Powerful, centralized states controlling a large share of national income only begin to
appear in Europe after 1500. We build a model that explains their emergence in response to …

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions throughout the world,
exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very …

1 Si le cloisonnement national des sciences sociales est reconnu à la fois comme un trait
significatif de leurs pratiques et comme un obstacle majeur à leur progrès, la question des …

The present paper extends recent studies of national character–suggesting that the Israeli
case revolves around a set of deep cultural codes which constitute various empirical …

Эта книга объясняет, как государства стали центрами власти за счет бесчисленного
множества других политий, сражавшихся друг с другом на протяжении …

The Hungarian national habitus is reconstructed on the basis of studying some persistently
recurring structural configurations and behavioural patterns that govern everyday life from …

The contradiction emerging between the lived experience of a minority of marginalised
urban youth and the punitive operant conditioning of antisocial behaviour legislation is …

The central concerns of this HSR Special Issue–emotion, authority, and national character–
are arguably among the most pressing issues facing social researchers in the current geo …

This article reports results from a qualitative study of Israelis living in Germany, focusing on
their traumatized national habitus. The study is based on 80 in-depth interviews and on …

Is science culturally determined? If so, in what aspects and how? Using evidence from three
studies of German and Israeli science, this paper shows that the contexts of scientific …