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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459676803321

Titolo

Modern dilemmas : understanding collective action in the 21st century / / Dylan Kissane, Alexandru Volacu (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-8382-0731-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Disciplina

320.10923468

Soggetti

Social movements

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Foreword: Collective Dilemmas: Here and Now""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""THEORETICAL APPROACHES""; ""Chapter One: First and Second Generation Theories of Collective Action""; ""Chapter Two: New Conceptions of Collective Action in the Information Age""; ""Chapter Three: When Olson Gets Entangled: Networks in Political Economy""; ""Chapter Four: Rousseau�s General Will and the Notion of Collective Action""; ""COLLECTIVE ACTION AND RESPONSIBILITY""

""Chapter Five: Climate Change as a �Hard� Case of Collective Responsibility""""Chapter Six: Individual Responsibility for Participation in Collective Action""; ""Chapter Seven: The Morality of Free Riding Behavior�How Do Free Riders Wrong Us, Is It What They Take or How They Take It?""; ""COLLECTIVE ACTION AND PUBLIC POLICIES""; ""Chapter Eight: Models of Global Literacy Development: A South African Case Study of Collective Action""; ""Chapter Nine: Enabling Collective Action in State Programmes: The Case of Community Health Workers in Rural India""

""Afterword: Working Together on the Challenges of Working Together""""List of Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Collective action problems are ubiquitous in situations involving human interactions and therefore lie at the heart of economy and political science. In one of the most salient statements on this topic, Elinor



Ostrom, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, even claims that ""the theory of collective action is the central subject of political science"". The collection of essays presented in this timely volume targets the problem of collective action from both a theoretical and applied perspective. Its multidisciplinary approach makes it a valuable reading for studen

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777007003321

Autore

Tal David

Titolo

War in Palestine, 1948 : strategy and diplomacy / / David Tal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-77512-5

1-135-77513-3

0-7146-5275-X

1-280-04950-2

0-203-49954-9

Descrizione fisica

viii, 498 p. : maps

Collana

Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society

Disciplina

956.04/2

Soggetti

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 - Armistices

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 - Diplomatic history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-483) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 1 Towards Invasion -- chapter 2 Communal War -- chapter 3 Invasion -- chapter 4 The Egyptian Invasion of Palestine: From Containment to the First Truce -- chapter 5 The Israeli�Jordanian Front, 15 May-10 June -- chapter 6 The Palestine Northern Front, 15 May-10 June -- chapter 7 The First Truce -- chapter 8 Ten Days of Fighting: The Egyptian�Israeli Front -- chapter 9 Ten Days of Fighting: The Israeli�Jordanian Front -- chapter 10 Ten Days of Fighting: The Northern Front -- chapter 11 The Second Truce: Days of Diplomacy and Military Preparation -- chapter 12 The Egyptian�Israeli Front: The Decisive Campaigns, I -- chapter 13



Jordan�Israel: A Permanent Cease-Fire Agreement -- chapter 14 The Northern Campaign: The Decisive Stage -- chapter 15 The Egyptian�Israeli Front: The Decisive Campaigns, II -- chapter 5 Conclusion -- chapter 5 Select Bibliography.