From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extensio...

From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender discrimination while revealing the sub...

威權統治者為什麼願意讓步轉向民主？是抵擋不住，是心懷慈善，還是另有盤算？我們曾經以為，一個國家的經濟發展起來，民主也將隨之發展出來。然而真實情況卻十分複雜，與這樣樂觀的期待相距甚遠。中國與新加坡是特別明顯的例子：儘管經濟有驚人的發展，政治上卻並非民主。然而，原本是威權體制的臺灣與南韓，卻在經濟起飛之後踏上民主轉型之路。為什麼會有這樣的差別？儘管在一九八○年代，國民黨的威權統治者遭遇美國施加的壓力以及臺灣內部追求民主的呼聲，但它的統治權力仍舊非常穩固，是什麼樣的因素讓它願意進入另一種政治架構，來應對上述的壓力？本書作者認為，原因並非政權即將崩潰所以不得不妥協，也不是威權統治者善心大發，反而正是因為統治基礎十分穩固，讓威權政黨有信心在全面開放選舉之後，仍然可以穩操勝券，掌握政權。這個相當特別的解釋角度十分具有啟發性，讓我們對「為什麼有些國家邁向民主，有些卻沒有」這個政治經濟領域的重大謎團有進一步的理解。兩位作者深入比較亞洲十二個國家的經...

Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, despite the global correlation between development and democracy. Why have ...

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Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find his way into these conversations, there is uncertainty about where his thinking fits. While utilitarianism has become the default position for teaching James’s pragmatism and radical empiricism, this default ...

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This Covenant experience will guide participants in a comprehensive, in-depth study of the Bible over twenty-four weeks. Unlike the learning participants may have experienced in other groups, this in-depth study of the whole Bible emphasizes the biblical concept of covenant as a unifying pattern through all the books in the Old and New Testaments. It underscores the unique relationship that God chooses to have with us as God’s people. This relationship is grounded in the faithfuln...

This Covenant experience will guide participants in a comprehensive, in-depth study of the Bible over twenty-four weeks. Unlike the learning participants may have experienced in other groups, this in-depth study of the whole Bible emphasizes the biblical concept of covenant as a unifying pattern through all the books in the Old and New Testaments. It underscores the unique relationship that God chooses to have with us as God’s people. This relationship is grounded in the faithfuln...

This Covenant experience will guide participants in a comprehensive, in-depth study of the Bible over twenty-four weeks. Unlike the learning participants may have experienced in other groups, this in-depth study of the whole Bible emphasizes the biblical concept of covenant as a unifying pattern through all the books in the Old and New Testaments. It underscores the unique relationship that God chooses to have with us as God’s people. This relationship is grounded in the faithfuln...