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A study of East Central Europe and its place in the modern world. Combining narrative with analysis, it presents the past and present of East Central Europe in the larger context of the political and economic history of the continent.

A study of East Central Europe and its place in the modern world. Combining narrative with analysis, it presents the past and present of East Central Europe in the larger context of the political and economic history of the continent.

Why did Hungary, a country that shared much of the religious and institutional heritage of western Europe, fail to replicate the social and political experiences of the latter in the nineteenth and early twenties centuries? The answer, the author argues, lies not with cultural idiosyncracies or historical accident, but with the internal dynamics of the modern world system that stimulated aspirations not easily realizable within the confines of backward economics in peripheral national states. The author develops his theme by examining a century of Hungarian economic, social, and political history. During the period under consideration, the country witnessed attempts to transplant liberal institutions from the West, the corruption of these institutions into a "neo-corporatist" bureaucratic state, and finally, the rise of diverse Left and Right radical movements as much in protest against this institutional corruption as against the prevailing global division of labor and economic inequality. Pointing to significant analogies between the Hungarian past and the plight of the countries of the Third World today, this work should be of interest not only to the specialist on East European politics, but also to students of development, dependency, and center-periphery relations in the contemporary world.

A history of Arizona, from before European discovery to the 19th century, is accompanied by numerous period prints and drawings.

Recent economic and political developments in the Third World and in Communist and advanced industrial societies have challenged some of the most cherished assumptions of social science, forcing social scientists to rethink many of the categories of their discipline. In a concisely written and provocative book, the author traces this process of rethinking. He does so by going back to the nineteenth-century origins of political sociology and economy, and by exploring more recent attempts by American scholarship to fashion from the writings of Smith, Marx, Spencer, Weber, and Durkheim a new universal theory of modernization and political change. The author argues that these attempts led to a new intellectual crisis, which could be resolved only by a "paradigm shift," that is, by refocusing the discipline from the classical concept of social relations to a new global concept of the division of labor and systems of exchange. Overall, the volume may be read both as an intellectual history of modern political science, and as an attempt to fashion an analytical tool for empirical research. As such, it will be of interest to students of political philosophy as well as of comparative politics.

How did liberal movements reshape the modern world? Origins of Liberal Dominance offers a revealing account of how states, churches, and parties joined together in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany to produce fundamentally new forms of organization that have shaped contemporary politics. Modern political life emerged when liberal movements sought to establish elections, constitutions, free markets, and religious liberty. Yet liberalism even at its height faced strong and often successful opposition from conservatives. What explains why liberals overcame their opponents in some countries but not in others? This book compares successful and unsuccessful attempts to build liberal political parties and establish liberal regimes in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany from 1815 to World War I. Andrew Gould argues that relations between states and churches set powerful conditions on any attempt at liberalization. Liberal movements that enhanced religious authority while reforming the state won clerical support and successfully built liberal institutions of government. Furthermore, liberal movements that organized peasant backing around religious issues founded or sustained mass movements to support liberal regimes. Origins of Liberal Dominance offers striking new insights into the emergence of modern states and regimes. It will be of interest to political scientists, sociologists, comparative historians, and those interested in comparative politics, regime change and state-building, democratization, religion and politics, and European politics. Andrew C. Gould is Assistant Professor of Government and Kellogg Institute Fellow, University of Notre Dame.

This title was first published in 2000: An examination of the way in which post-communist political actors have persisted in exploiting, controlling and manipulating the media, in spite of rhetorical commitments to freer and more independent media.

Ezzel az átfogó tanulmányi útmutatóval induljon el egy átalakuló utazásra Timóteus 2. könyvében. Fedezze fel az időtlen bölcsességet, megrendítő meglátásokat és releváns tanításokat, amelyek generációk óta vezetik a hívőket. Merüljön el Pál apostolnak odaadó tanítványának, Timóteusnak írt személyes leveleiben, és fedezze fel, hogyan inspirálják és erősítik meg ezek a szavak a mai keresztényeket. Belül részletes fejezet-összefoglalókat, elgondolkodtató kérdéseket és elmélkedő imákat talál, amelyek gazdagítják a 2. Timóteus megértését. Fedezze fel a hűséges kitartás, a Szentírás tekintélyének, a hit továbbadásának fontosságát és Isten kegyelmének biztosítását. Miközben ebben a tanulmányi útmutatóban navigál, felkészült lesz arra, hogy szembenézzen a kihívásokkal, elmélyítse Istennel való kapcsolatát, és elfogadja azt az életet, amelyet Krisztus szolgálatában él. Akár egyénileg, akár csoportosan tanulsz, ez az útmutató útitervet kínál 2 Timothy kincseinek feltárásához. Lapjai inspiráljanak benneteket a kitartásra, a hitben való gyarapodásra és az időtlen igazságok befogadására, amelyek megvilágítják tanítványságunk utunkat. Készülj fel egy olyan átalakuló tanulmányba, amely megújult, inspirált és lelkes lesz, hogy megossza a világgal az evangélium reményüzenetét. Készen állsz, hogy elmerülj 2 Timóteus tanításainak gazdagságában? Az utazásod itt kezdődik.