intensitive Group Preferences’ K. Suzumura (1980), ‘Liberal paradox and the Voluntary Exchange of Rights-Excerising’ A. Sen (1983), ‘Liberty and Social Choice’ K. Basu (1984), ‘The Right to Give Up Rights’ R. Sugden (1985), ‘Liberty, Preference and Choice’ J. M. Buchanan (1975), ‘Utopia, the Minimal State, and Entitlement’ K. J. Arrow (1978), ‘Nozick’s Entitlement Theory of Justice’ C. K. Rowley and R. E. Wagner (1990), ‘Choosing Freedom: Public Choice and the l Libertarian Idea’ W. Gaertner, P. K. Pattanaik and K. Suzumura (1992), ‘Individual Rights Revisited’ A. Sen (1992), ‘Minimal Liberty’
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Psychoanalytic Sociology
Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic Sociology presents a careful selection of the most important seminal articles on the inter-relations which have developed between psychoanalysis and sociology.A new introductory chapter, prepared by the editors, reviews the most recent developments clarifying the different influences of psychoanalytical writers such as Freud, Klein and Lacan on sociological thought. A broad definition of 'the sociological' has been adopted, corresponding to the topics and ideas being explored.This comprehensive and authoritative two volume set is an essential reference guide to both the origins and the most recent developments in psychoanalytic sociology.Table of ContentsContents: 1. The Place of Freud in Sociological Theory 2. Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory and Marxism 3. Feminism and the Critique of the Family 4. Interpreting the Social 6. The Sociology of Psychoanalysis
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Psychology
Book SynopsisThis major reference work is a collection of over 125 of the best, most significant and influential articles in the field of social psychology. The three volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social psychology including such topics as social cognition, attribution, attitudes, self, conformity, persuasion, groups, aggression, attraction, racism and research methods. Each article was selected on the basis of its contribution to the advancement of social psychological knowledge and to provide the reader with a representative sampling of the best articles in each of the major sub-fields (topics) of social psychology.Social Psychology covers over 70 years of social psychological research including articles of great historical significance and contemporary pieces destined to become classics in the field. It will be an essential reference source to those teaching graduate seminars as well as to the generalist seeking primary sources to provide an in-depth overview of the field of social psychology.Trade Review'The International Library of Critical Writings in Psychology, Social Psychology volumes - a carefully selected set of important contributions, which compares favourably to the excellent SPSSI collections produced in the 1950s and 1960s. At the same time, this collection is much more extensive and comprehensive than those valuable earlier collections. The decision to produce the writings in photo-reproduction form makes them especially useful as a scholarly resource.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction: What is Social Psychology? Volume I PART I: SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND JUDGEMENT 1. William I. Thomas and Florian Znnaniecki (1947), ‘The Definition of the Situation’ 2. S.E. Asch (1946), ‘Forming Impressions of Personality’ 3. Norman H. Anderson (1965), ‘Primacy Effects in Personality Impression Formation Using a Generalised Order Effect Paradigm’ 4. Carl I. Hovland and Muzafer Sherif (1952), ‘Judgmental Phenomena and Scales of Attitude Measurement: Item Displacement in Thurstone Scales’ 5. Lee Ross, David Greene and Pamela House (1977), ‘The "False Consensus Effect": An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes’ 6. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1973), ‘Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ 7. David L. Hamilton and Robert K. Gifford (1976), ‘Illusory Correlation in Interpersonal Perception: A Cognitive Basis of Stereotypic Judgments’ 8. Baruch Fischhoff (1975), ‘Hindsight =/ Foresight. The Effect of Outcome Knowledge on Judgment Under Uncertainty’ 9. Paul M. Herr (1986), ‘Consequences of Priming: Judgment and Behavior’ 10. E. Tory Higgins, Gillian A. King and Gregory H. Mavin (1982), ‘Individual Construct Accessibility and Subjective Impressions and Recall’ 11. Elizabeth K. Dreben, Susan T. Fiske and Reid Hastie (1979), ‘The Independence of Evaluative and Item Information: Impression and Recall Order Effects in Behavior-Based Impression Formation’ PART II: SOCIAL COGNITION AND MEMORY 12. Shelley E. Taylor and Jennifer Crocker (1981), ‘Schematic Bases of Social Information Processing’ 13. Reid Hastie and Purohit Anand Kumar (1979), ‘Person Memory: Personality Traits as Organizing Principles in Memory for Behaviors’ 14. John W. Howard and Myron Rothbart (1980), ‘Social Categorization and Memory for In-Group and Out-Group Behavior’ 15. Michael Ross, Cathy McFarland and Garth J.O. Fletcher (1981), ‘The Effect of Attitude on the Recall of Personal Histories’ 16. Robert B. Zajonc (1960), ‘The Process of Cognitive Tuning in Communication’ 17. Renneé Weber and Jennifer Crocker (1983), ‘Cognitive Processes in the Revision of Stereotyping Beliefs’ 18. Murray G. Millar and Abraham Tesser (1986), ‘Thought-Induced Attitude Change: The Effects of Schema Structure and Commitment’ 19. Philip E. Tetlock (1986), ‘A Value Pluralism Model of Ideological Reasoning’ PART III: ATTRIBUTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS 20. Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel (1944), ‘An Experiment Study of Apparent Behavior’ 21. Daryl J. Bem (1967), ‘Self-Perception Theory: An Alternative Interpretation of Dissonance Phenomena’ 22. Edward E. Jones and Victor A. Harris (1967), ‘The Attribution of Attitudes’ 23. Michael D. Storms (1973), ‘Videotape and the Attribution Process: Reversing Actors' and Observers' Points of View’ 24. Lee Ross, Mark R. Lepper and Michael Hubbard (1975), ‘Perseverance in Self-Perception and Social Perception: Biased Attributional Processes in the Debriefing Paradigm’ 25. Richard E. Nissbett and Eugene Borgida (1975), ‘Attribution and the Psychology of Prediction’ 26. Harold H. Kelley (1973), ‘The Processes of Causal Attribution’ 27. Lee Ross (1977), ‘Shortcomings of the Intuitive Psychologist’ 28. Gifford Weary Bradley (1978), ‘Self-Serving Biases in the Attribution Process: A Reexamination of the Fact or Fiction Question’ 29. Miles Hewstone, Jos Jaspars and Mansur Lalljee (1982), ‘Social Representations, Social Attribution, and Social Identity: The Intergroup Images of "Public" and "Comprehensive" Schoolboys’ PART IV: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS AND BEHAVIOR 30. N.T. Feather (1961), ‘The Relationship of Persistence at a Task to Expectation of Success and Achievement Related Motives.’ 31. Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (1968), ‘Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in the Classroom: Teacher's Expectations as Unintended Determinants of Pupils' Intellectual Competence.’ 32. Carl O. Word, Mark P. Zanna and Joel Cooper (1974), ‘The Nonverbal Mediation of of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction.’ 33. Richard L. Miller, Philip Brickman and Diana Bolen (1975), ‘Attribution Versus Persuasion as a Means for Modifying Behavior.’ 34. Mark Synder, Elizabeth Decker Tanke and Ellen Berscheid (1977), ‘Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes.’ 35. Carol S. Dweck, William Davidson, Sharon Nelson and Bradley Enna (1978), ‘Sex Differences in Learned Helplessness: II. The Contingencies of Evaluative Feedback in the Classroom and III. An Experimental Analysis.’ 36. John M. Darley and Paget H. Gross (1983), ‘A Hypothesis-Confirming Bias in Labeling Effects.’ PART V ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR 37. G.W. Allport (1935), ‘Attitudes.’ 38. Richard T. LaPiere (1934), ‘Attitudes vs. Actions.’ 39. Arthur W. Staats and Carolyn K. Staats (1958), ‘Attitudes Established by Classical Conditioning.’ 40. Daniel Katz (1960), ‘The Functional Approach to the Study of Attitudes.’ 41. Steven J. Breckler (1984), ‘Empirical Validation of Affect, Behavior and Cognition as Distinct Components of Attitude.’ 42. I. Ajzen and M. Fishbein (1980), ‘Theoretical Implications.’ 43. Russell H. Fazio and Carol J. Williams (1986), ‘Attitude Accessibility as a Moderator of the Attitude-Perception and Attitude-Behavior Relations: An Investigation of the 1984 Presidential Election.’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements PART I THE SELF-CONCEPT 1. Mark Synder (1974), ‘The Self-Monitoring of Expressive Behavior.’ 2. Robert A. Wicklund (1975), ‘Objective Self-Awareness.’ 3. Michael F. Scheier and Charles S. Carver (1980), ‘Private and Public Self-Attention, Resistance to Change, and Dissonance Reduction.’ 4. William J. McGuire and Alice Padawer-Singer (1976), ‘Trait Salience in the Spontaneous Self-Concept.’ 5. T.B. Rogers, N.A. Kuiper and W.S. Kirker (1977), ‘Self-Reference and the Encoding of Personal Information.’ 6. Hazel Markus (1977), ‘Self-Schemata and Processing of Information about the Self.’ 7. Robert W. White (1959), ‘Motivation Reconsidered: The Concept of Competence.’ 8. Anthony G. Greenwald (1980), ‘The Totalitarian Ego: Fabrication and Revision of Personal History.’ PART II SELF-MAINTENANCE AND SELF-ENHANCEMENT 9. Leon Festinger (1954), ‘A Theory of Social Comparison Processes.’ 10. Elliot Aronson and David R. Mettee (1968), ‘Dishonest Behavior as a Function of Differential Levels of Induced Self-Esteem.’ 11. J. Merrill Carlsmith and Alan E. Gross (1969), ‘Some Effects of Guilt on Compliance.’ 12. J. Brehm (1966), A Theory of Psychological Reactance, pp 1-12. 13. Abraham Tesser and Jennifer Campbell (1982), ‘Self-Evaluation Maintenance and the Perception of Friends and Strangers.’ 14. William B. Swann Jr. (1987), ‘Identity Negotiation: Where Two Roads Meet.’ 15. Claude M. Steele and Thomas J. Liu (1983), ‘Dissonance Processes as Self-Affirmation.’ 16. Steven Berglas and Edward E. Jones (1978), ‘Drug Choice as a Self-Handicapping Strategy in Response to Noncontingent Success.’ PART III SELF JUSTIFICATION 17. Leon Festinger and Elliot Aronson (1960), ‘Arousal and Reduction of Dissonance in Social Contexts.’ 18. Leon Festinger and James M. Carlsmith (1959), ‘Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance.’ 19. Elliot Aronson and Judson Mills (1959), ‘The Effects of Severity of Initiation on Liking for a Group.’ 20. A.R. Cohen (1962), ‘An Experiment on Small Rewards for Discrepant Compliance and Attitude Change.’ 21. Robert P. Abelson (1959), ‘Modes of Resolution of Belief Dilemmas.’ 22. Jonathan L. Freedman (1965), ‘Long-Term Behavioral Effects of Cognitive Dissonance.’ 23. Mark R. Lepper and David Greene (1975), ‘Turning Play into Work: Effects of Adult Surveillance and Extrinsic Rewards on Children's Intrinsic Motivation.’ 24. Dieter Frey (1982), ‘Different Levels of Cognitive Dissonance, Information Seeking and Information Avoidance.’ PART IV AFFECT AND EMOTION 25. Stanley Schacter and Jerome E. Singer (1962), ‘Cognitive, Social and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State.’ 26. R.B. Zajonc (1980), ‘Feeling and Thinking: Preferences Need no Inferences.’ 27. Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen, Sonia Ancoli (1980), ‘Facial Signs of Emotional Experience.’ 28. Alice M. Isen, Thomas E. Shalker, Margaret Clark and Lynn Karp (1978), ‘Affect Accessibility of Material in Memory, and Behavior: A Cognitive Loop?’ PART V CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE 29. Muzafer Sherif (1947), ‘Group Influences upon the Formation of Norms and Attitudes.’ 30. Soloman E. Asch (1955), ‘Opinions and Social Pressure.’ 31. Stanley Milgram (1963), ‘Behavioral Study of Obedience.’ 32. Craig Haney, Curtis Banks and Philip Zimbardo (1973), ‘Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison.’ 33. S. Moscovici, E. Lage and M. Naffrechoux (1969), ‘Influence of a Consistent Minority on the Responses of a Majority in a Color Perception Task.’ PART VI INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE AND COMPLIANCE 34. Morton Deutsch and Harold B. Gerard (1955), ‘A Study of Normative and Informational Social Influences upon Individual Judgment.’ 35. Dominic Abrams, Margaret Wetherell, Sandra Cochrane, Michael A. Hogg and John C. Turner (1990), ‘Knowing What to Think by Knowing Who You Are: Self-Categorization and the Nature of Norm Formation, Conformity and Group Polarization.’ 36. Herbert C. Kelman (1958), ‘Compliance, Identification and Internalization: Three Processes of Attitude Change.’ 37. Jonathan L. Freedman and Scott C. Fraser (1966), ‘Compliance without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique.’ 38. Robert B. Cialdini, Joyce E. Vincent, Stephen K. Lewis, José Catalan, Diane Wheeler and Betty Lee Darby (1975), ‘Reciprocal Concessions Procedure for Inducing Compliance: The Door-in-the-Face Technique.’ 39. Robert B. Cialdini, John T. Cacioppo, Rodney Bassett and John A. Miller (1978), ‘Low-Ball Procedure for Producing Compliance: Commitment then Cost.’ PART VII COMMUNICATION AND PERSUASION 40. Carl I. Hovland and Walter Weiss (1951), ‘The Influence of Source Credibility on Communication Effectiveness.’ 41. C. Hovland, O.J. Harvey and M. Sherif (1957), ‘Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Reaction to Communication and Attitude Change.’ 42. Norman Miller and Donald T. Campbell (1959), ‘Recency and Primacy in Persuasion as a Function of the Timing of Speeches and Measurements.’ 43. Elliot Aronson, Judith A. Turner and J. Merrill Carlsmith (1963), ‘Communicator Credibility and Communication Discrepancy as Determinants of Opinion Change.’ 44. William J. McGuire and Demetrios Papageorgis (1961), ‘The Relative Efficacy of Various Types of Prior Belief-Defense in Producing Immunity Against Persuasion,’ 45. Robert B. Zajonc (1968), ‘Attitudinal Effects of Mere Exposure.’ 46. Howard Leventhal, Robert Singer and Susan Jones (1965), ‘Effects of Fear and Specificity of Recommendation Upon Attitudes and Behavior.’ 47. Anthony R. Pratkanis, Anthony G. Greenwald, Michael R. Leippe and Michael H. Baumgardner (1988), ‘In Search of Reliable Persuasion Effects: III. The Sleeper Effect is Dead. Long Live the Sleeper Effect.’ 48. R.E. Petty, J.T. Cacioppo and R. Goldman (1981), ‘Personal Involvement as a Determinant of Argument-Based Persuasion.’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgments PART I GROUP INFLUENCES AND DYNAMICS 1. Theodore M. Newcombe (1947), ‘Some Patterned Consequences of Membership in a College Community.’ 2. Kurt Lewin (1947), ‘Group Decision and Social Change.’ 3. Ronald Lippitt and Ralph K. White (1947), ‘An Experimental Study of Leadership and Group Life.’ 4. Seymour Lieberman (1956), ‘The Effects of Changes in Roles on the Attitudes of Role Occupants.’ 5. Leon Festinger (1950), ‘Informal Social Communication.’ 6. John W. Thibaut and Harold H. Kelley (1959), ‘Analysis and Concepts.’ 7. Irving L. Janis (1983), Groupthink (2nd edition), pp 2-5, 7-9, 174-177, 310. 8. Eugen Burnstein and Amiram Vinokur (1973), ‘Testing Two Classes of Theories about Group Induced Shifts in Individual Choice.’ 9. Robert B. Zajonc (1965), ‘Social Facilitation.’ 10. Bibb Latané, Kipling Williams and Stephen Harkins (1979), ‘Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing.’ PART II AGGRESSION 11. Neal E. Miller et al. (1947), ‘Frustration and Aggression.’ 12. Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila A. Ross (1963), ‘Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models.’ 13. Leonard Berkowitz (1964), ‘The Effects of Observing Violence.’ 14. Russell G. Geen, David Stonner and Gary L. Shope (1975), ‘The Facilitation of Aggression by Aggression: Evidence against the Catharsis Hypothesis.’ 15. David P. Phillips (1983), ‘The Impact of Mass Media Violence on US Homicides.’ 16. Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner (1978), ‘Peacetime Casualties: The Effects of War on Violent Behavior of Noncombatants.’ 17. R.A. Baron (1977), ‘Prevention and Control of Human Aggression.’ PART III PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR 18. James H. Bryan and Mary A. Test (1967), ‘Models and Helping: Naturalistic Studies in Aiding Behavior.’ 19. Bibb Latané and John M. Darley (1970), ‘Social Determinants of Bystander Intervention in Emergencies.’ 20. C. Daniel Batson, Bruce D. Duncan, Paula Ackerman, Terese Buckley and Kimberley Birch (1981), ‘Is Empathic Emotion a Source of Altruistic Motivation?’ 21. Alice M. Isen and Paula F. Levin (1972), ‘The Effect of Feeling Good on Helping: Cookies and Kindness.’ PART IV INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION 22. Theodore M. Newcomb (1963), ‘Stabilities Underlying Changes in Interpersonal Attraction.’ 23. Elaine Hatfield, G. William Walster, Jane Piliavin and Lynn Schmidt (1973), ‘"Playing Hard to Get: Understanding an Elusive Phenomenon.’ 24. Elaine Hatfield, Vera Aronson, Darcy Abrahams and Leon Rottman (1966), ‘Importance of Physical Attractiveness in Dating Behavior.’ 25. Donn Byrne and Don Nelson (1965), ‘Attraction as a Linear Function of Proportion of Positive Reinforcements.’ 26. Elliot Aronson and Darwyn Linder (1965), ‘Gain and Loss of Esteem as Determinants of Interpersonal Attractiveness.’ 27. Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Hatfield (1972), ‘What is Beautiful is Good.’ 28. Donald Dutton and Arthur P. Aron (1974), ‘Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction under Conditions of High Anxiety.’ 29. Douglas T. Kenrick and Robert B. Cialdini (1977), ‘Romantic Attraction: Misattribution Versus Reinforcement Explanations.’ PART V PREJUDICE AND RACISM 30. Daniel Katz and Kenneth W. Braly (1947), ‘Verbal Stereotypes and Racil Prejudice.’ 31. Kenneth B. Clark and Mamie P. Clark (1947), ‘Racial Identification and Preference in Negro Children.’ 32. Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford (1947), ‘The Antidemocratic Personality.’ 33. Thomas F. Pettigrew (1959), ‘Regional Differences in Anti-Negro Prejudice.’ 34. Morton Deutsch and Mary Evans Collins (1958), ‘The Effect of Public Policy in Housing Projects Upon Interracial Attitudes.’ 35. Muzafer Sherif (1956), ‘Experiments in Group Conflict.’ 36. Henri Tajfel (1970), ‘Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination.’ 37. Samuel Gaertner and Leonard Bickman (1971), ‘Effects of Race on the Elicitation of Helping Behavior: The Wrong Number Technique.’ 38. Donald R. Kinder and David O. Sears (1981), ‘Prejudice and Politics: Symbolic Racism Versus Racial Threat to the Good Life.’ 39. Stuart W. Cook (1979), ‘Social Science and School Desegregation: Did We Mislead the Supreme Court?’ 40. Elliot Aronson and Diane Bridgeman (1979), ‘Jigsaw Groups and the Desegregated Classroom: In Pursuit of Common Goals.’ PART VI RESEARCHING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 41. Carl I. 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