Study objectives were to clarify controversy regarding the factors influencing fear of death in
old age, using a hypothesized path model. Participants were 123 African American and 265 …

Robert Putnam has suggested that membership in American voluntary associations has
declined in recent decades. The contention now has been challenged by various writers …

This paper argues that we should not take at face value the differences between" East" and"
West" when we interpret the Singapore Government's usage of the" Asian values" discourse …

Continuing education in the health professions has traditionally focused on the needs of
each learner. Changes in the health care delivery system are fostering the interdependence …

Information age societies, Francis Fukuyama (1999) says, produce more of the things
individuals value most, especially freedom and equality. Freedom from top-down mandate …

This dissertation focuses on compassion as a moral orientation and philosophical
worldview. It argues that the compassionate worldview can be a moral compass for the …

Is gift-exchange inevitably to be crowded out by impersonal market exchange? The
presence of a thick-market externality indicates that this is indeed likely to be the case. But …

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change has been enormous in the twentieth century and the pace of change has been …

The article introduces a symposium published in this edition of the journal comprised of
papers dealing with the public administration aspects of community governance. A number …

Abstract The New Democrats identify themselves in opposition to both the liberal ideology of
their own party and the conservative ideology of the Republican Party. The success of this …