Contracts for the delivery of public services are promoted as a means of harnessing the
resources of the private sector and making publicly funded services more accountable …

The global triumph of capitalism at the millennium, its Second Coming, raises a number of
conundrums for our understanding of history at the end of the century. Some of its corollaries …

Two meta-analyses find that Americans have shifted toward substantially higher levels of
anxiety and neuroticism during recent decades. Both college student (adult) and child …

This article seeks to develop a theory of motivation that brings society in to the motivation
equation and reflects variations across institutions in the motivation process. A literature …

Much has been written about cities in the information age, most of it either positively
visionary or, conversely, apocalyptic in nature. In an echo of concerns raised by early …

There is a danger of subscribing too readily to the rhetoric of participative development. The
communitarian assumptions of the endogenous approach privilege a 'territory'as potentially …

Public health needs to be evidence-based if it is to be done correctly, which means that
learning and knowledge-production for public health must be comprehensive and include …

The" Asian values" debate sprang fully formed onto the international stage in the early
1990s—or so it seems from the mountain of literature on the subject. According to …

Education has become an increasingly important activity within all economies; from pre-
school years groups through to continuing education and retraining, the accumulation of …

In a major new theory of criminal behavior, Mark Colvin argues that chronic criminals
emerge from a developmental process characterized by recurring, erratic episodes of …