Author: Guntram H. Herb
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: identities, nested
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-01
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0847684679
ISBN-13: 9780847684670

This groundbreaking work explores the vital importance of territory and space to any genuine understanding of nationalism and identity. Too often, the contributors argue, national identity is analyzed apart from the lands that are integral to its formation, as territory is seen as a commodity to be brokered rather than as central to a group’s self-definition. This volume combines theoretical insights with structured case studies on how national identity manifests itself in space and at different geographical scales.

Author: Edward T. Wimberley
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: ecological, hierarchy, humans, place, ecology, nested
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0801892899
ISBN-13: 9780801892899

Nested Ecology provides a pragmatic and functional approach to realizing a sustainable environmental ethic. Edward T. Wimberley asserts that a practical ecological ethic must focus on human decision making within the context of larger social and environmental systems. Think of a set of mixing bowls, in which smaller bowls sit within larger ones. Wimberley sees the world in much the same way, with personal ecologies embedded in social ecologies that in turn are nested within natural ecologies. Wimberley urges a complete reconceptualization of the human place in the ecological hierarchy. Going

Author: Terrence E. Cook
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: program, cabinet, regime, nation, political, coalitions, nested
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2001-11-30
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0275973956
ISBN-13: 9780275973957

Cook evaluates coalition building dynamics at four concentric, yet distinct, levels. Cook’s principles of coalition politics are really rules of thumb followed by boundedly rational actors, and can predict much coalition politics behavior. Agents prefer to create marginally winning coalitions with like-minded groups in the expectation of receiving rewards commensurate with investments. Four distinct types of coalitions--country, regime, agenda, and cabinet--are explored, along with a thorough examination of current coalition literature.

Authors:Serge Abiteboul, Patrick C. Fischer, Hans-Jörg Schek
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: notes, computer, science, lecture, databases, relations, complex, objects, nested
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 1989-06-12
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3540511717
ISBN-13: 9783540511717

This volume was primarily intended to present selected papers from the workshop on Theory and Applications of Nested Relations and Complex Objects, held in Darmstadt, FRG, from April 6-8, 1987. Other papers were solicited in order to provide a picture of the field as general as possible. Research on nested relations and complex objects originates in the late seventies. The motivation was to obtain data models and systems which would provide support for so-called complex objects or molecular structures, i.e., for hierarchically organized data, thereby overcoming severe shortcomings of the relat

Author: George Tsebelis
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: choice, social, series, political, economy, california, politics, games, rational, comparative, nested
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1991-08-12
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520076516
ISBN-13: 9780520076518

Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions.