Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diasporas (a special issue in honor of Roy Simón Bryce-Laporte), 15, Numbers 1 and 2 (Summer/Fall 2014): 5-17.
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Roy Simón Bryce-Laporte was an academic pioneer, a social scientist committed to truth, a scholar of the history and sociology of the black diaspora, a dedicated teacher, an inspiring mentor, a kind and compassionate person, and a man devoted to social justice, freedom, equality,...
pp. 9-12 in Juan J. Linz: Scholar, Teacher, Friend, edited by H. E. Chehabi. Cambridge, MA: Ty Aur Press, 2014.
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This book contains 85 essays in six languages about Juan J. Linz (1926-2013), Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political and Social Science at Yale University. Also included are twenty pages of photographs, a complete bibliography of Linz’s works, and syllabi of six of his...
Journal of Futures Studies, December 2013, 18 (2): 105-110
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I think it was in 1991 at the Hawaii Judicial Foresight Congress in Honolulu. Jim Dator was a major speaker—if not the keynote speaker—before a very large audience. After he was introduced, Jim walked to the podium and, as the audience quieted down, he stood for a moment or two looking...
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 69 Issue 5
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Governments and the nuclear power industry have a strong interest in playing down the harmful effects of radiation from atomic weapons and nuclear power plants. Over the years, some scientists have supported the view that low levels of radiation are not harmful, while other...
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers
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Life courses, both professional and personal, are often directed by unplanned experiences. At crossroads, which path is followed and which hard choices are made can change the direction of one’s future. Wendell Bell’s life illustrates how totally unforeseen events can shape...
Comparative Sociology 12 (2): 184-210.
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There is an ongoing debate over whether the stability of working lives in Germany has declined in recent decades. In this piece, we contribute to the literature by arguing that subjective mobility perceptions, hence individuals’ self-reported mobility desires and...
The Montréal Review.
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“Perrow’s 1984 book Normal Accidents and his many publications analyzing how and why technological systems are vulnerable to disaster have achieved iconic status.”
–The American Prospect Magazine
Complex Organizations was a serial of sorts. The first edition (...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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Governments regulate risky industrial systems such as nuclear power plants in hopes of making them less risky, and a variety of formal and informal warning systems can help society avoid catastrophe. Governments, businesses, and citizens respond when disaster...
Bloomberg News
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Reducing carbon-dioxide emissions is primarily a political problem, rather than a technological one. This fact was well illustrated by the fate of the 2009 climate bill that barely passed the U.S. House of Representatives and never came up for a vote in the Senate.
The...
Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Forum 3, No. 1 (August, 2011): 29-30
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(2011) [1980], Revised ed. with New Prologue. San Francisco: Univ. of California Press.
This book covers the consolidation of the European world-economy during the seventeenth century. The 17th century history was determined by the struggle for the surplus-value between states and classes. States tried to concentrate all the major sources of capitalist profits within their frontiers...
(2011) [1974] Revised ed. with New Prologue. San Francisco: Univ. of California Press.
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From Google Books:
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the...
(2011, New Edition) (2007); Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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From Princeton Press:
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures–catastrophes waiting to happen–are built into our society’s complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he...
Review Essay, Contemporary Sociology, 2010, v 39, no 4, 411-416.
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Books on climate change are coming out at an increasing rate, and in my mind we cannot get enough of them. I see climate change as the problem that trumps all others for the next few decades. Indeed, predicted warming increases will exacerbate most of our other major...
