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An Essay on the History of Civil Society is a book by Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson, first published in 1767. [1] The Essay established Ferguson's reputation in Britain and throughout Europe. [ 2 ]
However, as civil society can be funded by foreign businesses and institutions, who support globalization, this is a contested use. [50] Rapid development of civil society on the global scale after the fall of the communist system was a part of neo-liberal strategies linked to the Washington Consensus. [51]
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
The Nolan Chart in its traditional form. The Nolan Chart is a political spectrum diagram created by American libertarian activist David Nolan in 1969, charting political views along two axes, representing economic freedom and personal freedom.
For example, if a conceptually important item only cross loads on a factor to be dropped, it is good to keep it for the next round. Drop the items, and run a confirmatory factor analysis asking the program to give only the number of factors after dropping the uninterpretable and single-item ones.
Chandler begins the book noting the growing discontent with liberal democracy and the neoliberal economic model, the rise in support for right wing populism and the lack of an inspiring alternative vision for a fair society. The first part of the book summarises the theories of Rawls, primarily articulated in A Theory of Justice (1971), as well ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. This article is a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries using various measures of freedom ...
The purpose of this adjustment is to move the 12 notes within a smaller range of frequency, namely within the interval between the base note D and the D above it (a note with twice its frequency). This interval is typically called the basic octave (on a piano keyboard, an octave has only 12 keys).