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This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950's is over, Baruch Kimmerling suggests that the Israeli state has divided into seven major cultures. These seven groups, he contends, have been challenging one other for control over resource distribution and the identity of the polity. Kimmerling, one of the most prominent social scientists and political analysts of Israel today, relies on a large body of sociological work on the state, civil society, and ethnicity to present an overview of the construction and deconstruction of the secular-Zionist national identity. He shows how Israeliness is becoming a prefix for other identities as well as a legal and political concept of citizen rights granted by the state, though not necessarily equally to different segments of society.
National characteristics, Israeli. --- Jews --- Religion and state --- Israeli national characteristics --- Identity. --- Israel --- Social conditions --- Ethnic relations. --- National characteristics, Israeli --- Identity --- Ethnic relations --- Jews - Israel - Identity --- Israel - Social conditions - 20th century --- Israel - Ethnic relations --- 20th century. --- citizen rights. --- cross cultural. --- cultural history. --- demographic study. --- ethnicities. --- historians. --- israel. --- israeli military. --- israeli society. --- israeli state. --- judaism. --- middle east. --- modern history. --- multicultural society. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- political analysts. --- political science. --- political. --- resource distribution. --- secular zionists. --- social scientists. --- social studies. --- sociological study. --- sociologists. --- thought provoking.
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In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor.Recognizing that the efficiency of the insect colony is based on a complex fitting of the division of labor to many simultaneous needs, including those imposed by the distribution of resources and enemies around the nest, Professors Oster and Wilson are able to construct a series of mathematical models to characterize the agents of natural selection that promote particular caste systems.The social insects play a key role in the subject of sociobiology because their social organization is so rigid and can be related to genetic evolution. Because of this important consideration, the authors' work has consequences not only for entomology but also for general evolutionary theory.
Allometric space;Allometry. --- Auslander, D. --- Brian. --- Brown. --- Camponotus (carpenter ants). --- Caste distribution function (CDF). --- Demography. --- Eaton (army ants). --- Energy as utility. --- Formica (ants). --- Guckenheimer, J. --- Hare, Hope. --- Individual-level selection. --- Janzen, D. H. --- Michener, C. D. --- Mirmirani, M. --- Monomorium (ants). --- Myrmica (ants). --- Nash equilibrium. --- Oecophylla (weaver ants), frontispiece. --- Oster, G. F. --- Pheidole (ants). --- Pogonomyrmex (harvesting ants). --- Polistes (paper wasps). --- Resource distribution function (RDF). --- Schmidt, G. H. --- Soldier caste. --- Temporal castes. --- Trivers, R. L. --- Wilson, E. O. --- Allometric space. --- Allometry.
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Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where most Americans live. Drawing on a wide variety of data sources and case studies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in America's municipalities. Arguing that current explanations of voting behavior are ill suited for most local contests, Eric Oliver puts forward a new theory that highlights the crucial differences between local, state, and national democracies. Being small in size, limited in power, and largely unbiased in distributing their resources, local governments are "managerial democracies" with a distinct style of electoral politics. Instead of hinging on the partisanship, ideology, and group appeals that define national and state elections, local elections are based on the custodial performance of civic-oriented leaders and on their personal connections to voters with similarly deep community ties. Explaining not only the dynamics of local elections, Oliver's findings also upend many long-held assumptions about community power and local governance, including the importance of voter turnout and the possibilities for grassroots political change.
Democracy --- Local elections --- County elections --- Elections, County --- Elections, Local --- Elections, Municipal --- Municipal elections --- Election law --- Elections --- Law and legislation --- #SBIB:324H42 --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen --- Ha, Shang E. --- Callen, Zachary. --- American 1 : --- General & Multiperiod. --- America. --- American government. --- American municipalities. --- American politics. --- bias. --- city council members. --- classical democratic theory. --- constitutive power. --- custodial performance. --- election results. --- electoral politics. --- grassroots politics. --- homevoters. --- incumbent. --- intermunicipal political exclusion. --- local community. --- local democracy. --- local elections. --- local governance. --- local government. --- local politicians. --- local politics. --- managerial democracy. --- municipal government. --- municipal governments. --- municipalities. --- national elections. --- national politics. --- political candidates. --- political dynamics. --- political engagement. --- political participation. --- population size. --- resource distribution. --- state elections. --- voter choice. --- voter turnout. --- voting behavior.
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Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice. A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in international development. "Open development" can describe initiatives as disparate as open government, open health data, open science, open education, and open innovation. The theory was that open systems related to data, science, and innovation would enable more inclusive processes of human development. This volume, drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyzes how open development has played out in practice.
Economic development --- Gender mainstreaming. --- Human rights. --- International cooperation. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Analysis, Gender-based --- GBA (Gender-based analysis) --- Gender-based analysis --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Mainstreaming, Gender --- Social sciences --- Sex discrimination --- Law and legislation --- Methodology --- access --- broadband --- collaborative science --- communications --- connectivity --- crowdsourcing --- data --- development --- digital economy --- ecology --- economics --- education --- educational resources --- entrepreneurship --- equity --- gender --- geography --- global --- global development --- global markets --- government --- health --- inclusion --- inequality --- information --- information science --- innovation hubs --- internet --- knowledge --- knowledge exchange --- logistics --- marginality --- MOOCs --- NGOs --- OCSDNet --- online platforms --- open access --- open data --- open innovation --- openness --- open science --- policy --- politics --- public resources --- Reddit --- resource distribution --- social inclusion --- technology --- telecommunications --- telecommunications reform --- U.N. --- UNDP --- university --- wi-fi
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