The World of Sofia Velasquez: The Autobiography of a Bolivian Market Vendor

Hans C. Buechler
December 31, 1996

See related: Latin America & the Caribbean

The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape

Don Mitchell
December 31, 1996

See related: Labor, United States

Narratives of Justice: Legislators’ Beliefs about Distributive Fairness

Grant Reeher
December 31, 1996

See related: United States

Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600

Dennis Romano
December 31, 1996

After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal

Kristi Andersen
December 31, 1996

American Longevity: Past, Present, and Future

Samuel H. Preston
How long we live, and how long members of our families and social groups live, is extraordinarily important to us. Unfortunately, the subject of longevity falls between the cracks of academe and has received far less attention than it warrants.
September 30, 1996

See related: Aging, Longevity

Health Care: Public Good or Private Enterprise?

David M. Lawrence
June 30, 1996

Producing Hegemony: The Politics of Mass Production and American Global Power

Mark Rupert
December 31, 1995

Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia

Susan Snow Wadley
December 31, 1995

See related: Religion, South Asia

Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination

John M. Yinger
December 31, 1995

The Party of Fear: The American Far Right from Nativism to the Militia Movement

David H. Bennett
December 31, 1995

See related: United States

Norms in International Relations: The Struggle against Apartheid

Audie Klotz
December 31, 1995

1676 The End of American Independence

Stephen Saunders Webb
December 31, 1995

Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA

W. Henry Lambright
December 31, 1995

Women in India: Two Perspectives, 3rd Edition

Susan Snow Wadley
December 31, 1995

The Peopling of Africa: A Geographical Interpretation

James L. Newman
December 31, 1995

See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan)

Public Policy and Entrepreneurship

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
This brief surveys the various notions of "small business," presents criteria that should underlie policies toward business, and reviews the case for public policies to stimulate entrepreneurship and small business.
October 31, 1995

On the Measurement and Causes of Technical Inefficiency in Local Public Service: With an Application to Public Education

John Ruggiero, William Duncombe & Jerry Miner
September 30, 1995

Potential Cost Savings from School district Consolidation

Jerry Miner, William Duncombe & John Ruggiero
August 31, 1995

See related: Education

The Rhetoric and the Reality of Health Care Reform Legislation

Marilyn Moon
Here the author focuses on five areas where rhetoric confused the Clinton Administration's failed health care reform debate, and compares them with the underlying realities of health care reform.
June 30, 1995

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