Working or Democracys Victory and Crisis

Working: Career Success for the 21st Century

Author: South Western Publishing

This updated version gives users a solid grasp of how to prepare for work and life through career planning, money management, and independent living techniques. Written in engaging and flexible content, Working: Success for the 21st Century, 3e, has new features such as coverage of today's hottest careers, easy-to-remember rules for improving study skills and strong emphasis on critical SCANS workplace skills. With comprehensive coverage and special sections that focus on diversity, listening skills, problem solving and time management, this book will provide the tools everyone needs to excel and succeed in their academic and professional careers.

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Focusing on career planning, money management, and independent living, this high school textbook is intended to help prepare students for working life. It describes numerous occupations, outlines techniques for finding work, and describes job skills and personal skills applicable in a variety of workplace settings. Particular attention is given to issues related to diversity, listening, problem solving, and time management. Bailey teaches workforce education and development at Southern Illinois University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Democracy's Victory and Crisis

Author: Axel Hadenius

The contributors to this volume address questions central to the development and survival of democratic rule. Brought together under the auspices of a Nobel Symposium on democracy, leading experts in the field examine historical experiences, social and cultural problems, economic development, constitutional issues, the impact of globalization, and the prospects for promoting democratic government. The coverage of the book is global, and the approach is multidisciplinary, providing a unique perpective from leading historians, political scientists, economists and sociologists.

Table of Contents:

	List of contributors
	Acknowledgments
1	Victory and crisis: introduction	1
2	The new democracies in crisis in interwar Europe	15
3	Democracy in America at century's end	27
4	On sources of social and political conflicts in follower democracies	71
5	Micro-aspects of democratic theory: what makes for the deliberative competence of citizens	81
6	Political Islam and democracy: the case of Algeria	105
7	Ways of constitution-making	123
8	Back to democratic basics: who really practices majority rule?	143
9	Democracy and development	163
10	Freedom and economic growth: a virtuous cycle?	195
11	Democratization and administration	242
12	Globalization, sovereignty, and democracy	263
13	Dangerous liaisons: the interface of globalization and democracy	282
14	Exploring the problematic triumph of liberal democracy and concluding with a modest proposal for improving its international impact	297
15	Promoting democracy in the 1990s: actors, instruments, and issues	311
16	Can established democracies nurture democracy abroad? Lessons from Africa	371
17	Some thoughts on the victory and future of democracy	404
	Index	427