Mending democracies, patching societies

Mending Mendelism

Mending Minds

Mending Minds. By Paul Winterton. Peter Davies, 1938, 8/6. This book is the result of an investigation undertaken on behalf of one of our great daily newspapers into the conditions obtaining in the Public Mental Hospitals of England and Wales and the subject of mental disease and its treatment in general. Whatever was the original intention of the investigation, the book actually constitutes pe...

Mending Minds

Making Democracies Work: Social Capital and Civic Engagement in 47 Societies

Synopsis: Many theorists have long emphasized the importance of civic society and voluntary associations as vital to the lifeblood of democracy. Interest in this perennial topic has been revived by Putnam’s theory of social capital claiming that rich and dense associational networks facilitate the underlying conditions of interpersonal trust, tolerance and cooperation, providing the social foun...

Mending the Methodological Mistakes

Preparation of this chapter was supported by National Science Foundation Grant no. 1024293 and a grant from the Brady Education Foundation awarded to ASL, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to EDS. Play is too often in the American crosshairs, with those who claim it is a waste of time on the one hand and those who claim it is crucially important to developme...