The British Prime Minister in an Age of Upheaval, by Garnett, Mark. Polity Press. 277 pp. £18.99 Mark Garnett has written a witty and highly readable book that should stimulate reassessment the conventional wisdom on role Ministers politics. style is unusual for author from university department politics, all livelier that. Noting Dominic Cummings's desire to bring ‘weirdos misfits with odd ski...

Abstract Until recently, scholars paid relatively little attention to chapter 23 of Leviathan , in which Hobbes discussed “the public ministers sovereign power.” In the past few years, however, political theorists have used extensively discussions Hobbes’ concept state. But what was significance its own time? This article suggests it served two purposes. First, allowed bolster and elaborate arg...

Introduction. The article raises the issue of extramarital affairs parish Orthodox clergy Orenburg diocese post-reform period. This problem has practically not been considered in Russian historiography. Materials and methods. ministers church throughout their lives had to teach lessons high morality, demonstrate a pattern righteous behavior contribute spiritual improvement laity. Therefore, eve...

Purpose: Researchers have documented lower health-related quality of life (HRQL) in rural areas. This study seeks to identify factors that can explain this disparity. Methods: United Methodist clergy in North Carolina (N = 1,513) completed the SF-12 measure of HRQL and items on chronic disease diagnoses, health behaviors, and health care access from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surve...

The declining dissent among Catholic clergy since the 1970s has consistently been attributed to cohort replacement, indicated by age differences, as a result of changes in Catholic religious culture, despite a recognition in recent sociology of religion of the importance of institutional agency. I test (1) whether changes in priest’s beliefs and values are due to cultural trends (indicated by b...

The purpose of the pilot project is to develop a methodology for: operationally specifying clergy and chaplain interventions at a level of detail that will enable replication by other clergy and chaplains; developing consensus definitions of the constructs and terminology used in describing pastoral and spiritual care interventions; establishing the infrastructure of procedures for managing the...

The shift in emphasis from the study of Information system to the Individual as the finder and user of information, has over the years received unprecedented attention among librarians and information professionals as indicated by the overwhelming number of researches carried out in the area. Various groups ranging from professionals to unskilled workers have been studied to identify their info...