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Arapaho Indians --- Indians of North America --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Arapahoe Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Arapaho --- Political anthropology --- Politics. --- Political authority.

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The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.

Psychotherapy --- Psychotherapy. --- Political aspects --- china. --- contemporary chinese society. --- economic reform. --- economics. --- ethnography. --- family dynamics. --- happiness. --- inner landscape. --- inner revolution. --- institutional rationality. --- market driven competition. --- mental disorders. --- mental distress. --- mental health. --- middle class urbanites. --- political authority. --- psyche. --- psychological counseling. --- psychotherapeutic culture. --- satir model. --- self transformation. --- selfhood. --- social changes. --- sociality. --- socioeconomic structures. --- therapeutic governing. --- therapeutic relationships. --- therapeutic self.

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Many governmental functions today - from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation - are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? This book argues that it cannot. It argues that privatization constitutes a regression to a precivil condition - what philosophers centuries ago called 'a state of nature.'

Privatization. --- Contracting out --- Public contracts. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- Government policy. --- Bernardo Zacka. --- Debra Satz. --- Governing by Contract. --- James Pattison. --- Jody Freeman. --- Kant. --- Martha Minow. --- Outsourcing and American Democracy. --- Public Service and Moral Agency. --- The Morality of Private War. --- When the State Meets the Street. --- Why Some Things Should not be for Sale. --- civil service. --- delegation of power. --- democracy. --- dependence and independence. --- discretion. --- for-profit firms. --- freedom. --- legitimacy. --- nonprofit organizations. --- political authority. --- private prisons. --- welfare provision.

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Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semi feudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In political documents from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, nature was redefined, moving from the universal, spatial concept of the Tokugawa period, through temporal, social Darwinian ideas of inevitable progress and competitive struggle, to a celebration of Japan as a nation uniquely in harmony with nature. The so-called traditional "Japanese love of nature" masks modern state power. Thomas's theoretically sophisticated study rejects the supposition that modernity is the ideological antithesis of nature, overcoming the determinism of the physical environment through technology and liberating denatured subjects from the chains of biology and tradition. In making "nature" available as a critical term for political analysis, this book yields new insights into prewar Japan's failure to achieve liberal democracy, as well as an alternative means of understanding modernity and the position of non-Western nations within it.

Nature --- Effect of human beings on --- Japan --- Politics and government --- J4600.70 --- J4610 --- J4000.70 --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Politics and law -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- asia. --- biology. --- colonial empire. --- colonialism. --- competition. --- east asia. --- empire. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- feudalism. --- harmony. --- industrial revolution. --- japan. --- japanese colonialism. --- japanese history. --- japanese imperialism. --- japanese literature. --- japanese studies. --- liberal democracy. --- meiji history. --- modern japan. --- modernity. --- natural world. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- physical environment. --- political authority. --- political power. --- politics. --- prewar japan. --- progress. --- social darwinism. --- state power. --- technology. --- tokugawa. --- tradition.

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A field experiment in rural Liberia is used to study democratic participation in fragile states. Fragile states are marked by political fragmentation, local patronage systems, and voter vulnerability. To understand the effects of such conditions on democratic expression through elections, the experiment introduced new forms of interaction between rural citizens and third-party actors: (i) civic education and town hall workshops directed by non-governmental organizations in communities over nine months and (ii) security committees that brought rural community representatives into monthly exchange with United Nations peacekeepers. Civic education workshops increased enthusiasm for electoral participation, produced a coordinated shift from parochial to national candidates, and increased willingness to report on manipulation. A program combining the two interactions had similar effects. The security committees had negligible effects. Barriers to political information and voter coordination appear to be important but resolvable problems for elections in fragile states.

Access to information --- Accounting --- Allegiance --- Anarchy --- Attrition --- Ballot box --- Banking --- Candidates --- Channels of communication --- Citizen access --- Civic education --- Civics --- Civil society --- Collective action --- Committees --- Community members --- Constituencies --- Constituent --- Constituents --- Crises --- Democracies --- Democracy --- Development economics --- Dictatorial regimes --- E-Government --- Economic conditions --- Economics --- Educational attainment --- Effects --- Election --- Election outcome --- Elections --- Electoral choices --- Electoral information --- Electoral participation --- Electoral systems --- Factions --- Forms of participation --- Free press --- Freedom --- Freedoms --- Governance --- Government --- Governments --- Incentives --- Income --- Information --- Innovations --- International peace --- Labor policies --- Law --- Liberty --- Literacy rates --- Loyalty --- Mobile phone --- Monitoring --- Monopolies --- Motivation --- Nation --- National elections --- Ordinary citizens --- Organizations --- Outcomes --- Parliamentary government --- Participants --- Participation --- Participation variables --- Party members --- Patronage --- Peace --- Pluralism --- Policies --- Policy issues --- Political authority --- Political behavior --- Political change --- Political culture --- Political democracy --- Political discussion --- Political economy --- Political information --- Political landscape --- Political leaders --- Political participation --- Political pluralism --- Political rights --- Political science --- Politicians --- Politics --- Politics and government --- Queen --- Representatives --- Rights --- Security --- Social protections and labor --- Terrorism --- Theory --- Training --- United Nations --- Value --- Vote choice --- Voter participation --- Voter turnout --- Voting --- Voting rights