Politics & Society articles from March 1997

Politics & Society archives from March 1997

The politics of privatization in rural Mexico.
March 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION In recent years, the trend toward "shrinking" the affirmative state has become nearly universal in areas of both the developed and developing world. Privatization has resulted in changes in the forms and functions of...

The dilemmas of diffusion: social embeddedness and the problems of institutional change in Eastern Germany.
March 1, 1997... The process of unification, it is thus far clear, is more than a simple transfer of economic and political institutions from West Germany to East Germany. In West Germany, these institutions are embedded in the social structure. In East...

Arranged alliance: business interests in the new deal.
March 1, 1997... In 1935, the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other major business organizations joined forces in harsh public condemnation of the Social Security bill currently before Congress. Builders of America's...

Conceptions of parental autonomy.
March 1, 1997... They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you --Philip Larkin This Be The Verse(*) Larkin's acerbic lines...