1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779083203321

Autore

Cooley Alexander <1972->

Titolo

Logics of hierarchy [[electronic resource] ] : the organization of empires, states, and military occupations / / Alexander Cooley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-8014-6639-3

0-8014-7483-3

0-8014-6249-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

302.3/5

Soggetti

International relations

Comparative organization

Comparative government

Imperialism

Military occupation

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Chapter One. Understanding Hierarchy in International Politics -- Chapter Two. Forms of Hierarchy: The U-form and M-form -- Chapter Three. The Governance of Hierarchy: Paths of Institutional Formation -- Chapter Four. An Empirical Illustration: Soviet Central Asia -- Chapter Five. The Legacies of Hierarchy: Divergent Paths of Extrication -- Chapter Six. Comparative Applications: Yugoslavia, Korea, and Iraq -- Chapter Seven. Hierarchy in a Globalized World -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its various elements along the lines of administrative functions, whereas the M-form governs its periphery according to geography and territory.In Logics of Hierarchy, Alexander Cooley applies this model to political hierarchies across



different cultures, geographical settings, and historical eras to explain a variety of seemingly disparate processes: state formation, imperial governance, and territorial occupation. Cooley illustrates the power of this formal distinction with detailed accounts of the experiences of Central Asian republics in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, and compares them to developments in the former Yugoslavia, the governance of modern European empires, Korea during and after Japanese occupation, and the recent U.S. occupation of Iraq.In applying this model, Logics of Hierarchy reveals the varying organizational ability of powerful states to promote institutional transformation in their political peripheries and the consequences of these formations in determining pathways of postimperial extrication and state-building. Its focus on the common organizational problems of hierarchical polities challenges much of the received wisdom about imperialism and postimperialism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996205081003316

Titolo

Journal of risk and uncertainty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, USA, : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1988-

[New York], : Springer US

ISSN

1573-0476

Disciplina

338.5

Soggetti

Risk

Uncertainty

Decision making

Information theory

Risque

Incertitude

Prise de décision

Théorie de l'information

Ryzyko ubezpieczeniowe

Onzekerheid

Risico's

Czasopismo ekonomiczne

Periodicals.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910316454803321

Titolo

Cast out : vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective / / edited by A.L. Beier and Paul Ocobock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2008

ISBN

9780896804609

0896804607

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; ; no. 8

Altri autori (Persone)

BeierA. L

OcobockPaul <1980->

Disciplina

362.5

Soggetti

Homelessness

Vagrancy

Poverty

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 (p. [373]-382) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; IntroductionVagrancy and Homelessness in Globaland Historical Perspective; 1: "A New Serfdom"; 2: The Neglected Soldier as Vagrant, Revenger, Tyrant Slayer in Early Modern England; 3: "Takin' It to the Streets"; 4: Vagrant India; 5: Vagrancy in Mauritius and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Plantation World; 6: Doing Favors for Street People; 7: Vagabondage and Siberia; 8: "Tramps in the Making"; 9: Between Romance and Degradation; 10: The "Travelling Native"; 11: Thought Reform; 12: Imposing Vagrancy Legislation in Contemporary Papua New Guinea; 13: Subversive Accommodations

Select BibliographyContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and



homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied.  In this ambitious collection, vagrancy and homelessness are used to examine a vast array of phenomena, from the migration of labor to social and governmental responses