This text covers the important theoretical and empirical developments in the social psychology of collective life. Topics focused on include: groups, both small and large; social organizations and institutions; shared processes of sense-making; representation and discourse; and social norms and rules. The book follows social psychological ......
This text covers the important theoretical and empirical developments in the social psychology of collective life. Topics focused on include: groups, both small and large; social organizations and institutions; shared processes of sense-making; representation and discourse; and social norms and rules. The book follows social psychological ......
This is a review of democracy in the European Union. It deals with the two major challenges of interest articulation in the EU, political parties and lobbying; discusses how democracy becomes the key element in the linkage between the EU and its member states - using France, Italy and Belgium as examples; focuses on democratic aspects of key EU ......
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship ......
A Bicentennial Comparative Analysis of the First Modern Constitutions
A comparative analysis of the development of the first three written Constitutions: the US Constitution of 1787, the Polish Constitution of 3 May, 1791 and the French Constitution of 3 September, 1791. The authors examine the common core that is shared by European and US constitutional traditions.
This study of Jewish life in the High Middle Ages sheds light on the origins of modernity, including Jewish-Gentile relations, the Jewish role in early capitalism, the beginnings of Haskala (Englightenment) and of Hasidism.
Vulnerable Values in Western European Broadcasting
Modern broadcasting policy faces a number of challenges: how to regulate the growing commercial sector; the position and funding of public service television; and finding appropriate forms of public accountability in the changed media environment. Television and the Public Interest examines these challenges and how they are being addressed in the media systems of eight European nations. The authors' aim throughout is to identify the basic values that European policymakers, politicians, broadcasters and civic groups of all kinds regard as vulnerable in the new conditions and are striving to protect from market pressures. The book includes a wealth of information on broadcasting policy issues and practice in Western European nations and offers a major appraisal of the values enshrined in such policy, how they are protected institutionally in different systems, and how such systems are coping with the challenges of the new media landscape.
"Biblical scholars, theologians, and pastors will find [this book] helpful and provocative." -- Ben C. Ollenberger "Exceptionally rich, presenting the fruits of a lifetime of research in an attractive and helpful way." -- James Limburg
... a carefully crafted and important book... a first-class contribution to the literature on modern Europe." -American Historical Review ... valuable... the first historical work to attempt a `synthetic sketch' of the problems indicated in the title." -Journal of Polish Jewish Studies An illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and ......
