The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not act; bureaucrats work through the state to carry out a leader's demands. In turn, leaders attempt to use their authority over the state to manage bureaucrats in a way that induces bureaucratic beha...(展开全部)

[英] 麦大维（David McMullen），有名唐史研究专家，英国学术院院士、剑桥大学圣约翰学院终身院士，曾任剑桥大学中国学讲座教授、亚非学院东亚研究所所长、中国研究中心主任，以及全英中国研究协会主席、李约瑟中国学讲席教授、花园委员会主席。张达志，厦门大学学士、复旦大学与美国宾夕法尼亚大学联合培养博士、武汉大学博士后，现任华中师范大学历史文化学院副教授，兼任台湾地区大学访问学者、中国魏晋南北朝史学会理事。蔡明琼，华中师范大学硕士，现任湖北省天门中学教师。

This text explores a broad range of media-related topics as they pertain to China. The chapters provide detailed analyses of such issues as the increasing influence of advertisers; the efforts of the Communist party to direct editorial content; and the impact of Hong Kong television on Guanggzhou.

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China t...(展开全部)

Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies shares numerous insights about the threats that both public and private sector organizations face and the cybersecurity strategies that can mitigate them.The book provides an unprecedented long-term view of the global threat landscape by examining the twenty-year trend in vulnerability disclosures and exploitation, nearly a decade of regional differences in malware infections, the socio-economic factors that underpin them, and how global malware has evolved. This will give you further perspectives into malware protection for your organization. It also examines internet-based threats that CISOs should be aware of.The book will provide you with an evaluation of the various cybersecurity strategies that have ultimately failed over the past twenty years, along with one or two that have actually worked. It will help executives and security and compliance professionals understand how cloud computing is a game changer for them.By the end of this book, you will know how to measure the effectiveness of your organization’s cybersecurity strategy and the efficacy of the vendors you employ to help you protect your organization and yourself.

作者:(美)艾伯特·O.赫希曼 译者:卢昌崇 艾伯特·O.赫希曼，1915年生于德国柏林。1941年移民美国，先后在伯克利、耶鲁、哈佛从事研究和教学工作，1974年加入普林斯顿大学高级研究所。赫希曼一生著述颇丰，以英语出版的著作有14部，以其他语言出版的有10部，大多数著作被译成多国语言，如《经济发展战略>)被译成十多国语言。

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, "exit," is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to ...(展开全部)

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approach...(展开全部)

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949.Julia C. Strauss argues that accounting for these two variants of the Chinese state solely in terms of their diverg...(展开全部)