Mutiny in Comparative Perspective

Mutiny over Bounty?

Bounty Services Ltd advertise commercial products on postnatal wards of hospitals throughout Britain by means of free gifts. Since the " Bounty lady" is apparently well known to nursing staff but may have gone unnoticed by paediatricians and obstetricians an investigation was conducted of the quality of the gifts and the nature of the company. With two exceptions the samples and promotional lea...

Mutiny at the white-hole district

The white-hole sector of Kruskal’s solution is almost never used in physical applications. However, it might contain the solution to many of the problems associated with gravitational collapse and evaporation. This essay tries to draw attention to some bouncing geometries that make a democratic use of the blackand white-hole sectors. We will argue that these types of behaviour could be perfectl...

Passives in Comparative Perspective

Economic Insecurity in Comparative Perspective

This paper examines the determinants of economic insecurity in advanced industrial societies. Based on data collected in 13 European democracies, it shows that people’s sense of economic security is affected by individual-level attributes such as human capital, recent experiences in the labor market and perceptions of the national economy, but also by cross-national differences in levels of soc...

Security scanners in comparative perspective.