The Chinese Communist welfare state was established with the goal of eradicating income inequality. But paradoxically, it actually widened the income gap, undermining one of the most important objectives of Mao Zedong’s revolution. Nara Dillon traces the origins of the Chinese welfare state from the 1940s through the 1960s, when such inequalities emerged and were institutionali...(展开全部)

This edited volume, now available in paperback, provides fresh empirical evidence of far reaching transformations of the welfare state globally that have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private domains within the mixed economies of welfare. By investigating the various modes of policy intervention, such as financing and the provision and regulation of social policy,...(展开全部)

This edited volume provides fresh empirical evidence of far reaching transformations of the welfare state globally that have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private domains within the mixed economies of welfare. By investigating the various modes of policy intervention, such as financing and the provision and regulation of social policy, it provides a nuanced accoun...(展开全部)

The third title in the Jameson Books-Students for Liberty Series, this is a collection of essays by eminent political economists from around the world. Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? The previous generation and its predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling en...(展开全部)

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new mod...(展开全部)

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state...(展开全部)

Claus Offe is one of the leading social scientists working in Germany today, and his work, particularly on the welfare state, has been enormously influential both in Europe and the United States. Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English, and it contains a selection of his most important recent work on t...(展开全部)

理查德·雷恩，美国锡拉丘兹大学麦克斯威尔学院政治学博士，现任美国新泽西州立罗格斯大学政治科学教授，管理学院国际企业博士项目组成员，政治科学系民主转型项目组主任。长期致力于政治经济体制的比较研究，曾出版专著《探求正义：学校财政改革的政治学》(1978)， 《新泽西州政治》(1979)，《娱乐场所管理政策：产业政策管制分析》(1986)， 《产业与政治：比较视角下的美国》(1993)等。

G. H. Hardy (1877－1947 ) 享有世界声誉的数学大师，英国分析学派的创始人之一。数学贡献涉及解析数论、调和分析、函数论等方面。培养和指导了包括印度数学奇才拉马努金和我国数学家华罗庚在内的众多数学大家。 J. E. Littlewood（1885—1977）著名英国数学家。任剑桥大学教授多年，他也是英国分析学派的重要建立者，与G. H. Hardy长期合作取得了丰硕的成果。在数论和分析学等方面贡献很大。 G. Pólya（1887—1985）著名数学家和数学教育家。美国国家科学院院士，美国艺术和科学学院院士。长期担任斯坦福大学教授。其数学研究涉及复变函数、概率论、数论、数学分析、组合数学等众多领域。他撰写的《怎样解题》、《数学的发现》、《数学与猜想》等阐述解题方法的著作有世界性影响。