Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies: A Mid-Life Crisis?

Janice MacKinnon MEDICARE ’ S MID - LIFE CRISIS

The State of Election Studies: Mid-Life Crisis or New Youth?

In a number of countries Michigan style national election studies have now been conducted for around 40 years or more. Given their relative inattention to context and difficulties in disentangling cause and effect it might be considered time for radical change to or even abandonment of such studies. However the longevity of the studies coupled with a growing programme of comparative research me...

Ageing male syndrome, andropause, androgen decline or mid-life crisis?

Reports of a “male menopause” have been appearing in the literature since the 1930s [1] [2] . The Heller and Myers paper of 1944 was seen by some as a ’landmark paper where symptoms of age-related low testosterone were shown to be reversed by testosterone replacement, but not by placebo [3] . The “male menopause” has been referred to as the andropause, viropause and the male climacteric [1] [4]...

East European Studies, Neo-totalitarianism and Social Science Theory

The relevance of sociological theory for explaining the recent dramatic changes in Eastern Europe is at hand. The impact of the downfall of communism has been compared with those "Great Transformations" along which sociology evolved as a "science of crisis par excellence" (Habermas). The actual elaboration of a sociological theory of post-communist transformation and its relation to East Europe...

Abiogenic Origin of Life: A Theory in Crisis

All phenomena are essentially unique and irreproducible. It is the aim of the scientific method to seek to relate effect (observation) to cause through attempting to reproduce the effect by recreating the conditions under which it previously occurred. The more complex the phenomenon, the greater the difficulty encountered by scientists in their investigation of it. In the case of the scientific...