The essay analyzes the development of the modern psychiatric institution, represented most importantly by the emergence of the traditional asylum organization. In this type of institution, the process of behavioral control operates upon the same epistemological bases that fostered the bureaucratic model of domination - in other words, in the consonance with the instrumental-rational approach th...

In most recent work, Crysmann and Bonami () suggest to reconcile the insights of inferential-realisational morphology (Anderson, ; Stump, ; Brown and Hippisley, ) with the full typology of variable morphotactics: situations where the expression of analogous feature sets can appear in various positions in the string. e authors proposed to account for these facts by importing, in...

This article explores how issues of security, conflict, violence and the military are considered in the sustainability literature. Despite these issues not being particularly well developed within the sustainability setting, various approaches are identified, critiqued, and compiled into a preliminary typology framed around reformist and transformational approaches to a sustainable world. The a...

Social work in the United States has developed over more than a one hundred year period from a movement of individual and community based reformers to a recognized profession of hundreds of thousands. The history of social work has been characterized by a number of intense ideological and developmental struggles, not the least of which has involved the very meaning of professionalism and its ap...

Some of the dominant academic approaches to Muslim politics continue assume centrality Islam on question religion’s relationship state and possibility successful democracy in Muslim-majority states. On one hand, based findings from large N-surveys, some scholars have argued that most Muslims many states desire a political ‘third model’ is neither secular nor theocratic. Instead, they want publi...

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing compensating justice to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to inhabitants of open borders between formerly integrated countries, where people face the same level of marke...

No discussion of academic freedom, research integrity, and patient safety could begin with a more disquieting pair of case studies than those of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. The cumulative impact of the Olivieri and Healy affairs has caused serious self examination within the biomedical research community. The first part of the essay analyses these recent academic scandals. The two case stud...