The Messiness of Everyday Life: Exploring Key Themes in Latin American Citizenship Studies Introduction

This section seeks to provide a brief theoretical framework for the study of citizenship in Latin America by focusing on two characteristics which are of relevance to the essays collected here: belonging and political agency. It then goes on to discuss some key themes which emerge from a reading of the collected articles: methodology; civilisation and deviation; citizenship as the organisation of subordinate inclusion; popular ideas of citizenship as 'fairness'; role of public performance in defining political relationships.     

纽约治安:业绩空前盖过批评声

在刚刚过去的2007年,纽约把暗杀案件数量降到自1963年以来的最低点(低于500起).它从1990年的2245起下降到这么个程度,无论是与全美各地横向比,还是与警察历史竖向比,都是首屈一指的.纽约人已经好久好久没有感激他们的警察队伍了. ……     

Simulation and Managerial Decision Making:A Double‐Loop Learning Framework

Systems approaches present opportunities for public managers and policy makers to view policies and programs in a broader context. This article presents a framework to explain how simulation modeling promotes double‐loop learning in management teams by building and exploring collective mental models as well as by enhancing accuracy of the mental models. The authors discuss the types of problems that may benefit from simulation modeling and illustrate how double‐loop learning occurs in the process of dynamic hypothesis testing. Using a case from New York State's Division of Disability Determination, the article shows how simulation modeling built confidence in a management team's decision by providing the team with tools to share and examine multiple hypotheses about a declining trend in initial disability recipients in the state between 1998 and 2004.     

Korea: Mythology and scholarship

The Origins of the Korean War, Volume 2, The Roaring of the Cataract 1947–1950, by Bruce Cumings. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. xviii + 957 pp. $99.50. ISBN 0–691–07843–2.

Documents On British Policy Overseas, Series II, Volume IV, Korea 1950–1951, edited by H. J. Yasamee and K. A. Hamilton, assisted by Isabel Warner and Ann Lane. HMSO, London, 1991. liii + 513 pp. and 12 microfiches. £47. ISBN 0–11–591695–4.