Recently added articles from International Social Science Review:
Earnings determinants for self-employed women and men in the informal economy: the case of Bogota, Colombia.
Mar 22, 2008; Tomal, Annette ... Introduction Every nation, regardless of its level of development, has an informal economy; what varies is the degree of informality present in each economy. Informal economic activity represents a large proportion of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in developing countries: ...
Ahmed, Shamima, and David M. Potter. NGOs in International Politics.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Friedman, Barry D. ... Ahmed, Shamima, and David M. Potter. NGOs in International Politics. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, Inc., 2006. 285 pages. Paper, $24.95. In the book's foreword, political scientists Shamima Ahmed and David M. Potter promise "a comprehensive overview of the varieties of ...
Carter, Prudence L. Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Hirsch, Mike ... Carter, Prudence L. Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 219 pages. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $15.95. In Keepin' It Real, sociologist Prudence L. Carter examines the educational-achievement gap between whites and their ...
Collier, Paul. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Quest, Linda G. ... Collier, Paul. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiii + 205 pages. Cloth, $28. Complex issues of development, poverty, and development-resistant poverty have never been elucidated so ...
Fattah, Moataz A. Democratic Values in the Muslim World.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Cox, John K. ... Fattah, Moataz A. Democratic Values in the Muslim World. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. xi + 209 pages. Cloth, $49.95. Observers of northern Africa, the Balkans, and southern Asia with an affinity for "clashes of civilizations" like to stress Islam's general ...
Genovese, Michael A. Memo to a New President: The Art and Science of Presidential Leadership.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Hoff, Samuel B. ... Genovese, Michael A. Memo to a New President: The Art and Science of Presidential Leadership. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 252 pages. Paper, $29.99. Political scientist and presidential scholar Michael A. Genovese has written a book in the form of a memo to an ...
Gumport, Patricia J., ed. Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Hartwig, Richard E. ... Gumport, Patricia J., ed. Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii + 382 pp. Cloth, $50; paper, $25. This work has something of the feeling of an in-house Festschrift (a book that pays tribute to an ...
Kaufman, Edy; Walid Salem, and Juliette Verhoeven, eds. Bridging the Divide: Peacebuilding in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Smith, R. Michael ... Kaufman, Edy; Walid Salem, and Juliette Verhoeven, eds. Bridging the Divide: Peacebuilding in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. xi + 323 pages. Cloth, $57.50. The Palestinian-Israeli struggle is another of those interminable conflicts ...
Levinson, Sanford. Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Merriman, W. Richard, Jr. ... Levinson, Sanford. Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It). New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 471 pages. Cloth, $28. The fictional conceit that organizes Levinson's book is that " ... Americans in 2008 will ...
Miskel, James F., and P.H. Liotta. A Fevered Crescent: Security and Insecurity in the Greater Near East.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Pence, Kris G. ... Miskel, James F., and P.H. Liotta. A Fevered Crescent: Security and Insecurity in the Greater Near East. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. 149 pages. Cloth, $34.95. A Fevered Crescent explores the nexus between emergent demographic, economic, social, and ...
Scholar, Richard, ed. Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Broad, David B. ... Scholar, Richard, ed. Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006. 238 pages. Paper, $24.95. The world's cities have gone from accounting in 1900 for ten percent of human population to accounting in 2000 for about fifty percent ....
Schram, Sanford F., and Brian Caterino, eds. Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Chiang, Howard H. ... Schram, Sanford F., and Brian Caterino, eds. Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method. New York: New York University Press, 2006. viii + 304 pages. Paper, $24. The essays in this volume directly respond to Bent Flyvbjerg's Making Social Science ...
Sniderman, Paul M., and Louk Hagendoorn. When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Uneke, Okori A. ... Sniderman, Paul M., and Lonk Hagendoorn. When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 155 pages. Cloth, $24.95. When Ways of Life Collide examines the policies of multiculturalism and the ...
Stern, Fritz R. Five Germanys I Have Known.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Green, Harold M. ... Stern, Fritz R. Five Germanys I Have Known. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 546 pages. Cloth, $30. At the age of eighty-one, Fritz Stern, former provost of Columbia University and now professor emeritus of European history there, can look back on a distinguished and ...
Troy, Gil. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Kotlowski, Dean J. ... First lady, senator from New York State, presidential candidate, and, if one has seen the opening scene of The Simpsons: The Movie, vice president of the United States in a White House headed by Itchy the Mouse. Such is the past, present, and fictional future of the most controversial ...