Unrestrained or Methods in Democratic Network Governance

Unrestrained: Judicial Excess and the Mind of the American Lawyer

Author: Robert Nagel

This volume attempts to explain why, despite almost four decades of conservative and moderate appointments, the Supreme Court continues to intervene aggressively in a wide array of social and political issues. The explanation lies primarily in the psychological effects of the way that lawyers think about law and judging. The instincts ingrained by the experiences common to legal education and the successful practice of law also work to encourage the reckless use of power.

Table of Contents:

1 A Ship that Will Not Turn 1

2 The Rise of Judicial Power 21

3 The Consequences of Excess 37

4 Thinking like a Lawyer 53

5 Realistic Legalism 65

6 High Principle and Self-Restraint 77

7 The Mantra of Legal Authority 89

8 Political Judgments 103

9 Training, Experience, and Instinct 121

App Cases Cited 135

References 137

Index 143

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Methods in Democratic Network Governance

Author: Peter Bogason

There are several competing theoretical approaches to studying governance networks. However, methodological questions about how to study democratic network governance have so far received little research attention. Methods in Democratic Network Governance aims to remedy this problem by addressing some important methodological questions in relation to a comparative case study of the multilevel network governance of employment policy in Britain, France and Denmark.

Indigenous Experience Today or National Security Issues in Science Law and Technology

Indigenous Experience Today

Author: Orin Starn

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The study challenges the accepted notions of indigeneity and the often contentious issue of indigenous rights. Indigenous Experience Today demonstrates the transnational dynamics of contemporary indigenous culture and politics around the world.

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National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology: Confronting Weapons of Terrorism

Author: Thomas A Johnson

The tragedy of 9/11 placed homeland security and the prevention of further attacks into the central focus of our national consciousness. With so many avenues of terror open to our enemies in terms of mode, medium, and location, effective management and mitigation of threat must be grounded in objective risk assessment. The structure of national security decisions should be premised on decision theory and science with minimal political posturing or emotional reactivisim.

National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology demonstrates a mature look at a frightening subject and presents sound, unbiased tools with which to approach any situation that may threaten human lives. By applying the best of scientific decision-making practices this book introduces the concept of risk management and its application in the structure of national security decisions. It examines the acquisition and utilization of all-source intelligence, including the ability to analyze data and forecast patterns, to enable policymakers to make better informed decisions. The text addresses reaction and prevention strategies applicable to chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; agricultural terrorism; cyberterrorism; and other potential threats to our critical infrastructure. It discusses legal issues that inevitably arise when integrating new legislation with the threads of our Constitution and illustrates the dispassionate analysis of our intelligence, law enforcement, and military operations and actions. Finally, the book considers the redirection of our national research and laboratory system to investigate the very problems terrorists can induce through the use of weapons we have as yet toconfront.

Taking the guesswork out of hard choices, National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology provides anyone burdened with the mantle of responsibility for the protection of the American people with the tools to make sound, well-informed decisions.

Table of Contents:

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Editor     xii
Authors     xv
Terrorism: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Weapons
An Introduction to the Intelligence Process for Addressing National Security Threats and Vulnerabilities   Thomas A. Johnson     3
Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism   Michael P. Allswede     23
Agroterrorism   Simon J. Kenyon     51
Illicit Trafficking in Nuclear and Radiological Materials   David York     75
Nuclear Capabilities of North Korea: Issues in Intelligence Collection, Analysis, and National Security Policy   Thomas A. Johnson     97
Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Security
A Framework for Deception   Fred Cohen     123
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Issues and Answers   Fred Cohen     221
Information Warfare, Netwar, and Cyber Intelligence   Fred Cohen     243
National Security Strategy: Implications for Science, Law, and Technology
Geographic Information Systems as a Strategic Tool for Better Planning, Response, and Recovery   Lucy Savitz   Roberta P. Lavin   Elisabeth Root     277
An Introduction to the Concept and Management of Risk   James O. Matschulat     291
TheStructure of National Security Decisions   James O. Matschulat     359
National Security Executive Orders and Legal Issues   Roy Shannon     399
Courts-Martial, Military Tribunals, and Federal Courts   Roy Shannon     431
National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories: Emerging Role in Homeland Security   Richard A. Neiser     459
An All-Hazards National Response Plan: Concluding Remarks   Thomas A. Johnson     473
Appendices     483
National Security Strategy Summary     487
Homeland Security Presidential Directives 1 to 14     541
Index     635

A Case for Conservatism or Globalization from Below

A Case for Conservatism

Author: John Kekes

In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a compelling case for conservatism as the best alternative. His is the first systematic description and defense of the basic assumptions underlying conservative thought.

Conservatism, Kekes maintains, is concerned with the political arrangements that enable members of a society to live good lives. These political arrangements are based on skepticism about ideologies, pluralism about values, traditionalism about institutions, and pessimism about human perfectibility.

The political morality of conservatism requires the protection of universal conditions of all good lives, social conditions that vary with societies, and individual conditions that reflect differences in character and circumstance. Good lives, according to Kekes, depend equally on pursuing possibilities that these conditions establish and on setting limits to their violations.

Attempts to make political arrangements reflect these basic tenets of conservatism are unavoidably imperfect. Kekes concludes, however, that they represent a better hope for the future than any other possibility.

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[Kekes] makes his argument with perspicacity, logical exegesis, and compelling argumentation.

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Globalization from Below: Transnatinal Activists and Protest Networks

Author: Donna Della Porta

When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved to be a critical moment in the global justice movement. Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement, Globalization from Below analyzes a movement from the viewpoints of the activists, organizers, and demonstrators themselves. The authors traveled to Genoa with anti-G8 protesters and collected data from more than 800 participants. A year later, they surveyed 2,400 activists at the European Social Forum in Florence. To understand how this cycle of global protest emerged, they examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how these new models of activism fit into current social movement work. Globalization from Below places the protests within larger debates, revealing and investigating the forces that led to a clash between demonstrators and the Italian government, which responded with violence. Donatella della Porta is professor of political science; Massimiliano Andretta is a researcher in political science and sociology; Lorenzo Mosca is a researcher in information and communication technologies; Herbert Reiter is a researcher in history, all at the European University Institute.

Fighting Words or The Celling of America

Fighting Words

Author: Robin Morgan

The religious right is gaining enormous power in the United States, thanks to a well-organized, media-savvy movement with powerful friends in high places. Yet many Americans — both observant and secular — are alarmed by this trend, especially by the religious right's attempts to erase the boundary between church and state and re-make the U.S. into a Christian nation. But most Americans lack the tools for arguing with the religious right, especially when fundamentalist conservatives claim their tradition started with the Framers of The Constitution. Fighting Words is a a tool-kit for arguing, especially for those of us who haven't read the founding documents of this nation since grade school. Robin Morgan has assembled a lively, accessible, eye-opening primer and reference tool, a "verbal karate" guide, revealing what the Framers and many other leading Americans really believed — in their own words — rescuing the Founders from images of dusty, pompous old men in powdered wigs, and resurrecting them as the revolutionaries they truly were: a hodgepodge of freethinkers, Deists, agnostics, Christians, atheists, and Freemasons — and they were radicals as well.

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The Celling of America: An inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry

Author: Daniel Burton Ros

This searing indictment of the criminal justice system kicks open the doors of America's prisons and takes you through a hell-raising tour.

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction or Nursing Physician Control and the Medical Monopoly

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction

Author: Robert Ogl

This comprehensive text achieves the ultimate goal of crime scene investigation in answering – What happened? – Who was responsible for each action? – What was the sequence of each action? Readers see the importance of each step through authentic photos, real life cases and full coverage of crime scene reconstruction. It also includes the most recent technological advances in the forensic sciences (i.e. database technologies, digital cameras, DNA analyses, and computer-aided crime scene reconstructions). Systematically organized to follow the same sequence in which crime scenes are processed, this is one of the most informative texts of its kind available. Introduces crucial concepts regarding collecting, examining and interpreting physical evidence. Comprehensive coverage of procedural methods for crime scene searches, photography, sketching, and collecting of all major physical evidence categories. Extensive coverage of sexual assault investigations including how to collect physical evidence from the crime scene, from the victim and from the suspect. Key information regarding homicide scene investigations, including the procedures essential to the forensic autopsy. Examines the various types of physical evidence used in reconstructions. Serves as comprehensive reference for those working in law enforcement.

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Nursing, Physician Control and the Medical Monopoly: Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights and Range of Practice

Author: Thetis M Group

Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly traces the efforts by physicians over time to achieve a monopoly in healthcare, often by subordinating nurses—their only genuine competitors. Attempts by nurses to reform many aspects of healthcare have been repeatedly opposed by physicians whose primary interest has been to achieve total control of the healthcare "system," often to the detriment of patients' health and safety.

Thetis M. Group and Joan I. Roberts first review the activities of early women healers and nurses and examine nurse-physician relations from the early 1900s on. The sexist domination of nursing by medicine was neither haphazard nor accidental, but a structured and institutionalized phenomenon. Efforts by nurses to achieve greater autonomy were often blocked by hospital administrators and organized medicine. The consolidation of the medical monopoly during the 1920s and 1930s, along with the waning of feminism, led to the concretization of stereotyped gender roles in nursing and medicine. The growing unease in nurse-physician relations escalated from the 1940s to the 1960s; the growth and complexity of the healthcare industry, expanding scientific knowledge, and increasing specialization by physicians all created heavy demands on nurses.

Conflict between organized medicine and nursing entered a public, open phase in the late 1960s and 1970s, when medicine unilaterally created the physician's assistant, countered by nursing's development of the advanced nurse practitioner. But gender stereotypes remained central to nurse-physician relations in the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Finally, Group and Roberts examine the results of the medical monopoly, from the impact on patients' health and safety, to the development of HMOs and the current overpriced, poorly coordinated, and fragmented healthcare system.

About the Authors:
Thetis M. Group is Professor Emerita at Syracuse University, where she was Dean of the College of Nursing for ten years. She is also adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She is co-author of Feminism and Nursing and has published numerous articles in professional nursing journals.

Joan I. Roberts, social psychologist, is Professor Emerita at Syracuse University. A pioneer in Women's Studies in higher education, she is co-author of Feminism and Nursing and author of numerous books and articles on gender issues and racial and sex discrimination.

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Reviewer: Bonnie L. Saucier, PhD, RN (Indiana State University)
Description: This book is the second in an interrelated set of books that provide a comprehensive perspective on gender and nursing. The second volume in this series analyzes resources that exemplifies the writing of social scientists, nurses, and physicians on gendered relationships from very early periods to the 1990s. The first volume relates the status of women to the status of nursing and to nurses' awareness of feminist issues. The third volume focuses on recent role changes involving nurses and their interactions with physicians. A fourth volume focuses on the historical interrelation between nursing and the discriminatory patterns inherent in patriarchial educational and economic systems. There are two additional volumes that address major published sources and problems of male nurses.
Purpose: The purpose is to examine sources on gendered nurse-physician relations over time. The authors trace the centuries- old effort of physicians to dominate and to achieve a monopoly over healthcare. The book also adresses the efforts of women healers and nurses to sustain medical-nursing functions. The objectives of the book are met and are indeed worthy for all nurses to develop an awareness of the historical perspective of a medical monopoly.
Audience: Nursing students, particularly those in graduate education, and nurses can excel in their practice by becoming aware of social contraints in the development of the profession. Authors identify nurses in the profession to profit from the book. The authors are experts in the subject.
Features: In this book, the authors trace the development of the continued efforts by physicians to achieve a medical monopoly. Early women healers, prior to the nineteenth century are analyzed. Nurse-physician relations, before and after the turn of the century, are examined. The consolidation of the medical monopoly in the 1920s and 1930s are discussed and the growing unease in nurse-physician relations from the 1940s to the 1960s is addressed. Reference lists are extensive and the index is inclusive.
Assessment: This second book in a related series provides a thorough examination of the effforts by physicians over time to achieve a monopoly in healthcare. Historical events are reviewed while the activities of the early healers/nurses are covered in a thoughtful and inclusive manner.The phases of organized medicine and nursing throughout the 1990s are described in-depth. This book is a valuable asset for all nurses to better understand and explain what the impact of medical monopoly is on the healthcare system today.

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