development management is one of the newest fields of social sciences brought about by multidisciplinary approaches. the roots of these approaches are traced in the writings of adorno, horkheimer, marcuse and habermas, pioneers of the frankfurt school. as an interdisciplinary field, mostly applied, development management is obviously the fruit of civil society, a society that values participato...

for many political observers, the collapse of the soviet :union: would lead to accelerate the process of democratization in all the remained countries from this event, especially russia. but very soon it was clear that the country is confronted with many critical obstacles in this way. the considerable weakness of the civil society and its institutions along with the legacy of centralized power...

The study aimed at a critical assessment of the environmentalism components introduced in the civil engineering curriculum in India polytechnic colleges (state of Tamilnadu) and associate degree level Technical Institutions in Iran .The objective of study was to compare technical education curriculum in civil engineering with respect to environmentalism. Both qualitative and quantitative techni...

the institutions of civil procedure have a special functions and it is necessary that this functions always be observe. two institutions are organize for control of court dictums. appeal court is for control of judgment from fact and law aspect wholly and supreme court is only for law aspect. however in practice we can see that supreme court at same cases control the judgment from fact aspect.i...

Globalization reflects the notion that the world has become a common social space through technological and economic forces so that development in a region of the world can have profound effects on the livelihood of individuals or societies in other regions. It is not difficult to find the relationship between this phenomenon and the civil society development. Globalization has had a profound i...

Contrary to popular belief, Africa's civil wars are not due to its ethnic and religious diversity. Using recently developed models of the overall prevalence of civil wars in 161 countries between 1960-1999, we draw lessons with special reference to Africa, showing that the relatively higher prevalence of war in Africa is not due to the ethno-linguistic fragmentation of its countries, but rather...

Using state-level data from the United States, we find that differences in colonial legal institutions have affected the current quality of state legal institutions. These differences in colonial legal institutions arose because some states were settled by Great Britain, a common law country, and other states were settled by France, Spain, and Mexico, all civil law countries. To explain these f...

Given the importance of a diverse student body in providing both a diverse work force and the largest possible pool of practicing civil engineers, an investigation was undertaken to determine the state of enrollment of women in undergraduate Civil Engineering programs. As part of the study, the state of enrollment for women in civil engineering programs at similar institutions and possibilities...