America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of the American family. In The Great Risk Shift , Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic climate, showing how it has come about, what it is doing to our families, and how we can fight back. Behind this shift, he contends, is the Personal Responsibility Crusade, eagerly embraced by corporate leaders and Republican politicians who speak of a nirvana of economic empowerment, an "ownership society" in which Americans are free to choose. But as Hacker reveals, the result has been quite different: a harsh new world of economic insecurity, in which far too many Americans are free to lose. The book documents how two great pillars of economic security--the family and the workplace--guarantee far less financial stability than they once did. The final leg of economic support--the public and private benefits that workers and families get when economic disaster strikes--has dangerously eroded as political leaders and corporations increasingly cut back protections of our health care, our income security, and our retirement pensions. Blending powerful human stories, big-picture analysis, and compelling ideas for reform, this remarkable volume will hit a nerve, serving as a rallying point in the vital struggle for economic security in an increasingly uncertain world.

This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the "Golden Era" of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it.

全球化已到盡頭？區域強權將再主導世界？ 民粹主義盛行的當下，人類文明將何去何從？ 當前的全球政治經濟格局，正處於新舊秩序交替的黎明破曉時分。舊的觀念、規範與體制，正出現運作失靈與不勝負荷的疲乏凋零跡象；新的思維、秩序與模式正處於激盪、探索與醞釀階段，尚未破繭而出。全球經濟與人類社會正面臨五個巨大的不確定性： 第一、全球化的前景高度不確定。 第二、二戰後西方主導的國際經濟秩序之前景高度不確定。 第三、中美關係前景高度不確定。 第四、中國在建構後西方世界秩序中的角色與擔當，也存在高度不確定。 第五、對於人類社會如何駕馭科技革命的巨大潛力充滿不確定性。 全球化的下一步是邁向滅亡，還是能進化成不同樣貌？曾經輝煌的西方模式，面對強勢崛起的中國模式，究竟該如何應對？ 中央研究院暨世界科學院院士朱雲漢，繼二○一五年《亞洲週刊》年度十大好書《高思在雲》之後，再次提醒所有讀者：全球化的裂解危在旦夕，國際秩序與人類命運將岌岌可危，唯有徹底理解美中關係與中國的發展道路，方能為全球趨勢的未來走向，理出清晰視野。

Over the past fifty years, the “special status” of education decision-making has been eroded. Once the province of local and state school boards, decisions about schools and schooling have begun to emerge in every level and branch of government. In The End of Exceptionalism in American Education, Jeffrey R. Henig traces the roots of this tectonic shift in school governance. Carefully reasoned, astutely observed, and thoughtfully presented, this volume promises to become a classic work in our understanding of education policy—and an invaluable resource for those seeking to influence its future trajectory.

Quantitative analysis is an increasingly essential skill for social science research, yet students in the social sciences and related areas typically receive little training in it—or if they do, they usually end up in statistics classes that offer few insights into their field. This textbook is a practical introduction to data analysis and statistics written especially for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the social sciences and allied fields, such as economics, sociology, public policy, and data science. Quantitative Social Science engages directly with empirical analysis, showing students how to analyze data using the R programming language and to interpret the results—it encourages hands-on learning, not paper-and-pencil statistics. More than forty data sets taken directly from leading quantitative social science research illustrate how data analysis can be used to answer important questions about society and human behavior. Proven in the classroom, this one-of-a-kind textbook features numerous additional data analysis exercises and interactive R programming exercises, and also comes with supplementary teaching materials for instructors. Written especially for students in the social sciences and allied fields, including economics, sociology, public policy, and data science Provides hands-on instruction using R programming, not paper-and-pencil statistics Includes more than forty data sets from actual research for students to test their skills on Covers data analysis concepts such as causality, measurement, and prediction, as well as probability and statistical tools Features a wealth of supplementary exercises, including additional data analysis exercises and interactive programming exercises Offers a solid foundation for further study Comes with additional course materials online, including notes, sample code, exercises and problem sets with solutions, and lecture slides

John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology and sociology. This new edition has been extensively developed with the introduction of new material and a thorough treatment of essential elements such as conceptualization, measurement, causality and research design. It is written for students, long-time practitioners and methodologists and covers both qualitative and quantitative methods. It synthesizes the vast and diverse field of methodology in a way that is clear, concise and comprehensive. While offering a handy overview of the subject, the book is also an argument about how we should conceptualize methodological problems. Thinking about methodology through this lens provides a new framework for understanding work in the social sciences.

"Despite the Odds" poses an important question: How can we account for successful policy reform initiatives when the political cards are stacked against change? Theories of politics usually predict that reform initiatives will be unsuccessful when powerful groups are opposed to change and institutions are biased against it. This book, however, shows how the strategic choices of reform proponents alter the destinies of policy reforms by reshaping power equations and undermining institutional biases that impede change. In many countries, the political path to reform can be daunting. Anti-reform interests are powerful and support for change is, at best, lukewarm. Centrally important institutions strongly defend the policy status quo.Despite these political odds, reformers have seized the initiative in promoting reform, weakening and marginalizing opposition groups, and marshaling political patrons and networks to advance their initiatives. "Despite the Odds" opens the 'black box' of decision making in five initiatives designed to enhance the quality of education services in Latin America. The book addresses the strategies used by reformers to manage the political process of change and those adopted by opposition groups and institutions resisting their efforts. Individual chapters consider how leaders set national policy agendas for education, how policy design teams created the content of reform initiatives, how they dealt with the messy and public confrontations that greeted reform proposals when they were announced, and the carryover of political conflict when they were implemented.

Governance is an easy--to read introduction to an increasingly important concept in political science. It provides a clear overview of how the concept has been used in the sub--fields of public administration and public policy, international relations, European studies and comparative politics. There is no universally accepted and agreed definition of a governancea . It remains an elusive theory, defined and conceptualized in various ways. In this book, Anne Mette Kjaer guides the reader through the key theoretical debates which have given rise to distinct interpretations of governance. Drawing on a wide range of empirical examples to illustrate her arguments, the author explores how governance has been used in different ways to describe political changes in the modern world. She goes on to weigh up the pros and cons of governance as an analytical term, and concludes with a discussion of the World Banka s role as an international organization which aims to promote a good governancea in poor countries across the globe. This is the first textbook to offer a systematic assessment of current debates around the concept of governance. It will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics, international relations and public policy.

中国正经历着历史上最大规模的经济社会转型，这是一个伟大的历程过程，也是复杂的探索过程。如何在这个过程中保持政治、经济、社会的长治久安和繁荣昌盛，建立一个强有力的民主国家，是摆在学者和决策者面前的严峻挑战。作为一个训练有素并独具眼光的政治学者，作者从九十年代初期就开始思考安邦之道的基本理论和对策，时有创新之见，在国内外学术界产生了较大的影响。本书遴选作者十多年来对于相关主题的主要研究成果，从民主、公平与公民社会三方面完整地分析中国转型的道路和未来方向，理论研究和经验考察并举，对深刻理解当代中国的发展和变迁具有重要的价值。

当中国要思考整个世界的问题，要对世界负责，就不能对世界无话可说，就必须能够给出关于世界的思想，中国的世界观就成了首当其冲的问题。 已经在舞台上了，就不能不说话。 这就是中国现在的思想任务和必然逻辑。 我们所谓的世界现在还是一个非世界。 现在我们所面临的真正严重问题并不是在世界中存在着所谓的无效国家，而是一个无效世界。 把自己和他人对立起来，把信徒和异教徒对立起来，把西方和东方对立起来，把所有并不对立的事情对立起来，这就是西方的基本政治意识。这样的政治意识没有世界，尤其不能对世界负责任。

欧文・M．费斯在这本敏锐的著作中指出――这正是宪法第一修正案所针对的问题。费斯阐明，对于政洽捐款开支、仇恨言论和淫秽出版物所施加的限制如何可能根据第一修正案予以辩护，而不是遭到其反驳，作者由此而重构了相关的辩论。他提醒我们，国家可以成为自由的朋友，可以保护和培育那些本来可能销声匿迹的言论，而剥夺这些言论可能使我们的民主丧失其全面和丰富的表达。