The disintegration of the state socialist regimes in Eastern Europe cannot be seen as an isolated phenomenon, for it is only the final and most dramatic manifestation of a process which has been unfolding over the past two decades throughout the world. The popular rejection of centralist bureaucratic and authoritarian regimes has been a common feature of political developments in both East and ...

This paper examines the relationship between the legislature and the public administration in postwar Italy (understood as the period from about 1948 through 1994). Italian public administration is normally characterized as badly designed and ine±cient, and government performance is usually classed as poor. I argue by contrast that bureaucratic ine±ciency, excessive legislation, and widespread ...

This chapter invites the reader to rediscover Nikolai Marr’s scientific work, which is situated at intersection of archaeology, linguistics, and anthropological language theory. linguistic models, Sergei Eisenstein compared a reading Joyce’s Ulysses, underwent however multiple waves critique. His heterodox materialism, originating in an archaeological vision history leading speculative ‘palaeon...